The HEIST project and exhibition has now finished.
Photos can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foundspace/sets/72157627960370424/
Meanwhile, an archive of articles 'stolen' is now at:
http://www.foundspace.co.uk/heist_archive/
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Heads up on HEIST
HEIST
22-28 October 2011, 10am-5pm daily
Unit 22a (first floor), Guildhall Shopping Centre
Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3HP
More than just a good read..
Plymouth magazine Nom de Strip comes in handy for a little interior remodelling of the gallery space too. (There are plenty left to read and take away.)
HEIST
22-28 October 2011, 10am-5pm daily
Unit 22a (first floor), Guildhall Shopping Centre
Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3HP
Nee na nee na
22-28 October 2011, 10am-5pm daily
Unit 22a (first floor), Guildhall Shopping Centre
Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3HP
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
HEIST exhibition venue announced
22-28 October 2011, 10am-5pm daily
Unit 22a (first floor), Guildhall Shopping Centre
Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3HP
The easiest way to find us is to enter the shopping centre from Queen Street, using the narrow staircase by WH Smith. This will bring you out onto the first floor shopping gallery, where you will spot signs for HEIST. You can also access this level using the main lifts and staircases.
We will both be in the exhibition space on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd to talk in more depth about the project and its results, but please feel free to visit any time.
More details at www.foundspace.co.uk/heist.html
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HEIST_BAS
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Maddy Pethick at Off The Hook Clothing
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| Maddy Pethick A Kind of Lulling (2011) Looped digital video, monitor |
A single image, cut from an outmoded instructional book on how to customize your clothes, provides the basis for a puzzling video exploring artifice, stillness and false adornment. The work, produced in response to the context of the clothing store, reflects the artist's ongoing investigation into found image, sparkles and the application of simple, default rendering tools in video editing software.
Maddy Pethick is a Devon-based artist and a lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies at Plymouth College of Art. She makes picture and object installations, photographs, drawings, videos and book-works. Clothes, pineapples, cacti, knick-knacks, cats, swing bins, lamps and further miscellanea appear and reappear in ongoing arrangements and configurations both for – and not for – the camera.
Maddy Pethick A Kind Lulling
11th May - 1st June 2011
Off The Hook Clothing
151- 152 Fore Street
Exeter, Devon EX4 3AN
Friday, 6 May 2011
Found Space at British Art Show 7 - Plymouth Fringe
British Art Show 7 visits Plymouth this autumn and Found Space plans to be part of the Fringe with a performance curation/exhibition called HEIST.
During the run of British Art Show 7 in Plymouth, Found Space will be stealing art (and anything else they can lay their hands on) from the city. A signed and numbered artwork will be left in place of items removed, in a gesture of artistic exchange.
Returning to their home city of Exeter, Found Space will open their lock-up for a few days to show off their haul to the public. Ransoms may be involved.
The work is in response to Exeter’s apparently peripheral status to the British Art Show 7. For a few days, Found Space will attempt to redress this imbalance and give the people of Exeter a chance to participate in British Art Show 7 and Plymouth Fringe.
HEIST explores the mechanics of the contemporary art market, including the value assigned to different types of art or artefacts, and reflects on the legal as well as illegal transactions that utilise art as a commodity or currency.
HEIST is funded by Exeter Arts Council. Venues and dates to be confirmed.
For regular updates, you can join our Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=366353642215
During the run of British Art Show 7 in Plymouth, Found Space will be stealing art (and anything else they can lay their hands on) from the city. A signed and numbered artwork will be left in place of items removed, in a gesture of artistic exchange.
Returning to their home city of Exeter, Found Space will open their lock-up for a few days to show off their haul to the public. Ransoms may be involved.
The work is in response to Exeter’s apparently peripheral status to the British Art Show 7. For a few days, Found Space will attempt to redress this imbalance and give the people of Exeter a chance to participate in British Art Show 7 and Plymouth Fringe.
HEIST explores the mechanics of the contemporary art market, including the value assigned to different types of art or artefacts, and reflects on the legal as well as illegal transactions that utilise art as a commodity or currency.
HEIST is funded by Exeter Arts Council. Venues and dates to be confirmed.
