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Freemantle / Bolhuis – ‘Collective Dreaming’
A sign of Summerhall’s potential in contemporary art programing is currently on show in a sleepy – but well worth hunting down – elbow of the vast arts and science complex. Resident visual artist Jonathan Freemantle (GR5) alongside long term friend and sculptor, Frode Bolhuis, exhibit an array of medium that although not obvious in terms of their physical curatorial adjoining, do very much become a force of mood and subconscious-led intrigue as you take in their work spread across the gallery and Freemantle’s studio.
Bolhuis’ 3D-printed, miniature furniture pieces and saturated human forms seize Freemantle’s deeply coloured, abstract paintings as if the latter’s are helping create backgrounds for the former’s incoming puppeteer productions. There is perhaps a more direct structural link between the sculptor’s wooden frame works and Freemantle’s flora-induced prism photography but any thought of a concerted collusion between the pair should be left at the door when you open your eyes to their very real dreams.
Corner Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
10th – 16th October, 10am – 6pm daily
Weekend reception & artist’s talk: Saturday 13th October, 2pm
Summerhall TV: http://www.summerhall.tv/2012/jonathan-freemantle-frode-bolhuis-collective-dreaming/
Art Spotter
We don’t do too much tech on the go reborn blog but this caught my eye. Looks like an interesting app for those who don’t keep on top of what’s going on exhibition wise local or further a field. Could be another of those ‘social apps’ but may be useful all the same.
ArtSpotter allows you to discover & engage with exhibitions, venues, and street art all over the world and explore what’s going on around you
Look out for our review of the app.
To download go to https://artspotter.com
The Middle Place
It’s been a while since venturing down to the Old Ambulance Depot but here’s good reason right here. Go Reborn’ers David Lemm (#GR5) and Jamie Johnson (#GR4), plus Al White, have produced work (across multiple forms) examining indigenous histories and cultures. The anthropological collaboration sees the team explore past rituals and tribal endeavours allowing us to be lead down a narrative that is somewhat reliant on a grand game of generational ‘Chinese whispers’, so to speak. What have we learnt and what truths do we still harbour (or indeed respect) from far flung ancestral ways, or are some of those practices worth their place in Room 101(?). The artists are ultimately allowing you to decide by deciphering their studies.
Old Ambulance Depot
Preview friday 4th May 7-9 pm
Open thereafter 5th – 13th May 12-5pm
The Machine Room ‘Camino de Soda’
Go Reborn exhibitor Jonathan Freemantle has filmed and directed this video for the Machine Room. Indeed lead singer John Bryden and Jonathan exhibited together at #GR5 and so it’s great to see yet more cross-pollination in artistic mediums.
The Machine Room play Limbo on Saturday 5th May
The Machine Room – Camino de Soda from the machine room on Vimeo.
Such & Such – ‘Full Stop’ launch night
Popped down to the opening of Full Stop early on Friday and was greeted with a small overspill on to the street. Great to see the space busy and the street having a hub of activity early on. Lots of different pieces from many of the local artists who have featured at Such in the past. I managed to get in 1 picture of mine calmly holding its own next to David Anderson’s muscly dude. On for 1 more week I think so get down if you’ve not had a chance to see it.
The exhibition will run from 13th – 29th January, before the space closes in February. Open 14th – 29th Jan, 12-5pm daily
Such & Such – ‘Full Stop’
Three jewellers and an illustrator have made a fine stab at Edinburgh’s continued DIY gallery renaissance over the last 18 months. Such and Such provided a calming, white-walled bastion for emerging artistic talent amongst the throngs and punches that Leith Walk’s boulevard could throw (you). Predominantly a space to showcase the work of the residents – Alex, Caroline, Dave and Charlie – they also threw open the doors to external collaboration and promotion; indeed as go reborn were fortunate enough to explore over a weekend in November 2010 at #GR4.
