Exhibition by Rachel Eardley
AT HOME
by Rachel Eardley
6th March 2009 until 30th April 2009
Rachel
produces hand drawn and printed images on the theme of the home.
Finding subject matter in kitchen cupboards and cutlery drawers, her work thrives on the details of everyday things.She creates playful images which evoke feelings of nostalgia and often link to traditions from these fair isles.Known for her fine line pen and ink drawings, Rachel has recently developed a new body of screen prints incorporating blocks of bold colour to heighten the detailed line.
Published Date:
03/02/2009
Modified Date:
03/02/2009
Figuratively Speaking’
November 7th - December 24th 2009,
The focus for the show is contemporary figurative images created using machine embroidery. Artists taking part are Cathy Cullis, Alice Kettle, Michelle Holmes, Rachael Howard and Priscilla Jones. Images includes in the attachment are by Michelle Holmes.
Published Date:
03/07/2009
Modified Date:
03/07/2009
Sirens - An Exhibition by Kate Webster
'Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence.'
Franz Kafka 1917.
Kate Has always worked in oil paints, producing a whole array of differing images, based upon various subject matter. In her latest exhibition, however, she has chosen to pay homage to some of the glamorous female icons of 'The Dream Machine', the golden age of Hollywood.
Kate's paintings, executed in black and white, portray the crisply evocative images of the thirties, forties and fifties. Each image stares out from its own imprisoning canvas, isolated in a static timeless nostalgia. Her subjects are pictured as a series of 'stills'.
Faithful to an era in which cinematic special effects were still unknown, and which the main source of light was placed high up in front of the subject, her idealised portraits display faces in which the shadows of the skin texture are smoothed away, and facial contours are exaggerated. This gives them the dual quality of being Sirens, both goddess like and ghostly.
Published Date:
02/07/2009
Modified Date:
02/07/2009
collection of ‘Seaside Films’ By local film maker
Exhibition up and running! Had a great response so far! Prints are selling well, we also have a collection of ‘Seaside Films’ By local film maker Jenny McCabe, Vicki van Mechelen and Helen Bendon pop along and view the show case currently screening in the gallery window. The screen is set in a vintage suitcase (very appropriate) bring along, ice cream, and enjoy the fun!!!
Morecambe Dances is a short community dance film devised, directed and led by Jenny McCabe, Vicki van Mechelen and Helen Bendon . Shot in the summer of 2007, the film features different styles of dance performed along the prom by local dance groups and passers-by.
First screened directly on the promenade on a giant screen provided by the Nuffield theatre September 2007. Music for the film was performed by Gila Robinson a local piano teacher, and Pete Moser of More Music Morecambe.The project was supported by Awards for all, Lancaster city council and the Nuffield Theatre.
Jenny McCabe is an artist working mainly in video and digital imaging, with a background in Fine Art. She creates work as an individual artist, as a facilitator helping others to create their own work and as a collaborator sharing practice and learning from others’ experience and skills.
She has produced work in a variety of different settings, creating both documentary and abstract video works, screen based works integral to performance pieces, photographic projects and video projects based in hospital settings working with patients to create autobiographical works.
Vicki van Mechelen is a dancer/Choreographer with the majority of her work being carnival art in the community, generating and performing material on the street with groups in Morecambe and Barrow in Furness, encouraging self expression, creativity and most importantly fun.
Helen Bendon is a UK based artist working predominantly in video and photography. Helen’s work was selected for New Contemporaries in 1998 and since then she has been exhibiting internationally (inc. Yvon Lambert, Paris, Kari Kenetti, Helsinki and the Centre for Photographie in Geneva). Her films and video works have also been shown at international festivals and screening events including the Commonwealth Film Festival, the Lux and the international Film Festival 700IS, Iceland, in which her film The Pack was shortlisted for the ´Alcoa´ prize.
Published Date:
02/07/2009
Modified Date:
02/07/2009
Beach By Kirsten Jones
Kirsten is inspired by collections of objects and natural form. Her paintings are bright and evocative with layers of detail and subtle references contained within. She depicts quirky arrangements of garments and treasured possessions such as shoes, crockery and foods, as well as observed still life and her beautiful imaginary gardens. Using layered fragments of maps, dictionary references and stamps from around the world Kirsten creates a narrative of secret histories, which evoke a memory or a sense of place.
The Washing Line
This series of paintings originated with a walk through the streets of Down along in St Ives, Cornwall. Outside one of the fisherman’s cottages was a washing line hung with every type of garment. All shapes and sizes (shoes and all!). It was as if a very big wave had unexpectedly soaked a whole family. The image seemed to capture the essence of holidays by the beach. This idea continued following a trip to New York in 2008, and Kirsten began painting a series of pieces exploring ideas around fashion.
Published Date:
02/07/2009
Modified Date:
02/07/2009
Exhibition of localArtist
LUNESIDE ARTISTS
9th January 2009 until 5th March 2009
Luneside Studios.
In 2008 Luneside Studios celebrated its 25 year and moved to new studio premises at 26 Castle Park, Lancaster. We are delighted with our new location and are glad to leave the feeling of an uncertain future behind us. Settling into these new premises has taken longer than expected. However we are now almost fully operational and members are producing and exhibiting work.
This is Luneside Studios first group exhibition since our relocation and we are delighted to have it at the Edge Gallery.
Published Date:
03/02/2009
Modified Date:
03/02/2009