Light Night
Friday 13 May 2011
5pm – Late
Venues across Liverpool city centreDo something different
on a Friday Night!
iTaking place for one night only as part of the Light Night,
Strange Sounds From The Attic explores the effects of displacement
within the city and what happens behind closed doors.
This exhibition contains site specific installations and features
artwork by a selection of Artlab Contemporary Print Studios
members and other artists as well as a live performance by
the Moth Man at 9.00pm.The work is inspired by City of Radicals,
an exhibition being held by Wolstenholme Creative Space, which
explores the diversity of the human spirit in the city that
encapsulates them.
Artists ,Tony Knox, Pete Clarke, David Henckel , Martha Oatway,
Julia Swabrick, Janet Manogue, Lily Cheung, etc
show opens 7.00 till 10.30
Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool L1 4JJ
http://www.wolstenholmecreativespace.blogspot.com/
Light Night is Liverpool’s one-night festival of arts
and culture, when venues across the city throw open their
doors and stage over 90 special events. From 5pm visitors
of all ages can follow their own vibrant trail of exhibitions,
performance, talks, walks, dance and much more. It’s
the perfect chance to meet friends and family to enjoy the
relaxed after-hours atmosphere and rediscover Liverpool city
centre - it’s a Friday night out with a difference.
Visit www.lightnightliverpool.co.uk and request your free
programme
http://www.artlabcontemporaryprint.org/ ........
NewsIsle
of My India
In
2010 five British artists undertook an exchange programme
(the EGG project), collaborating with and responding to rural
artists in West Bengal, India. This exhibition highlights
the work that came out of that exchange programme and the
work of the patachitra or story-scroll artists from West Bengal.
The EGG project initiated a program of exchange, interaction
and collaboration which involved both British and Indian artists.
The British artists spent between 10-35 days working in rural
and tribal villages, with their Indian counterparts and each
artist has responded differently to their residency.
The project was led by Banglanatak, an organization based
in Kolkata. They have been working on the Intangible
Cultural Heritage Program with rural and tribal artists
for five years, helping to revitalize art forms and increase
the artist’s livelihoods. Intangible Cultural Heritage
is in short 'living culture'. Performance, storytelling and
painting can all be intangible culture and are an important
part of India’s culture and history.
From Planet Art Exchange,Becs Andrews, Ruth Dillon, Hambi
Haralambous, Tony Knox, Dave Sponde., Jonathon Tooze, Participating
Patachitra artists Anwar Chitakra , Baku Chitakra, Bahadur
Chitrakar, Karuna Chitakra , Manu Chitakra, Jaba Chitrakar,
Yakub Chitakra, Suman Chitrakar
With assistance of Alan Worswick , Dawn Wormald and Carol
White.
Four contemporary printmakers showing a diverse range of theme,
process and practice. This selection presents bold, playful
and thoughtful interpretations of traditional printmaking
from artists based in the north-west of England, exhibiting
nationally and internationally.
Artists featured in this exhibition are members of the Art
Lab Contemporary Print Studio at the University of Central
Lancashire. For further information please visit: http://www.artlabcontemporaryprint.org/
This project was curated by Kathryn Wheatley and Lisa Wigham
as Associate Artists for They Eat Culture . For further information
on the curated projects please contact: curator@theyeatculture.org
or visit the website www.newcontinental.net
News : Art lab in
the Attic
Artlab
In the Attic (One Night Only ) Wolstenholme Creative Space
Top Floor part of the Long Night
Artist : Tracey Hill, Julia Swarbrick, David Henckel, Ruth
Alice Ramsdale, Anna Mc Dade, ETC curated
by Tony Knox
ArtLab Contemporary Print Studio is a group of artists
from across the North West who use the printmaking facilities
at The University of Central Lancashire, The artists are from
a range of backgrounds and disciplines, for some of them printmaking
is the core of their artistic development and for others the
print studio enhances their practice in different disciplines.
