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.




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).

 


 
 



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.
 
This project has been made possible through the support of the Arts Council England.