With one of the four Such and Such founders taking on new pastures over west they’ve decided, admirably, to re-group and start a new agenda later in the year rather than re-stock in the current premises. As a final send off at Brunswick Street a group show does doth its cap to the many creatives who have been involved along the journey.. a retrospective of sorts featuring:
Jessica Harrison, Rabiya Choudry, Ross Fraser Mclean, Jamie Johnson, Al White, Ben Seeley, Callum Monteith, Catherine Johnston, Rachel Barron, Judith Clark, David Anderson, Stuart McMorris, Kristen Orme, Alex Gibbs, Matthew Swan, Natalie Ryde and more TBC
The exhibition will run from 13th – 29th January, before the space closes in February. Open 14th – 29th Jan, 12-5pm daily
Preview Friday 13th January, 7-9pm
Hope to see you all there. And please, be punctual..
Repositioned – ‘One Hundred Pound Shop’
Four photographers have joined forces in creating Repositioned: an inclusive platform that will see the skills and experience of founders Michael Thomas Jones, Brian Sweeney, Christina Kernohan and Dominic Coccozza shared with emerging/established talent (of all mediums) through workshops, exhibitions plus the former’s promotional nuance.
Christina’s talents have long been on show through creative, polymath-stable LuckyMe and also on these pages with our 12 Month Town series.
First up, ONE HUNDRED POUND SHOP offers works from a pretty exceptional line-up of talent including David Harriman, Jonathan Cherry, Donald Milne, Niall O’Brien, Scott King, Mel Bles, Ewen Spencer, Heavenly Records, King Creosote, DN Anderson.. and all for purchase at the unifying price of a ton each.
Repositioned is at 1203 Argyle Street, Glasgow. G3 8TQ
Wednesday-Sunday, 11am till 6pm
Rachel Barron ‘Sequence’
go reborn’s first foray into exhibiting featured the intricate, left-field output of Rachel Barron. Gridded paper, geometrical patterns, pastel colours plus a box of personally over-heard quotes – that could have been produced from a recently liberated fortune-cookie factory – gave us a fascinating introduction to her art code. Her cartographical submission for #GR4 made us want to head out orienteering on a Tron circuit-board far drained of its neon.
This week she presents a pop-up workshop at Such & Such where visitors are invited to produce something of your own utilising her unique methods and instruments.
Workshops
Sunday 13th November 12-1.30pm / 2.30-4pm
Friday 18th November 12.30-2pm / 3-4.30pm
Opening reception – 7pm – 9pm, Friday 11 November
Exhibition runs – Saturday 12- Sunday 20 November (11am – 6pm weekends and 12 noon – 5pm weekdays)
Noir! #10 ‘A Christmas Fair’
We’re most excited that go reborn will be alongside so many allies at this amazing event. Summerhall promises to be such an important addition to the arts and creative spectrum in Edinburgh, so what better way to give the venue the profile (post festival) it deserves than by galvanising all the forward thinking independents (that help make this city much more than the Highland-doll theme park it can pander to) for one big shindig..?
More info here
Collective Gallery’s “Cold Town” view..
Here’s a piece I’ve put together on the Collective Gallery’s imminent move to Edinburgh’s City Observatory..
“From the southeast corner of Gayfield Square one can see Leith Walk’s curved avenues wending up to the bunched, silhouetted figures backlit on Calton Hill. During daylight they snake along the elevation, an assemblage of dark stoned historical structures as backdrop. This contour-cropped appreciation of the Acropolis (Lite) National Monument is, from this viewpoint point at least, mistakable for an unfinished motorway fly-over, with vista hunting lemmings perched perilously close to its edge. A rather morbid real time treasuring of the Athenian-nodding folly then, the pillars – having been designed by the New Town architectural demigod W H Playfair in the 19th century as a memorial to those fallen in the Napoleonic Wars – left starkly incomplete.”
Read the full article in The Leither 93 either in print or online here