Special Events: Evening preview: 24th July
An evening of live work: 30th September
Lunchtime viewings/ tours with refreshments: 29th July, 12th August, 15th September
Georgia Boukla 
Sentimental Gesture in an installation of 200 white paper boxes containing various natural aromatic materials. The piece is designed to increase our awareness of our sense of smell, and is part of an ongoing project; Memories of the Past. Boukla’s practice explores notions of duration, change and translations between objects, emotions and memories.
Georgia Boukla is a freelance artist and creative director for a range of projects in the UK and in Greece. She is currently artist in residence for Katahas Youth Centre, Aiginio, Greece and creative consultant for Olympolis Project, part of the Olympus festival in Katerini, Greece.
Memories of the Past
Natasha Carsberg
Natasha Carsberg makes site specific artworks in the landscape. These combine both sculpture and garden design, and often have sensory element. Carsberg is particularly interested in producing sensory sculptures and landscapes using different smells, textures, colours and sounds. By allowing her audience to interact with her sculptures through the use of all their senses, she aims to encourage people to interpret their environment in different ways. Gabion Wall refers to aspects of modern architecture, landscape and sensory gardens
Natasha Carsberg has been a sculptor and garden designer for over fifteen years and has worked with several public gardens and sculpture parks.
Gabion Wall
Isabela Castelan
Telephonica is an interactive installation where a collection of old telephones have been adapted to play music, messages, and other recorded sounds. Telephonica is part of group of installations called Technotrash, which re-use found objects in an unexpected way, making use of forgotten, dumped or donated electronic items.
Originally from Brazil, Isabela Castelan has lived in England since 1989, exhibiting in the UK, Brazil and Germany, and works from her studio in South London.
Telephonica
Tsai-Wei Chen
Extended Acoustic Horizons is a sound installation comprising a London map and ten sound tracks mixed with London and Taipei environmental sounds. By Interviewing ten London based Taipei sojourners, ten London sites were selected, that inspired them to recollect auditory memories of Taipei.
By listening to the various soundtracks, visitors will be able to travel beyond the acoustic horizon of the surrounding London soundscape. Geographies existing between London and Taipei are waiting to be explored through sounds.
Extended Acoustic Horizons is a work developed from Tsai-Wei’s four year PhD research Sonic Constellations: Taipei Sojourners at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Extended Acoustic Horizons
Jodie Lee Cooper
Jodie Lee Cooper is a multi disciplinary artist. Her work is concerned with environmental issues, movement of the body and physiological methods of perception.
Moving with Balloons is a humorous kinetic installation that is activated by the movement of gallery visitors.
She exhibited in Hugging for the English at Limbo Arts space in 2007 and was artist in residence at the Marlow Academy Ramsgate 2006, where she developed a sculptural sound garden with artist and musician Peter Cook.
Moving with Balloons
Leslie Deere
Amplified Science is a minimal sound installation constructed from a custom-
made, over-sized, Erlenmeyer flask, small circuit board, switch, LED light and
speaker.
The piece is an interpretation of a message in time, sealed within a bottle, reflecting an interest in the evolution of technology and its impact on humans. The 'message' used for this bottle paraphrases a quote from science fiction author J.G. Ballard and is shared with the listener when the cork is removed: "From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung... [our] intact reality." The message is uttered by a computer-generated whispering voice, echoing the technological influence.
Leslie Deere is currently in the first year for her MA study at the Royal College of Art in London.
Amplified Science
Claire Diamond
Claire Diamond is a textile artist working with the rug medium tuft to create wall pieces and sculptural installations. She experiments with different yarns which results in tactile and seductive works that few hesitate to touch. The work is about her personal response to landscape addressing conceptual concerns such as atmosphere and essence.
So near and yet so far is an installation of wall mounted tufted pieces. The materials include lurex yarn, reflective yarn, hand dyed paper yarn and viscose floss.
Claire is a recent recipient of the Gane Trust Award, 2008 as well as others such as the Next Move Crafts Council 2 yr residency in 2005. She now lives and works in Wolverhampton.
So near and yet so far
Disinformation
Stargate Electromagnetic noise from the sun, recorded on shortwave radio in 1996
While solar flares either dissipate in space or are drawn back to the surface of the sun, plasma shock-waves surge outward, increasing the velocity of the solar wind. On impact the earth's magnetosphere warps like a tennis ball being hit with a hammer. Powerlines blow as DC transients induce in AC grids and submarine cables: ionospheric disruption distorts or obliterates radio communications, GPS reception and TV: satellites malfunction and drift off course: impulses in astronauts' nerves misfire: aurora intensify in the sky: VLF whistlers echo across the nightside of the globe: it has even been argued that electrical accumulations in the metal structures of gas-pipelines and petrochemicals storage have caused explosions claiming hundreds of lives. While this coronal mass ejection may take anything from 6 to 40 hours to reach earth, its emergence through the upper layers of the sun's atmosphere 'rattles' local plasma exciting a radio emission which reaches earth at the speed of light.
