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Memory Palace
11 - 28 October 2018
Memory Palace is a collaborative project focussing on creative processes. Together with a group of international students from various artistic fields (photography, stage design, animation and choreography) Captain Lightfoot explore methods that allow us to create works that are devoid of critical thought and are more free and intuitive. The resulting homonymous exhibition will be shown at GAMU (The Gallery of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) in October 2018.
Supported by: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, STEP Beyond (European Cultural Foundation)
Open daily except Monday, 10am –12 pm and 1–6 pm
GAMU (Gallery AMU), Malostranské náměstí 12, Prague
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Strange Loop
2nd - 4th December 2016 ( Norway)
Strange Loop is a group exhibition by Captain Lightfoot. In collaboration with Babel , Captain Lightfoot will present new works by its three founders, Anneli Holmstrom, Emma Pratt and Kadie Salmon alongside Norwegian artist Petter Solberg
Strange Loop, will explore the concept of symbolism and narrative in relation to sculptural form. The focus will be on the individual object: exploring the shifting narrative structures present within sculptures and their occupied space. To do this the invited artists will consider how the assemblage and alteration of physical components within an artwork affects and distorts its inherent symbolic components. Like words in a sentence, that when reshuffled, form new meanings, the show strives for a curatorial device to examine the transient state of narrative in relation to the sculptural form itself: by means of a physical process.
The new works of each artist will be reassembled daily over the course of the exhibition, inviting viewers to re-visit the shifting works and forge new readings from each new alteration.
This project is support by The Henry Moore Foundation.
Babel, Mellomueien 4, 7041, Trondheim, Norway
Strange Loop
1st - 7th April 2016 ( Germany)
Strange Loop is a group exhibition by Captain Lightfoot. In collaboration with Gallery X14, Captain Lightfoot will present new works by its three founders, Anneli Holmstrom, Emma Pratt and Kadie Salmon alongside the Dresden based artist Maximilian Stulhen
Strange Loop, will explore the concept of symbolism and narrative in relation to sculptural form. The focus will be on the individual object: exploring the shifting narrative structures present within sculptures and their occupied space. To do this the invited artists will consider how the assemblage and alteration of physical components within an artwork affects and distorts its inherent symbolic components. Like words in a sentence, that when reshuffled, form new meanings, the show strives for a curatorial device to examine the transient state of narrative in relation to the sculptural form itself: by means of a physical process.
The new works of each artist will be reassembled daily over the course of the exhibition, inviting viewers to re-visit the shifting works and forge new readings from each new alteration.
This project is support by The Henry Moore Foundation.
Gallery X14, Konigsbrucker Strasse 6a, 01099, Dresden, Germany
EDINBURGH 11
13th March 2016, 9am - 4pm
Exhibition involving work of 11 artists from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop to show their work at Ebor Studios.
The art works shown will engage with found objects and ‘undecipherable artefacts‘. The artists use objects, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, film and drawing to explore human intuition, experimentation and to develop or understand human relationships with objects, material and space. Involved will be references to the Greek myth of Narcissus and writings of Gaston Bachelard.
This will also be a chance to see works and studio spaces from Ebor’s resident artists.
Organised by artists and Ebor Programme Manager, Martha Lyons Haywood
Ebor Artist Studios and Gallery, William Street, Littleborough, Lancashire, OL15 8JP
Thinking / Making: does making help creative thinking?
5th December 2015 - 5 February 2016
Curious Projects has invited artists to submit maquettes for their 'Thinking/Making' exhibition. Rather than finished work, they looked for three-dimensional 'sketches', models and maquettes, made as part of the artists' creative thinking process. These could be a kind of 'making' used purely as a thinking tool and/or as an aid to making actual work.
For this show, the 27 window panes of the gallery are transformed into display boxes/shelves showing the selected maquettes/models.
Curious Projects
The Labyrinth, 7 Mark Lane
Eastbourne
BN21 4RJ
Workshop shop
16th November - 30 January 2016
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is delighted to announce the opening of Workshopshop, a pop-up shop in the street front gallery that promotes artists working within the organisation.
Functioning as part-shop and part-exhibition, Workshopshop presents a range of artworks and commissions from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s studio holders, programme artists and members. The shop offers a curated selection of small, unique artworks, prints, sculptural editions, books, records and bespoke furniture from both established artists and emerging talent.
Catherine Aitken and David Murphy | Elaine Allison | Miranda Blennerhassett | Amy Boulton | Simon Burns-Cox | Hans Clausen | Concrete Antenna | Covered In Toner | Jean Philippe Dordolo | Keith Farquhar | Alec Finlay | Clare Flatley | Andrew Gannon | Jessica Harrison | Christine Heughan | Kate Ive | Alejandro Lopez | Ian McPhail | John Mooney | Chris Muirhead | Despina Nissiriou | Jonathan Owen | Toby Paterson | Tommy Perman | Emma Pratt | Maja Quille | Jessica Ramm | Brodie Sim | Kjersti Sletteland and Tone Boska | Hanna Tuulikki
CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT - FINLAND 2015
8th October 2015
The Usher is the next group exhibition by Captain Lightfoot. Working together with GalleriGro and Novia University we will present new works by all of us members of the collective; further exploring our ongoing research into narrative in visual art.
