Motorcade/FlashParade

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Spoil Your Paper

INCUBE8 Part VI

Samuel Hasler

Peer critique: led by David Trigg

Saturday 10^th November, 2pm

Preview:

Thursday 8^th November, 6pm-late

Exhibition Continues:

Saturday 10th November only

12-6pm

Samuel Hasler is presenting a new selection of artworks that look at absurd and political ways to think about the act of drawing. Spoil Your Paper is in keeping with his previous performance, text and multiple printed image works, where Hasler exposes the creative and critical processes of the artwork. This often happens as performance and discussion with the audience. An element of chance and unpredictability is important.

"The posters, images, texts and performance include ideas such as; artists exhibiting used toilet paper as drawings and anti-political campaigns to encourage spoilt election ballots. I suppose there's a destructive theme to it too.

"The artworks reflect the research and pursuits of my practice. I try to make intuitive responses to things in the world that interest me such as religion, politics and art history or theory. These intuitive responses often lead me on weird tangents into fiction, autobiography, jokes, games, design. This kind of working allows things to feed into the work according to aesthetic choices, or my ideas about things that I feel drawn too.

"It's become of particular interest to me in recent artworks to use a performance environment as one where the audience can question and interrogate the artwork. I like the idea of performance as a space to talk about things and to try things out where the results are unknown. It's not improvised performance but I try to be responsive and reflexive with artworks the situation, the space and the audience."

Samuel Hasler is a visual artist based in Cardiff . He has made performance and installation work across the UK in Galleries and alternative spaces. He has exhibited at EXPO festival in Nottingham, National Review of live art in Glasgow and as part of the 'if...' series at g39 in Cardiff. His work uses drawing and writing within a structure that allows decision making and creative responses to space, often within the performance.

http://www.samuelhasler.co.uk/

David Trigg is an art writer based in Bristol. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and a regular contributor to Art Monthly, a-n, Art Papers and Frieze. His writing has also been featured in Art Review, Untitled, Circa, Flash Art International and Metro. David gained his degree in Fine Art from Bath School of Art and Design in 2001. Since then he has worked as Reviews Editor for Bristol arts publication Decode as well as holding positions at the Arnolfini Gallery and more recently as a visiting lecturer at UWE.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Students of Mr. D. Brook

INCUBE8 Part V

Laura Reeves

Pre-preview critique
led by Nia Metcalfe:

Thursday 1^st November, 6pm

Preview:

Thursday 1^st November, 7pm-late

Exhibition Continues:

Friday 2^nd–Sunday 4^thNovember 12-6pm daily

This is the first solo exhibition of work by Laura Reeves, recent graduate of UWIC and Winner of the Young Artist Scholarship. Reeves presents a body of new work for INCUBE8 investigating what it means to be a graduate artist.

Reeves collects, now redundant, analogue photography in a variety of formats including 35 mm slides. She creates her own archival system that often leads her to assume the identity of others, following in their footsteps and exploring concealed narratives. Her work encompasses found photography, text, lecture presentations, small publications, ephemera and film.

Reeves’ practice is research based and uses archival processes, working like a detective she follows clues and makes links between her life and those of others. Using the found photograph as a starting point for research, Reeves explores common feelings of nostalgia and the revival and activation of lost stories.

During her final year at university, while working with a photographic archive featuring the life of Richard and Beryl Grunwell from the 1960s, Reeves coincidentally stumbled upon a retired lecturer’s collection of 35 mm slides. These images document UWIC students of the 1980s generating work in their studios and their final exhibitions. Incube8 will see Reeves consider the value of these lost works, the clichés inherent in art school and questions the validity of how art was ‘taught’ in the past by often reproducing ‘great’ and ‘important’ artworks.

Laura Reeves grew up in the South West and moved to Cardiff to study Fine Art specialising in sculpture. She recently graduated with a first, receiving the Eisteddfod Young Artist Scholarship of 2012, and has exhibited widely amongst her peers. Reeves works as studio assistant to Sean Edwards producing works that have been shown at Limoncello, Tanya Leighton and Spike Island galleries.

www.laurareeves.tumblr.com/

Trained in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, Nia Metcalfe now lives and works in Cardiff as a curator. She has worked with artists in various roles and organisations, with a focus on art in the public realm and cross-disciplinary practice. In 2011 Nia undertook a period of curatorial research in Venice, working with artists from Wales, exploring the boundaries between Artist and Curator, the potential for collaboration and art making over distance and investigating ideas of authorship in artistic production. Nia is one of three founding Directors of Elbow Room, a co-operative established in 2010, whose aim is to create the space, capacity and opportunity to make and experience art in public places.

http://www.elbowroom.org.uk/

MFP National Open 2012: selected artists

We are delighted to announce the selected artists for the 2012 Motorcade/FlashParade National Open, selected by Emma Cocker, Brian Griffiths and David Trigg.

Jason Brown