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Gabrielle Hoad
Artist and writer based in Exeter.
art@gabriellehoad.co.uk | www.gabriellehoad.co.uk
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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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