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‘Shorelines' UK Exhibition

MacLaurin Galleries, Ayr, Scotland

November 12-December 23rd 2011

Dr Cathy Treadaway's (DIGIT) collaborative ‘Shorelines' creativity research project with Scottish artist Alison F Bell culminates in the UK ‘Shorelines' exhibition at the MacLaurin galleries at Rozelle House Museum in Ayr. The Private View was opened by Helen Bennett, Scottish Arts Council on November 12th.

The exhibition coincides with Treadaway's December residency at Rozelle House Museum Ayr, Scotland, where she has been commissioned to make an artwork for the permanent collection as part of the Shorelines research project, and the Shorelines International Symposium: Place, creativity and wellbeing, which was held in the MacClarin Galleries on 15th November. Convened by Treadaway and Bell, the symposium included keynote presentations by Dr. Ian McGilchrist a leading UK neuroscientist and psychologist and land artist, Chris Drury.

Russell Roberts: Silent Village in Prague

Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

11 January - 9 April 2012

Curated by Russell Roberts (eCPR), this touring exhibition commission by Ffotogallery in partnership with the University of Wales, Newport, will be showing at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague from January - April 2012. The exhibition coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Lidice atrocity - the obliteration of a Czechoslovakian village by the Nazis in 1942. Throughout the West, news of the atrocity was met with outrage that later inspired various acts of commemoration including poems, novels, symphonies and films, including Humphrey Jennings short film The Silent Village (1943) shot in South Wales.

This exhibition and attendant publications reflect on the distinctive relations of time and place that defined Humphrey Jennings' original film and responses by artists Peter Finnemore and Paolo Ventura along with the prose fiction of Rachel Trezise, introduce a number of strategies to examine the significance of the film as history and its contemporary relevance.

A symposium is planned to coincide with the exhibition for March 2012 to explore the role of exhibition and arts practice to reflect on historical memory.

Andre Stitt: Prog. Vol. 1

St David's Hall, Cardiff

13 January - 10 February 2012

Continuing an exploration of performance and painting, this exhibition of paintings by Andre Stitt (CFAR) were made between 2008-2011 to a ‘Prog-Rock' soundtrack, creating a certain sonic atmosphere in the studio. The painting do not derive an imagery or have a direct relationship to the visual landscape often alluded to, or inhabited by 'Prog' (as revealed on album cover art and posters of the early 1970's), but might be seen to occupy a certain ambient zone that benefits from the sonic experience of 'Prog' at it's most experimental, atonal, schizoid or ethereal.

On Perfection

Whitechapel Gallery, London,

2 - 3 February 2012

Organised by UWN's Leverhulme fellow Jo Longhurst (eCPR) and The Photographers' Gallery, this two-day event aims to explore the ways in which artists engage with ideas of Perfection. An eclectic group of artists and writers whose lens-based practices engage or disrupt ideas of Perfection, will present works which question how these ideas shape our personal identities, and our social and political systems.

The programme comprises formal papers, screenings, artist talks, new works, conversation and performance, including Dr Clive Cazeaux's (CFAR) paper on ‘Leading Plato into the Darkroom' and work by Professor Mark Durden (eCPR).

A book inspired by the event will be published by Intellect for the ‘Critical Photography Series'. Further information and tickets are available from the Whitechapel website.