Can We Ever Know The Meaning Of These Objects?

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CAN WE EVER KNOW THE MEANING OF THESE OBJECT

Opening times may be updated due to COVID-19 restrictions,

GALLERY 46 opening 

2-6pm, Tuesday – Sunday

Launch Events

Pre-booking essential as spaces are limited

Thursday July 8th 6pm – 9pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/160539916211

Friday July 9th 2pm – 9pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/160541553107

Saturday 10th 12am – 6pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16054187899

Mask wearing is obligatory in the galleries unless exempt and contact details will be collected on arrival.x

Artists: Associated Clay Workers Union ( Helen Carr, Sarah Christie, Duncan Hooson and Annette Welch, Diane Eagles, Alison Cooke, Danuta Solowiej, Stephanie Buttle, Jo Pearl, Raewyn Harrison, Jane Millar), Eleanor Bowen, Sean Dower, Fieldnotes, Bruce Gilchrist, Caroline Gregory, Bjørn Hatleskog, Luke Jordan, Miyuki Kasahara, Yev Kazannik, Marq Kearey, Calum F Kerr, Lisa McKendrick, Pol Mclernon, Sean Mclusky, Kevin Quigley, Victoria Rance, James Roseveare, Martin Sexton, Sarah Sparkes, Ian Thompson, Inga Tillere , Marianne Walker, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Mary Yacoob

Performance and Talks

July 10th

Q&A with members of the Associated Clay Workers Union, online through IGTV, 11 am

AUGURIES ORIENTATION, performance, CAROLINE GREGORY, 4pm

July 8th / 9th / 10th

THE BARD AND THE OBJECT

,A series of Spoken word performances - dealing with the relationships between Human Experience and Objects

Perforners

Niall Mcdevitt / Warren Conlon / Field Notes,

Various times

July 22nd

ARIEL, performance, Victoria Rance with Blanc Sceol, online through IGTV,7pm

Publication

OBJECTS JOURNAL,

an artist book containing new works and texts by the exhibiting artists, will be available to purchase at the gallery for £5

Exhibition Statement

CAN WE EVER KNOW THE MEANING OF THESE OBJECTS?

Curated by Kevin Quigley and Sarah Sparkes

'Archaeologists excavate sites and objects from the past and then write about them; while artists create, and invent objects or situations in the present.' Sarah Scott, World Archaeology Vol. 38, (Taylor & Francis: 2018)'

Without the Allure of Objects - we are trapped amidst the swirling black noise of any given sensual space.’ Graham Harman, Object-Orientated ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books: 2018)

It is hard to resist the 'allure' of a mysterious object: a found object, an out of place artefact, an art object, an anthropological object, an archaeological find.Archaeologists subject artefacts to hierarchical categories.

Artists, by re-making and re-imagining objects, activate apocryphal histories, raise the objects' status and bring new perception.In Harman’s notion of ' Allure' an object holds a seductive power beyond its qualities. Every 'thing' can contain an essence of this mystery through imagined intentionality.

Through both the mystery and the allure of the object we make a quantum leap - from one possible reality into the next. As we examine this reality closer, through ontological study, we question and place what things can exist or can be said to exist and how such entities can be grouped accordingly to their similarities and differences?

The exhibition, featuring the work of 38 international artists, explores the intent to generate new relations between objects and their associations with the world around them.The works includes ceramics, sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings, performance and more.

For further information contact:

Kevin Quigley k

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+44 (0)7951077661