Event
Artists access to empty buildings - Presentations & discussion
04 Feb 2015
Arts University Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom
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Fairground Flop, Kit Poulson 2013
Exhibition
Kit Poulson, The Guests
10 Jan 2015 – 14 Feb 2015
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 08:30 – 14:00
- Monday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Tuesday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 08:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 08:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free.
Address
- Tavistock Place
- Plymouth
England - PL4 8AT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The university is within walking distance of the coach station on Mayflower Street. National Express services run to London Victoria via Exeter and lots of other UK destinations, and for super-cheap deals try booking with Megabus or Falcon via Stagecoach.
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- We’re just five minutes away from Plymouth train station, where direct services depart to London Paddington (taking 3-3 ½ hours), Bristol, the Midlands, the North of England, Scotland and Penzance. There is even a sleeper train to and from Paddington if you want to leave London late and arrive in Plymouth early.
Event map
You know that table at a wedding where all the difficult to place get put, the awkward squad, the odd bods and the distant, the disapproved of… Invited but now how do we all get on together? Then they get talking and all sorts of things begin to emerge.
About
Kit Poulson works with a variety of media, but painting is at the core of his practice. His painting is a balance of speed and reflection, with works emerging over long periods (years rather than months) but formed from a series of quickly executed episodes, which overlay, and sometimes argue with each other. Eventually a balance is achieved, reflecting memories and traces of all these approaches. He works on several things at once, and spends as much time in the studio looking as painting.
The sound works grow from his interest in writing, and attempts to create equivalent images to those found in his paintings, using voice and drifts and shifts of sound. As he paints, Poulson often finds words and phrases get stuck in his head, circling round and round, sometimes snowballing into full blown stories, or sometimes breaking down into patterns of sound.
The Guests explores the feeling that all these works contain diverse fragments of the artist’s mind and of the particular moment they were constructed. Later these strange objects might not be easy to reconcile into unified statements, but rather exist as a constellation, individual orbits pulling and pushing at each other, generating strange convergences.
