42 New Briggate Gallery

42 New Briggate Summer Residency Line-up

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This Summer the window will act as the exhibition space through which to observe artists making, experimenting and performing in our Summer residency programme. Proposed activity includes: carving a large head out of polystyrene, laboriously painting a replica of a pizza shop artwork, rejection-relieving paper object-making, and weird world animation, plus a full blown DIY blockbuster featuring lots of Donald Trump. Details of individual artists’ projects below.

The residency programme will culminate with a weekend exhibition showcasing work from all the artists involved.
Preview Thursday 25th September 6-8pm
26th - 28th September 2008 (12-7pm each day)

7th July – 13th July
Freya
It is said that God created the world in 7 days. Freya will attempt to create her own world with same amount of time but with the added advantage of chocolate for fuel. At the end of this period the window of 42 New Briggate promises to be populated by strange and improbable creatures and their friends.

Flamingo in Freyas window exhibition

Chocolate wrappers

14th - 27th July
Rebecca Strain
Rebecca will spend a fortnight concentrating on ‘The Fine Art of Rejection’ by making paper objects from failed applications and rejection letters. Rebecca invites the audience to contribute by submitting their own rejection letters, failed academic or job applications, personal rebuttals, or simply any paper based material concerning rejection via the galleries letterbox.
Alternatively material can be submitted during a special rejection-letter-amnesty event on Friday 18th 6 - 8pm.

Distribution of invitations to submit rejection letters at the gallery. Images by Rosie Gibson.

28th July – 3rd August
Grace Harrison
Grace will explore the interpretation and fabrication of history and myths in the city using photography, video and writing.

4th – 17th August
Rhiannon Silver
Rhiannon’s two-week residency entitled ‘Sarah’ will be spent replicating the decorative wall mural in Al Capone’s Pizza takeaway (opposite 42 New Briggate). Viewers will be able to observe the painstaking but knowingly futile process of reproduction. At the end of the residency the audience will be invited to compare the original mural with the artists imitation.

18th – 31st August
Steven Morant
Steven’s residency will be concerned with the manner in which sky-scraper sculptures, such as the Great Sphinx, demonstrate the timeless appeal of architectural sculpture. How did carvers on one side of the Great Sphinx’s nose make their work exactly reflect the work on the other? During the residency, it is hoped to test theories about such questions through the six-fold enlargement of a life-size head. Afterwards, when cast, the enlarged head will allow children to shelter inside it.

1st – 14th September
Roman Alaska Worlds Enterprises
Co-founders Laurence Collyer and Richard Lewis will use the two weeks in 42 to develop and present their ‘DIY Blockbuster Group Show’ including an exhibition by artists and musicians of portraits of Donald Trump and the Planets; a bric-a-brac shop made by Roman Alaska World Enterprises displaying homemade submissions of all kinds, and performances in 42 on Sat 6th September + a satellite event at The Brudenell Social Club on Friday 5th. Laurence and Richards’ orchestrated collision of the DIY and entrepreneurial spheres promises plenty of creative debate.

The Fine Art of Rejection - Rebbecca Strain

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Rejection Letter Amnesty with music
Friday 18th July 6-8pm Friday 18th July 6-8pm
All are welcome

42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds, LS1 6NU

The main objective of the event is to publicise, gather material,
amuse the audience and, of course, liberate and empower the
down-trodden masses.

The audience will be invited to hand over material/documents of rejections, disappointments and personal slights by using questionnaires available on the night or by donating materials they bring along with them. The reward for this will be a drink of their choice.

6pm - 7pm: Improvised Jazz from Rus Pearson (double bass) and Sean Foran (Electric Piano). Plus music focused on ruining epic compositional climaxes with unmemorable, pointless and plain-wrong musical conclusions.

7.30pm - 8pm: Stand-up style public reading/re-enactment of various rejections, with musical accompaniment facilitated by sculptor Scott Senogles (all 6 foot 7 of him). Expect the unexpected when we score applications/rejections on various 'important' criteria.

This is event is part of a summer residency programme in 42 New Briggate.

Black Dogs

2008-06-02T20:33:00.002+01:00

25 ways of keeping occupied

Gallery open 12 – 7pm Tues – Sat from 13th June – 27th June

Black Dogs, Leeds’ DIY-curious art collective, revisit the gallery exhibition format in their newly expanded form with over 20 art-doers. Art as an everyday activity is chewed over through fan-fiction video homage, committed doodling, chance-poetry readings, obsessive collecting, playing with matches (and match boxes), cup thievery and beer labelling, homeless dog befriending, work-gym-eat cycles and coating things in metal to name but a bit.

Naturally, art as the everyday doesn’t fit so easily in the gallery so expect additional off-site and event centred critical-amusement on similar themes through clandestine café meet-ups, sibling behavioural experiments and in-house performance etcetera, including the chance to discover what the average perfect Leeds night out is once and for all.

