Firstsite Director Sally Shaw. Photograph by Jayne Lloyd.. A POIGNANT exhibition providing people the opportunity to pause and reflect on the coronavirus pandemic is being launched as part of a gallery’s tenth anniversary milestone. Firstsite, in Colchester, was approached by the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group last June to make a project which recorded what NHS staff went through during the pandemic. Working with a number of artists, including Alec Finlay and Roland Carline, key workers took part in a series of workshops to explore their experiences of the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent effects it had on their lives.
Firstsite Director Sally Shaw. Photograph by Jayne Lloyd.. A POIGNANT exhibition providing people the opportunity to pause and reflect on the coronavirus pandemic is being launched as part of a gallery’s tenth anniversary milestone. Firstsite, in Colchester, was approached by the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group last June to make a project which recorded what NHS staff went through during the pandemic. Working with a number of artists, including Alec Finlay and Roland Carline, key workers took part in a series of workshops to explore their experiences of the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent effects it had on their lives.
Breaking the Mould
A major new touring exhibition promises to shed light on the hidden histories of womenâs sculpture in the UK and worldwide. The Arts Council Collection, from which the exhibits are drawn, describes
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945 as âthe largest survey of its kind to dateâ. The show challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture, presenting work that pushes boundaries.
Aesthetica speaks to the showâs curator, Natalie Rudd, about this vital intervention in modern art history.
A: Why is this exhibition so important, thinking about the history of womenâs participation in sculptural movements in the UK and worldwide?
The Guide by John Myers published by RRB Photobooks
The Guide, John Myers. Softcover | 248mm x 285.2mm |116 pages | ISBN 9781916057579
LONDON
.-The Guide combines some of the best-loved photographs from John Myers career with his unique and wry prose on the method and theory of his work. The photographs in the book are some of most familiar images from The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry alongside five previously unpublished works. The images are published alongside insights to the circumstances behind the pictures, influences and Myers working practice, drawing the reader into conversation.
A majority of the photographs in the book were taken within walking distance of Myers home in Stourbridge on his 5 x 4 Gandolfi plate camera between 1972 and 1988. He was driven by his admiration for the work of August Sander, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget and Walker Evans and he only ever shot approximately 1800 negatives. The photographs are a study of the mun
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