The Stone Space
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Arts Trail Map Exhibition Launches
This year’s arts trail is under way and a map exhibition and display have been created in Leytonstone’s new Slate and Stone Space galleries. The Stone Space has become the headquarters for this year’s trail from 12th – 22nd July and is showing a sample piece of artwork from over 70 artists involved in this year’s trail, with lots of work for sale at a range of prices to suit all budgets.
Head over there to pick up your trail guide and then make your way around the 16 venues that are participating in the 2012 trail. Including ‘Stone Space Projects’, Leytonstone’s new pop up gallery situated just outside the tube station. The ‘As Time Goes By’ exhibition featuring 17 artists, The Red Lion’s group of exhibitions and Norlington Road’s ‘When The Walls Come Down’ featuring over 35 artists. The Hitchcock Hotel, Leytonstone Social Club’s Shadwell Printers exhibition and many many more.
Handling session, The Stone Space, Sat 23rd 2-3pm!
Handling session, The Stone Space, Sat 23rd 2-3pm!.
The Stone Space are hosting Leytonstone Museum’s archive for a special a handling session on Saturday 23rd June from 2-3pm. Come along to see, discuss and handle Leytonstone Museum’s printed archive in it’s box!
One Day’s Walk Opens This Thursday
Join us at the stone space this Thursday for the opening evening of 1 Day’s Walk, an exhibition which celebrates Leytonstone. The show features the work of 13 artist’s exhibiting original pieces of work which have also been turned into postcards which will be sold to support the Stone Space gallery.
Many of the visitors to the Olympics this summer will pass through Leytonstone, but the town is so much more than a stepping stone to this year’s olympic games, and we wanted to make sure that we get across the flavour of Leytonstone to visitors!!
Private View opens at 7pm on the 21st June and the exhibition runs from 21 June – 8 July
Inclusions
The Stone Space proudly presents Inclusions, an exhibition which celebrates the work of artist’s whose work straddles genres. The exhibition features work selected by a small team of artist/curators including Eleanor Bedlow, Jeff Cox, Gillian Swan and Carne Grifffiths.
The concept of the exhibition is to embrace and celebrate the work of artists who find difficulty categorizing their work for group shows and by uniting these seemingly disparate elements creating a strong and unifying whole.
Inclusions will be an exciting show both visually and conceptually and we aim to challenge the viewer both with individual pieces and their relationships to eac other in the gallery space.
Thank you to all artists who submitted work for inclusions – it was an incredibly difficult task to select work for the show and I hope you will join us to celebrate the work of Ronis Varlaam, Sally Hewett, Mary-anne Morrison, Aurora Ira,Clare Smith, Tetsuya Endo, Amanda Whittle,Aysegul Thornett,Frances Bloomfield,Matt Gee, David McLeavy, Stacey Wall, Victoria Turnbull, Stephane Blumer, Kate Keara Pelen, Natalie Percy, Silvia Krupinska and Gareth Morgan
Please join us for the opening party this Thursday the 29th March from 7pm
Exhibition runs from 29th March – 15th April
Eden, final weekend
Carne Griffiths creates Eden in Leytonstone (with influences from the local community)
by Helene Loukaides
The live stream for the final weekend of Eden will start today (10th March) on this page from 12:00 GMT latest – that’s 07:00 EST and 08:00 EDT – at other times after, a recording of the stream will be available
Live streaming by Ustream |
Using the mediums of ink and tea Carne has been using plants, flowers and foliage – mostly natural but with some artificial pieces – brought in by members of the public to inspire his work in progress, Eden. The work is evolving hour by hour is and is directly influenced by the additions of new specimens to those already in place.
Carne’s uniquely recognisable style transposed onto the walls of the gallery has created great interest from passers-by and also from those following his progress on-line. They are able to connect to the immediacy of the installation and relate to the references in situ. He has found this live situation a stimulating process and the interaction with visitors a rewarding experience, enabling him to react to and develop the work whilst engaging with the public.
