Tony Knox - incubation Gallery

News : New Show at Incubation Gallery, Julie & Julia …

The new Art Exhibition features Julia Swarbrick and Julie Saul
Curator Tony Knox
Preview On Tuesday the 11th May 2010 5 -6 pm
at the incubation Gallery, 4th Floor, Media Factory. University of Central Lancashire. Preston
There will be Free Refreshments and Buffet
Opens 12th may- 12th July 2010
Julia Swarbrick and Julie Saul are both members of Art/Lab Printmaking an established resource in Preston that offers a wide range of facilities for, Silkscreen and Digital printing, Etching, Relief, Lithography it maintains and develop links between the Uclan and the regional/international visual arts community.
Julie Saul
Saul work is an exploration of painting using fragments of imagery culled from popular culture. The work depicts imagery found in comics and advertisements, combining them with photography and found imagery of walls and graffiti tags found in back streets and in rundown areas of town centres. The work is layered and involves different ways of using paint and finding ways they can coexist.
Saul graduated in Fine Art from Lancaster University in 2004 and completed the MA Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking at University of Central Lancashire in 2006.
Julia Swarbrick
Julia’s work explores the internal world of imagination and memory. Memories distorted by dreams and the overlaying of new narratives. She uses the disciplines of painting, printmaking as contained spaces in which to explore the intuitive and emotional using processes that combine both calculation, and risk with an element of the unexpected.'
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News : Henckel & Ramsdale investigators
Art lab : David Henckel . Ruth Alice Ramsdale
Curator Tony Knox

Incubation Gallery, 4th Floor, media factory.
University of Central Lancashire Preston,
PR1 2HE
David Henckel
My work is informed by the personality of everyday objects. Through a playful process of sampling and automatic drawing I combine elements of vegetation, science fiction, furniture, architecture, vehicles and other stuff to create characters and forms with absurd and comic tendencies. Continual invention and humour is important to me and I enjoy the challenge of creating new characters based on a loose set of rules. As well as using finished drawings to create a painting I am also interested in using elements from my drawings as inspiration lines, scratches and half forms. These pieces, or micro samples, I think of as quantum soup, packets of information, genes or tiny building blocks of unlimited potential. Currently Henckel is artist in residence at UCLAN where he is exploring these ideas in printmaking.Ruth Alice Ramsdale
I feel that I am physically involved with the intricacies of Mother Nature; everyday she amazes me with something new.
Her reclamation of mankind is overpowering, relaxing, it makes me feel safe to know how small I am. I know I can never compete with her creativity, her attention to detail, her intricate growth, yet I will keep trying. Always walking one step behind her knowing that I am her creation but because of that I will never pass her. My prints are my creation, my expression of my world and the outcome of my investigations.
www.davidhenckel.com

Curator Tony Knox of the new show:
Once less harmful & more pleasure-giving Features : James Diable and Wayne Hill
12th May-1st July
Incubation Gallery, 4th Floor,media factory,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston,PR1 2HE

Working from a Preston based studio space, James Diable and Wayne Hill are affectionately inspired and driven by the observation of and connectivity with the day to day traditional market place and the tangible Preston lives that exist within this space.
Through collaboration and creative liaison they negotiate and blend the mediums of paint, creative writing, mechanical art and drawing. UCLAN graduates and connoisseurs of Northern mustard, @ once less harmful and more pleasure-giving is an amalgamation of personal study and retrospective work investigating portraiture, the application of paint and symbolic connotation.

New Show : Hunger, Curator Tony knox
Incubation Gallery 12th March -1st May 2009
Media Factory,Uclan, Preston
Features: Yuanning Che, Steph Fletcher, Sarah Watson, Jane Bennett

Steph Fletcher work concerns both the human form - examining the structural, anatomical qualities of the body – and the human condition, exploring ideas of mortality, assimilation, decay and the transient nature of individual existence.
For this set of drawings she had taken inspiration from UCLan’s ‘Northern Lights’ incubation space and the people that utilize it, developed through drawing processes that merge traditional figure drawing, comic-book style illustration, and medical imagery" ,

Yuanning Che new work inspired by his return to his hoem land of china stated ” I always feel that I don't take photographs with my cameras: I take them with my hearts and my minds. They are a reflection of my selves, what I am and what I think.”

