Art – Alison J Carr

I went to Devon for Jamboree with my friends Lea Torp Nielsen and Lesley Guy. Our four days involved artist talks, workshops, walking, talking, swimming in the River Dart and camping. It was fab!

Left to right: Manifesto (2017), Ascending A Staircase, Library Theatre, Sheffield, 2018, Ascending A Staircase, City Varities, Leeds

Rowan Bailey put together the first show at the Market Gallery as part of the Temporary Contemporary collaboration between the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Council and the Huddersfield covered market. Space, Place Action brought together the research staff at the university. I used the opportunity to test out my new series of theatre interior photographs, Ascending A Staircase.

Sean Williams’s exhibition For A Burning Love has transferred to The Old Lock Up, Cromford. The exhibition opening afternoon was really great, the exhibition remains open until 25th February

Contemporary British Painting featured the show in it’s newsletter:

For a Burning Love

In January ‘For a Burning Love’ moves to the Old Lock Up Gallery in Cromford, a space that, fittingly some might say, used to be a jail. ‘For a Burning Love‘ celebrates and demonstrates the breadth of contemporary painting and includes works by Mandy Payne and Sean Williams. It encompasses highly-detailed realism and gestural abstraction, paintings that are almost sculptures and photographs interrupted by the introduction of paint. In this way ‘For a Burning Love’ questions what a painting might be and so, in turn, questions our fixed ideas about most things. ‘For a Burning Love’ may also offer a clue into why artists choose to use paint over other media to express their ideas and explore possibilities.

The Old Lock Up Gallery
19 The Hill, Swifts Hollow, Cromford, Derbyshire, DE4 3QHJ

Preview: Saturday January 20th, 1 – 4pm
Exhibition dates: 20 January – 25 February
Opening times: Thursday – Saturday 11am – 6pm, Sunday 11am -4.30pm

Square Peg, an ArtCan Members exhibition at the Circle Gallery, Sheffield, is open from 2 February – 30 March 2018. The show restricts works to 2ft x 2ft dimensions and considers artist’s experiences of being square pegs in round holes, curated by my good friend, Kate Enters–lovely to have her visiting Sheffield to put it together! Exhibition catalogue online here.

I used the opportunity to show photographs from the Library Theatre.

Sean Williams has put together a painting show with wildly different approaches to painting. He’s including my work and interviewed me about my approach. The interview is here and the exhibition at The Circle, until the end of January. Details here.

Photo credit courtesy of HOME, Manchester

I took part in an innovative panel discussion, a symposium created by Victoria Lucas, in January, at HOME in Manchester. You can watch the event here.

Chelsea Collage of Art Library is showing the Sharon Kivland’s Report on Knowledge/Library Interventions, Monday 23 May to Friday 17 June. I took part in the project and for it, I photography the naughty bits. Sharon’s choice of image from the many I took is on display.

Iya / Madame JoJos, 2016

Three pieces are included in a group show at Clerkenwell Gallery this week, the show is up until Sunday, do pop along if you get the chance. Here’s a peek at my pieces in the show.

At present I’m at Shows of Sheffield at Castle House most days, as part of Festival of the Mind. I’m presenting my cigarette cards and theatre flats and having some great conversations with the public!

Photographs of Act II of Three Act Structure at S1 Artspace. My work is ‘Theatre Flats’, the four free standing photographs of elements of theatres.

Alison J Carr

Jamboree

Square Peg, Circle Gallery, Sheffield

For a Burning Love

Lay of the Land, HOME, Manchester

Report on Knowledge/Library Interventions

Clerkenwell Gallery Group Show

Shows of Sheffield

Three Act Structure Act II Documentation