Just an update on why its been so quiet on my blog!!! I have decided to have a sabbatical and concentrate on developing work without the pressures of exhibiting....
Friday 18 November 2011
Just an update on why its been so quiet on my blog!!! I have decided to have a sabbatical and concentrate on developing work without the pressures of exhibiting....
Friday 30 September 2011
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Monday 12 September 2011
http://horsebridge-centre.org.uk/?q=node/4996 Check out details for Made In Whitstable Exhibition starting on Wednesday.....I'm showing a selection of my prints!!
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Tuesday 6 September 2011
These are two more aspects of the photos I was sent to draw or paint as part of Katerina Seda's Action . I was positioned at St. Benet's Church, helping to map the outskirts of Bedrichovice upon London. I then drew and painted a specific angle of Bedrichovice (see yesterdays post) while facing St. Benet's Church. At the same time the villagers from Bedrichovice performed activities in and around the Church.
Monday 5 September 2011
Thursday 1 September 2011
Katerina Šedá: From Morning Till Night
Katerina Seda
From Morning Till Night 2011 © The artist. Photo: Michal Hladik |
The artist Katerina Šedá has invited eighty residents of all ages from Bedřichovice, a small village in Czech Republic, to perform a one-day action in London.
The eighty volunteers from Bedřichovice become participants of a game, created and orchestrated by Šedá, for one day: from sunrise to sunset. The area chosen by the artist extends from Tate Modern to St Paul’s Cathedral with the church of St Benet at the centre, to replicate the area of the village.
An additional eighty UK-based professional and amateur artists have been invited to assist Šedá in representing the imaginary borders of the village. Each of them positioned at the outskirts of the ‘new’ locality, draws and paints a specific angle of Bedřichovice while facing the urban landscape of London.
Come and explore Bedřichovice on Saturday! Download the map and brochure (PDF, 869KB)
Times | Activity | Location |
06:15 | Start of the action | |
06:15-9:00 | Morning activities:drinking coffee, reading newspapers, chalk drawing on the pavement, sweeping the Millenium Bridge, riding bikes, doing physical exercises, walking around the village, computer games and greeting passers-by. | Throughout the village |
09:00-onwards | Gardening | Tate Modern Community Garden |
10:00-14:00 | Hanging laundry on clothes line | Outside St Benet Church and Tate Modern Community Garden |
09:00-11:00 | Car washing | South end of Millenium Bridge, outside Tate Modern |
10:00-11:30 | Singing and music | St Benet Welsh Church |
10:00-11:30 | Cleaning the Church | St Benet Welsh Church |
11:30-12:00 | Free Czech language lesson - Come along! | St Benet Welsh Church |
10:00-18:00 | Czech books and magazines Library | In front of Tate Modern |
10:00-19:44 | Watching DVDs on TV | Turbine Hall Bridge, Tate Modern |
13:00-18:00 | Sports activities (table tennis, netball, petanque, badminton) - Come and play! | In front of Tate Modern, on the lawn. Sports area marked |
13:00-18:00 | Washing windows | Level 2 Gallery TM, Salvation Army outside windows, Old Mutual Place building |
13:00-18:00 | Make-up artist - Come and have your face painted! | Near TM. On the benches by the green lawn |
13:30-14:00 | The village as seen through the eyes of the locals. A special tour of Bedřichovice village in London. | Meeting point: Entrance to L2 Gallery, Tate Modern |
14:00-16:00 | Dog walking | Meeting point: Level 2 Gallery entrance. Throughout the village |
15:30-16:00 | Free Czech language lesson - Come along! | Tate Modern Community Garden |
18:00-19:44 | Socialising with friends | Throughout the village |
18:00-18:30 | The village as seen through the eyes of the locals. A speacial tour of Bedřichovice village in London. | Meeting point: Entrance to L2 Gallery, Tate Modern |
19:44 | End of the action |
Featuring:
Rasha Albazaz, Layla Al-Marzooqi, Debbie Atkinson, Ade Awofadeju, Grace Aza, Vanessa Brier, Virginia Burdon, Leonie Cleeves, Pilar Cortés, Samara Couri, Cherie Deakin, Janine Dela Cruz, Héloïse Delègue, Bertie Dixon, Max Dixon, Emilia Dotcheva, Kristin Duffy, Stephen Feather, Yu Fujita, Gaya3in1, Alexander Green, Dianne Green, Rupert Haines, Georgina Haly, Catherine Hall, Kate Hardy, Jeremy Harvey, Grace Hsu, Lu Hudson, Seo Hyomin, Anna Jones, Francis Kelleher, Caroline Kha, Nikolai Kolev, Aliki Krikidi, Helen Laishley, Nicole Leaning, Colette Lilley, Gilly Lovegrove, Erica Lowe, Derek Man, Gillian Mann, Isabell Markus, Ruth Marquez, Toby Marsh, Jess Mathews, Danell Nelson, Keisha Njoku, Carla Nizzola, Aliyah Owen, Shera H Park, Fiona Parry, Vijay Patel, Elspeth Penfold, Nana Afua Pierre, Aimee Pitassi, Alina Maria Popescu, Charlotte Posner, Cathy Read, Chevonne Reeves, Debbie Roe, Setare Salehi, Inez Schrader, Gabriela Schutz, Margaret Sharrow, Lisa Smith, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Chinatsu Sunaga, Asako Taki, Claire Tarling, Sara Teramo, Morgan Tipping, Chris Townsend, Jan Tozer, Katie Tunn, Cat Tyack, Jon Braley, Rush Vizette, Julie Wrathall, Ingrida Zvera.
