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: Henckel & Ramsdale investigators
Art lab : David Henckel . Ruth Alice Ramsdale
Curator Tony Knox
Incubation Gallery, 4th Floor, media factory.
University of Central Lancashire Preston,
PR1 2HE
David
Henckel My work is informed by the personality of everyday objects.
Through a playful process of sampling and automatic drawing I
combine elements of vegetation, science fiction, furniture, architecture,
vehicles and other stuff to create characters and forms with absurd
and comic tendencies. Continual invention and humour is important
to me and I enjoy the challenge of creating new characters based
on a loose set of rules. As well as using finished drawings to
create a painting I am also interested in using elements from
my drawings as inspiration lines, scratches and half forms. These
pieces, or micro samples, I think of as quantum soup, packets
of information, genes or tiny building blocks of unlimited potential.
Currently Henckel is artist in residence at UCLAN where he is
exploring these ideas in printmaking.
Ruth Alice Ramsdale
I feel that I am physically involved with the intricacies of Mother
Nature; everyday she amazes me with something new.
Her reclamation of mankind is overpowering, relaxing, it makes
me feel safe to know how small I am. I know I can never compete
with her creativity, her attention to detail, her intricate growth,
yet I will keep trying. Always walking one step behind her knowing
that I am her creation but because of that I will never pass her.
My prints are my creation, my expression of my world and the outcome
of my investigations.
www.davidhenckel.com
News
: Mural Project Commishion at Leigh Sixth Form college workshops
with Tony Knox.
opens to the public as part of an exhibition open evening on Thursay
2nd July 2009...
Tony Knox with support from the Art Teacher Patricia
Carey, June 2009 Leigh 6th form college workshops Students Art work By
Tom Gregory, Leanne Easton,
Jo Ackers, Helen Croft, Daniel Oliver, Lucy Hardman, Danielle
Hill, Cleo Davis , Gemma Roe, Sarah Evans, Lewis Cash, Jessica
Lowrence, Shannon Taylor,
Curator Tony Knox of the new show:
Once less harmful & more pleasure-giving Features : James
Diable and Wayne Hill
12th May-1st July
Incubation Gallery, 4th Floor,media factory,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston,PR1 2HE
Working
from a Preston based studio space, James Diable and Wayne Hill
are affectionately inspired and driven by the observation of and
connectivity with the day to day traditional market place and
the tangible Preston lives that exist within this space.
Through collaboration and creative liaison they negotiate and
blend the mediums of paint, creative writing, mechanical art and
drawing. UCLAN graduates and connoisseurs of Northern mustard,
@ once less harmful and more pleasure-giving is an amalgamation
of personal study and retrospective work investigating portraiture,
the application of paint and symbolic connotation.
May-July 2009 Tony Knox Mothman is featured on A Banner to the
Turnpike Gallery Building as part of the Wigan open.
Pax
CONVENTION - Planet Art eXchange :4th - 8th April 2009 Blackie
Art Centre, Liverpool
Planet Art eXchange (PAX) a transnational community building not
for profit organisation that uses art, culture and science to
address socially divisive issues, will be holding its first convention.
Tony Knox new work featured as part of Zygote a installation created
by Sumer Erek based on works by 35 international artists. Throughout
the five days of the event, there will be art exhibitions and
shows, film screenings, poetry, music, dance and live drama performances,
faith happenings and tens of panel discussions.
Mothman perforance 14th March 2008: 10 Years on, In the footsteps
of Batman
Tony
Knox work was featured as part of Instant Mash 13th March
2009.
Empty Shop is the North East’s newest contemporary arts
group, dedicated to giving artists in the region a much needed
platform to produce and exhibit their work. They take on unused
buildings in the region and turn them into usable art spaces.
Empty Shop was created by Nick, and Carlo . It is operating
as non profit with it's focus firmly set on art not personal
profit.
We are currently occupying our first 'Empty Shop' and will
be until July '09 at least.
13 March - 31 May 2009Group
zine exhibition. FACT, Liverpool,
UK, Climate for Change
Features Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery 1
For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable
year, FACT is proud to present Climate for Change, a unique
experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining
the multiple crises affecting the planet – ecological,
financial, food and housing. From peak oil to peak credit, Climate
for Change seizes the moment, and asks how do we respond?
