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13th May 2012
FringeMK:Westbury - Project Space 1
Long Exposure Circus by Julie Carpenter
One of my favourite things in life is to go to see a circus spectacular, so I decided to document my trips as photographs.
My camera & I have collected these pictures over the past five years.
I choose the composition and press the shutter but the outcome is unknown and otherwise total chance.
My Olympus gathers the light as colour and motion.
Occasionally something magical happens and we have documented a magic moment of circus.
My photographs have an abstract flavour and seem to me to be a kind of painting with light.
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1st May 2012
FringeMK:Westbury
We have 2 Fantastic Photographic Exhibitions to start off the Summer of Culture in Milton Keynes.
At the Barn and Garage Gallery at our studios:
12th May - 1st June 2012
and on Project Space 2
next to TGI Friday, Milton Keynes Theatre District
'Wide Open' a exhibition by Zoë Petersen
13th May - 24th June 2012
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6th April 2012
CHAIR OF THE BOARD?
Opportunity at FringeMK:Westbury
Background to FringeMK:Westbury
FringeMK:Westbury is looking to for a new chair to lead the current members, working alongside existing Vice-chairs and Board. Based in Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes, FringeMK:Westbury is an artist-led, not for profit, artist studio complex for c.15 artists and exhibition space.
We support the professional development of cross-platform artists through studio provision, exhibition spaces on-site and in the central Milton Keynes shopping centres and delivery of a biennial fringe festival to accompany IF [Milton Keynes' International Festival]
We are part-funded by Milton Keynes Council, have been a recipient of Arts Council England bids and supplement our income through venue hire and delivery of arts initiatives.
2012 is a challenging but exciting year as we have a large Fringe Festival planned for July as part of the Milton Keynes festival programme: MK Summer of Culture.
Role of the Chair
We have recently seen significant internal change as Westbury Studios and FRINGEMK have merged, so we are now looking for a new Chair who can plan and deliver a new strategic vision and represent the group externally, while ensuring the ongoing development of our internal systems, support services, and organisational structure.
This may appeal to an individual with a developed understanding and passion for the arts [and who may be an artist themselves] who has senior management experience at board level. The successful candidate could have experience in the private, public, or voluntary sectors.
The role is voluntary and unpaid.
There will be monthly board meetings and the Chair will be supported by the
Vice Chair(s), working groups [finance, house, artistic, marketing] and
Artistic Director [for the duration of the Fringe Festival].
If you are interested in becoming the chair and want to know more please email anita@fringemkatwestbury.com for an information pack.
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6th April 2012
FringeMK:Westbury - Project Space 1
Exhibition' By Milton Keynes College10th April - 10th May 2012
Milton Keynes College
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Extended Diploma in Photography,
Level 3.
·
Extended Diploma in Art and
Design, Level 3.
An exhibition of work, by 1st year
students, from the two Extended Diploma courses. The work shown includes images
of light graffiti, slow shutter speed manipulation, and photographic joiners. The photographic surface is painted on
directly and experimental techniques are explored and presented.
The students are encouraged to explore a range of techniques, creating their own visual language. The course encourages each student to develop their own style, to experiment and to get that illusive special image.This work is informed and inspired by artists such as Man Ray, Gregory Crewdson, Gerhard Richter, Michael Bosanko and David Hockney ( to name but a few).
For 100 years photography has amazed, informed and changed with the technology available. The students work shown embraces that legacy and looks to the future.
The students are encouraged to explore a range of techniques, creating their own visual language. The course encourages each student to develop their own style, to experiment and to get that illusive special image.This work is informed and inspired by artists such as Man Ray, Gregory Crewdson, Gerhard Richter, Michael Bosanko and David Hockney ( to name but a few).
For 100 years photography has amazed, informed and changed with the technology available. The students work shown embraces that legacy and looks to the future.
