Recent Reading

Jan Verwoert 'Emergence: On the Painting of Tomma Abts': ”http://www.davidzwirner.com/resources/34608/TA%20Verwoert%2005.pdf

Cath Ferguson 'A Future for Formalism': 

http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/ama/modernism/8-catherine-ferguson.php



Anton Vidokle 'Art Without Artists':

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/136

Art & Language 'A Place to Work':

http://i1.exhibit-e.com/lissongallery/79c60dae.pdf

                                                                                                       

2.Rirkit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992, 303 Gallery, NY.   

  1. Tomma Abts, Group show, Greengrassi        

The Wilderness Years

a-n website featured blog

UAG's blog has been chosen to feature on front page on artist's unedited as part of a discussion about art after art school. Coming home from installing a show in London to seeing and hearing about degree shows it seems to be an apt time to be involved in this area of conversation. Pictures of 'All Systems Go' arriving soon.

"After the intense experience of a BA or MA sustaining an art life can be tricky. See how these artists cope with life after college..."
http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking

New a-n project blog

http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/641840


UAG now have an artists_talking blog which will focus on the ins and outs of working together as a group and what it means to individual practice to work collaboratively. 

UAG to do Free For Arts Festival

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This October we will be carrying out a piece for Free For Arts Festival.
"The Free For Arts Festival is a not-for-profit celebration of art and performance. Manchester will play host to a weeklong series of events fuelled by the varying ideas of local artists and performers united by their desire to provide inventive and unique experiences for the public
'on the house'.
www.freeforartsfestival.co.uk

Three occupied neighbouring shops or commercial buildings will be approached as found spaces. We would like to set our work up in the ‘real world’. In usual circumstances the ‘real world’ has things taken from it and nominated as art. We would rather add to life.

Press Release for 'All Systems Go'- Departure Gallery

Departure Gallery invites you to

ALL SYSTEMS GO

A group exhibition of artwork by:

David Angus, Louise Ashcroft, Aglae Bassens, Nathan Birchenough, Claire Blundell-Jones, Francis Byrne, Helen Collett and Lois Macdonald, Lawrence Daley, Danielle Drainey, Sandra Erbacher, Rita Evans, Rafael Farias, Dmitri Galitzine, Doug Jones, Helene Kazan, Jonathan Kipps, Paul Lewthwaite, Jo Lathwood, Ben Lloyd, William Mackrell, Nicola McCartney, Savvas Papasavva, Rob Pugh, Ilona Sagar, Tracy Sarroff, Steve Smith, Jackson Sprague, Andrew Sunderland, Unidentified Art Group (Robert Hunt, James Pepper, Rosanne Robertson), Imogen Welch, Rich White, Sarah Tew, Sam Zealey. Click on artists to view their websites.

Private View: Friday 25th June 2010, 6.30pm- 9.30pm. Refreshments will be served. Free taxi shuttles from Southall Station (12mins from Paddington). Free haircuts from a professional stylist will be available as part of an installation by Unidentified Art Group. 

Exhibition: Monday 21st June – Sunday 4th July 2010. Open 7 days a week, 10am-5pm.

All Systems Go brings together a diverse group of artists who work in relation to physical and conceptual systems, which they have created or adapted as frameworks for artistic experimentation. Patterns, rules, collaborative techniques, interventions, mechanical systems and improvisation provide structured starting points which open up a multitude of possibilities for exciting artistic outcomes.

This show is the latest in Departure Gallery’s acclaimed series of exhibitions and residencies on The International Trading Estate, Southall. The exhibition explores the contradictions and parallels between systematic experimentation in contemporary art and the industrial systems used in the factories and distribution units surrounding our vast warehouse space.

Address: Departure Gallery, 7 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Brent Road, Southall, UB2 5LF.

Click here for map 

Getting There: Take national rail from Paddington to Southall (12mins), then buses 105, 195, H32 or 482 to Brent Road (5mins). Cross over and walk down Brent Road until you see the estate entrance. Ask the security guards in the cabin to direct you to warehouse 7 Trident Way. Trains and buses run regularly until midnight. On the private view night there will be a free taxi shuttle from Southall Station, Merrick Road (follow signs as you exit the station).

For more information please contact LouiseAshcroft@DepartureGallery.com, 07861 375101.