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OVERVIEW History of the Gallery The Gallery also runs a programme of touring exhibitions. FACING EAST: Contemporary Landscape Photography from the Baltic Areas, 2004, toured to six other number of venues, including the Impressions Gallery. The Gallery has also toured A SHORT GRAND TOUR to three other loctions, including 2001 Visual Arts Centre. Currently the Gallery is planning to tour 'From Here to There', a photographic exhibition celebrating the work of over 25 photographers, all alumni from the Arts University College at Bournemouth. Location(s) The Gallery's programme of touring exhibitions has meant that the Gallery and its text+work concept has a presence in a number of other locations, including the Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre; and Northampton Museums & Art Gallery. A recent collaborative approach with ArtSway, a contemporary art gallery in the New Forest, has also resulted in a presence from text+work at the international art exhibition, the Venice Biennale (2007 and 2009), when text+work hosted the seminars 'Word Matters' which explored the relation between the written word and contemporary art. In 2007, the Gallery worked in partnership with the Russell-Cotes, Bournemouth, on the exhibition 'MEETING PLACE': Contemporary Art and the Museum'. The Gallery has a database of over 3000 individuals, to whom it distributes exhibition marketing flyers and the accompanying publications. How it was conceived / developed Who is supported by the Gallery As well as hosting the text+work exhibitions, there are regular gallery events, including collections on loan from galleries and museums, as well as individual exhibitions by some of today's leading artists, photographers, designers and critical writers. It also functions as a research and learning resource and is integrated into the teaching, learning, and research practice undertaken at the University College. Past artists have included former Turner Prize winner, Grenville Davey (which included a unique accompanying CD - pocket exhibition), Royal Academicians Ian McKeever and Frank Bowling, 16 artists from the Baltic area as part of the FACING EAST exhibition, up and coming artists including Dinu Li and Eric Butcher. It also supports the University College's academic staff through research, enabling them to research and produce an exhibition and publication, and the Gallery hands its space over to the University College's courses every summer for the Summer exhibitions, thus supporting students. Past writers have included, amongst others, Susan bright, curator and author; Luce Irigaray, feminisr and cultural theorist; Professor Simon Olding, Director of Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham; and David Bate, autor of 'Photography and Surrealism' (2004). All publications since April 2005 are formally ISBNed and available to purchase on Amazon. The Gallery also runs the University College Hang project, which showcases works by past and current students, as well as that of staff, throughout the campus. This provides an excellent opportunity for students to present their work to a wider audience, and the Gallery will also occasionally purchase works by some of those past students. In 2009, the Gallery hosted 'FROM HERE TO THERE: Fifty years of photography at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth'. This exhibition celebrated the work and achievements of over 25 University College's Photography graduates, some well established photographers and some up-and-coming. The Gallery is also helped by a number of interns, all students at the University College, who gain invaluable work experience. The Gallery also forms part of teaching on BA Arts and Event Management. The Senior Gallery Officer teaches across the different schools and the Gallery regularly offers to give teaching sessions to visiting groups on the particular exhibitions, on curating and on methods of hanging. Teaching sessions are also open to students from across all schools and sources.
FOCUS The Gallery focuses on contemporary art, design, and media practice and their accompanying theoretical contexts. The concept provides a platform for practitioners, writers and curators who wish to examine and extend the boundaries between contemporary art practice and critical discourse. A text (essay) is published by text+work to accompany each exhibition in the programe, which is shared across our network as publications and as e-publications available from the text+work website. Alongside the text+work conept, the Gallery is a major resource for contemporary visual art at the Arts University College at Bournemouth and has received regional, national and international recognition. In addition to this, the Gallery is responsible for the Arts University College's Arts Council collection and its hang.
AIMS • To promote and to provide a forum for challenging dialogue between innovative contemporary art, design, and media practice, alongside their theoretical contexts. • Promote engagement with the academic work of the University College to generate discourse as a critical and creative community. • To make a significant contribution to the research environment of the University College and attainment of the Research Strategy.
NUMBER AND SIZE OF EXHIBITIONS The Gallery hosts four to six exhibitions per year, encompassing a variety of art practices. In 2010, it presented a photography exhibition (a touring exhibition from Impressions Gallery), a design and poetry exhibition (under the concept of text+work), a multi-disciplinary exhibition showcasing sculpture, film, photography and a musical performance, as well as a painting exhibition. In addition to this, the Gallery hosted Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Kokoro, ‘From Experimentalism to Minimalism’. The Gallery has also toured A SHORT GRAND TOUR to 2021 Visual Arts Centre this year.
MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION The Gallery is represented by the Gallery committee, which meets three times a year to contribute ideas and to select proposals for the text+work programme. The committee reports to Senior Management and The Gallery Office is managed through the University Directorate. The Gallery is a centralized resource and serves to expose the University College’s creative community and other visitors to the visual arts, design, and media. It is run by the Senior Gallery Officer who is helped by a number of interns—all students at the University College—who are of invaluable support. It is also a unique opportunity for them to be mentored by the Gallery Officer and to gain excellent work experience.
ARCHIVE AND RESEARCH Research has provided contributions to a number of exhibitions and their accompanying publications under the text+work concept since its inception, as follows: • The Art & Craft of Photography, (Curated by Jim Campbell & Geoff Drury),16 March - 8 April 2004 • Hanging Garden, James Barron + Eric Butcher, 5 December 2005 – 27 January 2006 • A SHORT GRAND TOUR, Professor Simon Olding + Jim Hunter, 5 February – 9 March 2007 • Come Closer, Bob Cotton/Jim Campbell + Squidsoup, 2 April – 4 May 2007 • MEETING PLACE, Contemporary Art and the Museum Collection, 10 September - 20 October 2007 • Health & Safety, Susan Bright + Sian Bonnell, 29 October - 30 November 2007 • INTO THE LIGHT, Peter Bonnell + Julie Marsh, 10 December 2007 - 25 January 2008 • BORDERLANDS, Lee Mackinnon/Frank Brown + Christian Edwardes/Tom Hall, 27 October – 28 November 2008 • in no particular order, Kathleen Abiker+Simon Granell, Curated by Josepha Sanna, 8 December 2008 – 23 January 2009. • Family Village, Dinu Li, 16 March – 17 April 2009 It is also host for historical exhibitions and dialogue, for example it presented …in the footprints of Henry Taunt’s in 2009 and London’s Riverscape Lost and Found in 2004, providing a social context and narrative.
CURRENT NETWORKS OR COMMERCIAL PARTNERS The Gallery has worked closely with a number of other networks and commercial partners, including • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in hosting Kokoro in 2009 with plans for future collaborations; • GOLDBERG VARIATIONS by Bach and performed by David Wright on Harpsichord, supporting texts written by Terry Barfoot. • The Enterprise Pavilion, Poole, hosting the Bob Godfrey, curated by Professor Suzanne Bunchan, Director of the Animation Research Centre, University if the Arts, Farham, exhibition on the occasion of the Animation Festival 2008; • Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth on the MEETING PLACE project, on both the exhibition and the accompanying educational events, 2007; • Collaborated with Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design on the exhibition EUREKA, idea-based graphic design by Bob Godfrey, 2006. • It hosted the Jerwood Drawing prize in 2006 and was the first venue in the South West to do so, • In association with Birmingham Libraries on a Bill Brandt exhibition – HOMES FIT FOR HEROES, 2005; • FACING EAST was toured for three years, in association with the Study Gallery and Poole Photography Festival in 2004. • Collaborated with TRACE on the exhibition Stubborn Material, 2005 • ROLLO Contemporary, Wolverhampton University and Winchester Discovery Centre on Frank Bowling’s Paintings exhibition, 2008 and 2009. An AHRC funded project in 2007 worked with ArtSway (a contemporary art gallery in the New Forest) as its business partner, going to Venice to present a series of seminars and talks in 2007 and 2009. Since 2007, the Arts University College at Bournemouth has partnered up with ArtSway on a number of projects and text+work publications, such as Nathaniel Mellors’ B.O.K, which accompanied his ‘The Time Surgeon’ at ArtSway in 2007. The ArtSway Associates programme has also supported the Gallery on exhibitions, including Dinu Li’s ‘Family Village’ (2009) and Charlie Murphy’s ‘Anatomy of Desire’ (2010). The Gallery continues to work with ArtSway on a commissioning basis. Such projects for 2010 include the artists Christopher Orr and Hew Locke, who will be working closely with the BA Fine Art course for his exhibition. The Gallery is part of VAGA, Contemporary Art Society, Touring Exhibitions Group and it holds a membership with Museum & Galleries Association.
ASPIRATIONS AND INTENTIONS FOR THE CHEAD GALLERY NETWORK
CONTACT Gallery Office gallery@aucb.ac.uk Violet McClean, Senior Gallery Officer http://www.aucb.ac.uk/aboutus/thegallery.aspx
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