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

AESTHETIC APPARATUS

Blenheim Walk

19 April - 18 June

A small display of gig posters along the main corridor of Blenheim Walk by Minneapolis based designers Aesthetic Apparatus.

SEAN KAYE AND JENNY WEST - Slow Revolution

Vernon Street 12 - 29 April

Sean Kaye and Jenny West began working together in 2006. Their practice uses strategies of limitation, translation and exchange in the production of distinct bodies of work.

This exhibition of new and recent work includes Mirror Mirror a series of paired drawings that highlight the fallibility of communication and translation in their construction and Reflection a series of video works exploring the relationship of balance, equilibrium and rhythm found in the monumental radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. The bookwork A Random Dispersal of Dust (Mutely Understood) will also be accompanied by related research material. This work is a word reveral of the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges and is published by Wild Pansy Press.

In conjunction with the exhibition the film Slow Revolution will be shown at Hyde Park Picture House on Monday 26th April at 6.00pm - admission free.

www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk

HAMISH FULTON

Vernon Street Library

17 March - 14 May






This small display of a wide range of work by Hamish Fulton has been taken from the extensive College collection.

Hamish Fulton was born in London in 1946 and studied at Hammersmith College of Art, St. Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since the 1960's Hamish has been creating text and image work as well as sculpture in response to his physical contact with the surrounding landscape and since 1973, when he decalred that he would only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks, he has undertaken walks throughout the world.

CHOQUE CULTURAL

8 - 26 March

Choque Cultural is a contemporary art gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with strong links to underground culture, showing pop, outsider and young art in a highly original style. The exceptional silk screens on show feature work by some of the gallery's best known artists including Nuno Valerio, Silvano Mello, Daniel Melim and many others. For more information about Brazilian street art visit www.graffitibrasil.com or www.choquecultural.co.uk