SYLVIA SCHWENK // Croydon International Film Festival and the 13th In the Palace International Short Film Festival

Sylvia Schwenk, Water ways, (6 minute loop ) 

 

Congratulations to Sylvia Schwenk whose latest film Water ways will be screening at two film festivals over the coming weeks: the Croydon International Film Festival in London on 28 November 2015; and the 13th In the Palace International Short Film Festival in the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria, from 8 to 13 December 2015. 

Water ways is a visual documentary that transports us into the lives of a community living on the rivers in Indonesia. The film shows a slice of everyday life, starting with a group of children playing in the wash of the boat; and a tangle of boats that ultimately leads us to the main protagonist of the film, an older woman who shares her point of view with us. This woman absorbs the details of life around her from the edge of a timber yard, as she completes her morning rituals. She takes us into her world, a textured and fascinating place that we are invited to experience.

Sylvia has also been invited to exhibit two of her films, A shared space and Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty as part of a group exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Entitled Outer space and curated by Adam Porter, the exhibition utilises the idea of space as a metaphor to explore the limits and agency of the physical body and human existence within the physical environments. 

A shared space is a visual documentary that gives a rare insight into what happens before and after a funeral service. The film opens on a graveyard on a beautiful serene sunny day. Grave diggers are working in a quiet, harmonious way preparing a grave for a burial. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining - but all is not as it seems.

Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty is a mesmerising film of a man the artist invited to perform in a maximum security prison. The man dances with a lawnmower to the music of a harrowingly beautiful waltz, in an area surrounded by perimeter fencing, alarmed fences, and razor wire.

Outer space will run from 5 December 2015 to 7 February 2016 at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.

ARTEREAL GALLERY IS EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE NOW REPRESENT BEN ALI ONG

Ben Ali Ong_Nyctophilia 13_2015_Archival inkjet pigment print_Edition of 3_29.5 x 37 cm

Artereal Gallery is excited to announce that we are now representing Ben Ali Ong. Ben Ali Ong is a Sydney based artist working predominantly across photography, video and mixed media. Choosing to work solely in black and white, his brooding photographs are defined by their use of dream-like imagery and explore recurring universal themes - life and death, the poetics of every-day existence, the pain and suffering of the human condition contrasted with the beauty and mystery of the urban environment and the natural world. 

Often blurry, grainy and scratched – Ong’s pictorial choices appear to be made completely at random, creating a disjointed and surreal narrative... Preferring the artworks to speak for themselves, Ong presents them in a manner that allows the viewer to construct their own meanings and interpretations, in order to achieve a state of self-reflection. This idea is concurrent throughout all of Ong’s works and is inspired by Surrealist film and writing. The notion of the artwork being an open-ended fragment with multiple arrangements as well as the potential to convey a subconscious, or spiritual source.

The inherent allure of Ben Ali Ong’s practice stems from the psychological pull which draws the viewer into each work. Ong’s work has an underlying sense of anguish and sorrow (perhaps even horror) which clings to these black and white photographs. The shadowy, brooding drama and chiaroscuro of the artist’s work captures the delicate interplay between lightness and darkness in a way which acts as a visual metaphor for the vagaries of human existence; alluding to the idea that the beauty and fragility of life are inseparable from the horror and sorrow which accompany it. The resulting emotional pull resonates with and touches some deep inner core which resides within all humanity, transporting us away from our everyday existence. In this way, Ong’s photographs and video works, which are at once both beautiful and frightening, achieve a timeless, unknown, almost half forgotten quality or existence which touches upon ideas of life, death and morality.

Ben is currently showing work as part of Decisive Moments, a photography exhibition at Contact Sheet gallery - as reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Mosman Daily...

LIAM BENSON // 'OVER VIEW' TRAVELLING INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VIDEO ART

Image: Liam Benson, He Looks Just Like His Mother, 2012, HD Video, 2 mins 3 seconds

OVER VIEW
8 countries | 8 curators | 47 artists | 8 exhibitions | 240 minutes of film

Sydney-based inter-disciplinary artist, Liam Benson, has been selected for inclusion in Over View Travelling International Festival of Video Art, a film and video art project initiated in the Netherlands. 

