DAVID COTTERRELL : MONSTERS OF THE ID
Feb 11 - Mar 31, 2012
Private view Sat Feb 11
Derived from Cotterrell's journeys to Afghanistan, this new work explores the contradiction between the abstraction of experience and the literal nature of documentation. Through image manipulation, staging, CGI and new projection techniques, the 'truth' of film and photographic imagery has been increasingly called into question over the last two decades. This work looks at the role of these new display techniques in defining the essence of contemporary events. The result is a body of work that comments beyond the media representation that most of us regard as a record of key current events.
 
The development of the exhibition has been supported through residencies with the Joint Forces Medical Group in Helmand province and civilian agencies in the northern provinces of Afghanistan enabled by Wellcome Trust, the RSA and the Philip Leverhulme Prize for research. Co-curated with Helen Sloan, SCAN.

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UNITED ENEMIES
Dec 1, 2011 - Mar 11, 2012
The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.
United Enemies looks at sculpture made by artists during the 1960s and 1970s - a time when the very idea and definition of sculpture was radically contested. The exhibition explores this highly fertile and experimental period to reconsider the differences, arguments and shared ideas that defined this distinctive period in British sculpture.
Featuring work by a wide range of artists - including Keith Arnatt, Clive Barker, Shirley Cameron, Anthony Caro, Angela Carter, Brian Catling, Helen Chadwick, Tony Cragg, Richard Long, David Dye, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, Bruce Lacey, Liliane Lijn, Roelof Louw, Leonard McComb, Bruce McLean, Paul Neagu, Carl Plackman, Wendy Taylor, and Bill Woodrow.

SHELAGH CLUETT : DRAWING IN SPACE
Dec 1, 2011 - Mar 11, 2012
Drawing in Space brings together sculptures, drawings, sketchbooks and photographic documentation of Cluett's work from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, when she was a student at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and first emerged on the London scene.
Cluett (1947-2007) was one of the few female sculptors in this period whose work was exhibited and achieved critical recognition. She taught at Chelsea School of Art, where she influenced generations of artists, leading the postgraduate sculpture programme from 1980 to 2007.

NICE STYLE : THE WORLD'S FIRST POSE BAND
Dec 14, 2011 - Feb 12, 2012

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HEATHER AND IVAN MORISON : THE BLACK CLOUD
May 21, 2011 - May 21, 2012
Heather and Ivan Morison have created a site-specific work titled The Black Cloud in the grounds of the gallery to mark the opening of The Hepworth Wakefield. Taking the form of an outdoor shelter, their work provides a multi-purpose space where visitors are encouraged to gather, relax, entertain and enjoy the waterfront location.

BEN RIVERS / DAVID THORPE / HEATHER & IVAN MORISON
Feb 11 - Jun 10, 2012
The Hepworth Wakefield presents the work of four leading contemporary British artists who examine the extraordinary beauty and detail of the natural world they also highlight the aberrant disorientation that occurs when the man-made and natural world collide. Together these artists take their cue from nature, replicating, recording the natural world and man’s place within it.

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JOANNA AUSTIN : ICARA,ICARA
Jan 27 - Mar 11, 2012
Icara,Icara is a reworking of the Icarus myth from the point of view of a suburban woman. The stages of Imprisonment, flight and fall are seen as a cyclical metaphor for the mechanism of her increasing self-awareness.
The darkened gallery space, housing a double-screen video projection and a mirror, will immerse the visitor. The disorientated visitor will not only watch but participate at the same time. This dual viewpoint is echoed in the partly autobiographical video of Icara, subject and object, who sees and is seen.

OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE : ARTISTS REMAKE THE TAROT
Feb 24 - Apr 21, 2012
The Tarot is a pack of playing cards originating in Italy in the late 15th Century. Used in most of Europe to play games, in the English-speaking world the tarot is generally associated with divination.
Seventy-eight artists, whose work encompasses a variety of formal, conceptual, expressionist, literary or design based approaches, have been asked to create a card for a contemporary tarot pack. Each artist has drawn a card from the classic Tarot de Marseilles deck, and has been invited to interpret it concisely through the lens of their own practice.
Slimvolume Poster Publication was initiated by Andrew Hunt in 2001 as a way for artists to develop their work within a strict format of a print edition and publication.
A Hayward touring/Focal Point Gallery exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London.

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HELEN CARMEL BENIGSON : PALM TREES AND POKER PLAYERS
Jan 26 - Mar 17, 2012
The James Hockey & Foyer Galleries at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, are delighted to collaborate with emerging performance and video artist Helen Carmel Benigson in her first solo UK exhibition titled: Palm Trees and Poker Players.
 
Curated by Christine Kapteijn, Palm Trees and Poker Players will bring Benigson’s hyper sensual, oversaturated work to a major university exhibition space. Through her online identity, alter ego Princess Belsize Dollar and Web 2.0, Benigson will present a dreamlike aesthetic for a new media savvy generation in which provocation borders on parody.

