Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects @ FYCreatives

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Supercollider pleased to announce its first exhibition of 2011 and its first in a series of exhibitions in partnership with FYCreatives*, Blackpool's creative industries centre. For the inaugural exhibition in the programme Supercollider has invited Newcastle based emerging artists Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant to present new and recent work spanning both painting and sculpture. Working along seperate lines of enquiry both Maughan and Durant's work touches upon shared themes and for Supercollider, they will present an exhibition as a model to cross-examine their individual practices. Andrew Maughan makes paintings that reflect on both the art world and current consumer culture. Employing anti-aesthetic strategies, Maughan uses a pallet of garish colours and pastel tones often presenting a visually complex and chaotic response to daily life. Graeme Durant is a gatherer of redundant domestic and industrial objects. Through a process of re-cycling, improvisation and low-tech construction methodologies, he energises new sculptural propositions that reveal and invest new meaning in the original materials that were employed. Durant reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter creating objects brimming with possibility. Maughan and Durant are part of the Jambon artist collective a group of young emerging artist based in Newcastle. * Following the closure of its Clifton Street location Supercollider is pleased to announce its next phase of activity. For 2011 Supercollider has developed a partnership with Blackpool's creative industries centre FYCreatives and will curate a programme of exhibitions and events in the gallery at FYCreatives' Church Street site. At FYC Supercollider will continue to present a range of high quality contemporary art exhibitions and projects reflecting the diverse and dynamic nature of contemporary arts practice providing the community with a dedicated forum for intellectual engagement, debate, participation and appreciation. The programme will continue to embrace artists at all stages of their careers working with a wide range of issues and concerns. The new partnership will enable Supercollider to develop its offer and continue to work with artists on a local, regional and national basis