Kevin Cummins - Joy Division

Blenheim Walk


28 May - 17 June








Kevin Cummins studied photography in Salford, embarking on a career that began with documenting the burgeoning punk scene in Manchester. He later became Chief Photographer for the NME where his award winning photographs were a major contributing factor in the rise of the Madchester scene. This exhibition concentrates on the iconic photographs that Kevin took of Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

The Duvet Brothers - Blue Monday

Blenheim Walk 28 May - 17 June

The Duvet Brothers have been making videos since the early 1980's, their work being a mix of recycled documentary, music and editing effects, pioneering an art form which became known as scratch video. Blue Monday is perhaps their best known work, set to the music of New Order and created during a period of social and political change, the decline of Communism and the rise of Thatcherism.

Adam Stone - View from a plinth

Blenheim Walk 28 May - 17 June

An exhibition by Adam Stone who spent one hour on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of the Antony Gormley project "Oneandother". During that time he captured 10 large format pin hole images.

Adam Stone studied at the Royal Academy schools and Leeds College of Art where he currently lectures in art and design.

Books & Artists

Blenheim Walk

28 May - 17 June

Books & Artists is a series of occasional short exhibitions on the first floor at blenheim Walk showing exampples taken from the College collection of artists' books. The often surprising work on display, by both local and international artists, from Black Dogs to Sophie Calle, allows a glimpse into this large collection of work.

AARON MURPHY

Blenheim Walk

4 - 26 May





Aaron Murphy was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1978 and is a photographer and digital printmaker whose work is an experimental hybrid of historical sources and contemporary media. He studied filmmaking at Sheridan College in Canada from 1997 to 2000, and Fine Art at the University of Halifax, Nova Scotia and at The Slade in London.

staring into nowhere . . .

Blenheim Walk



5 - 21 May




staring into nowhere . . . is a small exhibition taken mainly from the College collection and featuring work by artists such as Tek33, Cyclops, SweetToof, Miss Van, Chris Osburn and Jose Parla, whose origins lie in street art. The show includes paintings, drawings, prints, graffiti, books and photographs.

VIVIENNE DICK Beauty Becomes The Beast

21 - 22 April

Blenheim Walk





Vivienne Dick was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1950 and studied at University College, Dublin. From 1977 until 1982 she lived in New York and was part of a group of filmakers whose affiliation to punk became known as "No Wave". Working mainly on Super8, Dick's films from this period feature many musicians from the punk movement in New York. Beauty Becomes The Beast was made in 1979 featuring Lydia Lunch in the lead role playing both a tormented five year old and a troubled teenage.

Shown in the Studio Theatre, Blenheim Walk on the following days and times

Wednesday 21st April 12.00noon - 1.00pm
Thursday 22nd April 5.00pm - 6.00pm

Free