Shaun Project Space

SPS recommends The Selling of Fake Seditionaries

06Nov09

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Collection

06Nov09

New work by Paul Thompson Rebecca Bell Michelle Wall and Sarah Brandon

Michelle Wall
A box in the attic or a space in a drawer, it seems all of us have somewhere to keep those precious mementos from our past. Often seemingly ordinary objects; ticket stubs, scribbled notes, a melted candle, to anyone else would mean nothing. Yet, give it a history, a connection with a person, event or place and it takes on a new identity, a vessel of sentiment; a tangible memory.

These keepsakes remain tucked away, perhaps too precious or too personal to display. Instead we fill our homes with ornaments, vases and frames; aesthetically pleasing but meaningless.

With this work I have explored my own mementos, displaying snippets of my most significant memories; school, relationships, marriage and motherhood. The keepsakes become a visual record of my past, displayed within the decorative items with which we adorn our homes and lives.

I hope to further explore this idea by collecting the mementos and memories of others to display as a collective keepsake of our most treasured possessions and moments from our pasts.

To take part in this project, send a picture of your memento including an explanation of the memory it holds to mementosandmemories@live.co.uk or visit the Facebook Group: Mementos and Memories – An Online Art Project.

Sarah Brandon

Paul Thompson

Rebecca Bell

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Daft Punk

02Nov09

New works by Peter Gill Gabby Nelson, Neil Armstrong and Stephanie Sutherland Bramley

Peter Gill
My work is inspired by my love of cartoons and comic book art, by artists like Ralph Steadman and Robert Crumb I have made my characters life size in order to experiment with placing them in different contexts

Gabby Nelson

Neil Armstrong
In this work I tried to engage with the idea of negative emotions. Fear, depression, anxiety etc. Whilst thinking of how nostalgia and childhood memories can become distorted blurred and exaggerated . Overall I was trying to achieve a sense of melancholy and unease, whilst also creating a strange sense of comfort brought forward through nostalgia.

Stephanie Sutherland Bramley
“My work charts the beginnings of what will be an expansive project about culture. As a starting point I have decided to look at the American hipster and British indie subcultures documenting their attitudes towards music and fashion through painting, quotation and mixed media.”

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Ways of Seeing

29Oct09

New work By Matt Taylor Helen Shaw & Chris Tinkler

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saints and sinners

27Oct09

New works by Theresa Poulton Frank Pitt Daniel Coyne Steven Todd

Daniel Coyne
My Art in the Shaun space is more about where I am heading with my art, than what I have created. As they are both to be developed into further pieces of work. And these are the templates for where I hope to take my ideas in the future.
My art is about using the sounds and lyrics of music to create art in some ways I see it as my brief to create an image about the lyrics or sound. I listen to a vast amount of different music so I always have different lyrics or a different sound to give me ideas towards my art.
The projection on the wall of the young boy holding a gun is taken from a still from the film city of god but also inspired by a song called The Sadist Nation by a band named Darkest Hour a Metal band from America. I listened to the song and looked up the lyrics to see what it meant and it was all about a nation consumed by guns.

One nation under the gun
Where forward thinking is shunned
A morbid tradition
Of archaic value systems
Where violence justified
Is just another pride
Under the surface lies
A holy plastic empire
With guarded golden fences
Where misfortune
Shelters decisions
A pain wrought from blood flowing green
The myth of protection
Is a sick fascination
A culture of violence is what you are feeding
Fear is an heirloom
And hate is contagious
A nation of sadists is what you are breeding
It’s everywhere
It’s everywhere that you see
But who decides
If you watch or turn the other cheek
And only in your mind
Is it your given right to be armed to the teeth
It’s a common disease
The only immunity is to disarm
This holy plastic empire disease

Every time I listened to the song an image of a boy with a gun came into my mind so I felt I needed to create it and produce something that tells the story of the song in my view. This is just the start of the image and it will be created into a stencil and spray painted onto a canvas I have stretched and painted the background of already.
The other piece of art is of a girl this on the other hand was not created with the intention to be based on a song or music. It was just as a practise to see how ink holds of frosted acetate. I started with the background piece which I splashed ink on and then water to give it depth. The image of the girl is on a different pieces of acetate and i first drew out with marker pen but found it was too light so went over in some areas with black ink.

I plan to take this idea and create more art on acetate with the intention that it be placed on windows for light to shine threw and more colour be added.

