Acquire Arts: April 2009

OUR FRIENDSHIP HAS GREAT POTENTIAL

24th April – 6th May 2009
Private View 23rd April 6-10pm
Acquire Arts, 155 Battersea Park Road, London, SW8 4BU

Jane Howard
Hannah Bays
Holly White
Emily Brown
Ellie Nicholls
Will Thorburn
Steve Bunn
Kevin Quigley
Daisy Addison

Acquire Arts, Battersea’s newest gallery, is pleased to present – ‘Our Friendship Has Great Potential’. Recently opened, Acquire Arts is beginning a new and exciting venture into the artistic future. This space is filled with prospect, possibility and potential. To celebrate this, artist Jane Howard has rekindled old artistic working relationships and ignited new ones, to bring together a group show of multiple disciplines, exploring the dynamics of life and love.

This is an optimistic show, focusing on ideas of potential energy, initial attraction, involuntary admiration, limerence, emotional tension and the suppressed nervousness associated with prospects of possible and impossible friendships. Nine artists present new works for the exhibition, exploring the creative relationships that they have with other humans, objects, life, and themselves.

With the potential to make something great, seedlings of hope and aspiration are planted, but if not reciprocated, can manifest longing and immoderate desire. With electric energy, symbolic gestures and unfounded thoughts of intimacy, ‘Our Friendship Has Great Potential’ probes the all consuming preoccupation we have with our interwoven relationships, both real and perceived.

The second part of this exhibition will take place at the end of summer 2009, based on themes of unrequited love, illusion and magnetic forces repelling. This will be titled ‘Our Friendship Had Great Potential’.

Listings Information:

Acquire Arts
155 Battersea Park Road
London, SW8 4BU
www.acquirearts.org

Exhibition Dates: 24th April – 6th May 2009
Private View: 23rd April 6pm – 10pm

Opening times: 12pm – 6pm

Contact: email: jane@acquirearts.org tel: 07838 921 321

http://www.janehoward.co.uk/
http://www.daisyaddison.org/
http://www.hannahbays.com/
http://www.stevebunn.co.uk/
http://www.holly-white.com/

Film Making Workshop

Learn how to free video from the screen with our Film-making workshop on Saturday 9th May.

11-4pm

£10

Ben Faga, artist and film-maker will lead the session, in this alternative film-making workshop. Through hands on experimentation and exploration, spend the day playing with performance and creating new video instruments and methods to interact with the moving image.

The workshop will introduce the basics of of physical computing through a hands-on approach- come and learn by doing!

To book or for more information please contact

email: amanda@acquirearts.org

Children's Easter Painting Workshop

Book your place now for the Acquire Art's children's Easter painting workshop on 11th April.

The morning session: ages 4+ 10am-12pm £5

The afternoon session: ages 7+ 2pm - 4.30pm £6

Ellie Nicholls, artist and workshop leader will be helping your little bunnies learn new skills & techniques, have fun & make friends! Encouraging their imagination, experimenting & exploring easter inspired themes!

Class sizes are small so children receive plenty of individual attention & guidance.

Prices include all art materials

Parents/guardians are invited to stay or can collect children after class.

Spaces are limited so for more information and bookings please contact

tel: 07838 921 321

email: jane@acquirearts.org

Launch Night

On Friday 3rd April, Battersea’s newest gallery, Acquire Arts, will be celebrating its Launch Night extravaganza. Acquire Arts hopes to become an integral part of the local community, and welcomes all free-thinkers to become part of this interesting and accessible new space.
The Launch Night offers artists, musicians, writers and local residents the chance to meet and get involved in future projects.

Starting as we mean to go on, the Launch Night will feature live music from Iain Woods, recent winner of the Channel Four Music Talent Awards.

“Great, soulful voice, original and again, curious to see him live... Fresh and exciting, we were overall impressed by its uniqueness...”

-Neil McCallum (Head of Music at Channel 4)

...Plus a very special musical performance form: Lord Magpie and the Prince of Cats