In Gallery 1, a range of groups will take up residence in an
environment created from the leftover building materials from
2008's Capital of Culture year. The networked activities of
Merseyside and beyond will become a key part of the experiment,
as FACT hands over the keys to the door and becomes a hub for
meetings, socials, discussions and workshops, supporting grassroots
networks to practise and imagine new models of governance and
organising - live in the gallery space. Dealing with topics
as diverse as the Transition Town movement to underground nightclubs,
Climate for Change speculates that distributed networks who
share methods of self-organising are the most important tools
we have for responding to sustainability.
Underpinning this action will be a number of artist-led activities.
In Gallery 1, New York’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Centre
stages its Sustainability Road Show – a series of hands-on
workshops and activities that are both playful and social, highlighting
Eyebeam's strong media lab culture built around tinkering, hacking,
making and doing.
Artist Stefan Szczelkun presents his Survival Scrapbooks. Originally
published in the early 1970s, the Survival Scrapbooks are DIY
manuals for autonomous living, covering topics from “bio-diesel-making”
to “increasing your chi”. Loosely formatted and
intended to be re-edited in a pre-internet information-sharing
format, the books will form the basis for workshops and discussion
in Gallery 1.
New
Show : Hunger, Curator Tony knox
Incubation Gallery 12th March -1st May 2009
Media Factory,Uclan, Preston
Features: Yuanning Che, Steph Fletcher, Sarah Watson, Jane Bennett
Steph
Fletcher work
concerns both the human form - examining the structural, anatomical
qualities of the body – and the human condition, exploring
ideas of mortality, assimilation, decay and the transient nature
of individual existence.
For this set of drawings she had taken inspiration from UCLan’s
‘Northern Lights’ incubation space and the people
that utilize it, developed through drawing processes that merge
traditional figure drawing, comic-book style illustration, and
medical imagery" ,
Yuanning Che new
work inspired by his return to his hoem land of china stated
” I always feel that I don't take photographs with my
cameras: I take them with my hearts and my minds. They are a
reflection of my selves, what I am and what I think.”
UK
DIY, Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester,
14 February - 25 April 2009 This exhibition
explores the emergence of alternative, subversive, political
craft taking place across the UK as a new generation reclaim
and re-define craft, adding a distinctive tongue-in-cheek edge.
Featuring crafts that cross-over with fashion, furniture, science,
technology, and music culture, the work of innovative national
and international makers will be shown alongside work produced
by local communities, online communities and knitting groups
across the country. Features
Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery
Fear
and Optimism - Liverpool Artists on Tour
Published by Ian Jackson on March 6, 2009
Judging by the photos on Tony Knox’s flickr pages the
Fear and Optimism exhibition of works by 24 Liverpool Artitsts
at Bloc space and Workstation in Sheffield went well. Looks
like an interesting exhibition and a good gallery space. The
Sheffield leg of the tour has finished now. The plan is to move
onto Durham and then Halifax soon.
Tony Knox Curator the retrospetic art work Geeta Rao.
P1 Gallery 1st October,Preston then tour it to Wigan College.
The
night of the biennial lay witness to Mothman at St.Georges Hall
written by Anna McDade
A moment of silence is often a gesture of respect, particularly
in mourning for those who have recently died, or as part of a
ceremony commemorating a tragic historical event. The venue of
St. George's Hall is synonymous with Remembrance Sunday, a visually
orchestrated event that represents an iconic image of military
unity and power. On these very steps stood the solitary, resolute
figure of the Mothman, clad in semi darkness, holding a fiercely
bright red flare with sixty second burn life. As the entrance
to St. George's Hall was transformed by the luminous red glow,
an excited member of the public ran up the steps, drawn towards
the diminishing red light as if attempting to escape the beckoning
darkness.
thank you to Anna McDade, Colin Davis, Georgine Swan, Nik Corke,
Yupin Chung, thosmas Colin davis, Thomas Jacobi for there support
on the project Tony Knox
Mothman
The Comic Book : Tony Knox, Anna McDade ,Katie Hanratty
Now -25th December 2008
A Limited edition of Three hundred issues of Mothman Comic book
have been released as part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial
and distrusted in selected gallery’s throughout Liverpool
and the Kyotobar, Architectural Gallery, Köln in connection
with eight days a week.
This free preview issue zero is also available as a downloadable
comic book only available now until 25th December 2008.
The mothman a tragic dysfunctional hero that would save you if
he could only save himself ...
