2002 University of Brighton Gallery archive


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	9 January - 9 February 2002
	Metaphors: a portfolio of text and image by Ken Garland (South Gallery)
	Metaphors is text and images by Ken Garland, one of the UK's most respected graphic designers.

	Ken Garland is one of the UK’s most eminent and respected graphic designers. He was instrumental in constructing the famous 1964 "First things first" manifesto that set out a purposeful agenda for design. The exhibition features panels with photographs with accompanying text, both as important as each other. The fusion of the text and image creates the metaphor. Kinder Scout, Derbyshire: Gritstone Monster 1982 ‘These photographs are not quite what they seem at first glance. When combined with the text they become metaphors of the locations – villages, cities, countries even – in which they were found. A few stones; a scattering of coloured tissue; a rope end: all have been allocated a significance beyond their immediate substance. Originating from places as widely dispersed as Mexico, Ireland, Uzbekistan, Canada, Germany and Bangladesh, they offer a coherent viewpoint on human behaviour, viewed obliquely for the most part but ultimately with concern for people, not things.’
	Sylhet, Bangladesh: Squatting Woman 1995
	Text to accompany Sylhet, Bangladesh Throughout the Indian sub-continent, women squat and watch and wait, sometimes for hours on end. There seems to be no limit to the reasons for this watching and waiting, nor to the patience these women display. The one in the photograph is waiting to collect her three grandchildren, who are studying at a charity-run institution – the Shumon Momen Memorial School Under the Sky. As its name implies, it has no building of its own and all lessons are conducted in the open air on a vacant lot. This woman squats on a brick and watches as her grandchildren gain an education that was denied to her and the vast majority of her generation. Will the young people’s lives be transformed by this or will they find themselves, in their turn, squatting, and watching, and waiting?

	Ken Garland associated events:
	Friday 18 January 4pm Teatime Gallery Talk by Ken Garland Ken will talk about the exhibition and will be available to answer questions.


	14 January - 9 February 2002
	Satoru Shoji - Dialogue with Cloth (North Gallery)
	Satoru Shoju presents a Japanese spatial sculptural installation commissioned for the gallery.

	A spatial sculptural installation by an inspiring Japanese artist commissioned for the north gallery. One can hesitate to call Shoji's works sculpture. For over thirty years, his artistic activities have evolved around his continuing dialogue with the material of cloth. This dramatic installation will span the whole of the University of Brighton’s north gallery and is constructed out of several large strips of cloth hanging across the gallery with shapes strategically cut out. The theme is based around the ideas of space and gravity. Making use of the suppleness, elasticity and at times the permeability of cloth, as well as the invisible force of gravity, he has continued to give visible form to these qualities in his works. The essence of his works can be found within the relationships among the object itself, made using cloth, the intervening gaps, and the space surrounding the object. Each work is made complete only when viewers step into the space of the cloth and sense it with their whole bodies.
	Images from Satoru Shoji's installation, Dialogue with Cloth and members of staff enjoying the traditional Japanese tea ceremony in the installation.

	Satoru Shoji associated events:
	Tuesday 15 January 2002, 4pm, free Teatime Gallery Talk by Satoru Satoru will talk about his work in the exhibition

	Friday 25 January 2002, 4pm, free Teatime Gallery Talk by George Webster George is a kite expert and will look at how Japanese kites and simple aerodynamic principles have influenced the work of Satoru Shoji. He will also give a brief introduction to the history of Japanese kites.

	Friday 8 February 2002, 4pm, free Teatime Gallery Talk by Lesley Millar (Free, but places are limited so please book in advance on 01273 643728) Lesley is a freelance curator and textile artist, she recently curated the exhibition 'Textural Space: Contemporary Japanese Textile Art' and is currently Daiwa/AHRB Research Fellow at The Surrey Institute of Art and Design. The afternoon discussion will focus on Japanese artists’ approach to architectonic spatial relationships with special reference to fibre.

	2nd year student shows
	14 - 20 February 2002, second year painting
	25 February - 5 March, second year Visual & Performing Arts
	27 February - 5 March 2002 , second year Printmaking
	11 March - 15 March 2002, second year Sculpture and Critical Fine Art Practice
	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 roughly 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.

	Mayo Bucher: Open Sign 1992-2002
	21 March – 18 April
	Born in Zurich in 1963, Mayo Bucher trained as a graphic designer and his work draws upon traditional and digital technologies. He is one of the most accomplished artists in Europe today. This show presents an overview of his abstract, geometrically inflected work in painting and printmaking in a variety of scales. The exhibition also includes documentation of some of his chief recent design and architectural projects. He has collaborated on major projects with some of the leading architectural partnerships in Switzerland. He is well known for his album covers for the outstanding independent record company ECM. For many years now he has pursued a full-time career as a painter and has shown his work in solo and group shows in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Majorca, Canada and France. Mayo Bucher exhibited his paintings in the major 1999 University of Brighton group show ECM: Selected Signs. This is his first solo show in Britain and will tour in autumn 2002 to the Kunstakademie, Leipzig. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with essays by Professor Michael Tucker of the University of Brighton and Professor Ruedi Baur of the Kunstakademie, Leipzig. Thursday 18 April: A Celebration of Swiss Culture 4pm Teatime Gallery Talkby Mayo Bucher and Professor Ruedi Baur (Hochschule Fur Grafik und Buchkunst, leipzig) 8pm Concert by world-renowned ECM recording artists Patrick and Thomas Demenga (cello) Both events on 18 April are free and in the gallery. Advance booking is advisable for the concert and gallery talk. Please contact Katie Chugg on 01273 643728 to reserve a place.

