Merchants House – ongoing project
Here you can see my ongoing work for Jersey Heritage. The site specific work is in response to the Merchant’s House – a house based at the Jersey Museum restored back to the 1850′s. The work produced interprets each of the rooms and the family that lived there during this period – giving people an insight into their lives.
The work will be installed in the house and exhibited in April 2012.
The Art House Open Studios 2011
As part of the Jersey Open Studios The Art House will be opening up their studios for you.
Studios will be open:
18/19 June & 25/26 June 2011 from 10am – 4pm
You are also invited to our Open Studios, Open Night:
5.30pm-8pm, Thursday 23rd June
Come and stop by for a drink and enjoy the work of 9 local artists and designers.
Studios include: Matt Daly, Clare Ormsby, Karen Le Roy Harris, Pippa Barrow, Rosalind Monks, Evil Spoons (James Carter), Joy Collie, Peter John Thomson and guest exhibitor Anita Le Sech.
Address: The Shell House, La Folie, St Helier, Jersey, JE2 3NB (behind La Folie pub, past commercial buildings)
Front door to studios – just come in, the door is open!
Self Portrait time lapse
Last weekend 6 artists took part in a project to explore the self – with a time constraint of less than 30 hours and all working and creating the work on site in the Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre – the 6 artists didn’t have long to put o a show.
Watch the time lapse of the artists – Matt Falle, Lisa MacDonald, Kevin Pallot, Gabrielle Radiguet, Alison Richards and Karen Le Roy Harris working away!
Self Portrait project streams live!
This Sunday 6 artists will begin their journey with the Self Portrait project. Karen Le Roy Harris, Matt Falle, Alison Richards, Lisa MacDonald, Alison Richards, Gaby Radiguet and Kevin Pallot will have less than 36 hours working in the Berni Gallery space to produce all their work from scratch and put on a entire show by the preview the following evening.
The project starts Sunday morning (20th March) and finishes Monday evening. Watch the artists at play streaming live from the gallery from 10am Sunday Morning until 4pm Monday afternoon.
Watch live here!
Please join the artists for a drink at the preview: Monday 21st March, 5.30 – 7pm, Berni Gallery Jersey Arts Centre.
Dancing figures with music
Here’s a slideshow with music that was playing at the installation to give you a better sense of the mood of the exhibition. You can also find more photos in the galleries page.
Dancing figures art installation from Karen Le Roy Harris on Vimeo.
The Paper House Project, 2011
Group Exhibition
St Brelades College, Jersey
Saturday 12th February (5.30pm – 9pm) – Sunday 13th February (10.30am – 5.30pm)
For just one weekend St Brelades College will be hosting an artistic extravaganza guaranteed to inspire with Paintings, Sculptures, Photography, Glass, Installations, Performance Art and numerous surprises that challenge tradition and showcase the unexpected.
The exhibition will feature works by internationally acclaimed Jersey Artist Robert Greene and over thirty talented local artists including some of my work. I’ve been working on a new installation which I’ll be doing in collaboration with Clare Ormsby.
Live music and refreshments can be enjoyed in the quirky ‘pop up’ Victorian Tearoom where you can meet the Artists. The Project has been put together by two local Artists, Joanna Brown and Louise Evans.
Don’t miss the kick start event preview on Saturday 12th Feb, 5.30pm – 9pm.
St. Brelades College, Le Mont les Vaux, St Brelades, JE3 8AF.
FREE ENTRANCE AND FREE PARKING
Exciting opportunity – Self-portrait
I was recently asked with 5 other artists to take part in a promotional exhibition with the Jersey Arts Centre called Self Portrait.
Myself, Gaby Radiguet, Lisa Macdonald, Alison Richards, Matt Falle and Kevin Pallot will be taking up this exciting opportunity.
The challenge being we will arrive in the Berni Gallery on Sunday morning (20th March 2011) and we create work for the exhibition within the space by the next day (Monday 21st March) when we’ll have a preview at 5.30pm!
I was really happy to be invited to be part of such an exciting project and the opportunity to work amongst other artists in so many different disciplines. It’s both exciting and terrifying, especially as some of my drawings can take up to 40-50 hours. But it presents the challenge of possibly a new way of working. Luckily I believe artists are pretty well trained for this lack of sleep, working through the night, living on adrenaline – as many of us have done the nights leading up to a big exhibition.
The image here is taken by artist Alison Richards on the spur of the moment where all the artists taking part were photographed and merged as one. I’ll keep you up to date and look forward to finding out what 6 artists together in one space get up to in 36 hours.
The piece I worked on was a study form a costume I’d been working on. The dress was an interpretation of Helen Chadwick’s ‘Loop my Loop’ which uses golden hair entwined with pig gut – a classic twist of fairy tale combining beauty and grotesque, inner and outer in an embrace that challenges these distinctions.
In the time given I photographed the dress as well as working on a observational drawing from the dress itself.
Perception
Sunday morning I began to help hang the exhibition of my friend and talented artist Clare Ormsby in her solo exhibition at the Berni Gallery at the Jersey Arts Centre. The exhibition went up really well and I look forward to taking it all in at the preview.
This is Clare’s first exhibition featuring her three dimensional work. Her new collection explores how art can transform the mundane. A mixture of 2D paintings and 3D forms often merge and become one, playing with how you see the work and it also questions the value of objects as Clare transforms everyday objects into beautifully exquisite art forms.
Clare is well known for her unique style that uses both painting and drawing techniques that creates beautifully intricate surfaces. Clare is a real colourist and with this exhibition her use of colour and forms make for an exciting, vibrant and beautiful exhibition.
Make sure you don’t miss it!
The exhibition runs: 24th January – 12th February 2011, Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre. The preview is Monday 24th January 5.30-7pm.
Here’s a quick snap I took of the work setting up today – just to wet your appetite. Hopefully see you at the preview.
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