Artlab Contemporary Print Studios creates an environment where
members can engage in debate and investigation into contemporary
research and strategies. The building now inhabited by W.C.S
has been around since the 1700’s, when it was home to
Liverpool’s first mayor and has been an artistic space
since the 1990’s. Nestled between two night clubs, the
once grand architecture’s dark structures rub shoulders
with the Square’s garish neon posters. The juxtaposition
of grandeur and throwaway enables a space in which DIY culture
and artistic practice can flourish.Artlab in the Attic is
a one night exhibition
top floor Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square,
Liverpool L1 4JJ
www.wolstenholmeprojects.org
News
: "STYGMERGY "5th Nov - 11th Nov 2010
Stygmergy
is a mechanism of spontaneous, indirect coordination between
agents or actions, where the trace left in the environment
by an action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action,
by the same or a different agent. Stygmergy is a form of self-organization.
In 2010 a group of artists embarked on a Contact Base initiative.
As part of an EU commission Pax Liverpool sent 5 British artists
to to collaborate and respond to residencies in West Bengal,
Northern India. Contact Base have been working with rural
and tribal artists for 5 years and through an Intangible Cultural
Heritage Program, the lives of both British and Indian artists
overlapped and the result of some of the works are on display
in Liverpool this month. Two Patachitra scroll painters from
Pingla, West Bengal, will also be exhibiting works with the
Liverpool artists.
News
: Simon Pegg reading the Mothman at his book signing for his
new book 'Nerd Do Well' at Waterstone's Liverpool Pegg is
best known for his starring roles in films including Star
Trek, Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.
New : Alexei Sayle with presented with new work by Tony knox
.
Liverpool author and comedian at WATERSTONE'S LIVERPOOL CENTRAL
on 20th October was presented with an original screen print
by Tony Knox, this is part of the comedian where Knox has
photographed, harry hill, Ken Dodd, Frank Carson, Alexei Sayle
etc .
Alexei Sayle was signing his new book 'Stalin Ate My Homework
- Most people know Alexei Sayle from the telly, from The Young
Ones, or The Comic Strip Presents .
MothMan No1 Comic Book by Tony Knox
also features artist,
Anna McDade, Anwar
Chitrakar, Bahadur Chitrakar, Manu Chitrakar, Jaba Chitrakar,
Yakub Chitrakar, Karuna Chitrakar, Baku Chitrakar, Suman Chitrakar
,Alan Worswick
Steph Fletcher
There are a limited edition of 500 comic
book all numbered part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial
2010 ,currently due the sussess of the comic book now only
avalibe at the Bluecoat chambers...TO
DOWNLOAD PDF (CLICK HERE) To view on comic click on poster
Run from John Moores University, Arts & Design Academy
to independent district AND BACK AGAIN..
Critical Run is also format where particants are running while
debatting . It has been activated in London / Moscow/ Rotterdam
/ Siberia / Barcelona / Bruxelles / Paris / Napoli etc ...
. In this format others than professionel artists can participate
in the running debate . As burning artists from Emergency
Room aggree that there is emergencies to look at and to care
about , the critical run is the logic way to make debate.
Run debate are filmed and then exhibited . Subjects like apathy,
the role of the artist , emergencies are examples that have
been run-debated . Coming at Venice Biennale and Moderna Museet
/ Stockholm.
http://www.colonel.dk/
Liverpool Artists Tony Knox and Ruth Dillon have
just returned from a 3 week residency in India, co-ordinated
by Liverpool NGO PAX. The initial aim of the residency was
to forge a link with the tribal Patua painters, based in a
small village in Pingla, West Bengal. Knox and Dillon's work
was inspired in response to their experience in the village.
Traditionally the Patua paint in scroll form,a visual story,
relayed by single frames and multiple frames, painted with
natural colours garnered from flowers and herbs. The
Patua scroll is considered to be the first audio visual mode
of storytelling in the in the world, dating from the 8th century
Bc. As the scroll is unfurled, the painter sings the story
which can range from traditional to mythological and even
more contemporary subjects, such as Tsunami or even 9.11.
Ten Artists where selected to take part in multi-disciplinary
workshops and an exhibition in Delhi. A four day workshop
culminated in an amalgamation of ideas and an exchange of
creative practice, resulting in an exhibition. This showcased
eight masters of the Patua style, who have exhibited internationally
and the two British Artists Dillon and Knox.