Over View provides a spectrum of global visions from a compendium of artists, curators and countries and allows audiences to gain an ‘over view’ of creative practices in the world right now. Curators from participating countries have each composed a 30-minute screening program of contemporary moving image works from key artists in their homelands. The result is a significant collection of audio-visual ‘portraits’ from Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Egypt, Hong Kong, Mali, USA, and The Netherlands. 

The inaugural Over View festival commenced a world tour in 2014 and will now travel to Sydney during November 2015 for its Australian premiere. Presented by dLux Media Arts and UNSW, the Australian premier of Over View is curated by Sarah Vanderpeer from dLux Media Arts and opens  on Friday 6 November at UNSW Galleries. 

Sarah Vandepeer has curated a thirty minute program of video works to the theme of ‘what’s on’, in reference to current tendencies and dialectics in Australian contemporary art. Seven important emerging and established Australian artists have been selected: LIAM BENSON, JULIA DAVIS, JOHN A. DOUGLAS, NIKKI LAM, TONY LAWRENCE, LIAM O’BRIEN, NICOLA WALKERDEN.

Over View can be seen at UNSW Galleries from 6-7 November 2015.

IS THIS ART?

Rose Jurd_Sparks Fly (video still)_2014_digital video with sound_4:08 minutes

 Brooke Carlson_Read Me (video still)_2015_digital video with sound_3:55 minutes

Angus Ware_Print Media (video still)_2015_digital video with sound_5:12 minutes

IS THIS ART?

PRESENTED BY DLUX MEDIAARTS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARTEREAL GALLERY

WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 FROM 5-8PM

5pm: Join us for champagne & refreshments 

and the chance to view our current group exhibition Future Process.

5.45pm: Panel discussion on sustainable collecting and video art

7pm: IS THIS ART? screening program

Artereal Gallery and dLux MediaArts are proud to present the fifth instalment of IS THIS ART? A ground breaking quarterly screening program of moving image works, IS THIS ART? aims to link art audiences with exciting new works by emerging creative practitioners. Viewers will be presented with curated programs of student works, drawn from the disciplines of film, video art and other time-based mediums. 

The quarterly event will also incorporate video artworks by established contemporary artists from the Artereal stable. Audiences will benefit from an opportunity to revisit well-known and new works by established contemporary Australian video artists, as well as discover the latest works by emerging practitioners.

To coincide with this screening, we are proud to announce the IS THIS ART? Emerging Writers' Program. For the first time, our August screening will see the exhibiting artists paired with emerging writers; to launch new work and contribute to a dialectic around emerging video art practices in Australia, advancing the national profile of this expanding platform. The Program makes its debut with a catalogue featuring essays prepared by Chloé Wolifson, Claire Dalgleish and Megan Willoughby.

Artists include in the screening program are: Rose Jurd, Josh Harle, Angus Ware, Danielle Zorbas, Brooke Carlson, Ellen Formby and Simon Bare. To be shown alongside a video work by Artereal Artist Owen Leong.

IS THIS ART? is curated by Alex Sutcliffe of dLux MediaArts and is a Rozelle Contemporary Art Precinct initiative. 

LIAM BENSON // Selected for inclusion in Over View Travelling International Festival of Video Art

Image: Liam Benson, He Looks Just Like His Mother, 2012, HD Video, 2 mins 3 seconds

Sydney-based inter-disciplinary artist, Liam Benson, has been selected for inclusion in the inaugural Over View Travelling International Festival of Video Art, a film and video art project initiated in the Netherlands. 

Presented by dLux Media Arts and UNSW, Over View is curated by dLux Media Arts’ Sarah Vanderpeer and opens Friday 6 November at UNSW Galleries. 

The Sydney instalment of Over View includes the work of Liam Benson, Julia Davis, John A. Douglas, Nikki Lam, Tony Lawrence, Nicola Walkerden and Liam O’Brien. 

During August 2014, Over View previewed internationally at the Open Air Festival De Kaaij in the Netherlands as a compendium of global visions by video artists from eight participating countries.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS // IS THIS ART?

Are you an emerging or student video art filmmaker or writer?

dLux Media Arts and Artereal Gallery would love to feature your work in our IS THIS ART? screening in August.

Submissions close Friday, 3 July.

