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10 – 21
November 2007
Open 11am - 5pm daily
Closed Sundays
The Space Gallery
Lansdown,
Stroud
Glos
GL5 1BN
t: 01453 767576
w: the-space.org
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Stroudwater
Textile Trust presents:
an exciting exhibition of new work from two innovative and complementary
textile artists, Corinne Hockley who is part of the locally based
Studio Seven collective and Sue Dove, an established artist who
lives in Cornwall.
The work is concerned with images of birds
and wings, corsets and cages, which are used as metaphors to
explore our perceptions of freedom. Each piece helps to tell
the story of the eternal tension between individual expression
and collective constraint.
Make a Mini Corset: Corinne Hockley will hold a 1 day workshop
Saturday 17 November contact the Textile Office for details:
w: stroudwatertextiles.org.uk
t:01453 752682
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| Art
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1st
November - 22nd December
Sabre Art Gallery
every Thursday, Friday and
Saturday
10am-5pm
Sabre Close
Green Farm, Quedgeley
Gloucester
GL2 4NZ
t: 01452 397479
w:gloucesterarttrail.co.uk
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| Arising |
31st
October -7th November
Open 10am - 5pm daily
Closed Sundays
The Space Gallery
Lansdown,
Stroud
Glos
t: 01453 767576
w: the-space.org
w: jolamalin.co.uk
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A
Joint Exhibition of Paintings by Jola Malin
& Printmaking
by Christine Felce
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| 'A
Show of 6' |
November
17th & 18th Frogmarsh Mill
South Woodchester
Glos GL5 5ET
t: 0797 946074
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A
selling exhibition of recent work in good time for Christmas,
featuring the work of artists, ceramicists and designers:
Petey Alliston; Annie Hewett; Kate Loveday; Shireen Morris; Cleo Mussi & Tessa
Tyldesley |
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PhotoStroud
Festival of Photography 2007 |
15th
- 27th October
numerous venues around Stroud
e:info@stroudphotofestival.co.uk
w:stroudphotofestival.co.uk |
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Stroud
is a market town in the southern part of Gloucestershire
that over the years it has attracted and become
home to a large number of artists who draw inspiration
from the landscape and from the remarkably
vibrant community within it.
Significant numbers
of photographers have been making consistently high quality
work in the Stroud Valleys whilst keeping in touch with developments
in photography both nationally and internationally.
Until now
however, the work of these Stroud based photographers has not
been gathered together and shown. Our aim is to bring this
work to the audience it deserves and show it alongside events
which will celebrate the best of photography worldwide.
Festival venues include the Subscription Rooms, The Space,
Stroud Valleys Artspace, the Museum-in-the-Park, Griffin
Mill, Ruskin Mill and the Stroud House Gallery.
Highlights of the Festival include
an exhibition drawn from some of the most important photographs
ever made, presented as unique platinum prints and shown together
for the first time anywhere in the world; talks by Martin Parr
and 31 Sudio as well as workshops at the famous Woodchester
Mansion by Alex Caminada, Margaret Lister and 'Walking the
Land'.
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| Prelude.
Works by Adam Morrigan |
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28th
August - 1st September
Stroud Valleys Artspace
4 John St
Stroud GL5 2HA
t: 01453 751440
e: office@sva.org
w: sva.org.uk |
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Contravertial
works by the Gloucestershire artist Adam Morrigan whose goal
is to highlight the need for us as a people to remember how
to be in balance live in harmony and walk in beauty with all
of creation not just with our own selfish agendas but offering
respect, education and understanding of what we are currently
losing.
"I entered into making these pieces to highlight the plight
of many of the animals under our care and stewardship and believe
we have a duty care to protect and sustain the natural spaces
still remaining, before we ruin them by exhausting them completely".
further information about Morrigan's work can be seen on:
www.adammorrigan.co.uk
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A
Series of 'ArtWalks'
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A
Stroudwater International Textile Festival Event
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20th
and 27th June
4th, 11th and 18th July
10:00 - 14:00
Museum in the Park
Stratford Park
Stroud
t:01453 756064
e:info@walkingtheland.org.uk
w:walkingtheland.org.uk
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Walking the Land present a series of five
practical ArtWalks celebrating, exploring and
visually recording the Stroud Five Valley's landscape and the
relationship with the textile industry. Tapping into the underlying
geology, biodiversity, topography and the built heritage, participants
are invited to walk and make studies of this unique landscape
and its relationship with local culture and livelihoods, and
to make a final, collaborative piece of work based on these
explorations.
All walks start at the Museum in the
Park, Stratford Park, Stroud where participants can research local heritage and livelihoods
before being guided to walk, draw and photograph the unique
heritage of the five valleys. Local artists and photographers
will provide expert professional guidance and
direction while the landscape and the Museum collection
will provide inspiration and information.
The walks will be between three to five miles (bring your own
picnic lunch) or a stop at a local pub to review work and plan
the next walk. Work produced will be curated on the
Walking
the Land e-gallery and may be incorporated into a forthcoming
land-art installation.
Fee: £25.00 per walk (includes tuition) Booking
essential.
