You are invited to the opening of INTERRUPTIONS IN TIME
Friday 23 March 17.00 - 20.00
10 Year Anniversary of the MA photographic Studies Course
Exhibition continues 24 March - 6 May 2007
>> London Gallery West, University of Westminster
Watford Rd, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3TP
Tube: Northwick Park, Metropolitan Line
Border Line
The Patriothall Gallery, 1D Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY
Exhibition runs from 25th March to 4th April 2007
12 till 6pm everyday, except Monday, and 12 till 9pm on Thursday
Preview 5.30 till 8pm, Saturday 24th March
The Patriothall Gallery is pleased to present the first of two shows featuring the work of ten contemporary artists. Five are based and work in London, the other five in Edinburgh. The exhibition explores discourses between the artists of the two metropolises, and examines identity and role, geographic and social geography, the political and the comic.
Sarah Sparkes is playing with the significance of elevating names to a position of dominance. Names and titles are spelt out on bunting flags that reign above the viewers head, raising the question have we entered a political arena, a royal jubilee, a sporting event or a village fete. The theme of borders is continued in Sparkes' three evocative paintings of shorelines.
>> view the artist's website at www.sarahsparkes.com
(site design by webcabin)
The artists are having a show at the Foundry Bar/ Gallery, 86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JL from weds 21st March to sun 1st April. The show will feature new work created during their recent London residency.
Opening night party from 7pm on the 21st March.
ps: Margaret Thatcher will be there...
The government is seemingly due to pass a bill to restrain photography in public places. If the bill went through only people with a special ID would be able to take photographs. This is an attack on our civil rights and freedom of expression, especially for us photographers and artists. Yet it involves a lot more than the professionals and amateurs of photography... so many people like to take pictures in public spaces. There are so many digital cameras and cameraphones operating at present, this bill would be a nightmare to enforce. Let's avoid going through the trouble and keep our right to photograph. If the government is so hot on privacy why not get rid of a couple CCTV cameras which saturate the streets of England?
A petition against these measures was submitted by Simon Taylor of Phooto.co.uk on the government's official petition website (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk). Simon states concerning the Bill that "these moves have developed from paranoia and only promote suspicion towards genuine people following their hobby or profession."
The deadline to sign the petition is the 14th of August 2007. The aim is to get 750000 signatures to block the Bill. Only 44000 people have signed the petition so far, so if you read this post, click here for a direct link to the petition. Sign it and spread the word!
KATE ATKIN
NO FOREIGN MATTER UNCONSUMED
Private View 2 March 2007
2 March - 31 March 2007
Wednesday-Saturday 11am - 6pm
Atkin produces two and three-dimensional work that explores form, medium and the isolation of specific elements from their physical and conceptual surroundings.
Atkin's work begins with a photographic record of a site, taken at specific angles to generate ambiguous forms. Atkin thinks of her incredibly detailed drawings as 're-enactments' of the content of her photographs. She searches for the unnatural within the natural: each item she decides to draw thus bears the mark of separation from its surroundings - an island within its own environs.
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