MAKING A MARK
22rd July - 14th August

This exhibition brings together a collection of young local artists who are heavily dependent on the practice of drawing, or even work primarily through it. The artists all live or were raised in the Barnsley area.

A collective who, through degrees of separation, share friendships and common interests. The artists use drawing for very different purposes, whether for understanding, for relaxation and exploration. All of them use it as a voice, perhaps their strongest voice.

Exhibiting Artists:

Richard Kitson
John Ledger
Jade Morris
Mikk Murray
Louise Wright

MADE FRESH
University Campus Barnsley
25th June - 17th July

HIVE Gallery is proud to announce the first in what is hoped to be a yearly fixture in the HIVE programme MADE FRESH. MADE FRESH 2011 is a curated selection of work from students on the Interdisciplinary Art and Design course at the University Campus Barnsley. HIVE curator Patrick Murphy has selected work for this exhibition that gives a chance to see future talent from Barnsley.

MADE FRESH 2011 celebrates and showcases students work providing a platform for innovation, creativity and imagination.

For more information about the courses available at the University Campus Barnsley please visit http://www2.hud.ac.uk

GRAHAM IBBESON
21 May - 18 June

Image: Compact Colin (Bronze)

This years HIVE programme features the work of local artists and supports the MADE BARNSLEY project created by Culture North to showcase and promote local creative talent.

Since Graham graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1978 he has developed an international reputation exhibiting his work in numerous galleries throughout the world, from
America to Japan, Europe to Hong Kong, his work being in many public and private collections. Ibbeson’s public sculpture
enhances cities and towns throughout the United Kingdom, boosting tourism, and visitor numbers, with his unique site-specific work.

Graham still holds true to his Yorkshire roots, he lives and works in Barnsley. Using the character of this County and its people as inspiration for his truly individual approach to
sculpture and design. Graham’s ability to capture the essence of a character with warmth and humanity sets him apart from many other sculptors.

The work on exhibition at the Hive Gallery will be a showcase of Graham’s graphic and 2D work, together with some of his more intimate sculptural pieces. The exhibition will also feature photography by Max Ibbeson, Graham's son. Who captures the unique nature of his fathers work.

"My new work is about conception and life. I suppose all artists conceive and bring to life their ideas (so there is nothing new there
then, and after 40 years I know how the process works).

The birth of my Granddaughter triggered a bizarre mixture of melancholy and joy. I became sharply aware of my own mortality and the frailty of life. The passions and truths of today are gone in the morrow. My work has changed, or rather moved over different ground through thousands of these yesterdays; however my motivation remains the same. I am influenced by the absurdities of life and the people who inhabit my world. The small, tiny things that make up the whole picture, hoping as always, that humour opens a path to the truth".

IGLOOISM
Ahmed & Carpenter
Andy Nizinskyj
Gaia Rosenberg Colorni

9 April - 8 May

Spontaneity stands at the forefront of all creation; even the most well planned and
calculated process begins with the one spark of impulse and activity.

IGLOOISM features the work of a group of young contemporary artists exploring methods of, quite literally, ‘sculpting out’ as well as exhibiting a fabricated environment from a base line level. Using the produce of the earth, traditionally associated to sculpture making, each artist enacts an immediate physical engagement with the gallery space by inhabiting it whilst working directly within its white walls.

Over its month-long duration, the exhibition is to unfold into two stages. The first, consisting of a two-week period in which the artists commence and progressively assert their territorial occupation, allows for the ever-mutating working environment to be observed by its visitors: the entire process of conception, construction and materialisation is rendered accessible to the audience, whose participation is encouraged. During the
exhibition’s second and final stage, the artists withdraw from the fanciful wasteland they
have constructed, leaving it open for new explorations.

In constructing a temporary dwelling, the artists address the quasi-collaborative nature of
artistic processes by them adopted, appearing as divisional, yet simultaneously operating
as an ensemble. The space, as that which both envelops and is contained by the igloo,
remains unlimited and borderless, deprived of any immediate distance or contour, only
to face ephemeral and territorial separations through the interventions of its itinerant
inhabitants.

The subject matter and motifs found in Fiona Curran’s work reflect an interest in the continuing representation of the landscape as ‘ideal’, its roots in the Romantic traditions of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries and close historical relationship with formal abstraction.

For her show at HIVE Gallery, Curran will present the start of a new project, “Too Many Waterfalls”. This project will draw from the archive of found photographs, prints and postcards that the artist is building. These images reference real spaces and sites giving the work a tangible sense of place, and will sit alongside more formal, abstract works that engage with unseen but ‘sensed’ geographies.

