Programme
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Drawing Sessions
Jon Barraclough and Hamish McLain / Bryan Biggs / Surt Kitter / Damian Johnson / Matthew Lloyd / Ailie Rutherford / Technicullis / Trevor Skempton / Chiz Turnross / Sohrab Uduman
Through a series of talks, performances and timed drawing sessions The Royal Standard explored this most primal of mediums and its relationship with other creative practices.
In collaboration with Drawing Paper, The Royal Standard hosted a drawing marathon with 12 hours of activity planned from midday to midnight. From spoken word performances, video and music and experimental drawing techniques we had a day full of activities to experience and explore.
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Love In
Supercollider, Blackpool
November marked Supercollider’s third birthday and in order to celebrate the occasion, the organisation has invited the artists at The Royal Standard to create and present new work.
In response to this invitation, The Royal Standard created Love In, an exhibition featuring the works of 13 studio holders, using notions of love and romance as a catalyst; galvanizing their individual practices towards a common goal.
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Space Exchange
Aid & Abet, Cambridge
Space Exchange is an ambitious project as Aid & Abet opens its doors to other artist run spaces from around the UK in relation to the theme of exchange. Five artist run organisations have been invited to respond to the theme and have proposed a series of innovative projects through interventions and performance events – exchanges of space, ideas, resources and the building of future collaborative relationships.
The Royal Standard presented an assortment of objects acquired by the organisation over the previous five years of its existence. Since 2006, The Royal Standard has worked with hundreds of artists, curators and organisations through a diverse programme of exhibitions and events, performances, publications, artist residencies and offsite projects, alongside providing studio space a wide range of artists and designers; a process which inevitably results in the accumulation of a multiplicity of stuff.
By re-examining and exhibiting this collection of remnants of things that have happened at The Royal Standard, an order was provided to this mass of detritus. Questioning perceived notions of ownership and authorisation, the eventual display seen during Space Exchange formed the basis of a pseudo permanent collection belonging to The Royal Standard.
No Woman No Cry
Inter City Mainline is a collective of artists spread between Bristol and London. As well as collaborating for shows and other artworks, their main focus is a publication that both reflects on an provides them with a platform to work with different artists and artist-led initiatives across the UK.
The works exhibited were the culmination of each member’s current practice, often playing with popular culture, outmoded technologies and timid trepidations into new ones. The works was simultaneously about the world, of the world and for the world.
No Woman No Cry was accompanied by a Liverpool version of an existing publication in collaboration with Liverpool based artists.
Cut - Fill - Skim
Carla Scott Fullerton was The Royal Standard’s 2011 Artist in Residence. Her practice is shaped by an interest in architecture: its history, materials and function. Her sensitivity to materials and awareness of the status and economy attached to their use forms the nucleus of a process of instinctive exploration composed of drawing and sculpture, each separate yet one often informing the other. She is particularly interested in architectural semiotics and how a building’s materials can express social or cultural codes as well as our interaction with a relationship to the built environment.
The residency concluded with a presentation by Carla produced during her residency.
Parts Unknown
Michael Aitken / Mike Carney / Dave Evans / Stephen Forge / Madeline Hall / James Harper / Kevin Hunt / Richard Proffitt / Ailie Rutherford / Andrew Smith / Linny Venables / Sam Venables
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
For Parts Unknown, twelve artists who were current studio holders or associate members of The Royal Standard arrived at Embassy gallery without any existent work. In stead, the artists used the local area to provide ideas and source materials to produce new work that is dependant upon the found, salvaged and unpredictable.
I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move
Graeme Durant / Andrew Maughan
The Royal Standard, Vauxhall Business Estate / Space Gallery, Newcastle / Rogue Studios, Manchester / Northend Gallery, Detroit
A two-person exhibition of works by Andrew and Graeme invited a dialogue to emerge between two different artistic approaches.
The pairing was based on a shared understanding within their individual practices of the interchange between the processes of thinking and making. By addressing the format of the collaborative exhibition model and the comic double-act, the work of Andrew and Graeme confidently exposed the moments where cohesion and dissonance – or slippage – takes place.
Andrew’s paintings reflect on both the art world and current consumer culture. Employing anti-aesthetic strategies, Andrew uses a pallet of garish colours and pastel tones to present a visually complex and chaotic response to daily life.
Graeme is a gatherer of redundant domestic and industrial objects. Through a process of recycling, improvisation and low-tech construction methodologies, he attaches new meaning to the original materials. Graeme reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter creating objects brimming with possibility.
Elephants
Nathan Anthony / Lindsay Boyd / Holly Clement / Calum Craik / Karen Cunningham / Corinna Dean / Peter Ditch / Gordon Douglas / Ciara Dunne / Stuart Fallon / Pheobe Frances Amis / Karen Gabbitas / Eugina Gortchakova / Lydia Holmes / Ruth Holmes / Sandy Hutton / Konomi Kaneya / Mirja Koponen / Tim Le Breuilly / Hyanghee Lee / Audrey Liang / Lara MacLeod / Margaret McGovern / Evelyn Morrison / Elli Natzourani-Koutsoukeli / Mita Murphy / Kate V Robertson / Paulina Sandberg / Sander Schoonbeek / Gordon Schmidt / Kristian Smith / Roween Suess / Jack Wrigley
Nicholas Party
Nicholas produced a new collaborative installation incorporating a selection of art works from the Embassy Members show.
