In Time Over Time Exhibition

Press release


In Time. Over Time


neo:studios is delighted to announce ”In Time, Over Time”, an international group exhibition of neo: members and invited artists exploring the theme of repetition. The exhibition runs from 3rd July to 10th August in neo:gallery22, The Market Place, Bolton, BL1 2AN. The Gallery is open from 11.00 am to 5.00 pm on Thursday to Sunday.


Each artist in the exhibition is currently working with themes of repetition within their practice. Exhibitors explore this theme through the use of repetitive art making processes, the reproduction or recurrent use of imagery or the collection of similar images and objects. Some exhibitors have also chosen to approach the theme of repetition through the dissection of repetitive human and animal behaviour or the recurrence of powerful emotions and obsessions.


Taking part in the exhibition are artists Rachael Elwell, Beatie Fox, Glynn Griffiths, Bethan Hamilton, Katie Honan, Naomi Lethbridge, Lindsay Amanda Lowcock, Josef Minta, Faye Scott-Farrington, Mohammed Samim Shafiq, Jason Simpson, Berenice Staiger, Jenny Steele, Roos van Haaften, Denis Whiteside and Teresa Wilson. Bethan Hamilton is the curator.

You are warmly invited to the preview which is on Saturday 5th July from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.


Contact julie.levy@neoartists.co.uk for press enquiries (07789 725753) and jason@neoartists.co.uk (07855 369522) for gallery enquiries.

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Exhibitions

A few photographs from the Pack of Wolves Manifesto exhibition I had work in and a few from the neo:printprize 2012 which I was shortlisted for

Manifesto, group show, Sho Gallery, Cardiff

neo:printprize final exhibition, neo;gallery 22, Bolton

neo:printprize final exhibition, neo;gallery 22, Bolton

neo:printprize final exhibition, neo;gallery 22, Bolton

neo:printprize 2012 Finalist

hey, remember when I did all that printmaking and all I got out of it was that lousy degree and all that life-crippling debt?

Well, the piece I made for my degree show I thought I would enter into the neo:printprize because I am a glutton for punishment and nagging self-doubt.

Anyway, I was shortlisted. 

My work will be up on the wall at neo:gallery22, Bolton until the 28th October

How lovely! 

Press Release

"Over 400 entries were received from all corners of the UK and from artists working across the whole range of print media. The quality of the diverse and vibrant entries really impressed the judges: Sean Rorke, Artistic Director of the prestigious Hot Bed Press print workshop and studios, Salford, Manchester and Tim Dolphin, the former Head of Printmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University, who very kindly donated their time and professional expertise to make the competition possible.
The neo:printprize is part of a whole series of high profile exhibitions that have been planned by Bolton based neo:studios, a not-for-profit artist led organisation founded in 2007. With the success of the previous neo:artprize still fixed firmly in peoples minds neo: looks set to succeed again.
neo:printprize is an open exhibition inviting work from artists of all ages and nationalities who practice contemporary visual art in the UK and intends to raise awareness of new trends and directions in printmaking by showcasing excellence and innovation in contemporary British printmaking. The independent jury, who also award the main prizes, select works anonymously from an open submission. The prize aims provide a platform for artists and to bring to Bolton the best contemporary art from across the UK.
An exhibition showcasing the work of all the final shortlisted artists will be held in the exciting neo:gallery22, The Market Place Shopping Centre, Bolton, opening Thursday 13th September. An Award Ceremony will also be held in the gallery Saturday 15th September at 2pm, all welcome! The exhibition continues to Sunday 28th October, viewing times Thurs – Sun, 11am – 5pm."

Saints Gallery mentioned in Bolton News

The exhibition I curated got a full page in the Bolton News

Which was nice. 

I Curator

Street View celebrates urban life from the different view points of local artists. Taking us from the macro with Irina Rumyantseva’s metropolitan cityscapes; visiting its inhabitants and detritus with recycled-material portraits by Davlo and exploring the urban decay left behind through Karen Bricknell’s photographs. We are even invited to watch this process of industrial disintegration through Bricknell’s sculpture.

