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| Archive for the University of Brighton Gallery 2004 | ||
| Gallery Archive pre 2002, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 | ||
| Insane about the Membrane | ||
| 12 January - 7 February 2004 | ||
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Image: Marcus Gaab, Stone Island Serie 100
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| 9 February - 20
March 2004 Anumber of very short exhibitions and the gallery is not open for the whole of this duration |
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11 – 17 February Painting Free entry, open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm |
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An opportunity to see and appraise the work
of young emerging artists - full time BA undergraduate students
in the Fine Art and the Visual and Performing Arts programmes. These
students are approximately half way through their visual arts degree
course at the University and this, for them, is their first opportunity
to exhibit their work in fully professional gallery circumstances.
The exhibition is curated and organised by the students themselves.
See print in its diversity - from traditional
etching through to state of the art digital printing. Subject matter
and style are equally wide ranging. This show not only will intrigue
and amuse but also aims to challenge the possibilities of printmaking
in the 21st century. This is an exhibition of fourteen contemporaries
working on age of visual saturation endeavouring to reflect upon
a society driven by convenience and self-obsession. The collection
of work is diverse, understandably as print finds itself caught
between its traditional stereotypical over use. What is printmaking,
what is art and who are all these people anyway? "The Matchless
Show" Critical Fine Art Practice students are constantly
searching for new ways to make and present art. Students of the Visual
and Performing Arts courses at The University of Brighton
(Dance and Visual Art, Theatre and Visual Art, Music and Visual
Art) are showing a variety of works featuring video/audio installations,
dance for camera, screen work, installation performance, live art
and interactive performance work. One of the photographers exhibiting is Richard Rowland who is undertaking a three year photographic documentary of the renovation of an old Grade II Regency hotel that for the past 25 years has been run as a hostel for the homeless. Photographically, he is looking at the renovation of the structure and the impact this has on the lives of those living there. There is a massive physical change to the building, but equally there is a huge cultural change in the way the place is run, support given along with expectations of both staff and residents, as it’s dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. The building has also had quite a chequered history, which Richard will be charting through research and interviews. Project funding has been confirmed from the English Heritage to the sum of £12,600 for this project. Free entry, open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm (apart from 27 February when the gallery closes at 3pm) |
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| 27 March – 24 April 2004 | ||
| An exhibition of the work of a young British artist, MA graduate of Glasgow School of Art who now lives in New York. The exhibition will include new work especially made for the exhibition, which will touch upon Brighton, and it’s relationship to popular culture. | ||
| Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie | ||
| 1 - 8 May 2004 | ||
 Divas
presentLiz Aggiss in ‘Scripted to within an Inch of her Life’ This work, constructed by Aggiss and Cowie, is a skewed looped solo Inter-disciplinary live installation performance. This private and public bizarre reality of entrapment includes film projection and embraces the physical synergy between camera and sound, and the real and illusionary celluloid body. It deconstructs Divas award winning dance for camera Motion Control (dir. David Anderson) recipient of the Czech Crystal at the Golden Prague 2002, Special Jury Golden Award World FilmFest Houston 2003, Best Female Film Mediawave Hungary 2003. Live performances are 1, 2, 7, 8 May 6.30pm & 8.15pm and 4, 5, 6 May 11.30am & 1.15pm in the University of Brighton Gallery. Tickets £6/£3 concessions from the Dome Box Office 01273 7097079. (All shows were unfortunately cancelled). The Men in the Wall by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie. The Men in the Wall is an Arts Council Capture Award and supported by the University of Brighton FRSF. It is a four-screen, 3 dimensional, stereoscopic installation which re-defines dance screen practice. Enter the 3D world of four men with absurd, surreal histories. Their shared framed lives, a public quartet of private differences, The Men in the Wall walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy. The Men are Jeddi Bassan, Sebastian Gonzalez, Thomas Kampe and Scott Smith. 3D Glasses are provided! |
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| Charlie Hooker "Wave-Wall lll & Rub-a-dub" | ||
| 12 May 2004, opening ceremony and private
view at 6pm (open 6 - 8pm) 13 – 30 May 2004 10 - 5pm Monday to Saturday, Sunday 2 - 5pm |
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The exhibition will comprise of an installation
of the work "Wave-Wall III" by Charlie Hooker. This work
is in the Arts Council of England collection and was last installed
at the Royal Festival Hall, London. The work brings together in
one piece, sound, movement and graphic representation. Also included
in the exhibition will be new works by Hooker, which he is currently
