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Transcript | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON
Barry Finan and Rosanne Robertson exhibit OutsiderXchanges collaborative installation YES LAD YES LASS in a group exhibition curated by gallery Director Zavier Ellis and artist Hugh Mendes.
TRANSCRIPT
| Fiona Banner, Pavel Büchler, Matt Calderwood, Ben Eine, Tim Etchells, Barry Finan & Rosanne Robertson, Sam Jackson, Hugh Mendes, J Price, Michael Scoggins, Barry Thompson, Mark Titchner, Amikam Toren, Mark Wallinger |
Exhibition Dates | Friday May 25th – Saturday June 23rd 2018
Performance | Tim Etchells ‘Some Imperatives’, 2011 Performance (performed by Andrew Stevenson) Thursday 24 May 6.30pm | Saturday 23 June 3.00pm
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to present ‘Transcript’, a group exhibition curated by gallery director Zavier Ellis and artist Hugh Mendes. Both Ellis and Mendes have an enduring interest in text based work and in the occurrence of text itself in our general cultural environment.
This exhibition will explore the use of text in contemporary art that has been transcribed from every day or alternative sources. For over a century, ushered in by Pablo Picasso’s inclusion of the fragmented word ‘JOU’ and collaged oil cloth in ‘Still-Life with Chair Caning’ (1912), artists have turned to low sources and materials gleaned from everyday life, thereby navigating visual communication away from its traditional reliance on imagery. Found elements derived from life in the studio, street and café were deployed to confront the audience directly with the stuff of reality at a time of great political, social and cultural flux. Fast paced change was axiomatic of the modern period, echoed by incessant industrial, technical and mechanical progress. Additionally, during a period of economic depression during and between the two world wars, adopting the use of accessible collage elements and found objects represented a democratisation of materials in themselves.
Read the full Transcript press release – HERE.
The exhibition will include a performance by Tim Etchells at the private view and on the final day: Tim Etchells ‘Some Imperatives’, 2011 Performance (performed by Andrew Stevenson) Thursday 24 May at 6.30pm | Saturday 23 June at 3.00pm.
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YES LAD YES LASS was co-comissioned by Venture Arts and Castlefield Gallery.
Barry Anthony Finan
Barry sees himself as a writer and an actor, although he has an eye for producing bold striking visual art as part of this. It is important for him to enact the work through readings and broadcasting. Barry works consistently with text. The text is artistically important in that it highlights a vision of life in large letters.
“II LIKE DOINNG WRRIGHHTINNG ANND DRRAWINNG. HAVE A ACTTING PAID JOB ONN TELEVISSION TO DO LOTSS OFF TRRICKSSERRSS JUMMPONN TELLEVISSION PICTTURRESSERRSS TO LOTSS OFF GOOD MONNEY TO SPENND ANND BUY.”
Rosanne Robertson
Described by Dazed and Confused when selected by Doodlebug as one Manchester’s ‘Emerging Ones’ as working beneath the skin by any means possible.
Her drawings and assembled works bind together temporary uneasy relationships- celebrating or showing the fragility of how things are held together in the human mind and by extension the physical world. Either transcending or combusting or both.
Working with drawing, performance, sculpture, assemblage and sound she explores tensions, anxieties and relationships between body, object and environment. Human psychology implicated in improvisation and assemblage underpins works anthropomorphic in appearance as an exploration into the unconscious given form.
Read more about Barry Finan | Rosanne Robertson
(Image credit: YES LAD YES LASS, Rosanne Robertson)
OutsiderXchanges Evaluation Report
Outsiderxchanges Evaluation Report
This report presents the findings of an evaluation of Venture Arts’ project OutsiderXchanges, in collaboration with Castlefield Gallery and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. For seven months in 2016, twelve artists, six of whom are learning disabled, shared a studio and collaborated as equals to produce experimental new artworks.
This project was kindly supported by Arts Council England and Manchester City Council.
OutsiderXchanges was conceived by Amanda Sutton, Director of Venture Arts.
This report is based on an evaluation by Sara Spanton, and has been edited by Aziza Mills.
Design and front cover image by Naomi Davies, BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduate, Salford University.
