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Gabrielle Hoad
Artist and writer based in Exeter.
art@gabriellehoad.co.uk | www.gabriellehoad.co.uk
Reviews
Blast Theory Bless Practice & Ghostwriter [20 December 2011]
It could have been a bank heist, a kidnap or an urban chase. Instead it was a phone call to a melancholy woman who wanted to talk quietly about the thoughts and memories wrapped up in objects. At first, I was a little disappointed.I’d come to Read on…
Spacex & Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
10 December 2011 - 18 February 2012
Vessel [18 November 2011]
The first ever visit of the British Art Show to Plymouth has created a welcome surge of visual arts activity across the city. Yet few of the resulting fringe projects have been quite as impressive as Vessel, a six-week showcase for 17 international Read on…
22 George Place, Plymouth
22 September - 30 October 2011
The Recipe Exchange [1 July 2011]
»GET Social Practice Art’s Identity Crisis - Abigail Satinsky [ABI]»GET ACORN profile for EX5 [ACO]»GET Farringdon Village website [FAR]»GET Notes for a response to The Recipe Exchange – Gabrielle Hoad Read on…
Spacex, Exeter
14 May - 9 July 2011
The Count of Monte Cristo: Island of True Stories [15 April 2011]
Sparkly, naughty and not a little camp, Island of True Stories draws its inspiration from a novel by Alexander Dumas that I’ve never read and a series of films that I’ve never seen.This means I’m in a good position to reassure Read on…
Exeter Phoenix Galleries, Exeter
1 April - 15 May 2011
Dean Knight: Modern Sculpture [25 October 2010]
The title 'Modern Sculpture' suggests plain-speaking accessibility, along with deadpan humour and a gentle nod to Herbert Read's classic textbook of the same name. This tiny exhibition in a small lock-up unit manages to encompass all three. My Read on…
Project Space 11
Plymouth 8 - 25 September
DIY [22 September 2010]
Involving more than 10 artists and a semi-derelict warehouse the size of a cathedral, 'DIY', organised by Surface Arts, isn’t short on ambition. It sets out to be a "cross art form exhibition including multiple disciplines on a huge scale ... Read on…
Bookcycle Warehouse, Exeter
18 September - 16 October 2010
Emily Wardill: Game Keepers Without Game [29 March 2010]
Part social drama, part lifestyle commentary, Emily Wardill's disturbing seventy-six minute film reminds me more than anything of American Psycho. Though it doesn't hit the horrific depths of Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel, it draws similar Read on…
Spacex, Exeter
12 December - 20 February
Control Point: A Temporary Facility [28 January 2010]
When artists, writers and curators responded to an open call to join 'Control Point' they probably knew they were part of Plymouth Arts Centre's agenda to develop more opportunities for local artists, but what form did they expect the project to Read on…
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
21 November - 10 January
Lara Viana [20 August 2009]
No frames, no titles, no labels: Lara Viana's little paintings cling to the pristine gallery walls like lonely fragments salvaged from some larger narrative. They have the dreamy quality of something not quite formed, not quite remembered Read on…
Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
12 June – 19 July
Tim Knowles: Wanderlust [11 June 2009]
Go walking in the city at 2.00am with only a weather vane as your guide. A weather vane fixed to a helmet on your head, mind, just to make sure you look really odd. The suite of films that make up Windwalk #2 – Seven Walks from Seven Dials Read on…
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
6 June - 26 July 2009
Slippage - MA Fine Art [9 April 2008]
Megan Calver has been standing in her garden at dawn, holding up a yolky-yellow pole almost as tall as her house. She’s been using it to mark a period of attention to birdsong: "The song is the flag, the colour that the pole hopes to Read on…
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
25 - 28 March 2008
Slippage - MA Fine Art Show 2008 [4 April 2008]
Megan Calver has been standing in her garden at dawn, holding up a yolky-yellow pole almost as tall as her house. She’s been using it to mark a period of attention to birdsong: "The song is the flag, the colour that the pole hopes to Read on…
University of Plymouth, Plymouth
25 - 28 March 2008
Human Cargo [31 October 2007]
What role might an artist play in a museum show commemorating the 1807 act to abolish slavery? ‘Human Cargo’ sees interventions by five contemporary artists that challenge an apparently objective account of the transatlantic slave Read on…
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
22 September – 24 November
Peter J. Evans: Our understanding of things [16 July 2007]
Haldon is a working forest: a scene of constant death and renewal as timber is felled and trees replanted. In the midst of it all, Peter J Evans looks like a man preparing his own coffin. Using only hand tools, he's planing a large block of lime Read on…
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Peter J Evans: Feedbacker [29 June 2007]
From making photographs and sound recordings to unravelling our own DNA, we increasingly understand the world by reducing it to a string of ones and zeroes. Encoding and decoding, digitising and processing. Peter J Evans seems both fascinated and Read on…
Spacex, Exeter
19 May – 14 July
Slow [1 March 2007]
According to modern myth, if the entire population of China jumped at the same time, the force would be sufficient to shift the earth out of its usual orbit. In Der Gelbe Stuhl – an installation by Vienna collective Mahony in ‘Slow’ Read on…
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
20 January – 19 March
Jordan McKenzie [31 July 2006]
On 28 July, Jordan McKenzie performed At Arms Length in Exeter, prior to the opening of his exhibition Vitruvian: Drawing Works at Spacex. On a hot Friday afternoon, Jordan McKenzie manhandles a white wooden cube through the Read on…
Exeter, Spacex
7 July 2006 to 9 September 2006
East Meets West [2 September 2005]
Dragged from the forest to the manicured lawns of Haldon Belvedere, a broken beech branch takes on new life as a kayagum: a Korean stringed instrument. Artist Seung-hyun Ko has hollowed out this six-metre limb and strung it with fishing line, Read on…
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World,
Haldon Belvedere, Exeter
14 August – 30 October
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