The International 3

Preview

Friday 20th May, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition Continues

21st May - 17th June

Exhibition Opening Times

Wednesday - Friday, 12pm - 5pm (other times by appointment)

Combining drawing, painting, sculpture, sound works and video, House Work brings together nine artists whose works variously use the domestic setting as both the content and context for making art.

 

PRESS RELEASE

Hannah Dargavel-Leafe /Alison Erika Forde / Erin Javes / Jo Lansley + Neeta Madahar /Amy Poole / Charlotte Squire /Daniel Taylor / Matt Wand /

Combining drawing, painting, sculpture, sound works and video, House Work brings together nine artists whose works variously use the domestic setting as both the content and context for making art.

Sound works Kitchen Trio and Door Device by Hannah Dargavel – Leafe use recordings of chance occurrences to create new rhythmic compositions from common household activities.

Alison Erika Forde and Charlotte Squire recycle and reconfigure domestic objects to create new structures. Made from discarded cardboard boxes painted to resemble a fairytale cartoon roof, Forde’s 2010 piece Shelter provides comforting if somewhat inadequate protection whilst Charlotte Squire playfully constructs luminous towers from salvaged lampshades, light fittings and furniture for her 2008 series, Strange Fruit.

The video works of Erin Javes and Amy Poole use the domestic setting as playground and backdrop respectively. Through task-based activities, Erin Javes physically investigates the domestic space around her whilst Amy Poole uses it to set the scene for her performances to camera. In their individual practices, each expresses anxiety and uncertainty in every day surroundings allowing the viewer to eavesdrop on the private activity of one home alone.

In Scape, their first collaboration, Jo Lansley + Neeta Madahar construct a photographic diptych that uses the language of landscape, both interior and exterior. These images charge the common space of the bedroom with ideas of escape, fantasy and longing.

Daniel Taylor uses his extraordinary draughtsmanship to create coloured pencil drawings of his family’s reaction to the death of his Grandmother and of the spaces and objects left behind. These images, mostly rendered from snapshots taken on mobile phones, capture the poignancy inherent in the end of life.

Matt Wand’s 2002, 7” single, Blow Down presents the sound recording of a block of empty flats, ready for demolition, as it is blown up. This double A side comprises of the audio collected by the artist from placing specially reinforced microphones inside the block of flats juxtaposed with the reaction of a watching crowd; creating a real time document of the final five minutes of a domestic building’s existence.

House Work is the culmination of The International 3’s recent residency project meet & critique where emerging artists, Hannah Dargavel – Leafe, Erin Javes, Amy Poole and Daniel Taylor, were offered space and resources to consider the professional development of their practice post their 2010 graduation from Manchester Metropolitan University.

For further information or images contact Paulette Terry Brien at ptb@international3.com or  Mobile: 07981 389 591

Thanks to Arran Murphy.