Show Your Gestures
HaYoung Joo & Mia Chen
30th May-14th May
Thurs/Fri/Sat 12-5pm
Preview Wed 30th May 5-8pm
Bringing together two international artists from Korea and Taiwan. HAYOUNG JOO shows her video installations and photographs of tattooed bodies titled Change of Direction - Desire and she invites people to have temporary tattoos. MIA CHEN shows her video Paratoon and encourages people to have a Parapara dance. Their works have been inspired by their cultural encounters between the Eastern and the Western imageries.
Starting BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY! on until Thursday from 12 till 5:
Exploring the concept of the photographic studio Stephanie Ballantine will be producing portraits in theartmarket.
This installation/shopping centre studio will surprise, meditate, tense, involve and alienate.
theartmarket will be home to an Elichrome light, a soft box attached to it, a camera, a tripod, a shutter release, some film and a
photographer.
Come and get your portraits taken!
AN EXHIBITION AND SALE OF THE WORK WILL COMMENCE THE FOLLOWING WEEK!
Easter Saturday!
We have some activities lined up for you on this fine Easter bank holiday weekend…
Saturday 22nd March 12-5pm
Come do some collaborative painting with Toby Juliff as part of his ‘I don’t believe in painting’ exhibition. There will be a huge canvas to work on and paints available to use.
Also, there will be a special Easter Re-Toyed Trash sewing workshop making all things Easter-shaped out of fabric.
Wash this down with some cake and chocolate and it’s set to be a creative mini festival.
Everyone welcome!
Visitors to the exhibition experienced a different way of displaying paintings and were able to take away a copy of Toby Juliff’s essay.
Some of the paintings were installed with their painted side concealed by a wall, leaving visitors to admire the back or wanting to turn the paintings around.
Please Do Touch! Toby welcomed people to touch and rearrange the paintings if they wanted.
Don’t forget the collaborative painting event on Saturday 22nd March 12-5pm where everyone is welcome to come and paint a rather large canvas with Toby. Come down to theartmarket and slop some paint about.
‘I don’t believe in Painting’
An exhibition of recent paintings by Toby Juliff (an Art Historian who really should know better).
He doesn’t believe in Elvis.
He doesn’t believe in aliens.
He doesn’t believe in you and me.
He doesn’t believe in painting.
From his academic world of Art History there isn’t much that Toby Juliff believes in anymore. He paints, but he doesn’t believe in it. And it’s not just that he doesn’t believe in it, he’s not too sure that he even likes painting. But he does paint.
Toby Juliff is an Art Historian, a lecturer at The University of Leeds and Leeds College of Art Design. His PhD thesis is titled ‘The Impulse of Contingency’ and is critique of Modernist abstract painting. Juliff does not claim to be an Artist but he spends much of his time telling Art students why, in a contemporary art world of installations, videos and performances that they should not paint. Yet Toby Juliff paints. He really should know better.
theartmarket presents ‘I don’t believe in painting’ by Toby Juliff, a light-hearted exploration into the role of painting in contemporary art practice and the ways it is discussed within academic circles. Accompanying Juliff’s paintings is an audio collage of interviews with Artists and Art Historians, discussing the reasons why Artists shouldn’t paint. An essay written by Juliff will be available for visitors to take away. On Saturday 22nd March visitors are invited to a collaborative painting event called ‘Can you paint?’
Opening Times:
March 7th – 22nd 2008
12 - 5pm (Tuesday – Saturday)
Preview 6th March 6 - 8pm
Can you paint? (a collaborative painting event) Saturday 22nd March
Jonny enjoying tea and a donut
Sarah and Zoe recovering a stool with the material from a granny shopper
Our new zine stand looking pretty with new artists books and illustrations
And we’ve got new T-shirts in and vintage hairy moon boots
Vintage Fair
To kick off the 2008 artmarket fun times and get our creative juices re-flowing we’re having a crafty little pre-Valentines Vintage Fair. It will be a mix of theartmarket, RAG boutique and sexcloth vintage lines alongside local and international craft and art originals.
