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Be a part of the ANCC charity single for Help For Heroes!

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:22 AM PDT


Can you or want to learn how you can sing, rap, dance, beat box, snap, clap, sway, whistle, play an instrument, act, DJ, skateboard or model?

Then All Nations Community Choir welcomes you!

We are recording a charity single, video and documentary for the UK renowned charity with patrons from the royal family and such alike dignitaries & more.. HELP FOR HEROES (H4H)

The single is entitled 'I AM HEALED'.

If you would like to participate in this project then please register at:

www.anccmk.webs.com

MK Gallery are recruiting....

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:04 AM PDT


 


MK Gallery is currently recruiting for a new Front of House Coordinator and two Gallery Assistants. For more information and to download an application pack please visit our website:


 


http://www.mkgallery.org/information/jobs


 


+ (0)1908 558309


swright@mkgallery.org    


Pushwagner: Soft City


28 June - 2 September  2012


The exhibition is accompanied by a Season of Events with music, films and performances by fifty Norwegian artists.  More details HERE.  


 

NorthantsArts: RT @AlterEgoTheatre: 5* review for 'She Stoops to Conquer' on http://t.co/9SbsuI1z http://t.co/KmxMC2aF

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT

NorthantsArts: RT @AlterEgoTheatre: 5* review for 'She Stoops to Conquer' on http://t.co/9SbsuI1z http://t.co/KmxMC2aF

Scratch Nights: Comic Fair at MK Gallery

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT


 


MKomix:  Small Press  Comic Fair
Thursday 19July / 6-9pm / Free




Experience the creatively thriving small-press comic scene at MKomix Comic Fair, in the striking surroundings of MK Gallery's Pushwagner exhibition.


 


This is  an opportunity to see a  wide range of comics representing diverse genres, for all ages, both as displays and some available for sale.  Be surprised by the quality of comics, from the handmade to limited editions of just a few hundred.


 


www.MKomix.blogspot.com


Twitter @MKComicFair


 

Friday Night Films at MK Gallery

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:13 AM PDT


 


Blade Runner


Dir. Ridley Scott (Cert. 15, 117 mins.)


 


Friday 20 July / 6.30pm / £5 (concessions £3)


Pre-book on 01908 676 900


 


"From the opening shot of a Los Angeles cityscape at night in the year 2019, it is clear that Scott has conjured up something special" Film 4


 


In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth.


Written by Graeme Roy


 

Mini Makers at MK Gallery

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:41 AM PDT


 


Mini Makers


Comic Creations with Paul Rainey


Saturday 21 July / 1 - 3pm / Free


Suitable for children aged 4+


 


Join us this week as comic artist Paul Rainey shows you how to design and draw your own cartoon character. What will they look like? What sort of personality will they have? 


 


You can then have a go at including your character in a short comic strip.


 

Secklow Sounds - Art-iculate Radio Show this Friday the 20th!

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:35 AM PDT


Join Ian Allen & hopefully Jim Hoyland (Open MusicStudio) on this Friday's show with guests Ewan Hutchison (Jam Free) re STONY PAINT JAM 2012 AUGUST18TH/19TH and more on MK Festival Fringe Music Visual Art/Music Events...watch this space for more details! Don't miss it! 10am to Midday - www.secklowsounds.org :-))))

Boyd & Evans Ikon Gallery exhibition

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:01 AM PDT


Boyd & Evans
Views
18 July – 2 September 2012
Part of the London 2012 Festival

Ikon presents Boyd & Evans’ first major survey exhibition, comprising painting and photography drawn from the artist couple’s 40 year career. Their paintings, while highly realistic, have a scale, composition and use of perspective that often edge closer to the surreal. In these dreamlike pictures the air feels thin and time suspended. Photography has been integral to Boyd & Evans’ work as painters; more recently they have explored this medium in its own right. With selections from 1968 to 2012, Views tracks their practice from painted scenes of middle-class leisure in 1970s Britain to penetrating photographic landscapes of the American Southwest.

Boyd & Evans have been working together since 1968. In the first decade of their partnership, they created stencils drawn from images in their own photographic archive, spraying acrylic paint through them to create an even, thinly painted surface. Assembling disparate elements from different photographs allowed them to create new, mysterious compositions, which the viewer is left to ponder. Their use of photography, spray guns, square canvases, even their decision to work collaboratively, can all be seen as strategies to shift focus away from the hand of the artist and toward the viewer’s imaginative play.

