Standpoint Futures Residency Programme

Andrew Bracey begins his residency at Standpoint

Andrew began on Monday, and is the sixth and final artist for the 2011 programme.

During his residency Andrew will be meeting:

Robin Klassnik
Kate MacGarry
Sacha Craddock
Dave Hoyland
Cathy Lomax

Events:

27 October 2011 12-6pm – presentation of work in progress at Gallery

27 October 6.30-8pm – Andrew Bracey in discussion with guest TBA at Standpoint Gallery

28 October 2011 12-6pm – presentation of work in progress at Standpoint Gallery

Andrew Bracey’s practice hovers on the fringes of painting as it crosses over and expands into installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. He often employs existing material and the readymade as alternatives to the traditional canvas support for painting, to explore contrasting relationships of characteristics found in a variation of medium.

Bracey is intrigued by the visual saturation of contemporary life which is explored through a variety of separate subjects ranging from zoology, cinema and tegestology. His work often reflects how society has re-configured ways of viewing and processing mass-information in a variety of contexts, whilst questioning the role of the individual and the crowd within such changing structures.

During his five week residency at Standpoint Bracey plans to spend time in the National Gallery to develop a new series of gouache paintings on posters that replace the orginal subject with intricate geometric structures.

Bracey graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001 and has since exhibited widely in the UK and Europe. He is currently a Senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Lincoln and a member of Suite Studio Group in Manchester. Recent solo exhibitions include Animalation, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 2009; Frames, Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley, 2007; Freianlage in Supernature, Transition gallery, London, 2007; Freianlage, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2007. Recent group exhibitions include Creekside Open selected by Dexter Dalwood, APT Gallery, London, 2011; We Are All in This Together,Bureau, Manchester, 2011; 6 Degrees,The Monks Gallery, Lincoln, 2011; All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy,Burlington Club, Manchester, 2011; A Horse Walks into a Bar, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2010; Meanwhile in Manchester, Lombard Method & Grand Union, Birmingham, 2010; Interventions Part 2:Pallet;Palette, The outside walls of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, The Collection, Lincoln, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2010; Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester, NGCA, Sunderland & Void, Derry, 2010; Global Studio, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 2010.

Website: www.andrewbracey.co.uk Blog: www.andrewbracey.blogspot.com

Andrew Bracey will also be taking part in The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair with Castlefield Gallery during his residency at Standpoint, on 27-30 October 2011 http://www.themanchestercontemporary.com/node/52

This will be my last blog update as my residency ends today! This week has been busy with four studio visits from Isobel Harbison, writer and curator, Pieternel Vermoortel of FormContent, Rosa Tyhurst of Limoncello and Naomi Sinderfel of Beaconsfield. All four has some really interesting insights into my work and suggestions for possible future approaches, research and developments.

Some highlights were discussing the lineage of my work with Isobel, and the idea of palimpsest in the work (layer upon layer). Also the possibilities for fictional narratives within the work and the remnants or suggestions of performance, found in the implied theatricality as well as the physical presence in the works making.

The addition of the outdoor location in the new work seems to have been an interesting progression and what Naomi called ‘an appropriate response to the nature of the residency’.

The talk last week with Lucy Reynolds went well, a small crowd but was able to be quite conversational as a result. I spoke about the works thematically rather than chronologically, which I think was an interesting approach but would need some refinement for another time – we ran out of time and the images were not always in the correct order! Using other artists to frame and contexulise my ideas worked well, such as Juliette Blightman, Charlotte Moth, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Bruce Mclean and Edwards Muybridge.

I have really enjoyed the residency and have met some really interesting people who have engaged with my work and ideas in amazing ways, I think this will provide me with much to consider in the coming months.

Install view of the studio during Hannah’s presentation of work in progress, 22 – 23 September, 2011.

Slides from Hannah’s work in progress, presented in the studio at Standpoint, 22nd and 23rd September 2011

Thursday 22 September 6.30-8pm – Hannah James in discussion with artist and film curator Lucy Reynolds

Further information: Matilda Strang/Fiona MacDonald: 0207 739 4921, [email protected]

Hannah James studied BA Art and Visual Culture at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Alongside her practice as an artist, James is involved in curating, writing and collaborative projects with a broad range of practitioners. Recent solo exhibitions include Local Interference at WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol (2011), the duo exhibition Pots Purr, respectively held at Rhubaba, Edinburgh and Chert, Berlin (2011). Recent group shows include The Potential for Windows and Scale at The Contemporary Art Society, London (2011), What does and what does not belong to words at Baginski, Lisbon (2011), Curtain Show at Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2010), and Drinnen and Draussen at Chert, Berlin (2010). Hannah James lives and works in Bristol. Website: http://www.chert-berlin.com/ita/

Lucy Reynolds is a lecturer, artist and film curator. Her area of research focuses on expanded cinema and British avant-garde film of the 1970s. She teaches the history and theory of cinema and artists’ moving image at the University of Westminster, Goldsmiths College, LUX and the Arnolfini. She has curated numerous screenings of artists film and video and her film programme, Describing Form, exploring the relationship between film and sculpture, has toured museums and galleries across Britain, from Tate Britain to Spacex, Exeter and the Henry Moore Institute. She presents talks on artists’ film and video at arts venues across the UK, including the CCA, Glasgow and the Serpentine Gallery, and her recent articles have appeared in Afterall and Millennium Film Journal.