http://www.artspaceonline.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:30:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Henry Moore is one of the most well known artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition focuses on his career from the 1920s to the early 1960s and challenges the familiar image of the artist. He emerged in the 1920s as a radical, experimental and avant-garde figure and was rapidly ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2011/10/henry-moore/ Starting from an idea from a German gallery, this exhibition explores the European dimensions of the lives of young people and proposes that Arts and culture can help children and young people explore and deal with their issues.   Artworks made by young people from Dortmund were displayed alongside those from ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2011/10/u-gallery-%e2%80%93-intercool/ 'I liked the idea of looking at a painting that you could not look at just from the front but had to move around.'  Sean Scully Sean Scully is an abstract painter. From the 1970s, he restricted his use of shape to lines, stripes, and blocks of colour and made massive ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2011/10/sean-scully-works-from-the-1980%e2%80%99s/ Suzan's main preoccupation is experimenting with both 2D and 3D materials, especially discarded resources. She recycles, transforms and customizes these materials, sometimes combining them with more predictable media such as paint, collage, textiles. Her studio, as a result, is more of a lab as she mixes the media. Combining culture, fashion and food ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/suzan-inceer/ Steve originally trained as a sculptor and now finds himself doing all sorts of different things that usually, but not always, end up in him making something. Steve is keen to develop educational work that challenges people to think differently and generate new ideas. He has extensive experience in working ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/steve-pool/ Ruth is a contemporary dance artist, interested in, and focused on, 'sited' and 'site-specific' work. Through this approach she is able to  bring dance to people who may not ordinarily experience it, for example, through creating choreography for a town square, a particular architectural building or a supermarket. Alongside her own ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/ruth-tyson-jones/ Ruth Fettis is a freelance artist, who has lived and worked in West Yorkshire for over 20 years. She has worked extensively with schools, community groups and galleries and exhibited across the region. She works in a range of media including printmaking, collage, drawing and painting, murals and illustration. Her main area for ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/ruth-fettis/ Nichola's work is based in drawing. She makes large-scale, layered pieces based on mantle-piece objects; scratchy abstracts made through the movement of her body whilst performing activities such as trampolining or cartwheeling; and huge, conceptual, wall based works with paint. In her education work, Nichola uses drawing to explore materials and techniques. ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/nichola-pemberton/ Louise has an interdisciplinary practice, using a wide range of media including paper, photography, print, artist books, textiles and found objects. Her recent work explores language in art, specifically the cultural relevance of animal idioms from non-English speaking countries. She has used this as a starting point to create a range ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/louise-atkinson/ Kathryn is a visual artist, producing mainly paintings, drawings, and collages. Rooted in observation, her work is illustrative in the sense that images have a strong narrative, although this narrative can be ambiguous and multi-layered. She is inspired by images found in old books, postcards, packaging and 'quotes' from and combine these ... http://www.artspaceonline.org/2010/10/kathryn-welford/