TULLY ARNOT // Reviewed by Blouin Artinfo

Earlier this month, Blouin Artinfo's Nicholas Forrest visited Artereal Gallery to view our current solo exhibitions from Liam Benson and Tully Arnot. 

This week, his review of Tully Arnot's 'Trace Etc' was published on Blouin Artinfo, which you can read either on their website here or below.

Saturday 28 March is the last day to view solo exhibitions from Liam Benson and Tully Arnot at Artereal Gallery.

REVIEW: Tully Arnot “Trace Etc.” at Artereal Gallery, Sydney

Tully Arnot’s exhibition “Trace Etc.” at Artereal Gallery in Sydney showcases the depth and scope of the up-and-coming Sydney-based artist’s intriguing and innovative practice. Continuing his ongoing interrogation of the way humans interact with technology and each other, Arnot investigates the increasingly contested space between virtual reality and reality itself, while at the same time uses humour to explore the absurdity of the human race’s obsession with technology.

At the basis of the works in “Trace Etc.” is a variety of motifs, phenomena, and concepts which Arnot has extracted and isolated from cyberspace and then reimagined in the “real” world as a group of poetic, innovative, and engaging interventions that strike the perfect balance between humour, seriousness, and aesthetics. The exhibition comprises a number of sculptural works as well as a video piece, which together evoke a range of sensations from déjà vu to anxiety to fascination.

“Cursor” is one of the simplest yet most effective and elegant works in the exhibition. As the title suggests, Arnot has reinterpreted the computer cursor as a relatively low-tech kinetic sculpture. Upon entering the exhibition space, visitors are confronted with a plastic cut-out of the cursor symbol which rotates in mid-air with the aid of a small motor. At once uncanny and disruptive, “Cursor” creates the illusion that the exhibition is being viewed through a computer screen.

In the gaming world, the realism of the grass is a key indicator of the quality of a virtual environment. “Meadow (IRL)” reimagines the virtual grass of a game environment using fluro-green plastic straws which are animated by rotating solar display fans. It is a strangely hypnotic installation that although absurd is no more absurd than the pursuit of the perfect virtual representation of the natural environment.

Arnot’s “Nervous Plant” series is perhaps one of his best known bodies of work. Each of the artificial plants in the “Nervous Plant” series are activated using servo motors which are controlled by a light sensor that slows or stops the movement when its light source is blocked, whether it be from a shadow or the shutting off of the lights. The “Nervous Plant” works are a witty yet poignant reminder of just how blurred the boundary between the real and virtual world is becoming.

With the video work “Thoughts of absence, absence of thought,” Arnot has removed all the dialogue from a recently filmed interview, leaving only pauses, breaths, and sighs. The glitchy remnants of the interview could be interpreted as the effects of a virus of bug. Curator Rhianna Walcott explains that the work “examines the subtle traces which a steady stream of constantly evolving technology is leaving on the human psyche and the way in which we see and interact with the world.”

In the words of the artist himself, “Trace Etc.” is a “a suite of new works exploring different notions of trace – from residues, to transitional artefacts, to formal delineations of pathways. ‘Trace Etc.’ develops on my investigations into the blurring between digital reality and real life, and the tensions between CGI/Artificial Intelligence/robotics/etc., and more organic or natural elements.”

Tully Arnot “Trace Etc.” is at Artereal Gallery in Rozelle until March 28.

SHOUFAY DERZ // 'Depart without return (pt.2)' on show at Art Stage Singapore 2015

Image: Shoufay Derz, I am death destroyer of words, Giclee print on archival cotton rag, custom made cedar frame, stained natural indigo, Camera work assisted by Caterina Pacialeo, 104 x 111 cm

Australian artist Shoufay Derz's video work, 'Depart without return (pt.2)' is currently showcased in the Video Platform '15, which has opened at Art Stage Singapore 2015, between 22-25 January 2015.

The program of 51 single-channel video works, shown across 8 screens, has been curated by Australian gallerist Paul Greenaway OAM, director of Adelaide's Greenaway Art Gallery.

Speaking with Blouin Artinfo, Greenaway commented, "Video Platform '15 follows no other premise than to allow a platform to survey what is currently happening, predominantly through younger artists working in the medium of video. We will find nonetheless that several of them converge in the complex field of 'human condition' as an area of exploration."

