Harrington Mill Studios, Long Eaton Diary

NEWS

Robert Luzar 4th - 25th July

APPROXIMATIONS TO...
ROBERT LUZAR

Harrington Mills Exhibition Space
4th - 29th, July, 2010.
Tour & Panel Discussion: Sunday, 4th, 2010. 2 - 5pm.
The discussion will focus upon contemporary drawing.
Panel: Panel Robert Luzar/ Martin Lewis/Rob Van Beek

more info...
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Coming Soon.... Helen Stevenson

'Points of View'

31st July - 29th Aug

Private View
Sat July 31st 6.00 - 8.30pm

more info...

Justine Nettleton

Surface Gallery Open Show 2010
20th July to 7th August 2010
Justine Nettleton has work accepted for the open show.

more info...

Sarah Key

Tarpey Gallery
The Archaeology of Warren’s and other Habitats
3RD JULY - 7TH AUGUST
More info...

Justine Nettleton, 23rd May - 13th June

For two years Justine Nettleton has returned to West Park, Long Eaton to record the seasons. Her series of recent drawings respond to the shifting light and ever changing seasons and will be exhibited at Harrington Mill Studios for the first time.

Derbyshire Open Arts 2010 April 16 - June 20, 2010

Spring Bank Holiday Weekend
29th - 31st May 2010

www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk

Millgate Museum 1May - 17th June

Playtime

Jackie Berridge

Jackie will be showing work inspired by secret ambitions, hidden thoughts and other people's perceptions.

Dan Roach

25April - 16 May

EVENTS @ HARRINGTON MILL STUDIOS

CURRENT PAINTING – Two Open Discussions
Panel chair: Professor David Manley

SUNDAY 25th April 2010 2pm
Abstraction Now
Viewing of exhibition of new paintings by DAN ROACH
Panel: DAN ROACH/MAREK TOBOLEWSKI/ BETH SHAPEERO

SUNDAY 28th March 2010 2pm
Figuration Now
Viewing of exhibition of new paintings by PAUL CROOK
Panel: JACKIE BERRIDGE/PAUL CROOK/MIK GODLEY/SARAH R KEY

Paul Crook

7th- 28th March

Paul’s recent paintings recast familiar suburban scenes into dreamlike acid colour dominated by a pink light. Since studying at Falmouth & Birmingham art schools Paul has gone onto work as a lecturer in Fine Art at Warwickshire College.

SUPERMARKET 2010 at Kulturhuset 19-21 February 2009
HMS Artists were one of 57 studios worldwide to be selected for this event in Stockholm. About... www.supermarketartfair.com More info...
	© David Manley
For a copy of the HMS book Click here : HMS@Supermarket Book
	© David Manley

© David Manley	© David Manley

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Alison Whitmore

15th November - 14th December

Private View: Sunday 15th November 2-4pm

Paintings focussing on evoking a sense of place

Viewing by appointment

HMS OPEN STUDIOS 2009

24th & 25th October 11am - 4pm
Private View: 6 - 8.30pm

Join us for the weekend and meet the artists from Harrington Mill Studios

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Narratives, Landscapes and Myths
Tracey Eastham and Hayley Lock

7th - 25th October
Private View: 23rd October

A chance to see the winners of the HMS Exhibition Opportunity when Eastham and Lock's contemporary collages will be shown in the Exhibition Space.

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Hayley Lock ©

Tracey Eastham ©

To Play or Not to Play

Jackie Berridge

6th - 30th September

Private view: Sun 6th Sept from 2 - 4 pm

Work exploring human nature and group dynamics

Leicester City Gallery

'Walter's Attic'

Sarah Key
25 August - 5 Sept 2009
Preview: 25th Aug, 6.30 - 8pm

The Attenborough Prize is an annual £2,000 prize awarded to the best contemporary visual artist featuring in the Open exhibition at The City Gallery. In addition to the £2,000 prize, The City Gallery hosts an exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery for the winning artist.

The City Gallery

Normanton, Southwell

Sculpture in the Sanctuary 7th - 31st August

HMS artist, Lesley Kelly will be exhibiting a series of Minotaurs

"Sculpture in the Sanctuary is an exhibition of sculptures of different mediums and sizes in a undulating landscaped, 15 acre swan sanctuary that features five lakes and gladed open areas"

website....

Steffie Richards

RUN

16th July - 14th August

Preview Sunday 19th July 3- 6pm

Work exploring the sensation of running.

