Domesticated Exhibition

2010-03-08T10:07:00.000-08:00

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PostModern Gallery, Swindon, Feb 5-27 '10

2010-03-06T16:57:00.000-08:00

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http://www.juliadouglas.co.uk/

http://www.jemstiff.co.uk/

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2010-01-23T14:26:00.000-08:00

Domesticated is comprised of artists who have a prominent concern with human relationships to the built environment, particularly that of the domestic. Presented artworks make poignant observations of how we interact with our familiar built environments & the psychological nuances invested in such spaces, revealing the attachment & investment bestowed on those places & objects.

Personal & intimate space is being discussed, the private home, yet we can all acknowledge that others around us have similar spaces, interact with their homes similarly & can therefore understand what we experience more aptly. Works in Domesticated present this acknowledgment poetically, succinctly & yet diversely, each work realizing an aspect of this familiar reality.

Each artists explores this environment through a focus on the everyday, looking at objects & places we all recognize & respond to daily but posing different ways of viewing that banality.

All 7 artists present a new way of considering these spaces & objects.

Callum Bell

Curator

2010-01-06T12:54:00.000-08:00

2009-12-03T11:11:00.000-08:00

Exterior of the lovely Walcot Chapel, Bath
Sarah Kings installation works include washing lines and a washing room; she displayed some of those stitched sheets in the porch area. www.sarahkingart.com
www.sarahkingart.com
Sarah King's paper & stitched works embellish & record stains, spills and usually unwanted marks, although the familiar signs of family life. Accompanying sound piece of washing or cleaning sounds with a second audio recording of the artist imitating the sounds. www.sarahkingart.com
www.sarahkingart.com
Kate Peter's beautiful photographs from the series 'Home' & Jem Stiff's carved wooden pillow. www.katepeters.co.uk

Julia douglas' paper plates with hand-printed silk screen images reminiscent of willow patterns; a playful thought on its disposability and serial production. www.juliadouglas.co.uk

Julia douglas' Bone Aid, a medicine cabinet with willow pattern silk screen printed plasters, a play on the meaning of bone china and healing.    www.juliadouglas.co.uk
  www.juliadouglas.co.uk
  www.juliadouglas.co.uk
Jem Stiff's carved wooden pillow. www.jemstiff.co.uk

Jem Stiff's carved wooden towel & Julia douglas' paper plates with hand-printed silk screen images reminiscent of willow patterns; a playful thought on its disposability and serial production. www.jemstiff.co.uk www.juliadouglas.co.uk

Jem Stiff's carved wooden pillow. www.jemstiff.co.uk
Views of Domesticated at the walcot chapel

Colin Pantall's photo's from Sofa Series depicting his daughter watching TV from a sofa and inside her own world. www.colinpantall.com

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Christina Bryant's delicate wire drawings question places normal and frequently used; this installation is a familiar staircase. www.christinabryant.co.uk

Colin Pantall: Sofa Series

2009-10-02T16:03:00.000-07:00

Colin Pantalls photographs from the Sofa Series are featured in the exhibition. The notion of the exhibition as revealing & debating our home's as container's of psychological nuances invested in physical space prove all of the 6 artists to be exemplary of the concept. Pantall writes on www.colinpantall.com 'These portraits portray the flawed physicality of childhood and its mental and physical freedom'; homes are familiar spaces but can be a pandora's box of emotion, memory & pending nostalgia.

2009-09-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Domesticated

2009-09-13T12:04:00.000-07:00

Hello all, this is the first blog for the up-coming exhibition entitled Domesticated with dates and venues in the UK, Starting in Bath Spa Opening October the 8th at the Walcot Chapel 6-9pm.

There is an exciting group of artists showing from all over the UK. As the curator I will be posting information, interviews, images and thoughts around regarding the title and content of the show.

To start this blog with some context here is a quote from the intro to an excellent book on the subject; Contemporary Art and the Home Ed. Colin Painter

'interest in such a theme is rooted in the continuingly contentious status,

within the contemporary art world, of the home as a location for art,

born of modernism's definition of itself in contrast to the domestic.

Put crudely, the home was characterized as comfortable and reassuring

while modernism stood for challenge and progress.'