World Event Young Artists @ Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (7-15 Sept))

 

 

World Event Young Artists (WEYA) is the first of its kind and will take place in the cultural city of Nottingham, England in September 2012. This global event will showcase a selection of the best international creative talent, across a spectrum of artforms, in one city, providing an opportunity for 1000 artists from 100 nations to join together and share their creativity on an international platform. The World Event will be a chance for international exchange on a global scale, bringing the city to life; it is as much about intercultural dialogue across political borders as it is about the practice of young artists.

This unique combination of factors will ensure an unforgettable experience for all who take part and its audiences. Its public programme and web resources will offer space for collaborative development, workshops, debates and symposiums across a mixture of structured and informal settings. Artists will take part in workshops and interactive engaging sessions which will be delivered by an exciting range of creative individuals and artform specialists, exclusively tailored for young artists of the 21st century.

This once in a lifetime event will thrive on discussion and collaboration with like minded artistic talents from across the globe and aims to encourage future partnerships.

World Event Young Artists 2012 is hosted by UK Young Artists and supported by Arts Council England, Cultural Olympiad East Midlands, Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City Council.


BONINGTON GALLERY
Friday 7th September 2012 - 10:00 - Sunday 16th September 2012 - 18:00

Nottingham Trent University

As part of the WEYA exhibitions and events, NTU’s Bonington building will be hosting a variety of visual arts, moving image, jewellery and fashion. We will be presenting 42 international and national artists, including selected recent graduates of BA (Hons) Fine Art and Photography from NTU.

Ira Skopljak - Bosnia
Nelisa Bazdar - Bosnia
Fabricio Lopez - Brazil
Laura Sanz - Brazil
Kim Hak - Cambodia
Samuel Mercure - Canada
Bingbing Cheng - China
Yao Liang - China
Jiang Luo - China
Jingjing Jia - China
Yan Jin - China
Yanwei Gong - China
Naoki Miyasaka - Japan
Anastasiya Markelova - Russia
Questal Tay - Singapore
Julia Castaño - Spain
Aimee Betts - UK
Farniyaz Zaker - UK
Grace Page - UK

Liz West - UK

Nicholas William Hughes - UK
Rob Reed - UK
Tom De Freston - UK
Diego Andres Peña Gonzalez - Uruguay
Hui Luo - China
Alice Gale Feeny - UK
Alice Georgina Thickett - UK
Laura Jane Blake - UK
Jelena Kostica - Serbia
Yixuan Chen - China
Katie Colclough - UK
Paul B Johnson - UK
Sarah Barber - UK
Rui Wang - China
Mohanakrishnan Haridasan - India
Tarek Korkomoz - Lebanon
Paola Valeria Montoya - Mexico
Juan Manuel Calvo -Spain
Emily Macinnes - UK
Marcelo Pérez del Carpìo - Bolivia
Qianru Wang - China
Studio Azzurro/Ramona Zordini - Italy

Housed within the School of Art and Design is the Bonington Gallery, one of the foremost spaces for contemporary art in the Midlands. The School presents a number of exhibitions throughout the year as part of a comprehensive programme of visual arts and design events. Exhibitors include national and international artists and designers, current students and staff from within the University and NTU alumni. Exhibitions are also presented in the impressive atrium of the Bonington Building which houses the school and gallery.

Summer Newsletter

Hello,

I would like to start by thanking everyone for their support towards my first major solo exhibition Chroma, which took place at BLANKSPACE in Manchester over the month of July. An overwhelming number of people attended the exhibition and related events including the preview and artist talk. If you missed it, images of the work can be seen on my website over the next few weeks. Alternatively you can take a look on my Flickr page.

I was so glad to be given the opportunity to make three new ambitious site-specific works within the gallery. Thanks to Mark Devereux for curating the exhibition, Arts Council England and all those that supported my crowd funding project.

There are only a few limited edition Chroma exhibition catalogues left which can be purchased for £10 through my website or by clicking HERE.

Below is a quick update of various exhibitions and events that I am involved with in next few months. Exciting times ahead!

Cheers,

Liz

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Press

The Independent on Sunday

 

I am very excited to tell you that my entire series of six Trolley photographs will feature in The Independent on Sunday Magazine this week (26 August). Holly Williams’ article Young, Gifted and British offers a sneak preview of some of the best home-grown talent taking part in World Event Young Artists next month in Nottingham.

Williams writes, “…More cheerful are Liz West’s images. A tutor at Glasgow School of Art once told her that every photographic slide should look “like a jewel” – and hers certainly shine brightly. This is serious colour-blocking: the 27-year-old contrasts different masses of uniformly hued objects in a supermarket to make an aesthetic experience out of a consumerist chore.”

