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Stephen Carley

Saturday 28 February 09
11am—3pm

Flags – union jacks made from dust, sandpaper, black oil paint, gold leaf…
Giant slogans – blunt messages in hard edged vinyl – this is black and white! A blackboard - covered in hateful words. Tiny sculptures and tiny photographs – it’s all in the detail… Audio noise… Sticks and stones may break my bones {...}

Artist Stephen Carley is collecting words/phrases that refer to the ‘chemical’ reaction that is love/lust/attraction/infatuation/etc’. Words/phrases could be quite obvious, or possibly not, formulaic or simply rude!

They will be used in the next part in his series of 12 ‘happenings/events/exhibitions’ over the coming year, called ‘the love show’.

Contributions must be received by {...}

Over the coming year, Stephen Carley’s Sheffield studio will be the context for a variety of monthly exhibitions or ‘visual trials’.

Sometimes existing artefacts will simply be exhibited. Maybes the space will be adapted or changed in some way or used for collaborative {...}

S1 Artspace, S1 Members show, 6-9pm, info:www.s1artspace.org
This year’s S1 Members’ Show will feature selected new painting by John Burke, sculpture by Haroon Mirza and Jerome Harrington, photography by Charlotte Morgan and video and sound works by Katie Davies. The work has been selected through an open call to the membership by Josephine Flynn, an artist and associate member; Emma Cocker, a writer, Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and S1 Trustee; and David Martin, Assistant {...}

John Welchman, LA based speaker, author and expert and colleague of artist Paul McCarthy spent Friday at Sheffield Hallam Arts Dept The talk, slides and film shown of McCarthy’s recent ‘Caribbean Pirates’ (not showing at a cinema near you) was totally engaging. Abject art has nothing on what’s going on here, grotesque, ritualised, scatalogical, bloody, political and dangerous indeed. The informal talk after {...}

Bumped into Canadian artist Laura Nanni yesterday in Sheffield, on Machon Bank, she was chalking more messages on the ground, I’d come across a couple earlier and they were meaningful for me - ‘Keep going til you reach the bigger view’ was the first one I saw… as I have a lot of questions for life at the moment I took it to heart and thought about it, I felt it was an important message and even felt good about it. {...}

Jonny Drury: Contingency Painting.

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On my way down to London last week, I popped into the Sheffield Hallam University’s BA Film & Media Production photography exhibition at the Workstation. The exhibition was fairly small, about a dozen students’ work on show. Most of it was pretty uninspiring: the occasional good idea was generally ruined by poor photography or printing: low-contrast, out-of-focus, overexposed prints were the norm. As Johnny Nice from the Fast Show would say “Black! Black! It’s all black!”

One woman had {...}