In the South Delhi gallery space: Mulk Raj Arnand Centre,
Lokayukta, Knox and Dillon interpreted and presented their
experiential exchange in quite different ways. Knox aka Mothman
decided to create a visual paradox. On one hand, the artist
Tony Knox created a mandala like space. (click to read more)
News:
Tony Knox will featue as mothman at the GPW wrestling event
21st May 2010
Tony
knox is Currently Back in training, for this Project...
more details go to www.gpwrestling.org.uk
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.'
www.podgy.org.uk
Ink-Coherant ArtLab Harris Art Gallery Preston
Artlab Contemporary Print Studios features Tony Knox.
ArtLab
Contemporary Print Studio is a group of artists from across
the North West who use the printmaking facilities at The University
of Central Lancashire to develop their knowledge and skills
in printmaking.
The member artists are from a range of backgrounds and disciplines,
for some of them printmaking is the core of their artistic
development and for others the print studio enhances their
practice in different disciplines. Artlab Contemporary Print
Studios creates an environment where members can engage in
debate and investigation into contemporary research and strategies.
Knox Worked with in collabrashion with Dancer Lyndsay Williams
On new work for the show....
Ink-Coherant is an exhibition of works which are a response
by artists of Artlab Contemporary Print Studios to The Harris
Museum and Art Gallery. Each of the works on show relates
to either something held in the collections or is a direct
response to the environment of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery
itself.
21 Apr - 26 June 2010
Images from the opening of Ink-Coherant at Harris Museum and
Art Gallery Preston
News:
Tony Knox art work at the wigan open Turnpike Gallery
Leigh
The
annual Open exhibition is a celebration of the diversity of
current artistic practice in the borough. Each year the Turnpike
Gallery invites people living or working in the borough of
Wigan, to submit an artwork or hand crafted object to be included
in the exhibition. This year nearly 200 local artists - professionals
and amateurs, young and old – are taking part in the
exhibition.
The Open is a popular exhibition with visitors and exhibitors
alike, and attracts work in a variety of media from painting,
sculpture, video and photography, to ceramics, textiles and
jewellery. It includes traditional and non-traditional, figurative
and abstract works, large and small.
We endeavour to exhibit all the art works that are brought
to the gallery. For some established artists it is a chance
for their work to be seen by a new audience; for others it
is the first time they have considered putting their art on
public display. There really is something for everyone.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 13 March, 12.00-2.00pm and
everyone is welcome to attend
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
News:
Mural Project Commishion at Leigh Sixth Form college workshops
with Tony Knox.
News: opens to the public as part of an exhibition open evening
on Thursay 2nd July 2009...
Tony Knox with support from the Art Teacher Patricia
Carey, June 2009 Leigh 6th form college workshops Students Art work
By Tom Gregory, Leanne Easton,
Jo Ackers, Helen Croft, Daniel Oliver, Lucy Hardman, Danielle
Hill, Cleo Davis , Gemma Roe, Sarah Evans, Lewis Cash, Jessica
Lowrence, Shannon Taylor,
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.
May-July 2009 Tony Knox Mothman is featured on A Banner to
the Turnpike Gallery Building as part of the Wigan open.
Pax CONVENTION - Planet Art eXchange :4th - 8th April 2009
Blackie Art Centre, Liverpool
Planet Art eXchange (PAX) a transnational community building
not for profit organisation that uses art, culture and science
to address socially divisive issues, will be holding its first
convention. Tony Knox new work featured as part of Zygote
a installation created by Sumer Erek based on works by 35
international artists. Throughout the five days of the event,
there will be art exhibitions and shows, film screenings,
poetry, music, dance and live drama performances, faith happenings
and tens of panel discussions.
Mothman perforance 14th March 2008: 10 Years on, In the footsteps
of Batman
Tony Knox work was featured as part of Instant Mash 13th
March 2009.
Empty Shop is the North East’s newest contemporary
arts group, dedicated to giving artists in the region
a much needed platform to produce and exhibit their work.
They take on unused buildings in the region and turn them
into usable art spaces. Empty Shop was created by Nick,
and Carlo . It is operating as non profit with it's focus
firmly set on art not personal profit.
We are currently occupying our first 'Empty Shop' and
will be until July '09 at least.
13 March - 31 May 2009Group
zine exhibition. FACT, Liverpool,
UK, Climate for Change
Features Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery
1
For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable
year, FACT is proud to present Climate for Change, a unique
experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining
the multiple crises affecting the planet – ecological,
financial, food and housing. From peak oil to peak credit,
Climate for Change seizes the moment, and asks how do we
respond?