Vision itself has been a longstanding concern for Boyd & Evans, with many works suggesting the conditions of seeing or being seen. Views 1 and 2 (1973) – paintings from which this exhibition takes its name – show in the first canvas a girl with her back to the viewer, looking out toward a group of people and some cars parked incongruously in the distance. In the second painting she turns, as in a photographic snapshot, and smiles directly at the viewer. The initial puzzle about the relationships within the painting becomes a startling, if light-hearted, confrontation between the figure and her beholders.

In the 1980s and 90s, Boyd & Evans abandoned the spray gun in favour of brushes, but continued to be inspired by photographic imagery, with an increasing emphasis on landscape. Lone figures are set within sweeping, panoramic vistas traversed by railroad tracks and asphalt roads, the everyday traces of human industry and travel. Turning Point (1989), for example, shows two figures facing each other in profile on a wintry desert road as a train passes behind them. The man at the very centre of the painting becomes a kind of fulcrum. Everything in the landscape to his left is horizontal, the train perfectly parallel to the horizon, but on his right both the road and train take a dramatic turn, pulling away into the distance.



Beginning in the 1990s, Boyd & Evans also showed an interest in pure landscape devoid of human presence, a concern which developed while in Indonesia and the American Southwest. Parallel to this strand, they also explored interiors and the familial relationships of people within them.

Views also includes photographs Boyd & Evans have taken throughout their career. Photography has become a central position within their practice, allowing the artists to explore many of the same concerns with the nature of viewing, perspective and narrative as in their paintings. As technology has developed to allow the manipulation of photographs in the last decade, and as their relationship to the near-empty desert landscapes of America has deepened, Boyd & Evans’ photography has become more painterly. Draining colour from all but a central element of their compositions, their works heighten the strange luminosity in pools of water, lone buildings or twisted cans rusting in the desert. Throughout their career, Boyd & Evans have traversed the already porous boundary between realism and illusionism.

Views is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK.
Views is supported by LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

IKON
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham b1 2hs
tel. +44 (0) 121 248 0708 / fax. +44 (0) 121 248 0709
website. www.ikon-gallery.co.uk
Ikon Gallery is a registered charity no. 528892

A Night at the Cannon, Newport Pagnell

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:52 AM PDT


Secklow Sounds' Friday Night Live presents 'A Night at the Cannon' in Newport Pagnell.

There will be live music and comedy.

Acts include musicians Lesley Jorgensen, Joe Thompson, Sean Morris, Time Well Spent & The Blue Book Project with comedy sketches from Sketch Republic.


So come down and join us Wednesday 25th July 8-11pm for a great night.


Plus entry is completely FREE!!!!!

Arts Bursary Available - £2,000 to support crafts person

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:22 AM PDT


ARTS BURSARIES AVAILABLE

- £2,000 Bursary to support a crafts person working in traditional crafts and heritage skills


Adams Traditional Crafts Bursary 2012 Application Information


The MK Community Foundation is the leading grant-making charity in Milton Keynes and we are proud to have delivered vital support to our community for the last 25 years.  We connect people and resources to projects and ideas to create positive change and long term solutions for our communities.


Please read the following information carefully as it tells you all you need to know in order to write your application.


Am I eligible to apply?


Sometimes an individual may be eligible to apply, but the art work they want us to fund does not fit into our criteria. Therefore it is important to be sure that BOTH you and your proposed work are eligible.


We accept applications from:


 



  • Crafts people who have been resident within Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas for at least the last 12 months or those with a strong connection to Milton Keynes

  • Crafts people who can demonstrate their intention to develop and practice their skill in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas



  • Crafts people who can provide evidence that they have considerable potential for future development

  • Aspiring crafts people for whose professional ambitions this award would make a significant impact.


 


What can I apply for?


We will award bursaries to crafts people from a wide range of mediums and forms, and for a variety of purposes, including but not exclusively:


 



  • To pay for equipment, materials, space, facilities, travel or other resources required to develop your work

  • To 'buy' your time by covering living costs to enable  you  to reduce your hours of employment in order  to focus on developing your artistic practice or a body of work

  • To pay fees for training, skill-building or short-term study (not degree courses) in your chosen field


Please go 'here' for more details and download an application form.


www.mkcommunityfoundation.co.uk
Posted by Creative Midlands at 7/18/2012 12:10:00 pm

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