To start the loveball rolling we’re having a Stitch ‘n’ Bitch and Draw-In at the opening this Saturday 9th Feb 12-5pm with cake and tea buffet for sustenance.
Our new regular opening hours are Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm.
okeydoke see you soon!
Artgos
3-15 December 2007
This Christmas Artsparkle presents Artgos, a new catalogue store in the heart of Leeds’ shopping district! A collaboration between Artsparkle and theartmarket, Artgos will be selling work by big name artists alongside fresh talent working with multiples, those fabulous, affordable artworks that make such great stocking fillers. Come along to the catalogue shop for a unique shopping experience, see performance artists in full flow, and kick-start your contemporary art collection for as little as £1! If you can’t make it along to the shop itself, work will also be available to buy online at www.artgos.org.uk
A programme of talks and workshops will accompany Artgos.
Artsparkle is an artist-led organisation formed in Leeds in 2003 by Emma Bolland, Pippa Hale, Kerry Harker, Jon Wakeman and Karen Watson, with the aim of exploring the contemporary art market through the medium of artists’ multiples. Opportunities for artists to make new work are central to the project, which also aims to raise the profile of artist-led activity. Artsparkle organises a rolling programme of events, commissions and exhibitions, and collaborate with other multiples-focused organisations and groups in the UK, Europe and beyond.
theartmarket are Zoe Sawyer, Lil Adams, Sarah Barrett, Alicia Talikowska & Joe Mawson and have been based in the Merrion Market since December 2006. A gallery/ shop/ studio, theartmarket is an independent space housed within the cultural fabric of the city centre. It provides a peer support network and platform to showcase cross-regional emerging, emerged and re-emerging artists. Inviting a large community of artists, curators, press, and others involved in the art sector theartmarket increases footfall of audience members to a range of art activities including hands-on workshops. They also have a very good relationship with other members of the Market.
TO APPLY: send a brief statement, CV and a maximum of 6 images to Artgos, c/o Patrick Studios, St Marys Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH or artgos2007@gmail.com.
PLEASE NOTE: Multiples will be stocked on a sale or return basis with a 30% commission on sales (bear this in mind when pricing). Artsparkle is a not-for-profit organization.
To find out more, go to www.artgos.org.uk or email artgos2007@gmail.com.
Tags: art, Leeds, market, multiples, sale
Mike Fair 07
It is here! Just what you have all been waiting for! Hot young live artist Michael Burkitt returns from across the water with his unique brand of live art to launch Mike Fair 07. He will be initiating actions, events and interruptions in three spaces in Leeds City Centre. Work will be shown in association with Black Dogs’ addition to Light Night 2007, The 1032 Gallery and theartmarket, After Hours.
18 OCT THEARTMARKET, AFTER HOURS
BUY
BUY is the living catalogue of the latest art from Michael Burkitt. Occupied with how his work ends up in the ‘later on stages’ The Wrens will host the opportunity to engage and invest in seven of his recent live pieces, during the closing evening of Mike Fair 07. The dress code is formal and Mike Fair 07 merchandise will also be on sale and defaced in the course of the evening by Burkitt.
6pm - Closing
The Wrens
Merrion Street
Leeds
BUY is in association with theartmarket, After Hours.
ALL WELCOME
Tags: art, Leeds, live, night, performance
ADHDVideo2
Submit your brilliant very short films for…
ADHDVideo2 at theartmarket Friday 12th October 6pm-8pm.
A show videoworks for the audience with a short attention span.
As part of Light Night, theartmarket is putting on its second very short film night in the Merrion Market. All entries must suitable for the short attention span and no longer 3 minutes. If you haven’t already…
Submit your shorts today! - mov, AVI, quickitme, MPEG4 on disk by hand between 12-5 daily to theartmarket, Unit 7-8, The Merrion Market, The Merrion Centre, Leeds. Or post to theartmaket c/o 10 Buckingham Grove, Leeds, LS6 1DQ.
DEADLINE 1pm wednesday 10th October.
Please include titles and contact details.
