Noel Clueit, 29-31 July

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin was the second artist to work as part of this process. He reused Bob's works in order to create a new exhibition within the same space, radically changing, yet providing glimpses of what had gone before.

Noel Clueit is the third artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW.
Working over the third weekend, Noel has made new work in the gallery spaces in response to the structural format of the exhibition, taking on the space and its elements to create a solo show from two previous solo shows by the artists that have gone before.

Noel's recent work explores the value of objects; relationships between the readymade and the handmade; history and education; representation; authorship and reproduction, and through these interests, will unpick the curatorial remit in order to make a new exhibition in the Crate gallery spaces.

He is based in Manchester, UK and is artist-in-residence at Bureau Gallery where he was recently in We are all in this together. Other recent activities include Painting Show, Supercollider Projects, Blackpool (2011); Deadpan, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2010); From this filthy sewer pure gold flows, Rogue Project Space, Manchester (2010). In 2010 Clueit participated in A Foundation's A Curriculum residency programme which include a group show.

Following on from Noel, David Martin and Bob Levene, each consequent artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces inheriting more artwork as the exhibition continues, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

David Martin, 22-24 July

  

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin is the second artist to work at part of this process.
Working over the weekend whilst the exhibition is open to the public, David will make new work in the gallery spaces according to a number of pre-conceived ideas and also in response to Bob Levene's first response to the structure of the exhibition.

Following on from David and Bob, each consequent artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces inheriting more artwork as the exhibition continues, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

David works in a variety of different media, from large scale sculptural work to film and video. The main focus of his work is the exploration and assessment of boundaries - architectural/institutional/conceptual, and reassessing pre-determined structures that exist within the traditional art production and exhibiting process. Another interest lies within the notion of ‘failure’ and how this can affect or even determine artistic output.
David Martin is a visual artist currently based in Bristol, UK. After graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004, he has exhibited in the UK, Spain, Scotland and Germany.

Bob Levene, 15-17 July

                                               All photos: Bob Levene

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of the EXHIBITION AS MEDIUM programme in the inaugural exhibition SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW, which is a group exhibition presented as a series of cumulative solo shows.
Arriving in Margate on Monday, she made new work over the week that has kick-started this process.
Following on from Bob, each artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces at different times during the exhibition, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

Her work adopts pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording
to analyse 'the nature of things', often using the land to experiment with our perceptions of distance, speed & time and exploring ideas around mapping, human scale and memory.  It touches on the relationships between the scientific and artistic approaches to making sense of the world. Questioning ideas around representation and the notion of ‘truth’ it invites us to reflect on our own ability to impact upon the world we inhabit. The work manifests as recorded sound & video, performance, installation, drawing and photography.

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15 July - 7 August 2011

Open Friday-Sunday 12-6pm and whenever an artist is working in the gallery

EVENT SCHEDULE:

15 - 17 JULY 12-6PM            BOB LEVENE

22 - 24 JULY 12-6PM            DAVID MARTIN

29 - 31 JULY 12-6PM            NOEL CLUEIT

2 - 5 AUGUST 12-6PM          DAN METHTHANANDA

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 8PM       WOODMILL

7 AUGUST 4-6PM                 ENDVIEW

SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW 2011

A group exhibition presented as a series of cumulative solo exhibitions. Each artist produces and presents new work in the gallery space at different times during the exhibition, choosing either to use or disregard what has gone before.

For the curator, importance is shifted from spatial or thematic concerns towards the exhibition's time frame.

For the artist, this format of group exhibition instigates and supports a much more active decision-making role than usual, asking them to respond physically to others' work in the space, so shifting elements of curatorial (spatial, aesthetic and thematic) control over to the artists. The curator's role becomes insignificant other than setting the initial parameters, passing all control of exhibited product back to the artist.

The artist takes on the gallery as a temporary workplace akin to that of a studio, in which they find things already, which they must work with in some way. They do not bring along pre-made works ready to hang on the white walls or place on the floor - instead they become an ongoing work themselves in the space in amongst the visiting public.                       

Despite the artists being in a group exhibition together, they will not personally meet during the exhibition, due to the applied curatorial structure concentrating on time-frame. Instead, their practices' will meet in a more urgent (than usual) space, their artworks insisting upon use rather than contemplation, creating a physical conversation within the gallery space. Instead of the artists' being invited and curated into a standard group exhibition with work on the walls next to another artist, the artists will author the entire space, whilst having to deal with what has gone before in an enveloping and overlapping process of cumulatively produced artworks.

In short, several exhibitions within one exhibition.

This ongoing exhibition will be updated daily according to the artists' work throughout the project on http://www.cratespace.co.uk and http://soloshow-groupshow.blogspot.com/