Stephen Snoddy, Director of the New Art Gallery in Walsall, has selected work from over 70 artists from The Art Trail 2012  to be part of this group exhibition.

‘it was a pleasure to go on the Leytonstone Art Trail and see so much art activity across all disciplines and to see the community embrace the visual arts. This can only go from strength to strength and I look forward to seeing ‘Wandering Rocks’ at the Stone Space Gallery’. Stephen Snoddy,
 The New Art Gallery, Walsall.

‘Wandering Rocks’ is episode ten of James Joyce’s classic Ulysses. It consists of nineteen short views of characters, major and minor, as they make their way around Dublin in the afternoon. Within each subsection, short, disjunctive paragraphs pop up that depict a simultaneous action in some other part of the city. My concept is that Leytonstone becomes Dublin for the day and that 19 artists are chosen to reflect the day.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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