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site07
festival programme
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numerous
venues around Stroud
t:01453 751440
e:site@sva.org.uk
w:sva.org.uk
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A
festival profiling 250 national and international artists presenting
work in a diverse range of sites in the Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire.
• john street exhibition
• site07 darbyshire award
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trial pit cinema
• the drawing show
• open studios exhibition
• hub collective
• performance poetry
• workshops and artists' talks
venues include:
• john street
• the subscription rooms
• the museum in the park
• the space gallery
• ruskin mill
• roborough fields
and more
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site07
festival open studios
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venues & studios around Stroud
open studio weekends:
9th-10th june + 16th-17th june:
11.00am - 6.00pm
t:01453 751440
e:site@sva.org.uk
w:sva.org.uk |
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In
this year’s site festival, the Open Studios will be presenting
a rich variety of new work by over 80 artists in 47 sites across
the Stroud District.
Visitors can visit an amazingly diverse range of studios during
the two Open Studio weekends and have a unique opportunity to
buy original artwork directly from artists. |
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Detritus
new work from
Mark Mawer
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A
site07 Festival Event curated by Lizzi Walton |
The
Long Room, The Space,Lansdown,
Stroud GL5 1BN
1st - 16th June
10.00 - 5.00 pm weekdays
11.00 - 4.00 pm sundays
t: 01453 752682
e: lizziwalton@btconnect.com |
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Current
paintings, drawings and constructions continue an involvement
with the meeting place between land and sea; they consider how
the residue of natural erosion on the foreshore can often reflect
the impact that a broader, global form of erosion can have on
our lives. Using a process of accumulating, sifting, revealing
and editing, the work attempts to restore disparate residue to
some sense of order.
Mark Mawer lives and works on the West Wales
coast and has taught at Stroud College for the last fourteen
years.
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Racking
Fields
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A
site07 Festival Event by
Walking the Land & other artists
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Rodborough
Community Hall
Rodborough Playing Fields
Butterow
Saturday 16th June
5:00pm until 11:00pm
t: 01452 812224
e:info@walkingtheland.org.uk
w:walkingtheland.org.uk |
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Local
art collective ‘Walking the Land’ brings artists
together to recreate the ‘Racking Fields’, exploring
the legacy and relationship between the landscape and the textiles
industry in the Stroud Valleys.
There are additional programme events planned to include:
vj
(Oogoo Maia) and screening, banner and costume making as well
as walks, talks and other activities.
It will be preceded by
schools and community workshops involving eight artists, but
they’ll
keep you on ‘tenterhooks’ about
timing and details, so check www.walkingtheland.org.uk for details,
specific times and our latest information |
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| Outsidespace |
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A
site07 Festival Event curated by Walking
the Land
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The Space Gallery
Landsdown, Stroud, GL5 1BN
19th - 30th June
10:30am - 4pm
open daily except Sundays
t: 01452 812224
e:info@walkingtheland.org.uk
w:walkingtheland.org.uk
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Walking the Land’s selection of artworks which celebrate
and respond to our local landscape.
Over 20 selected Gloucestershire
artists come together in OutsideSpace, each to offer their
unique vision and to explore the relationship between art and
landscape.
British landscape art is incredibly popular with the viewing
public, reflecting our national affection for the countryside
but also our fear of its potential loss.
Gloucestershire’s countryside offers some of the most
visually stimulating landscapes in the country. But as more
of us live in towns and cities, we’ve become gradually
separated from our landscape roots.
In OutsideSpace we see local artists re-acquianting us with
the landscape through their artwork. Their role is to confront
and challenge the viewer’s expectations of landscape,
into accepting both the tradition of representational landscape
painting, as well as a newer more contemporary interpretationof
the subject involving other approaches, disciplines and media.
• click here to see the images
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| War
and Peace 07 |
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Louise
Burston’s 'Army'
Wed 20 June 8pm
The
Subscription Rooms,
George Street, Stroud GL5 1AE
£2.50
t: 01453 760999
w:stroud.gov.uk
Wed 25
July 7pm
Watershed
Harbourside, Bristol
£3/£2 concs
t: 0117 9275100
w: watershed.co.uk
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“War
no longer exists…” writes Sir Rupert Smith,
a retired British general, in his book “The
Utility of Force”. He contrasts the first and
second world wars, essentially wars of armies, with modern
conflict which is fought amongst the people.Now
terrorism has globalised the field of conflict.
Challenged to respond to a changing world, eight artists/film-makers present
work about soldiers and people caught up in conflict:
Sean
Taylor worked for over five months with a company from the Irish Army
to choreograph '100 Paces'. The subject of Tim
Shore’s award winning 'Cabinet' is
the American Unabomber.
In 'Jamal’s Journey', British film maker Claire Fowler
follow’s a Palestinian family struggling with a healthcare system
under occupation.
Fiona Kam Meadley records stories of survivors from
a brutal civil war in 'Testimony from Liberia'.
Louise Burston’s 'Army' and Angelo Picozzi’s'00:00:45:00' re-present
archive photographs taken by soldiers.
'Creation Stories' by Fern Thomas explores the relationship
between violence and creation, and Ronnie Close’s 'A
Hard Place/Archive and Archive' reflect on the history of Northern Ireland.
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