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.

TAKE PART IN THE VENICE BIENNALE

The venue is in Campo San Polo, Venice

There is only one week before the deadline - apologies for that but have only just received the notification - but if you would like the chance to have some work in the 54th Venice Biennale, then WW Gallery are calling for submissions of works on paper for a collateral exhibition as part of the 'UK at the Venice Biennale' programme.  Further details follow, and take a look at their website.

Call for Submissions
WW Gallery at the 54th
Venice Biennale
Deadline 31st March

There is nothing more exhilarating than the buzz and atmosphere of the opening week of the Venice Biennale. As the longest-running, most prestigious international art biennial in the world, the Venice Biennale of Art is the biggest event in the art calendar.

WW Gallery participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale and this year, for the 54th Biennale, invites artists to submit works on paper for a two week exhibition in the heart of Venice.

Submissions must be 2D and no larger than A3 size. Work should not be framed, glazed or mounted. Media can include drawing, collage, printmaking, painting, digital, photography and mixed media. There is no set theme; work should be representative of each artist's practice or process.

The exhibition is selected and curated by Debra Wilson and Chiara Williams. Wilson and Williams, known collectively as WW, have a proven track record for spotting and nurturing talent and curating inspired and subversive exhibitions from their gallery base in Hackney, East London.


http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/opencall2011.htm?utm