Stuart Carter art work, produced between 2003-2005 is an investigation into golf courses as an urban sterilisation of the rural landscape. The Golf courses are a representation of an urban insertion on the landscape. Through the use of weed killers and the planting of non–native trees; the habitats that would have been present are altered and lost within these environments. Although there seems too be a natural marriage between the rural and the urban the work sets out to highlight the fact that golf courses are just tidying up the rural environments they inhabit. The landscapes created are a result of an urban serialisation of the rural landscape and points towards our increasing need to shape the landscape to suit our needs.

Neil Hickson a professional photographer. has covered many types of photographic activity ending up working mostly for magazines. I now run a company called creative |mixed| media

Seasons in Shadow: Incubation Gallery 8th Aug- 26th Sep 2008
Tony knox the curator of the Incubation space based at the Media Factory Preston present the new show : Season in Shadow features Yuanning Che and Barry Jackson.
Chinese artist Yuanning Che gradated in a ma in fine art in 2007 this new series of work inspired by Sakura, or as it is know in the west Cherry Blossom is an omen of good fortune and is also an emblem of love, affection and represents spring. Cherry blossoms are an enduring metaphor for the fleeting nature of life, and as such are frequently depicted in art.
Che stated ” I always feel that I don't take photographs with my cameras: I take them with my hearts and my minds. They are a reflection of my selves, what I am and what I think.”

Yuanning Che 2008

Barry Jackson a digital photo artist has shown internationally and wrote books on Photoshop his new series "URBAN ANGELS" explores the long held religious belief that angels invisibly walk among us in order to provide guidance and protection. Jackson constructs the images to appear as if they where candid snapshots taken with some kind of spectral camera catching the angels unawares as they went about their daily business.

Although the ethereal beauty of the angels creates a vivid contrast against the gritty backdrop of stark urban reality they also manage to appear inconspicuously at home and serene in their far from heavenly surroundings.
Barry Jackson 2008

Before The Silence: 6th May - 31st July

Liverpool Curator Tony Knox brings 3 artists, Anna McDade, Darren Beatty and Carol Menzies, all from different disciplines to the new show at the Incubation Gallery, situated at the new £15 million pound Media Factory building Preston.

Anna McDade’s work explores the fusion of Eastern and Western art styles, including Graffiti Art, Anime and the ‘Superflat’ movement (Murakame). ‘After The Silence’ is a series of digital works exploring the birth of a new world after a terrible cataclysm; They are a reflection of real events experienced by the artist, but retold to express emotional perceptions in a succession of visual metaphors. They are a celebration of the realisation that from great tragedy can spring infinite renewal and rebirth: it is merely a question of an individual’s personal choice to recognise and embrace the positive as well as the negative in every situation.

Darren Beatty’s art work revolves around the questioning of images. Beatty’s interest is in the ambiguous nature of perception and representation, along with “tensions” between objective and subjective “picture making”. His intention is not to be overtly political, regarding specific issues such as the war in Iraq, but instead using imagery as a signifier of events from a broader historical period and therefore commenting more objectively.

Carol Menzies’ photographic images are a new abstracted series of jellyfish. These Embryos of Light are convulsing, dancing and floating structures within the unnatural environment of an aquarium. Lit by a single neon strip the jellyfish movement is restricted within this entombment. This organism is one of the oldest forms of life on earth, displayed for the voyeuristic pleasures of the public as they glare though the glass to another world.

On the 24 January as the official opening of a state-of-the-art £15 million university of centre Lancashire” Media Factory” a glittering red carpet event, Part financed by European Regional Development. The Media Factory will allow North West university graduates, budding entrepreneurs and small businesses to develop the skills they need to thrive in the global media economy.” and gives access to industry-standard performing arts and multimedia facilities offered via a dedicated business incubation centre based on the top floor of the building.
The Northern light’s incubation space has been transformed into a temporary gallery space; I was commissioned by the management team to curator THREE TO GO which features Tony Knox, Kevin Whittle, and John Robertson. “ this was a great opportunity to network but I was two hours late and the red carpet was being put away by the time I arrived, to be greeted by jugglers for the Circus Skills Society I felt like I wandered on to a festival site and this was reinforced by the images of MothMan.”
Kevin Whittle a printmaker who was one of the artist selected for the Legacy project at the Liverpool Royal University Hospital last September, Whittle subject matter is inspired by nature.
John Robertson a Manchester based Photography who travel through Europe showcases his journey on digital canvas http://www.no-borders.co.uk/index.htm.
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