‘The Meaning of Life for 25 Frames’ by Ashley Dean

Opening Night Thursday 3rd July

This Friday evening come to our TAKE STOCK closing event. View the lots, place a bid, listen to live music and enjoy some chili. Everyone welcome.

Thanks to everyone who came down to check out the show. We enjoyed coffee and cake courtesy of Opposite Cafe, thank ye muchly.

We got to meet George Booth and David Cotton who set up the Something Visual website, a new arts magazine, with Lucy Dunn. They have a great listings for all the galleries and art spaces in Leeds and a regularly updated calender of events. Our Sarah was interviewed for the show, go check their website.

There are thousands of postcards (far to many to count) to root through and the categories range from foreign language to fine art, children’s to humorous. Some of our postcards date back to the 1930’s, so rather vintage!

We have a hammock full of ‘Free Pile’ goods, you need to buy one of our hand hand-printed bags or a paper bag and fill it with whatever you fancy from our hammock.

Illustration work by Jay Cover.

Place your bids!
Here’s a sneak peak of some of our exciting treasures: a vintage Beatles poster and baseball bat. We are taking silent bids throughout the two weeks of the show and then are having a live auction during our closing event on 27th June. Come down and place a bid.

ALSO…
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

As a non-profit space theartmarket is supported by a network of volunteers. We are currently looking for enthusiastic, reliable and creative individuals who would like to get involved with show installation, invigilation, workshops and manning the shop either during the course of TAKESTOCKPILE or in the summer.

To apply please send a short statement expaining why you’d like to get involved and what relevant experience you might have, along with contact details and availability to theartmarket.leeds@gmail.com

For more photos from the event, see our Flickr photos

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCCdh5vhM

www.joohayoung.com

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!

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