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GROUP SHOWS:

  • 20.04.12                   Save Our Placards! CRM, Cornwall
  • 01.06.11-09.06.11: Spending Review: York/Bradford
  • 01.02.11:                  Dining Room Drawing Club, Brighton.          
  • 02.04.11:                  Save Our Placards!  Museum of London
  • 01.02.11:                  The Dining Room Drawing Club, Soho.                
  • 10.01.11-  30.1.11: Cuts & Grazes:The Art Corner, Manchester
  • 04.08.10-28.10.10: Big Society Space Station 65, London

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PRESS:

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Spending Review:  events curated by Graham Martin: July 2011:

article by Charles Hutchinson; The Press, 28 June 2011.

The Spending Review exhibition, Space 109, Walmgate, York

11:02am Monday 27th June 2011

 

Jackie Raybone’s Transparency being carried on the TUC march in London
Jackie Raybone’s Transparency being carried on the TUC march in Londo

 

YORKSHIRE artists are uniting under the Agency – Art Life and Society banner for a creative response to the Government spending cuts.

“Spending cuts resulting from the banking crisis are affecting not only the pocket, but also the social, economic and political landscape and fabric of the UK and everywhere in the world,” says Agency director and artist Graham Martin, from York.

“What can art and artists do in this situation? How can they use their creative and expressive talents?”

The answer is The Spending Review, an interactive exhibition by artists across Yorkshire and guests around the world, supported by funding from Arts Council England.

“This is not a traditional-type show with pictures on a wall but an innovative showcase of voices and presentations,” says Graham, the exhibition’s curator and designer.

The Spending Review will begin with a preview day on Saturday, from 1.30pm to 4pm, at the Space 109 Community Arts Centre, in Walmgate, York, where it will then be on show on Sunday from 1.30pm to 4pm and next Monday and Tuesday from 12.30pm to 4pm.

For next Friday and Saturday, the exhibition will move to a market unit at Bradford’s Oastler Market, in John Street, from 11am to 4pm each day.

Graham Martin was responsible for the YoMu Visual Arts Festival, a York and Munster twin-town collaboration in 2007, and Crunchtime2010, a week-long art initiative in response to global issues in January last year. For The Spending Review, he will create a Free Café, to be run every day, with free tea and coffee and biscuits, where artist-waiters will serve you.

For Saturday’s preview in York and on July 9 in Bradford, York artist Milladdio has been enlisted to be a portrait waiter at the Free Café. “You can order your portrait done on a waiter’s pad,” he says.

John Oxley, the City Of York archaeologist and artist, will be presenting the phrase Did We Say You Could Do This To Us? repeatedly on an electronic scrolling display, while The Unknown Claimant’s contribution will be a research-based work on cuts to disability benefit.

Taking part from outside will be Mladen Miljanovic, a Bosnian political artist, whose phrase So Much Money So Much Art is made in money. People can either take or add money to the work when it is shown outside in York or runs along the perimeter of the market unit in Bradford.

Italian artist-economist Vitantonio Russo will provide a text piece and philosopher bard Phil Rockstroh and broadcast designer and animator Angela Rockstroh, from New York, will be showing Interstates And States of Grief, a prose poem video work. “Their video explores the crisis in American culture taking in the Southern States, fish and the idea of travel,” says Graham.

Jackie Raybone, a former student in Bradford now living in Brighton, first created his 12 metre-long drawing.

Transparency for the TUC’s cuts march in London. Charting the history of the Coalition Government, it has been made into a placard to be carried by eight people.

Now it is York’s turn to hoist it aloft.

  • A creative response to spending cuts and notions of society. Featuring 3 Yorkshire artists - The Unknown Claimant, John Oxley and Graham Martin plus national and international guests - Vitantonio Russo (Italy), Mladen Miljanovic (Bosnia), Guy Wouete (Cameroon), Jackie Raybone (UK), and Phil and Angela Rockstroh (New York). Plus participating Yorkshire volunteers and the public as participants! Took place in York UK at Space 109 for 4 days 2-5 July, and Bradford Oastler Market 8-9 July. ART SPACE/PUBLIC SPACE/SOCIAL SPACE. Funded by Arts Council England.  Graham Martin. 
  • Images courtesy of Graham Martin.  Featuring Transparency:

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Cuts and Grazes: The Art Corner, Manchester, 10th-30th January 2011.

