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Freshly Squeezed @ The New Art Gallery
Some of the highlights from the fantastic Freshly Squeezed event that took place at the gallery on the 10th of June. Enjoy…
Get your very own FREE Bob and Roberta Smith poster!!!
That’s right. You too could be the proud owner of an exclusive Bob and Roberta Smith “See Esther Walsall’s Mona Lisa” poster. These are completely free but are in limited supply, so act fast! Just ask for your poster at the front desk at The New Art Gallery Walsall. Why not see Esther while you are here?
The lucky first recipient of the poster was Mr. I. Ioannou of Walsall. “This is the best thing I’ve ever seen – thank you Bob and Roberta Smith!” said Mr. Ioannou.
New books in the Art Library
Well our first Artists’ Books Fair went well and as a result we’ve collected a lot of books and zines for the collection. Here’s a couple of highlights, but do pop into the Library to see the rest!
Unrealised Projects Volume 4: a partial introduction to a process in progress is a collection of unrealised projects submitted by various artists. Volume 4 has been guest curated by Josh Love, and centres on ‘an exchange of moral rights, production roles, obligation and the notion of realising unrealised works’.
Work to do! Self-Organisation in Precarious Working-Conditions is a fantastic document of a project series by the same name, held in Shedhalle, Zurich 2007-8.
We’ve also subscribed to a couple of independent journals:
Arty & Garageland, are both bi-annual magazines edited by Cathy Lomax, an artist and director of Transition Gallery.
Paper for Emerging Architectural Reasearch (P.E.A.R.) is an exciting newspaper exploring new architectural practice across Europe.
Artists’ Books Fair
Thanks to all of you who participated and supported our first Artists’ Books Fair last May. Have a look at some of the weekend’s highlights.
Photos taken by Ming de Nasty.
Freshly Squeezed
Hello folks,
For those of you who missed last week’s phenomenal Freshly Squeezed music night with Birmingham Conservatoire composition students performing delightful music specially composed and inspired by the Epstein Archive, have a look below. Soon we will upload a short film with extracts from each performance.
Photos taken by Ian Egner.
Home of Metal – We Need You!
From Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 June 2010, 10am – 6pm, Home Of Metal will be taking up residence in a disused shop located at City 10, 18 Queen Square in Wolverhampton city centre, inviting fans to bring along their memorabilia & stories to be photographed & recorded to contribute to the digital archive or drop in to look at some of the Home Of Metal related wares we have already discovered!
Home Of Metal are looking for everything from concert tickets to photographs, badges, album covers, t-shirts, demo tapes, fan letters, fanzines, flyers, lyrics, posters, press articles, set lists and promotional materials to build the collection online, which will inform a series of major exhibitions which are being developed for 2011.
On Saturday 19 June, 2 – 6pm, renowned rock photographer Steve Gerrard will be in residence, fans are invited to have their portraits taken by him in their prized band T-shirts to feature in the Home Of Metal Exhibition.
Thursday 17th June – Saturday 19th June
10am – 6pm
Home of Metal open days
@ City 10 Shop, 18 Queen Square, Wolverhampton
P.s. Even if you can’t make it to Wolverhampton you can still contribute to the archive here – http://www.homeofmetal.com/
Bob and Roberta Smith’s May Residency
It’s been quite a month for the Epstein Archive. Bob was in residency for most of May and made the largest work for the project to date. See Esther Walsall’s Mona Lisa comprises of 4 large boards that tell the story of Esther Garman, Jacob Epstein’s sculpture of Esther and Bob’s reaction to it. This is part of Bob’s plan to brand the Esther sculpture as Walsall’s Mona Lisa. These boards will be displayed in the main hall of the Garman Ryan Collection from October and I genuinely cannot wait to see it up there. Enjoy the pictures below…
We created some stop motion films of the residency, with some of Bob’s thoughts on the work….
As well as the small matter of making the See Esther work, Bob also made some posters for the promotion of the Freshly Squeezed event at the gallery (Thursday 10th June @ 6pm) and also the gallery generally. The latter poster is also part of Bob’s branding of Esther.
I’ve posted this video already, but I’m going to put it up again as it’s my favourite of all the videos we have created so far. Inspired by Telly Savalas’ ‘tour’ of Birmingham (which you can see here),we filmed this straight after Bob finished See Esther and he was in a very amusing mood. If you listen carefully, you can hear me snorting with laughter in the background. The theme tune comes courtesy of Dr CJ Freelove, a little known South American musician who exclusively writes 80s ‘This Morning’ style theme tunes.
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