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Flights of Fancy | Friday, 20 August 10 through to Wednesday, 01 September 10
An investigation into the concept of ‘White Cube’ as the contemporary gallery space, by
ten members of Ashford Visual Artists. This intervention is the fruition of a one year
collaboration between artists, resulting in sound, and sculpture, in paper and mixed media
which swarm and swoop, filling the gallery with individual flights of fancy.
Vicky Brand, Tammy Clark, Chris Furse, Alex Le Rossignol, Emma Moody Smith, Mandy
Munroe, Jane Richardson, Mary Sampson, Ron Sampson and Carol Stump address
issues around communication, containment, fragility and flight within the framework of the
cube.
Specular Reflection: The White Show | Friday, 06 August 10 through to Wednesday, 18 August 10
‘Specular Reflection: The White Show’ – encompassing light, reflection and the restriction of the colour palette. An exhibition of new work by White Shed artists consisting of painting, sculptures, mixed media and installation works.
‘White is a word often associated with 'blank', but white reflects and absorbs subtle nuances of colour from light itself. The subtlety of white requires close attention, inner reflection and calm - qualities hard to find in a saturated world’
Memories of Summer | Friday, 23 July 10 through to Wednesday, 04 August 10
After several successful art shows in The Netherlands, Strange Cargo is very pleased to announce Martine Pieck’s next solo exhibition entitled “Memories Of Summer” from July 23 until August 4. Martine will exhibit paintings of objects and landscapes brought to life with a summer theme.
Identity is a key theme throughout Martine’s work. In her early years (1992 - 1998), she focused on the human figure, merging concepts of adolescence, sexuality and social acceptance. Drawing on both personal experience and current affairs, she created an interpretation of controversial issues of the day which provided a platform for her exploration of personal identity. In her more recent work ‘identity’ is also a main source of inspiration, however her focus has shifted away from the human figure to every day objects and landscapes. By placing these in a particular context, Martine creates a thought-provoking and fascinating perspective – and in this way she continues to explore how identity is created and influenced by its environment.
Early in 2009, after a long “artistic sabbatical”, Martine re-started her art career. Last year she had several solo and group presentations resulting in very positive press reviews. Martine currently lives and works in Amsterdam but is planning to move to the Bath area in the autumn.
The Collective | Friday, 11 June 10 through to Tuesday, 23 March 10
A diverse and eclectic mix of work from BA students studying at University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, who have come together to showcase their contemporary and unique work. Mae Hemm, Jo Cooper, Ashley Rowland, Alicia Willcox, Wendy Newark, Jackie Augus-Barton, Liz Delmarge and Allison Makenzie work in a range of medium and will be exploring subjects such as memory, the body and the built environment.
Exhibition | Friday, 28 May 10 through to Wednesday, 09 June 10
Coming together for the first time the contemporary painters Tina Atchison-Thomas and Harriet Gifford are showing new works at Georges House Gallery.
Harriet Gifford’s work inhabits the territory between abstraction and figuration and is inspired by dark skies and fading light.
Tina Atchison-Thomas describes her work as “a response to the landscape, concerned with the language of colour and light.”
The commonalities and contrasts of light, darkness, colour and texture in their work makes for a visually exciting exhibition.
Residence | Friday, 14 May 10 through to Wednesday, 26 May 10
The photographs on display form part of an on-going body of work created at the homes of former artists and writers throughout the south of England, and were taken over a three month residency at Bateman’s, the former home of Rudyard Kipling.
Elemental | Friday, 16 April 10 through to Wednesday, 28 April 10
An exhibition of mind and matter – a visual investigation into the primal experience. Nick Hughes is attempting to express the philosophical experience of facing the “Sublime Void” using print process and mark making. Kate Beaugié explores the physical substance of materials in their elemental state and their reaction with light and dark and how they stimulate the senses and the soul.
Time | Friday, 02 April 10 through to Sunday, 14 March 10
Jane Padgham, a student from University for the Creative Arts Rochester, presents her graduate show: a time-lapse film recording the passage of time through the changing seasons of King’s Wood in Challock, Kent. This is an exploration of the forest’s growth and decay, highlighting that nothing is permanent in this world and eventually everything deteriorates and returns to the ground.
David Raisbeck - A Retrospective | Friday, 19 March 10 through to Wednesday, 31 March 10
A retrospective exhibition of drawings and watercolours spanning the years 1978 through to 2009. The inspiration for Raisbeck’s images comes from various sources, be it high Renaissance drawings, Medieval wood cuts, old manuscripts and documents to architectural plans and faded Victorian photographs - any old paper that has something written or printed on it becomes grist to his mill.
Transcription | Monday, 08 March 10 through to Wednesday, 17 March 10
The current exhibition is a Transcription exhibition, which displays six paintings from The Beaney Institute in Canterbury alongside six 21st Century recreations.
Transcription was created by students from Canterbury High School. The students found a means to voice their own important social issues through researching and reinterpreting six works of art held in the permanent collection at the Beaney Institute in Canterbury. Working with artists from Strange Cargo, they reinvented the paintings, changing their meaning and context to speak to a 21st Century audience.
The project was commissioned by Canterbury City Council, as part of the Portrait of a Nation Initiative.
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