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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
Part of the Castlefield Gallery Associates programme of monthly events Continuing our 2020 Castlefield Gallery Associates theme of Worldbuilding, artist … Read more
THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT Bureau Gallery, Salford. See ‘more’ for directions to Bureau.
FREE ADMISSION – LIMITED CAPACITY – BOOKING REQUIRED. Refreshments provided.
Please email purescreen@castlefieldgallery.co.uk to book a place.
PureScreen #16: Beta Test is the third programme in the 2006/07 season of PureScreen artists’ film and video events.
This curated programme of new, international works includes animation and film techniques in exploring conventions of experimental and avant-garde performance and performative action.
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present new, site-specific work by t s Beall. Untitled Horses is a complex multi-media installation that examines the presentation of a singular event using multiple large-scale projections. The piece reflects Beall’s enduring interest in the perceptions and misperceptions afforded by the camera within a performative context. Untitled Horses has been developed together with composer Mary Bellamy.
N.B. The gallery closes for Christmas & New Year from 23rd Dec to 9th Jan inclusive
THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AT Bureau Gallery, Salford. See ‘more’ for directions to Bureau.
FREE ADMISSION – LIMITED CAPACITY – BOOKING REQUIRED. Refreshments provided.
Please email purescreen@castlefieldgallery.co.uk to book a place.
The second programme in the 2006/07 season of PureScreen artists’ film and video events is PureScreen #15: Making Up For Lost Time.
This curated programme of new international work explores cinematic aesthetics and collage through the use of super 8, 16mm and 35mm film and the role of archival and stock footage within contemporary film and video practice. It demonstrates artists’ current engagement with issues of appropriation, remixing and sampling, downloading, distribution, and ownership.
The curator of From Slingshot to Mega-ton Bomb, Colin Parker, will give a talk exploring the work from the exhibition in conversation with another artist from the show.
FREE ADMISSION – LIMITED PLACES – BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places
A talk by Dr. Ian Morison of Jodrell Bank Observatory.
To coincide with the exhibition From Slingshot to Mega-ton Bomb, this richly illustrated talk describes how our understanding of the Universe has increased over the centuries as we have had more sophisticated telescopes with which to observe it.
FREE ADMISSION – LIMITED PLACES – BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places.
THE SECOND OF AN ARTISTS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR PROGRAMME FOR ARTISTS WHO ARE BASED IN CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON, as part of the Cheshire County Council Training Programme.
Speakers: Catharine Braithwaite (Lethal Communications)
, Maddi Nicholson (Artist and Director of ArtGene) and
Helen Jones (Angel Row Gallery)
Venue: Mid Cheshire College, Hartford campus, Chester Road, Northwich, CW8 1LJ.
Please contact Castlefield Gallery on 0161 832 8034 or at events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk for further information or go to ‘more’ to download the booking form.
There are limited one to one surgeries with the speakers after the seminar, please see the booking form for more information.
THE FIRST OF AN ARTISTS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR PROGRAMME FOR ARTISTS WHO ARE BASED IN CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON, as part of the Cheshire County Council Training Programme.
Speakers: Debbie Kermode (Ikon Gallery Offsite), Reuben Henry and Karin Kilberg (Springhill Institute) and
Emilia Telese (Artist and Artists’ Networks Coordinator for a-n)
Venue: Mid Cheshire College, Hartford campus, Chester Road, Northwich, CW8 1LJ.
Please contact Castlefield Gallery on 0161 832 8034 or at events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk for further information or go to ‘more’ to download the booking form.
There are limited one to one surgeries with the speakers after the seminar, please see the booking form for more information.
“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advancement of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.” Theodor Adorno
Castlefield Gallery is proud to present From Slingshot To Mega Ton Bomb curated by Colin Parker consisting of an emerging group of 5 artists from Edinburgh; Colin Parker, Scott Laverie, Jamie Miller, Stephen Hunter and Paul Penrice.
FREE ADMISSION – BOOKING REQUIRED
To book please call the gallery on 0161 832 8034 or email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk with your contact details and number of places
To coincide with the exhibition Castlefield Gallery will be hosting a discussion exploring the themes of Making Love To My Ego. The intention is to consider the role of self-representation in contemporary art and the relationship between art and psychoanalysis. The panel will be chaired by Ian Parker, who has written one of the commissioned essays for the publication that accompanies the show. Panel members include Dawn Woolley & James Moore (Curators of Making Love to my Ego), Daniel O’Reilly (Artist) and Richard Dedomenici (Artist).