News & Updates

For those of you who saw the premiered "Nosce Te Ipsum" at UHG, Hatfield last November, expect more - - - a lot more at The Old Truman Brewery (Boiler House).

Among the new works I’m developing is a monumental shrine, "Gods of Healing & Sublime Enchanters", which will stand some ten feet high and house fifteen terracotta pieces not previously exhibited in the UK.

I’m also expanding the "Selection Box" series adding "Deity Hooks", "Sacred Arrows" and "Oracle Bones".

Ricardo (Gaete) is working with me to create a specific performance in response to the show’s theme - Magic, Medicine and Religion.

comments:

I am looking forward to seeing your work in full, as I missed it when you showed in Hertfordshire last year. I am really enjoying writing a piece for the poetry night on the 22nd. It focuses on religion and is called 'The Meal.' It is psycho-drama and dark. It is pulling out some interesting ideas, I am enjoying the process.
Sarah Reilly.

* Gedvile Bunikyte - Live Art performance.
* Barbara Dean - live installation : A public expression of the soul.
* Poppy Jackson - Live Art performance.
* Silvana Maimone : Gypsy Finta and her Amazing Flyer Fortune Telling.
* Jelka Milic - perfomative installation : Broken vessel image.

The Curse of Me brings together not just established performance artists but those whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture and installation to create a night to remember. You have been cursed...

In the central performance area, an on-going stage will be constructed from various materials throughout the evening by a selection of artists . Creating a new, ever-evolving cocoon in front of the audience, this will act as a stimulating catalyst ,as every 15-20 minutes a performance will take place. Throughout the evening alongside the main focal performance area , performers will be creating on going roaming works which will directly interact with the audience - - - - - expect a conga rant with a megaphone (Lee Campbell), a lesson in bread-making (Matt Wilding), an anarchic exploration of self (Ian Larson) and a word chant (Carali McCall).

The night will expose the mystery and magic in an artist's craft and the rules (the artist's personal religion that he/she follows) especially for the audience to be able to see a painter and sculptor creating his works which is normally left to the confines of his/her private studio space. Yet expect something possibly sinister and macabre from some of the works.....

This is Lee Campbell's first major live event in London that he has curated. For the past year, the recent Slade Masters graduate has performed in his own right at various venues such as Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol’s The Cube, FRESH in Reading and Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, Cockpit Theatre Paddington , Deptford Xand the Riflemaker Gallery. He has also exhibited and curated internationally across the USA and Canada and in Australasia since the year 2000. Recently he was awarded a NewWorkNetWork bursary to review at Bristol's Arnolfini gallery.

Performing artists currently include: Sarah Bowker-Jones; Lee Campbell; Emma Holden; Calum F. Kerr; Caroline De Lannoy; Ian Larson; Adrian Lee; Daniel Lehan; Carali McCall; Mike Ryder; Matt Wilding; Gary Woodley; Laura Wilson; Sharon Gal; Victoria Melody.

Kate is a freelance animator.

“ Tim sullivan photographed Lorraine's work.

I then took these photos and animated them, using Photoshop and After Effects.

Nigel Kellaway created a soundtrack from sampled sounds, which was added to the animation using Final Cut."

Brian Catling was born in London in 1948. He is a poet, sculptor and performance artist, who is currently working in video and live work. He has been commissioned to make solo installations and performances in many countries including; Spain, Japan, Iceland, Israel, Holland, Norway, Germany, Greenland and Australia. His recent solo show “Antix” at Matt’s Gallery drew much critical acclaim. Four years ago he founded the international performance group ‘The Wolf In The Winter’, whose most recent manifestation was at The South London Gallery. His video work moves between gallery installation and narrative films made in collaboration with Tony Grisoni. Their most recent work “The Cutting” was released this year. They also produce the no holds barred Cabaret Melancolique.

Catling’s permanent monument for the site of execution at the Tower of London was unveiled in last year.

Eight books of Catling’s poetry have been published and his work has been included in many anthologies. A new book; Bobby Awl has just been released from Etruscan Press. They are also producing a compilation of all of his poetry; A Court Of Miracles, to be published later this year. Catling is currently working on his first novel.

He is professor of fine art at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College.

extract of artist statement

No today without yesterday . . .

The origin of Contemporary Mime is in Dramatic Corporeal Mime created by Etienne Decroux. The French artist and father of modern mime created an autonomous art form, distinct from dance and theatre and distinguished from classical pantomime by its aesthetic and style of communication, which emphasized the action rather than the gesture, and stressed a corporeal grammar based on the spine, from which every vital action is born.

My style in Contemporary Mime is rooted in my training with my teachers and my own research and experimentation, creating a corporal poetry in which my nude torso generates and sculpts internal states which give rise to a world of physical actions, merged with visual and musical elements which endow the essence of my art and the body, with universality.

I am essentially a creator, and as such I respect all forms of this and other arts. I have consciously chosen to innovate and create my own style (which I refer to as ’Contemporary Mime‘), which does not pretend to please scholars, but rather aims to touch the public, for it is the public who deserve our effort and whom in turn we need to prevent our work from remaining an act steeped in itself. I wish to become a bridge for communication, I feel the urgency to wake up in this time of folly, intolerance and ignorance.

Waking up from the state of emotional and intellectual idleness which rules our age is not a mere fancy but an urgency, which I believe can be addressed through the medium of Art.

MAQ is in fact a quartet of one, but occasionally (when the situation is right) there are three empty chairs with a selection of instruments, percussion, etc. available for members of the audience to join in if they so wish.

Over the period of the last year MAQ have performed in what can only be called a number 'unconventional venues' and situations. It is MAQ’s intention to go into public spaces and create live soundpieces that directly interact and complement the venue and the activities of that given time.

What is performed is always at the mercy of the moment.