The development of my practice is based in video and installation, which tends to involve producing large scale environments depicting social aspects of everyday life. Exploring themes of humour, fantasy and playfullness. www.eeacademy.eu
Ben Moon Untitled
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Charlotte Ledger In Stitches Charlotte Ledger uses traditional craft methods to animate humorous, digital designs. www.newcuriosityshop09.blogspot.com
Claire Blundell Jones Kissing 2
David Steans Bone Pipe If horror and ethnography are its limbs, then art is its empty head and ritual its arrested heart. www.davidsteans.com
Emily Jackson Untitled Emily Jackson explores relationships between photographs and the alternative meanings and realities determined when creative processes are applied. www.emilyjacksonartist.co.uk
Harry Meadley I see you, who see's before me, who (certainly) won't see this. Harry Meadley’s work is all mystery without offering any compensation. www.harrymeadleyprize.org.uk
James Hill Eulogy for Percy ‘Fred’ Hill James Hill is a member of Black Dogs and the Senior Arts & Regeneration Officer for Leeds City Council www.black-dogs.org
Jessica Byrne It doesn't mean I don't love you when I put a gun to your head. Jessica Byrne’s sketches and comics are an extension of her daydreams. www.flickr.com/photos/jessicabyrne
Joe Mawson Clipper Maid of The Seas
Joe Mawson's uses clumsy models to object to the lens' mediation of a more horrific experience, re-telling... a hyper-reality of our experience. www.joemawson.co.uk
Mel Rees Nurses
‘Nurses’ 2010 is a video documenting the alter ego’s of three artists. Nurse Carolina Emeralde, Nurse Beatrice and Nurse Marlene Schultze all work in a fictional hospital on the psychiatric unit. Whilst the nurses look after the patients, the viewer is introduced to these characters which visually highlight their personalities and we question whether it is the patient or the staff that is mental.
Nurse Carolina Emeralde has a tendency towards bouts of insane hyperactivity, has a slightly aggressive side to her that usually brings about bad mood swings and can often turn terribly nasty. She has worked in the psychiatric unit of the hospital for 45 years.
Nurse Beatrice is an orphan and has lived alone for most of her life. In her free time she likes to shoot deer in the surrounding forests.
Nurse Marlene Schultze has a violent temperament, which she disguises with laughter. She lives with her deaf boyfriend and aspires to be cabaret singer.
Michael Burkitt View of Delft Michael Burkitt is concerned by the familiarity of the images we see when we think about art and so re-invents some. www.michaelburkitt.blogspot.com
Micheale Spessa The water has gone... My work concentrates on segmenting the narrative structure to allow the viewer to concentrate on a key moment of emotional upheaval, which occurs within the place of the de-familiar; a place between Utopian and Dystopian realities, the viewer experiences a dimensional shift where perception is questioned. www.mailservice541.com
Rory Macbeth An eye for an eye
Rory Macbeth's practice probes the gap between ideals and their realisation, between what is presented to us and what we actually get. www.union-gallery.com
Rupert Clamp Untitled Through his arts practice Rupert Clamp, using a range of media, tries to playfully interrupt the everyday places and routines the artworks exist in. www.rupertclamp.com
Ryan Gander Klingon Frowns Ryan Gander’s work is concerned with tweaking common objects, situations or systems, and planting his own often inexplicable narratives within them. www.lissongallery.com
Simon Ringe Untitled Simon Ringe explores through narrative frameworks notions of the individual to preserve their autonomy and the individuality of their existence in the face of the overwhelming social forces of contemporary living. His work is often realised in varying sculptural formats that articulate ideas of the individual at odds with larger constraining forces.
Tom Miles Sinead Tom Mile’s practice is concerned with personal obsession, cult stati, visual puns, and lite conceptualism. www.thomasmiles.com
Traced as far back as the 15th century in Europe, a ‘rarity show’ or ‘peep show’ was a collection of objects, pictures or people revealed by a travelling storyteller in a box carried on their back. Known in Syria, Lebanon and Ottoman Palestine as a Sanduk Al-Ajayib peep shows afforded many viewers examples of contemporary figures and events. Often presenting common themes such as exotic views, classical drama, animals, court ceremonies, masques, heaven and hell and surprise transformations; travelling showmen would entertain crowds who would curiously peek into their box of mystery.
Group show ‘Peep’ at the 2021 Visual Arts Centre is no different. A ‘Peep’ is a brief look, a slight glimpse, a chirp or faint appearance. From the exotic to the cautious, artists respond to the challenging invitation to contribute a ‘bite’ of work to an exhibition only weeks before it opens.
Returning to his hometown, artist and curator Michael Burkitt tempts curious audiences to peep at this innovative collection through small apertures. So why not have a peep at this ‘Wonderbox’ of pictures, objects, sounds, performance and film?
Opening times Tuesday to Saturday - 10am to 5pm. Admission is free.
Access
20-21 is fully accessible and has an accessible toilet. The reception desk and education room are equipped with an induction loop. There are parking spaces for orange and blue badge holders adjacent to the centre, on the High Street.
