NEW DATE! Aedas Presents: "Sparrow+Castice VS..."

Aedas Presents:

'Sparrow+Castice VS...'

NEW DATE!

Preview Show Thursday 26 January 2012

5pm to 7pm

Colmore Plaza, Birmingham

 

'Sparrow+Castice VS...' is a show in which we make work in direct competition with other artists on topics chosen at random, both selected by an impartial curator Charlie Levine. It is conceived in an attempt to demonstrate our fascination with the peculiar collision that is working against and alongside other people (artists, curators, the audience etc.) simultaneously.

Aedas Presents artistswill be 'battling' Sparrow + Castice on the following topics for you to pick your favourite from: "Interiors", "Balence", "Mulled Wine", "One Hundred Pounds", "Structure" and "Negative". 

Aedas Presents welcomes you to join us at this exclusive preview show from 5pm - 7pm on Thursday 26 January 2012.  If you cannot make this date, we welcome you to view the work at Colmore Plaza.  Please contact aedaspresents@aedas.com to arrange a visit.

Aedas Presents is supported by Arts Council England.

Further details can be found at:

http://aedaspresents.blogspot.com/

www.charlielevine.co.uk

www.sparrowandcastice.tumblr.com

Follow us on Twitter: @AedasPresents

Aedas Presents Tom Butler

At Aedas Presents, we have been delighted to showcase a selection of beautiful postcards by Tom Butler for the past few weeks.  Keep track of Tom's forthcoming exhibitions and works at

www.tombutlerstudio.com

Aedas Presents Tom Butler

Aedas Presents are delighted to showcase the works of Tom Butler for a month long show!

Tom is fascinated by the human desire both to hide and to perform. His studio practice conspicuously conceals found images of people by incorporating personal symbols such as hair, hoods, mirrors and masks and in the process attempt to reveal aspects of imagined inner personalities. For example, the Victorian Cabinet Cards with gouache painting on the surface. He uses these portraits as psychological clotheshorses in which to create grotesque and sinister scenarios, enabling him to project thoughts, fears and anxieties in an immediate and direct way and often with a macabre sense of humour. The people in these portraits are part of a community, a subliminal citizenship of his imagination.

All pieces are for sale, please contact Kate Eagle or Charlie Levine for details:

Postcards: £182

Cartes de visite (smaller photographs): £182

Cabinet Cards (larger photographs): £260

Etchings: £325

Aedas Presents welcome you to visit Colmore Plaza to view Tom's work until Friday 18 November.  Please contact aedaspresents@aedas.com to arrange a visit.

Aedas Presents is supported by Arts Council England.

Further details can be found at:

http://aedaspresents.blogspot.com/

www.charlielevine.co.uk

http://www.tombutlerstudio.com/

Follow us on Twitter: @AedasPresents

Aedas Presents Tom Butler - Sneeky Peek!

A productive day installing Tom's beautiful postcards for the Aedas Presents November Show.

Aedas Presents Tom Butler - The artwork has arrived!

We were excited this week to see the arrival of a Fed-Ex package from Portland, Maine, US containing the work of Tom Butler for the Aedas Presents November Show.  Keep an eye on our blog for more details or email me at aedaspresents@aedas.com to arrange a viewing.

Aedas Presents Tom Butler - November 2011

Aedas Presents is excited to welcome the works of Tom Butler for a MONTH LONG exhibition at Colmore Plaza.  Tom will be displaying a collection of over one hundred Victorian Cabinet Cards.

Keep an eye on our blog for further details or email me at aedaspresents@aedas.com

Tom’s studio practice conspicuously conceals found images of people by incorporating personal symbols such as hair, hoods, mirrors and masks and in the process attempt to reveal aspects of imagined inner personalities. For example, he appropriates Victorian Cabinet Cards by painting on the surface with gouache and use these portraits as psychological clotheshorses in which to create grotesque and sinister scenarios, enabling the projection of thoughts, fears and anxieties in an immediate and direct way and often with a macabre sense of humour. The people in these portraits are part of a community, a subliminal citizenship of his imagination.

http://www.tombutlerstudio.com/

Bharti Parmar Studio Visit

Bharti Parmar is an incredible Birmingham artists who we are working with toward an exhibition at Aedas Presents next year.  http://www.bhartiparmar.com/  Keep an eye on our blog for details.

We popped by her studio for an update and was amazed by what we saw.  For part of the exhibition Bharti is making a 6m squared rug - out of human hair!

Some gorgeous European hair samples - these were pieces in their own right, soft and the most exquisite variation of colours from blondes through to reds.

Bharti showed us how to make a rug out of hair - this is a very specialised technique used in wig making