“I don’t find having people watching me work and talking to me distracting”, he says, “and I enjoy the experience of meeting the many interesting people from the area whom I wouldn’t have met were it not for the exhibition.”
Carne will be working on the installation until Sunday evening when the work will be completed and would welcome any further input from visitors until then.
For more on Carne Griffiths
www.carnegriffiths.com
Eden – Live Broadcast Today
The live stream for Eden will start today (4th March) on this page from 12:00 GMT latest – thats 07:00 EST and 08:00 EDT – at other times after, a recording of the stream will be available
Live streaming by Ustream |
Eden Day 2 at the Stone Space
Eden – opens this Thursday
The 2 week installation drawing Eden by artist Carne Griffiths opens in the stone space at 2pm on Thursday 1st March. Come along on Thursday to see the artist drawing in the space using ink and tea to create floral forms. Bring along plants to decorate the gallery and write suggestions for Carne to include in the work. Keep checking back to the Stone Space website to see the exhibition develop.
Here’s a sneak peak of the gallery in preparation.
and another video this time from the preview event for Eden recorded last week at Debut Contemporary – many thanks to Sylvia Krupinska for the interview.
Eden by Carne Griffiths
The Stone Space is pleased to present a live drawing event ‘EDEN’ by artist Carne Griffiths.
Thurs 1st March from 2pm, – Sun 11th March 4pm
Working in calligraphy ink and tea, the artist will create floral imagery connected with ideas of creation and evolution whilst exploring the interplay between artist as creator and the outside influences of chance and suggestion from viewers. Based heavily on floral forms the installation leads on from last year’s drawing made inside a house as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail. A video of the finished installation is shown below.
Visitors to the gallery are requested to bring plants to the exhibition to create a central installation which will be used as inspiration for the drawing as well as writing suggestions for imagery to be included within the piece. A live broadcast of the event will be available at this website from the 1st March and also at the artist’s webpage http://www.carnegriffiths.com
On 25th February a preview event for the exhibition took place at Debut Contemporary. Images from the presentation and live drawing event can be found here
Carne’s work has featured recently at the London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London Art Fairand overseas at Urban in Ibiza 2011 and Arts After Dark, New Orleans 2010. The artist is currently working closely with West London gallery Debut Contemporary, as well as Eyestorm, Art Republic, Opus and Ink-d Gallery in Brighton where he will be holding a solo show later in 2012.
Gillian Swan finds inspiration in the buildings around us
Gillian Swan is drawn to the minutiae of change in the urban environment and records the evolution and transition of structures and places created by people and time. “The processes of wear and alteration to sites add to their individuality and should not automatically be viewed negatively.” she says.
In her exhibition ‘Outlines’ her piece ‘View from the train’ shows instances of graffiti being painted over to remove it and how these areas of ‘buffing’ bring a dimension of their own with their variations of texture, colour and layering. In ‘Wall’ she re-creates a surface discovered in Leyton referencing the vivid colours used to cover the original façade and emulates its texture using plaster and sand. This completely contrasts with the muted colours of the expunged wall graffiti in ’View from the train’. Whilst her work is wall mounted it is three dimensional, including materials such as cardboard, plaster and household emulsion paint. These elements are used to stunning effect in the piece ‘Garages’. One of the larger pieces on show references the mouldings on a terrace of houses in Leytonstone High Street; specific observations of the houses show the individual patinas which have developed in each building. Through her work she challenges the viewer to re-examine the way we consider mutations to our immediate surroundings and perhaps to see them not as degrading but as an evolvement of the original structures.
Find more on Gillian Swan http://www.gillianswan.co.uk/
Spill, a look at the sequential images of Alke Schmidt
We spoke to artist Alke Schmidt at the private view of ‘Spill ‘about how striking we thought the sequential images of the spill were. The spreading oil shape over those beautiful Audubon bird illustrations really struck a chord with us and we asked Alke’s permission to present the works as a slide show here to see the damaging effects of the spill.
