Call For Artists: Craft in the Bay Summer Show: Focus on Print

REACT Funding for Creative Projects

REACT is a collaboration between the UWE, Bristol (the University of the West of England), Watershed, (and iShed), and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. It is a unique collaboration supporting innovative products and transformational services by bringing together companies and academics across South West and Wales. REACT funds collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and creative companies. These collaborations champion knowledge exchange, cultural experimentation and  the development of innovative digital technologies in the creative economy. REACT is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.

REACT is working with iShed to deliver projects using the Sandbox process. Each Sandbox scheme will have a different theme and to qualify applicants must have a project that uses Arts and Humanities research with a Creative Economy partner.

REACT's Feasibility funding offers up to £15,000 over a three to six month period for projects or partnerships at an early stage of development or collaboration.

REACT's Prototype fund offers a grant of up to £30,000 for more advanced projects to develop ideas into prototypes or proofs of concept.

Full information on eligibility and how to apply available at: 
http://react-hub.org.uk/opportunities
http://react-hub.org.uk/about/

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales Exhibition at Arcade Cardiff

A Fine Beginning is an open Welsh photography collective, established by James O Jenkins with the ambition to develop a platform to discover and showcase contemporary photography being made in Wales today.

The collective launched with a publication in May 2013 at the publishing weekend of the inaugural Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography. The issue showcased the work of four of the current members; Gawain Barnard, Jack Latham, Abbie Trayler-Smith and James O Jenkins. In foregrounding photography in Wales, the festival provided an opportune moment to launch the first instalment of A Fine Beginning.

A Fine Beginning aims to offer a platform to photographers making work in Wales to have their photography seen and appreciated in Wales and beyond. 

‘A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales‘ is at Arcade Cardiff on 14th March 2014 (to 30th March). The exhibition will show work from the collective as well as selected images from work  featured on their blog. Please join us.

Opening night 14/03/14

Wednesday - Saturday 12.30 - 17.30

 Unit 17

http://www.arcadecardiff.co.uk/home/coming-soon

http://www.afinebeginning.com/galleries/

SUNSET

Interference: Samuel Hasler

28 March 2014, 6pm

Chapter

As part of INTERFERENCE, a programme of residencies that offer Wales-based artists a studio and curatorial dialogue, Samuel Hasler will be opening up his studio practice to the public from the 18-30 March. The residency will culminate in a Book Launch event of Samuel's first published work, O, A Prayer Book, with performances by three other Book Works published artists.

In this temporary studio Samuel will present the imagery and processes that sit alongside his writing. In this, there is a precarious balance between fact and fiction; the writing and performances manipulate the mythology of the ‘wild bohemian’ artist at work. In his draughty garret, with cigarettes, absinthe, and a waste-paper bin overflowing with failed manuscripts, the studio is not just his daily working environment but a place to indulge in and critique these spurious fantasies.

From Fri 28 Mar – Sun 30 Mar there will also be a series of events in collaboration with Book Works publishers to mark the launch of Samuel’s first published work.

- See more at: http://www.chapter.org/interference-samuel-hasler#sthash.EVKISlSu.dpuf

O, A Prayer Book: Book Launch and Performance

29 March 2014, 2.30pm

Gallery

Chapter are pleased to host the book launch of Samuel Hasler's first published work, O, A Prayer Book.

An incantation and repetition of prayers marks the introduction to a young man’s isolated, creatively stifled existence. Deluded by the stagnating mythology of great European modernist artists, he escapes the drudgery of the supermarket nightshift but not his perverse imagination. He travels to Moscow and Venice on a journey that causes reflection on his romantic ideas: his desire for a wild, bohemian life; his crude libido and his increasing doubts about his faith. The book operates as both a story and as a spine connecting performances, readings, installations and printing, operating as material context for a body of work.

The evening will feature performances and readings by Samuel Hasler and invited artists Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio and Sarah Tripp, each presenting material from their forthcoming books to be published by Book Works in 2014. No booking required.

 O, A Prayer Book is published by Book Works and funded by the Arts Council of Wales and The Henry Moore Foundation.

- See more at: http://www.chapter.org/o-prayer-book-book-launch#sthash.R61zBrtd.dpuf

Why Do Artists Write?

30 March 2014, 5pm

Gallery

In Conversation: Gavin Everall, Jane Rolo, Samuel Hasler, Katrina Palmer and Francesco Pedraglio

Whilst writing and publishing gives form for the exploration of varying discourses, it has remained - despite the historical significance of artists writing - a marginal, often misunderstood form of art. Artists Samuel Hasler, Katrina Palmer and Francesco Pedraglio, with Book Works’ publishers and editors Jane Rolo and Gavin Everall, discuss the use of fiction, prose and spoken word and the shift to writing and publishing within the art world.

