art/ writing

Art / Writing

February 5.30 – 6.45pm at MIMA.

Art critic Becky Hunter in conversation on writing with international artist Richard Forster, with help from artist and here not there project manager Adam Clarke. Thursday 24th

Drawing upon their varied experience, having worked together and separately, Becky Hunter, Richard Forster and Adam Clarke will present a talk aimed at professional artists and Fine Art students. They will be discussing the process of using the written word to communicate about art in various contexts, for example, art criticism, art history, artist statements, edited interviews and the integration of visual art and fiction, which both Hunter and Forster have experimented with. Their intention is to discuss in-depth the difficult but compelling questions of why we write about art, and what art writing might aspire to.

This event is organised by here not there and supported by MIMA. Please contact becky@beckyhunter.co.uk or adamclarke30@hotmail.com for more information.

Speaker Biographies Richard Forster is an internationally successful artist hailing originally from Saltburn-by-theSea, with an upcoming solo exhibition at MIMA in 2011. Working with drawing, sculpture and site-specificity, he is a socially-engaged artist. Richard is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and has recently exhibited at Art Cologne with MOT International, London, as well as at Spike Island and (solo) as part of the Jerwood Artists Platform. http://richardforster.net

Becky Hunter, from Durham City, is a freelance art writer with a BA in Painting from Chelsea College of Art, London; and an AHRC graduate with distinction of the University of York’s History of Art MA, now living in Northern England. Her main interests include abstract art of the 1950s onwards and drawing. Having contributed to MAP, Art Papers, a-n, Dazed Digital and USELESS, and working as UK Editor of emerging art publication Whitehot, she is now preparing her PhD proposal on the abstract painter Agnes Martin. http://beckyhunter.co.uk

Adam Clarke is a Middlesbrough-born artist whose work relates directly to the physicality of space and responds to the limits of the walls. His work is applied directly to the finished surface of the gallery walls using the simplest and most direct of tools, the HB pencil. He has exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Urban Art Fair, London, and at here not there, Middlesbrough, a project/space that Adam manages. He is also technical assistant to artist Monika Gryzmala and at MIMA. http://adamclarke.moonfruit.com

Adam Clarke

Michael Stumpf

here not there
29 October-02 December 2010

here not there

The exhibition will include works by Middlesbrough based artists Adam Clarke and Diane Welford alongside German born but Glasgow based artist, Michael Stumpf. The majority of works in the exhibition have never seen before in the UK ands includes four new commissions.

here not there

The exhibition consists of three rooms, two striped of their previous office space attire and now contain: an entire wall dedicated to a new site specific process drawing by Adam Clarke, a new series of furtive pen and ink drawings by Diane Welford and two new commissions by Michael Stumpf. The third room or The Lamp Room will house a temporary library, writing desks and space to share.

To accompany here not there a limited edition screen print and catalogue will be available at £40.00 and £2.00 respectively.
was initiated by Adam Clarke as a positive response to the ever increasing gap between the artist and museum or commercial galleries. here not there is an alternative space that offers flexibility and responsiveness to new artistic trends that institutions do not always do. here not there strives to show that artist’s can and should look to be more intuitive at creating their own success. The established systems already in place do not always allow for this level of exposure. An essential part of here not there is The Lamp Room, a space for emerging communities to meet.is a new artist led project that utilises empty spaces to showcase emerging and internationally respected artists on the same platform. This virgin exhibition is based in a disused office space in Middlesbrough.

Exhibition preview event will take place 29 October at 6 - 9pm with the exhibition continuing until 02 December 2010. Anyone interested in doing it for them themselves and getting involved should join the here not there facebook page.

The space finished

you can now reserve your limited edition screenprint. Edition of 30, £ 40.00

Web site is up and running - finally!