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'Mixed Emotion'

Lesley A Kelly

13th June - 6th July

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Emissaries From The Past 4th May - 1st June

Dee Shiels

Private View: Sat 9th May

Opened by: Hilary Carty, Director of the Cultural Leadership Programme
Details...

www.culturalleadership.org.uk

A Different Kind of Beauty

Bernard Charnley

March 30th - April 27th

"The paintings in this show are one strand of my practice and focus on the play between constructed and arbitrary imagery"

Details...
www.bernardcharnley.co.uk

Pattern of Life

Jess Calke

1st - 23rd March

Photography which reflects Calke's interest in the natural world.

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David Manley

New Paintings

6th - 27th November 2008

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Embroideries 4th - 26th October 2008

Embroideries
4th - 26th October 2008

Flore Gardner

Gardner, from Avignon, France has been selected for the one-person show in October & during the Open Studio event.
Her work brings together the contradictory/complementary practices of photography and sewing through drawing.
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October 2008

HMS Open Studios

Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October
11:00am - 4:00pm
Join us for the 1st anniversary of the launch of HMS
24th October
Preview 6:00 - 8:00pm
Official opening by the Mayor of Erewash, Councillor Barbara Harrison and Consort

EXHIBITION SPACE
Embroideries
Flore Gardner,
Gardner, from Avignon, France has been selected for the one-person show in October & during the Open Studio event.
Her work brings together the contradictory/complementary practices of photography and sewing through drawing.
"Self-Embroidery"
24th October
As a living sculpture' Gardner will embroider the clothes she is wearing.

STANDING ROOM
Xymphora, a group of four Leeds graduates will complete a 2-month residency with a screening of their work.

Sept - Oct 2008

Xymphora
presents
'Tropical Bodies'

Experimental work to be screened during the Open Studio Weekend
24th -26th October

www.xymphora.co.uk

We Are All Tuvalu - September 14th - 28th

14th – 28th Sept 2008

Sarah Hemstock, Nadim Chaudry and Adam Kirk

Three artists respond to the environmental issues facing the island of Tuvalu
www.alofatuvalu.tv

WLTM August

August 30th 4:00 - 7:00pm

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Paul Hirst

Congratulations to Paul Hirst who has been awarded the 2nd Erewash Bursary which provides a free space at HMS and a materials grant from Derby University.

Thanks to Erewash Borough Council and Derby University for their support.

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Anna Francis

Standing Room
Curator in Residence 9th July - 30th August

Anna Francis is a Fine Arts Practitioner and Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Staffordshire University. Her current research interests include the role of art and culture in urban regeneration, and investigation into private space in the public forum.

During her residency, Francis will deliver WLTM - a dating agency for works of art.

see Standing Room website...

The Garden of Modern Delights
Nicholas Wright

New paintings

8th - 31st August

Private View
Friday 8th August 6:00 - 8:00pm
Official opening by the Mayor of Erewash, Councillor Barbara Harrison and Consort

Image © Nicholas Wright 2008

Sarah Cavani
1st - 31st July 2008

Private View
Friday 4th July 6.30 - 8.00pm

Louise Garland

May 31st - June 30th

Constructing the Constellations

Anna Roebuck
Standing Room
June 2nd - 29th

Re-Form

Anna Roebuck is currently undertaking a part-time MA researching creative collaborations

Polly Parker

Emerging Echoes

May 1st - 24th

April - May 2008
Amelia Beavis-Harrison
The Crumb programme incorporates collaborative based exhibitions, talks by organisations/groups/projects and a range of film screenings, throughout April and May in Standing Room

Popcorn

2.43.44 PG

DIY Film Screenings
Sat 17th May 2008

11am – 2pm

Tony Caunce, Sergio Cruz, Martin Hamblen, John Hiom, Richard O'Sullivan, Scallydandan, Ian Thorley, Andy Wood, David Yates

Hobnob

8th – 14th May

Private View Friday 9th May

James E Smith & Alexander Stevenson

'Natter over the garden fence'

A day long series of talks exploring organisations and their projects, with an opportunity to meet the people behind the projects

Sat 3rd May 2008
Birmingham / Leicester / Lincolnshire / Derbyshire / Derbye
Insight / Location / Collaboration / Ambition

	10:30am	Arrive
	11:00am - 12 midday	Beacon Art Project, Lincolnshire
		www.beaconartproject.com
		John Plowman talking about innovative visual arts projects in rural Lincolnshire
	12:00 - 1:00pm	Quad, Derby
		www.derbyquad.co.uk
		Keith Jeffrey speaks about Derby's new visual arts and media centre due to open Summer 2008
	1:00 - 2:30pm	Lunch
	2:30 - 3:30pm	Artober/Dot. Leicester
		www.artober.org
		Sally Rose Dibben and Hamish Walker talk about an Art's festival launched in Octbober 2007 in Leicester
	3:30 - 4:30pm	AAS, Birmingham
		www.aasgroup.net
		Stuart Tait and Anna Benlloch talk about the Birmingham organisation which has no fixed membership but has involved over 200 artist-participants since 2001.