Curran’s works reveal a recurring utopian impulse, formal idealism and sense of escapism that re-registers in a contemporary palette borrowed from the computer screen and advertising. There’s an embrace of optimism and hope in the seductive candy colours alongside a subtle sense of unease in the darker undertones and overblown fluorescent colours. Splinters of the natural world appear in the form of wooden veneers and formal compositions explore how angles contend with and counterbalance one another in shifting spatial planes. Images are overlaid and cut away to reveal void spaces that remain empty or are filled by fields of intense colour or glimpses of scenery. The titles of the works often give a further clue to their origin in this push-pull between fragmentation and ambiguity and loss and longing, where all is not quite as it should be in the bright and beautiful image-world we inhabit.

Images:

The Radio's Gone Off Air, 2009, 38 x 38cm, Acrylic on Wooden Panel.

(Image Bottom) Intervals to Which I would Migrate, 2010, Mixed Media.

MATTER SPACE MOTION
7 August - 19 September
MARK FELL

Mark Fell (born Brinsworth, South Yorkshire 1966) is a local artist whose practice brings together interests in computational technologies, non-musical sound synthesis, oppositional aesthetics, and irregular encounters with time and space. His works have been exhibited at an array of major international institutions - Sonar Festival of advanced music and multimedia (Barcelona), Siggraph (Los Angeles), The Powerhouse (Sydney), The Barbican (London), and Hong Kong National Film to name a few. As a musician Fell has performed at The Berghain super club (Berlin) and Liquid Room (Tokyo) and produced music for The National Ballet of Madrid. Recently he completed a major new commission for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (founded by Francesca von Habsburg) with a premier at ‘Youniverse, International Biennal of Contemporary Arts, Sevilla’. Described as “One of digital music's leading innovators”, his recent DVD was hailed as “a minor masterpiece”, “a beautiful work - provocative in all its simplicity” and “a sample of serious borderline activity”.

The works presented at HIVE Gallery demonstrate Fell’s interest in philosophical and mathematical descriptions of time – particularly Edmund Husserl’s ‘Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness’ and Martin Heidegger’s ‘Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, World, Finitude, Solitude’ and the Slovakian Mathematician Metod Saniga’s current work in the psychopathological fabric of time and space.

In particle physics, supersymmetry is a symmetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to other particles that differ by half a unit of spin. In this piece Fell works with an optical flow image analysis algorithm to track the movements of a ping pong ball, that is floating on a column of air. The displacement of the ball in space is translated to fluctuations in a multi-channel sound synthesis algorithm where each component responds to the movement in related yet distinct manners. When heard as a whole the piece appears to produce a broad-spectrum noise, yet when each component is listened to in isolation different tonalities are perceived.

Image: Supersymmetry, 2010
Installation at HIVE Gallery

Faç Off
19 June - 1 August
CENTRAL STATION

Manchester based artists and designers Central Station - Pat and Matt Carroll and Karen Jackson - are synonymous with the second phase of the Factory Records story that saw artists such as Happy Mondays, James and Black Grape launch into the music scene. According to Pat Carroll “We wanted to develop our own voice for the work that was as strong and as fun as the music.” Their arrival on the art and design scene was contemporaneous with the opening of The Haçienda, and the arrival of acid house and Ecstacy and the emergence of the ‘Madchester’ identity which they developed for the Happy Mondays’ ‘Madchester Rave On EP’.

They have been responsible for creating some of the most memorable album artwork of the 90s.. Their artwork is gloriously anarchic, colourful and bold without conforming to any stylistic limitations. Factory Records legend Tony Wilson said of their work: ”The second half of the Factory story is best summed up by the painterly eccentricity of Central Station; Matt, Pat and Karen”.

Central Station had their first art exhibition in 1990 at the Manchester City Art Gallery, featuring 'Playmates' a collection of larger-than-life portraits of famous faces from British film and television. The V&A purchased four paintings for their permanent collection of modern art. The record cover art and film titles they created for '24 Hour Party People' were included in 'Communicate - Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties' a touring exhibition which visited major cities across China and the Far East as well as Europe.

The exhibition title ‘Faç Off’ alludes to a promotional T shirt graphic produced by Central Station in 1990 and the Factory Records naming convention of giving every product a ‘Fac’ number. The Factory catalogue was not confined to only creative output. A party (FAC 83), a lawsuit (FAC 61) and a cat (FAC 191) appear on the catalogue list alongside (FAC 10) Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures and (FAC 73) New Order Blue Monday. This exhibition's title is (FAC 258).

The show includes a selection of limited edition prints of work from their diverse career. All prints are for sale so buy a piece of music history.