In Gallery 1, a range of groups will take up residence in
an environment created from the leftover building materials
from 2008's Capital of Culture year. The networked activities
of Merseyside and beyond will become a key part of the experiment,
as FACT hands over the keys to the door and becomes a hub
for meetings, socials, discussions and workshops, supporting
grassroots networks to practise and imagine new models of
governance and organising - live in the gallery space. Dealing
with topics as diverse as the Transition Town movement to
underground nightclubs, Climate for Change speculates that
distributed networks who share methods of self-organising
are the most important tools we have for responding to sustainability.
Underpinning this action will be a number of artist-led
activities. In Gallery 1, New York’s Eyebeam Art and
Technology Centre stages its Sustainability Road Show –
a series of hands-on workshops and activities that are both
playful and social, highlighting Eyebeam's strong media
lab culture built around tinkering, hacking, making and
doing.
Artist Stefan Szczelkun presents his Survival Scrapbooks.
Originally published in the early 1970s, the Survival Scrapbooks
are DIY manuals for autonomous living, covering topics from
“bio-diesel-making” to “increasing your
chi”. Loosely formatted and intended to be re-edited
in a pre-internet information-sharing format, the books
will form the basis for workshops and discussion in Gallery
1.
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.”
UK
DIY, Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester,
14 February - 25 April 2009 This
exhibition explores the emergence of alternative, subversive,
political craft taking place across the UK as a new generation
reclaim and re-define craft, adding a distinctive tongue-in-cheek
edge. Featuring crafts that cross-over with fashion, furniture,
science, technology, and music culture, the work of innovative
national and international makers will be shown alongside
work produced by local communities, online communities and
knitting groups across the country. Features
Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery
Fear
and Optimism - Liverpool Artists on Tour
Published by Ian Jackson on March 6, 2009
Judging by the photos on Tony Knox’s flickr pages
the Fear and Optimism exhibition of works by 24 Liverpool
Artitsts at Bloc space and Workstation in Sheffield went
well. Looks like an interesting exhibition and a good gallery
space. The Sheffield leg of the tour has finished now. The
plan is to move onto Durham and then Halifax soon.
The
night of the biennial lay witness to Mothman at St.Georges
Hall
The
night of the biennial lay witness to Mothman at St.Georges
Hallwritten by Anna McDade
A moment of silence is often a gesture of respect, particularly
in mourning for those who have recently died, or as part
of a ceremony commemorating a tragic historical event. The
venue of St. George's Hall is synonymous with Remembrance
Sunday, a visually orchestrated event that represents an
iconic image of military unity and power. On these very
steps stood the solitary, resolute figure of the Mothman,
clad in semi darkness, holding a fiercely bright red flare
with sixty second burn life. As the entrance to St. George's
Hall was transformed by the luminous red glow, an excited
member of the public ran up the steps, drawn towards the
diminishing red light as if attempting to escape the beckoning
darkness.
thank you to Anna McDade, Colin Davis, Georgine Swan, Nik
Corke, Yupin Chung, thosmas Colin davis, Thomas Jacobi for
there support on the project Tony Knox
Mothman
The Comic Book : Tony Knox, Anna McDade ,Katie Hanratty
Now -25th December 2008
A Limited edition of Three hundred issues of Mothman Comic
book have been released as part of the Independents Liverpool
Biennial and distrusted in selected gallery’s throughout
Liverpool and the Kyotobar, Architectural Gallery, Köln
in connection with eight days a week.
This free preview issue zero is also available as a downloadable
comic book only available now until 25th December 2008.
The mothman a tragic dysfunctional hero that would save
you if he could only save himself ...
Artist Tony Knox developed the pseudo hero Mothman in 2004,
inspired by comic books and a fascination of moths this
hero was born, This nomadic being appears though various
locations through out the world creating a sense of Mystery
where did he come from, Why did he appear like a apparition
at Pyramids in Egypt, then the streets of Köln to the
abandoned Garden festival site in Liverpool to the centre
stage of a wrestling ring and is Harry Hill the mothman?
