AirSpace Studio Show - featured artist #4 - Kate Lynch

Today's featured AirSpace Studio Show artist is Kate Lynch, investigating ideas of permaculture, growth, regrowth and repair.

Unstructured Material:

‘Everyday practice on the plot begins with Unstructured material; a piece of ground and a heap of sticks; a box of plants; packets of seeds; and a bundle of ideas of what might be done with them’

David Crouch, 2003

The tent brings together current research and visual inspiration within the context of the artist’s on-going research & development. Participants are invited to engage with the piece in a variety of ways; to retreat, research, explore and share thoughts and meditations on selected themes. The selecting, tracing and scanning of selected images is a meditative and thoughtful process where fragments of historical knowledge and lore, extracted from found materials and books, are revived & re-interpreted within a space that deals with current issues & suggests a desire to share, activate and inspire others. Digitally scanned images, tracings & cuttings extracted from the artist’s life, research books and sketchbook offers an insight into working process current research activity & encourages transfer of knowledge & skill sharing. 

Kate is also running the redevelopment of the gallery's outdoor space - and is hosting a series of AirSpace Yarden events, the next of which is October 6th.

AirSpace Studio Show - featured artist #3 - Michael Branthwaite

AirSpace |Gallery's Studio Show is into its second week, and the 3rd featured artist is Michael Branthwaite. Michael's work is shown in the gallery's window space, so it can be seen 24 hours a day - the resto of the show continues until 6th October, open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm.


Re-Boyz: A project investigating the sustainability of Leisure and Pleasure in economic decline.

This project Re-Boyz looks at how a society based on commodity and consumption can sustain itself and allow individuals to pursue 'me time' when finance and government support for ‘superfluous’ activity’s is being cut, and if press reports are correct will continue to be cut for up to a decade. At the core of the project is my interest in ‘Board Sports’ and in this case a specific interest in skateboarding as defined by the Zephyr Skate Team or ‘Z-Boyz’. The Z-Boys interest in new terrain and seeing the city ‘anew’ through the eyes of a Skateboarders where features outside offices and museums become playgrounds to explore new ways of experiencing our surroundings.

Taking into account my interest in the ‘economics of leisure’ I have set myself the task of making a Longboard that can be used to explore the city without purchasing any parts brand new or at the very least full price. This hits key concerns and lines of enquiry with in my practice: How the urban environment is conceived and built/ How the urban environment is interpreted and navigated by it users, and a deeper routed interest in the capitalist consumer system and how goods are marketed and how this relates to counter culture modes of subversion and identity.

I would like to give special thanks to the staff at Dazed for the generous donation of parts and advice.

AirSpace Studio Show - featured artist #2 - Andrew Branscombe

Second in our series of highlighted studio artists, currently exhibiting in the AirSpace Studio Show '12 is Andrew Branscombe. The show continues Tuesday - Saturday until October 6th.

Andrew Branscombe, Dross-Work #1

Andy says about this work: 

Dross-Work #1 is part of a new series of works that make use of the discarded and easily overlooked materials and objects. The work is both original and a by-product of the processes I have to go through as an artist and handyman. The selection of material for the piece conforms to a set of rules. 1. The objects must be of the materials that the other work is made from. 2. Tools destroyed during the process of fabrication are also to be included. 3. Tools created during the process are to be included. 4. The objects should be finished to an equal standard as the work from which they are created. 5. Dust particles or shavings created during the process should not be included as external materials can contaminate these. This work is an experimental piece and one that I am hoping will lead onto a larger series of works in the future, alongside a refinement of the rules and processes.

Dross noun

[mass noun]1something regarded as worthless; rubbish 2foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal