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New Works from the Arts Council Collection
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Catch This is a series of exhibitions which provides an opportunity to get the first look at some of the newest works to enter the Arts Council Collection. This year Catch This presents work by four leading British artists who are all rapidly establishing important international reputations.
For over sixty years, the Arts Council Collection has supported emerging artists in this country through the purchase and display of their work. All of the works featured in this programme were purchased within the last twelve months, making Longside Gallery Project Space the first port of call for some of the latest developments in contemporary art.
Karla Black
24 May - 29 June
Karla Black’s sculptures are made from some materials more commonly found in a domestic environment than in an art gallery. Unused To (2007) was acquired for the Arts Council Collection last year and Catch This marks the first UK presentation of this work. Made using a variety of materials including sugar paper, ribbon, chalk, paint, body cream, hair gel and polythene, this most delicate sculpture will be specially installed at Longside Gallery by the artist. Black has described her works as ‘physical explorations into thinking, feeling, communicating and relating’, and her use of domestic and perishable substances has feminine and bodily connotations.
Image: Unused To, 2007, sugar paper, chalk, ribbon, polythene, vitamin E body cream, nail varnish, hair gel, toothpaste, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist 2008.
Hilary Lloyd
5 July - 10 August
Hilary Lloyd has gained significant recognition for short films featuring urban young people engaged in mundane everyday activity. This summer sees the presentation of her influential ‘video sculpture’, Colin #2 (1999). The work features two monitors back-to-back: one shows a young man taking his vest off with a balletic, concentrated slowness; the other documents the same process in reverse. Shot in real time using a static camera, the film captures the intense concentration of both the protagonist and the artist, while touching on issues of voyeurism, fetishism and the value of time.
Image: Colin #2, 1999, HI-8 video, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist 2008.
Lucy Skaer
16 August - 21 September
Lucy Skaer’s diverse and incisive practice has earned her international recognition: Skaer represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and major exhibitions of her work take place this year in London and Edinburgh and at the Berlin Biennale. Catch This presents three recent works by the artist that demonstrate her interest in sculpture, drawing and film. The Great Wave (Expanded) (2007), a large scale, intensely wrought drawing based on Hokusai’s famous woodblock print, will be presented alongside two works: a short film titled Leonora (The Joker) (2006) and Leonora (The Tyrant) (2006), an antique table inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The ‘Leonora’ works were inspired by a meeting with the surrealist artist and novelist, Leonora Carrington.
Image: Leonora (The Tyrant), 2006, oak table with inlaid mother of pearl, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist 2008.
Tania Kovats
27 September - 2 November
During a residency at the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford in 2006, Tania Kovats drew inspiration from the Uffington White Horse: a 2500 year-old drawing carved into an Oxfordshire hillside. She collected a range of objects on a theme of the white horse, and made precise drawings which employ the conventions of cataloguing archaeological ‘small finds’. Her entire collection was housed in The Museum of the White Horse, a museum dedicated to the white horse and to landscape. The museum occupied the interior of a mobile horse-box and stopped off at various museums, hillsides and racecourses during 2007. Catch This offers a unique opportunity to see the newly-acquired Small Finds drawings alongside a range of objects from The Museum of the White Horse.
Image: White Horse T-Shirt, ‘Precious’, 2007, inkjet on paper, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist 2008.
CATCH THESE!
Study Day: Collecting the New
Saturday 13 September, 11am - 3.30pm
Longside Gallery and Seminar Space
Find out more about the diversity and range of contemporary British art and how it is acquired for the nation. This informative day of presentations and discussion features presentations by the artist Lucy Skaer and a member of the Arts Council Collection acquisitions panel. There is also an opportunity to view some of the latest additions to the Arts Council Collection.
£20 / £15 concessions, places are limited: booking essential
For further details and to book your place please call 01924 830900 or email sculpture@southbankcentre.co.uk
The Big Draw
18-19 October
Longside Gallery and across YSP
To mark the national Big Draw campaign, Yorkshire Sculpture Park will host a range of fun activities for all ages on the theme of drawing. Join us at Longside Gallery for a series of special drawing activities relating to Tania Kovats’ The Museum of the White Horse.
This is a drop-in event suitable for all ages - everyone welcome!
