Patrick Studio member Andi Robinson presents an exhibition Forbidden Colours drawing together both new and old material. The dynamic spatial relationships of Colours are examined and visually explored effectively using painted Coloured dots, in both 2 and 3-dimensional forms.

Open: Fri 27 March - Fri 3 April 2009
Venue: Temporary Art Space, The Piece Hall, Halifax (UK)

*NEITHER MADE NOR UNMADE*

The work explores states of transition. Whether this is a work in progress of something being put together or taken apart is unclear. The title alludes to 'Neither From Nor Towards' by the artist Cornelia Parker, whose work often addresses states of flux and change.

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Minimum 5, Maximum 8 places available

Full price = £55, Concessions = £45 (students, unwaged, ESA members)

Over the course of this intensive, practical introduction to Super 8 you will:

* Find out about the history of the format, and how super 8 works
* Get your hands on a super 8 camera and shoot your own film
* Learn accessible hand-processing techniques and develop your own film in a one-to-one tutorial session
* Experiment with editing processes and learn how to use a super 8 projector
* Get advice from EXP24 about all things super 8 – including DIY telecine, super 8 cameras & projectors, troubleshooting, advanced filmmaking processes and anything else you’d like to find out about!

Workshop Outline

Day 1:

10am: Introduction to Super 8

* Brief history and contextualisation of the format
* Using super 8 now – Ektachrome 64T
* Introduction to cameras and individual guidance
* Tour of the East Street Arts facilities

12 noon: Shoot shoot shoot! Head outside to make your film!

4.30pm: Return cameras to base and book your individual hand processing session for Day 2.

Day 2:

10am-3pm: Individual hand-processing sessions with an EXP24 tutor

12-3pm: Open informal session – editing, projectors, and film discussion with EXP24 filmmakers in the Project Space

4pm: Collective film screening – gather around to see all the films made during the workshop, plus work by EXP24 filmmakers.

How to book a place!

Please provisionally book your place by emailing EXP 24 at we_are_exp24@yahoo.co.uk.

The workshop fee includes all materials and tuition and payment for the workshop is required in advance. Please bring proof of concession on the day.

Please make cheques payable to EXP24, and send to EXP24, c/o East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EN.

Once we have received payment from you, we will confirm your place by email.

More on EXP24:

EXP24 is a Leeds-based not-for-profit film collective. As well as making and screening experimental film & video, we are dedicated to creating a space where people can share ideas, be inspired and learn how to do it themselves.

Barkston Studio holder Amelia Crouch presents In the body of the text, a series of works that use words to evoke figurative, visual images. The works explore how self-identity and the relationships we form are affected by the representations that we have access to. The exhibition runs alongside Imaginary Universe by Bryony Pritchard.

Rebecca will give a talk about her work and recent projects.

More on Rebecca Strain:
Rebecca Strain first began to use paper in her work under the tutelage of Karen Cain who had been comissioned to work with the community in Omagh, Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the bomb which killed 29 people in 1999. She was immediately struck by the use of the papermaking process as a way of dealing with complex emotions. She then went on to complete a BA in Textile Crafts at Huddersfield University where she began her exploration of constructed textiles, combining this with her skills in papermaking.

After her degree she has continued to develop her work which deals with social issues such as consumerism and value using accumulated and found objects from her immediate environment. She has exhibited regionally and in 2006 had her first solo show 'Receipt' which explored consumerism by documenting personal feelings on receipts at the moment when goods or services transfered ownership.

For Rebecca's recent projects, please go to her website paperchipmonkmakes.blogspot.com.

Take advantage of 24 hour Library opening as never before!

ESA are pleased to announce that they are participating in Leeds Metropolitan University's Festival Under the Stars, an overnight indoor mini-festival at Civic Quarter Library where the night sky will be projected on the ceiling and there will be a fake bonfire, live bands (I Like Trains, Wild Beasts, Crayon) and performers, DJ coaching, projections and films, festival tents and stalls, food and drink. ESA will be setting up a Social Club soupless kitchen tent and during the event a showreel of emerging artists will be shown as part of Digital Lounge and there will be a performance by Liz Ainge and Quip.

Admission: Tickets are £10 each available from the library at Headingley and Civic and includes entry, one free drink a buffet meal and breakfast. Bring your tent sleeping bag and guitar and stay over!

For more information on Festival Under the Stars, please see here.

FREE ADMISSION - BOOKING REQUIRED
To book a place please call 0113 2480040 or email info@esaweb.org.uk.