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Exhibition

World Event Young Artists

Exhibition runs from 7th - 15th September

I shall be participating in World Event Young Artists 2012 taking place across venues in Nottingham. My work will be exhibited in Nottingham Trent University’s Bonington Gallery.

World Event Young Artists is the very first event of its kind to take place. It is an exciting occasion bringing together and celebrating the talent and artistic excellence of young people from across the globe. In September 2012 World Event for Young Artists will bring a staggering 1,000 young artists (18 – 30 years) from 120 nations to Nottingham. Over a period of 10 days, artists will bring the city to life with creative activity across all art forms including visual arts, music and gastronomy. These artists will have the chance to showcase their practice, exchange ideas and build future collaborations.

www.​ntu.​ac.​uk/​boningtongallery

Bonington Gallery
Nottingham Trent University
Bonington building
Dryden Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4GG

 

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Exhibition

International Association of Quantum Artists

 

Beyond the Material World

Exhibition runs from 20th October – 3rd November

The IAQA is a contemporary art collective exploring the idea of artistic visions which intuitively reach beyond this three-dimensional, material world to explore alternative possible realities through taking a positive approach. This collective are pleased to announce their first exhibition at Bar Lane Gallery in York. The show will explore the statement Beyond the Material World and aims to be inspirational and encouraging others to reach out towards a more positive and sustainable future.

Works featured will move away from dominating fixed theories and measures of conventional science. We are taking the view that art can be viewed as a platform for multiple expressions of social ideals; where art and science co-exist harmoniously. The exhibition strives to have a holistic and egalitarian approach which asks all who participate how we can construct a new outcome or world view together. The works considered provide positive, awe inspiring futures rather than promoting any apocalyptical visions.

http://iaqa.blogspot.co.uk/

Bar Lane Studios

150 Micklegate

City Centre

York

YO1 6JX

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Exhibition 

Rogue Open Studios

Launch 28th September. Continues 29th – 30th September.

It is my pleasure to invite you to this year’s Open Studios at Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester. Join me for the opening night and continuing over the whole weekend. Open Studios allows you a peek behind the doors (or curtains) of artists at work.

Once a year Rogue opens it’s doors to the public in it’s Open Studios event inviting fellow artists, curators and the general public to access all areas of the studios while affording members an opportunity to exhibit and offer work for sale.

This year's Rogue Open Studios is over the weekend of September 29th/30th with the opening party on Friday September 28th from 6-9pm. Opening hours over the weekend are 12pm-5pm Saturday and 12pm-4pm Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you then.

http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk

Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space

66-72 Chapeltown Street

Piccadilly

Manchester

M1 2WH

Pre-Launch Interview with Artist about Solo Exhibition 'Chroma'

Short interview-lead film about Manchester based Visual Artist Liz West about her life as an artist, her work and her first solo exhibition "Chroma" at Blank Space Manchester in 2012. Film by Barbara Nickl.


Liz West from Barbara Nickl on Vimeo.

Artist Talk - Chroma: Liz West in conversation with Barney Doodlebug

Artist Talk - Chroma: Liz West in conversation with Barney Doodlebug

Wednesday, July 18 at 6:30pm at BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester.

You are invited to this In_Tuition special, as artist Liz West talks In Conversation with Barney Doodlebug. Exploring the themes of her work and practice, this is an opportunity to pose your own questions and find out more about what inspires Liz.

The talk is free to attend and no prior booking is required. BLANKSPACE will re-open at 6pm for attendees to view the exhibition prior to the talk.

A drinks bar will be available supported by Sandbar, Manchester.

For further information about the talk and Chroma: Liz West please visit http://www.blankmediacollective.org/chroma

'Games People Play' Exhibition at Nolias Gallery, London

This new exhibition is a playful nod to any games from the Olympics, to the Euros, Wimbledon to board games, toys to political or mind games. The artists have responded to this theme to create a concoction of playful artworks that cavort with your senses and play with your mind…. 

ARTISTS
Nicola Anthony | Paula MacArthur | Irene Bakundukize |  Nolia Devlin | Eldi Dundee | Hope Dundee  | Fan Chiao Ling | Leyla  Folwell | Enver Gursev | Beth Hardman | Het | Tracy Howl | Matt Hardman | Bruno Jamaica | Alexis Johnson | Sanita Kaur | Denia Kaz | Neil Kelly | Morwenna Lake | Maciej Markowicz | Valeriya N-Georg | Chris Parry | Glyn Powell | Ruth Solomons | Liz West

Curated by Gillian Best Powell

Private View: Tuesday, 10 July 2012: 5pm  - 9pm.
Opening hours: 12 - 6pm, Wed - Fri, Sat 12 - 4pm

60 Great Suffolk, London SE1 OBL.  Nearest tube: Southwark Station on the Jubilee line (near Tate Modern), between Waterloo and London Bridge
http://coreatnolias.wordpress.com/ 

Chroma: Liz West | Preview this Thursday (5 July), 6-9pm

Visitors to BLANKSPACE gallery in Manchester will be able to add a splash of colour to their lives when a new, special exhibition opens this July for one month only.

