Bankley Studios & Artists Gallery

// CREATIVITY

22nd -30th April 2017
Preview 21st April 6-9pm

Stacey Coughlin
in conversation with Elaine Fox, Lisa Risbec and Jodie Silverman

‘Spatial Affinities’ is an exploration of the essence of Space/Place and our emotional and behavioural responses to it, within both the individual and collective context.

Containing installation sculptures, the exhibition considers the idea that conversations form their own atmosphere or ambience and how mental imagery can emerge and linger through these interactions.

Influenced by relational aesthetics, hermeneutics, and dialogical art, this series involves talking one-to-one with creative practitioners and artists about their creativity. These intangible experiences are then made physical in the form of a sensory environment; partially revealing elements of the discussion within spatial representations.

The individual spaces converse between themselves creating a collective voice of shared meanings and opposing ideas. The conversation dialogue is not shared with the audience; causing layers of meaning and context to be both created and lost through the representational process.


Spatial Shared Discussion: 30 April 2-4pm
All welcome to attend
Drawing the exhibition to a close, some of the artists involved will be in discussion together and responding to the artworks on display

Eventbrite link:
https://www.spatial-affinities-shared-space.eventbrite.co.uk


Open Sat & Sun 12-4pm
or by appointment. Please contact staceycoughlin.art@gmail.com


http://www.elainefoxartist.co.uk
http://www.lisarisbec.co.uk
http://www.jodiesilverman.com
http://architecturalechoes.com

Opening night: Friday 24th March 2017, 7-9pm
Open Saturdays, 25th March - 8th April 2017, 12-4pm

PLAY invited artists working in all disciplines across the UK to question its very role in everyday contemporary arts practice. The exhibition presents works that either challenge the notion of Play itself or where the idea of Play seems to be a preoccupation from the selected artists.

Emily Binks
Mat Birchall
Sarah Blaszczok
Axel Bottenberg
Stacey Coughlin
Paul Dodgson
Rowan Eastwood
Hannah Farrell
Sarah Louise Hawkins
Martha Haywood
Richard Hughes
Precious Innes
Phil Kennedy
Chen Yun Ling
Will Marshall
Peter Seal
Mike Slater
Claire Tindale
Daniel Turner

Precious Innes | Isabel Moseley | Jessica Thornton are northern artists based across Manchester and Yorkshire, working with print, sculpture and new media. Wide Margins explores the notion of place, how it is occupied and the dialogue created within three cross-disciplinary practices.

Exhibition Private View: Friday 24th Feb 2017, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues: 25th – 26th Feb 2017, 12-4pm
Open by appointment: 27th Feb – 1st Mar 2017

www.preciousinnes.com/
www.isabelmoseley.co.uk/
www.jessicathornton.co.uk/

A photography exhibition, print fair and fundraiser held by third year practitioners at Manchester School of Art.

Preview Night Friday 16th December 7-9pm
Plus refreshments and print fair!

Exhibition continues: Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th, 12-5pm
Prints available to buy all weekend!

‘Untitled (2:10am)’ is a photo-series by Bankley member Andy Broadey that draws together cinematic, architectural and musical references to examine the relationship between time and change within the post-communist condition.

The work is part of an ongoing examination of the relationship between imagery, time and political agency. The work’s title refers to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1927 film ‘October’, the closing scenes of which mark the moment of the Bolshevik victory (2:10am) with a montage of clocks from across the globe. Time is foregrounded here as the medium of revolutionary action. In thesis seventeen of his 'Thesis on the Philosophy of History', Walter Benjamin draws also upon the iconography of clocks and links it with revolutionary action, referring to an eye-witness report of insurgents shooting clock towers during the French revolution of 1830; Benjamin claims that revolutionary emancipation invokes the closure of a mode of temporality. To this end, ‘Untitled (2:10am)’ utilises universally recognisable imagery of alarm clocks to disrupt the seemingly ossified relations between chronometric time, labour-time and money, the conjunction of which Sami Khatib has recently described as ‘capital-time’ (Khatib, 2009-11).

Exhibition Opening: Friday 25th November 2016, 6-9pm

Exhibition continues: 26th/27th November, 3rd/4th and 10th December. 12-4pm

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Kasumi Dean, Leo Robinson, Carina Ripley
Curated by Tom Emery

Exhibition PV 4th of Nov 2016 7-9pm
Exhibition continues until the 19th Nov 2016
Open Saturdays 12-4pm

Following their two month residency undertaken in Bankley’s Studio 20; Kasumi Dean, Leo Robinson and Carina Ripley present Garten der Kunstformen. This exhibition is the culmination of the process begun when these three artists were selected for Bankley’s graduate residency, bringing together three apparently disparate practices and with the provision of time and shared space, allowing them to overlap, for ideas and interests to be shared and for common ground to be discovered. This common ground has taken shape with the concept of the garden, whether as a space that exists in conflict with the built environment, as a site for ritual and myth, or as representative of the regenerative cycle of life and death.

