| Project Space: | Penny Davis will be our 2nd Project Space artist from 28June - 11July culminating in a short exhibition - PV: Monday 12th July Open: Thur 15th - Sun 18th July 2-6pm TBC | |
| Events: |
Daniel Kelly, our first Project Space artist will be screening the new film he created at our film night in August. More detials soon. | |
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News: |
Susan Collis will be the guest selector of our first Members Exhibition. Susan Collis was The Armory Show's 2010 Commissioned Artist, she has had recent solo exhibitions in Paris, Austin, Texas and Ikon, Birmingham. Our Members exhibition in December/January will be selected from all Associate Members, Student Members & Very Important Members who have joined and submitted work by November 2010 (final date to be announced). |
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Project Space:
Separation
Anxiety
New Work by Penny Davis
In Conversation: 4-6pm Monday 12 July
Private View: 6-9pm Monday 12 July
Show Open: Wed 14 July - Sun 18 July 2-6pm
From 27th June to 11th July Penny Davis is using the Gallery at
The Great Central as a project space creating new work and
experimenting. Please join us on Monday 12th July for an In Conversation
followed by the Private View of Seperation Anxiety.
In Conversation with Penny Davis, Eric Rosoman (The Great Central)
& Andrew Stonyer (Professor of Fine Art, University of
Gloucestershire) 4-6pm Monday 12th July.
Private View 6-9pm Monday 12th July.
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The Great Central is proud to present their first solo exhibition
by Penny Davis.
Davis is a graduate of Chelsea school of Art and Design, The Slade
School of Art and Skowhegan School, Maine, USA.
Since 2004 She has exhibited in London, New York and Milan as well
as in Nottingham and Leicester.
Penny Davis uses construction, painting and video to build objects
that hover between sculpture and installation. They extend across the
space touching walls, floors and ceilings and encroaching into the space
of other works. They are built from a variety of materials and
processes to create a delicately balanced web of forms and histories
that teeter on the brink of collapse.
Davis uses materials associated with a modern sculptural idiom such
as Perspex, clay or timber with objects from a domestic or workaday
context to create her structures. The objects may have been bought such
as her antique drainpipes sourced from a reclamation yard or found, as
with the discarded polystyrene from the street. Once selected they take
their place in her carefully choreographed accretions of personal and
universal narrative.
The works are so dense with reference that no single narrative is
able to surface and provide a resolution to the work. Instead they
remain a tense constellation of ideas and forms.
The title separation anxiety derives from a psychoanalytic usage,
but here is suggestive of the tension between any object and its
surrounding environment. Davis places a particular importance on the
problematic relationship of an autonomous sculpture to installation
works. At a micro level the process of removal of objects from the
context that they were designed is a traumatic separation. At a macro
level there are implicit fundamental questions about the future of
sculpture as an autonomous object.