Running from Friday 6 July until Sunday 29 July, Chroma will be Manchester artist Liz West’s first major solo exhibition, celebrating her ambitious new work.

Liz began accumulating coloured objects from the age of seven when she started collecting bottles of bright nail varnish and arranging them in the order of the spectrum on her bedroom windowsill. So began an obsession, which over the last twenty years has seen Liz collect a huge variety of purely coloured objects.

Amongst the work on show at BLANKSPACE gallery off Oxford Road, a horizontal form cuts through four rooms interacting with colour, light and space. Opposite, an opening in the fabric of the space affords the viewer a glimpse into a chamber of infinite objects.

Artist Liz West said:
“I am thrilled about my solo exhibition taking place at BLANKSPACE gallery, as I am now at a point in my artistic career where I feel eager and ready to develop more ambitious, large scale work.”

Following Liz’s successful group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Northern Futures Awards 2010 (People’s Choice Winner) and the Celeste Art Prize (New York), she has now received an Arts Council England award to support Chroma, allowing brand new work to be brought into reality.

Blank Media Collective Lead Curator, Kate Charlton said:
“Chroma will be a great start to the summer as this playful and colourful exhibition transforms BLANKSPACE like never before. Whether you are trained in the visual arts or just know what you like, this free exhibition is sure to trigger the imagination.”

Chroma is curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition exhibition catalogue.

For further information about BLANKSPACE gallery visit the website at www.blankmediacollective.org. To catch more of Liz West’s work be sure to check out her website at www.liz-west.com and follow Liz and Chroma on Twitter: #ChromaExhibition & @LizWest_Art.

Chroma Exhibition Catalogue: Pre-Order

PRE-ORDER LIMITED EDITION CHROMA CATALOGUE
£10 plus postage and packing

Pre-order your copy of the Chroma exhibition catalogue, which will be available in July 2012. This edition of just 100 will be numbered and signed by the artist.

This limited edition book will comprise full colour images of past and present work, including; photographic work, site-specific installation, studio shots and artists sketches. There will be an In Conversation between Liz West and curator Mark Devereux discussing the intentions of the work. Foreword by Lynne Green.

To order this unique artist's book, click on the buy it now button below. If you have any questions please contact Liz or Mark at the email addresses below.

lizziewest_uk@yahoo.co.uk | info@markdevereux.co.uk

BUY IT NOW

My Work on the Cover 'Signs of Life in the USA'

 

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers 

 

Sonia Maasik (Author), Jack Solomon (Author)

Product details

• Paperback: 710 pages
• Publisher: Bedford Books; 7 edition (21 Nov 2011)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 031264700X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312647001
• Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm

My Work in Oddest Bar (as part of Chorlton Arts Festival)

Location:

Oddest

Dates:

Monday 21 May, 2012 - 19.00-21.00

PREVIEW: Mon 21 May 19–21.00 

EXHIBITION: Thu 3 – Wed 30 May  

Supermarket trolleys as you have never seen them before!

As part of Liz’s colour research she builds collections using invented systems, often relating to a certain colour. In the ‘Trolley’ photographs she has experimented with building collections of block colour in the supermarket, a place where colour is in abundance, in order to understand how colour may look in mass.

Come and smile as you see a shopping trolley acting as an artist’s canvas.

'Still Here' - Exhibition at Untitled BCN, Barcelona

 

In case you happen to be in Barcelona next week, this exciting exhibition opens which includes my work:

STILL HERE

Opens 26 May. Runs 27th May - 6th June

untitledBCN has recently undergone renovations to the space and now present a project of several exhibitions in one, in this markedly pessimistic time these artists continue creating  .... Still Here. The group exhibition includes the work of artists from Estonia, Germany, England, Japan and Spain.

Untitled BCN
c / Topazi 14
08012
Barcelona
Spain

Thank You

Thank you to the following people who kindly donated £10 or more towards Chroma through my Sponsume appeal, I managed to raise just over £500 which will really help with my solo exhibition:

Clare Cochrane

Naomi Kendrick

Jon Cronshaw

Shabana Basheer

D V Cole

Diana Harmer

Karen Boulton

Tracey Hebron

Paul Watson

Kevin Bradshaw

Suzanne Bradshaw

Suzanne Foster

Laura Maley

Andrea Marshall

Michele Pouncey

Helen Hyde

LIZ WEST: CHROMA - PRESS RELEASE

TITLE: Chroma

WHAT: Solo Exhibition by Manchester-based artist Liz West 

WHERE: BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW  
 
WHEN: 6 – 29 July 2012 (Exhibition Launch: 5 July, 18:00-21:00)

INFORMATION:
Visitors to BLANKSPACE gallery in Manchester will be able to add a splash of colour to their lives when a new, special exhibition opens this July for one month only. 
Running from Friday 6 July until Sunday 29 July, Chroma will be Manchester artist Liz West’s first major solo exhibition, celebrating her ambitious new work. 