Speaking about the Depart without return series, Shoufay Derz commented, "“The Depart without return series is a personal reflection on death and the meaning of emptiness. The elegiac photographs are both a lament on the transience of life and a celebration of its mystery. Intensely process-driven, elemental and alchemical, this work harnesses the life cycle of silk moths and pure indigo pigment. Derz is interested in how absence is articulated through marks of presence and how the visual artist uses the known to depict the unknown just as the writer uses words to express the ineffable.”

Shoufay Derz work joins those by a host of international artists including Santiago Sierra (Spain), Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba (Japan/Vietnam), Ivan Navarro (Chile), Angela Tiatia (Samoa), Hiroko Okada (Japan), Martin Lorenzo de Mesa (Philippines) and Shambhavi Kaul (India).

Art Stage Singapore is at Marina Bay Sands from January 22-25 2015.

IS THIS ART?

Luschia Porter with Andy Dexterity and Justina Grubski_Weather You Realise_2014_digital video including animation_2min 35 seconds

IS THIS ART?



Presented by dLux MediaArts



In association with Artereal Gallery



Wednesday 1 October
 from 6 - 8pm


Artereal Gallery and dLux MediaArts are proud to present the third instalment of IS THIS ART? A ground breaking quarterly screening program of moving image works, IS THIS ART? aims to link art audiences with exciting new works by emerging creative practitioners. Viewers will be presented with curated programs of student works, drawn from the disciplines of film, video art and other time-based mediums. 
 


The quarterly event will also incorporate video artworks by established contemporary artists from the Artereal stable. Audiences will benefit from an opportunity to revisit well-known and new works by established contemporary Australian video artists, as well as discover the latest works by emerging practitioners.



The line up of artists for the third instalment of IS THIS ART? includes: Mathew Morrison, Laura Turner, Amanda Seddon, Daniel Green, Tessa Rex, Bryden Williams, Justin Harvey, Luscia Porter, Celeste Juliet Aldahn, Matt O Lucas and Sylvia Schwenk.
 
IS THIS ART? is curated by Rhys Votano of dLux MediaArts and is a Rozelle Contemporary Art Precinct initiative.

 For further information on this event please click here.

GLEN HENDERSON / THE GREVILLEA VARIATIONS

Glen Henderson has been invited to screen her new media work The Grevillea Variations at Federation Square in Melbourne. A moving image artwork, The Grevillea Variations, provides an inventive colourful celebration of Australian Native Flora. The quirky, funny, and beautiful portraits of one of Australia's beloved native flowers is celebrated against her interpretative sculptural formations and surface patterning. 

The Grevillea Variations present a spectacular visual journey. The inspiration is taken from the unique personalities of 18 different varieties of Grevillea, forming motifs on the botanical names - Kennedyana, Chrithmifolia, Paradoxa, Sericea, Thelemanniana, to name a few.

Many of the Grevillea blooms were photographed by Sandra Neale within Myall Park Botanic Garden, west of Brisbane in the Western Downs region. It has one of Australia’s oldest collections of arid and semi-arid native plants. Other photographs are from Brisbane and other areas within Eastern Australia.

The Sculptural forms, the abstractions and the surface patternings were inspired by Glen Henderson’s interest in nature’s geometry and created from various materials in response to the immense variety of Grevillea formations. Myall Park Botanic Garden, the inspiration of David Gordon Myall Park Botanic Garden the inspiration of David Gordon A.M. in the 1940’s, is a natural bush garden and a destination for botanists, gardeners, photographers, artists and bushwalkers.

The Grevillea Varations continues on The Big Screen at Federation Square in Melbourne until 13 September. In Sydney The Grevillea Varations can be seen on The Concourse Urban Screen in Chatswood until 31 October.

For further information on Glen Henderson visit: www.glenhenderson.com

OWEN LEONG HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED AS A FINALIST IN THE THIRD ASIA PACIFIC BREWERIES FOUNDATION ART PRIZE

Owen Leong_Infinite Love_2011_HD video_duration 6:18 minutes_edition of 5 + 1 AP

We are beyond thrilled for Owen Leong, who was this week announced as the only Australian to be shortlisted as one of 15 finalists of the AsiaPacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize 2014 for his work Infinite Love. 

This December, Owen will present a solo exhibition of his work at Artereal Gallery, taking place 3-20 December 2014.

