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The Stories We Tell

April 26th - June 27th 2008

Throughout May and June, Southwell Artspace will be profiling new contemporary artists working with the theme of the narrative, storytelling and history with a short sharp burst of three exhibitions.

Aylwin Lambert
Pop Hauntology
3rd May - 16th May

Pop Hauntology explores ideas about the present which are nostalgically based on the past.  Lambert plays with ideas about utopia and paradise to create a vision of the future.  Mechanical trees unearth fears of machines conquering nature, a sudden progress in technology during the post war years coupled with grand myths and legends contribute towards this compelling exhibition.

All welcome to the Opening Event of this exhibition, Saturday 3rd May 2008, 12noon to 2pm. There will also be an opportunity to meet the artist. 

Nicola Dale
Flashback
24th May - 6th June

With the closure of libraries, the popularity of e-books, and the internet, are we allowing books, and therefore the knowledge they contain to disappear? Dale’s books are painstakingly sculpted to look like fires, recalling book burnings witnessed throughout history, most infamously during the Second World War.  Nicola Dale has exhibited internationally and has work in many collections including The Tate, London. 

Join us for the Opening Event of this exhibition, Saturday 24th May 2008, 12noon to 2pm. There will also be an opportunity to meet the artist.

Geraldine Cox and Andrew Litten
Short Stories
14th - 27th June

Geraldine Cox and Andrew Litten collaborate in this contemporary take on personal and public narratives. Litten focus’s on an interior world, and what goes on behind closed doors beyond the mundane and ordinary.  His work often starts out with a scratch or a mark and spontaneously continues from there.  Cox meanwhile, is drawn to the exterior world, how modern life and its frenetic madness can affect us.  The resulting work is vibrant, funny and dark. 

Litten’s and Cox’s work is held in both corporate, public and private collections.  Litten has been heralded in the international press and is well established.  Cox graduated in 2004 and has shown her work in various spaces around London. A rare chance to see work from this dynamic couple in this thought provoking, intriguing and exciting exhibition. 

Join us for the Opening Event of this exhibition, Saturday 14th June 2008, 12noon to 2pm, where the artists would be happy to speak to you.

See Short Stories website for more information: http://www.shortstoriesshow.com

For further information on any of these exhibitions please email or telephone 01636 814 421.