Archive for 2007

Suite Newsletter Winter 2007

Welcome to the winter edition of the Suite Newsletter. Thanks to everyone who braved the chilly weather and came to yet another successful Open Studios event. It’s a great way to showcase new work and to touch base with other artists and professionals. For those that missed it, you can see a Virtual Tour on the Suite website (www.suite-studiogroup.co.uk)2007 has been a good year for Suite Artists, with solo exhibitions at MAC, Birmingham, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Cornerhouse Projects, Manchester, The Otter Gallery and Pallant House, Chichester. We have also been involved in a range of group exhibitions (Turnpike Gallery, Harris Museum, Situation Leeds and Triangle Arts Festival, New York) as well as a healthy splattering of conferences, publications, nominations and TV appearances.

Download newsletter (PDF)

Suite Open Studios

Suite Newsletter Autumn 2007

With the summer behind us and the nights drawing in, do not fear, we have a number of exhibitions coming up that will brighten your days and put a smile on your face! Not only that, but there is also the annual Suite Open Studios to look forward to. It is an event not to be missed so put it in your diary now while you remember; 24th & 25th November. Mmmmm… just think of all those mince pies!!!!

Download newsletter (PDF)

The Exquisite Fold – a new collaborative bookwork by Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller

Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller’s new artist’s book, The Exquisite Fold, will be launched at the Second Manchester Artist’s Book Fair on Saturday 29 September, 2007 at Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Using the surrealist game of exquisite corpse as a starting point, Carson and Miller use the book to explore notions of play, exchange, belief and narrative. The Exquisite Fold has been conceived in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Allmer and Dr. John Sears (Manchester Metropolitan University), whose essay, ‘Dare You Play On?’, is featured within the book.
The book, which includes an audio CD, is produced in an limited edition of 100 and costs £7.99. The Exquisite Fold will be available from the Righton Press stand at the Second Manchester Artist’s Book Fair, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University on Saturday 29th September, 2007 OR the book may be ordered directly from Jonathan Carson

You Can Observe A Lot By Looking

Tim Machin is showing in London, at St Pauls Gallery, Bow, London E3 5JL. You Can Observe A Lot By Looking, is an exhibition of work by artists who, whilst being diverse in material and means, each have common ground in their interest in the difference between reality and representation. Images and objects from the familiar world are manipulated: transformed and subverted in such a way that they allude to a place that lies somewhere between fiction and reality.

Each artist has a considered, varying, and playful process, the final outcome of which often has an implied simplicity or subtlety that demands closer inspection and reflection from the viewer.

The exhibition brings together a diverse yet cohesive group of emerging and established artists. Each individual derives a sense of wonder and pleasure from what is considered commonplace and even mundane in daily life. Challenging perceptions is a common theme in each artist’s work, where a slight suspension of reason or purpose may occur and known rules and boundaries become blurred.

Jo Addison
Jonathan Aldous
Kaavous Clayton
Oona Culley
Kieran Drury
Leo Fitzmaurice
Tim Machin
Robert Powell
Chris Rawcliffe

« Older Entries