Gathering Exhibition, Plymouth

'Gathering' Exhibition

'A coming together of diverse artists whose union triggers response and conversation.'

The Pipe Gallery,New Street,Barbican,Plymouth

Friday 5th April- Friday 12th April
11am -7pm

'All Other Routes', 'Diverted Traffic', 'Road Closed' 2012

'Redaction/Response', ' 49 Minutes', Abbey Place to Zion Street' 2012

'Ten Views' 2012

The Art House Co-op

New Project Series: 'In Five Minutes'

What can you draw in five minutes?
Theme: Buildings.
Draw the tallest building in your town.

Another very quick drawing, which I appear to favour at the moment!

However, the antagonist who sits on my shoulder, suggested that I 'cheated' in the technical quality of the drawing by using carbon paper to trace over a photograph! The 'fine line' was perhaps crossed.

I enjoy working with carbon paper, particularly when it has already been used many times. The lack of freshness allows me not to see where I have made my marks, thus creating a blind drawing.

Chichester House, Plymouth 2013

5 minute drawing 

carbon paper, cartridge paper

Chichester House, Plymouth 2013

15 minute drawing 

carbon paper, cartridge paper

Group Exhibition 2013

2013 promises to be an exciting year with a group exhibition booked at The Pipe Gallery, The Barbican, Plymouth at Easter!

I will be sharing the exhibition space with Jude Bryson-Meehan, Alexandra Kovacs, Clare Larkin and Mel Skeldon.
The exhibition will show independent work by the featured artists.

To get the creative thoughts flowing, we are producing a collaborative series of abstract works.

 Gathering #1, 2012 Mixed media.

Sunderland Book Project 2012

Sunderland Book Project 

Next Exhibition Location:
Baltic Artists Book Fair
Gateshead Baltic Gallery
Gateshead

June 2013

Next exhibition Location:
The Last Chapter
7 Rustlings Road
Sheffield S11 7AA

6 April for 4 weeks
http://www.thelastchapter.co.uk/

Next exhibition location:
The McGuiness Gallery
Bishop Auckland
County Durham

8 - 27th April 2013


Next Exhibition Location:
Quorum Business Park
Newcastle-upon-Tyne

11 - 22 February 2013

Next Exhibition Location: 
Washington Town Library
Independence Square
The Galleries
Washington NE38 7RZ

Saturday 9th February 2013, 10-12 noon
http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com/the-sunderland-book-project-participants/

Next Exhibition Location:
City Arts Centre & Library
Fawcett Street
Sunderland SR1 1RE

Saturday 16th February 2013, 1-3pm
http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com/the-sunderland-book-project-participants/

Next exhibition location:
Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference
Silver Spring, MD, USA
16th, 17th & 19th November 2012 

Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair

The Sunderland Book Project 2012

The Sunderland Book Project 2012

The aim of the project is to collect a wide range of unique interpretations of the city of Sunderland from around the world.  The books will be exhibited in national and international venues.

http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com/the-sunderland-book-project/ 


Absence 2012

A book of extracted poems from articles in the Sunderland Echo online. The poems reflect a feeling of distance and disconnection. A sense of absence.

Having never visited Sunderland and being ignorant of its history, my automatic thinking was one of absence. Extracting text from articles in the Sunderland Echo online, I created a series of poems or phrases that some up this feeling.

The only 'rule' I use when extracting text, is that I must use it in the order that it appears on the page. Once I have enough poems (25-30), I then discard those that don't fit (2-3) and rearrange the rest in a sequence that offers a narrative, or at least, a beginning, middle and conclusion.


The use of tracing paper gives a sense of distance between the thoughts on the page, and the blank cover suggests a lack of knowledge, understanding or connection.


Im delighted to say that my book was received well by the organisers and its alternative approach was interesting enough for the Sunderland Echo to interview me about my book! 

Clare Rogers' 'Absence' makes it to the North East
Sunderland Book Project 2012

'Absence' 2012

21 x 14.5 x 1cm

Tracing paper, ink, card, crepe paper, recycled paper and Acco fastener. 

Three copies.

Inside title page

Page example

she 
runs.

cannot be named

ordered
denied
lost
and
driven out      she wants

to be
different

Exhibition Review

A review on 'From here you can almost see the sea: A response to living in Plymouth'

http://inatownsosmall.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/being-followed-home-yorkshire-exhibtions/

A quick dash across Sheffield is well worth risking the sun/howling wind/soaking rain (delete as applicable) to get over to Bank Street Arts, where they also have a pair of fantastic displays of artist books presently. Clare Rogers’ From here you can almost see the sea: a response to living in plymouth is, quite simply, brilliant. Rogers uses a variety of printed to media to explore what her hometown of Plymouth means to her, what it looks like, why she loves it, why she hates it, and what it feels like to be there. This sounds like an interesting enough project for a visual artist, but here the artist uses words alone to engage with her subject matter, combining ‘photography’ with poetry and book works to create her image of Plymouth. I've been back to this exhibition twice already, and suspect I will be there again before it closes at the start of September.

It's always fantastic to receive positive reviews on your work! (I have had a few not so complimentary ones!)

From here you can almost see the sea: A response to living in Plymouth

http://artistsbookprize.co.uk/cr_exhibition

31st July - 1st September 2012
Bank Street Arts
Bank Street 
Sheffield



A few pictures of the exhibition. 

The decisions about where and how to hang the work were made without much agonising, which is always good! The room size and shape was perfect for this body of work and the flat fluorescent lighting allowed the viewer a good visual of the work without having to dodge glare and reflection of spotlights.

'Ten Views'

'All Other Routes', 'Diverted Traffic', 'Road Closed'

'Abbey Place to Zion Street' and 'Forty Nine Minutes'

'Redaction/Response'