jottaContemporary and Jeff Coombs Projects unveiled Space Within in Manchester tonight, which saw a week-long social experiment of sorts, as five selected jotta artists from London travelled up, slept on floors and in dorms and created site specific work in an old Karen Millen store.
First of the Londoners to arrive in the space was Joe Stevens. His site specific sculpture entailed buying, finding or taking 23 discrete items from the ground floor, 30 items from the first floor and 28 items from the lower ground floor of the Triangle Shopping Centre, according to the sequence set out by a previous work in which he used a 3 colour system of confectionary to produce a minimal floor sculpture (Mento System, 2008). Following this logic Stevens constructed a new sculpture dependent upon the random variable of what is discovered within the Triangle.
Next up to Manchester was Craig Barnes and jottaContemporary curator Ellie. Kindly driven by Carig, Ellie brought up Theo Turpin's work, a plan for a proposed sculpture for the Triangle Shopping Centre, and Paul Allcock's a sculptural work exploring braille like binary forced into found bits of wood with oak and compressed charcoal and Empty Pallete, a cardboard etching. Robi Shepard also arrived that day and together he and Craig set up studio on the disused shop space. An old Karen Millen shop, thus it was designed in her typical aesthetic, with rough unpolished wood floorboards and stairs, large glass walls and glass shelving, and one particularly reflectove, curved black glass wall with panelling that gave rise to a surprising and complimentary mirror effectone the pieces were in place.
During their time planning, sawing, building, drilling and generally getting handy, Craig and Shepard discovered the differences in creating work on site, and in a retail space. Number one was a lack of wall sockets, they also had an interesting time wandering around Manchester city trying to find hardware stores, eventually finding a Swedish hardware which supplied their needs.
They were aided and inspired by the Manchester artists, Daniel Pickles, Andrew Brown and Patrick O'Sullivan, who all also created their works on site. Daniel taking Craig and Shepard on a day trip to Burnley to hunt out his found objects, including a pair of unusually small antlers from an antique market.
Have a look at the jotta website to see Patricks work on the home page.
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