42 New Briggate will act as both the exhibition space and the HQ to experience and discover where many of the satellite activities occur, making attendance at the opening event on Thursday June 12th a prerequisite to ensure exhaustive Black Dogs consumption.

Exhibitors, performers, makers, players and writers include A Couple of Swells (Luke Drozd and Michael Lawton), James Hill, Nick Jones and Jonathan Kenworthy, Rinkadon, Andy Abbott, Lawrence Abu-Hamdan, Haley Roe, Jon Slight, Charlotte Beevor-Reid, No Fixed Abode (Horatio Eastwood and Terry Slater), Lawrence Molloy, Michael Burkitt, Dan Carey, Mick Welbourn, Eleanor Johnson, Eva Rowson, Janis Rafailidou, Iona Smith, Harry Meadley, Alex Farrar, Chloë and Bryony Pritchard, Steven Allbutt, Yvonne Carmichael, Jen Ohlson, Dave Ronalds.

www.black-dogs.org
www.creamyhead.co.uk

Parent and Child Workshop

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3rd May Saturday - Recreating the Cottingley Fairy Images
with community artist Tim Curtis

Performance and Music evening ALL WELCOME

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Event is 2 minutes walk from 42 New Briggate Gallery in the Grand Arcade.

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Above 3 Photographs by Giuseppe Lambertino

The story of the Cottingley Fairies, photography and artwork from Macbeth-related locations and Romeo and Juliet tourist attractions in Verona, Italy with artists Giuseppe Lambertino, Eva Rowson and Yvonne Carmichael.

Eva Rowson, Giuseppe Lambertino and Yvonne Carmichael.

Thursday 24 April – Wednesday 21 May 2008
Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 12pm - 7pm

Private View - Wednesday 23 April 6pm - 8pm with refreshments and activities, including games and quizzes from Bryony Pritchard. Everyone is Welcome.
Parent and Child Art Activity with Tim Curtis - Saturday 3 May 3pm – 5pm
Artist’s Talk with Eva Rowson, Giuseppe Lambertino and Yvonne Carmichael - Thursday 8th May 6pm – 7pm

To accompany Opera North’s Shakespeare Resounding season, Matter of Fact presents photography and installation work exploring our willingness to suspend disbelief for the sake of a good story. Inspired by the enduring relevance and timeless qualities of Shakespeare’s plays, this exhibition takes as its starting point the intriguing relationship between eyewitness account and fiction.

Two specially commissioned works by contemporary artists are displayed alongside photographs and documentation from the infamous Cottingley Fairies story, forming an investigation of ideas such as ‘evidence’ and ‘proof’ in art’s attempt to enrich everyday life.

The photographs taken by Yorkshire girls Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright are now nearly 100 years old but time hasn’t eroded the impact of their playfulness. In 1917, it seemed as if the whole world was taken in by their photographs of fairies in Cottingley Beck, which were lent further authority by the patronage of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The exhibition will display five photographic prints of the Cottingley Fairies alongside drawings and writings by Frances and Elsie. Interviews with the pair nearly 60 years after the original fairy-furore in a spellbinding documentary made for Yorkshire Television’s Calendar News programme in 1973 will also be shown.

'Distant Relatives' is a newly commissioned photographic series made to accompany Opera North’s production of Macbeth. Artist Giuseppe Lambertino travelled to the far reaches of Scotland to document actual sites relating to the real 11th century Scottish king, who may or may not have been the inspiration for Shakespeare’s play.

'Love Capital' accompanies Roméo et Juliette and displays the results of artists Eva Rowson and Yvonne Carmichael’s trip around locations in Verona associated with the world’s most famous lovers. The installation will present their souvenirs with an artist’s book exploring the commercial opportunities created by Romeo and Juliet’s tragic but everlasting love.

Saturday 3 May Parent and Child Art Activity
Create your own legendary creature at 42 New Briggate Gallery on Mayday weekend with community artist Tim Curtis. All artwork made during the workshop will be exhibited in the gallery. Places are free but limited; please ring 07815 780179 or email enquiries@42newbriggate.co.uk to book places.

Opening Night of Limelight

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Photographs of Bryony Pritchard's performance on the opening night of Limelight. Bryony made custom newspaper outfits and accessories for all willing attendees.

Limelight

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Limelight
Victoria Lucas

42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds

Friday 22nd February – Saturday 22nd March 2008
Gallery is open to the public Tuesday – Saturday 12 - 7pm
Part of the installation will be permanently visible through the gallery’s window for the duration of the exhibition.

Preview Event Thursday 21nd February 6-8pm
Closing Event Saturday 22nd March 5-8pm

Everyone is welcome FREE ENTRY

42 New Briggate Gallery delves behind the scenes of The Grand Theatre inviting artists to respond to the wealth of material in Opera North’s archive. The upcoming exhibition, featuring artist Victoria Lucas, offers the audience a rare opportunity to take a closer look at costumes used in the past few years’ Opera seasons. The installation will include an array of short films that are integrated into a display these garments and props.

