Acquire Arts is back and back for business. After a quiet 2012, we are back and back to help. We have a few more spaces and galleries available to our wonderful clients.
We'll keep you posted in the next few days, but if you want to get in touch, email us at infor@acquirearts.org...
Nostalgicpieces, An Exhibition by Phillipa Spiller, 30th July - 1st August 2011
‘A particular object represents a huge part of a person’s life history, becoming entwined and unable to be free from each other because of so much value that the object holds; determining and keeping alive a feeling of the past and a multiple of memories about that person.’ Janet Hoskins, Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People’s Lives (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), p. 2.
I gain my inspiration from old family possessions, archives and all types of objects. The narrative that can be built within certain items and objects I like to project with my embroidery onto vintage materials.
The association of building my own embroidery on already hand embroidered linen, doilies and handkerchiefs aesthetically builds nostalgia and memories that has been sown in to it. But also re-using the materials gives me a sense of appreciation towards the original maker. In a modern world these domestic items are being thrown away or stored and collecting dust. My practice is bringing them back to life, to give them new purpose.
More information can be found on my blog: http://www.phillipaspiller.blogspot.com/
FARAWAY FAMILIAR - CLARE GOSLING, 29th June - 11th July 2011
FARAWAY FAMILIAR - CLARE GOSLING
PRIVATE VIEW
Tuesday 5th July 6-9pm 2011
SHOW DATES AND TIMES
3-7pm Thursday 30th June
9am-7pm 1st - 8th July
9am-9pm Thursday 7th July
CONTACT INFO
Clare Gosling
http://www.claregosling.co.uk/
claregosling@hotmail.co.uk
OTHER INFO
Free Entry To Show
All artwork will be available to purchase.
An interactive art piece will be open to everyone get involved in throughout the show!
Tommaso - The Beautiful Planet - 22nd - 25th May 2011
Born in Italy, Tommaso attended the studio of the icon painter Dionisio Olivotto for five years
before moving to London in 1994. The Beautiful Planet set of artworks focuses on the two essential
components of our planet: the social and the physical environments.
The artworks that depict our social environment, the Abused Humanity series, draw attention to the
psychological and physical abuse experienced by women and children. These artworks depict resilient
women who bear the signs of the abuse suffered and yet carry on bravely with their personal and professional life.
The artworks that depict our physical environment, the Mother Earth series, focus on the breathtakingly simple
beauty of our planet. Nature is depicted without any reference to humans and to signs of their use, or rather abuse,
of the beautiful environment they inhabit. The goal here is to facilitate a silent and intense enjoyment of the healing
peace of unspoiled natural landscapes and, in so doing, to help the viewer connect with the inner soul of our planet.
For further information please visit Tommaso's website: http://www.onlyart.org/
STAR(T)DUST Exhibition, 8th May - 17th May 2011
Star dust is formulated by individual grains of compressed dust.
STAR(T)DUST is an exhibition which celebrates the freedom of individual art practice
in the face of the increasingly intense compression which is currently effecting the social structures within our cities.
Artists
Emer Costello,Justus Cox,EmilianoStella,Max Fontana,Rossella Babbino,Serena Del Soldato
Monz,Maria Jole Serreli,Esperanza Gomez Carrera,Bruno Giordano,Viola Kunst,Paolo Amico
Romen Gouveia,Giulia Messana loi,Lisa Miller,Thomas Nelson,Carlo Fantasia,Tim Spooner,Fiona Kennedy Altoft.
The Exhibition features live performances by
Sun. 8 th May 8pm
Vindicatrix + Vivianne Viveur
Sat. 14th May 4pm
Emer Costello e Giulia Messana Loi - REOCURRANCE
Sat. 14th May 6pm
Giulia Messana Loi - LitvinoBene,YoumeemuoY
Plasticine Factory
www.plasticinefactory.co.uk
Georgie M'Glug : Scrutiny, 10 - 11 December 2010
Shards of Art is pleased to present Scrutiny, an exhibition of photography by acclaimed artist Georgie M’Glug.
The spectator, the perpetually plugged-in microphone or camera. It doesn’t matter whether you are watched with desire or hatred; what’s important is that there should be someone to see you get up, get dressed, smoke, go out, someone to hear you whistle, yawn, or fall silent, even if that someone doesn’t really look or listen… and then suddenly… there is no one.
- Francoise Sagan, The Unmade Bed
Art historical theory privileges the position of the Viewer over the Viewed by imbuing ‘the Gaze’ with un-contested power. But what happens when the Viewed takes control, subverts this theoretical construct and demands scrutiny?
Georgie M’Glug investigates this power struggle as it manifests itself in private relationships, tracing the trajectory of intimacy from its innocent inception to its often violent conclusion. These images capture both the act of defining and redefining ones Self before the desirous Gaze of the Other, as well as the perturbing consequences that result when this intrinsic drive to be watched becomes unhinged from the reliance on external scrutiny.
A London-based artist, Georgie M’Glug graduated from Portsmouth University in 2006 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Arts and is currently pursuing her BTEC National Certificate in Photography at Kensington and Chelsea College. She draws inspiration from the photographic practices of Ryan McGinley, Corinne Day and Nan Goldin. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum (July 2009) and The Situation Room (November 2010).
Shards of Art, a curatorial partnership launched in 2009 by Amy Shearer and Laura Summerton, seeks to support the work of young, up-and-coming artists. Through collaboration with individuals or groups of artists, Shards of Art fosters and facilitates a connection between the artists’ creative vision and a broad audience.
For more information, visit www.shards-of-art.com or contact shards.of.art@gmail.com.
Oliver Brodrick-Ward, La Vallee Des Merveilles, 3rd - 5th December
PRIVATE VIEW
Friday 3rd December
5.00pm till late
WEEKEND OPENING TIMES
Saturday 4th - Sunday 5th December 11am - 4pm
www.oliverbrodrickward.com
oliverbrodrick@orange.net
Art Revolution. 22th -25th November 2010
The London Latin American Film Festival is delighted to present:
ART REVOLUTION. 22 - 25 November 2010
The annual group art exhibition by some of the best Latin American and British artists:
This group exhibition curated by Ronald Hernandez presents an instance of the London underground and independent art scene.
The exhibition will comprise the art work of the following artists: Ronald Hernandez, Pascual Calderon, Jose Luis Herrera, Mentor Chico, Alejandro Gortazar and Becky Boston.
Each of them shows a strong artistic concept derived from their own life experiences. We would like to invite you to participate in this visual and conceptual experience full of colours, memories and storytelling through art.
Ronald Hernandez - Venezuela:
www.roheart.net
John Pascual - Colombia:
http://www.artistadelcolorpascual.com
Mentor Chico - Ecuador:
http://home2.btconnect.com/Obelisk/MentorChico.htm
Alejandro Gotazar - Cuba:
www.gortazar.net
Becky Boston - England:
http://www.beckyboston.blogspot.com
Jose Luis Herrera - Peru:
www.lifelikeproject.com
Art Revolution. 22 - 25 November 2010.
Acquire Arts Gallery: 155 Battersea Park Road, London, SW8 4BU
VIP Private view: Monday 22 de November 7pm
Upstairs Downstairs- an Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Natasha Lam and Georgia Jones,16th - 20th November 2010
At ACQUIRE ARTS
155 Battersea Park Road,
London, SW8 4BU
18th - 20th November
Open 9.30 - 6pm
(Close at 4pm on Saturday)
PRIVATE VIEW 17TH NOVEMBER
7PM
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