Liz began accumulating coloured objects from the age of seven when she started collecting bottles of bright nail varnish and arranging them in the order of the spectrum on her bedroom windowsill. So began an obsession, which over the last twenty years has seen Liz collect a huge variety of purely coloured objects.
Amongst the work on show at BLANKSPACE gallery off Oxford Road, a horizontal form cuts through four rooms interacting with colour, light and space. Opposite, an opening in the fabric of the space affords the viewer a glimpse into a chamber of infinite objects. 

Artist Liz West said:
“I am thrilled about my solo exhibition taking place at BLANKSPACE gallery, as I am now at a point in my artistic career where I feel eager and ready to develop more ambitious, large scale work.” 

Following Liz’s successful group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Northern Futures Awards 2010 (People’s Choice Winner) and the Celeste Art Prize (New York), she has now received an Arts Council England award to support Chroma, allowing brand new work to be brought into reality. 

Blank Media Collective Lead Curator, Kate Charlton said:
“Chroma will be a great start to the summer as this playful and colourful exhibition transforms BLANKSPACE like never before. Whether you are trained in the visual arts or just know what you like, this free exhibition is sure to trigger the imagination.” 

Chroma is curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition exhibition catalogue. 

For further information about BLANKSPACE gallery visit the website at www.blankmediacollective.org. To catch more of Liz West’s work be sure to check out her website at www.liz-west.com and follow Liz and Chroma on Twitter: #ChromaExhibition & @LizWest_Art. 

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EDITOR’S NOTES:

Listings

Chroma

BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW
Friday 6 – Sunday 29 July 2012 (Exhibition Launch: Thursday 5 July 2012, 18:00-21:00) Exhibition opening times: Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-5pm | Thursday: 11am-7pm

Further Information

Liz West
Liz West was born in Manchester in 1985. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007, where she studied BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art. In 2010 Liz was shortlisted for the London Photography Award and also the prestigious Northern Futures Awards, winning the People’s Choice Award. More recently Liz was shortlisted for the Woolgather Art Prize 2011 in Leeds and selected for Expectations exhibition and Celeste Art Prize, both in New York. She has exhibited in the CUBE Open, Centre for the Urban Built Environment Manchester and in the Pedder Photography Exhibition, Bigger Picture Gallery London. Other exhibitions include Ambience of Play; greenroom Manchester, At Play 3; South Hill Park Arts Centre, Collagerie; Stew Gallery Norwich, Reduction; Broadcasting House Leeds and Colour; Beldam Gallery London. West Lives and works in Manchester.

Media Contact

For further information, interviews and high-resolution images please contact Mark Devereux, Blank Media Collective Director & Head of Exhibitions
Email: mark@blankmediacollective.org
Phone: 0161 222 6164 | 07739 026504 

Chroma – Solo Exhibition by Liz West | Sponsume

Chroma – Solo Exhibition by Liz West | Sponsume

I am a Manchester based visual artist working towards my first solo exhibition ‘Chroma’ due to take place at BLANKSPACE, Manchester in July this year (5 – 29th July). A Special Edition accompanying exhibition catalogue will also be produced, limited to just 100 copies. The exhibition will include a number of large-scale, ambitious, site-specific installations, made especially for this show.

I am seeking funding towards the development and cost of materials for this ambitious project… that’s where you come in! I have some exciting rewards to offer if you decide to fund my project including Limited Edition photographic prints, signed postcards and studio visits.

I make intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In my work, objects are densely arranged in orders or enclosed within constructed spaces, such as cupboards and shelves or in containers such as shopping trolleys and cabinets to form compacted colour masses or gradations. I create sensory experiences in the form of richly saturated installations that immerse the viewer in a kaleidoscopic or optical environment.

I need your help to make this happen. This money will help provide me with a brilliant opportunity and platform to showcase my artwork to a wider audience through the exhibition and publication. Chroma will be an exciting event and exhibition for all to attend; including themed workshops, artist tours and talk.

www.liz-west.com

On Bread Alone Exhibition at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

Nexus Art Cafe present their new exhibition 'ON BREAD ALONE' which opens next week and features my work - install is ongoing this week, but join us on Wednesday 18th April from 5pm-7pm to partake in some crusty bread and fresh baked art with us!