Recently nominated for Axis' Future 50 exhibition in November, Emma Bolland’s recent work has explored narratives of crime and social otherness in the popular imagination. She uses a range of media from drawings, stencils and cut-outs to video and lo-fi projection to create objects and environments that refer to factual or imagined events such as true crime murders, social histories and fictional characters. She produces work for both gallery and the public realm, and as multiples and ephemera.

Dates:

Harry Meadley
Preview: 6-8pm, Mon 6 Oct 2008. Continues: Tues 7 - Thur 9 Oct 2008

Iona Smith
Preview: 6-8pm, Fri 10 Oct 2008. Continues: Sat 11 - Mon 13 Oct 2008

Alex Farrar
Preview: 6-8pm, Tues 14 Oct 2008. Continues: Wed 15 - Fri 17 Oct 2008

Venue (main exhibitions): ESA, Patrick Studios, St. Mary's Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH.
Venue (offsite billboard artwork): Hyde Park Corner, Leeds. Link to Map.

More on the artists:

Harry Meadley:
Until this point, Meadley has been focused on the production of early works, where the dimension of when has been made paramount in advance. Such as the Harry Meadley Prize – an ongoing institutionalised art prize on a course he completed only a couple of years ago. He now presents new works, the setting of his own paradigm.

Iona Smith:
Typical of a practice concerned with social structures that contrive collective experience comes new work with more than a year's preparation, to enjoy three days of public display before being interred in the ground.

Alex Farrar:
As a practice that represents a continuous dialogue and engagement with art's success and failure, this exhibition is the first complete survey of Alex Farrar's activities encompassing his vision of artistic investment, creation of new art spaces and construction of a loyal group of patrons.

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Following the exhibition a new volume of A Latento will be released: a serial publication by the consortium further elaborating on their practices.

www.publicartannouncement.com

As a closing event for the ,,Sammelbände" series of exhibitions, Harry Meadley, Iona Smith and Alex Farrar host an afternoon of artist talks focussing on the idea of artist consortiums and their practices.

Preview: Fri 6 March 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: until Wed 18 March
Opening times: Mon-Fri 10 - 5
Venue: Corridor Gallery, School Of Design, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT.
An e-flyer with details of the full programme is available at www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/events

(sub)Missive is the culmination of a mail art project in which artists from the UK, Europe, US, Canada and Australia each collaborated with an artist partner to create a new book work. Using the social networking forum as a platform for collaboration, artists investigated the dissemination of ideas with particular reference to (mis)communication and power relations.

The results of this experiment will be displayed as part of the 12th International Contemporary Artists Book Fair from Fri 6 - Wed 18 March 2009.

VIEW IMAGES OF THE EVENT HERE

Date: Sat 27 Sept 2008
Time: 6-9pm
6pm: Welcome! (Collect your free drink token at the door)
7pm-7.30pm: Mystery films and one-off performances from the EXP24 collective
8pm: Raffle results!
8.30pm: World Premiere of Launch Party collaborative film
Venue: East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St. Mary's Lane, Leeds.
FREE ADMISSION - ALL WELCOME

Come and celebrate the launch of EXP24’s new proto film lab, at ESA Patrick Studios, Leeds! This is our first proper base, and we want it to become a space where artists, filmmakers and newbies alike can come to talk, learn and create together.

Exp24 Launch Party! Featuring:
*The ‘Cinema of Mirrors’, the Project Space will be transformed into a constantly changing multi-projection environment – wow!
*Sculptural film and video installations by EXP24 filmmakers & friends
*Archaic film museum – with interactive exhibits!
*Collective film – get involved in making a 16mm experimental film in the space. Results will be screened at 8.30pm to bring the night to a close.
*Film raffle! Top prize is a pair of tickets for the Leeds International Film Festival Opening Gala. Buy tickets to be in with a chance of winning a free EXP24 Super 8 workshop place (worth £50!), plus many more film-related treats.
*La Musique! Provided by FakeHipsDisco DJs plus Violaine & friends
*Badges! Don’t forget to pick up your first ever (and hot off the press) EXP24 limited edition badge...

6pm: Welcome! (Collect your free drink token at the door)

7pm-7.30pm: Mystery films and one-off performances from the EXP24 collective

8pm: Raffle results!

8.30pm: World Premiere of Launch Party collaborative film

There will also be a chance to sign up for future workshops and for ESA membership.