During the course of the exhibition three situation responsive works will be executed by other artists to be showcased at the closing event in the back gallery space. This will include a performance by Bryony Pritchard, drawings by Nichola Pemberton and a sound piece by Mick Flower and James Smart.

A limited edition artist’s book souvenir by Victoria Lucas will accompany the exhibition (and will be available for purchase).

SUPER FAST CHICKENS

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Currently showing...

Super Fast Chickens By Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer
To accompany Opera North’s production of The Adventures of Pinocchio

Exhibition runs daily from Friday 21st December until Saturday 26th January

This artwork is viewable through the gallery window from 4pm to 8am DAILY

A fantastical multimedia window installation with manipulated toys and carnival themed projections.

For four weeks this winter, the window of 42 New Briggate Gallery will open onto a world of colourfully crafted chaos; a 3D moving tableaux of chromatic festivity.

Toys, texture and technology all vie for space within this opulent and garish carnival. Inspired by the bright lights and style of Italian shopping boulevards, the window scene interrupts reality with rubber plants, colour saturation, speed and chickens.

Commissioned to accompany Opera North’s brand new The Adventures of Pinocchio, Super Fast Chickens is by no means a sweet fairytale; a hint of the dark side noticeably creeps in.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is composed by Jonathan Dove who says “For a long time, I have thought that the tale of Pinocchio would make a marvellous opera, one that appeals to the whole family…Marionette-dances, fairground rides, assassins giving chase; terrifying men and a captivating girl; crime and punishment, remorse and reconciliation”.

Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer are West Yorkshire based artists. They both have individual art practices that use found objects, assemblages and installation. Edward describes his work as humorous or sinister, kitsch, ugly, absurd, aesthetically pleasing or just unusual. Hannah’s work focuses on childhood and play, shrines and ritual, seasons, cycles, life and death. In 2005 they received grants from the Arts Council England and Esmée Fairburn Foundation to create a new work, ‘The Magical Realm of Light’ for South Square Gallery in Bradford.

This commission marks a new stage in the development of 42 New Briggate Gallery, which will support artists from the north of England. It is the first work to be made specifically for the gallery in response to an opera.

Email: enquiries@42newbriggate.co.uk

Images of Residency Exhibition

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Invitation to join us for a one-off evening exhibition.

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To conclude our series of window residencies at 42 New Briggate Gallery we will be hosting an evening event from 6-8pm on THURSDAY 13TH DECEMBER.

The artists involved have undertaken a variety of projects - from working with homeless people in Leeds to locking themselves up in the 42 ZOO (as seen on Look North - come on Thursday to see the recording....).

Please join us to celebrate the work of the artists and to get into the festive spirit, 42 style!

Artists involved in the residencies are:

Jennifer Ohlson
A Latento (Alex Farrar, Harry Meadley and Iona Smith)
Patrick Gildersleeves
Andy Abbott

See here for more details.

COMING SOON: FRIDAY 21ST DECEMBER - OPENING OF SUPER FAST CHICKENS.
see here for more details

Residency Line Up

2007-11-13T12:00:00.000Z

From Wednesday 14th November 42 New Briggate will be hosting a brand new series of residencies.

Artists were invited to put forward proposals for how they would use the gallery space to make work that is visible in or through the gallery’s large front window. Everyone is most welcome to peer in and watch the successful artists at work and play.

1. Jennifer Ohlson
14th November – 21st November
Jennifer has asked members of the homeless community in Leeds to document areas of the city that they find hospitable with the aim of producing a guide to temporary nocturnal accommodation outside of traditional lodgings. Photographs, sketches, found objects, gifts, narratives, opinions and ideas from the contributors will be displayed in the window of 42 New Briggate Gallery as a continuously updated archive.

2. A Latento – Alex Ferrar, Harry Meadley, and Iona Smith
ZOO FORTY TWO
21st November – 28th November
A Latento will convert 42 New Briggate into a zoo enclosure in which they will live in captivity under the observation of the public.
To open their residency the group will be launching their debut publication. Come to the gallery to receive your free copy on Wednesday 21st November 7pm - 9pm.

3. Patrick Gildersleeves
28th November – 5th December
Illustrator Patrick Gildersleeves will build a 3-D garden collage using drawings, cloth and cardboard.

4. Andy Abbott
Leeds Amateur Mafia
Andy presents in the gallery's window research on amateur and self organised activity across Leeds.

There will be an exhibition showcasing the three weeks work on Thursday 13th December 6-8pm all are welcome.

COMING SOON: SUPER FAST CHICKENS

2007-11-05T15:15:00.000Z

Super Fast Chickens By Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer
To accompany Opera North’s production of The Adventures of Pinocchio

Exhibition runs daily from Friday 21st December until Saturday 26th January
PREVIEW FRIDAY 21ST DECEMBER 6 - 8PM

This artwork is viewable through the gallery window from 4pm to 8am DAILY

A fantastical multimedia window installation with manipulated toys and carnival themed projections.

