Cornerhouse

Lost Is Found

14 January — 19 February 2012 *on now

Wander into an illusion, where the lost is found...Lost is Found is a group show of work from nine artists based in the North of England. The exhibited works find beauty in the redundant and discarded, explore past lives and find new stories in transformations and fleeting identities.

Displacement of identity, relics of childhood, secret desires, fragments of memory and traces of history are brought to life through sculpture, photography, installation and drawing.

Featured works include Emily Speed’s egg, nest, home, country, universe, a glimpse into the dual life of buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers. In Spilt Milk, Andrea Booker reinvents abandoned signage from demolished buildings, recreating subliminal comments that displace their conventional meaning and respond to our co-existence with the urban environment. Richard Proffitt’s Louisiana Blues, Anywhere is an absurd totem of the modern world, a makeshift ceremonial artefact inspired by biker and teenage subculture, the hinterlands of suburban Britain and the deserts and ghost towns indicative of the American west. Jon Barracough’s All or Nothing drawings explore ‘the eye of the beholder’ and the way in which images emerge from the traces that all living things leave behind, while Lucy Ridges’ photographic practice is a visual exploration of intuitive understanding and unexplained meanings, an expression of all that can be imaginatively derived from our everyday thoughts and subconscious mind.

Curated and developed by the Creative Stars, 19 talented young people from the Greater Manchester region.

Exhibition supported by The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust and The Granada Foundation.

Artists include: Jon Barraclough, Mark Beecroft, Andrea Booker, Eileen O'Rourke, Jessa Fairbrother, Richard Proffitt, Lucy Ridges, Emily Speed, Cherry Tenneson

Where

Gallery 1

Samantha Donnelly: Contour States

28 January — 25 March 2012 *on now

Underpinned by references to art history and popular culture, Donnelly’s distinctive work is concerned with the powerful effects of media imagery on the individual, and in particular with how the portrayal of women in the media shapes and defines them. She combines traditional media with disparate everyday objects and images from magazines and film, to create fragmented collages and sculptural assemblages.

For this exhibition, strung forms of delicate, semi-painted plaster casts of mannequins – mass-produced, generic and sexualised figures of the female body – will be anchored into the architecture of the gallery and displayed alongside three-dimensional sculptures. By adding further layers of objects including buttons, lace, net, small mirrors, false eyelashes and ribbons, Donnelly provides the finished work with a fragmented and abstract quality – some pieces appear relic-like and precious, whereas others are seemingly transient and ephemeral, on the edge of dissolving.

Contour States creates an illusion of erotically charged nudity, but fundamentally only offers a fiction to buy into and invest in. Rather than just presenting a finalised work, Donnelly actively encourages visitors to engage with the process through which meanings are made and unmade.

Where

Galleries 2 & 3

Cornerhouse is delighted to present the 18th edition of exposures: new talent
in moving image, the UK’s leading student film festival taking place annually in
Manchester. Patroned by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and producer
Paul Abbott and in collaboration with the University of Salford, the 2012
festival programme will feature workshops, seminars, talks and screenings,
providing filmmakers and members of the public with an opportunity to learn
from and network with high profile directors, producers and other leading
industry figures.
Still the only regular UK-wide competitive festival for student film and moving image,
exposures is a crucial showcase for new talent and a vital celebration of UK talent
development. For 2012, the festival has received over 300 short films submissions
from students across the UK. 45 selected films will compete to win the prestigious
exposures awards, which will be revealed at the

Suitable for

• 16-17
• 18+

Admission

See Cornerhouse website nearer the time

Website

http://www.cornerhouse.org/