After party location TBC – ask on the night!

www.exp24.org

Be our virtual friend at www.myspace.com/exp24

Become a Facebook fan at www.facebook.com/pages/EXP-24/72530335036

Since Jonathan Silver bought Salts Mill in 1987 and transformed it into a vast, stunning art gallery, the World Heritage village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire gained a reputation as a vibrant and creative hub attracting like-minded individuals to live in its houses and peruse its galleries, shops and cafés. Over the past 20 years, this historic and characterful mill village has drawn into its heart a creative community that makes it an ideal location for an Arts Trail.

During the festival, Patrick Studio holder Jo Lee will be exhibiting at 32 Park Street, Beaver Studio holder Rebecca Lowe will be exhibiting at 36 Titus Street and Beaver Studio holder Andi Robinson and ESA Artisan member Natasha Light will be exhibiting at 71 George Street.

See the Saltaire Arts Trail website for details......

Date: Sat 30 August 2008
Time: 10am-5pm
Venue: Project Space, ESA, Patrick Studios, St. Mary's Lane, Leeds.

Cost: £20/£15 (conc)
(PLACES ARE LIMITED - 8 participants max)

This workshop will demonstrate the accessibility and relative low cost of super 8 as a contemporary creative medium for artists and filmmakers, encouraging experimentation and collaboration.

Over the course of the workshop you will:
- find out about the history of the format, and how Super 8 works
- get to know the Super 8 camera and shoot a film
- learn accessible techniques for hand-processing super 8 film.

Re-form[at]: HD workshop

Date: Sun 31 August 2008
Time: 10am-5pm
Venue: Project Space, ESA, Patrick Studios, St. Mary's Lane, Leeds.

Cost: £20/£15 (conc)
(PLACES ARE LIMITED - 8 participants max)

This practical introduction to the HD format will focus on creative camera/editing techniques and collaborative filmmaking processes.

Over the course of the workshop you will:
- find out about the new format and get to know the HD camera
- learn about camera techniques.
- cover HD work-flow and transferring to computer.

Email: info@lumen.org.uk to reserve your place.

The competition was open to all artists - established and emerging talent - aged 18 and over living or working in the UK. 71 works in a variety of different media were selected from a national open submission of over 2,700 and will be on view at the Mall Galleries, London from 20 August to 6 September 2008. The 71 chosen are also available to view on the website at www.threadneedlefigurativeprize.com

To see more of Jo Lee's work visit her website at www.jolee.uk.com

Date: Thur 24 July 2008

Times: 6.30-7.30pm

Venue: East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St. Mary's Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH.

FREE ADMISSION - BOOKING REQUIRED

To book a place please call 0113 2480040 or email info@esaweb.org.uk.

More on Josie Flynn:

Josephine Flynn was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, in 1975. She gained an MA Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 2006, & a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1998. Recent Shows: Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, Germany (Solo Show), Associates Gallery, London (Solo Show). She is represented by The International 3, Manchester and Limoncello Gallery, London. Please see here for more information about Josie's work.

Artist Juliana Bellante discussed the ups and downs of setting up as an artist and how everyday life becomes the context that influences the processes of her practice.

More on Juliana:

Juliana was born in Argentina. She studied sculpture in Buenos Aires before leaving the country in 2000 to travel in Europe. Juliana graduated from Bradford School of Art and Design in 2007 and joined Patrick Studios last March.

More on Greg Townend's work:

'To get satisfaction as an artist I need to make work which conforms to the following criteria:

It must be paintings and drawings which are:
(a) an illusionistic representation of form and space
(b) objectively rigorous
(c) open- ended, emergent, not constricted by a plan
(d) free from photography.

It feels appropriate and relevant to use the processes and techniques associated with my work as a technical illustrator and industrial artist.'

Patrick Studio holder Eirini Boukla was in residence on the Greek island of Chios in Summer 2008.

In addition to this, Eirini has been commissioned for Hull's 54° North Festival www.fifty-four.org beginning on Fri 19 Sept 2008 and has been selected for the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) in October www.sipf.com.sg.

www.eiriniboukla.eu

We are pleased to announce that Patrick Studio holders Bryan&Laura Davies have been nominated for the Northern Art Prize 2008. The Northern Art Prize is open to professional artists of any age, working in any medium, living in the north of England. See more on Bryan and Laura's work here....

Patrick Studio holder Andi Robinson has had work selected for the A1 Open Exhibition at the newly opened Station Gallery in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Dates: 14 Jul - 31 Aug 2008
Times: 9am-11pm daily
Venue: The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD.

Patrick Studio holder Rhiannon Silver has been selected for one of 42 New Briggate Gallery's residencies commencing Mon 4 August.