For four weeks this winter, the window of 42 New Briggate Gallery will open onto a world of colourfully crafted chaos; a 3D moving tableaux of chromatic festivity.

Toys, texture and technology all vie for space within this opulent and garish carnival. Inspired by the bright lights and style of Italian shopping boulevards, the window scene interrupts reality with rubber plants, colour saturation, speed and chickens.

Commissioned to accompany Opera North’s brand new The Adventures of Pinocchio, Super Fast Chickens is by no means a sweet fairytale; a hint of the dark side noticeably creeps in.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is composed by Jonathan Dove who says “For a long time, I have thought that the tale of Pinocchio would make a marvellous opera, one that appeals to the whole family…Marionette-dances, fairground rides, assassins giving chase; terrifying men and a captivating girl; crime and punishment, remorse and reconciliation”.

Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer are West Yorkshire based artists. They both have individual art practices that use found objects, assemblages and installation. Edward describes his work as humorous or sinister, kitsch, ugly, absurd, aesthetically pleasing or just unusual. Hannah’s work focuses on childhood and play, shrines and ritual, seasons, cycles, life and death. In 2005 they received grants from the Arts Council England and Esmée Fairburn Foundation to create a new work, ‘The Magical Realm of Light’ for South Square Gallery in Bradford.

This commission marks a new stage in the development of 42 New Briggate Gallery, which will support artists from the north of England. It is the first work to be made specifically for the gallery in response to an opera.

Email: enquiries@42newbriggate.co.uk

Residency Opportunity @ 42 New Briggate Gallery

2007-10-28T10:07:00.000Z

42 New Briggate Gallery is inviting proposals from artists or artists groups to utilise the front gallery space for a week of experimenting, making and creating. We recognise that there is a need for experimental spaces in Leeds and that there are many eager students and practitioners eager to try new things. We want to provide you with that opportunity and for the public to see you at it!

Successful applicants will produce work that is visible from outside the gallery through the window as the gallery will not be invigilated or open to the public. Alternatively artists can use the gallery window to exhibit eye catching finished pieces of work for the duration of their week.

There are three residency places/window weeks available,

Noon Wednesday 14th November til noon Wednesday 21st November
Noon Wednesday 21st November til noon Wednesday 28th November
Noon Wednesday 28th November til noon Wednesday 5th December

Artists will be responsible for making sure the space is ready for the next resident.

The gallery will be opened to the public for an informal one day exhibition showcasing of the three weeks activity on Thursday the 13th December.

Submission guidelines: Please send us:
* A CV
* A covering letter describing what it is you intend to do and why,
how you would utilise the space and a description of what would be
visible in or through the window.
* Images (or other relevant supporting material) to support your
application, these can be of the proposed work or of previous relevant
works. We can accept most formats, slide, prints, DVD's, audio CD's
but computer CD's MUST be formatted to work on Apple Mac.
*Please also specify if there are any of the residency weeks that you
are unable to do.

Hard copy submissions should be dropped into the gallery or posted to
42 New Briggate Gallery
42 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU

We will also accept submissions by email -
enquiries@42newbriggate.co.uk.

The deadline for applications is Monday 5th November.

There are no fees available to pay artists but we will not charge you to use the space. We will confirm that we have received applications by email. Meetings will be held with short listed candidates to discuss ideas and practicalities in the week commencing 5th November.
We apologise that we will be unable to give feedback to people who have not need been short listed and if you have not been contacted by the 9th November then please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Artist Talk - Wednesday 17th 5pm, Free

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Dinu Li gave an informal artist talk on October 17th between 5pm and 6pm.

Art and Design students work with Dinu Li

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2nd Year students from the Art and Design Interdisciplinary course at Leeds College of Art and Design spent a day with artist Dinu Li at 42 New Briggate Gallery on Wednesday 17th October.

Dinu presented some of his past projects, commissions and residencies in their studio at college and then the group de-camped to 42 New Briggate Gallery.

Here there was a chance to look at Dinu's current exhibition, 'The Mother of All Journeys' before being set a task to work in the city for the afternoon.

Everyone was asked to choose one word in response to the exhibition and then apply this word to a personal experience of the city. Each student had a digital camera and was asked to choose one image at the end of the day which summed up their activities. All sorts of creative endeavour was employed - from stalking passers-by, to finding houses parent's lived in as students, to retracing first steps in the city, to re-visiting old halls of residences, and even going home to Bradford and back in 2 1/2 hours.

Green tea and critical feedback session:

The students with Dinu:

Light Night: Chronicle of a Dream Foretold

2007-10-12T15:02:00.000+01:00

Dinu Li's film 'Chronicle of a Dream Foretold' will be showing in the gallery for Celebrate Leeds 07 Light Night, October 12th 2007

Looped screening from 7pm – 11pm
(Film duration 20min 30sec and will start on the hour and half past the hour through the night)

Chronicle of a Dream Foretold is a video work made by Dinu Li during a residency in Kazakhstan for the Central Asian Project. It blurs the boundaries between documentary and fantasy. Inspired by Jean-Luc Goddard’s 1960’s film of The Rolling Stones’ rehearsing their song Sympathy for the Devil it shows a Kazakh rock band as they rehearse their latest song ‘Dreams’. This is combined with scenes such as footage of young men training to become equestrians, the flickering of images from a television set, time lapse footage of light passing through a snow covered landscape and montages of still photographs.

