Opening of BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART

At the opening of his show on 26 April Steve Rushton and Lorrain Baggaley read from Rushton's recently published chapbook collection of poems BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART 

and talked about the relationship between the poems and his technique of burning paper plates to create his paintings. 

Burnt Paper Plates

Images by Phil Polglaze

Video Felix Frixou

Copies of BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART are available from

the sales page of the publishers, erbacce-press price £4.95.

www.erbacce-press.com

Review of Steve Rushton's - BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART

Review in the Southwark News - April 23 2015

BURNING A PAPER PLATE - TOWARDS A NEW ART

Opening on Sunday 26 April at the gallery from 2pm to 5pm

A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING and Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art

Nicole Polonsky's A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING a site-specific installation 

at the gallery continues until 24 April. 

In her work Polonsky responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. Polonsky is interested in this as a locale where gestures towards activism may be performed, and political affiliations, belief systems and cherished hobbyhorses are voiced within the constraining parameters of the surrounding frame.

Steve Rushton's Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art

- chapbook launch and exhibition - opens on 26 April from 2pm to 5pm - please note the opening will end promptly at 5pm but will reconvene at The Montague Arms nearby - 289 Queen's Road, London SE14 2PA

Burning A Paper Plate - Towards A New Art is both an exhibition and a collection of poetry about art, food and transformation, and at the opening Rushton will read from this collection.

He will also feature on Poets Anonymous - croydonradio.com - 12 April at 2pm and The Hello Goodbye Show - Resonance 104.4FM - 25 April at noon. 

Copies of the book will be available at the opening, and also at the sales page of the publishers, erbacce-press price £4.95.

www.erbacce-press.com

To burn a paper plate is great.

The stains of food that you just ate

Become with fire and smoke,

Much better not much worse, become

Another kind of universe.

Opening of A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING

Nicole Polonsky's A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING opened on Sunday 29 March.

In this work Nicole Polonsky offers a site-specific installation which responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. Polonsky is interested in this as a locale where gestures towards activism may be performed, and political affiliations, belief systems and cherished hobbyhorses are voiced within the constraining parameters of the surrounding frame.

A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING presents a narrative that mines Nicole's past. 

This is the first time within her mature creative practice that the artist has produced an explicitly diaristic piece. Comprising lines of reverse, or mirror, writing inscribed in turn on the inside and outside of the window pane, the text reads correctly only when viewed line by line from opposite sides of the glass. 

By teasingly inviting and hampering the spectator’s engagement with the work, the artist seeks to convey her ambivalence towards self-revelation as source material and subject.

A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING continues until Friday 24 April.

Nicole installing the work

Caroline Gregory signing the visitor's book

Jo McCormick signing the visitor's book

Animated discussion between myself and Nicole at the opening 

Steve Rushton viewing the work

By holding mirrors to the window viewers are able to read 

the text written on both sides of the window 

Images by Daren Callow

Last week of - Fox's Window 11.3.11 - and opening of - A Dlrow For Eht Taking

Miyuki Kasahara's show Fox's Window 11.3.11 continues until 27 March
  below is a video of Miyuki's and Calum F. Kerr's performance of the Fox's Window at the opening of Miyuki's show.

The next show

A
DLROW
FOR
EHT
TAKING

by Nicole Polonsky opens on Sunday 29 March from 2pm to 5pm.

In A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING Nicole Polonsky offers a site-specific installation which responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. 

A A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING presents a narrative that mines Polonsky's past. 

This is the first time within her mature creative practice that the artist has produced an explicitly diaristic piece. By teasingly inviting and hampering the spectator’s engagement with the work, the artist seeks to convey her ambivalence towards self-revelation as source material and subject.

Video of Fox's Window Story Telling Performance

A video of Miyuki's and Calum's performance of the Fox's Window at the opening of Miyuki's show - Fox's Window 11.3.11 - on Sunday 1 March

Miyuki's show continues until 27 March 

Following this show Nicole Polonsky presents

A
DLROW
FOR
EHT
TAKING


a site - specific installation that responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet - the opening of her show is Sunday 29 March from 2 to 5pm. 

Fox's Window 11.3.11 - Opening & Performance on Sunday 1 March

Miyuki Kasahara's Fox's Window 11.3.11 - opened on Sunday 1 March with a

reading with Calum F. Kerr, of Fox's Window written by Naoko Awa - a Japanese writer of modern fairy tales

Following their performance we gathered by Miyuki's window installation Fox's Window 11.3.11 to hear her talk about the work, which combined elements of the story with details of the affects of the radiation from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused by a tsunami in 2011

Miyuki first adapted Fox's Window - a story telling performance stage set - in 2011 for the Nunhead Festival as a response to the nuclear disaster see 

http://www.miyukikasahara.com/htm_files/fox_window_menu.htm 

for more details of this. 

I have heard that my friend's young daughter who sat entranced during the story telling has repeatedly re-told the Fox's Window story to her friends.   

John 'Jazzman' Clarke enjoying a cuppa

Installation photographs by Calum F. Kerr and Miyuki Kasahara 

Performance photographs by Steve Rushton