developing as part of his collaborative research within the Department
of Meteorology at the University of Reading. |
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| Burt Brill and Cardens' Graduate Shows 2004 | ||
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19 - 24 June 2004 |
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| Annual exhibition of graduating student's work from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture. | ||
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School of Architecture and Design and the
School of Arts and Communication SHACS School of Historical and Critical
Studies Fashion show tickets are £5 and can be obtained from Chris Yorke 01273 643211. The fashion show is likely to sell out so advance booking is advised. Sunday 20 June 1 – 4pm Family Day Burt, Brill & Cardens solicitors are the major sponsors of the University of Brighton Graduate Show. Visit Burt Brill and Cardens' website at: http://www.bbc-law.co.uk/ Courses represented at the Graduate Show: School of Architecture and Design: School of Historical and Critical Studies: |
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| The Butchers Hook | ||
| 3 July - 9 July 2004 | ||
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An annual show of work from graduating students from the MA Fine Art course. |
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| Horace Ove 'Pressure' | ||
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16 July - 17 August 2004 |
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Photographs by Horace Ove. A stunning new exhibition capturing the emergence of black politics and charting the rise of carnival in Britain over three decades from the 1960's onwards. "Horace Ové is undoubtedly a pioneer
in Black British history and his work provides a perspective on
the black experience in Britain." |
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| A Photographic Installation by Ming-Chang Tien 'Thirty-Thousand-Miles of Exile' | ||
| 23 Aug (Mon)
~ 4 Sept (Sat) 2004. Closed 30 August Bank Holiday |
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This installation is at the heart of Ming-Chang's
PhD thesis. He sees his practice-based project as an opportunity
to achieve a balance between research and practice. |
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| TERRA INCOGNITA Five Video Installations by Piera Tomasi-Steer | ||
| Tues 31st Aug – Mon 6th Sept 2004 South Gallery |
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"Video installation, as an art form,
is the means by which I present aspects of my personal history and
its cultural specificity. My project focuses on the conflicts of
actuality and artifice encountered in tracing my experience as a
migrant from the Italian island of Sardinia. Sardinia’s cultural
identity is emblematic of such conflicts, given the island’s
history of foreign invasions, cultural isolation, economic deprivation
and constant flow of migration from the island. These conditions
have made a thorough knowledge of its history and the appreciation
of its cultural heritage problematic, leading Sardinians to resort
to the ‘invention’ of historical documents and to find
refuge in a mythical past. The artist funded by |
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| MA Sequential Design and Illustration/MA Design by Independent Project 'followUs' | ||
| 18 - 25 September 2004 | ||
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| Simon Thorogood ‘Swish’ | ||
| 9 – 30 October 2004 | ||
 "What
Thorogood has got to offer is pretty phenomenal cutting techniques
and a remarkable eye for 3-D form. Combine that with his passion for
futuristic shapes and experimental arts and you have a potent combination"
Harriet Quick, Sunday Times Magazine.Cult Fashion Designer Simon Thorogood will be exhibiting his new experimental sound and digital work in progress entitled Soundforms , and an anthology of past designs from various collections including Fragment/a from his recent year residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion. Rising through the ranks of the 1990’s London fashion scene, Simon Thorogood was labelled by the fashion press as rising star of ‘Brit Couture’. Graduating from Central St Martins in 1992, having completed both the BA and MA courses in Fashion, he established his bespoke womens wear label in 1998 where his signature has been the exclusive use of silk duchesse satin. The resulting engineered garments have been described as futuristic, medieval and ecclesiastical. He has exhibited worldwide at venues including The Fashion Institute, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican Centre and ICA, London. Simon Thorogood is a designer and Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion who sees his work as continuing the thread of Couture as the traditional wing of innovation and experimentation within fashion. He aims to extend the framework of fashion, confronting its limits with architecture, music and technology. Soundforms is part of an ongoing research project that is centred on finding systems, processes and programs in which to literally ‘grow’ fashion design in part derived from approaches in generative and adaptive technologies. The project is a close collaboration with composer Stephen Wolff. Presented by the CCVA (Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts) in collaboration with London College of Fashion. |
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| Donovan Wylie The Maze | ||
| 6 – 27 November 2004 | ||
 This
exhibition by photographer and filmmaker Donovan Wylie is a photographic
exploration of one of the world’s most famous prisons. For nearly