Central Asian Project is a collaborative exchange organised by Cornerhouse (Manchester), SPACE (London), and AsiaArt+ (Almaty, Kazakhstan) dedicated to forging new links between the UK and Central Asia.

‘Chronicle of a Dream Foretold’ will be screened only on Light Night at 42 New Briggate, Leeds. Dinu Li’s exhibition ‘The Mother of All Journeys’ runs from September 18th to November 10th in the gallery

42 New Briggate shop

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This is a list of what we currently stock in the back room of the gallery. We are wanting to expand the stock and so we are currently welcoming submissions. If you think you have some thing that would be suitable to display then please get in touch with some images and information about what you'd like to sell - enquiries@42newbriggate.co.uk.

Badges
Monitor Badges 50p
Souvenir - Sophie Moore (3 Leeds Badges and Sticker set) £2.50

Greetings Cards
Katie Belluchini £2 - £6
Karen Hall £1
Little London Arts £1.20
TJ Spanky Card - Square £2
Rectangular £2.50

Miniature Sculpture/Artist Multiples
'Talking to Granddad' bench maquette - Mark Madden £5
House of Cards - Amy Fowler - 1 house £1
- Hamlet of 10 £8
Matchbox portraits - Steve Nutall £10
Decks - Rebekka Kill £5
Tumbleweed multiple - Claire Blundell-Jones £3/4

Handmade Artist Books
Lucy Gibson Artists Book £25
Rose Thompson - Skyline (Miniature) £5
- Waters Edge £7.50
- Sandy Beach £7.50
- Dark Entrances £7.50
- Encounter £12.50
- Index £10
Vicky Lucas - Girl Guides £7.50
- Eraser £40
- Correspondance £40
Rachel Jesse - Graph Paper Ruined My Mind' Artists Book £10
Shaeron Caton-Rose - COLOURBLIND £5

Artist Books
Privacy - Bryan and Laura Davies £10
Bryan and Laura Davies (Eames/hybrid buisness model) £5
Pocket sized - Nous Vous publication £6
Black Dogs Almanac Edition 1 £5
Black Dogs Almanac Edition 2 £5

Audio CDs/DVDs
Less-Lethal, vol.1 - Audio Warfare and Crowd Control Studies £6
PLANK: ALP+ 40 Days in the Desert with composers 1 £6
Untitled (8cm sound piece limited edition of 10) - Tim Pulleyn £10
Black Dogs Panto DVD £5

Postcards
Orchard Park Postcard 50p
Limited Edition postcard set - Lucy Gibson £7.50
The Grand' & '42 New Briggate Gallery' Postcards £2
Single B&W traditionally printed postcards by Ben Rathmell
Town Hall' £3
Headingly' £3
Wallace Arnold' £3
Postcard Pack of 6 - 'Tales of the City' £17.50

Impressions Pocket Books
Factory of Dreams £3.50
Becoming Nancy Drew £3.50
Orchard Park - Andy Lock £3.50

Zines

Paperthin Zine - issue 2 £1
- issue 3 £1
- issue 4 £1
Ctrl Zine £1.20

Miscellaneous
Graph Paper Ruined My Mind' souvenir - Rachel Jesse 50p
Studio Mik Mik Handmade Note Pads pads £6.50
Hooray Hoorah 'I Hate Animals' print/sticker/badge pack £5
Hooray Hoorah 'Spectacular Space of Mighty Importance' - Sticker Pack £2

The Mother of All Journeys by Dinu Li

2007-09-15T13:20:00.000+01:00

To accompany Opera North’s new production of Madama Butterfly

Preview Saturday 15 September 5 - 8pm

Tuesday 18 September - Saturday 10 November

Tuesday – Saturday 12 noon – 7pm

FREE ADMISSION

How do we orientate our personal and cultural identities in an increasingly connected yet fragmented world?

The Mother of All Journeys is an exploration by second generation, British Chinese artist Dinu Li into the memories of his 80-year-old mother. Through a series of colour photographs Li charts her journey from China to England.

This artistic collaboration between mother and son uses recollections of memories that were told to Dinu and together they have attempted to photograph the exact sites of her stories in China, Hong Kong and Northern England. In this exhibition at 42 New Briggate Dinu’s photographs are displayed as prints, whilst being accompanied by his mother’s personal family archive.

The exhibition links in with Opera North’s first new production of Madama Butterfly in almost a decade, which opens at Leeds Grand Theatre on 15 September. Set to Puccini’s poignant score, this touching story of innocent love crushed amidst the mutual incomprehension of two utterly different cultures, resonates as strongly as ever in today’s world.