Follow the ‘behind-the-scenes’ of this event on the Tate Blog
Free
On the day please meet us at the information desk on Level 2 to get your map of the village
Tuesday 30 August 2011
From Morning Till Night
New commission by Kateřina Šedá
Saturday 3 September 2011, 06.15-19.44 - in and around Tate Modern.
For this new work commissioned by Tate Modern, the artist Kateřina Šedá has invited eighty residents of all ages from Bedřichovice, a small village in Czech Republic, to perform a one-day action in London.
From Morning Till Night takes inspiration from a text by Šedá describing the daily lives of Bedřichovice's inhabitants, who leave the village at sunrise for work and return at sunset. This routine limits their social encounters and residents meet only when they bump into one another accidentally. Her wish to bring the village, Bedřichovice, to the city, London is to do with enabling such 'accidental' meetings in an unfamiliar context, and so highlighting them. By displacing Bedřichovice, socially and physically, the artist aims to enable the residents to see each other in a new way, and to explore the conventions and behaviour that unifies and divides them. In so doing, she creates a real exchange between both places, collaborating with communities around public spaces in London such as churches, libraries and local businesses.
The eighty volunteers from Bedřichovice become participants of a game, created and orchestrated by Šedá, for one day: from sunrise to sunset. The rules are simple. The volunteers must be available on Saturday 3 September, hold a valid passport to fly to London, and be willing to perform publicly a series of daily activities within a designated area. The zone chosen by the artist extends from Tate Modern to St Paul's Cathedral with the church of St Benet at the centre. The village's borders have been literally mapped upon the capital. London hosts Bedřichovice for a day.
An additional eighty UK-based professional and amateur artists have been invited to assist Šedá in representing theses imaginary borders. Each of them positioned at the outskirts of the 'new' locality, draws and paints a specific angle of Bedřichovice while facing the urban landscape of London. The borders miraculously appear throughout the day and Bedřichovice finally unfolds itself to the public.
In discussion with the artist the villagers have collectively decided upon activities to perform together in London. The suggestions are varied and some unexpected. They plan to present their choir, play Football-Tennis, clean windows and sweep pathways, greet all passers-by in Czech, organise a barbecue, go to the church, bake traditional cakes and organise children's games. Kateřina Šedá has produced a situation in which the villagers are now free to inhabit as they see fit. Together they will create new encounters and forms of togetherness which cannot be predicted by the artist, and which will - in turn - affect the locality in which they are performed in London.
The materials Kateřina Šedá chooses echo her past projects: a community; a group of volunteers; the Czech Republic and a set of activities. She once again works with the individual and the local, neighbours and families, to stage a choreographic mass-action. Šedá invents a framework and a set of tasks to create a collective experience and to question ideas of community, with humour and lightness.
The performance presented on Saturday 3 September is only a partial illustration of the project as a whole. The process leading up to the mass-action is an equally important component of the artist's practice. As with previous works, her method includes investigation, discussions with each resident; letters and posters to communicate within the village and staging meetings and workshops, in order to convince a group of people, previously unknow to her, to believe and take part in a seemingly absurd idea. The everyday activities presented by the villagers are unavoidably altered, acquiring a new meaning when performed outside of Bedřichovice. The success of such a social experiment is measured in the long lasting, but subtle effects upon all who take part in it and us who witness it.
Biography:
Kateřina Šedá was born in 1977 in Brno, Czech Republic. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the School of Applied Arts in Brno. She has had recent solo-shows at Cubitt Gallery, London, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen and Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. She also exhibited widely in several group exhibitions in 2011, including this year's Venice Biennale, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin.
Saturday 27 August 2011
Tuesday 23 August 2011
Monday 25 July 2011
Friday 15 July 2011
Monday 11 July 2011
Monday 6 June 2011
chelsea Art Fair 2011 (June 3 - 5)
Tuesday 17 May 2011
These are two paintings I will be exhibiting at the Unitled Chelsea Art Fair in June.
Friday 13 May 2011
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Monday 9 May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Sunday 1 May 2011
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Friday 15 April 2011
Peter Gander Fine Art: Post nude, red and blue grad
Thursday 14 April 2011
I am looking forward to tomorrow when as part of POST (a group of artists, myself included),we take possession of Unit 32 (at the back)
21-23 Tooting High Street,Tooting, London, SW17 0SN.
We will be working here intially for a period of four months using the space as an exhibition space/project space/studio/coffee lounge style discusssion with public space!!! So a lot going on!!! I'll keep this site posted as things develop.
My proposed use of the space is to create a textile installation. I love the area particularly the clothes and textile shops....there is an impressive sewing department store nearby!! I pass through it on my way to the print studios in Coldharbour lane. I am hoping that this project will give me the opportunity to work within the community using materials from local shops and using the expertise of visitors to the market that reflects something of the area. I will be photographing the installation as it progresses and posting images here.
We will also be launching a website soon which I will link to my blog!
Monday 11 April 2011
Back from Argentina!! What an amazing country ......