On CDOs and Double Clubs…

•May 4, 2009 • Leave a Comment

On CDOs and Double Clubs

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“On CDOs and Double Clubs”, was an experiment on the value of art that took place at August Art in London back in March. I donated an Asda Smart Price painting and chose some mail art ‘cheques’ in return. Full documentation can be seen on the August Art website.

ECLECTIONS @ theartmarket

•February 16, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Eclections 19-28 November 2008

Curated and conceived by Zoe Sawyer, Jay Cover and myself.

Eclections @ theartmarket

To accompany the show, each participating artist lent a few items to create an eclectic reference library, relating to their inspirations and motivations as practitioners. http://kunstfreund.wordpress.com

eclections library

My book contribution included:

Jeremy Deller: Life is blame for everything

The Free Art Fair Catalogue 2008

Karl Marx and Freidrick Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Lewis Hyde: The Gift

Bob and Roberta Smith: Make Your Own Damn Art

Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy

Walter Greenwood: Love on the Dole

UrbanAct: A handbook of Alternative Practice

ASDA Smart Price Lard

Salon 2008: East Street Arts

•February 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

My work in the Social Club Salon 2008 at East Street Arts as part of ‘Multitude’.

My work in the Social Club Salon

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Granny Shopper Stuff

•November 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment

I like to make things using cheap/budget materials and these are the first of a range of pieces using granny shopper bags. Zoe Sawyer made the stool with me one cold day in theartmarket.

Granny Shopper books

Stool reupholstered with a granny shopper

Tex Stil

Tote de lux

Above: Flyer picked up in Berlin

TAKE STOCK

•November 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment

TAKESTOCK FLYER

Curatorial collaboration between theartmarket and Jay Cover from the Nous Vous collective. Exhibition at theartmarket, followed by fundraising auction, food and music at East Street Arts. June 2008

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Donna Walker: ESA Social Club Bar commission

•November 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Social Club barSocial Club bar

Having not worked with Donna since ‘Home Sweet Home’ at the Common Place, I jumped at the chance to help her with her commission by East Street Arts to build a bar from reclaimed materials. We scoured Hyde Park for unwanted fences, doors and furniture and made a remarkably stylish and robust bar!

Artgos @ theartmarket

•November 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment

An Arts Council funded collaboration between theartmarket and Artsparkle; An Argos themed selling show dealing with multiples.

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Artsparkle and theartmarket collaborated on the concept and project development including:
— Call for submissions and selection of artists
— Design of catalogue and promotional material
— Marketed through local and national channels
— Managed a budget of £5000
— The event was reviewed in the Metro newspaper and Art Monthly see http://kunstfreund.wordpress.com for Press

Image credits: ‘Art Rocks’ by Matthew Shelton, Audio CD by Martin Creed and ‘Animals in their Own Fluids’ by Sam Rees

The Really Super Market

•November 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Theartmarket does Middlesbrough

22nd September 2007: Theartmarket ventured up North for The Really Supermarket art fair at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). The fair was organised by Bob and Roberta Smith.

Art Exchange

•June 11, 2008 • Leave a Comment

The Art Exchange

Curatorial project aimed at challenging the profit focused art market by allowing people to trade artworks for free.

Art Exchange 1: 16 May-25 May. Part of Situation Leeds 2007 in theartmarket

Art Exchange 2: Across two sites in June 2007. The Holy Trinity Church and Leeds College of Art & Design.
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Art Exchange

DSCN1976 Joe Mawson (Holbeck No. 2)

Above: Michael Burkitt: ‘This Little Piggy went to Market”, Joe Mawson : “Holbeck No 2″

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Archive Leeds

•June 11, 2008 • Leave a Comment

http://archiveleeds.wordpress.com

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Archive: Leeds is a project set up by Sarah Barrett and Alicia Talikowska, looking at the possibilities of spaces for creative events.

As artists interested in working in the public realm, we felt the need for a comprehensive resource looking at the possibilities of spaces, public and private, for creative events and exhibitions.

This archive of information relates to art spaces and venues in Leeds. There are no restrictions on what is seen as a “venue,” all spaces are considered from art galleries to underpasses. Over time the archive could be gradually expanded to include information on useful local resources, contacts and art groups in the area. The aim is to make useful information freely available in order to encourage creative activity in the city, keeping in touch with a DIY approach that is synonymous with Leeds cultural scene.

Currently at theartmarket, but will soon be passed on as the both of us have moved away.

Contributers:

East Street Arts
theartmarket
The Black Dogs
Josie Flynn
James Hill, courtesy of the Arts and Regeneration department at Leeds Town Hall
Leeds Art Fair