ARTWORKS

19/03 to 17/05
A Tale of Two Shitties
By Courtney Power

A Tale of Two Shitties is a darkly humorous glimpse into how different cultures and societies all share the same existential anxieties. The installation attempts to evoke the space of the nursery, where our childish imaginations allow fear to manifest as bogeymen and faces in the curtains. Are these fears artfully resurrected in media constructions in order to propagate political endgames as in the 'War on Terror'? Or in this tumultuous point in the history of mankind, as hostilities deepen, do we have reason to be afraid? What of the 'expulsive' personalities that control the world order? And finally what do we tell our children?




21/05 to 5/07
A Small Room to Tell
By Frederique Decombe

Nobody comes here with full understanding. It’s difficult to explain its utility. There is nothing inside the room, except a chair and a light bulb for someone to narrate. Telling what one likes, hates, what one hides or cannot hide, what is embarrassing, what is enjoyable; stories from the past, or from the future, the truth or anything else; everything is possible. One says what one wants to say at that very moment. Inside the room, you are alone. But next door, someone might be there listening to you.

Nobody comes here with expectations. It’s difficult to know what would be done of it. There is nothing inside the room, except a chair and a light bulb for someone to listen in silence. Listening to someone telling a story. One might focus on the story and trans-figure the narratives, one might identify with characters of the story. Or one might try to imagine the person who is speaking; picture somebody. But next door, someone might be there talking for you.

This piece is an adaptation of the Japanese novel La Petite Piece Hexagonale by Yoko Ogawa



3/09 to 18/10
A lesson in Love
By Davina Drummond

Why are we not taught how to love?

Formal education never helps us learn how to love - instead we are taught more useful things like algebra. We pick up what we can from quietly observing our parents’ and families and perhaps as young people reading teen magazines, or divorcees reading self help guides.

Young mums, firemen, doctors and even prostitutes are invited to schools give our young people advice, but couples in happy, long term relationships are rarely (if ever) invited to educate young people of their experiences, successes, trials, jubilations and strategies for coping with the most complex of human emotions; love.

In A lesson in Love my grandparents, who have been together nearly fifty years share the ups and downs of their marriage and by doing so give us clues not only how to love but how to make love last – A question we all need help in answering, but rarely get the chance to ask.




22/10 to 6/12
Be a Time Traveller
By Isabella Lockett

Through the window of a railway carriage the passenger is invited to view a range of images of the outside world, from the view of the countryside, depicted literally, satirically and idealistically, to the vision of artists' in the past, of the future. This acknowledges and celebrates the position of advertising and the place of the cartoonist in art.

As a self confessed designer, Isabella has enjoyed the freedom to operate under the auspices of an artist, and wishes to challenge the boundaries between design and art, illustrating how one feeds the other, in equal measure, in an attempt to highlight these pigeon holed categories.

As a farmer's daughter, but also as a confirmed urban dweller, and an ardent fan of public transport, Isabella embraces the vehicle that the railway carriage provides, to explore the town versus country debate.

Pack your bags and climb aboard!

Photographer: Ian Britton Courtesy of FreeFoto.com