About the artist:
Dinu Li is a UK based artist, born in Hong Kong and living in Manchester. He has been longlisted for the prestigious Northern Art Prize and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. He has recently had shows in Texas, USA; Cologne, Germany; London and Liverpool, UK; Toronto, Canada; Beijing, China. www.dinuli.co.uk

The Mother of All Journeys is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. In July 2007 it was shortlisted for the Recontres d'Arles Contemporary Photography Book Prize. It is available for purchase at 42 New Briggate at a special exhibition price of £20.

Madama Butterfly
15th Sept - 8 Nov 2007 – Leeds Grand Theatre
5th - 22nd January 2008 – Leeds Grand Theatre
http://www.operanorth.co.uk/

Extracts from The Mother of All Journeys

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Hong Kong - Disused airport, Kai Tak, Hong Kong

"Before emigrating, it was difficult deciding what to take and what to leave. Kiu Yu picked the Bonsai whilst Chun Yu insisted on bringing the framed Great Wall of China. When we got to England, the Bonsai was confiscated. They pointed at the soil stuck on the roots and took the plant away."

Hong Kong - Local portrait studio, Kowloon

Minature Art Show

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Miniature Art Show
1st September – 8th September
Summer Season closing event – Saturday 8th Sept 5-8pm - Everyone welcome.

42 New Briggate concludes a jam-packed Summer programme not so much with a grand finale but a critical mass of arty reductions. Its curious that in Leeds, a city which wants to ‘be big on’ every conceivable subject, artists have a track record of working with great success on the miniature-scale. Locker and doll’s-house galleries including Lawrence Molloy’s ‘A Delicate
Matter’ and Harry Meadley’s 1032 have provided the inspiration for this show of small works which will act as a round-up of the last couple of months activity in our similarly dinky gallery space.

Works have been acquired through an open submission and invitation format with loosely stipulated size restrictions. Over 25 artist’s work will be accommodated into the gallery in various media ranging from postage-stamp painting to multiple edition bagged sculpture and food for the smallest of appetites. Many of the works will be available for purchase providing a rare opportunity to own some exhibits for those small of pocket. Refreshments provided on the night will be in keeping with the diminutive theme.

The Artists

1. Larna Campbell, Wallpaper Cranes (Miniature) 2007, Origami
A scaled down version of her interactive installation Wallpaper Cranes, which was exhibited in the Cannonball show.

2. Mick Wellbourn, Untitled, 2007, 1:1 scale screen print

3. Karen Hall, Gnomes, 2007
The gnome patterns have to be studied very closely to reveal the stories behind them. The characters are all based on people seen in Leeds.

4. Theo Reeves-Evison, Big Beach Cyclone, 2007
References are made to corporate, architectural and science-fiction imagery by re-employing existing cultural artefacts.

5. Kamaljeet Ajimal, Prem, 2007, Gouache on Paper
An image depicting just one mood of Raga Yaman.

6. Alice Bradshaw, Brown Paper Bags, 2007
Alice uses mass-produced, anonymous objects to create a sense of curiosity, creating dysfunctional caricatures through the manipulation of scale and materials.

7. Lil Adams, Trolley 2007, Wire
A sculpture as seen in 'Trollyed', created for theartmarket during Situation Leeds 2007.

8. Rebekka Kill, Decks, 2007
Digital prints on fantastic plastic.

9. Steve Nuttall, Self Portraits, 2007
Collages in matchboxes of the artist smoking a pipe.

10. Yvonne Carmichael, Tiny Appetites, 2007

11. Ailsa and Fran Burrows, Once Again (Miniature) 2007
This wall drawing is a miniature version of the one created for the Cannonball show at 42 New Briggate.

12. Dave Ronalds, Coded Landscapes (Miniature), 2007

13. Lucy Gibson, Concealed Skin, 2004
An audio narrative piece that peeks at suburbia through the eyes of a small child.

14. Tim Pulleyn, Untitled, 2007, 8min audio CD
Tim Pulleyn experiments with the texture of sound, via frequency application and white noise. The sounds are abstracted from recordings of everyday objects and places.

15. Chris Limb, Journals, 2007, Brown and Black Ink on Canvas
An indecipherable record of Chris’ daily activities in her studio.

16. Gerry Brookes, Cedar Tree, 2006, Mixed Media

17. Gareth Brew and Ailsa Burrows, Untitled 2007

18. Carly Gledhill, Untitled, 2007, Embroidered illustrations

19. Matthew Atkinson, A Little Skip, 2007

20. Bruce Rimell, Crash Of Thunder, 2007
Inspired by a hunting scene petroglyph on Mt Karkom in the Negev Desert, Israel.

21. Les Child, The Grand & 42 New Briggate Gallery, 2007
Scaled down prints of watercolour paintings.

22. Ben Rathmell, Wallace Arnold Leeds, 2007
Part of Tales of The City, a six edition series of photographs taken in Leeds. The full series can be seen in the 42 New Briggate Shop.