Image: Cover of Black Grape's album It's Great When You're Straight Yeah

Image:Faç Off (FAC 258)

Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker, was born 29th January 1936 in London, England. He was among the generation of artists, including David Hockney, Peter Blake and Allen Jones, who seemed to epitomise British Pop Art, though his work often has an introspective or melancholic mood quite unlike Pop Art's more upbeat style. Since the 1960s he produced pictures of interiors and still lifes that suggest the banality of everyday existence. Patrick Caulfield studied at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1956 to 1960 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1960 to 1963. Caulfield’s first solo exhibition was held in 1965 at the Robert Fraser Gallery, London. His international reputation was quickly established and a string of one-man shows of his work were held in the UK and in many countries throughout the world. His influence can be seen in many artists work including Michael Craig-Martin and Julian Opie. Patrick Caulfield died in 2005. There is no doubt that he will be remembered as one of the great British painters of the late 20th century.

The screenprints within this exhibtion are taken from Some Poems of Jules Laforgue, a series of 22 screenprinted illustrations for twelve poems. Created by Caulfield in 1973. All screenprints are limited edition, signed by the artist. This is a selling exhibition.

My life inspires so many desires!
Patrick Caulfield, 1973
Screen Print
From Some Poems of Jules Laforgu

Iain Stephenson's work explores two main themes: time and ownership. He has conducted long-term investigations into the concepts associated with time, how it is perceived and manipulated and its associations with objects, writing and memory. The second theme challenges the commodification of art and its ownership.

'Breath' is the starting point of the exhibition and the point at which the themes converge. Other works run either side of Breath to challenge the preconceptions of people of what time and art mean to them and society. Iain's hope is that people will think about both time and art and begin to change the way they use them.

Image: A single breath, blown into glass.
From 'Breath' series, 2009.

This exhibition features work by 5 contemporary artists based in Barnsley.

Barrie Jones, John Ledger, Patrick Murphy, Mikk Murray, Jo Pearson

The work on show reflects their own personal relationships with the town and its history.

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Balancing notional simplicity within complex linear structures that hold rhythmical balance and embrace harmony.

Image: 2LC DipSym NEG
Negative white line, drawn up to in solid graphite Duration 7.06.09 - 6.07.09
150 x 120 cm 2009



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Fascinated by the contradictions and conflicts that arise when trying to represent our perceived world through another medium, she works with tools and process that measure, objectify and give our world order, questioning ideas around representation and the notion of ‘truth’.

Image: Ground Covered, 72 days in New York. 2008

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As part of his ability to demonstrate these processes Pritchard has developed an installation called String Theory. This art work will be a kinetic installation which develops and grows throughout the course of his HIVE GALLERY show. The work uses precipitation to illustrate the vibration of strings as viscous material stretches itself to the floor producing layers of formations over time. Too wet and the strings break down back into an expanding pool of gloop.

Adrian Pritchard is an artist and gallerist based in Blackpool.

Image: Un-strung Theory. 2008

A pioneer of direct-animation, Len Lye (1901-1980) was also a highly innovative painter, photographer and poet, as well as an important figure in kinetic sculpture. In 1938, Time magazine proclaimed filmmaker, sculptor and writer Len Lye to be the English Walt Disney. History had other plans - despite being a huge influence on the animators of Disney's Fantasia (1940), Lye (originally from New Zealand) remained an experimental and seminal abstract artist/filmmaker.

This exhibition shows 3 of Lye's filmsColour Box (1935) Rainbow Dance (1936) and Trade Tattoo (1937). These films illustrate Lye's pioneering vision in abstract filmaking; the films were commissioned by the GPO (General Post Office) to be screened as adverts in cinemas.

To counterpoint Lye's work we feature the work contemporary artists/designers Airside, Mario Cavalli, Takafumi Tsuchiya and Universal Everything whose work shares Lye's pioneering vision but utilises the latest computer software.

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Images (top): Len Lye, Rainbow Dance.1936
(bottom left): Mario Cavalli, Long Build Loop. 2009
(middle): Universal Everything, Nokia E71/Art Film. 2009
(right): Airside, Nice Weather for Ducks. 2006

Ruth Solomons' work derives from working with linear forms and flat shapes. Her sources are silhouette-like in character and lend themselves to being reproduced in paint and collage cut outs. Early work used wire models to create abstract shapes which were transposed to canvas, this developed to using string, cardboard cut outs and monoprints of scribbles and brushmarks onto acetate. From this she has recently begun to draw freehand shapes that emphasis the kicks and curls found in the brushmark monoprints. Her large canvases evoke reflections and water, and her collages build up shapes and lines against a puzzle like backdrop of repeated shapes.

Image: Puzzle Painting, 2007