Brick Project at Turner Contemporary

Laura Wilson, Brick Project (Illimo, Peru), 2011  Image courtesy of the artist. 

Talk + Tea

28 February 2013

Is a brick just a brick? Artist Laura Wilson presents her Brick Project, which explores the material’s functions, its relationship to the human body and place in social history, with surprising findings. Free cup of tea with every ticket.

The Brick Project is Wilson’s current research project, supported by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Wilson taught herself to brick-lay whilst constructing a site-specific structure with 17th century bricks on an archaeological site. She has travelled to China, Peru, the Netherlands and Belgium to investigate the history of bricks and their architectural significance in different cultures and historical periods.

The Brick Project forms part of Wilson’s wider artistic practice.

 

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Images from Camden Arts Centre

Some images from Pattern for a dark lantern, 2013 performed last night at Camden Arts Centre.
Photos: Manuela Barczewski.

More images will be online soon.

Café Curio Performance: New Works at Camden Arts Centre on Wednesday 30 January 2013

 

Cafe Curio Performance: New Works at Camden Arts Centre

Ruth Proctor, Laura Wilson, Marcus Orlandi
Wednesday 30 January, 7.00 - 8.30pm
An evening of performance and film works by young artists, selected to accompany the exhibition, working with the ideas of expanded cinema relating to light, space, film and performance:

Programme
Ruth Proctor: Empty Ground
In Empty Ground Ruth Proctor investigates the use of language as code and it’s relationship to the visual.  Using semaphore flags usually associated with traditions of the sea and for conveying information at a distance, the work describes a fragmented conversation between participants through physical movement and repetition in which meaning and image blur; action unravels in front of the audience as sentences translated via subtitling as if a foreign language film or a slowly moving track of a karaoke machine.

Laura Wilson
Wilson presents a new performance developing ideas surrounding the realtionships between the pysical possibilities of light, film and space transforming the gallery space simultaneously into both projector and screen.

Marcus Orlandi
Orlandi's new work is a theatrical meditation on temporality of film, the futility of preservation and a celebration of the absurdity of everyday existence. At once a performance work and film piece, Orlandi's work directly addresses the conections between screen and physical space.

Brick Project at OUTPOST

Thanks to all who came to the Brick Project lecture last night at OUTPOST in Norwich. If you missed it I will be presenting Brick Project on 28 February 2013 during the Carl Andre exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate.

WCMT Christmas card

This year I was invited to design the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Christmas card, the image is of photograph And All Stood Still (2011), C-type print, which is available in a limited edition. If you are interested in purchasing an edition click here to get in touch.

Outpost opens tomorrow

MEMBERS SHOW 2012

Selected by Ruth Ewan

O U T P O S T

2 November to 21 December 2012

12 noon to 6pm daily

Opening View: Saturday 1 December, 6 - 9pm

Open to public - admission free

OUTPOST is proud to present its annual Members Show, selected this year by the artist Ruth Ewan.
Artworks exhibited in this year’s members show provide a unique cross-section of artists and practices from the OUTPOST membership, combining video, sculpture, lectures, interventions, sound, print and photography to form a materially diverse group show. Upon entering the gallery Andy Parker’s model ship, raised on a plinth and encased in glass, provides a striking centerpiece in the gallery space. On an adjacent wall Johann Arens series of faded dusky pink notice boards display motivational slogans, lists and photographs, while a trilogy of separate monitors screen videos by Tom Smith, Stella Ouzounidou and Scott Massey, and a separate wall-based film projection by Maeve Brennan. The selection exceeds wall-based works and static objects, with Candice Jacob’s rapid ‘thank you’ sound piece quietly emanating from one corner, while in the office an invigilator wears a ceramic ‘rave necklace’ by Mark Essen, modeled on the iconic smiley faces from club culture.

Our wider culture is under playful scrutiny through Ewan’s selection of works, hinting at notions of labour, value and distribution of resources. Terence McCormack’s poignant series of black and white photographs depicting closed down regional theatres coexist in the space with Scott Massey’s performative video of the artist attempting to repay a bank loan via the act of speech. Elsewhere Leo Koivistoinen’s sequence of framed line drawings depict the typical English lunch; the sandwich. Everyday materials are also transformed through the exhibition process. Will Cruickshank has repurposed a wooden broom belonging to the galley by subtly altering its fabric so it now also functions as a whistle, while remnants of The Financial Times are scattered across the gallery floor, its pink paper staining one wall having been used by Tom Crawford used as an aesthetic ‘Milwall Brick’. A selection of polish beer labels are collaged by Simon Liddiment into a figurative form, demonstrating the creative potential of mundane materials, a theme that will also be addressed in a lecture by Laura Wilson later in the month on the most visually banal, but essential of objects: the brick.
Ewan’s point of departure, both in her own practice and for this exhibition, appear to be one of curiosity and humour, yet with an unmissable undertone of seriousness, making visible that which is not always immediately apparent.

Exhibition event: performative lectures by Tom Smith and Laura Wilson, Thursday 13 December, 6 – 9pm
Ruth Ewan (b. 1980, Aberdeen) is an artist based in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Billboard for Edinburgh,Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2012), Brank & Heckle, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (2011), Dreadnoughts, Chisenhale, London (2010), These Airwaves Neutralise the Tools of Oppression, Frieze Projects, London 2009, Did You Kiss the Foot that Kicked You?, Artangel, London (2007). Group shows include Weighted Words, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2012), Transcendental Empiricism, Rob Tufnell at Page Street, London (2011), A Million Miles from Home, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (2011), The Unsurpassable Horizon, No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London (2010), Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009) and EASTInternational, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (2006). Ruth is represented by Rob Tufnell, London. 

For more information please contact questions@norwichoutpost.org

OUTPOST MEMBERS SHOW 2012

I am presenting a lecture on Brick Project as part of the Outpost Members Show 2012 selected by Ruth Ewan which opens this Saturday 1 December. The lecture will take place at Outpost on Thursday 13 December, 6-9pm, Tom Smith will also be performing work the same evening.

More information on this ongoing work please visit the Brick Project blog http://www.brick-project.blogspot.com/
OUTPOST MEMBERS SHOW 2012

Selected by Ruth Ewan

Johann Arens / Maeve Brennan / Tom Crawford / Will Cruickshank / Mark Essen / Candice Jacobs / Leo Koivistoinen / Simon Liddiment / Scott Massey / Terence McCormack / Stella Ouzounidou / Andy Parker / Tom Smith / Laura Wilson

Opening View: 1 December
Exhibition runs until 21 December

OUTPOST
10b Wensum Street, Norwich, NR3 1HR
questions@norwichoutpost.org / www.norwichoutpost.org
+44 (0) 1603 612 428 / charity number 1109254