(link:  http://drawing-paper.tumblr.com/ ). Drawing Paper is a newspaper based gallery of sorts concerned solely with contemporary drawing practice. Published and designed in Liverpool UK by Mike Carney and Jon Barraclough, Drawing Paper has been shortlisted for The Liverpool Art Prize 2012  (link:  http://liverpoolartprize.com/)

Tim Machin | Sara Mackillop | Jonathan Parsons | Matt Parsons | Simon Woolham

4 May – 8 July 2012

Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library

University of Southampton

Meanwhile presents five artists whose work is shaped by the processes of deconstruction, removal or omission. The exhibition brings together a thoughtful collection of works on paper, altered objects, drawings and film that explore things overlooked, left out, or simply left behind. Meanwhile is the first of a two-part exhibition that concludes in Autumn 2012

Exhibition Preview: Thursday 3rd May 6 – 7.30pm

Exhibition dates: Friday 4th May – 8th July 2012

For this show MacMurray continues her artistic alchemy, reforming the banal – hairnets, balloons, wires and cling film – into the graceful, ephemeral and opulent. In this way her work is grounded in Dada and Surrealist traditions and although many of her works are, on first inspection, pretty in appearance, they harbour ambiguous and sinister undertones. Her use of materials is provocative and perturbing, at once luxuriant and frugal, tactile and brittle. A bridal gown is ironically constructed out of thousands of household gloves in a kind of cautionary tale about domestic reality. Each glove is turned inside out to reveal its pale downy interior, like flayed skin, they are testament to the vulnerability of humankind. At the other end of the spectrum, household clingfilm is tightly moulded and wrapped into shining, silken cocoons.

Though disparate in their appearance, each work in this exhibition is linked by its evocation of the body or the bodily, and it is this visceral quality which is alternately seductive and repulsive. In Oracle rubber dairy hose appears to grow out of the wall like veins or hair. In Maiden proximity to the body is literal – delicate loops of real hair are tipped with fish hooks. What all of the works in this show seem to point to is bodily trauma and they do so in a repetitive and obsessive way like licking a wound, comparable to Louise Bourgeois.

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Suite Autumn 2011 Newsletter

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