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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 {...}