Exhibition
Dawn
2 Feb 2023 – 17 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury
- New Dover Road
- Canterbury
United Kingdom - CT1 3AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Travel from London Victoria to Canterbury East Station (1h 13-30mins), then by taxi or foot to the campus (10 minute walk). Canterbury West Station (which is a twenty minute walk from the gallery) is also served by trains from St Pancras and Waterloo (1h
Dawn brings together artists whose practice uses performance, sculpture, photography and film to call to attention the connection between humans and the land.
About
Dawn brings together artists whose practice uses performance, sculpture, photography and film to call to attention the connection between humans and the land. The exhibition programme seeks to activate and awaken ideas of simultaneously beginning and returning, to new-ancient knowledge, to ancestorial stories held in the body and the desire to belong as part of the land.
Deep histories tumble in unruly graves that are bulldozed into gardens of progress – Anna Tsing
Artists: David Spero, Daniella Valz Gen, Rubiane Maia, Webb-Ellis, SITE
Herbert Read Gallery: UCA Canterbury, New Dover Road CT1 3AN
Private View: Thursday 2nd February, 4pm - 7pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday 3rd February – Friday 17th March
Exhibition Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Events:
Friday 17th February, until 8pm:
Film Screening & Late-night gallery opening: Film screening of This Place is a Message by Webb-Ellis, during which the exhibition will remain open late. Film screening times; 6pm & 7pm.
Wednesday 1st March, 6-8pm:
Film Screening & Artists In-Conversation: Join artist-film makers Webb-Ellis and SITE performance art collective to discuss their practice(s), the inherent knowledge held in our bodies, our desire for connecting & communicating with the land, other forms of life and inanimate objects. As well as collaborative & site-specific forms of making. Following this there will be time to view the exhibition before a film screening of Inheritors by Webb-Ellis at 7pm.
Wednesday 8th March, 6-7pm:
Artist In-Conversation: Daniella Valz Gen and Rubbiane Maia discuss the desire, compulsion & politics of making work in rural England as artists born in other lands.
Saturday 4th March 11am - 4pm:
Workshop & SITE performance: Performance art collective SITE will host a workshop for students & public exploring ways to make site-specific performance in rural spaces, followed by a durational group performance. This will be taking place at Kings Wood Forest Studio, for full details and to register email bean.bean@uca.ac.uk
Wednesday 15th March, 6-7pm
Artist Talk: David Spero discusses their documentary photography project Settlements
UCA’s Student Curatorial Team will be curating & producing a fringe program of exhibitions & events taking place at Brewery Tap UCA Project Space Folkestone as part of this programme.
The fringe show will launch on 24th February for Last Friday’s Folkestone and run until 5th March.
Exhibition Dates & Times: Thursday – Sunday, 12 - 6pm