For regular updates, you can join our Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=366353642215
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Roller Ballet by Felicity Shillingford
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| Felicity Shillingford Roller Ballet (2006) |
Roller Ballet was originally made as part of ‘Heelz on Wheelz’, a performance and visual art production by Fittings Multimedia. Described as ‘a subversive journey through sex, beauty and alternative lifestyles’, this touring production featured a range of fantasy footwear that brought together nice and nasty, clean and dirty.
Roller Ballet offers the viewer a juxtaposition of such opposing themes. Classical combining with the street, it’s a marriage of point shoe in blood red, with ribbon lacing, and low-tech early roller skate wheels. The piece is displayed in action on a half pipe high stand. The ribbons are wired to flow out behind. Shoe donated by The Royal Ballet.
Felicity Shillingford is an Exeter-based artist who works across sculpture, live performance and film. She was a co-founder of Fittings Multimedia, a Manchester-based production company fusing performance and visual arts.
Felicty Shillingford Roller Ballet
25th March - 6th May 2011 (Extended to 11th May)
Off The Hook Clothing
151- 152 Fore Street
Exeter, Devon EX4 3AN
Friday, 11 March 2011
Fingerprints on Trial
This BBC Radio 4 programme - Fingerprints on Trial - provides interesting background to Sally Howkins' Law, Probability and Risk, currently on show in Off The Hook, Exeter.
You can hear it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/z5zyc/
"After a century in which it has been accepted as the Gold Standard for forensic evidence, Claudia Hammond investigates the growing body of research that challenges the infallibility of fingerprint evidence. She talks to critics who claim the UK has been slow to accept the urgent need for change. She hears about the Shirley Mckie case in Scotland, where a young detective was wrongly accused of leaving her prints at a crime scene and looks ahead to the forthcoming Scottish Fingerprint Inquiry."
You can hear it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/z5zyc/
"After a century in which it has been accepted as the Gold Standard for forensic evidence, Claudia Hammond investigates the growing body of research that challenges the infallibility of fingerprint evidence. She talks to critics who claim the UK has been slow to accept the urgent need for change. She hears about the Shirley Mckie case in Scotland, where a young detective was wrongly accused of leaving her prints at a crime scene and looks ahead to the forthcoming Scottish Fingerprint Inquiry."
Monday, 7 March 2011
Opportunity to exhibit in Off The Hook, Exeter
Following the success of Sally Howkins' installation Law, Probablity & Risk in the window of Off the Hook Clothing, Exeter, we're pleased to offer further opportunities for artists.
We're looking for compact, high-impact 3-D or time-based work, and we would particularly welcome work related to themes of fashion, clothing, image, identity, individuality, trade etc - or a site-specific piece. A willingness to embrace the challenges of exhibiting in a busy and fast-changing selling space is important.
The exhibition site has an accessible power supply and is supervised during opening hours by shop staff. Work is sited in the window of the store and is visible from Fore Street, day and night. Work should be available for 4-6 weeks. There is no artist fee but we will provide support with installation and publicity.
If you'd like to to be considered, please email up to three images (or a link to a relevant website where we can see your work) and a brief statement/proposal to us at found[dot]space[at] yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk as soon as possible and definitely by 31st March.
We're looking for compact, high-impact 3-D or time-based work, and we would particularly welcome work related to themes of fashion, clothing, image, identity, individuality, trade etc - or a site-specific piece. A willingness to embrace the challenges of exhibiting in a busy and fast-changing selling space is important.
The exhibition site has an accessible power supply and is supervised during opening hours by shop staff. Work is sited in the window of the store and is visible from Fore Street, day and night. Work should be available for 4-6 weeks. There is no artist fee but we will provide support with installation and publicity.
If you'd like to to be considered, please email up to three images (or a link to a relevant website where we can see your work) and a brief statement/proposal to us at found[dot]space[at] yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk as soon as possible and definitely by 31st March.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Sally Howkins in Off The Hook Clothing
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| Sally Howkins Law, Probability & Risk (2010) Two digital photo frames showing randomized stills |
First up, showing until March 25th, is Sally Howkins with Law, Probability and Risk. Dealing with notions of probability and crime detection, this work looks at the narratives left behind when we touch a surface. It celebrates the unique identity of individual human beings and questions our reliance on probability in making important decisions about people’s lives.
Sally Howkins Law, Probability and Risk
10th February – 25th March 2011
Off The Hook Clothing
151- 152 Fore Street
Exeter, Devon EX4 3AN
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