'Goe'
Alan Armstrong & Steven Bradle
Launch Evening
Wed 23rd April 2008
7pm – 9pm
24 – 30th April

April

NAN event, Lille, 2-4 April 2008

'The artist as social entrepreneur'
Research and networking event in Lille, France.
Jackie has been awarded a place on this 3 day networking visit to France. More details...

Exhibition Space - Sarah Key

Painting in a Dialogue with the Digital

March 10th - April 10th 2008

Private View
Friday March 28th, 6 – 8.30pm
Artists Talk
Saturday March 29th, 1.30pm

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Christopher Parkes

22nd February - Staffordshire Uuniversity. Christopher Parkes will be giving a talk about his work, including how his residency at HMS has benefited his pracice.

Parkes will also be showing work in a group show in London
Novas galleries London Bridge Bankside
Just Desserts
Exhibition: 22 Feb – 22 Mar
Open: Mon - Sat 10:00am – 6.00pm FREE ENTRY Novas Arts presents Just Desserts, a thought-provoking exhibition to coincide with ‘Fair Trade Fortnight’, at the Contemporary Urban Centre - London Bridge Bankside.This exhibition will consider the poignant issue of 'fair trade’ in contemporary society. The works on show for one month offer an exciting opportunity to discuss alternative perspectives of fair trade themes. This will be a mixed media group exhibition, with photography and painting

Artquest - 7 o'clock, February 4th 2008

HMS is pleased to host a presentation by Nicholas Kaplony of Artquest about Artelier to Nottingham & Derbyshire studio groups. More details ...

"Artelier will be a user-driven, international temporary studio exchange website provided by Artquest to compliment our existing international activities"

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January - March 2008

Tether, recent graduates from Nottingham Trent are resident artists in Standing Room.

www.tether.org.uk

Christopher Parkes, Artist in Residence January 2008

'Grassed Site'

Christopher Parkes artist in residence November 25 - January 27

See www.standingroom.org

Parkes is working on a durational piece that will grow in response to the various stages of Allotments' curation, from its installation to its reconfiguration when toured to Long Eaton's town hall.

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Allotment Show Dec 07 - Jan 08

January 26, Saturday 12 midday - 2pm

Talk and presentation'The Art of Allotments' by Professor David Crouch of Derby University >>>>>

35 people attended this inspirational talk.

January 19 - 30, 2008

Open submission to artists working in a 15" x 15" square format which attracted artists from Essex, London, Newcastle, Oxford and Manchester as well as local residents.

The Allotment Show was exhibited at the Town Hal which was open to the public..

Touring to Long Eaton Town Hall
Derby Road
Long Eaton
Derbyshire
NG10 1HU

Hanging Allotments - click here
More details..

OCTOBER 2007 HMS Open Studios - NCan October Festival

Sunday 28th October 11.00 - 5.00pm

Exhibiton Space Unveiled October 26th - December 31st 2007 8 PAIRS in situ Sheila Ravnkilde
Launch of Standing Room Residual Traces Jayne Falconer & Jane Hardstaff See www.standingroom.org
Private View & Launch Party See the photos - click here
	Tuesday 23rd October 12:00 – 4:00pm. Sponsored by the Cooperative Community Fund.

Workshop with Justice for Carers @ HMS

A workshop with HMS artists where the Justice for Carers' group learned different techniques in water colours and modelling clay figures.

Lottery Funding For Refurbishment - August 2007

HMS was awarded £5000 funding towards refurbishment by the Arts Council. This was a significant contribution towards upgrading the electrics, including emergency lighting.

Creating HMS

March 11th	Open Day 2:00pm
April 1st	1st partition
April 5th	Visit by Activate, artist group from Chelmsford, Essex. The group has received a NAN bursery to explore how HMS was set up (and look at other activities in the area).
April 15th	First artists move in.
April 30th	6 studios ready.
May 6th	8 studios ready
May 27th	HMS Open Day
June 17th	Last partitions completed! See the piccies click here
July 1st	Graduate Residency Open Day Click here
July 12th	Paint party
July 13th	Deadline for submissions for residency
July 26th	Interviews for graduate
July 30th	AIR OPEN DIALOGUE event Angel Row Gallery, 3 Angel Row, Nottingham Jackie Berridge speaking about setting up HMS