News and Events
* A new work on paper has been selected for the group exhibition 'The Golden Record'.
'The Golden Record - Sounds of Earth' is a unique cross platform/ cross festival project which is part of both The Edinburgh Art Festival and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Artists, comedians and filmmakers come together for a contemporary remake of the original Golden Record - a phonograph record launched into space in 1977, containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, in an effort to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrials.
Curated by Collective Gallery's Associate Producer Mel Brimfield, over a hundred artists have created new work to be shown in the gallery space alongside newly commissioned video works. There will also be a series of live comedy events to accompany the exhibition in which nine comedians will vie to be The Representative for the Human Race.
Exhibition Dates: 1 August - 13 September 2008
Opening Times: [August] Tue - Sun 11am - 6pm [September] Tue - Sat 12 - 5pm
Admission: Free
Cockburn Street Party: 31 July 6 - 9pm
Mel Brimfield: Curator's Talk 9 August 2pm
Sunday Satellites: Kids Activities: Sunday 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 31 August 12 - 3pm
Art Late in association with The Edinburgh Art Festival: 28 August 6 - 10pm
Comedians will deliver speeches on behalf of the Human Race - only one will
be included on the new Golden Record. Vote for your representative in these
late night husting events! Candidates include Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Robin
Ince, Simon Munnery and Pappy's Fun Club.
Venue: Pleasance Theatre | Queen Dome | Potterow | 1 Bristo Square | Edinburgh
Dates: Saturday 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 August
Time: Midnight to 1 am
Admission: £9/7.50 conc [2 August - preview £5 ]
Tickets available from:
Fringe Box Office www.edfringe.com 0131 226 0000
Pleasance Box Office www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh 0131 556 6550
Collective Gallery | 22-28 Cockburn Street | Edinburgh | EH1 1NY
Exhibition Dates: 1 August - 13 September 2008
Opening Times: [August] Tue - Sun 11am - 6pm [September] Tue - Sat 12 - 5pm
Admission: Free
For more info: 0131 220 1260 mail@collectivegallery.net
www.collectivegallery.net
The Collective Gallery are supported by The Scottish Arts Council and City of Edinburgh Council.
* New work on paper will be a part of the group exhibition 'It's Not Easy'.
Exhibition runs from July 24 to August 29, 2008 in Exit Underground at Exit Art New York City. Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York City, New York, Ny10018 USA. www.exitart.org
It’s Not Easy is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. Curated entirely through email submissions, this exhibition will contain image and text responses to the question: What does ‘green’ mean to you? The over 200 international works exhibited in 'It’s Not Easy' were chosen from almost 700 submissions that responded to the multiplicity of cultural, environmental and political meanings of GREEN.
It’s Not Easy is the second exhibition of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics),
a major new exhibition program and archive initiative in Exit
Underground that presents social and environmental issues and the way
artists respond to them. SEA Archive
will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will
be a searchable database for scholars and researchers. Central to the
mission of SEA is to provide a vehicle through which the public
can be made aware of this kind of work, to provide a forum for
collaboration between artists and ecologists and to inspire them to
continue the tradition of work that SEA presents.
* New painting on show in the exhibition 'Faith' at Primo Alonso 395 -397 Hackney Road, London E2 8PP. The private view is Thursday 6th March from 6 -9pm. The exhibition ends on the 13th April and the gallery is open Thursday - Sunday from 11am - 6pm or by appointment. Nearest tube is Bethnal Green (Central Line) and the private view will be part of the Time Out First Thursdays. For more information see www.primoalonso.com
* A short review/preview of the exhibition 'Faith' appears in the December issue of AN Magazine.
* Interview with Soraya Rodriguez, director of the Zoo Art Fair published in edition 26 of total:spec magazine.
* An article about Floating World and the artist books they publish appears in the November issue of AN Magazine. The artist book 'Hybrid' will be exhibited at RGAP - Small Publishers Fair. More details at www.rgap.co.uk
* New work on paper on show at 'Goldmembers' at The Embassy, Edinburgh. 15th September - 7th October 2007. More details available at www.embassygallery.co.uk
* New paintings on show now at Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax in the exhibition 'Faith'. 22nd September 2007 - 21st January 2008, private view Saturday 22nd from 1 - 4pm. This show will tour. Next venue will be Primo Alonso, East London early next year. More details available at www.deanclough.com and www.primoalonso.com
* 'Portent' included in the group show 'Salon 07' at Seven Seven Contemporary in East London.
* Interview with Armen Eloyan published in edition 23 of total:spec magazine. Upcoming pieces on Panic Attack! - Art in the Punk years and an interview with Peter McDonald.
* Review of David Thorpe's exhibition published in edition 22 of total:spec magazine. Available from 11th of June. More info at www.totalspec.com
* Examples of recent paintings can be seen in an upcoming group exhibition at Primo Alonso Gallery, London.
* New works on canvas added to the site.
* Exhibition with Floating World at the 10th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair at the University of Leeds on Friday 9th & Saturday 10th March. More info at www.floatingworldbooks.com
* The imagery in the artists' book Life and Death, will contribute to a series of lectures presented to the public later in the year about new directions in contemporary drawing.