Here are some shots from the opening night of the ‘SEE HERE’ exhibition, a big thank you to everyone who came…..
REVIEWS
https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2018/june/art-review-see-here-neales-auction-house/
https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/former-nottingham-auction-house-becomes-1671449
Artist Trudi Entwistle will be returning to Quarrylab this January, here is what she has to say about her own practice.
“I am a senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University and practice both as an artist and landscape architect. My artwork lies somewhere between the boundaries of land art, sculpture and design. It is site specific and investigates how sculptural forms integrate with their surroundings, interacting with human movement and the changing elements of light, weather, natural growth and decay. For more than fifteen years commissions have taken me to wild places and urban environments throughout the world, where my work, either temporary or permanent, has been used as a stage for theatrical production, play and social gathering or remains, simply, as a focus for the solitary act of contemplation.”
Trudi has spent a couple of days this week working on her new project in Sherwood Forest to be displayed in Nottingham later this year – updates to come in the near future, in the meantime why not check out her website for examples of her work.
http://www.trudientwistle.com/
This month Nottingham based sculptor Andrew Harris has spent a few days with us thanks to our kind sponsorship from Nottingham Trent University.
Andrew Harris is a sculptor interested in the processes of urban progress and the disparity that exists in material integrity – how some objects survive for millennia, yet others vanish without trace. Projects develop from ceramic or wood artefacts that are then left in the environment. Some are likely to be lost forever, but others have the potential to be discovered by the curious passer-by.
Also this month: local artist Daniel Jamie Polak from the village of Calverton has joined the Quarrylab team, he will be looking after the online and media related aspect of the organization as well as carrying out a short residency with Quarrylab in the new year!
A wonderful evening at BGS headquarters for the opening of ‘Impossible Views’ on July 11th.
More that 150 attended with speeches by John Ludden BGS CEO, Roy Pickering Director Quarrylab, Associate Professor Mark Rawlinson, and Sir John Peace who officially opened the show.
Works on show are by Beverley Bennett, Matthew Chesney, Sardul Gill, and by Roy Pickering and Mark Rawlinson who also curated the exhibition. Artworks were displayed along side carefully chosen artifacts from the BGS collections. The great news is that the exhibition has now been extended until the end of 2017.
QUARRYLAB in partnership with BGS have great pleasure in announcing that in July 2017 we will be staging an exhibition of artworks to coincide with the BGS annual open day. The exhibition will showcase work by Quarrylab artists alongside items and artefacts from the BGS archives and repository. Entitled “Impossible Views”, the show will draw parallels between art and science, and explore how research and experimentation in both fields can be mutually beneficial, specifically highlighting aspects of the natural world and the nature of creativity that cannot easily be seen.
The exhibition will include paintings drawings, photography, video, audio and mixed media work by artists Sardul Gill, Beverley Bennett, Paul Harraway, Matthew Chesney, Mark Rawlinson and Roy Pickering.
The exhibition will also look at ways in which the “STEM” education and research initiative can be extended to include art.
“STEM education (science, technology, engineering and maths) is based on skills generally using the left half of the brain and thus is logic driven. Much research and data shows that activities like arts, which use the right side of the brain, supports and fosters creativity, which is essential to innovation. Projects like Quarrylab will help the British Geological Survey (BGS) explore aspects of STEAM education (STEM + Arts) which adds a creativity element that is essential for science research innovation. The BGS is very much in favour of linking art, engineering and science with the economy and well-being”.
John Stevenson BGS Public Engagement and Web Editor.
Impossible Views” will be installed at Keyworth ready for the open day on July 1st and will be open to the public and educational establishments during the following weeks by appointment only until 13th August.
We at Quarrylab would like to thank our partners at BGS, and especially CEO John Ludden for making such a valuable contribution to the project in 2016, with representation at all the forum events and allowing access to the main site at Keyworth. Towards the end of the year artist Roy Pickering visited Keyworth as ‘Artist in Residence’, and will continue to do so in 2017.