If you'd like more information about our photography courses or
courses in general, the please visit our website: www.mkcollege.ac.uk
image by Laura Wootton-Reeday, L3 photography
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29th February 2012
FringeMK:Westbury - Project Space 1
9th March - 10th April 2012
Lauren is a painter and photographer. In the past she has often produced work in which the subject matter has been autobiographical, exploring the perception of time using medical scans, x-rays and data, as well as a body of work based on water and other elemental forces. Her painting practice has a strong emphasis on process; dripping, pouring and layering paint, manipulating it in other ways as well as with a paintbrush to create the interwoven painted details and forms. This exhibition marks the beginning of a new series of work, which draws on flora and fauna as inspiration, in particular focusing on creatures with wings, especially birds. Lauren is interested in the feeling of freedom which flight can evoke, the letting go, leaving everything behind without a care in the world. Humans can walk, run and swim… but cannot fly without assistance of some kind. It is the apparent 'lack of gravity' that makes flight special and even with all the technology, it is something that is just beyond our fingertips.
www.laurenclemmet.com
www.laurenclemmet.com
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23rd February 2012
One of the artists currently working at Westbury Studios, Tajinder Bhui, Has an exhibition opening at the Queen Mary, University of London. Please see this flyer for details.
Private View is Friday 9th March at 6:30 - 9pm
www.bhuiart.co.uk
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31st January 2012
FringeMK:Westbury - The WHITEWALL
5th February - 5th March
A series of epic drawings by the award winning sculptor, Jamie Frost.
"The bellows form has, through various
works, evolved into something which writhes, restrains and engulfs. It also
represents, for me at least, the processes of seeing and breathing. Recently,
inspired by the Hellenistic sculpture Laocoon And His Sons, I have been
combining these snaking forms with figurative elements. They're not subtle
works and they're to do with struggling, which is always pretty dramatic."
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30th January 2012
FringeMK:Westbury - Project Space 1
3rd February - 9th March
Deanna
is
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of both the Society of
Designer Craftsmen and Cambridge Open Studios.
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in Europe, Indonesia and America in group shows and with solo exhibitions in Jamaica and Mexico.
Her work has also appeared in galleries nationwide including solo exhibitions in London, Bath, Brighton, Cambridge and Newcastle. She has won several awards for her work both in UK and USA.
Deanna's work is a fusion of painting and textile art, narrative and politics, a fusion that reflects her degree studies of Fine Art and Literature at Newcastle University.
This particular body of work reflects her love of African influenced music. Through strong colours and textiles she captures the joy and vitality of Afrobeat, weaving African wax cloth through her paintings to reflect the way music is woven into our lives.
In her paper and stitch Jazz portraits she reflects the unpredictability of jazz improvisation through the use of ragged, old music scores and unfinished threads.
Deanna teaches art to small groups from her studio in Cambridge.
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9th January 2012
FringeMK:Westbury Project Space 1 Presents
13th January 2012 - 3rd February 2012
'Three Curly Wurlys & 106 Roundabouts' by Lee Scrivens
Photographs taken from the Wear Something event that took place on 11/12/2011 with Manuela Benini are on display on WHITEWALL until 6th February 2012
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22nd Decemebr 2011
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8th Decemebr 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury - OPEN STUDIOS
We are opening our studio doors for the public to come and look around on9th December 2011 11am - 7pm
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5th December 2011
EVENT: 11th December 2011 from 11am to 1pm in Midsummer Place, MK
Wear Something Red
Manuela Benini & Surviving Winter Appeal
Come along to Midsummer Place Shopping Centre on 11th December and wear something Red! This is in aid of 'SURVIVING WINTER APPEAL'
Join FRINGEMK@Westbury and MK Community Foundation 11am to 1pm along with Manuela Benini who will lead an open dance and photography session.
The images from the public photo shoot will be printed and exhibited on the Project Space wall in Midsummer Place from 14th December until the New Year.
So get those Red Clothes out and you could be part of a public participation art piece and raise funds for MK Community Foundation's 'Surviving Winter Appeal' which will help older and vulnerable people in Milton Keynes this winter.
Join FRINGEMK@Westbury and MK Community Foundation 11am to 1pm along with Manuela Benini who will lead an open dance and photography session.
The images from the public photo shoot will be printed and exhibited on the Project Space wall in Midsummer Place from 14th December until the New Year.
So get those Red Clothes out and you could be part of a public participation art piece and raise funds for MK Community Foundation's 'Surviving Winter Appeal' which will help older and vulnerable people in Milton Keynes this winter.
