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a space arts presents 'Art Vaults Season 4', contemporary art in medieval locations.
Site map available from the Bargate Monument Gallery, High St. Southampton.
Site 1 - The Bargate Monument Gallery. Southampton’s most historic moment has been re-opened to the public by arts organisation a space, as a contemporary art gallery bringing the work of emerging artists to public attention. The 800-year old monument stands at the heart of Southampton’s city centre, originally built as the main gateway to the medieval city and its port, which is why Southampton was once known as the ‘Gateway to the world’. Since being built the Bargate has occupied a number of important positions throughout it’s history, including being the city’s guildhall (until the 1770’s) and the Police headquarters during WW2.
Bargate Monument Gallery
Exhibition : ArtVaults in Context - ArtVaults is now in its 4th Year. Since its conception in 2004 the event has grown and become an major fixture in Southampton’s cultural calendar. This exhibition charts the projects development from its roots, begin by a group of enthusiastic artists, to the event you are coming to today.
Not to be missed! First Person Theatre have created a participatory sound experience as part of this years ArtVaults.
Please contact the front desk at the Bargate Monument Gallery to find out more.
Jini Rawlings : Triangulations
Jini Rawlings have makes installations using video projections and glass to explore “broken narratives” and fractured memory. She works with location and studio filming and archival text, her films are often inspired by migrations and by working class and women’s histories. Rawlings was artist in residence at the National Maritime Museum in 2005-6, she is currently a senior lecturer in video production at the University of Westminster and a Winston Churchill fellow.
Triangulations is a multi projection video installation. The video loops explore some of the historic and contemporary resonances of the ports which were the points of departure for journeys between Britain and India and Canada. Using material shot in Liverpool, Aberdeen and Southampton and archival material from the British library and other archives this new project explores boundaries between places.
Site 2 Castle Vault. Castle Vault hosts the schools winner of the New Creators competition.
Hounsdown School : Shattered Dreams / Terribe Memories / Bright Future
The pupils of Hounsdown School have created a dramatic reconstruction of a spitfire crash in the corner of Castle Vault. Visually recalling Roy Lichtenstein’s famous Whamm! painting this piece appears as a freeze frame in time. It vividly brings to life a dramatic scene featuring the plane which played such a major part in the history for Southampton.
Site 3 The Undercroft.
Despite its ecclesiastical appearance, the Undercroft was part of a merchant’s house. When it was built, the principal trade would have been with ports across the Channel. The merchant ship of the time was the cog, a simple vessel built for capacity rather than speed. Thousands of them plied the coasts of medieval Europe. The image of these little ships voyaging to and fro led the artist to WH Auden’s poem Atlantis, describing a journey that can never be completed, a sentiment familiar perhaps both to mariners and artists. The poem became the seminal text for the installation.
Julian Rowe : Atlantis
Julian Rowe lives in Kent. His practice embraces painting, sculpture and video. He has exhibited widely in the UK and France and has work in a number of public and private collections. Atlantis is the second work featured in this years ArtVaults that focuses on the idea of ports.
Site 4 King Johns Palace.
Claire Barber : Stepping lightly on 88 Pillows
Claire Barber completed her MA in Tapestry at the Royal College of Art in 1994. She has lectured at Winchester School of Art since 2001.
The 88 concrete pillows that make up this piece - initially created in 2004 to allow people to step ‘lightly’ around the base of trees to avoid soil compression. The pieces have been re-placed in the ruins of King Johns Palace creating new ways of exploring the work.
Site 5 The Weigh House. Joel Papps : Bronchus Weigh-Mauer.
Joel Papps graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2005. Since graduation he has exhibited nationally and was the winner of the ArtSway open in 2006.
Bronchus-Weighmauer, like most of Papp’s work, explores the human body and using imagery referenced from medical diagrams, microscopic organisms, anatomy books and medical data readings. All this imagery is part of what the artist calls “the aesthetics of illness.” Papps abstracts these images, working with pared down materials such as Plywood and OSB (oriented strand board), creating intricate cut out sculptural works that cast a delicate play of light and shadows.
