Paul Becker, Nadia Hebson, Sara MacKillop, Morten Schelde, Flora Whiteley
14 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 4’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom references or plunders found and/or historical images and artistic styles, filtering and re-working them in the process…

EC Davies, Jorn Ebner, Michael Mulvihill, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth
7 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 3’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom shares an interest in landscape and the natural world, mapping and site, their approaches to which vary from the literal, to the psychological, scientific, and the satirical…

David Beech, Rupert Clamp, Jock Mooney, Alex Pearl, Richard Phipps
30 November 2007
‘Vane Shorts 2’ presents works by five artists, each of whom explores play and recreation in their work, ranging from the combination of formalist sculptural techniques with domestic and utilitarian elements (Beech), military re-enactments (Clamp), a carnivalesque parade of twisted figures (Mooney), to videos of low-fi inventions (Pearl) or seemingly random actions and scenes that evoke other things (Phipps)…

Graham Dolphin, Pat Flynn, Dodda Maggý, Andrew McDonald, Miranda Whall
23 November 2007
First in a series of one-day events showing the work of various artists, ‘Vane Shorts 1’ presents works by five artists, each of whom is showing video works that share an interest in repetitive and/or seemingly compulsive actions…

Stephen Palmer
25 October – 17 November 2007
‘Worthless little tokens’ is a series of paintings cataloguing a collection of free, found and received objects: matchboxes picked up in pubs or in the street; pens received through the post from charities and credit card companies as an incentive to sign up to a particular product or scheme; sugar, salt and sauce sachets collected as mementos of trips to, and along the way to, places far and wide…

Simon Le Ruez
10 May – 2 June 2007
Simon Le Ruez makes sculptures, installations and drawings which reflect on notions of escape, longing, desire and possible places sought in order to find relief or refuge. Working with materials as varied as leather, pearls, copper, wax and artificial trees Le Ruez’s recent work conjures a sense of imagined yet dislocated landscapes…

Nadia Hebson
8-31 March 2007
Nadia Hebson makes melancholic portraits, marine-scapes and flower studies coalesced from a proliferation of collective art historical imagery. The paintings occupy an ambiguous position – it is unclear whether they explore real or fabricated, scenarios, events or personalities…

Trine Boesen
8 February – 3 March 2007
Trine Boesen’s paintings, drawings and collages plunder freely from the image bank of everyday modern life – be it from images found on the internet, from adverts, magazines and books, or drawn from her own personal snapshots of friends, buildings, social occasions, holidays and other things…