We now have great pleasure in announcing that in July 2017 Quarrylab will be staging an exhibition to coincide with the BGS annual open day. The exhibition will showcase work by Quarrylab artists alongside items and artefacts from the BGS archives and repository. Entitled “Impossible Views”, the show will draw parallels between art and science, and explore how research and experimentation in both fields can be mutually beneficial, specifically highlighting aspects of the natural world and the nature of creativity that cannot easily be seen.
There will also be an educational programme to accompany the exhibition –
“STEM education (science, technology, engineering and maths) is based on skills generally using the left half of the brain and thus is logic driven. Much research and data shows that activities like arts, which use the right side of the brain, supports and fosters creativity, which is essential to innovation. Projects like Quarrylab will help the British Geological Survey (BGS) explore aspects of STEAM education (STEM + Arts) which adds a creativity element that is essential for science research innovation. The BGS is very much in favour of linking art, engineering and science with the economy and well-being”.
John Stevenson BGS Public Engagement and Web Editor.
Impossible Views” will be installed at Keyworth ready for the open day on July 1st and will be open to the public and educational establishments during the following week by appointment only.
Please stay tuned for further information, or contact Roy via roypickering@quarrylab.org.
Quarrylab looks forward to a continuing fruitful partnership BGS through 2017 and beyond.
All at Quarrylab were delighted that our partners Nottingham Trent University hosted our third Forum event on 30th November. This was a chance for us to showcase some of the artists we have been working with this year, and of course, introduce the project to a new audience. It was great that members of the art and design staff from NTU were able to attend as well as other new comers. So we will definitely to be seeing some new faces at Quarrylab next year.
In attendance representing Quarrylab partners were Pip Spoerry, Head of Visual Arts at NTU, and John Ludden CEO of BGS.
Roy gave an overview of the work done in 2016, and spoke about plans for 2017 and beyond, specifically an ambitious exhibition project to be curated by Mark Rawlinson of University of Nottingham at the BGS Headquarters at Keyworth next summer. Possibilities for future projects with NAE and RSPB were also discussed.
Presentations were made by artists Sardul Gill, Trudi Entwistle and Beverley Bennett, who showed examples of their practice, and spoke about the Quarrylab project and how they will be working with us in the future.
The second half of 2016 saw four new artists working at Quarrylab.
In September Nottingham based painter Paul Harraway spent a few days drawing, painting, taking photos and videos… and trespassing, (nice one Paul) around the quarry site. Paul is currently working towards a show at Bromley House, Nottingham in 2017.
Also in September Beverley Bennett, whose work was being shown at New Art Exchange, made sound recordings at Hunciecroft and in the old forest at Edwinstowe. Beverley, who lives and works in London, returned in October for a longer stay and a more in depth look at the ‘Quarrylab’ landscape. She will continue her work on her London studio and at Quarrylab throughout 2017.
Celebrated site specific land artist Trudi Entwistle from Leeds stayed with us for a few days in October. Trudi is keen to interact with aspects of the local landscape, particularly Sherwood Forest and Creswell Crags, and will return in the new year to make further investigations and start to put together a plan for a major piece of work.
Our final artist this year was Matthew Chesney who runs the Backlit studios in Nottingham. Matthew was keen to reconnect with aspects of his own practice and has started working on a project looking at the Ice Age artworks at Creswell Crags using open source software which computes RGB data into notation. Matthew will also be making regular visits to Quarrylab during 2017.
“Beverley Bennett’s practice revolves around drawing and the perpetual possibilities it possesses. Acts of play evolve into ritualistic, performative, labour intensive actions that generate a greater understanding of the processes of making, allowing the ‘visual’ to become secondary. Current works involves collaborative experiments with sound. Beverley Bennett lives and works in London”. www.beverleybennett.com
“Paul Harraway (b.1971) lives and works in Lambley, Nottinghamshire. Born and raised in Hull, he studied Graphic Design at Nottingham Trent University and worked as a designer at The University of Nottingham Medical School, followed by several years of secondary school teaching. Harraway uses drawing and digital media to create intricate, small-scale monochrome drawings and paintings. Recent works explore animism and autobiographical memory through the creation of rural and industrial landscapes, focusing on specific sites as pockets of wilderness and intrigue”.
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