These are some photographs of the space that we have in Denmark.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Friday, 30 July 2010
CIA sponsors Where Land and Sea Meet 2010
The Centre for Icelandic Art sponsors Where Land and Sea meet 2010. Here is the link to the centre :
http://www.cia.is/
PREE RELEASE
Exhibition in Stege, Mön, Denmark 14 - 27 august 2010.
Land and Sea
14 Aug – 27 Aug 2010
Stege Sugar Factory, Møn, Denmark
The exhibition, Land and Sea, is a collaborative art project, created by 5 young international artists from, Denmark, Scotland, Iceland and The Netherlands.
Historically the sea has held a fascination for a wide range of artists, authors and filmmakers. The sea is a parallel world for us who inhabit the land, a place we only with the help of technology – boats and submarines- can explore the mysteries of the sea. But reaching the very bottom of its mystery is something we might never fully attain?
The participating artists, for whom this is their first exhibition in Denmark, apply
photography, installation art and bronze castings and utilize among other things a 10ft wide parachute in an attempt to demonstrate our ethical but also our philosophical views of the sea and nature. The work also explores the role of technology in society today and how it has integrated itself with us, but also how the role of the machine has become all-consuming up to the point where we can no longer escape it.
The participating artist are:
Eva Ísleifsdóttir; intermedia artist (Iceland)
Kimberley Powell; photographer (The Netherlands/England)
Stephen Hunter; Intermedia artist (Scotland)
Paul Penrice; Intermedia artist (Scotland)
Anna Pettigrew; photographer (Scotland/Denmark)
The Sugar factory, which is situated on the island of Møn, with its mile long coast
lines and surrounding waters, makes The Sugar Factory an obvious destination for this exhibition, which illustrates and explores the contemporary sea and landscape perception. This sea/landscape perception is particularly relevant for a nation of coastal dwellers. The exhibition which takes place at The Sugar Factory, Stege, Møn, between 14 Aug. - 27 Aug. 2010, is the first stop on its international tour.
After the exhibition on Møn, the artists, along with their work, will travel to Iceland, The Netherlands and finally finish their journey
in Scotland in 2011.
The exhibition is open every day, from 11am – 5pm
All enquiries should be made to the project coordinator, Anna Pettigrew,
anna@annapettigrew.co.uk
Land and Sea
14 Aug – 27 Aug 2010
Stege Sugar Factory, Møn, Denmark
The exhibition, Land and Sea, is a collaborative art project, created by 5 young international artists from, Denmark, Scotland, Iceland and The Netherlands.
Historically the sea has held a fascination for a wide range of artists, authors and filmmakers. The sea is a parallel world for us who inhabit the land, a place we only with the help of technology – boats and submarines- can explore the mysteries of the sea. But reaching the very bottom of its mystery is something we might never fully attain?
The participating artists, for whom this is their first exhibition in Denmark, apply
photography, installation art and bronze castings and utilize among other things a 10ft wide parachute in an attempt to demonstrate our ethical but also our philosophical views of the sea and nature. The work also explores the role of technology in society today and how it has integrated itself with us, but also how the role of the machine has become all-consuming up to the point where we can no longer escape it.
The participating artist are:
Eva Ísleifsdóttir; intermedia artist (Iceland)
Kimberley Powell; photographer (The Netherlands/England)
Stephen Hunter; Intermedia artist (Scotland)
Paul Penrice; Intermedia artist (Scotland)
Anna Pettigrew; photographer (Scotland/Denmark)
The Sugar factory, which is situated on the island of Møn, with its mile long coast
lines and surrounding waters, makes The Sugar Factory an obvious destination for this exhibition, which illustrates and explores the contemporary sea and landscape perception. This sea/landscape perception is particularly relevant for a nation of coastal dwellers. The exhibition which takes place at The Sugar Factory, Stege, Møn, between 14 Aug. - 27 Aug. 2010, is the first stop on its international tour.
After the exhibition on Møn, the artists, along with their work, will travel to Iceland, The Netherlands and finally finish their journey
in Scotland in 2011.
