Upcoming events: landscape, fairytales and an arts trail in Yorkshire

utopia:dystopia
An insightful programme of exhibitions and events to mark the 500th year anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. Includes an exhibition on climate change with works such as Ester Vonplon‘s requiem to dying glaciers and a show that draws on J.G.Ballard’s suggestion that a true dystopia is that of the mind.
27 May – 12 June 2016, Fringe Arts Bath, various venues, Bath.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/utopiadystopia-exhibitions-and-events

Saltaire Arts Trail
This year’s Saltaire Arts Trail takes place over 40 venues. In Salts Mill, Carolyn Mendelsohn explores the transition between childhood to young adulthood through photography and recorded interviews for ‘Being Inbetween’. In the same venue, Hannah Lamb and Claire Wellesley-Smith‘s participatory performance draws on the Mill’s textile heritage by inviting visitors to archive a trace of the clothes they happen to be wearing.
28-30 May 2016, Salts Mill & Saltaire village, West Yorkshire.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/saltaire-arts-trail  / www.a-n.co.uk/events/being-inbetween / www.a-n.co.uk/events/lasting-impressions

Holy Chic
Artist and cultural historian WESSIELING brings style chic to devotional psalms in a new installation at Saint Dominic’s Priory Church that looks at the similarities between fashion and religious practices. This site-specific text work adorns the church’s pillars, playfully combining devotional quotes from parishioners with popular fashion language.
18 May – 4 July 2016, Saint Dominic’s Priory Church, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/holy-chic

A World of Tales 
Theatrical artist and illustrator Tracy Satchwill creates vibrant collage through the lens of social history; her latest body of work is a retelling of ancient fairy tales. Also on display is the artist’s Magna Carta Women project. To mark the 800th anniversary (in 2015) of the signing of this document, Satchwill created a four-piece glass panel collage that shared the history of notable British women over the ages.
24 May – 4 June 2016, Anteros Art Foundation, Norwich.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/a-world-of-tales-solo-exhibition

On Landscape # 3
To coincide with Dorset Art Weeks, artists Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor and Emma Wieslander have instigated an itinerant programme of exhibitions and events that explore approaches to and conceptualisations of landscape. The main exhibition includes photographs by James Ravilious, while a library hosts works by over 70 book artists.
28 May – 12 June 2016, Lower Hewood Farm, Hewood, Chard, Dorset
www.a-n.co.uk/events/on-landscape-3

All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members

Images:
1. Anya Beaumont – Paper installation, Utopia:Dystopia, Fringe Arts Bath
2. Carolyn Mendelsohn, Being Inbetween, Saltaire Arts Trail
3. Holy Chic poster
4. A World of Tales poster
5. On Landscape #3 poster