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JOHN MYERS
Nov 30, 2011 - Feb 5, 2012 FINAL WEEK

STUART WHIPPS
Nov 30, 2011 - Feb 5, 2012 FINAL WEEK

HAMISH FULTON
Feb 15 - Apr 22, 2012

SARAH BROWNE
Feb 15 - Apr 22, 2012

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CALLY SPOONER : COLLAPSING IN PARTS
An ongoing project
Collapsing in Parts is an eight month solo exhibition by Cally Spooner at International Project Space, examining the crisis of performing, progress and the loss of private life via eight chapters of writing and footnote events.

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ARTIST IN FOCUS : GAUDIER BRZESKA
Jan 14 - Apr 1, 2012
While we build the new Education Wing are presenting displays by artists from the collection and contemporary artists, beginning with Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Drawings, sculpture and archival material will give an opportunity to explore Gaudier-Brzeska in more detail, in particular looking at his Vorticist works.

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GRAYSON PERRY : VISUAL DIALOGUES
Feb 1, 2011 - Feb 12, 2012
This display features the gallery's two recently purchased artworks by Grayson Perry: a large ceramic vase Jane Austen in E17 and one of his first major etchings, Print for a Politician.
Co-curated by The Creative Consultants, a group of young people aged 15-18, and artist Jim Medway, the display uses film, text and unusual objects to make links between these exciting contemporary artworks and rarely seen examples of historic costume, prints and ceramics from our collections.

UNDER THAT CLOUD
Nov 19, 2011 - Apr 15, 2012
An exhibition of jewellery by 18 international artists produced in response to their experience of being stranded together in Mexico City in April 2010 under the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud.
Their enforced stay became an exciting opportunity to make new work inspired by their impressions of Mexico – the vibrant colours, the traffic chaos, the architecture, the ancient heritage, the music and the people.
The featured artists are: Caroline Broadhead (UK), Ramon Puig Cuyàs (Spain), Gemma Draper (Spain), Jürgen Eickhoff (Germany), Nedda El-Asmar (Belgium), Cristina Filipe (Portugal), Agnieszka Knap (Sweden), Benjamin Lignel (France), Jorge Manilla (Belgium/Mexico), Nanna Melland (Norway), Sarah O’Hana (UK), Jiro Kamata (Japan/Germany), Manon van Kouswijk (Netherlands/Australia), Lucy Sarneel (Netherlands), Karin Seufert (Germany), Janina Stübler (Germany), Tore Svensson(Sweden), and Andrea Wagner (Netherlands). Curated by Jo Bloxham.

MARK LECKEY
Feb 17 - Mar 18, 2012
The work of Mark Leckey will be the first exhibition as part of Manchester Art Gallery’s new collaborative programming relationship with the Serpentine Gallery.
Leckey won the Turner Prize in 2008 and his work encompasses sculpture, sound, film & performance. It also draws on his personal experiences, particularly his fascination with the Manchester dance music scene from his formative years spent in the North of England. The exhibition will include a series of live performances by Leckey and a new work created especially for Manchester.

IN TRANSLATION : WOMEN, MIGRATION AND BRITISHNESS
Feb 25, 2012 - Feb 1, 2013
The Empire Marketing Board poster collection represents one of the more challenging and fascinating areas of the gallery's collections.
Created during the 1920s and '30s to promote trade and understanding between Empire countries, the posters present an official view of the British Empire that, from today's perspective, is often uncomfortable. Around 200 of these posters were given to the gallery in 1932 as illustrations of the artists’ role in inter-war design. Yet despite the uniqueness of this collection, they have remained virtually unknown and unused until now.

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THE PERIPATETIC SCHOOL
Nov 25, 2011 - Feb 24, 2012
Itinerant Drawing from Latin America.
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DARIA MARTIN
Jan 20 - Apr 8, 2012
Daria Martin’s first major solo exhibition in a UK public gallery presents a selection of short 16mm films made over the last 10 years, including the premier of an ambitious new work, Sensorium Tests. Throughout this period, Martin has pursued a sustained enquiry into numerous pressing issues relating to film, art and culture, including voyeurs, avatars, artificial intelligence and magic.

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GRAHAM SUTHERLAND : AN UNFINISHED WORLD
Dec 10, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
Modern Art Oxford presents a collection of works on paper by British artist, Graham Sutherland. Curated by 2011 Turner Prize nominee, George Shaw, An Unfinished World is a reflective exploration of the lesser-known work of one of the most compelling artists of his generation.
 
The exhibition concentrates on Sutherland’s early Welsh landscapes from the 1930s, works created during his time as official WWII war artist, and after his return to Pembrokeshire in the 1970s.
 
George Shaw presents these works through the lens of a contemporary painter, describing them as ‘a lament to the passing and changing landscape, a monument to the earth itself’.
 
An Unfinished World brings together for the first time over eighty rarely seen works on paper from public and private collections across the UK.
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