Cuts and Grazes, Pysessions, Jan 7 2011, Dan:

After the recent success of ‘The Message‘, a display of work by the photographer/illustrator Ashes 57, Manchester gallery the Art Corner has announced the imminent opening of their latest exhibition entitled “Cuts And Grazes, A Creative View Of The Spending Review.”  Following a call for submissions asking artists to depict their interpretations of the planned spending cuts, the exhibitors have been chosen and the work on display will be available for the public to view from the 10th January when a preview evening will be held at the gallery (Above Trof in Fallowfield).

The artists set to exhibit who have caught my eye based on the merit of the press release include the brilliantly named Uncle Ratbag, who re-imagines the philosophies of Epicurus with a modern interpretation of the Diogenes wall.

Jackie Raybone analyses the rhetoric of the new coalition government in her work ‘Transparency’, using detailed drawings on long rolls of paper to look at, among other things, the press coverage of the Con-Dem ‘Rolling back the state’ ideology, fearing the detrimental effect that this could have on community and public services.

Jane Lawsons ’80′s Revival Mind Map’ explores the unsettling similarities between the ruinous Tory governent of the 80′s with the potentially catastrophic bunch of idiots in power today.

Transparency detail half length Jackie Raybone 300x200 Cuts And Grazes

Transparency (detail half length) Jackie Raybone

Obviously the subject matter of the show runs parallel with the anti-cuts sentiment you might have possible discerned that we feel here at PYC, so we really cant recommend this show enough.

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AIR:  London: Transparency as protest banner: 2011:

  • AIR marches for the alternative:  By: Jack Hutchinson.  4/4/11:

 

AIR members from across the UK march for access to art education.

Around 300,000 people have joined March for the Alternative in the biggest union-organised event for over 20 years. From artists to doctors, families to union members, people took to the streets in mass protest against the coalition government's public sector cuts.

AIR members convened on London's Embankment, carrying artwork, banners, signs and taking part in performances. It was a fantastic example of the solidarity of visual artists, united in a common cause - that there is an alternative to the government's current austerity measures.

AIR Council's Katriona Beales commented: "It felt a privilege to take part - and to march with other artists, in solidarity with nurses, firemen, chiropodists, musicians, teachers, parents, students...the list goes on. It was an amazingly diverse group of people with wildly different views on many issues, but united in the belief that the cuts affecting so many sectors are too fast, too deep and lacking in imagination, not to mention hurting the most vulnerable elements of society whilst letting the perpetrators of the recession get off scot-free."

Artist Fiona Long commented: "We were marching against cuts to the art sector under the banner 'art education is a right not a privilege'. I feel strongly about this since, having finished my Fine Art BA with flying colours, whilst having some success, finding work in the arts sector is seriously tough. I'm competing against hundreds of thousands of people for every job. Many have MAs, which I simply cannot afford to do."

Artist Jackie Raybone criticised media coverage of the event: "It was a great day. People peacefully protested in a well-organised march against the government spending cuts. A few hundred people stayed and caused violence, and as such have hi-jacked media coverage, diverting from the main issues."

The march convened in Hyde Park for a rally organised by the TUC. General secretary of the TUC Brendan Barber told the crowds: "The government claims there is no alternative, but there is. Let's keep people in work and get our economy growing. Let's get tax revenues flowing and tackle the tax cheats, and let's have a Robin Hood tax on the banks, so they pay us back for the mess they caused."

Barber was followed on stage by Labour leader Ed Miliband, who told the audience: "The Tories said I should not come to speak today. But I am proud to stand with you. There is an alternative."

The response to Miliband's presence at the rally has been far from favourable, with Education Secretary Michael Gove telling BBC news: "We have inherited a terrible economic mess and we have to take steps to bring the public finances back into balance. Mr Miliband is attending the march but is yet to sketch out an alternative."