The exhibition is open every day, from 11am – 5pm
All enquiries should be made to the project coordinator, Anna Pettigrew,
anna@annapettigrew.co.uk
The artist / Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunters individual research is an exploration of his adult experiences of industrial work and how that has been coloured by childhood memories of his grandfather, a shipyard coppersmith. It focuses upon the ambivalent nature of human labour and the idea of alienation, where the human element in the production process becomes obscured. In recent exhibitions Steve has worked with Colin Parker, Scott Laverie, Paul Penrice and Jamie Miller, investigating the Enlightenment and its consequences, taking as a starting point the writing of Theodor Adorno about civilization’s tendency towards self-destruction.
“Enlightenment, understood as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.” TA
Stephen Hunter, Born 1964, graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1987 from the Tapestry department with a Diploma of Postgraduate Studies (awarded with distinction) and has since then exhibited widely in the UK as well as Russian, Japan and Germany.
The artist / Paul Penrice
Paul Penrice
Through his art work Paul Penrice invokes a childhood curiosity with the world. His practice can be considered a narrative between fiction and reality, history and modernity. The work is ultimately concerned with the ‘human foot print’ and our place within the vastness of nature. Penrice constructs sculptural representations using various materials. His work maintains a strong emphasis on drawing which he considers essential to his process of creation.
Paul Penrice was born in 1981. He has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.
Selected shows include ‘’Slingshot to Megaton bomb’ Manchester, 2006 and ‘’This is Now’’, Edinburgh, 2008.
The artist / Kimberly Powell
Kimberley Powell
Initially interested in humorous or strange juxtapositions of people, places and things, Kim Powell’s photographic maturity shifted and the basis of her work is now centred upon playing with shapes and light. This distillation process began a number of years ago when she chose 'An Ordinary' as a theme for her degree show. Taking seemingly mundane objects or activities in everyday life and (sometimes literally) putting them in the spotlight is what engages her most now. This has caused her photography to become highly introspective, personal, meditative and even therapeutic. The emphasis on emotional connectivity and strong visual compositions is what truly characterises her work.
Kimberley Powell was born 1983 in Hamburg to English/Dutch parents and was educated in The Hague, The Netherlands, until moving to Edinburgh in 2002 to study photography at Edinburgh College of Art.
The artist / Eva Isleifsdottir
Eva Isleifsdottirwww.evaisleifs.tumblr.com
Eva Isleifsdottir is a mixed media artist who through performance based work, film, sculpture and photography seeks to collect first impressions, strange social circumstances and integrate them into her work. She switches between mediums freely, according to the concept of the work and her ideas. Eva Isleifsdottir’s current practice engages in elements gathered from ancient rituals, dreamscapes and rhythms of today’s culture and social structures.
Eva Isleifsdottir was born in 1982 in Iceland where she studied Fine Arts at The Icelandic Academy of Art from 2006-2008. Mfa from Edinburgh College of Art. 2010
A selected show: Hoy 3. Pier Art Centre. Orkney. Hoy3 group exhibition. 2010
DIRECTRIX Film festival in Berlin. Grand Prix. ELIA. 2008
image ; made in collaboration with Kjersti Sletteland 2009
The artist / Anna C. Pettigrew
Anna C. PettigrewAnna C. Pettigrew’s photographic work often takes on an almost 2 dimensional expression, where large landscape scenes or cityscapes are viewed graphically as blocks of colour, texture and shape. By flattening the subject matter, the viewer is presented with a photograph which reflects that of a theatre set, or a movie still. The work mimics in this way a painterly method, taking reference in the laws of traditional composition and arrangement- that of the Golden Ratio, where lines are placed on The Divine Proportions thus creating harmony and balance within the frame.
Anna C. Pettigrew was born in Scotland in 1984 to Scottish/Danish parents and moved to Denmark in 1990. After returning to Scotland in 2001 she completed her BA (hons) in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art.
Selected shows: Brave Art, Atlantis Gallery, Brick Lane London 2005 Poet Prints, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh 2004
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