The show runs from 12th July - 3rd Aug at Saint's Gallery, Saint Andrew's Court, Bolton, BL1 1LF

Street View - Exhibition

I've organised an exhibition

Street View

12th July - 3rd August

An exhibition of work inspired by urban life will be opening on Thursday 12th of July at Saint's Gallery, a new exhibition space at Saint Andrew's Court, Bolton.

Participating local artists DAVLO, Karen Bricknell and Irina Rumyantseva 

hosted by S and S Assets and New Horizon Retail Ltd.

Taking three different views of life in an urban environment by local artists, containing portraits, photographs, paintings and sculpture. Celebrating the occupants of cities, exploring their environment and the echoes that they leave behind.

Private View on Thursday 12th July 2012 5pm-8pm

With wine & nibbles generously donated by New Horizon Retail Ltd

Mawdsley Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester BL1 1LF

For more information on the participating artists, visit:

Davlo 

Irina Rumyantseva

Karen Bricknell

7 Rules of Achievement: From Vision to Action The Complete Guide to Programming Your Internal Success Mechanism!!!

7 Rules of Achievement: From Vision to Action The Complete Guide to Programming Your Internal Success Mechanism!!!  2012 

willow, latex, stockinette,  pillows, card, paint, found objects

Faye Scott-Farrington & Sophie Daniel

Foamy Bathsoak is not your average maggot. He's a maggot with ambition, a maggot with a plan. Where his peers may be content and happy to live out their days in squalor and poverty, Foamy dreams of more. A career, a house, car, dishwasher, broadband connection…. some legs, perhaps?

Why should he merely live up to the expectations society has for a pupa? Why, when he has so much more to offer, should he be confined to a life in his subterranean bedsit like everyone else?He's read complicated books, he's working on gaining more qualifications, aiming higher. 2012 will be his year the year of the maggot. Foamy Bathsoak is determined to be different, he understands the job market is saturated but with his level 2 spoken French and O level in Mathematics this bug thinks he can go far. If he can survive in a box of soil, he has what it takes to survive the cut and thrust of the world today, Foamy wants to rise above the surface, break down the walls of his box and take on new challenges. Foamy Bathsoak is going to be living proof that change is possible for anyone.

We would like to show you around Mr. Bathsoak's home, to witness the changes that are taking place, see how he is making things happen and building himself a brighter future. One day you will be able to say “I knew Foamy Bathsoak before his success, before he became a living-legend”. His bedsit is small, but he won't be there much longer once his career kicks off, so there isn't much time... try and make yourself at home.

Come and witness his exceptional metamorphosis!

The work will be on show until June 5th 2012 at Saint Andrew's Court Shopping Arcade in Bolton

Poster for Craft Fair - WIP

FREE Tables Available at Three Day Art and Craft Fair in Bolton

I am organising a Craft and art fair in Bolton Over the weekend of 27th 28th and 29th of August at Saint Andrews Court.

WHAT ST ANDREWS COURT USED TO LOOK LIKE

Saint Andrews Court is being regenerated, when finished it is planning to offer low rent to small independent retailers to help them establish and grow their businesses.

The tables will be FREE as this is an event to draw attention to the space and its imminent re-birth as a hub of independent loveliness.

If you would like to sell craft, art, food, anything hand made at all, you are welcome to have a table at the fair on one or all days that it is running. All of your profits will be your own, we are asking only that you come and show off your work.

We will provide a table, but if you have your own then do feel free to bring it.

The fair will be running at the same time as the Bolton Food and Drink Festival, and so the centre is expected to be busy.

More info on Bolton Food and Drinks Festival

We will be adversising with A boards, in local shop windows, locally with posters and online.

We have keys to all the units, so if it were to rain then we can put you inside, and also if you would like a table for the whole 3 days, then you can put your gear away over night.

Artists, we have the ability to open units for you to display work if you would like to have an exhibition, if you fancy putting some work up or doing a mini group show. then let me know, I think this would be a fun thing.

Musicians, if you would like to come and play some music, get in touch with me and we can convene.

E-mail me faz_@hotmail.com subject: August Craft Fair if you are interested in taking part.

Please forward this to anybody you might think would be interested.

Custard Cream Felt Brooches

New Rag Thug brooches for upcoming FUSE Craft fair
9th April, 11-3pm
Longsight Methodist Church, Harwood, Bolton