Find out more at www.mkcommunityfoundation.co.uk
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22nd November 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury - OPEN STUDIOS
We are opening our studio doors for the public to come and look around on9th December 2011 11am - 7pm
Click here for more information
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18th November 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury - Project Space 1 & The WHITEWALL
'Red Dress' By Manuela Benini
Green or Red? That is the question you
need to be asking. 'Red Dress' is showing in Midsummer Place from 14th
November and on WHITEWALL, alongside John Lewis, from 28th November until 9th
January 2012.
It is a lifelong project by dancer and visual artist Manuela Benini, exploring the use of site respoonsice performance and photography which takes her all around the world.
Wear something Red on 11th December for the 'SURVIVING WINTER APPEAL' From 11am to 1pm in Midsummer
Place, Manuela is inviting members of the public to wear Red and attend an open dance and photography session which she will be leading.
The images from the public photo shoot will be printed and exhibited on the Project Space wall in Midsummer Place from 14th December until the New Year. so get those Red Clothes out and wou could be part of a public participation art piece!
FRINGEMK@Westbury will be using the 'Red Dress' event on the 11th December to raise funds for MK Community Foundation's 'Surviving Winter Appeal' which will help older and vulnerable people in Milton Keynes this winter. find out more at www.mkcommunityfoundation.co.uk
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7th November 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury The WHITEWALL
Presents
7th - 28th November 2011
'Gods and Monsters' By Dan Brodie
These Paintings by Northampton based artist Dan Brodie are taken from an exhibition Gods and Monsters, a solo show first shown at the Sanctuary Gallery in Northampton in December 2010 and January 2011. This exhibition features some seldom seen recent paintings made in the last two and a half years. The exhibition deals with a theme of male ego, fallibility and occasional genius. This is the first time that any of Dan Brodie's work has been shown in Milton Keynes.Dan Brodie paints figurative oil and mixed media paintings using imagery taken from found images. His influences include old masters such as Goya and Rembrandt, contemporary painters like Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville as well as graffiti art and the Hispanic grass roots mural paintings from his youth in Southern California.
Dan maintains a studio in Northampton and is working towards a new collection of paintings using old press photos with a theme being kept hush hush. The name of his next exhibition is penciled in as "Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself I'm a Man of Wealth and Taste". This new exhibition is likely to surface some time in 2012.
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31th October 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury Project Space 1
Presents
1st - 14th November 2011
'Contemporary Figurative' By Dan Brodie
The theme I set myself for this project is "contemporary figurative" and when I think of Milton Keynes and it's contribution to what could be thought of as contemporary figures the first thing that comes to mind is skateboarders who have been among the most successful groups of people to adapt to the new city and it's environment as it broke away from the traditional British town and the traditional high street. Skateboarding injected a soul into the City's vessel.
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12th October 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury The Whitewall
Presents
15th October - 7th November 2011
Paradigms and Paradoxes
by David Hunt
"By
interlacing the art of landscape painting with the art of digital imaging, I am
trying to create mechanisms which convey aesthetic tension between the natural
world and the man-made world; where the asymmetry of natural landscape forms
contend with the linear forms of the man-made. Whether the work is made with
analogous or electronic processes, sensitive or aggressive gestures, my work
tries to play in the middle-ground, between the natural landscape and the
man-made world, whilst always exploring for understanding and rationalization
of painting in the light of digital reproduction."
www.david-hunt.net
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26th September 2011
Welcome to Juliet who joins us today in the studios, we hope you enjoy your time with us!
We now have 1 temporary studio space remaining for detais please visit our oppotunities & residency section of the website.
- The FRINGEMK@Westbury Team
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22th September 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury The Whitewall
Presents
23th September 2011
Oracle of the Road
A series of mixed media drawing on roofing felt
by Jessica Rost
In this series I am making connections between the ancient Runic alphabet
and the everyday signs we are reading as we travel to and fro. I am interested
in any residing power behind the Runes and how these archetypal symbols may
transfer themselves into our everyday life, still holding their meanings and
guiding us subliminally to our destinations. www.flotsamandjetsam.org.uk
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9th September 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury Project Space 1
Presents
20th September - 1st November 2011
The Life and
Times of Creepy Monster
by Creepy
Monster
Postcards on the
Stuff of Life
An interactive exhibition, Creepy Monster postcards will be changed over the course of the show.
