Posted in Exhibitions and events | Mon 5th July | 12:00am | permalink |
Artists' News
Best in Show
Persistence Works' based artists Darren Richardson and Anthony Bennett have worked on a number of artworks by internationally renowned and Turner Prize winning artist Yinka Shonibare (MBE)'s artwork. His work "Crash Willy", was constructed by Darren and Anthony and recently won the Royal Academy of Arts' Charles Wollaston Award for most distinguished artwork at the 2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The award was established in 1978 and is at £25000 one of the largest and most prestigious art prizes in Britain.
(Image taken by Anthony Bennett)
Posted in Exhibitions and events | Tue 22nd June | 12:00am | permalink |
Persistence Works Reception
Consultation Period
Our exhibitions programme will be halted after Emilie Taylor's exhibition: Come Up to My Place and Live It Up, which finishes on 5th August 2010.
We are activley looking for ways to continue to show artists' work at Persistence Works in a more finacially sustainable way. If you have any suggestions or proposals please email kate@artspace.org.uk
Posted in Exhibitions and events | Tue 22nd June | 12:00am | permalink |
Emilie Taylor
Exhibition
Emilie Taylor : Come Up to My Place and Live It Up
First solo show by this talented young artist, exhibiting new ceramics inspired by the urban environment.
at Persistence Works
Preview Evening 25th June 6.00pm- 8.00pm
Exhibition runs 28th June - 30th July 2010
This new work celebrate different aspects of the form an function of the places we live, particularly post war housing estates and their relationship with the British. Taylor is interested in a sentimental reminiscence of the cultural style clash of different chintz patterns, pertinent to a particular period in history and threatened to be permanently lost. Childhood memories bring back the decorative style trends of 60's, 70's and 80's - pre-Ikea crockery, textiles and wall paper:
"When sitting in my grandma's kitchen, it was like being on acid. There must have been six or seven patterns in her choice of curtains, wall paper, tiles, cushions, crockery - all wildly clashing. She loved that council house, she had lived there from the time it was built and her stories reflected the utopian ideology of the architects and town planners of that time."
Each of Emilie Taylor's pots is hand coiled, slip decorated and then, at the final firing, embellished with the line drawings that make her work unique. Decorative patterns and line drawings of pets, cars, caravans, pubs, churches and shoes all give her work an air of nostalgia as well as a truly contemporary feel.
Alongside her pots, Taylor will also show her new range of plates depicting the 1950's architecture of Sheffield's Gleadless Valley, influenced by Californian Modernism and one of the largest council estates in the UK.