In 2014, Book Works celebrates thirty years of publishing multiple forms of artist books. As one of the UK's most established Artist Book publishers, they support and encourage the relationship between text, image, spoken word and performance. Their artist publications blur lines between experimental prose, fiction, and exploratory discursive texts.

This event is free and no booking is required.

- See more at: http://www.chapter.org/why-do-artists-write#sthash.zZ3q8RiA.dpuf

Film Screening: Berberian Sound Studio

30 March 2014, 5pm

Cinema 2

When a naïve and introverted sound engineer is hired to mix the latest film by horror maestro Santini, he spends his time surrounded by bloodcurdling screams and the sounds of hacked vegetables. He finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of sonic and personal mayhem. As much a celebration of predigital film-making and the giallo genre as it is a striking and unpredictable psychological horror.

Following the screening, artist Samuel Hasler will be in discussion with host Ben Ewart-Dean to discuss his explorations of contemporary Giallo.

- See more at: http://www.chapter.org/q-berberian-sound-studio#sthash.dfEXmklm.dpuf

BIOGRAPHY

Samuel Hasler lives and works in Cardiff. His approach to making artwork is varied, it includes writing, performance, printmaking and installations. He has recently presented work with Book Works (London), The Whitstable Biennale, Spike Island (Bristol), and The Arnolfini (Bristol). www.samuelhasler.co.uk

Book Works is an art commissioning organisation specialising in artists’ books, spoken word and printed matter, dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. www.bookworks.org.uk

Katrina Palmer is an artist and the author of The Dark Object. As well as recently being awarded the Artangel Open commission, her next book The Fabricator’s Tale will be published by Book Works in 2014. www.motinternational.org/Katrina_palmer

Francesco Pedraglio is a writer, performer, and curator. He was one of the founding directors of FormContent, a fellow of Henry Moore Institute, and recently the editor of Time Machine, a series of experimental books published by Book Works. A man in a room spray-painting a fly (or at least trying to) is published by Book Works, 2014. www.acertainrealism.com

Sarah Tripp is an artist based in Glasgow. He work has been published in2HB, The Happy Hypocrite  and she was recently awarded the Camden Art Centre’s inaugural Radio Writing residency. Come Here Unknow will be published by Book Works in 2014. www.sarahtripp.com

Outcasting: Fourth Wall (O:4W)

Outcasting: Forth Wall is coming to Cardiff, and will be the city's first moving image festival. Using various platforms, venues, and opportunities to screen artists work both virtually and physically, it makes for an exciting opportunity.
There are screening opportunities using traditional screening methods, the deadline for which is the 1 June. There is also a commissioning programme for installations and site specific commissions. The deadline for this submission is 1 May.

For more information and how to submit click here.

Call For Artists: Focus On Print

CRAFT IN THE BAY SUMMER SHOW 2014

This exhibition of contemporary craft and applied art is open to professional makers based in UK.

Focus on print includes a variety of different materials, printing processes and craft ideas, for example woodwork, textiles and mixed media to monoprint, etching and lithographic etc.

For more information see here.

TEST SPACE OPEN 2014: Spike Island Studios

Test Space is a project space run and curated by Spike Island Studio Holders showing both finished work and works in progress. This year, to coincide with Spike Island Open, we're running the first Test Space Open and are inviting submissions of works from artists based in the UK. 

Spike Island Open is an annual 'behind the scenes' event taking place at Spike Island over the course of the first Bank Holiday weekend in May, attracting over 5,000 visitors.

We will be accepting 2D, 3D, time based (pieces with sound will require headphones) and web based pieces, as well as proposals for performance.

The maximum size for wall pieces is 150cm x 180cm,  for sculptural pieces the space is limited due to the need for foot traffic throughout the exhibition area, therefore the size of the pieces will be taken into account during selection, as a guide the maximum plinth size we can accept is150cm x 180cm.

A panel of three independent selectors, Marie-Anne McQuay (curator), Edwina Ashton (artist) and Ruth Claxton (artist) will be selecting work to be included in the show.

A maximum of 5 artworks can be submitted by each artist.

To enter, please send an email to testspaceopen@gmail.com including the following:

•   Your name

•   Contact details

•   Either images of the submitted works (no more than 2mb per file or 10mb in total) or a link to a video work

•   A brief description of the work (100 words), including dimensions (cm)


Closing date for submissions is Sunday 6th April.

Selected artists will be notified by Wednesday 16th April and are responsible for getting selected work to us before Friday April 25th and for the collection of works after Friday May 9th.

See https://www.facebook.com/pages/Test-Space/51748531950 for more information.