UCF Triennial Fringe Events
June 25th – 25th September 2011
As part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe| Events and beyond, the University Centre Folkestone hosted a number of art installations and workshops. Locations included the main Atrium and surrounding rooms. Featured local artists included Jonathan Wright, Sally Higgs and Anne Wimsett. Final year student works were also on show. Scheduled workshops will ran on two separate occasions during the Triennial period and were devised and facilitated by local art group Pavement Pounders. The Fringe events ran alongside the main Folkestone Triennial|.
'Blood, Sweat and Tears'
During the launch weekend of the Folkestone Triennial, visiting
Artists 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' from the development programme
'|British Summertime II'|, responded to the main Triennial in their own fringe project. The Birmingham based group organised events and exhibitions in various locations across the town, including a number at UCF.
Continuing throughout the Triennial period, UCF are pleased to be screening a showreel of films by the group.
'Blood, Sweat and Tears' is funded by the Arts Council.
During the launch weekend of the Folkestone Triennial, visiting from the development programme responded to the main Triennial in their own fringe project. The Birmingham based group organised events and exhibitions in various locations across the town, including a number at UCF.Continuing throughout the Triennial period, UCF are pleased to be screening a showreel of films by the group.
Atrium Installation
Jonathan Wright 'Rare Love Radio'
Arts Council Funded Project
Suspended from the ceiling of the 10 metre high UCF Atrium, a collection of small microphones will hang emitting low level messages of love. "My current practice is concerned with science and its history in the everyday. Its wonders and the miraculous nature of its workings are little understood and yet wholly relied upon."Jonathan Wright
Roof Installation (Grace Hill entrance)
Jonathan Wright 'Pylon'
Situated on the roof of the University building, 'Pylon' will be viewable on the approach to the Grace Hill entrance. A complete scale model placed with the intention of creating an exciting dynamic.
"In their normal environment pylons are grandiose objects, heroic and purposeful in the landscape, yet ultimately mysterious ... normally stalking the landscape like the spires of churches, landmarks, monuments to the new order of science and technology; yet here they will sit quietly asking to be reappraised." Jonathan Wright
Johnathan Wright Website|
Atrium Installation
Sally Higgs and Anne Wimsett 'Planets'
High up in the apex of the Atrium ceiling an installation of 'Planets' created by artists Anne Wimsett and Sally Higgs will consist of a diverse selection of artwork including painting, sculpture, textiles, weaving and recycled materials.
"The planets represent our solar system .... and allow the viewer to interpret it using their own imagination." Sally Higgs
Sally Higgs is a mixed-media landscape painter living in rural Kent and working in the Creative Quarter at "The Stables", Tontine Street in Folkestone www.paints.uk.com |. Anne Wimsett is a local artist living and working in Folkestone who specialises in a variety of textiles and paintings.
Both artists are members of White Shed www.whiteshed.co.uk| and Perrywood Arts www.perrywoodarts.co.uk |
Drawing Workshops
Pavement Pounders 'Bizarre Crossings' Project
Hosted by UCF, within their Fringe offering to the public and based on their Bizarre Crossings Project, local arts group Pavement Pounders will hold two bookable drawing workshops in June and August. Forming one component of their wider Pride of Place project and combining local history and visual art, they will explore the theme of unusual channel crossings and channel swimming races from the 1950s. Photos, video clips and original art work will be used as a starting point. An accompanying exhibition will take place July to September.
Pavement Pounders website: www.pavementpounders.org.uk|
Cost £15 per session
Book in advance at the UCF Reception
Accompanying exhibition runs until 1st September in UCFg08
John Sims 'Aviary'
A series of sculptures and drawings based on birds in Shepway. In 'Art Povera' found object style, they attempt to capture individual characters (species). Made from cheap accessible materials: scrap wood, twigs, lolly and kebab sticks and plaster. As a keen amateur ornithologist in childhood, John drew birds; he feels that he has now come full circle! See John's website www.johnsims.yolasite.com|
UCF Degrees
Degree show work by BA Visual Arts and Professional Practice at the Folkestone Campus. Graduating students include Lola Godoy and Yvonne McCann. This event is open to the public.
Dee Taylor
Dee Taylor's work is an attempt to evoke the monumental in the land and cityscape.Using a muted palette, layered transparent glazes all combined with colour and darkness creating romantic drama. In a one man show, UCF are pleased to be exhibiting some of his largescale canvases.
Joe Grey - Schematics and Photographs
Joe Grey is a mature student studying Visual Arts and Design at the University Centre Folkestone, after a number of years working in the rail industry and the travel trade.
His transport background and earlier science biased education is clearly evident in much of his current work which explores the nature of maps and schematic diagrams. The rendering of the human anatomy in this style simplifies and helps show how the different systems interact, in a direct parallel to an urban ‘metro’ diagram. The Triennial map, however, aims to confuse anyone attempting to use it to navigate around Folkestone; they will see bits of the town that they may otherwise miss, and may not get to their intended destinations, it is a map designed to get you lost.
Also included here are a number of photographs taken by Grey prior to his current study, with a mix of ‘stereotype scenes’ and more abstract images.
www.joegrey.co.uk|
For enquiries please contact:
UCF Reception, Mill Bay, Folkestone CT20 1JG
Telephone: 01303 760600
Email: deborah.crofts@canterbury.ac.uk| |