One of the factors that has inspires Knox art is the desire
to tell a story to finally give a insight into who the character
is and show it’s origins. An important factor to the
success of this collaboration was giving a lose narrative,
Wirral based Katie Hanratty illustrations brought a freshness
by stamping her own style on her pages, Anna McDade a multimedia
artist set the scenario where mothman was sitting on the
angle of the north only to be accidentally joined by a farther
for justice planned protest.
Grab your copy while you can or download or view online.
Seasons in Shadow: Incubation Gallery 8th Aug- 26th
Sep 2008
Tony Knox the curator of the Incubation space based at the
Media Factory Preston presents 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
Mothman
at the tate
News : 20th-25th May 2008 . Mothman at theTATE written
by Ann Partington
Artists Tony Knox and Anna McDade together with actor Kevin
Thomas had a fortunate encounter whilst participating in
a treasure hunt in Liverpool. Looking for clues, they came
across a golden figure crouching on the floor. Approaching
the figure, now gazing in their direction, it deftly darted
towards the steps on Water Street. Settling in a squat-like
position against the backdrop of the huge green door - Knox
excalimed ”its Mothman”. Mothman crouched motionless
with it piercing and intent stare upon them as the three
started to photograph it. With the screech of halting traffic,
the faces on a passing bus drew closer to the windows.The
nomadic Mothman arbitarily presents itself in various locations
throughout the world - its last previous sighting being
in Cyprus it has now presented itself in Liverpool.
Shoot Experience celebrated the Tate Liverpool birthday
in style with great events on the first sunny weekend of
the year!
The docks were buzzing with activity at this event, as our
photographers set off with all senses alert to sniff out
the clues and be the victors in this inspiring photographic
treasure hunt.
The theme of the day was SENSES Clues led participants on
a photographic treasure hunt through the streets of Liverpool
in teams of two to four to discover the wonders of the City
through the intrinsic sights, sounds, taste and smells of
the City. Participants took digital photos of what they
discovered before ending at TATE Liverpool.
Now you can see the best photos from the day on display
at TATE Liverpool Studio from the 20th to 25th May. Please
join us for the opening, from 6.30 - 8.30pm on Tuesday 20th
May. For more information and event details please see
http://www.shootexperience.com/events/info/83
http://www.tonyknox.org.uk
http://www.annamcdade.co.uk
http://www.mothman.org.uk
New
show by Curator Tony knox
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.
Leigh and Wigan Artists Openat the turnpike features Tony Knox
Images
by Tony Knox Leigh
and Wigan Artists Open
The exhibition opened on Saturday 15th March- 26th April.
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
Leigh and Wigan Artists Open is a celebration of the diversity
of current artistic practice in the borough featuring over
180 artist from professional artists from the wigan artist
network and okey studios
to amateur artists, living or working in the borough
of Wigan top left image is the work of the Late Geeta Rao
featured Jane Fairhurst, Tony Knox, Steven Heaton, Elaine
Bennet, Mike Fahey,
Elizabeth Smith, David Stanley, Dorothy Spain,etc
Preston
Nights of Opening : written by Tony Knox
Photography by Tony Knox
Two days of Actives kicked off
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.
http://www.uclanknowledgetransfer.co.uk/project.php?id=58Friday
25th Two events 1st Paradise: Work by Kutlug Ataman at the
Harris Art Gallery Preston.
This is well worth a look, not only has it got a room, Stefan’s
Room (2004) is a playful five screen installation about
Stefan Naumann’s obsession with over 30,000 tropical
moths which he has collected in his tiny apartment, I’m
sure MothMan would like that room but been no sighting of
him since early November.
Ataman was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2004, his
work was fluent and the presentation was slick, Turkish
Delight (2006) is Ataman’s first performance piece
and a semi-fictitious self-portrait. Was Ataman is traditional
belly dancing attire a single screen projection in a darken
room it appears as thought he’s dancing for you. Ataman
elaborated that he was a bit heavier when he did that video
piece, a good way to keep in shape, this engaging show is
on till 26th April 2008. http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk
Then swiftly on to the Nguzo Saba Centre for Plaited Fog
“pFarty “ this One Night Only exhibition /Happening.