Stripping GalleriGro of its own light and structure a little like the creeping Finnish winter, Captain Lightfoot will create a new and unfamiliar space for the viewer; one primarily of darkness. Vahtimestari (The Usher) is a performative exhibition that intimately leads the viewer through its space. Different artworks and details of the building emerge from the darkness; exposed for varying lengths of time these artworks demand the viewers attention before disappearing again.
Captain Lightfoot act as the usher in this performance; playfully exploring the language created between the artworks themselves and their occupied space, whilst questioning the viewers own placement within this narrative.
AXIS - SPOTLIGHT
Five 2 Watch Ceramics
Selected artist from Axis Web Spotlight feature as one of five to watch artists working with ceramics.
http://www.axisweb.org/features/spotlight/five2watch-ceramics/
Captain Lightfoot Presents...
9 - 16 August 2014
ANNELI HOLMSTROM - STEPHEN KAVANAGH - JESSIE MAKINSON
EMMA PRATT - KADIE SALMON
For this project, Captain Lightfoot will work in collaboration with the Learning and Access department of the City of Edinburgh Museum and Galleries to deliver an exhibition of new work by all three members of Captain Lightfoot and also of invited artists Jessie Makinson and Stephen Kavanagh.
Open Mon - Sun, 10am - 4pm
Opening Night - Friday 8th August 7pm ALL WELCOME!
Create a 3-Dimensional Story
Tuesday 12 August 2014
Free Family Workshop @ Lauriston Castle Glasshouse
Enjoy an afternoon in the Glasshouse working with artists Anneli Holmstrom, Emma Pratt & Kadie Salmon creating works inspired by the current exhibition. You will get the chance to explore real and imagined stories, through the use of 3 dimensional collage. For booking contact Lauriston Castle on 0131 336 2060 or via lauristoncastle@edinburgh.gov.uk
Eye Scream Dream
24 June - 6 July 2014
an exhibition in an ice cream parlour, with works by...
DELIA BAILLIE - CRAIG COULTHARD - JENNY HOGARTH - KATE OWENS ELLEN MUNRO - EMMA PRATT - SARAH SINCLAIR
Curated by Ellen Munro
Opening: Sunday 22nd June 2014, 6 - 8pm
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am until 7pm (or within shop hours).
Mary's Milk Bar, 19 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
part of Annuale 2014 www.annuale.org
Reclaimed: The Second Life Of Sculpture
5 April - 2 May 2014
Lotte Glob | Walker and Bromwich | Klaus Weber | Matthew Darbyshire | Jess Flood Paddock | Andy Holden | Alex Allan | Ewan Robertson and Gordon Munro | Jonathan Owen | Bobby Niven | George Wyllie, | Iain Kettles | James McLardy | Alex Frost | Clare Stephenson | Nick Evans | Sarah Forrest | Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan | Neil Livingstone | Jock Mooney | Beagles and Ramsay | Emma Pratt | Marvin Gaye Chetwynd | David Shrigley | Ross Sinclair | Calum Stirling and historic works borrowed from Glasgow Museums.
Curated by Michelle Emery-Barker, Martin Craig & Kate V Robertson
The Briggait, Wasps, Glasgow
Preview: Friday 4 April 2014, 6 - 9pm
part of Glasgow International 2014 www.glasgowinternational.org
State Of Flux
18 April - 1 June 2014
Edina Andrási | Artúr van Balen | Fiona Byrne Sutton |
Melanie Davies | Sinéad Dunn | Morgane Deffense | Tilly Gifford Nicola Henderson | Kevin Morris | Emma Pratt | Ester Svensson
Wed - Sun, 10 - 4pm
Everything Stuck To Him
31 March 2014
a day-long experimental performance by...
ANNELI HOLMSTROM | EMMA PRATT | KADIE SALMON
(Captain Lightfoot)
10 - 4pm
Everything Is Vague Until You Make it Precise
10 February - 14 February 2014
Amy Marletta | Andrew Cranston | Anna Orton | Del Whitticase | Ellen Munro |
Ellie Harrison | Emma Pratt | Oliver Braid | Sara Sinclair
The Hospital for Dazed Art is a series of conversations and informal surgeries initiated by Iain Sturrock and Delia Baillie that explores why artists (secretly) retain certain works in their studios for years at a time without publically showing / recycling / or trashing them, and what this means in terms of editorial integrity. The exhibition at The Briggait showcases nine artists whom The Hospital has worked with during 2012 and 2013.
The Briggait Project Spaces, Wasps, Glasgow. Opening Night: Friday 7 February 2014, 6 - 9pm