Disinformation Stargate Ash 3.2 LP sleevenotes, copyright 1996
Stargate
Noëmi Lakmaier
Issues of control and power have been important concerns in Lakmaier’s work, implicitly referencing her own experiences of disempowering environments and circumstances. Her practice is predominantly site specific and installation based, placing strong emphasis on the relationship between objects, people and space. Lakmaier works with familiar everyday objects and materials, including toys books clothing furniture, DIY building materials ect.
Lakamier was recently awarded a residency at Camden Arts Centre as part of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, an annual bursary for deaf and disabled artists working in the visual arts. During her residency she created Experiment in Happiness a giant ball covered in hundreds of shoes. At a live event at the Beldam Gallery in September, she will attach herself to the ball and invite viewers to push the ball, taking control away from her.
By using her own body in the artwork, she intensifies the relationship between viewer and object and challenges her fears of relinquishing control.
Experiment in Happiness
Tom Milnes
Milnes is interested in cultures reliant on technology and cultures that only occur because of the invention/popularity of certain technologies. Deep Relaxation aims to turn the gallery into an ambient wonderland. Using culturally redundant materials such as walkmans and New Age relaxation tapes, the space is draped with loops of audiotape stretching the width of the room. These loops are installed in situ, organised into patterns, winding their way up walls and over viewers’ heads. Audio from the moving tape is played through speakers, layering the nature sounds together resulting in an cacophony of various nature sounds and new age music.
Milnes graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2006, and has shown work at Torbay Contemporary Art, OVADA, and FERREIRA PROJECTS. He will shortly be showing at 333 Gallery, which is part of Spacex, Exeter.
Sound Stucture
Dawn Scarfe
Lensesis a multi- speaker installation which explores sound radiation from wine glasses. Different sized glasses, each with their own speaker, are arranged across the walls of a space. Each glass resonates at a unique frequency, and listeners are encouraged to move around the work to explore how their position affects their experience of the sound. This piece investigates the bright reflective quality of glass and its potential as a lens to focus and propagate sound.
Dawn is working on an MPhil entitled In the Surround: Sound and phenomenal Experience at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Lenses
Amie Slavin
Sophia’s Web is a ninety two voice piece featuring ten second samples edited from interviews with 92 family members focusing on their relationship with the artist’s new born daughter; Sophia. The samples are recorded onto tiny playback devices attached to the inside of an aluminium pyramid and each sample is triggered by means of a large and friendly green button. The buttons are arranged within an engraved web, representing Sophia’s family ties.
Amie Slavin was a beneficiary of the Lincolnshire Creative Solutions Initiative (LCSI) in 2007 and is currently being mentored by Sound Artist Ray Lee.
Sophia's Web
David Strang
Mastis a five channel installation created from structural recordings of a boat. Contact microphones were attached to five points of the boat. The backstay, forestay, mast and both shrouds were then recorded individually over a period of one week. From this process rhythms and drones are created from the boat’s interaction with the elements that affect it and these sounds are brought to the surface for the listener to experience. They are played back completely unprocessed allowing for the most natural experience of hearing what is usually unheard.
David Strang is an interactive artist who creates soundscapes for visual artists as well as site specific and gallery based installations. He is currently studying for his MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Mast
Monica Takvam
See you, see me is a photographic project and collaboration with blind and visually impaired people. It is an exploration around the questions about how knowledge and perception are linked in with each other: how we see other people, and how we perceive ourselves. Takvam met people with different degrees of blindness, ranging from being able to see light and shadow to being totally blind their whole life and asked them all how they see themselves.
The piece consists of five photographic portraits with a Braille-text in the shape of each person portrayed. Each person is describing how they see themselves, and their description is available either through reading the Braille on each portrait or listening to the sound piece that accompanies each picture.
Monica Takvam is a photographic artist living and working in London. Her work has been shown in group shows both in the UK and in Norway. The latest body of work includes the series “Janteloven-smalltown mentality” which explores society’s impact on individuals, and people’s ability to suppress others. This series of work has just been published in Portfolio Magazine (May 2008 edition).
See You, See Me
Jayne Wilton
Chocolate is an evocative substance with which we all have strong association, especially in connection with the senses. We can conjure up its taste, smell and texture without even being near it. Chocolate can be seen as an indulgence, a reward, a friend to lean on in times of difficulty or even a substitute for affection due to its phenyletamine content. Chocolate Studies are chocolate coated canvases which provide a combined olfactory and visual experience as well as an opportunity to observe change in a state of a material.
Jayne Wilton is in the final year of a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree at Buckinghamshire New University, and will be commencing her MA in Fine Art at the Slade UCL in September 2008.
Cold Comfort