Creepy Monster is an ongoing series of over 100 mixed media images painted on A6 watercolour postcards. Creepy Monster is androgynous, poignant and pithy - a reflection on the stuff of life.
To see all Creepy Monster Images become a Friend of Creepy Monster on Facebook, and vote for your favorite.
Project Space 1, (opposite Gap & Hollister), Midsummer Place, Central Milton Keynes
To see all Creepy Monster Images become a Friend of Creepy Monster on Facebook, and vote for your favorite.
Project Space 1, (opposite Gap & Hollister), Midsummer Place, Central Milton Keynes
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9th September 2011
MILTON KEYNES HERITAGE OPEN WEEKEND
Westbury Farm Studios is open all this weekend 10am - 4pm
as part of Milton Keynes Heritage open weekend!
visit www.mkheritage.co.uk to find out more about whats on!
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8th September 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury would like to welcome Anna & Elizabeth from the Catch Light Collective to Westbury this week. We hope you enjoy your time working in the studios with us.
- The FRINGEMK@Westbury Team
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23th August 2011
Creepy Monster is revving up for an Exhibition
next month on ProjectSpace1.
Please help select the images by
pressing 'like' for your favourite/s on
Creepy Monster Photos on Facebook.
You can also follow @CreepyMonster1 on twitter.
pressing 'like' for your favourite/s on
Creepy Monster Photos on Facebook.
You can also follow @CreepyMonster1 on twitter.
- Creepy Monster & The FRINGEMK@Westbury Team
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16th August 2011
We are making further changes to our website... so please bear with us and any information that is currently missing from some of the pages.- The FRINGEMK@Westbury Team
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20th July 2011
Grete Dalum-Tilds 'The Beach House' opens on the WHITEWALL in conjunction with UCMK and thecentre:mk's 'Summer Beach'
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7th July 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury's
Jason Smith is one of the artists featured in the current exhibition at
MK Gallery running from 8th July to 18th September 2011.
www.mkgallery.org/s/artists
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20th June 2011
Hello & Welcome to our new website
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Our new website
www.fringemkatwestbury.com
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WHILE WE ARE WORKING ON THE NEW SITE FOR THE NEW ORGANISATION PLEASE CHECK OUR FACEBOOK & TWITTER FOR ANY INFORMATION.
Thank you
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13th May 2011
FRINGEMK@Westbury is the new organisation formed 13/05/2011 from the merger of FRINGEMK and Westbury Farm Studios.
The organisation's objectives are:
1.
To promote, maintain, improve and advance social inclusion, civic
pride, participation and education by the encouragement of the arts
including, without any limitation, the arts of drama, mime, dance,
singing and music.
2. To ensure the provision of affordable studio
space for visual and combined artists within, or accessible to, the area
of Milton Keynes which is run by, and for the benefit of, those artists
practicing there.
3.
To encourage awareness, understanding and appreciation of contemporary
visual arts, and develop and maintain the highest standards of visual
arts and crafts amongst the inhabitants of Milton Keynes and the
surrounding areas.
- The FRINGEMK@Westbury Team
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10th May 2011
As of 11 o'clock Tuesday 10th May 2011 the original FRINGEMK will merge with Westbury Farm Studios.
The new orginisation will constitute on Friday 13th May , 1pm as FRINGEMK@Westbury.
More information will follow soon.
- The FRINGEMK Team
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18th April 2011
Chelsea
graduate Angela Ho is drawing live on FRINGEMK's Project Space 1
18th -
25th April 2011 (on display until the end of May)
Her work mirrors the
bizarre fantasy of Surrealism with subconscious subjects and collective
experience. It was initially inspired by the memory of her childhood in
Hong Kong and the UK, but it has developed into a language of childlike
honesty or innocence, with connotations of cultural and ethical issues,
raised by consciously selecting and placing subject matter. Ho's work is
figurative with ambiguous and sometimes unsettling images delivered in a
stunning, graphic manner using pencil and graphite, these drawings are
often immense in scale and wonderfully detailed capturing the
imagination and emotions.
- The FRINGEMK Team
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