ARTISTS WORKING IN RELAY

An interesting arts project - RELAY 2011 - is taking place over the next six weeks in conjunction with Rules and Regs, Quay Arts (IOW) and A Space (Southampton).  A group of artists are responding to a random object - using it as both inspiration and medium - transforming it and then passing it on to the next artist to create a 'chain reaction'. 

Two Relays are running concurrently, one curated by Daniel Crow, A Space Director, and the other by Georgia Newman, Quay Arts Exhibitions Organiser.  Both Relays will be exhibited side by side in the Learning Curve Gallery at Quay Arts and documentation of how the objects have been altered will be shown alongside.  The artists have just 48 hours to respond to the object which is then put on display before being passed on to the next artist. 

Lisa Traxler is the second artist in the Quay Arts Relay and her 'response', Soul's Release was installed this morning in the Learning Curve Gallery.  The original 'object' was a set of chess pieces which had gone through a radical transformation by artist Tim Johnson before being passed on to Lisa.  Lisa's response is pictured above.

If by now all this seems as clear as mud!  then you can read all about it at www.rulesandregs.org/relay11.html
and find more information about the individual artist responses in their blog http://rulesandregsrelay.wordpress.com.