The Really Super Market
Theartmarket had a stall at ‘The Really Super Market’ at centre square and MIMA garden, Middlesbrough on Saturday 22nd September 2007. The event was organised by Bob & Roberta Smith (’Make You Own Damn Art World’) in association with MIMA and the Dott07 festival.
The theme for the event was art and food so there was an array of great-tasting art and good-looking food (to quote S. Barrett). Visitors could vote which was best: art or food? As well as taking some of our original hand-made shop stock, we took along some fresh work made especially for the event by core artists Lil Adams and Sarah Barrett. Lil made jewellery with sweets, pasta tubes, cheese and shrunken crisp packets. Sarah created some cards, prints and a watercolour series of Bettabuy products.
RED for RED by Julie Fiala
Julie Fiala coming to theartmarket on Thursday 20th September: RED for RED…
Small World
theartmarket presents
SMALL WORLD
:a collaborative show by Edinburgh based artists
Wendy Donaldson and Paul Robert Penrice*
1st -14th September
Preview event 4-5pm Saturday 1st September
*in conjunction with The Miniature Artshow at 42 New Briggate
Creating two new worlds in the curious space of the Merrion Market:
Donaldson’s ‘Small World’ is an interactive artwork that allows the viewer to observe intimate scenes between characters in the form of photographs then searched for within the actual model. This gives the viewer the opportunity to put scenes into context and begin to create narratives and stories surrounding them. Made mainly from plasticine and comprised of five different `islands’ home to a number of tiny plastic and enamel painted people `Small World’ unites a childhood fascination with small toys, an interest in watching and observing people and the creation of a place to go, to detach from the intensity of the real world.
Penrice’s ‘Fridge’ is indicative of his practice which looks at our contemporary existence through exploring the identity of his childhood home, a ‘new town’ which developed in the 1970’s. Through drawing and sculpture he builds imaginary worlds that combine classical imagery with modern life. Like ‘Small world’ his work distorts reality creating juxtapositions where the past and present meet.
Visit both shows and have a miniature adventure! A path will be outlined between the two venues by our little helpers to ease your journey.
Social Club dinner
I have discovered some photographs here from the Social Club dinner at Patrick Studios for Situation Leeds 05 07, taken by Jonathan Turner. Zoe, Joe, Lil and Anna from theartmarket collaborated with East Street Arts to create the event that saw beautifully attired people climbing ladders, making dens and thrones, wafting incense, mood-making, and then enjoying a dinner at the end.
Photograph by Jonathan Turner 2007
Draw Lots opening night
The opening night of Gareth Brew’s Draw Lots exhibition began at theartmarket and then continued down the road at Patrick Studios project space, and saw the return of Social Club. For those walking between the two venues and unsure of the way to walk, Sarah chalked out the path way on the pavement to Patrick Studios.
Draw Lots by Gareth Brew
New exhibition alert: ‘Draw Lots’ with a special late night double opening on Thursday 16th August. Come and check out the exhibition at theartmarket from 6pm, collect your free beer tokens, follow the walking people to Patrick Studios and receive a free beer at East Street Art’s Social Club whilst enjoying more of Brew’s work, open until 10pm. For a sneaky peak at Gareth Brew’s drawings, look here.
And collaborative drawing session: ‘Draw In’, drawing implements will be provided
Exhibition photos
Currently we have Jonny Fryer’s exhibition ‘hand me please, an ocean’ at theartmarket. Come down and check out his photography and text, until 13th August.
Hand me please, an ocean
Just to let you know there’s something new arriving at theartmarket: artist and musician Jonny Fryer (onward the indian) shall be exhibiting a collection of his photography and texts. It has been named ‘hand me please, an ocean’.
Jonny was last seen at theartmarket during Situation Leeds performing a live sound installation, utilising digital and analog instruments and sound samples from theartmarket space. Jonny has previously performed/exhibited at the following venues across Leeds: the Bunker, the Brudenell Social Club, the Holy Trinity Church and he is soon to perform at a sold-out show at the Victoria Hotel.
