Sunday 29 August 2010

Passport images required as part of exhibition

As part of the 'Up & Coming - Giz a Touch' exhibition David Thomas Crawley invites you to leave a passport image as part of an ongoing project. Further details will be revealed at the Private View.

PARTICIPATORY PROJECT - ONGOING PROJECT

I am wanting to collect as many passport photographs that started on my MA Contemporary Fine Art project tilted 'Photo Booth'. These images can be ones that have been refused, rejected, used or recently taken etc. I have collected over 1,000 so far but want to try and make this 10,000!!!

By placing your image on this group you agree for myself (the artist) to use your image for exhibition purposes.

There are two ways in which this can be done:
1. Upload directly to facebook
2. Email: davidtcrawley@yahoo.co.uk OR upandcomingarts@gmail.com Subject Heading: 'Passport Photograph'

Please ensure that if you scan your passport picture that this is at 300dpi (dots per inch)

OR

A digital image of your face using a digital camera against a WHITE background

NB YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANY THIRD PARTIES

Some of the images thus far where shown at 'happenstance' as part of my MA Show from 17th - 25th June 2009 at Sylvester Space, Sheffield.

OR

To show that you have been touched by the artwork 'become a part of the artwork'.

Either post to Domino Gallery or simply leave your passport image at the gallery.
Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR

Further details will be revealed at the exhibition opening on Sat 18th Sept 2010

Saturday 28 August 2010

Up & Coming partners with FOUND A POUND


Found a Pound is a creative treasure hunt to find hundreds or maybe thousands of pound coins hidden in art galleries and public spaces during the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.

The Biennial is the largest contemporary visual arts event in the UK, and one of the best attended in the world with 975,000 visits for the last event. Running, this year, from the 18th of September until the 28th November.

Artist and Found a Pound creator Rowan Seddon-Harvey says “The project aims to encourage giving and we will start by giving to YOU, British £1 coins. All you have to do is find them." Register on foundapound.com and be the first to receive a set of clues.

Each coin has a sticker directing finders to foundapound.com where visitors will find imaginative ways on how a simple pound coin can be used to make a real difference. “Don’t know your neighbours? Buy them a pound of sugar!”

Why a pound? Nearly a quarter of the worlds population lives on a pound a day or less. Spend the pound on anything at all, a cup of tea, a bar of chocolate or drop it in the hat of a busker. Although it's just small change, you could use it to make a bigger change.

Lose a few pounds by finding some pounds. "Our Gallery Walking Tour is a fantastic way to lose weight whilst seeing great art and hunting down our pound coins." Register on foundapound.com and receive a free printable guide, including a map with the best route for fitness, clues to help you find the pounds and information on the artists and exhibitions. Fitness gifts will also be hidden along the way to give you an extra boost.

Sign up for a free sticker sheet. Stick them on your own coins and pop to the shops with some art in your pocket, or organise a set of clues to create your own Find a Pound treasure hunt.

Quotes
“Great idea & the sort of quirky thing that can really grab peoples attention.” Ian Jackson, Director, Art in Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial Independents

“A bold and clever project. Go, find your pound!” Miguel Magalhaes, Art Director and Curator, Portugal

Thursday 26 August 2010

BBC Radio Merseyside

Have been on BBC Radio Merseyside today to promote our forthcoming exhibition talking with Andy Ball in Roger Phillips absence. Please click here and go to 1:28mins into the show and you should hear David Thomas Crawley talking about the forthcoming exhibition. This will be available for the forthcoming week.

Sunday 1 August 2010

'Up & Coming' - 'Giz a Touch'


Up & Coming ©2010
© Linacre Lane and Scouse Press

We can now announce the second 'Up & Coming' exhibition entitled Giz a Touch at Domino Gallery, Liverpool as part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial 2010.

'Giz a Touch' is a scouse colloquialism for ‘to give a helping hand.’ Crawley & Trappe (Up & Coming) and Felicity Wren (Domino Gallery) invite you to participate in a dialogue in an alternative space; a meeting place where a butty (sandwich) and a cuppa char (cup of tea) can be enjoyed alongside art. We invite passers by, strangers to the city and art lovers alike to be ‘touched’.

In response to the Liverpool Biennial theme:
“Touched presents artworks that affect the viewer through addressing a total context (mind, body and place: relatedness in space and time); artworks where investment and inscription, in the particular and the personal, affect the general and the social.” Liverpool Biennial

This is the second Up & Coming exhibition building upon the success of the 2008 exhibition held at Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.

For further details on 'Up & Coming’ – 'Giz a Touch' please see our blog for an ongoing dialogue between artists and curators.

Exhibition contains works photography, video, text and screen printing.

Maria Cassidy (UK)
David Thomas Crawley (UK)
Sooim Jeong (S Korea)
Farzad Kohan (USA)
Michael J Mac Gabhann (IRE)
Claire McCarthy (UK)
Chris Pheysey (UK)
Sarah-Leanne Trappe (UK)
Jim Turner (UK)
Outcasting (UK)
*Outcasting is an online moving image gallery

Curated by Crawley & Trappe

Exhibition Dates:
Sat 18th Sept - Sat 27th Nov 2010 (closed Sunday)
Opening times: 11:00 to 17:00

Private View
Saturday 18th September 2010
19:00 - 21:00
Please email upandcomingarts@gmail.com for with subject heading 'Private View'

Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR MAP