BayArt 6th June – 4th July 2009
Four established but very different artists - David Ferry, Mark Halliday, Louise Short and Emrys Williams – have each nominated several emerging artists to exhibit together in one show. All art stems from other art including art made in the past as well as art made in your own time and place. This show provides an opportunity for more established artists to reveal something of their particular interests and more directly, their respect for other makers of a younger generation. This show will demonstrate some aspects of this symbiotic relationship.
Alice Forward and Luke Pomphrey – Louise Short
‘Alice Forward creates sculptural works and interventions which often involve intense observation of the everyday world. Such close scrutiny results in transformative art works which bring attention to the peculiarities of certain actions or objects. As a student at UWIC Alice alerted me to a range of processes which frequently dealt with alternative notions of time which has become a further focus for my own practice. In the use and exploration of transient entities we occasionally share in the processes and dissemination of art in our studios in Bristol.
Performance Cooking is the main focus of artist Luke Pomphrey, and audiences are often participants in this process. The anticipation of flavour is the ultimate aesthetic. The occasion of mealtimes and social spaces has become an important genre in contemporary art which I often employ in my curatorial work at STATION.’ Louise Short 2009
Deborah Welch and Mary Nicholson – David Ferry
Rachel Bennett and Becky Whitmore – Mark Halliday
Jan Baker and Sharon Crew - Emrys Williams
‘In films, photographs, text and sculpture and assemblage Jan Baker presents us with an obsessive Beckett- inspired protagonist facing the elements in wild corners of Anglesey, game playing and metaphysically searching, producing texts and objects that try to hold on to something authentic despite impossible conditions. The process of the work is important and resultant objects have a rigour, minimal clarity and aesthetic resonance; sculptural elements are processed and recombined through film and photography.
Sharon Crew makes films that often include elements of animation and found objects as part of their production. In the film “Cake” she uses Prousts’ idea of the Madeleine cake (transposed to British sponge and marzipan) to play with ideas about memory. Her films arise out of extensive research, often esoteric, and create a personal world with visual wit and originality. They also play humorously with collaboration between filmmaker and a cast of volunteers, with the occasional voice- over from the director as she struggles to control the process of making art, massively failing to impose any pattern on her good natured but difficult family as they perform the same scene ad infinitum in front of her camera.’
Emrys Williams March 2009
6th June – 4th July 2009
Gallery Open Tues – Sat 12 – 5pm
BayArt, 54 b/c Bute St, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AF,
T: 029 20 650016,
E: bayart@tiscali.co.uk
