20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Church Square
Scunthorpe
Lincolnshire
DN15 6TB
England
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20-21 is a contemporary visual arts centre located in the centre of Scunthorpe.
The arts centre has a regularly changing programme of contemporary art and craft exhibitions. There are five exhibition spaces, including the impressive Nave gallery inside the former St. John's church and an outdoor sculpture courtyard.
Venue Type:
Gallery
Simon Woolham The Wanderer
Simon Woolham is concerned with public and private spaces and the stories that unfold in them, often working with the simplest of materials such as biro on A4 paper. His work is delicate, enchanting and often unsettling, unearthing memories from the places we use or overlook in our everyday lives. He depicts tree stumps, broken fences and areas of grasslands
spaces and objects are full of meaning and have a tale to tell, a tale Simon seeks to unearth and attempt to tell through his work.
More recently Simon has been working on a series of pop-up drawings and a new hand-cut pop-up book. Often including words and text the works inhabit the space between two and three dimensions, transforming folded paper into emotive sites for memory and recollection.
For this new exhibition Simon has spent a week occupying the front-of-house and behind the scenes areas of 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. Interviewing the staff, recording sounds and collecting stories, his aim is to build a picture of the building from the memories and recollections of those that have had it as their workplace over the last 10 years. From these discussions he has made a new series of drawings and pop-up paper artworks that will be on display alongside soundworks, drawings and prints.
Admission
Free with admission
Jason Carlisle Portraits
Jason Carlisle won the 20-21 Open exhibition in 2011. His clear painterly talent and the way his portraits instantly grabbed the viewer’s attention impressed the judges, offering him first prize and an exhibition at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre.
Jason was born in Cleethorpes and has been painting and drawing since childhood. Painting young and old alike, his depictions are full of character and charm. Working mainly from his home studio he paints friends and family, as well as working on commissions. Whether it be a fresh-faced youngster or the creviced and age-worn face of a subject in their later years Jason’s striking portraits have enchanted gallery visitors across the region.
Jason says of this work “My biggest thrill is to create the sitter in oils on canvas, make or break with the stroke of a brush”.
Admission
Free with admission
Pippa Llewellyn and Heather Pickwell The Lineaments of a Coast
Heather Pickwell sculpts biomorphic-like forms from rope. Working with the nature and twist of the rope and her own intuition, her sculptures are poetic explorations into the imperceptible growth of plant and cells, the incremental growth observed in shells and coral and the explosive growth of mutating organisms.
Pippa Llewellyn ’s paintings explore landscapes. Forms, some boat-like and others less distinct, emerge from canvases that aim to harbour a vitality, sensuousness and lyrical richness.
Although the works of both artists is inextricably linked to the Humber and Lincolnshire coastlines where their makers live and work, they present paintings and sculptures that are not necessarily bound to any a particular place
alluding to an undiscovered place where the forces of nature, and characteristics of land, sea and sky reside.
Admission
Free with admission
Signs for Sounds
Signs for Sounds is a major new exhibition that explores the contemporary practice of letter-forming from traditional calligraphy to the use of digital technologies and performance art.
Featuring examples of outstanding skill in letter-forming by leading practitioners, this exhibition explores how writing communicates meaning and how this is changing with the use of new media in the digital age. Exhibitors include letter-engraver Tom Perkins, calligrapher Ewan Clayton and performance artist Julien Breton, who dances letterforms using light.
The exhibition features artists who concentrate on or create the text we see every day, from traditional letter carving to modern day text speak, alongside work by more unexpected exhibitors such as graffiti artist Bunny Bread and Ina Saltz who looks at words tattooed on the skin.
Performance calligrapher Timothy Donaldson will be producing a new artwork in the gallery on Saturday 25 May.
Signs for Sounds is a Harley Gallery touring exhibition curated by Jeremy Theophilus.
Admission
Free with admission
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