UNIT1

'Unit1' is The Great Central's hire programme. There is a selection process based on quality of the artwork and the exhibition proposed. We welcome all applications.

To apply for the hire of our exhibition space please send us a brief proposal (max. 1side A4) detailing the idea behind the exhibition and details of all artists involved, along with upto 10 selected images (jpegs at 1200pixels max size), or links to 5 online video/sound clips (upto 3min long). Send all applications to: unit1@thegreatcentral.org We recommend that you visit The Great Central before applying so you can see the space available.

We aim to keep the hire rates for exhibitions at an affordable and competitive rate. Please contact us for any further details you require. unit1@thegreatcentral.org

Unit1 @ The Great Central hosts:

IDLE – Hall & Sweeney

Open: Wednesday 6th May - Saturday 9th May, 12noon-6pm
Preview: Wednesday 6th May 6-8pm

Hall & Sweeney present a body of work that looks at the effortless ways in which technology has allowed people to class themselves as ‘a creative’. Constantly we have access, via the Internet, to art and media that purports itself to be of value. The content on offer to us is mostly, nothing more than self-indulgence.

Never before have such powerful tools been available to the mass of society to realise ideas. But with these tools, the individuals creative output is becoming a pre-determined homogeny of instantly gratifying results leaving the ‘creative type’ marveling in their own glory, whilst the viewer left with feelings of déjà vu.

IDLE humorously reacts to this form of lazy creativity and questions the quality, originality and ownership of output from these ‘art-at-a-click-of-a-mouse’ packages and devices. Idle pushes the viewer to be fully complicit as spectator, subject and performer.

Parts of the exhibition contain explicit references that are not suitable for those under the age of 18 or for those who are easily offended.

Thomas Hall & Thomas Sweeney are both artists who use technology as tools for creating art works. Both Hall and Sweeney are East Midlands based. This is the first time they have artistically collaborated together.