As the only Australian artist to be shortlisted, Leong’s work was selected from 105 nominated artworks from 24 countries and territories. Now in it’s third instalment, the prize seeks to recognize the most outstanding contemporary artwork from both emerging and established artists from the Asia Pacific.

“I am thrilled to be selected as a finalist for the Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2014, and to be in the company of some of my favourite artists from the Asia-Pacific region is a huge honour,” said Leong.

Leong’s work, Infinite Love, is a performance work that explores the body as a physical site for social, cultural and political forces in relation to the artist’s Asian Australian identity.

His exhibition at Artereal Gallery this December will showcase old and new work from the artist’s wide oeuvre spanning over ten years and disciplines that include video, photography and sculpture, exploring the body as a physical site of exchange for social, cultural and political forces.

A statement from the prize’s jury panel stated, “The finalist works stood out for their strength of concept and execution and despite stemming from such diverse contexts, histories and cultural backgrounds, cleverly explored similar issues of identity, immigration, urban expansion, depletion of natural resources, fading of old values, cultural diversity and more.”

Owen Leong’s exhibition at Artereal Gallery will open Wednesday 3 December at 6:00pm and will be on display until Saturday 20 December 2014.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / 'IS THIS ART?' SECOND SCREENING PROGRAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH DLUX MEDIA ARTS

'IS THIS ART?'

Second Video Screening Program

Presented by dLux MediaArts in association with Artereal Gallery

Wednesday 6 August 2014, from 6-8pm

Artereal Gallery and dLux MediaArts are proud to present the Second Screening of IS THIS ART? - a quarterly screening program of moving image works, curated by Rhys Votano of dLux MediaArts.

This program will link art audiences with exciting new works by emerging creative practitioners and will incorporate video artworks by established contemporary artists from the Artereal stable. Audiences will benefit from an opportunity to revist well-known and new works by established contemporary Australian video artists, as well as discover the latest works by emerging practitioners.

For students and emerging artists, this will be a valuable professional development opportunity, providing a rare opportunity to gain exposure for their works in a formal gallery environment, and to exhibit alongside well-known Australian artists.

IS THIS ART? is a Rozelle Contemporary Art Precinct initiative.

For further information on this event please click here.

VIDEO INTERNSHIP POSITION AVAILABLE AT ARTEREAL GALLERY

The opportunity is available for an ongoing video internship at Artereal Gallery. The successful applicant will work with the Artereal team approximately 3 days a month. The successful applicant will work on video projects including artist interviews and the documentation of exhibition installations / openings.

Click here to view a video made by our previous video intern (Lachlan Nicholls) documenting Ken + Julia Yonetani's 2012 Crystal Palace Exhibition.

The successful candidate must be someone with a proven interest in film making or contemporary visual arts and who is currently pursuing a career in these areas. Experience is not necessary however previous study or involvement with the arts, in particular film making will be looked upon favourably. Current Fine Arts or Film students with an interest in video work are also encouraged to apply. (Please note that applicants will need to have access to their own filming equipment and editing software).

Benefits of this position include attending fun opening nights, a location only ten minutes from the city centre and a personalised reference which can be added to your CV and portfolio.

The candidate should ideally be available to work flexible hours including night time exhibition openings. If you are interested in this position please email a brief CV and cover letter along with your contact details to: rhianna@artereal.com.au

SYLVIA SCHWENK / NAVAL NOVELLA

Sylvia Schwenk_Navel Novella_2013_10:00 min duration_video still

Congratulations to Sylvia Schwenk whose video work Naval Novella has been selected as a finalist in the 38th Alice Art Prize at the Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs. The exhibition will run from 9 May - 15 June 2014. Naval Novella has also been selected for the 12th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, in Bulgaria. The festival will take place from 28 June to 4 July 2014.

Naval Novella by Sylvia Schwenk is a clever film with interviews, physical workouts and anecdotes presented as a revealing and engaging video work.

The work demystifies the Navy breaking down some of the barriers that exist between Defence personnel and civilians. The video shows the human side of the Navy uniquely allowing people to access a closed culture in an inviting way. The work is anchored by the naval tradition of tattoos and gruelling physical training done with ‘the rope’, a symbol of union, mateship and stability. Short stories by people who talk about their tattoos or their lack thereof are intertwined throughout the work.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / 'IS THIS ART?' SCREENING PROGRAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH DLUX MEDIA ARTS

From May this year, dLux Media Arts will be partnering with Artereal Gallery to show a quarterly screening program of moving image works, curated by Rhys Votano of dLux Media Arts.