23. Sophie Moore, Souvenir, 2007, Badge and Sticker Series
Sticker and badges illustrations of well-known landmarks situated across Leeds City Centre.

24. Ryan Riddington, Wart, 2007, Mixed Media

25. Steven Albutt, 7, 2007
7 miniature baseball bats to link with the ‘seven sins’.

26. Rona Smith, Hold On, 2007
A layer of chilli powder clings to a strip of sandpaper.

27. Amy Fowler, House of Cards, 2007
Miniature Houses constructed out of Playing Cards.

28. Claire Blundell-Jones, Tumbleweed (Miniature), 2007, Wire, photograph
A miniature version of Claire’s performance, Introducing Tumbleweeds in to the British Landscape.

29. Jon Williams, Ruby (Shopping mode)

30. Andy Abbott, Tiny Revolutions
Everyone’s an artist but not all of us have the time. Andy provides a selection of art activities for you attempt in those moments in between working and sleeping.

31. Brian and Laura Davies, What has past and what is to come?' 2007
Sculptures inspired by Brancusi's Endless Column and tall buildings.

32. Luke Drozd, Artistic Temperament Finger Puppets, 2007,
Pick up illustrated instructions on how to make your own.

33. Lorna Barrowclough, Amulet Arca Archa, 2007
A series of superstitious amulets designed to be explored.

34. Rose Thompson, Index, Encounter, Sky Line, 2007,

35. Rachel Jesse, 12,600, 2007,
Handmade graph paper book.

36. Mark Madden, Talking To Grandad (Miniatures), 2007
Proposals for benches made out of concrete, steel and wood.

Archive of Inspiration for the Miniature Art Show (in the back room)

37. Hooray Hurrah, 2007
Miniature artworks presented in Opposite Café for Situation Leeds this year.

38. Harry Meadley, 1032 Gallery
Documentation of the locker sized gallery situated at Leeds Metropolitan University.

39. Lawrence Molloy, A Delicate Matter
Documentation of the dolls-house sized gallery formally situated at Patrick Studios.

Film Showcase

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42 New Briggate Gallery presents a film showcase:
Sunday 26th - Wednesday 29th August 2007
Films will be shown on a loop from 12-7pm everyday
Closing Event: 5 – 7pm 29th August

Four days of artist’s film ranging from 6 seconds to 10 minutes, including found footage, animation, documentaries and performative works. With moving images from artists such as Bob Levene, Esther Johnson, Josh Whitaker, and Andy Abbott there will be something for every attention span and interest.

Kulture Cine Club Show reel: 5 – 6pm every evening

As part of this exhibition kultur Cine club will be presenting some of their favourite shorts. Kultur Cine Club is a film exhibition and audience development organisation set up in Oct 2006. They deliver their own events and offer programming and consultancy services for arts and cultural events, film festivals and cinemas in the UK and worldwide. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk.

Artist’s Film Showcase Info

Steven Albutt: All that man makes, he eventually destroys. This video is the closing chapter in a work where remains of the destruction caused during the Battle of Verdun were formed in to large-scale bullets. The bullets were then destroyed utilising hand-crafted baseball bats so the rubble of the battlefield once again returned to its demolished state. The piece explores the cyclical nature of man; the destruction of the work becoming its own completion.

Bryony Pritchard and Yvonne Carmichael: Bus Dancing by Numbers was a collaborative performance enacted at various bus stops around Leeds. Bryony and Yvonne had developed a series of dance-moves corresponding to the numbers that indicate the bus routes and chose a few sunny days to put them into practice in public. This video documentation also operates as a family-friendly party game.

Josh Whitaker: A series of famous and lesser-known clips taken from film and television are edited together, creating a surreal amalgamation that gradually appears to take one particular direction. In this film Josh demonstrates how the stuff of our image-saturated everyday lives can be altered and find meaning in new contexts.

Victoria Lucas: Through metaphorical representations, the medium of video is used to present the transitory nature of life and notions of mortality. Objects, places, and moments that celebrate life are examined, reinforcing the ephemeral nature of existence against the passage of time.

Andy Abbott: ‘The Canal-Church of Ratty’ is Andy’s exercise in the dual détournement of the serene glow felt at the end of a regular bike-ride along the Leeds-Liverpool canal towpath and the Zen undertones of Wind in The Willows. Footage shot near Silsden by Andy and an audio book of Grahame’s children’s slacker classic have been processed to convey what a jolly life it is to live by the river and to work indoors at a computer for most of the day.

Rachel Jesse: Documentation of the destruction of Rachel Jesse’s installation, Graph Paper Ruined my Mind (2007) which was exhibited at 42 New Briggate Gallery in July 2007. After laboriously removing the negative space from 18 sheets of graph-paper with a scalpel Rachel sanctioned curators Yvonne and Vicky’s destruction of these skeletal sheets, thus reversing hours worth of time and patience employed by the artist during the making of the work.

Rose Butler: Butler creates films that form relationships between the context of the moving image and sound to the actual framing and manipulation of film itself. Box represents the movement of birds heard throughout the film, through edited flickering motions.

