Documentation photographs of John, Jo and Christian from Monster beginning the installation of Crash at Walsall. Feeling a little nervous as it has taken the whole day to complete three out of the thirteen walls in the gallery. It looks like we will be running it to the wire for Thursday’s preview!
Final Crash proofs on the print bed.
Signing off of the final proofs over at Monster Digital.
New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall, WS2 8LG
Thursday 9th July 2009, 6-8pm
Free. Friends, family & colleagues welcome.
Birmingham-based artist Jonathan Shaw has consistently explored the way that light and movement can be represented through the photographic image. He frequently designs, builds and modifies camera equipment to produce unique and compelling interpretations of space and time.
For this exhibition, Jonathan will create a large scale panoramic photographic installation that draws the viewer into the claustrophobic and hedonistic world of clubbing.
A publication accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Jean Baird.
Sound Designer, Paul Adkins in the studio
JS_Sound_Studio
This is just a short quicktime showing the spatial relationship of the surround sound audio re-working of the Frenchgate piece that I will be showing next month in Bangkok.
Unspeaking Engagements
Curated by Brian Curtin and Steve Dutton
Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 20th August – 26th September 2009
Artists
Tintin Cooper (TH/UK)
Adam James (UK)
Michael Lee (SG/HK)
Tanya Mahoun (CAN/TW)
Brigid McLeer (IRL/UK)
Ho Ming-Kuei (TW)
Be Takerng Pattanopas (TH)
Kamol Phaosavasdi (TH)
Nigel Power and Elias Wyber (TH/UK)
Hester Reeve (UK)
Jonathan Shaw (UK)
Steve Swindells (UK)
Carl von Weiler (NL/UK)
Unspeaking Engagements brings together an international group of visual artists who explore processes of physical and/or durational engagement as a means of constituting the artwork. Each of the artists variously explore their own or the viewers’ awareness of their body in relation to space and time. At issue are questions of how such awareness can be cultivated, registered, represented and ultimately proliferated through the work of art. Unspeaking Engagements showcases artworks as sites of shifting experiences that veer unpredictably across time, space and object-hood and in differentiation from artworks that require detached observation and propose fixed or final interpretations.
Exhibition Visualisation at Walsall, UK
Great news Jonathan has been offered a solo show ‘Crash’ at the New Art Gallery Walsall!
The proposed exhibition will comprise of a single large-scale panoramic photographic image reproduced to the height of the gallery walls and wrapping it’s entire length. The image will be reproduced at a high resolution using the latest digital technologies and printed directly onto a self-adhesive vinyl.
The exhibition will run from 10th July – 6th September 2009.
Jonathan Shaw’s large scale work ‘Victoria Gardens’ has been selected to be included in the prestigious exhibition.
The Big Picture – The Panoramic Photograph, from the 1840s to the Twenty-first century
Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France: November 2008 – January 2009
The Big Picture is an exhibition that highlights striking, historically significant and innovative photographs selected from the history of the panoramic image – a term which may encompass everything from the Daguerrotype to a virtual reality 360° view.
The aim of the exhibition is to display c.250 of the most interesting photographic images made for a number of purposes in art, science, topography and society from the 1840s to the 21st century. The installation will also comprise cameras and other objects, and multi-media displays that show how panoramic images can be made and used for a wide variety of purposes. It is based on extensive research by the curator, Peter Hamilton.
The Podcasts for the symposium are now available online via the Coventry School of Art & Design, Media & Communication blog covmedia.co.uk or on iTunesU
Or you can use the following direct links for each session;
Sesssion I: Remediating Photographic Time
Session II: Photographic Inventions and Interventions
In association with the touring exhibition Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A, Jonathan co-organised a series of talks by leading photographers at The Herbert. The exhibition continues until 11 January 2009.
Herbert Art Gallery, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP
Thursday 13th November, 5.30pm
Dan Holdsworth is one of the most innovative British photographers currently working with landscape. His early series concentrate on the quiet moments in everyday spaces: office buildings after work, car parks at night and deserted motorway flyovers. In more recent years he has traveled internationally, studying the areas where technology and architecture are representative of an accelerated economic world at their most removed and alien. The photographs are silent and iconic, witnesses of our world.
Monday 17th November, 5.30pm
Mark Power has published four monographs: The Shipping Forecast, a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports in 1996; Superstructure, a documentation of the construction of London’s Millennium Dome in 2000; The Treasury Project, about the restoration of a nineteenth century historical monument, in 2002: and 26 Different Endings (2007) which looks at those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z (a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital).
Monday 1st December, 5.30pm
Chrystel Lebas has exhibited extensively at international level. Her photographs appear in several private and public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her work is drawn from her interest in looking at how landscapes contain psychological significance in relation to historical events, legends, fairy tales and our childhood memories. Chrystel’s most recent series of photographs from her monograph Between Dog and Wolf, were taken in forests in Germany, Japan, France, Finland and England during the Twilight hours.
Day Two of installation at Walsall
Monster sent in the re-enforcements (Sam & Ryan) today which so we are back on track! There are now only two walls left to paste and finish. It has been a very positive day and you can really begin to see how the overall piece will work.