Whatever Miliband's real reasons for attending the rally, neither his presence nor the small splinter group of troublemakers could distract from the real issues at hand. This was an incredible show of solidarity from those fighting the cuts, with AIR ensuring the voice of artists was heard. Informed by its membership, AIR will continue to campaign for access to art education. This was just the beginning.

LINKS

View Mariona Otero's photographs of AIR's march on Flickr »

Visit Fiona Long's blog here »

Jackie Raybone's website can be found here »

Jack Hutchinson

Jack Hutchinson is an artist, writer and educator. A specialist on the role of digital technology within the visual arts, he is Communications Coordinator for AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation through a-n The Artists Information Company. His writing has featured in a diverse range of publications, including Dazed and Confused, Garageland, AnOther Man, Twin Magazine, a-n Magazine and Schweizer Kunst. Based in Oxford, he is an active campaigner for artistic, legislative and economic measures that enhance artists' working lives and professional status. His multi-disciplinary visual practice has featured in solo and group exhibitions across the UK.

jackhutchinsoncontact@msn.com | www.twitter.com/jackjhutchinson

First published: a-n.co.uk April 2011

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Save Our Placards!; Museum of London, April 2011:

  • Save Our Placards! Museum of London: Saturday 2 April, 2011:

Save Our Placards press:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12870248

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/culture-cuts-blog/2011/mar/17/arts-funding-arts-policy

I donated my artwork to the; Save Our Placards project today, at The Museum of London.  It was lovely to meet the organisers of the event.  Thank-you to Guy Atkins and the other students for inviting me to take part.  It was a great day.  2/4/11.

Next Saturday the crew of MA Art&Politics from Goldsmiths University of London will be collecting the last placards (and general protest material you would like to donate) from the anti-cuts demonstration of the 26th of March. Some of the greatest pics and videos of the event will also be showcased.  The event will take place between 11am and 5pm in the main hall of the Museum of London.  Come along and help us to remember such an important day! Cheers!  "Save our Placards" team, Facebook page, March 2011.

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Protest Art, From Pavement to Museum, Chorus and Echo. March 2011, Louise Carmen:

      This is not the art that you find at the Saatchi Gallery, not the art that you find in the Tate, not the art that you buy in an auction at Sotheby's. It is art from the street, from the protest, from the people that were involved in the fight against the austerity measures that have been decided by the British government.

 

These artworks are worth nothing in monetary value. It is DIY work designed by art students and art activists, produced with facilities from art schools or design studios and using cheap materials. Most of the placards have been burnt, torn apart or left on the pavement. They are as ephemeral as a 5 meters long handmade illustration on tracing paper during the demonstration that gathered half a million people in London on March 26th.

But their symbolic value is priceless. They are the testimony that protesting can be done through creativity and imagination and not necessarily through violence and strike. Playful events, masquerade and theatre have been used as means of expression and social change, addressing the multitude, raising awareness and engaging people to participate.

That is why I want to support the initiative from art students from Goldsmith University, in collaboration with the Museum of London, to collect placards, posters, costumes, masks, badges and videos from performances to create an exhibition and a catalogue. The Museum will add this material to its existing collection of posters from 20th-century demonstrations, which choose London as a magnetic centre to gather people.

Guy Atkins, one of the organizers of the project told me his worries about exhibiting protest art in an institution such as Museum of London. ‘I was worried we were guilty of running a “protest chic” event. We have left people decide whether they thought a museum should keep their creation? When we were collecting artworks at Hyde Park, we saw people telling stories about their own protest experience, messing around with the images, drawing on them with paint and even lipstick, the placards became their own. Seeing a man emerge out of the crowd with a 3 metres tall cardboard axe which he wanted to donate will live with me for a long time’. 

 

 

Exhibition on April 2nd 2011. Museum of London 150 London Wall London EC2Y 5HN Free

See the full gallery on Posterous Placards from the protests of November 24th, December 9th  2010 & March 26th 2011.  London.

Text and photographs by Louise Carmen.

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  • Article in Russian on the BBC World Service website  Interview with BBC world service Russian correspondent, Rose Kudabaeva, at the Save Our Placards event, 2/4/11:

 

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https://www.riseart.com/user/JackieRay

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