Titled – IS THIS ART? each program will push the boundaries of art as we know it. Themed screenings of student works will be drawn from the disciplines of film, video art and other screen based moving image works.

This program will link art audiences with exciting new works by emerging creative practitioners and will incorporate video artworks by established contemporary artists from the Artereal stable. Audiences will benefit from an opportunity to revisit well-known and new works by established contemporary Australian video artists, as well as discover the latest works by emerging practitioners.

For students and emerging practitioners, this will be a valuable professional development opportunity, providing a rare opportunity to gain exposure for their works in a formal gallery environment and to exhibit alongside established and well known Australian contemporary artists who are represented by Artereal.

Join us for the inaugural screening program at in the outdoor space, Artereal Gallery carpark on Wednesday 7 May 2014. Artists to be announced soon!

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS: We want you! Create a work, write a 250-500 word artist statement and email your bio to submissions@dlux.org.au

FRANCIS THORBURN AT THE BWA WROCLAW, POLAND

 Francis Thorburn performance, Wroclaw, Poland 2012.

 Francis Thorburn performance, Wroclaw, Poland 2012.

Francis Thorburn's work, Fiat 126 MK DRP1800 18202764, recently took place as a performance and procession in Wroclaw, Poland as part of an artist in residency position and subsequent solo exhibition at the BWA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw.

The performance began by leaving from a Tram Depot on Kwiska street on a Tuesday afternoon. Concieved to coincide with Poland's "work day" - the piece involves the transformation of a classic FIAT 126p car into a man powered vehicle. The performance involved twelve men pushing the sculpture through Wroclaw city center ending at the Awangarda gallery. The work is in part inspired by what the artist decribes as "bohimian chad".

Francis' work is also included in an exhibition entitled Les Fleurs du Mal - New Art From London - an exhibition which has been organised as part of OUT OF STH vol 3. at the BWA. OUT OF STH vol. 3 is yet another stage of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning projects: External Artists. Out of Sth (2008) and OUT OF STH Presents (2010), carried out in BWA Wroclaw and city space. The former showed world urban art in the context of gallery approaches to contemporary art, the latter presented the most original examples of artists interfering in city space. This time the project includes exhibitions, realizations and activities concentrating on the issue of the City in its social and political dimension, City as a source of counter-cultural and alternative aspects of street activism, whose idea annexes new spheres of culture.

OUT OF STH vol. 3 is a multi-layered interactive event aiming to change the perception and co-existence of art in city space, within the trends of contemporary visual art, through the presentation of a spectrum of aesthetics, techniques and media, as well as its permeation into mass design. It is a broad presentation of the work of artists tackling urban themes, a new definition and function of the city, common public space, urban design, complimented by music events, performances, meetings, workshops and lectures, during which the artists will be sharing their visions of the city and its unique aesthetics. This art has gone beyond the gallery space and has drawn the attention of much of the wider world, far beyond counter culture. 

OUT OF STH vol. 3 is comprised of two exhibitions in Awangarda Gallery BWA Wroclaw (

Les Fleurs du Mal – New Art From London and Free Ride Art Space)

as well as realizations and international activities within the framework of the project’s experimental city space. Exhibiting artists include: kennardphillipps, John Russell, Tod Hanson, Max Reeves, Laura Oldfield Ford, Francis Thorburn, Edwin Burdis, Clunie Reid, The People Speak /Talkaoke, Emily McMehen, Kieron Livingston and Ian Allison. Curated by Cedar Lewisohn.

Francis Thorburn was born in 1985 in Wolverhampton, UK. He studied Sculpture at the Camberwell College of Arts, London. Thorburn has exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, most notably as a guest at the Folstone Triennial in 2011. His works have been commissioned by both the Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries and has recently undertaken an artist in residency position and subsequent solo exhibition at the BWA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland.

Artist sketches and video works by Francis Thorburn including Free Ride, Raft, Vehicle Number 2 (tricycle) and Plank can be viewed in the Artereal stockroom.