Frank Pitt “DERILICTIONS”
of the spirit and the corporeal

The three works I have presented for the Shaun space
are very much based on found items which I felt very much represent the ending of things.

The photographs of the “apples” I found lying on concrete on the edge of a demolished factory site.
A lone ornamental apple tree, on its last legs seemed to speak to me of the death of all things. The fruit, clearly the last progeny of the tree will not survive just as the factory did not.

The free standing work “the seven deadly sins” was based on devils claw chestnuts I found in a chinese supermarket in Newcastle.
I was intrigued by the diabolical “face” of these things and the idea of Sin seemed apt.
I have given them bodies to add stature and gilded them to represet the attractivness of sins for all of us.
To sin is probably the ultimate deriliction.

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
BOOK OF PROVERBS

HAUGHTY EYES
A LYING TONGUE
HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD
A HEART THAT DEVISES WICKED PLOTS
FEET THAT ARE SWIFT TO RUN INTO MISCHIEF
A DECEITFUL WITNESS THAT UTTERETH LIES
HIM THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHEREN

Theresa Poulton:Snippets

The microscope allows a clear optical section revealing an unexpected

and extraordinarily striking image of a butterfly’s wing……….. this

concept.

‘Fragment 1’ a 213 cm x 201cm acrylic on canvas is an investigation of

the processes exploring the different properties of colour using paint as

a medium. The gestural marks on this geometric abstract painting were

executed with the use of found objects and manufactured implements.

Due to the scale of the canvas I had to work with excessive speed and

rigour, on occasion a degree of aggression was necessary. During the

creation of this piece I became totally absorbed and as one layer of

colour was applied previous layers became blurred, diffused and

occasionally obscured also in particular areas a visible translucency

transpired.

‘Fragment 2’ a 20 cm square acrylic on canvas is a further painting

focusing on a section abstracted from the larger original painting.

My historical references are kandinsky, Odilon Redon and Helen

Frankenthaler. Contemporary artist include Gerhard Richter, Beatrice

Milhazes, Tomma Abts and Chris Ofili.

Steven Todd

My work is based on the Biomechanical Art and Tattoo movement which started after The Swiss Surrealist Artist H. R. Giger created the monsters and environments used in the movies Alien and Aliens. His work inspired many artists and they began to copy his style with some changing it due to their own influences and style. This lead to a new refined style which is mainly used in tattooing, but has started to spread more into Fine Art and other areas.
The Biomechanical style is centred on fusing organic elements and structures with mechanical structures to make a sort of futuristic alien look, this is true with artists like Aaron Cain, whereas artists such as Eaz-One, A graffiti artist from Tennessee, pushed Biomechanical in a different way mixing it with graffiti and cartoon like paintings.
My work explores these influences in my pursuit of looking for new directions where biomechanical can be pushed in the form of Fine Art and Tattooing.

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THE BEST AROUND

19Oct09

Katie Dryden
My work deals with both ‘colour’ and ‘the process’ of creating a painting. Colour is beautiful and i want to express this through my paintings. The two paintings inwhich i have submitted for this exhibition are of an Princess/Model and a Canadian Landscape; both subjects are of substantial beauty which helped me paint in a style that is ‘free’, ‘expressive’ and ‘colourful’.

Aidan Nichol
All maps are created to enable people to go places and do things that would be difficult to do otherwise. Some are created to tell a story with a political social bias. And some over time can tell a different story to that envisaged at the time of their creation.

As a walk leader in two walking clubs, I can spend hours each week trying to read the countryside through the variously coloured lines on a map, hoping to find interesting walks for that weeks destination. Imagining what it will be like in reality; will there be good views; will it be physically too demanding; will it be safe in the forecasted weather. This all builds a strong relationship and dependancy on the map.

In this work I am turning that tables and superimposing my view of the world onto the maps.
Sian Evans
I wanted to do collage and ‘found object’ art this year. I’ve started with small works just using cut outs from magazines to get myself going. From these pieces I’ll carry on to develop my 2d collage which will hopefully give me some inspiration towards some 3d work later on.

Jenny Mack
I have been exploring typography, lettering, communication and looking at the ways in which they are used. The work i am exhibiting are examples of these, that have been influenced by my research. The three pieces are just a starting point, from which i intend to explore more avenues of communication, different styles of typography and how lettering can be used as imagary.