Esther Johnson: Tune In follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known as HAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, this portrait blends documentary and abstract audio to reflect the world of HAM radio and the use of DIY equipment in an ever-changing modern world.

Joe Gilmore and Paul Emery: Clut is a collaboration documenting a series of experiments using an analogue and digital feedback system. The system consists of a digital 3D model displayed on a monitor which is in turn being captured by a video camera whose input is then textured back onto the surface of the 3D model.

Your Arms!: This film documents the ‘Bring us Your Arms Bradford’ participatory event which happened as part of 2007’s STIR festival. The Your Arms! project intends to link communities affected by present changes in industry and production through the exchange of picture-books made by groups and individuals. In this instance passers-by contributed to a collaborative ‘Book of Bradford’. Further info about the project can be found at www.yorkshirebiella.blogspot.com

Greg Kurcewitz: Three-dimensional imagery is created through the manipulation of the moving image captured on film. The distortion of film creates a seemingly living organism, the sounds of birds creating a suspension of disbelieve within the viewer that enables them to be part of the illusion depicted.

Thanks to Lumen for their support.

Macunicate is an independent enterprise based in Leeds (UK), specialising in film marketing and promotion, exhibition and audience development.

Kultur Cine Club is the film exhibition and audience development arm set up in Oct 2006, delivering its own events and offering programming and consultancy services for arts and cultural events, film festivals and cinemas in the UK and worldwide.

Macunicate offers marketing, PR and consultancy services for independent film production, sales and distribution companies, willing to reach new markets, taking an unique approach to each project and working to create effective marketing campaigns, develop effective release strategies and facilitate entry in international markets. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk and www.macunicate.com.

Dave Ronalds and Claire Blundell-Jones

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42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds
Tuesday – Saturday 21st – 25th August
Late Night opening: Friday 24th 6-8pm
With refreshments all are most welcome.

With so much information to take in daily, and of course, so much important business to attend to, do we ever stop to digest the ‘city landscape’? 42 New Briggate present a further pairing of the region’s talent with an upcoming show featuring hole-punched paper, tumbleweed and leaf-blowers.

Claire Blundell Jones will execute daily performances in various parts of Leeds for the duration of the exhibition. These performances consist of Claire escorting a ball of tumbleweed around the city whilst wearing different outfits and employing assorted tumbleweed-animating techniques.

Maps will be displayed in the gallery to show where the walks are going to take place, and the performances will be relayed into 42 on five separate monitors. Viewers are invited to make suggestions as to the attire Claire should wear, the method she should use to guide the tumbleweed and the destination of her fifth and final day at the late night opening event 6-8pm Friday 24th August.

Dave Ronalds’ hole-punch drawings reference some kind of architectural mapping, but the ambiguity as to whether they are plans of rooms or buildings, maps of streets and towns, or whether they mark territories dividing countries is intentional.

Dave’s drawings can be read as critical exercises in the way in which we listlessly navigate the all-to-familiar city, but they also hint at how we can reconnect with the city through a shift in perspective.

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Notes to the editors:

Claire Blundell Jones graduated with a Fine Art degree from Wimbledon School of Art in 2004. Since then she has been living and working in Leeds. She has exhibited in Leeds, Nottingham, London and had film screenings or performances in Sheffield, Bracknell, Norwich and Hastings.

Dave Ronald’s graduated with a Fine Art degree from University of Leeds in 2005 and is a founding member of Leeds based arts collective Black Dogs.

Upcoming shows

Showcase of films made by regional artists
Sunday 26th August – Wednesday 31st August

Miniature art show and finale to the 42 New Briggate summer
An exhibition of scaled down works and documentation of the miniature galleries of Leeds.
Saturday 1st September – Saturday 8th September
Closing event: Saturday 5-8pm

Break Dancing and Sleep Deprevation

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'ITCHY’
Tom Poultney
16th August 2007, 12-8pm
Refreshments from 5pm

Itchy comprises of film, music and dance, on multiple
screens and turntables. Various scratched records play
infinitely repeating musical loops, played together to
create a new vinyl orchestra. Television screens show
movements of a break-dancer; edited to move to the
repetitive sounds from the turntables.

At 5pm live in the gallery Cia the break-dancer will
try to replicate edited footage of herself in a man vs
machine dance-off.

‘24/7’
Rebekka Kill
18-19th August 2007, 9am-9am
Tea and informal talk with the artist: 19th August,
3pm

Have you ever wondered what a DJ's record collection
really looks like?
There must be some amazing records in there, but
surely there are the same embarrassing ones we all
have hidden away? In 24/7 Rebekka Kill will play a
selection of her 7" records for 24 hours. Once played
the records will begin to fill the gallery. Some are
good, some terrible, some beautiful, coloured vinyl,
design classics, some are battered and abused, some
well loved....

Press clippings

2007-08-02T11:16:00.000+01:00

Metro - Little London Arts Preview

Northern Exposure Preview