Site 6 Weigh House Vault. Rebecca Ross : Re - Invasion. Rebecca Ross has studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Winchester School of Art. Her work is informed by her fascination with materials and has always been inspired by nature and organic forms. She works in a wide range of media including photography. Re - Invasion has been presented here in completely new environment for the work. The works portray an eerie beauty and provoke a sense of awe and uneasiness at an alien environment suggesting a human space reclaimed by nature, a flooded underground world.
Site 7 94 The High Street. Jonathan Parsons : Cause of Life. Jonathan Parsons graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1992. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including Kontainer Gallery in Los Angeles and Percy Miller gallery in London.
Cause of Life is created from an array of votive candles spelling out the word consciousness on the floor of the vault. The array resembles an electronic LED sign, still looking electronic despite the flickering lights of the candles.
Stuart Rodda : Do not rush, take cover quietly, then others will do the same.
Stuart Rodda has been a resident of The Arches studios in Southampton for the past 18 months. He initially studied photography and now works predominantly with stencils and spray paint.
Do not rush, take cover quietly, then others will do the same is part of Roddas recent explorations, using stencils in conjunction with light boxes. Inspired directly by the history of the vaults, Rodda has selected images from WWII, reproducing them on light boxes which flicker as if lit by small fires or candles. Rodda sees this piece as an act of remembrance, in particular to those sheltering in the vault during a fateful air raid which struck a nearby water main drowning everyone inside.
Site 8 Quilters. Quilters hosts work by the two undergraduate winners of the New Creators competition.
Alyce Taylor : Two Parts Flour, One Part Water
Alyce Taylor is currently a undergraduate student at Winchester school of Art. She sees her work as a journey in which she explore experiences, ideas and personal imagery. She has a passion for tactile surfaces and subtle detail which she explores through large fabricated 3D forms.
This piece concerns people’s interaction with nature, exploring the aesthetic manipulation we place on our surroundings and the preventative measures we create to contain it. The ephemeral effects of time and decay are exploited within this piece which subtly challenges perceptions of fact and fiction by creating organic forms from industrial man made elements.
Sarah Tyler : Regeneration and Replication; Series One.
Sarah Tyler currently an undergraduate student at Winchester School of Art. The majority of her work is ephemeral and inspired by found material which is old, disused, weathered and aged. She is particularly interested in the narratives and history attached to the buildings, she trys to convey the sensitivity of this in her work. As part of her interest in working with abandoned and hidden, disused buildings Tyler has replicated the walls in a latex skin to form a material-like replica of the stonework.
Site 9 79 1/2 The High Street
Nicole Mollett : Stratocumulus. Nicole lives and works in London. She teaches sculpture at Winchester School of Art, and is lead artist on ‘Art at the Centre’ an Arts Council Thames Gateway Regeneration project. She works with drawing, sculpture and performance, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent shows include The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 and Rummage at Winchester Gallery. In Stratocumulus the strange solidity of nothing but energy and water is the main focus of the artists attention. Using eggshell and paint to describe the immense scale and ethereal light of clouds, the work evokes a sense of wonder at these atmospheric phantoms.
Site 10 God’s House Tower
Paul Vivian : Homemade Projections
Paul Vivian studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Norwich School of Art and Design. He is the course leader for Fine Art at UCCA Farnham, Surey. His recent exhibitions include the Tulca Visual Arts Festival, Galway, Jerwood Drawing Prize and solo exhibition ‘Matchstick Prop’ Charlestown Arts Centre, Eire.
The work is a series of projections exploring materials at the periphery of our daily lives and working with subjects that would otherwise be discarded or consumed. The work centres around the notion of ‘indirect communication’ revealing possible images from an unconventional source, presenting an improvised archeology of the ordinary.
Site 11 Lankesters. BrandX-Art : Art Volts 1. BrandX-Art produce three dimensional art and design in a wide range of marterial. Connecting art and design pieces range from art installations to limited edition runs of custom designed and crafted furniture. BrandX-Art involve electricity and mechanisms in their work.
ArtVolts 1 comprises a group of pylon insulators illuminated with neon tubes. Each tube reacts to external sounds made within the vault creating a dramatic lighting effect. This creates a relationship between the viewer and the object and also contrasts the medieval vault with the visually striking effect of the neon light.
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