Mezz #07
Mikhail Karikis

Thursday 10th June 7.30pm

Coined by critics as a sound alchemist, Mikhail Karikis uses his voice as sculptural material. Pulling sounds from his gut, from a growl to a pure high tone, he explores the voice and its relationship to his body.

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Ryota Sato

Site Festival 2010 artist in residence
22nd - 26th June

Ryota builds up multiple layered silk screen images on canvas to create poetic ghostlike effects. “Most young Japanese do not believe in any religion but many strongly believe in technologies or science but it is hard to point out exactly which part of technology that we believe in. This is creating the ghost and this ghost is what I am trying to capture.”

SVA site10 programme

Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), the site festival host organisation, opens its doors to invite you to a month long programme of exhibitions, open studios, film screenings, talks and performance.

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mezz#06
Edwina Ashton

Thu 22 April 2010

In her videos and animations, Edwina Ashton brings a number of dreamlike creatures to life. Through a mixture of slapstick and pathos, she explores the allure of eccentricity and idiosyncrasy, often through the use of insects and bugs given human attributes to ridicule British politeness.

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BEE LINES
new work by Alice Forward, the site09 darbyshire award winner

E xhibition dates: 27th February-14th March

‘BEE LINES’ features new work by artist Alice Forward, site09 Darbyshire Award winner. Forward's work explores the uneasy and complex relationship between man and nature. The migration of plants, colonisation and the use of both maps and bees as symbolic tools are all significant themes within her work.

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image: Poisoned Bee

MEZZ #05 - Neville Gabie

Thursday 4th Februray 7.00 –10pm

Neville will be presenting a multi-screen installation from Antarctica for the first part of Mezz #05 (7.00–8.30pm). This will then be followed by a talk (8.30pm) about his current work and how these environmental expeditions fit into his wider practice.

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Artist Spaces Seminar

A reflection on the current challenges, conflicts and opportunities for artists workspaces. With key Speakers from
Mother Studios and Bow Arts Trust, London; Islington Mill, and Islington Mill Arts Academy, Salford.

Friday 22 January - Saturday 23 January

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Mezz #04 - Nick Laessing

Nick Laessing’s work hovers between fact and fiction, tuning into the world around in such a way that leaves you caught between what you would like to be true and what is actually true. His latest project focusses on the Soviet scientist Victor Stephanovich Grebennikov and his ‘discovery’ of the gravity-defying properties of certain insect wing cases, with which he made a wingless flying machine.

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Belinda Gilbert Scott and Louise Gilbert Scott

Belinda’s paintings are about light and imagining light being a 3d shape like molton glass. The work on show will be an exploration in taking the painting outside the surface of the flat canvas, in relief and projecting film onto thread. ‘An experiment in releasing the colour from the surface’.

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SVA presents artists in AIM Biennale, Morocco
FROM HERE TO THERE AND BACK AGAIN

Jamila Lamrani, Alice Forward, Louisa Fairclough
Cyber park and the Medina, Marrakech, Morocco
19-23 November 2009

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Figuring Landscapes

Tuesdays throughout June 7.30pm

A remarkable collection of moving-image works by 58 Australian and UK artists. The screenings focus on landscape to address questions of ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and uniquely in Australia, the status of indigenous people in a post-colonial society.

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Jamila Lamrani Residency
June2009

Moroccan-based artist Jamila Lamrani will in be residence at SVA during the festival. This project is part of the Inhabit International Artists Residency Scheme funded by the Arts Council. Jamila Lamrani makes installations and sculptures which explore the tensions and textures of materials to reveal relationships between symmetry and dissymmetry, balance and imbalance, the laws of gravitation and upward attraction.