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Alexandria Clark
Artist and freelance writer working in the West Midlands. www.alexandriaclark.com
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Worcester Open Symposium 1 [31 May 2010]
Led by the PITT artist-led space and Worcestershire Contemporary Artists in partnership with the main Worcester City Gallery, The Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art project is an exhibition organized for artists by artists. The three Read on…
Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery, The PITT studio and Annex21, Worcester
24 April - 26 June 2010
AFTERSHOCK: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art [15 April 2010]
Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art By Kieran Cashall 2009 Aftershock. After the shock. How do we approach artworks nowadays after that “shock” period has faded? I took this book on as a Read on…
Book review, Worcester
31 October 2008 - 15 April 2010
Awst & Walther: “If only dust could speak.” [7 October 2009]
Arriving just in time for the performance, I initially followed the crowd into a smaller room at the back and passing the main work in the first room. Presented by grey gelatine bricks piled on to a palette alongside another palette with only a Read on…
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales
19 September - 11 November 2009
PROCESS an exhibition of photography [8 September 2009]
PROCESS- an exhibition of photography It may not be the traditional space to hang an exhibition, but in the backroom of Heroes pub in Worcester, in late August 2009, The Task In Hand's Richard Clarke curated a successful Read on…
Heroes, Worcester
28 - 31 August 2009
BA Fine Art [9 June 2009]
A dismal rainy Friday evening. Initially stuck in a jam on the M5, half an hour after doors open, I finally arrive, (almost power walking), with my bright yellow invite to the automatic doors of the Bonington building, Nottingham Trent Read on…
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
6 - 11 June 2009
The Turner Prize 2008 [24 November 2008]
Presented at first with Goshka Macuga’s room: reflections and handrails alongside a mishmash of collaged artwork, I found myself more interested in watching others’ responses than responding myself. Looking at how their legs distorted Read on…
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
Communication and Association- Artists Anonymous. [11 October 2008]
Opening Night at the A Foundation. A large warehouse space, surrounded by what was once a bustling site of industry: abandoned buildings with such interesting architecture either lacking windows or boarded up. Only the climbing plants creeping Read on…
A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial
19 September - 30 November 2008
Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin 2008 [5 July 2008]
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN 31/05/08-16/06/08 Laptop in bag, pushing it tight under my arm, I travelled to Luton airport and onto the plane where I sat next to a middle aged Geordie man with an intense phobia of flying. Read on…
Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 16 June 2008
Egg and Cress Sandwiches [29 June 2008]
Throughout the past two months, “Cress starter packs” have been sent out internationally by the Nottingham, UK, based artist group Going Nowhere. With each pack comes the request that the receiver will grow the cress and if Read on…
Alexanderplatz, Berlin
8 June 2008
REGAN’S 12TH BIRTHDAY PARTY BARBEQUE [17 June 2008]
It was the strangest 12th birthday party I have ever been to (granted I haven’t been to one for a decade but I presume this cannot be what’s ‘in’ or the norm?!). A birthday barbeque: bunting in the trees with the Read on…
Fictive Days Apartment, Griefswalder Str 220, Berlin
8 June 2008
FICTIVE DAYS [6 June 2008]
Have you ever been walking down the street and started to feel as if you are inside a movie set? The dappled light cast through the leaves plays with brightness and contrast levels; the characters you meet seem too fantastical to be true. The music Read on…
The Back House 3rd Floor, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
New Life Berlin: The Opening Night [3 June 2008]
Shaking hands with Zorba the Greek and Reagan from the Exorcist, with the knowledge that Queen Elizabeth is in the crowd and the prospect that Princess Aura from Flash Gordon will be landing in Berlin tomorrow, created a surreal yet exciting Read on…
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
31 May - 16 June 2008
Alexander Stevenson- Parchment & Palimpsest discussion [12 January 2008]
Time and space to redevelop. A place to play and reform ideas from a time before; a time where the end could not be obtained and the final point could not be found. The circumstances; that here we had a residency and a discussion with no final Read on…
Goldfactory Project Space, Egerton Studios, Nottingham
21 October 2007
Martha Rosler: Talking Art [10 October 2007]
Starting at the end of the talk; ‘the questions and discussion section’ created a strange atmosphere that rippled through the past two hours and shifted all that had been discussed. The paraphrased question: “An Read on…
Tate Modern, London
29 September 2007
Notts On Tour [1 October 2007]
Designed, by Ellie Harrison, for ‘curators, artists and general artfolk’ from Nottingham and the surrounding areas, ‘Notts on Tour’ set off for a good ol’ bonding session over a shared interest in art. A Read on…
Skulptur Projekte 07 and Documenta 12, Munster and Kassel, Deutschlan
7-12 September 2007
Nottingham Trent Fine Art Degree Show 2007 [23 July 2007]
No intriguing or pretentious title; no generalised theme: Nottingham Trent Fine Art Degree Show 2007 does not pretend to be anything it is not. The end of three years exploration, study and growth has developed a wide range of new and well Read on…
Bonington Building
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Consolation Service, Eija-Liisa Ahtila [18 February 2007]
"Human Dramas". A combination of real life and fiction; the memories and experiences of the artist's and her acquaintances and even of complete strangers, serve as the story line for Eija-Liisa Ahtila's cinematic video pieces. In Read on…
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
12 December 2006 to 2 February 2007
Unloud- Duncan Higgins [18 February 2007]
Unfinished and open for suggestions, Site Platform has offered a space for "work in progress" to be explored and presented to the public in the traditional white cube gallery location. Duncan Higgins is currently working on a project Read on…
Site Gallery
11 November 2006 to 11 November 2006
Helen Maurer versus Mariele Neudecker [25 October 2006]
The focus of the importance of light in art features greatly in Nottingham’s galleries this October. Reflection or projection. Both bring the contrast of light and darkness and the links certain lights have with our memories into our Read on…
Angel Row Gallery and Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
9 September 2006 to 10 October 2006
Future Focus ‘06: This Year’s Model [31 May 2006]
It was my first time in Derby, the rain was pouring, but I was invited to smile from the start. Q Gallery’s ‘Future Focus ‘06’ takes you on an appealing journey through an exploration of communication, how media events are Read on…
Q Arts Gallery, Derby
22 April – 4 June
MOMA [10 May 2006]
These three works: National Museum of Art Tokyo, 1999 by Thomas Struth (German born), The Story Teller, 1986 by Jeff Wall (Canadian born) and Jpeg ny02, 2002 by Thomas Ruff (German born), were exhibited together in one corridor at the MOMA, Read on…
MOMA New York
2 February 2006 to 3 March 2006
Britist Art Show Nottingham Angel Row Annex [10 May 2006]
Spread out throughout Nottingham, set in 5 different venues, the British Art Show is set to take you on a physical and mental journey. Each venue has a slightly different feel, from the more serious video and installation work at the Read on…
Angel Row Annex
4 April 2005 to 6 June 2006
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