The project owes huge thanks to Tanya Raabe-Webber, Kwong Lee, Glen Meskell, Emma Thomas, Sarah Bradbury, Emma Fry, Jennifer Dean, John Lynch, Annie Feng, Nicholas James, all of the project artists and all the team at Venture Arts.
Download the OutsiderXchanges Evaluation Report here:
PSYCHEDELIC BRAINCELLS
SUPPORTING
THE DANIEL WAKEFORD EXPERIENCE
SUPPORTING
THE DANIEL WAKEFORD EXPERIENCE
TICKETS ARE SELLING OUT FAST for OutsiderXchangeS experimental noise band PSYCHEDELIC BRAIN CELLS who are proudly supporting Daniel Wakeford on May 13th at Islington Mill hosted by FAT OUT’S BURROW .
Alongside this event Venture Arts will be exhibiting a selection of artworks for one weekend only.
PSYCHEDELIC BRAINCELLS
Improv, Noise and Object Soup.
Psychedelic Braincells is a new experimental super group formed spontaneously at a studio party in a disco light ridden corner of pioneering collaborative art project Outsiderxchanges bringing together ideas, practices and expressions via noise, improvisation, sound making and performance.
Psychedelic Braincells’ first impromptu ‘concert’ saw us play a cacophonous and explosive set of spontaneous noise making to a captive audience developed into a longer set for our first gigs at BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art and The Whitworth in 2016.
Psychedelic Braincells is an extension of the experimentation within the Outsiderxchanges studio into sound and celebrates the act of playing- as an artist or a musician- we can play whatever ever we want be it objects from David and Matt’s painting assemblages to records from Rosanne & Horace’s sculptural interventions. Current members include Rosanne Robertson, Horace Lindezey, David James, Matt Girling, Sophie Megan Lee , Leslie Thompson and Juliet Davis.
FACEBOOK EVENT
BOOK TICKETS: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/Islington-Mill/The-Daniel-Wakeford-Experience/12933198/
Disability Arts Online – Sarah Munro reflects on her career so far and OutsiderXchanges making a lasting impact on her vision for supporting disabled artists
“They were able to overtly challenge elitism within the art world. There was a real sense of making visible the constraints of the art world that exist for everybody, not just for disabled artists. There was also a strong sense of comradery and that they were working as a group to create a collective practice”
“It’s not like we have done OutsiderXchanges, now this is the next thing. It’s more about, how do we stop it from being something that sits on the edge of the organisation and instead becomes a discourse across the core.”
Sarah Munro, Director of BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art reflects on the legacy of OutsiderXchangeS and how it has influenced her vision for nurturing and showcasing disabled artists in the future.
Read the entire article via Disability Arts Online –http://bit.ly/2DAOSMOX
Castlefield Gallery, Rosanne Robertson, Sophie Megan Lee, Matt Girling, Simon Raven, BALTIC 39, Tanya Raabe-Webber, Juliet Davis, The Whitworth, Amanda Sutton, Arts Council England.
Article: OutsiderXchanges Overview by Sara Jaspen at Corridor8
Sara Jaspen, Corridor8, reviewed OutsiderXchanges take over at The Whitworth Thursday Lates event on the 3rd of November. Read her article here:
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/article-outsiderxchanges-overview/
Thursday Lates: OutsiderXchanges at The Whitworth
On November 3rd 2016, OutsiderXchanges project took over The Whitworth‘s Thursday Lates event with their riotous art party. It was incredibly successful and the turn out was great. We shared the project to new audiences through the medium of video, performance, happenings, The Psychedelic Brain Cells, sound art, installations, party food, a disco and much more. See for you yourselves……
Photos courtesy of John Lynch, Martin Livesey and Annie Feng.
More images are available on our Twitter page, Instagram and Facebook page.
Thanks to The Whitworth art gallery and Ed Watts for helping us organise this event.
Thursday Lates: OutsiderXchanges Art Party
Tonight for one night only OutsiderXchanges take over The Whitworth Thursday Lates to present OutsiderXchanges project through an Art Party. Starting from 6-9pm there’ll be a feast of artworks, psychedelic performances, films, installations, happenings, sound art, party food and much more!
Check out these short psychedelic teaser trailers created by OutsiderXchanges collaborator and artist Matt Girling.