thirty years the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a
unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. The Northern Ireland
Prison Service gave Donovan Wylie exclusive permission to photograph
freely throughout the entire prison complex without supervision. The
resulting book and exhibition documents the physical structure of
the place and at the same time, through the quantity and style of
the photographs, gives the viewer some experience of the psychological
impact of being inside the Maze. A Magnum Touring Exhibition, originated by Belfast Exposed Photography with financial support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, National Lottery Fund, the Faculty of Arts and Architecture and Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts at the University of Brighton and in conjunction with the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford. Printing by MPD Digital Laboratories, London |
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| Seminar Series 'Traditions, Sites, Practices' The curatorial interventions research group present a talk by Tim Brennan |
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| 25 November 2004 6pm | ||
| 'Curationis', focusing on his recent
project at and collaboration with Stuart Brisley at Peterlee in the
North East. In 1976 Stuart Brisley was Artist in Residence for Peterlee Newtown in County Durham. This led him to pose the question, 'What is the history within living memory of a new town?' Over an 18 month period he worked with the population of Peterlee to produce an accretive resource which held memory and the vernacular culture at hand. In 2004 Tim Brennan and Stuart Brisley embarked on a new development of the project.This talk will look at the implications for artists and curators working with archives and social relations in a climate where 'process' and 'social engagement' form the new orthodoxy. Tim Brennan, currently an AHRB Fellow in the Creative and Performingarts at Sunderland University, will give a presentation followed by a discussion. |
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| You never know when you might need them … | ||
| 10 Dec 2004 – 22 Jan 2005 | ||
 An
exhibition of collected objects, gathered for inspiration, information
and creative practice.A group of around twenty artists, designers
and teachers have been invited to display a personal 'collection'
of 'objects' or images in the gallery. These collections will all
be sheltering a profusion of personal memories and histories that
have in many cases inspired narratives, or led to the creation of
new works of art and design. This exhibition will explore the way objects and their arrangement may reveal wider ideas about working practices derived from processes of accumulation selection and order. In essence, this will be a collection of ’collections’. The exhibition will seek to raise issues about the power of objects in reconstructing collective histories or collective memories. In imposing an order on a collection, an individual collector will take control of the way the objects may be viewed or encountered by others. Each carefully accumulated object will have been assigned a precise meaning within a particular context, or according to some other motive for the collection’s existence. In harnessing these diverse collections, the exhibition will also confront issues about the juxtaposition of objects, which have little or no relation to each other. Things brought together by chance or luck; often without a clearly discernible logic may have a disconcerting yet powerfully creative effect. A symposium to accompany the exhibition will be held in the Sallis Benney Theatre on Saturday 22 January 2005 and will extend the exploration to address a number of wider issues around the theme of collections and collecting within a cultural or social context. |
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It’s
the place to see the freshest ideas in fine arts, three dimensional
design, photography, fashion, architecture, dance, theatre, digital
music, illustration, graphics and includes coursework on the history
of art and visual culture. Displayed on four vast floors of gallery
space, it will be impossible not to find, and even purchase, a masterpiece.
For
the period of the Burt Brill & Cardens’ Graduate Show the
Grand Parade site of the University of Brighton will become the
largest gallery space in the South East. And thanks to the nine
consecutive years of sponsorship from leading Brighton solicitors
Burt Brill & Cardens the event is a must on every talent spotter’s
calendar. This support has enabled the professional staging of the
ever-popular events like the fashion show and student awards.
The
notoriously relaxed atmosphere continues in the Faculty’s garden
where refreshments are served alongside lunchtime live music and
DJs from the faculty’s state-of-the-art Digital Music department,
and a Sunday afternoon barbecue with family entertainment. 
Exhibition 
Thirty-four
students exhibit in this year’s show. Nearly half are illustrators
(generally illustrating their own original stories). The rest –
the Design by Independent Project students – present work from
a variety of disciplines: photography, moving image, graphic design,
3D design, textiles and even performance. Of course, there is also
a great deal of crossover between disciplines. There should be something
of interest in this exhibition for everyone.
Students
have come from all over the world (the UK and mainland Europe, Russia
and the Far East, the Americas). Obviously, this has also contributed
to the ‘melting pot’ of styles and practices on display
in the exhibition. |
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