Dean considers the meeting of the mass produced and the kitsch in contrast with the natural and organic. In one tongue-in-cheek moment, the packaging from fruit flavoured sweets – perhaps the ultimate kitsch, artificial commodification of nature – become the medium for a patterned surface, the repetition and application allowing for them to become considered aesthetic material rather than simply a cheap play for attention.

Robinson retells the Roman myth of Pomona, as it applies to Manchester’s own Pomona Island. In myth, Pomona is a goddess of fruitful abundance, importantly the natural flourishing of fruit trees, rather than their harvest. Robinson finds a neatly ironic parallel in the tale of Pomona and her present-day namesake; the goddess Pomona was tricked by Vertumnus so that he could gain access to her orchard, while in Manchester, property developers spin their own tales in order to exploit Pomona Island’s resources.

Ripley tells stories of femininity and the female body. With Rise, Ripley uses weaving, traditionally perceived as a female activity, Ripley plays with imagery of the ‘red tent’, a place for menstruating women to congregate and consider their own place within the natural environment. Ripley also makes bold, direct statements on how the female body is perceived and commodified, with her film Wash house, using clothes pegs to uncomfortably highlight parts of the female body, taking an almost medical attitude towards doing so.

Join us for the opening of our annual Open Call Exhibition and Open Studios Weekend 2016!

Open Call 2016:
Private View and Presentation: Fri 7th October 2016, 6-9pm

Exhibition continues 8th – 29th October 2016
Open Saturdays and Sundays 12-4pm

Congratulations to our first prize winner, Helen Wheeler, who has been awarded £500 and a solo show at Bankley Gallery in 2017. Our second prize of £200 went to Jason Thompson and our Visitor Choice Prize of £100 to Clare Charnley & Patricia Azevedo.


Shortlisted artists:

Patricia Azevedo and Clare Charnley, James Bloomfield, Andrew Brooks, Alice Chandler, Paul Crook, Claire Curtin, Ania Glinkina, Daniel Goodwin, Ana Mendes, Donal Moloney, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Isabel Moseley, Mandy Payne, Andrew Robinson, Corinna Spencer, Ruby Tingle, Jason Thompson, Gideon Vass, Helen Wheeler, Emily Whitebread, Chen Yun Ling


This year's shortlist and winners were selected by Poppy Bowers – Exhibition Curator at The Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, Ann Bukantas - Head of Fine Art at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Katie Rutherford – Director & Curator at Object/A Manchester, Charlie Booth - Programme Co-ordinator at Redeye Photography Network, Matt Davies – Artist & Winner of Bankley Open Call 2015.

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Bankley Open Studios 2016:
Launch Evening: Friday 7th October 2016 6-9pm
Open Studios: 8th & 9th October 12-4pm

Bankley will open three floors of artist studios to the public showcasing the work of over 30 artists working in painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, textile, video art and performance, representing the diversity and quality of work by artists currently resident at this artist-led co-operative.

Fiona Grady | Linda Hemmersbach | Hannah Luxton

Exhibition Private View: Friday 9th September, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues: 10th – 24th September
Open Saturdays 11am-4pm or by appointment

This exhibition presents three painters united by their belief in painting’s power to transcend the physical world by activating imagination. The artists share a fascination with our ideas of the void, and an affinity with Eastern philosophy and spirituality, which perceives this nothingness as full of energy and light. In their romantic yearning for a sense of intimacy, Hannah, Fiona and Linda are attentive to subtle changes in colour, tone, opacity, and to the negative spaces in between, as they look to capture the intangible and reveal the invisible.

Each artist invokes a visual language that is less defined within the descriptive, recognisable forms of everyday life – instead presenting a hidden view. Minimal forms and gestures speak of an essence in their search for a purer state. The works ask questions rather than giving answers; call for intuition rather than logic; and open a space for imagination to explore and reflect.

www.lindahemmersbach.com
www.fionagrady.co.uk
www.hannahluxton.com

Exhibition Opening: Friday 29th July, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues: 30th July- 13th August
Open Saturdays and Sundays 11am-5pm

Artist Talk 6th August, 2pm

Curated by Zoe Watson

Ness Donnelly was artist in residence at Bankley’s Studio 20 in May and June 2016. During this time she developed a series of Textile works and drawings based around the myth
of Penelope, wife of Odysseus in The Odyssey of Homer.

Donnelly is interested in the repetitive act of undoing and redoing. Deconstructing and then re-presenting the cloth, by removing threads and replacing them with new thread or leaving the space empty to change the form of the material.Similarly within her paper works she takes something away to leave a trace of the original behind.

www.nessdonnelly.com

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Level Seven Collective is a group of seven female artists exploring themes surrounding feminine social concerns, stemming from a range of female perspectives. We are a group of female artists working together, however it is not only gender that defines our practice. We will be showing works which range across mediums including painting, sculpture, performance and video.

Collective artists include: Samantha Mayo, Laura Daniels, Cecily Shrimpton. Farhaana Katun, Hannah Connor, Danielle Harrison and Olivia Brittain.

Exhibition preview: Friday 1st July, 6-9pm.

Exhibition continues Sat 2nd - Tues 5th July 12-4pm.

More info: http://levelsevencollective.wix.com/home
Contact: levelsevencollective@hotmail.com