Thursday Lates: OutsiderXchanges
OutsiderXchange take over The Whitworth with an Art Party to remember!
3rd November, 6pm – 9pm. Free
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, M15 6ER
Join us for a one off Art Party, expect party hats, sound experimentation, performance and a host of artistic revelry. The evening will see the artist collective presenting, artworks, audio visual work and a one off performance by new super noise band ‘Psychedelic Brain cells’, an extension of the experimentation within the OutsiderXchanges studio into sound and celebrates the act of playing.
Guests are invited to wear their best party outfit.
OutsiderXchanges is a pioneering visual arts project based on collaboration, reciprocal learning and creative exchange.
Artists involved in the project are: Juliet Davis, Barry Anthony Finan, Matt Girling, Jane Louise Graham, David James, Sarah Lee, Sophie Lee, Horace Lindezey, Tanya Raabe-Webber, Simon Raven, Rosanne Robertson and Leslie Thompson.
OutsiderXchanges is supported through public funding by Arts Council England. Project Partners and Supporters of OutsiderXchanges project: Venture Arts, Castlefield Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and CVAN.
Pioneering Manchester-based collaboration between learning disabled visual artists and emerging artists draws wide spread attention and praise at The Manchester Contemporary
We had an amazingly successful weekend introducing OutsiderXchanges project at The Manchester Contemporary art fair. We had a great time speaking to the public, collectors, exhibiting artists and gallery owners! And we sold some 3 art pieces! What else could we ask for?! We’d like to thank everyone who came down to the fair and everyone who helped make it happen!
Horace Lindezey enjoyed conducting his ‘School Days’ interviews with collaborating artist Juliet Davis, Rudolph Walker (If you could invite anybody in the world to our party, who would it be?) (#hangingwithrudolph) enjoyed perusing the exhibitor stands and mingling throughout the fair. Artist Leslie Thompson had incredibly feedback on his collection of fine-liner on paper vitrines with models and produced some fantastic live drawings of the event. All participating artists got the chance to speak to visitors about their resulting artwork and collaborations and their experience of exhibiting at such a high profile event.
Selected artworks featured included pieces developed individually such Sarah Lee’s tactile three-dimensional clay ‘sketches’, inspired by the recent fire at the 16th-century Wythenshawe Hall, to collaborative works such as Yes Lad, Yes Lass (2016) by artists Barry Anthony Finan and Rosanne Robertson, a poignant mixed media video installation. This sculptural work represents the meeting of the two artists with their ambitions laid bare. Leslie Thompson, a prolific drawer, who at every opportunity is documenting his observations of events happening around him, in enormous detail using pen on paper, and in his own recognisable witty style, to artists Horace Lindezey and Juliet Davis who have involved public participation in their practice throughout to In a series of interviews Lindezey has been engaging participants in conversation on their childhood memories whilst also building models of their schools as a tool for reminiscence.
Artists: Juliet Davis, Rudolph Walker (If you could invite anybody in the world to our party, who would it be?), Sophie Megan Lee and Horace Lindezey.
Horace and Juliet conducting their ‘School Days’ interveiws during the fair
‘YES LAD, YES LASS’ 2016, Installation by Rosanne Robertson and Barry Anthony Finan
Sarah Lees ‘The Leaf Dress’ 2016, Architectural sketches on fabric
Amanda Sutton Director of Venture Arts #hangingwithrudolph
Amanda Sutton, Director at Venture Arts said:
“Showcasing OutsiderXchanges at The Manchester Contemporary was a great opportunity for the project and our artists to exhibit to a wider arts audience, and the response we had was fantastic. Collectors, curators and the wider public all engaged with the work on many levels, and we sold a set of pieces to a high profile organisation within Manchester. Over the next few months with events and exhibitions planned at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the Whitworth Gallery we aim to reach wider and more diverse audiences, and make the case for collaborative art practice within the contemporary art scene.”
Other fantastic feedback from the fair:
”The heart of the fair”
“Great to see art that takes responsibility in the real world!”
”TMC stall was completely amazing! And totally held its own in that environment, thought it was absolutely fantastic, we’re all very proud of you, so very well done to Venture arts and artists I say!”
https://twitter.com/ShineyEdwards/status/779380096754913282
Conversations Series I - OutsiderXchanges 
