20-Feb-2023
PAPER & Axel Obiger Present:
Objects
Louise Bristow / Louisa Chambers / Lisa Denyer / Caitlin Griffiths / David Hancock / Peter Hock / Jeffrey Knopf & Angela Tait / Merja Kokkonen / Gabriele Künne / Niina Lehtonen Braun / Matthew Macaulay / Maja Rohwetter / Ruby Tingle / Hannah Wooll
Exhibition dates: 31 March – 29 April 2023
Private View: Friday 31st March 2023, 7-10pm
Objects
Louise Bristow / Louisa Chambers / Lisa Denyer / Caitlin Griffiths / David Hancock / Peter Hock / Jeffrey Knopf & Angela Tait / Merja Kokkonen / Gabriele Künne / Niina Lehtonen Braun / Matthew Macaulay / Maja Rohwetter / Ruby Tingle / Hannah Wooll
Exhibition dates: 31 March – 29 April 2023
Private View: Friday 31st March 2023, 7-10pm
Axel Obiger, working in collaboration with PAPER will draw together the practices of 14 artists working in both Berlin and the United Kingdom. Each artist attempts to disrupt the notion of still life, and reinterpret this genre of art. Still Life was considered the lowest genre of art, and yet in the composition of objects, artists can imply a great deal. Frances Morris wrote of Picasso's still lives, they are "capable of evoking the most complex blend of pathos and defiance, of despair to hope, balancing personal and universal experience in an expression of extraordinary emotional power. The hardship of daily life, the fragility of human existence and the threat of death. These themes permeate through the genre where they remain ever present to this day, simmering below the surface.
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10-Oct-2019
EXHIBITING AT THE MANCHESTER CONTEMPORARY / MANCHESTER ART FAIR
PAPER will once again take part in The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair again this year. The Manchester Contemporary takes a uniquely artist-focused approach, inviting the most exciting international and UK galleries to participate. With careful selection and bold curatorial vision, The Manchester Contemporary showcases the strength of the UK’s regional artists and galleries alongside key international presentations that can only be seen in Manchester on 11-13 October at Manchester Central.
This year PAPER will present a curated exhibition, At Our Still Lives Posed feauring 5 Northwest based artists: Lisa Denyer, Caitlin Griffiths, David Hancock, Ruby Tingle, and Hannah Wooll.
To buy work https://paper-gallery.co.uk/tmc2019
PAPER will once again take part in The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair again this year. The Manchester Contemporary takes a uniquely artist-focused approach, inviting the most exciting international and UK galleries to participate. With careful selection and bold curatorial vision, The Manchester Contemporary showcases the strength of the UK’s regional artists and galleries alongside key international presentations that can only be seen in Manchester on 11-13 October at Manchester Central.
This year PAPER will present a curated exhibition, At Our Still Lives Posed feauring 5 Northwest based artists: Lisa Denyer, Caitlin Griffiths, David Hancock, Ruby Tingle, and Hannah Wooll.
To buy work https://paper-gallery.co.uk/tmc2019
19-Jul-2019
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DEVELOPING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE AWARD, ARTS COUNCIL / 2019
This funding will allow me to create a new, mature body of work that fully resolves ideas presented in my recent work-in progress exhibition 'Everything We Call Real'. I plan to make a sustained investigation of the relationship between reality and individual identity, drawing on photography's means to observe and document place, people and performance. |
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6-Jul-2019
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DIY16 - THE PARTY CALLS YOU / 2019
DIY16 is opportunities for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run by artists, for artists. Selected as a participant for Tim Jeeves & Lena Simic: The Party Calls You. |
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1-Jun-2019
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GREATER MANCHESTER ART PRIZE/ 2019
Shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Art Prize 2019. The exhibition runs from Thursday 6th June 2019 to Friday 5th July 2019, at Bolton Museum & Art Gallery. |
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1-Feb-2019
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NEW EXHIBITION OPENS 22nd February 2019
‘Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real’, Caitlin Griffiths Preview: Friday 22 February. 6–8pm Open: Saturday 23 February, 11-5pm Caitlin Griffiths presents new photographic work-in-progress made following her residency to the Niels Bohr archive in Copenhagen. Starting from Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation which theorized that reality is only summoned into existence through the act of looking at it, Griffiths’ aims to draw parallels between observation theory and identity formation. Taking its title from an often shared Niels Bohr's quote (on the nature of Quantum Physics), the exhibition explores the relationship between reality and individual identity through two new series which draw on photography's means to observe and document place, people and performance. Facebook event |
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10-Dec-2019
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RESIDENCY AT BOHR ARCHIVE, COPENHAGEN
I have received Arts Council funding to undertake a preliminary research residency at the Bohr Archive in Copenhagen to observe (through drawing, photography and audio interviews) the items and staff at the archive. This research and development project is to investigate observation theory through the relationship of a visual arts practice and history of quantum physics. |
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27-Jan-2018
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NEW EXHIBITION OPENS 15th February 2018
Swiss Cottage Gallery, London While we belong to ourselves a little bit of us belongs to everyone 15 February - 14 April 2018 Following a period of research with a diverse group of experts, including a clairvoyant, a writer, an impressionist, a cognitive anthropologist, a community psychologist, a neuroscientist and a tulpamancer, artist Caitlin Griffiths presents her new exhibition: While we belong to ourselves, a little bit of us belongs to everyone. Drawing from their knowledge and experience this exhibition investigates how we build our identities, navigate our wellbeing and relate to other people. A number of key themes are threaded throughout the work, as the artist explores the areas of romantic love, connection and healing. Using performance, installation, photography and film, as well as text-based media, the artist exposes how our identity formation comes into being through a complex arrangement of social, emotional, cultural and political formations and asks if an increased understanding of how we build our identities can have a positive impact our well-being. The artist would like to thank Andrew Lightheart, Andrew Lancaster, Carrie Kirkpatrick, Dr Daniel Fulton, Firiro, Grant Gillespie, Dr Nina Browne and Dr Samuel Veissière. For more information visit: http://www.lovecamden.org/index.php/while-we-belong-ourselves-little-bit-us-belongs-everyone |
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