Edwin has been making and performing under various guises since the late 1990s. He has made pop music with Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckeyas DonAteller, in the band Jack Too Jack and as part of Man Like Me. Edwin's current output is most often drawing and non music based performance, he recently performed at Tate Moderns No Soul For Sale. The subject of these spontaneous and often humorous works is loosely the artist himself but more specifically food, sex, greed, the future and being a man. Through May and June, Edwin will be in residency at the Hayward Gallery in London. This period of intense productivity will feed his performance at Incarnation 5.
Michael O'Mahoney
Michael O'MahoneyMichael O'Mahony
Recently shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, artist Michael O'Mahony's work is personal and funny, often exploring his experiences of living with his parents in Palmers Green, London, in the house he grew up in. In a sense, all of Michael's work is about himself, drawing himself in different scenarios or adopting characters to act out. Michael's aesthetic influence comes largely from popular culture and his explorations of the disparate but widely available internet 'content', from Youtube and similar blogs or sites. Through his personal study Michael gives us a unique and human insight into his life, and also our own and how we live now. BRICKHOUSE commissioned a new performance for Incarnation 5 that saw him expand on his mantra-like lectures.
LOADING SPACES
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| Loading Spaces A collaborative project has brought together the work of Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liska and the Lloyd Coorporation which opened on June 3rd, and will be on view through 30 June. Occupying a shop located in Stroud's Merrywalks centre and the SVA shop front, the group has produce an exhibition specifically engaged with retail spaces, as well as the wider network of produced and circulated objects in the locale. The exhibition will undergo a series of modulations, metamorphoses and potentially radical shifts over the course of its duration |
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Working with image and sound, L-v-L (Hampus Larsson, Thomas Bush, Tobias Brick Centerwall) will use the SVA building to open 'Landing Strip 2'. The original 'Landing Strip' was a bar open only on 30 October 2010, and the sequel will be similarly fleeting. The environment of the bar draws on research into the Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong - a pocket of land which remained under Chinese control during the British occupation. For many years it was the most densely populated inhabitation on Earth.
Hounds of Hate
Hounds of Hate make experimental, slurred synthesizer music with references to pitched down boogie and acid as well as Snoop Dogg / Nate Doggterritory hip hop. Hounds perform live with a battered looking but beautiful sounding selection of hard-found equipment. They are a three piece fronted by Canadian Stan Iordanov, they live and work in London.
TOP NICE
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Top Nice
A club night happening regularly in London and Stockholm and a record label with a release from Michael O'Mahony scheduled for later this year. Originating in Stockholm in 2006 Top Nice started in London in 2008 and has grown into a forum for new and old dance music of all kinds. Recent events have seen Lil Silva playing UK Funky, Brains playing Ghetto House and Soca at 170 bpm and Michael O'Mahony giving us self-improvement motivational speeches.
BRICKHOUSE
BRICKHOUSE produces short-living programmes of exhibitions with the aim of giving artists a space to produce fast and spontaneous solo shows. It has had 4 previous incarnations starting with a 13 show run in the basement of a house in Bloomsbury. Incarnation 2 was a one-night show atLimoncello Gallery, 3 was hosted by Edel Assanti and 4 was at the New Gallery, Peckham, which consisted of 7 one-week shows. Brickhouse is conceived by artist and curator Guy Gormley and run by Guy Gormley and designer Thomas Bush.
Darbyshire
Darbyshire has sponsored annually curated group exhibitions hosted by SVA since 2007. Proprietor Mark Darbyshire has worked closely with the London art world over the last twenty years in his capacity as picture framer and art fabricator. He came to framing through art. Beginning in astudiocomplex set up in east London he shared with a group of fellow artists after leaving Goldsmiths' college in the late 1980's. This group was part of a larger movement that became known as YBA's. At the time Mark was making art and framing his own work along with friends and soon found himself with requests for framing. New galleries were setting up in London and there were many artist led exhibitions in disused buildings across the city. His further involvement with the YBA movement of the early 1990's in London and then onwards has lead to a keen interest in artists' ideas and practice. His job brings him into contact with art and artists daily and the Darbyshire business has managed to build up a collection over the years.Brickhouse Incarnation 5 will be an opportunity for Mark to develop his interests further with the presentation of challenging artwork in his home town of Stroud.
Site Festival
Site Festival is a contemporary arts festival, which aims to showcase artist-led projects with a full and exciting programme of visual arts, performance, music, screenings, open studios, artist talks and workshops. The Site Festival, now in its 15th year, presents the work of over 460 artists in 78 sites across the Stroud Valleys during the whole month of June. It creates a platform for artists and artist collectives to show new work, initiate new projects and work collaboratively with other artists. www.sitefestival.org.uk
SVA
Stroud Valleys Artist Space is an artist led project for the promotion of contemporary arts which serves artists through a support and information network, studio space and project space facilities. SVA's innovative and diverse artistic programme engages in a range of initiatives and cross disciplinary artforms that occur throughout the year. SVA's mission is to raise the profile of artists and their role in the community by supporting the production and presentation of their work, thereby increasing opportunities for access to and active participation in the arts for a diverse range of people. SVA will enable artists to work without undue financial pressure within a practical supportive framework through the provision of space, resources, training and support. SVA aims to act as a catalyst for experimentation and collaboration by promoting a programme of innovative projects to the general public.
www.sva.org.ukFor more information, please contact:
enquiries@darbyshire.uk.com / enquiry@brckhs.co.uk
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