Plaited fog are a group of practicing artists who work in
a variety of disciplines, and who are all based in Preston
or studied there. There was about 15 Artist’s a large
selection where MA graduates of Uclan fine art programme
I was invited to come up with a new piece in collaboration
with Geeta Rao “Numeric Hopscotch” this was
an inactive installation where member of the public played
hopscotch on floor to the music of the band.
Angela Presnail has an interest in how the found image evolves
when translated into a reductive line drawing regard her
choice of materials, Her Cardboard box with line felt tip
drawing inspired by photographer Nick Waplington living
room book.
Rebecca Chesney small detailed bee’s drawing where
illustrated her strong technical abilities, artist James
Robert Diable gave poetry rendition other artists Elaine
Speight, Colin Binns etc for more info go to website http://www.plaitedfog.org.uk/
Art
Lab members based (University of Central Lancashire)Over
twenty artist shown Top
Image by Tracy Hill
P1 Galley featuring new work " Doddy and the Diddy
Mothmen" By
Tony Knox
Other artists, Angela
Presnail , Patricia McDonald, Magda Stawarska-beavan,SarahRoberson
.etc
Tony Knox in Upcoming MA Fine
Art 2007
Exhibition at UCLAN.
Press Release from UCLAN
17th September 2007. MA Students from UCLAN
(University of Central Lancashire) have their upcoming end
of year exhibition, which platforms a collection of contemporary
art researched and developed by each on a range of diverse
themes, creative concepts, theories and media.
Knox,
one of the founding members of Transvoyeur, has taken the
infamous ‘Mothman’, a live art alter ego evolved
from his artistic interests of the wrestling arena and the
iconic of the wrestling hero to new realms in his professional
research. A new series of art will be presented by Knox
in this exhibition in a range of digital video, photograph
and multi media.
University
of Central Lancashire
MA FINE ART 2007
Craig Atkinson.
Iain Bailey.
May Gillett.
Robert Gittens.
Helen Hicks.
Chantal Hobbs.
Tony Knox.
Evangelos Konstantelo.
Patricia McDonald.
Rachel Pearson.
Siv Sondergaard..
Elaine Speight.
Maria Stylianou.
CHE Yuanning.
The MA Programme in Fine Art at UCLan seeks to develop artists
with a questioning and experimental attitude, who challenge
the traditional definitions and subject specialisms of Fine
Art. The MA explores the variety of studio-based disciplines,
temporary interventions, social engagement and the representation
of history and place, working with the most interesting
artists and representatives from the major institutions
in the North West to participate in this creative dialogue.
The MA seeks to develop professional practice within a creative
learning environment where research leads to creative ambition
within individual programmes of study, producing artists
who can intervene in the public domain through exhibition,
site-related or archive interventions to generate and develop
the debates and audience within the cultural l landscape.
Pete Clarke (MA Fine Art Course Leader).
MA Fine Art: Archive Interventions.
MA Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking.
MA Fine Art: Site and Place.
MA Fine Art: Time Based Media and Photography.
"I
have taken the concept of Mothman, an alter ego and one
set on urban myth. As a creature which exists in the forgotten
places, such as the Garden Festival, to become the layer
and sanctuary. Similar to the natural inhabitation of plants
and animals that reside there now, from the onset of it
declines and abandonment, commercial interest has reduced
down this site for property development. The part which
remains is now targeted for redevelopment of luxury accommodation.
Now what was once the pride, as the first in the world in
1984, the Garden Festival, has been deconstructed and what
remains of the natural wild life is threatened. In contrast
the figure of Mothman personifies the self indulgences of
alter egos and aspirations compelled by commercial venture,
albeit the consequences on the environment".
Mothman
in Cologne ...
Captured
by photographers and rendered by Artist in comic strip of
this mythical creature. For more information on the enigman
of Mothman, go to the Researchers website of Tony Knox atwww.mothman.org.uk.
Private
Investigation of the Infamous ... Flame
Case.
Written by J. D. Graham
Friday 27 May 2007
It
was typically an uneventful day. I had followed a lead around
China Town that lead nowhere. I tried to speak to the graffiti
artists around this part of the city to see if there had
been any sightings of Mothman.
Someone
told me a graffiti artists had done an image of the butterfly.
I went and searched, but could not find it, nor any of the
artist. I later found out they had been arrested for spray
painting the city. The past few days, I had been receiving
postcards from Greece. I thought they were delivered to
the wrong address, they were still filed in my in tray.
