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…
EC Davies
23 November – 16 December 2006
EC Davies’s previous work has taken its inspiration from the simplest of everyday objects – such as marbles, glitter, balls of wool, or the motion of a bird’s wing in flight. These otherwise mundane objects are then transformed, using a combination of digital video and animation techniques…
Sara MacKillop
19 October – 11 November 2006
Sara MacKillop takes mass-produced found objects, slightly manipulating or juxtaposing them to re-focus attention towards their formal qualities. Their useful life finished, these objects are resurrected by MacKillop, who rescues them from the thrift-store and grants them new life…
Jock Mooney
31 August – 23 September 2006
Jock Mooney’s work explores the cultural outpourings of the human mind, whether his own or that of the world at large. His work can be seen as concerned with the liberation of the human spirit through confronting us with our own everyday ridiculousness…
Craig Fisher
11 May – 10 June 2006
Craig Fisher’s work challenges our habits of viewing. Located outside of traditional boundaries, Fisher’s work stubbornly refuses to conform to being any one thing, discipline, state or position. Be it image or object – the work remains uncontrollable…
Dodda Maggý
2 March – 1 April 2006
Dodda Maggý creates a series of female characters based on personal experiences, which are then enacted in front of a video camera, accompanied by piano music composed and played by herself, sometimes re-worked using a simple recording technique, building layers as if sculpting…
Jorn Ebner, Alison Unsworth
12 January – 11 February 2006
‘Ordinary monuments’ brings together work by Jorn Ebner and Alison Unsworth that examines the urban environment, considering both its planned and random nature and highlighting aspects that often go unnoticed…
Miranda Whall
25 November – 17 December 2005
Miranda Whall's drawings, photographs, videos and, most recently, animations are self-portraits. Whall explores her own identity in an attempt to recognise herself in relation to both the accessible and inaccessible, natural and man-made world around her…
Graham Dolphin, David Mackintosh, Andrew McDonald, Morten Schelde
23 September – 5 November 2005
Whilst the artists in this exhibition can be described as engaged in drawing, and share a meticulous, sometimes obsessive, even adolescent relationship to their subject matter, their work represents four very different approaches to the medium…
Paul Becker, Ruth Claxton, Laura Lancaster
18 August – 17 September 2005
‘Orphan’ comprises the work of three artists who deal with depictions of the once removed and the disconnected via representations of people, objects and symbols, all of which in some way disturb established orders – be they psychological, domestic or social…
Richard Forster, Eva Weinmayr
16 July – 13 August 2005
‘Yes No’ brings together two artists who both take elements of the mundane and everyday life and transform them through their different working processes. Adding to or subtracting from layers of materials or meaning, they share an interest in unsettling visual narratives and confounding initial readings…
1-29 November 2003
‘Space Between Us’ features the work of twenty contemporary artists based in the Netherlands and in the north east of England…
The central themes of Megan Bedell’s work are language, (mis)communication and code…
Read MoreCatherine Bertola subtly intervenes within specific locations, often empty spaces…
Read MoreMarc Bijl’s work appears to be infused with social and political zeal, leaving the viewer in a state of perplexed anxiety…
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