The Arctic Poppy Chronicles by Michèle Noach at The Eden Project

The Arctic Poppy Chronicles project grew out of Michèle Noach‘s fascination with the fragile Arctic Poppy plant (Papaver radicatum) surviving in as hostile an environment as the High Arctic. She collected seeds in Svalbard and Greenland (whilst on expeditions with Cape Farewell) and eventually successfully grew Arctic Poppies in temperate Cornwall, in an long-term experiment to see how they might adapt to a warming climate in the Arctic.

Michèle was invited to be artist-in-residence at The Eden Project in 2008 and progressed her R&D project working throughout with Eden horticulturist supremo Ian Martin. Over the 3+ years of this collaboration, a body of correspondence was collected which Michèle edited into a book, Poppyflakes, that charts their progress with this project. Her exhibition, The Arctic Poppy Chronicles, features 7 large lenticulars (optical 3D works) that document the poppies as they variously germinated, thrived or abruptly died. Interspersed throughout the show are also panels featuring extracts from the book, giving added context and narrative to the images.

The show runs until 9 July 2012 at The Eden Project.

Update

For all those who think it is very quiet on this blog – you’re right! I am at the moment fully concentrating on my PhD research at Transtechnology Research and my work in a jobshare at Plymouth College of Art as programme leader BA (Hons) Fine Art, Critical and Curatorial Practices.

My curatorial work will pick up again with new projects for Platform P, planned later this summer. More later!

Platform P at the Duke coming soon

 

Follow my new project Platform P at the Duke on its own blog.

Image: Nathalie Hunter, Invite Platform P, 2011

artists news: Remco Roes en Alexandra Dementieva

Alexandra Dementieva is at Residency Unlimited from 24 October till 1 January 2012.

And an overview of group exhibitions Remco Roes currently takes part in:

What you see is [not] what you see
Exhibition with works by Francis Denys, Hallveig Agustsdottir and Remco Roes. Curated by Eva Steynen
20 October – 27 November, Bleekhofstraat 44, Antwerp, BE

Amongst other works I will show the new collection: Archive of the uncategorised (iii) : deconstructed landscape. The work is built up out of elements from the world that my grandfather constructed in his attic – in the form of a model railroad – over a period of more than 50 years.

Opening: 20 October, 18:00h

Finissage: 27 November, 17:00h
with a book presentation + performance by Hallveig Agustsdottir + sound performance by Yannick Franck

http://wysiwys.wordpress.com

–Van de koele meren des doods
Group exhibition on the image of death in contemporary art.
9 October – 4 December, Sint Bernardusabdij, Kloosterstraat 71, Bornem, BE

For those in the Antwerp region with no plans this afternoon: Opening: 9 October, 14:00h, welcome!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123083407793073

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PULS 2011: Hacking the city
Group exhibition during the Dutch Design Week 2011
22 – 30 October, NatLab, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL

During this exhibition I will show larger fragments of the work Archive of the uncategorised (iii) in the form of an installation. The stripped rooms of the former Philips NatLab on the industrial Strijp-S site form the perfect backdrop for this diverse exhibition related to (hacking) the urban environment.

http://www.madlab.nl/puls/
http://www.ddw.nl/event.php?eventID=da28c92b23461e0a06a2faf37e5704db—-

FOR|REST
Group exhibition in Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, BE
23 September – 23 October

Finnisage: 23 October, from 14:00 – 18:30

For FOR|REST a number of artists were invited to spend time on the estate of Belgian artist Charley Case, hidden in a forest in the Ardennes. The exhibition in the gallery is an echo of the interventions and actions that are inspired by (being in) the forest. The exhibition will reflect the dynamic nature of the project and thus will continue to change and grow up to the finnisage on the 23rd of October.

http://www.trianglebleu.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=10
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174114549338247

artists news: Stefaan Quix – The Death and Resurrection Show

Brand New Monochromes by Stefaan Quix at iMAL, Brussels

29 September – 28 October 2011

Quix presents a new series of small-scale works incorporating the algorithmic and minimal compositions that he usually exhibits as large-scale installations. Here, in a way reminiscent of old and precious miniatures and icons, small wooden boxes embed the latest display technologies of ubiquitous mobile devices (iPod and iPad) to showcase the work on noise and pixel that is so dear to the artist, with a new luminous and surprisingly analog rendering.

One can marvel at the fusion of the pixels (the usual constructive element for Quix) into subretinal textures, blurred as paintstrokes or soft as watercolours.

The artist, while still maintaining to his meticulous approach, explores how new technologies bring about a new perception and new distribution formats for his works.

For more info visit iMAL – Center for Digital Cultures and Technology

edprojects recommends: Ria Hartley – The Train Project

The Train Project is about connecting people and places, through chance encounters and personal exchanges and celebrates the diversity of the people who make up our country. We live in a time where connectivity has sped up, and new mobile technologies allow us to become closer regardless of distance. Ria Hartley will spend two weeks travelling continuously across the UK by train, only leaving the carriages to change platforms and direction, but never leaving the stations. Each day she will be speaking to the people she meets on her journey and talk to them about what places they come from and where they are going.

There are two strands to this project which will run simultaneously. The first is the physical journey; this is the interactions she will have with people face-to-face. The second is the virtual journey; this is the interactions she will have with people through interface using popular online social media sites (facebook, Twitter etc). These two methods of connectivity aim to cross over and tie together the people online with the people she meets face-to-face, by asking those in physical space to join the online site and those online to meet up in physical space expanding a network of people and places.

Find more information on the project and how to fund it on her website.

Also watch Welcome Back

 

edprojects recommends: Neil Wood at Ampersand, Brussels

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Ampersand House and Gallery is a private collection of vintage and contemporary art and design, recently installed in a classic maison de maître in central Brussels.  

On show until 27 August 2011 is the work of Neil Wood, a British artist based in Paris. He works with several customized print-making techniques such as mono-printing, the oriental batik, fabric dyeing and collage. Wood generates images with photographs and camera-less scans. His work incorporates both text and sound recordings and introduces drawing at unexpected moments.

In recent work, Wood seeks an exchange with the viewer through his original mix of symbolism, language triggers and a spontaneous, almost fetishistic relationship to materials and colour, addressing themes as diverse as evolving toxicity and cross-threaded memories. Since 2004 he has exhibited his work in Paris, Brussels and London.

30 rue Tasson Snel, 1050 Brussels. Wednesday to Saturday, from 1 pm to 6 pm.