Each card addressed to Miss Papillion, using the office
address, contained seemingly silly greetings, so I ignored
them. Messages like: “Guess who? … It’s
me! … Be seeing you soon!”
I had assumed that they were sent to a loved one and addressed
here by mistake, as the office I worked out of also had
flats about the building. Another one had arrived
and it seemed just like the others, at first anyway. I picked
up the card it was from Rhodes in Greece. There was no message
on the card. I picked up all the other cards from my in-tray
and examined them. All from Rhodes, Greece. I read over
the messages again: “Guess who? … It’s
me! … Be seeing you soon!”
I then looked at the blank one. I wondered whether this
was an invitation or tip off for the Mothman. I found
a place in Rhodes known as Valley of the Butterflies –
known as Petaludes. Jenny told me that Papillion was a film
that Steve McQueen was in and it meant butterfly, Miss Papillion
or Miss Butterfly was this some kind of coincidence or joke?
I
spent the rest of the day checking if a Miss Papillion existed.
I soon found she didn’t and on a hunch asked Jenny
to book a flight to Rhodes for me. Maybe this Valley of
the Butterflies was his birth place!!?
To
be continued …
Petaludes
or Petaloudes Valley, or Valley of the Butterflies, where
tiger moths gather in summer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes.
It
was NOT Ophelia! Creature's Layer!
: Written by Tony Knox.
Photograph by Tony Knox. 28 April 2007.
An
Art Historian was out walking his dog near Sefton Park and
noticed something strange amongest the blue haze of the
bluebells. His dog ran over to investigate and the man pursue
cautiously. As they draw closer, they noticed a strange
gold form almost concealed in the flora. The man exclaimed:
“It lay motionless, resting so still, I thought it
was dead and reminded me of ‘Ophelia’, the painting
by John Everett Millais done in 1852 … However, as
I got near it moved and a large wing rouse up. It then arose
and flew away. I have never seen the likes of it before”.
If you are aware of any other sightings of Mothman go to
www.mothman.org.uk and email me, Tony Knox, the Mothman
Researcher at tonyknox99@hotmail.com.
Private Investigation of the Infamous ... Flame Case.
Written by J. D. Graham
Friday 27 April 2007
From
left to right: Martin Turck, Tine Wille, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
Georg Gartz,
Bernd Ikemann, Anja Hoinka, Tony Knox and Angelika Schubert.
Martin
Turck (Curator, Writer and Professor).
Tine Wille (Visual Artist in abstract paintings and performance).
George Gartz (Visual Artist in abstract paintings and Director
of Eight Days a Week in Cologne).
Bernd Ikemann (Visual Artist).
Anja Hoinka (Visual Artist).
Angelika Schubert (Performance Artist and Associate Founder
of Kunstwerk).
Press
Release: Tony Knox and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Curiosity
(Live Art)
at Galerie Martin Turck, Cologne, Germany, 25 April 2007.
Tony
Knox and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney in
Curiosity
a live art collaboration
at Galerie Martin Turck
Glasstraße 65 50823 Köln
on 25 April 2007, 8.15 pm onwards
Part of Eight Days a Week Liverpool/Cologne Exchange Programme
Primary
research to establish proposed research and collaboration
programme with
Transvoyeur and Eight Days a Week
in Cologne/Liverpool/New York for Summer 2007.
EARLIER
SIGHTING OF MOTHMAN REPORTED BY IAN JACKSON
15 April 2007, Ian Jackson (Art in Liverpool Weblog), England.
Ian
Jackson, the Editor of Art
in Liverpool Weblog, through his extensive research
of cultural events in the Liverpool has uncovered from his
earlier archives a digital video recording of MOTHMAN. He
presumed this creature was a real wrestler at the GPW Wrestling
Platform at Jump Ship Rat Gallery (Liverpool, England),
which was part of the Transvoyeur Programme 2004.
However,
after he perused this website (www.mothman.org.uk)
and myself as the researcher investigating the enigma of
this creature, Jackson realised it was not a 'man' wrestling,
but something other.
Jackson
has kindly provided his documentation from his archives
to prove to the world 'he' is not a figment of my imagination,
but exist.
To
view Jacksons footage provided go to the following link: