The Reliquary Project
This exhibition is the culmination of Jo Dacombe’s residency and work within the Bone Laboratory at the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History. Considering bones as relics, Dacombe has created a series of works using a range of techniques, from sculpture to scans and x-rays.
7 May – 3 July 2016, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/the-reliquary-project
Fragments and Traces (1): l’invitation au voyage
For the first half of Platform 1 Gallery‘s participation in Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival, Kelise Franclemont and Antonia Jackson present multimedia and painting works that explore ideas around memory, time and travel.
5-8 May 2016, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Common Station, London SW12.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/fragments-and-traces-1-linvitation-au-voyage
Alternative Nature
UK and international artists exhibit works in a range of media that consider the theme of ‘alternative nature’. Part of the larger Congleton Contemporary Arts Weekend, which also sees 12 artists display work in unusual locations throughout the town centre.
29 April – 21 May 2016, The Electric Picture House Artists Co-operative, Congleton, Cheshire.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/alternative-naturel
Works from the landscape
Tony Wild exhibits his distorted, cut up, collaged and mirrored paintings of landscapes that play with perception, conjuring a sense of sculptural depth and space.
Until 7 May 2016, Gainsborough [art]works, St Patricks Street, Stafford.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/works-from-the-landscape-by-tony-wild
Imagine
Inspired by social and civil rights activist Vincent Harding’s work enabling young people to imagine different futures for themselves, Tessa Waite and Ruth Gibbs convene a day set to inspire ‘deep change’. Educator Liz Buckler, mental health nurse Neil Bovingdon and storyteller Marion Oughton share examples and philosophies that they use or have encountered through their work.
Saturday 7 May 2016, The Muse, Glamorgan Street, Brecon, Wales.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/imagine
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
Images
1. Jo Dacombe, Bone Box (oryctolagus cuniculus), 2015
2. Kelise Franclemont, MAFA
3. Jane Fairhurst, artwork
4. Tony Wild, painting
5. Imagine, event poster
