Forthcoming Exhibitions
Sentinel (South)
Pippa Oldfield + Martin Newth
9 March to 20 April 2012
ADMISSION FREE
Venue: The Gallery
Booking: not required
‘52°28’38.73”N 0°37’27.91”E’.
Martin Newth, 2011.
Silver Gelatin Print,
20x25cm
Sentinel (South) is a project that examines and explores the potential of wartime buildings to provide a unique perspective on the English landscape through the transformation of the structures themselves into cameras. Within Britain there are thousands of small military defensive structures commonly known as ‘pillboxes’. Built during the Second World War these simple concrete and brick buildings were designed as look out points in anticipation of an enemy invasion that never happened.
The project and exhibition includes distinct phases with overlapping photographic methods. There is a series of photographs of pillboxes; prints made by transforming the buildings into camera obscuras; and multi-screen video installations where the intended position of the soldiers’ guns have been replaced by cameras to create moving panoramas of the views that the buildings survey.
‘52°28’38.73”N 0°37’27.91”E’. Martin Newth, 2011.
Silver Gelatin Print, 20x25cm
Sentinel (South) is a text + work collaboration between artist Martin Newth, for whom this research has been ongoing for several years, and writer Pippa Oldfield. Oldfield’s essay ‘Sentinels of War: The Pillbox as Camera Obscura’ highlights aspects of the project relating to the use of pillboxes as cameras and the project’s status as part of the ongoing canon of war photography.
WestBeach, Pier Approach will be exhibiting a selected artwork from the Sentinel (South) project and exhibition, in the restaurant. Please visit the WestBeach website for directions.
Pippa Oldfield is a writer, curator, Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and a Doctoral Fellow at Durham University
Exhibition Talk and Publication Launch
Thursday 8th March 2012
5.00pm to 8.00pm
ADMISSION FREE
Venue: The Gallery
Booking: Required (please contact gallery@aucb.ac.uk)
Professor Jeffery Baggott in conversation with Martin Newth, where they will be discussing the ideas explored in the project and accompanying essay. There will also be an opportunity to view the exhibition prior to its opening.
Martin Newth, artist and Programme Director, BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
Professor Jeffery Baggott, Dean of Facility of Media & Performance, the Arts University College at Bournemouth.
Film Night
‘Radio On’ (Directed by Christopher Petit, 1979)
Thursday 15th March 2012
6.00pm to 8.00pm
ADMISSION FREE
Venue: : Lecture Theatre 2
Booking: Required (please contact gallery@aucb.ac.uk)
Image of the Radio On used with permission of http://www.bfi.org.uk/
‘Radio On’ is a rare example of a British road movie, shot in black and white. It is a grim but fascinating journey through late seventies Britain by way of a road trip from London to Bristol. Following David Beames, a young London DJ on the road to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, Radio On offers a unique, compelling and even mythic vision of a late 1970s England, stalled between failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of Thatcherism.
‘Radio On’ is a cult classic and, is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema - a haunting blend of edgy mystery story and existential road movie, crammed with eerie evocations of English landscape and weather.
Featuring music from David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Lene Lovich, Ian Dury, Robert Fripp, Wreckless Eric and Devo.
Chosen by Martin Newth to coincide with Sentinel (South), ‘Radio On’ provides a deeply atmospheric depiction of the British landscape. Through its stark but beautiful cinematography the film evokes ideas about memory, trauma and loss –themes which resonate with those explored by Martin Newth in his Sentinel project.
Exploratory Laboratory (Ex Lab) – Art, Science and the Coast
9 July to 3 August 2012
Exhibition Event
Thursday 12th July 2012
5.00pm to 7.00pm
Outbreath (Facts and Fictions), Mat Chivers, Copyright the artist
Ex Lab will be presenting a series of new contemporary artworks created in response to the unique environment of the Jurassic Coast this summer. Artists Simon Callery, Mat Chivers, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Simon Ryder and creative studio Proboscis are collaborating with earth scientists on the creation of a series of temporary site responsive artworks to be presented at various coastal and inland locations across Dorset throughout the summer of 2012.
The Ex Lab exhibition at AUCB will provide an insight into the practice of the five commissioned artists: Simon Callery, Mat Chivers, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Simon Ryder and creative studio Proboscis. You will be given a glimpse of the working methods behind Ex Lab and how the artists’ research evolved from their engagement with scientists in response to the Jurassic Coastline, prior to the works being shown as part of Maritime Mix – the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the sea.
Work from 3 Dorset based emerging artists who have been awarded bursaries, in association with Dorset Visual Arts, will also be shown.
Ex Lab is a Big Picture initiative. Big Picture is a collaboration of visual arts organisations and professionals in Dorset working with Dorset County Council to sustain and develop vibrant visual arts in the county
Blog: http://exlabproject.wordpress.com/
Website: http://www.bigpic.org.uk/
Twitter: @Exlab2012
Email: producer@bigpic.org.uk
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To book a place please email: gallery@aucb.ac.uk or telephone The Gallery Office on 01202 363272.