Dates: Mon 4 - 17 Aug 2008
Times: Tues – Sat 12 - 7pm
Venue: 42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds, LS1 6NU.

Rhiannon’s two-week residency entitled ‘Sarah’ will be spent replicating the decorative wall mural in Al Capone’s Pizza takeaway (opposite 42 New Briggate). Viewers will be able to observe the painstaking but knowingly futile process of reproduction. At the end of the residency the audience will be invited to compare the original mural with the artists imitation. Click here for more details.....

Dates: 4 Jun - 15 Aug 2008 (closing party 14 Aug)
Times: 8am-6pm daily
Venue: The Bowery, 54 Otley Road, Headingley, LS6 2AL.

Patrick studio holder Jon Lawrence showed works at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle in July 2008, including the pieces 'Engineers Chess' and 'Speaker Machine.'

Beaver studio holder Rebecca Strain residency at 42 New Briggate Gallery runs from Mon 14 July to Sun 27 July 2008. Rebecca will spend a fortnight concentrating on ‘The Fine Art of Rejection’ by making paper objects from failed applications and rejection letters. Rebecca invites the audience to contribute by submitting their own rejection letters via the gallery's letterbox. Open: Tuesday – Saturday 12 - 7pm.

A sculptural exploration into the fragmentation of movement. The subtle complexity of the 25 frames of a second of animation is expanded into a... suddenly! the final frame breaks free of it's time-frozen shackles and goes off to do it's own exploration. Conscious and curious it surveys it's surroundings then gingerly makes it's way out into the wider world...

Visit theartmarket website at: http://kunstfreund.wordpress.com/

Andy Broadey, Nick Cass, Kelly Cumberland, Mike Ferguson, Victoria Lucas, Susan Massey, Ruth Scott, Phil Slocombe, Andrew Warsat

Spacia arts
67-71 Bath Road
Holbeck, LS11 9UA
Saturday 31 May-Thursday 12 June 2008
Galery is open to the public Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm

Private View Friday 30 May 2008 5.00 - 8.00pm

Amelia Crouch's Looking- Capture- Reproduction, a fragmentary narrative in scenes, consists of a series of eight short texts printed on paper and pasted to the wall. Each text is highly evocative of an absent visual image, that the viewer is invited to relocate in his own mind, drawing on his personal visual archive.

She will be showing new work as part of the project Public Screen which is part of the Parallel Programme of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art in Greece in Sept. 07. The project addresses the concept of “heterotopias” under today’s terms within contemporary societies, redefining the relationship between contemporary art and the public-urban space.

He has work in two upcoming art fairs; Origin at Somerset House, London from 2-7 October 2007 (stand E1), and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London as part of 'New Faces' (Crafts Council) to coincide with 'Collect' from 17th Januray - 4th March 2008.

Jo Lee will be exhibiting her work at 'The Affordable Art Fair' at Battersea, London from 18-21 October 2007. The Art-File Gallery, Bicester, Oxford, will be representing her.

In December, Jo is one of three artists exhibiting in 'The Christmas Show' at The Gallery at Bevere in

Worcester, 1-29 December 2007. Her work will also roll over into the gallery's 'Stepping Out' exhibition from 9-20 January 2008, an exhibition showcasing promising graduates from 2007.

Other Exhibitions for 2008 include:
'Designer Crafts 2008' - Mall Galleries, London, 9-20 Jan 2008
'Setting Out' - Contemporary Ceramics, London. Jan 2008 (date tbc)
'Setting Out' - Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Mar 2008 (date tbc)

‘Heart Felt’, Heart Gallery, Hebden Bridge, 20 Feb – 24 Mar
Contemporary Textiles Fair, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, 11 – 13 Mar
‘Spring’ Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely, 14 Mar – 29 Apr
British Craft Trade Fair, Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate, 15 - 17 Apr
‘Summer’ Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely, 10 Jun – 29 Jul
‘Summer Showcase’ Bilston Craft Gallery, 19 Jun – 1 Sep
‘Wedding Adornment’ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 1 Jul – 25 Aug

Other forthcoming exhibitions include:
‘Winter Warmth’, Park Gallery, Falkirk, 10 Nov – 5 Jan
‘Compilation’, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, 3 Nov – 5 Jan
‘Dazzle 07’, Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, 26 Nov – 21 Dec
‘Christmas Show 2007’, Halifax Visitor Centre & Art Gallery/ Piece Hall, Halifax, 17 Nov – 6 Jan