Artist Tony Knox developed the pseudo hero Mothman in 2004, inspired
by comic books and a fascination of moths this hero was born,
This nomadic being appears though various locations through out
the world creating a sense of Mystery where did he come from,
Why did he appear like a apparition at Pyramids in Egypt, then
the streets of Köln to the abandoned Garden festival site
in Liverpool to the centre stage of a wrestling ring and is Harry
Hill the mothman?
One of the factors that has inspires Knox art is the desire to
tell a story to finally give a insight into who the character
is and show it’s origins. An important factor to the success
of this collaboration was giving a lose narrative, Wirral based
Katie Hanratty illustrations brought a freshness by stamping her
own style on her pages, Anna McDade a multimedia artist set the
scenario where mothman was sitting on the angle of the north only
to be accidentally joined by a farther for justice planned protest.
Grab your copy while you can or download or view online.
Seasons
in Shadow: Incubation Gallery 8th Aug- 26th Sep 2008
Tony Knox the curator of the Incubation space based at the Media
Factory Preston presents the new show : Season in Shadow features
Yuanning Che and Barry Jackson.
Chinese artist Yuanning Che gradated in a ma in fine art in 2007
this new series of work inspired by Sakura, or as it is know in
the west Cherry Blossom is an omen of good fortune and is also
an emblem of love, affection and represents spring. Cherry blossoms
are an enduring metaphor for the fleeting nature of life, and
as such are frequently depicted in art.
Che stated ” I always feel that I don't take photographs
with my cameras: I take them with my hearts and my minds. They
are a reflection of my selves, what I am and what I think.”
Yuanning Che 2008
Barry Jackson a digital photo artist has shown internationally
and wrote books on Photoshop his new series 'URBAN ANGELS' explores
the long held religious belief that angels invisibly walk among
us in order to provide guidance and protection. Jackson constructs
the images to appear as if they where candid snapshots taken with
some kind of spectral camera catching the angels unawares as they
went about their daily business.
Although the ethereal beauty of the angels creates a vivid contrast
against the gritty backdrop of stark urban reality they also manage
to appear inconspicuously at home and serene in their far from
heavenly surroundings.
Barry Jackson 2008
Before
The Silence: 6th May - 31st July
Liverpool Curator Tony Knox brings 3 artists, Anna McDade,
Darren Beatty and Carol Menzies, all from different disciplines
to the new show at the Incubation Gallery, situated at the new
£15 million pound Media Factory building Preston.
Anna McDade’s work explores the fusion of Eastern and Western
art styles, including Graffiti Art, Anime and the ‘Superflat’
movement (Murakame). ‘After The Silence’ is a series
of digital works exploring the birth of a new world after a terrible
cataclysm; They are a reflection of real events experienced by
the artist, but retold to express emotional perceptions in a succession
of visual metaphors. They are a celebration of the realisation
that from great tragedy can spring infinite renewal and rebirth:
it is merely a question of an individual’s personal choice
to recognise and embrace the positive as well as the negative
in every situation.
Darren Beatty’s art work revolves around the questioning
of images. Beatty’s interest is in the ambiguous nature
of perception and representation, along with “tensions”
between objective and subjective “picture making”.
His intention is not to be overtly political, regarding specific
issues such as the war in Iraq, but instead using imagery as a
signifier of events from a broader historical period and therefore
commenting more objectively.
Carol Menzies’ photographic images are a new abstracted
series of jellyfish. These Embryos of Light are convulsing, dancing
and floating structures within the unnatural environment of an
aquarium. Lit by a single neon strip the jellyfish movement is
restricted within this entombment. This organism is one of the
oldest forms of life on earth, displayed for the voyeuristic pleasures
of the public as they glare though the glass to another world.
Leigh
and Wigan Artists Open
Tony
knox art work on show at Turnpike Gallery, Civic Square, Leigh.
15 March - 26 April 2008.
Images
by Tony Knox
Leigh and Wigan Artists Open is a celebration of the diversity
of current artistic practice in the borough featuring over 180
artist from professional
artists from the wigan artist network and okey studios
to amateur artists, living or working in the borough of Wigan
top left image is the work of the Late Geeta Rao featured Jane
Fairhurst, Tony Knox, Steven Heaton, Elaine Bennet, Mike Fahey,
Elizabeth Smith, David Stanley, Dorothy Spain,etc