	Grace Robertson - A Sympathetic Eye
	24 April-29 May 2002
	An exhibition of the work of the pioneering British photojournalist Grace Robertson who began working in the 1940s and in 1998 was awarded an OBE for her services to photography. Her work is in national and private collections worldwide. Among the images in this wide-ranging exhibition will be her highly regarded documentation of a London women's pub outing, which she photographed first for Picture Post and then for Life Magazine. Some of her classic pictures will be on show such as the timeless world of the Welsh hill farmer and his sheep taken in 1951. Recent work includes photographs of younger women who have grown up with very different expectations form those most women faced in the 50s. Grace Robertson's attention to, and sympathy with, extremes of age are also a constant in her work. Images of childhood remind us that innocence still exists and portraits of those who have lived through a large part of this century are intense and powerful studies of old age.

	Other events associated with the exhibition:
	Saturday 11 May 8pm, free, Grace Robertson's Book Launch
	Launch of the book Grace Robertson; A Sympathetic Eye Grace Robertson will give a talk about her work and sign copies of her new book. The pictures in this exhibition and book form a personal, and largely optimistic account of 50 years in documentary photojournalism by the pioneering Scottish photographer, Grace Robertson. The text for the book is written by the eminent art and photographic historian Ian Jeffrey.

	Grace Robertson's book, A Sympathetic Eye is available from the University of Brighton. Please see 'publications' for further details.

	Teatime Gallery Talks
	Friday 10 May, 4pm - Val Williams
	Val is a photographic historian and author. She will talk about Grace’s pioneering work. In particular, her early photographs for Picture Post, with reference to the other women photographers at the magazine.

	Friday 17 May, 4pm Grace Robertson
	Grace will talk informally about her work, her career and why she selected these particular works for this major retrospective exhibition. (Fully Booked)

	Friday 24th May, 4pm Magali Nougarede
	Magali is a Brighton based photographer who has been leading a project with older people in partnership with the South East Film & Video Archive as part of the national celebrations for Museums and Galleries Month. Magali will talk about the project (which is in progress), and how it connects with her own practice.
	Exhibitions are free and open to the public Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm and Sunday 2-5pm. Closed bank holidays

Burt Brill and Cardens' Graduate Show 2002
Saturday 15 June to Thursday 20 June 2002
Annual show of graduating student's work

MA Fine Art Final Year Show
6 July - 11 July 2002
Annual exhibition of University of Brighton Fine Art MA students' work

Sara Gadd - Navigators II: HOME
15 July - 9 August 2002
Awaiting discovery in the Lava fields of Savai'i, Samoa are the Methodist Mission buildings, buried and destroyed in the volcanic eruptions of 1905. Navigators II:HOME is a virtual rebuilding of the Mission House, home to Reverend George Furlong, Great Grandfather of the artist and reverend to the village of Sale'aula. Sara Gadd presents a digitally constructed exhibition, which explores the transience of home, the passing of time and rebuilding of histories.

Douglas Gordon - What you want me to say
13 August - 10 September 2002
The University's new Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts opens on August 12. The centre will be presenting an exhibition of the work of Douglas Gordon in the University Gallery. It will feature one work, a sound and installation piece, titled " What you want me to say" 1999. This work comes out of Gordon’s interest in film, fiction and memory, which he manipulates to provide a context for the spectator to bring his or her own experience to the work. In research terms the idea of showing this piece in Brighton came about because the work was made in response to Gordon viewing of the film "Brighton Rock". The work is like a fragment, which the spectator can place within a wider context, once they recall the film and the significance of the title of the work. Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow in 1966 and studied at Glasgow School of Art (1984-1988) and at the Slade School of Art, London (1988-1990). Since then he has exhibited internationally with major solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven 1995, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich 1996, Kunstverein Hanover 1998, (+ info to come bb) He now lives and works in Glasgow and New York. Gordon uses a variety of media in his work including video, film, text and photography. His work 24 Hour Psycho 1993 in which he projects Hitchcock’s film over a period of 24 hours has created a lasting memory for those who have seen it. Thanks go to the Migros Museum Zurich for the loan of the work in the exhibition.

MA Sequential Design/Illustration MA Design by Independent Project
21 - 28 September 2002 (see web site www.ma-shed.co.uk)

Ugo Rondinone - Our Magic Hour
7 October - Sun 2 November 2002 (A visions festival exhibition)
Everybody loves a clown ... or do they? In Ugo Rondinone's extraordinary installation, clowns are stripped of their power to entertain, or even to menace. Life-sized clowns sculptures, cast in fibreglass from live models, are painted and costumed by the artist. The clowns sleep as they lounge around the gallery floor, reflected by huge shattered mirrors. The environment created by these scattered figures and mirrored walls poses questions about leisure, vanity, alienation and observation. Swiss Artist Ugo Rondinone has lived and worked in New York since 1998. he has exhibited world-wide and his rainbow coloured fluorescent signs have been installed outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Tony Wilson - Melodist to Requiem, Paintings and Prints 1979 - 2002
7 - 29 November 2002
Tony Wilson’s work is strongly individual and independent. His paintings respond directly to events, people and places that have touched his life. He often takes on complex themes and subject matter by the use of a language that might draw upon the figurative, the abstract, the emblematic and the allegorical, a pictorial language that speaks in its own terms of all that cannot be put into words. A painter whose quest to marry making and meaning, the personal and the transpersonal, the existential and the archetypal, has resulted in some of the most ambitious and intriguing images in recent British art. The exhibition is a survey of painting and prints which places emphasis on the most recent series of works, Iron Ladder, Remembered Figures and Requiem, with related ‘key’ earlier paintings, acting as reference markers, mapping the overall development of ideas and how work learns lessons from its own past. Tony Wilson is presently principal lecturer and subject leader of painting and printmaking at the University of Brighton. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with essays by Professor Michael Tucker, Mel Good and an interview with Barry Barker.

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