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Coordinated by Chantelle Purcell, Freelance Writer and interviewer: A series of interviews, reviews, quotes and previews with artists and curators. Published in various magazines. Click on the Images below:

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Interview with Charwei Tsai on the Nomad Store, London with Isis Gallery and Triple Major

This is the third in a series of interviews with the participants of Nomad Store.  In this interview Chantelle Purcell talks to Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai, to find out more about the work she has presented at the “Nomad Store” which is an exciting collaboration between Triple-Major, Beijing and Isis Gallery, London, which takes place during London Fashion Week.  (16th-23rd February 2012). Today is the last day to catch the exhibition, but the series of interviews will extend beyond the gallery walls with three more to come, moving across various disciplines, visual arts, fashion and ending succinctly with a book publishers ‘Bananafish books’. 

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FAD presents part two of Kinetica Art Fair 2012, with artists Sophie Cullinan, Immo Blaese, Christian Blom & Arthur Woods with more works from the fair. Film & Editing: Chantelle Purcell Music © Gurdonark, Relief.

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MoMA to Host Kraftwerk Retrospective

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Kinetica Art Fair Highlights

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REVIEW: I AM NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOU: LIVE ART / PERFORMANCE AT THE BUN HOUSE

I went to the the recent exhibition “I am not here to entertain you” upon entering this very traditional East End boozer in Peckham, I didn’t expect to find a small gallery out the back. The Bun House Project Space is an unconventional gallery that challenges artworks to react directly with it’s local environment and offbeat audience.

The exhibition “I am not here to entertain you” operated under the curatorial pseudonym of ‘Karl Weill’ a fictional male performance alter ego of Vanessa Mitter (curator, artist & writer). Within the  fictional press release it states: “What is the performative tactic if it is not a calculated assault on the audience? It is forbidden to forbid. I want you to imagine, for a moment, an audience who are not entertained.” This exhibition appears to explore the confrontational role of performance, Is this title knowingly contradictory? Virtuosic performances such as these require and necessitate an audience in order to exist, If they are not here to entertain us, why are they here and what are they here for? What is the dynamic between audience and work? I began to question the very dynamics of what we want and expect from performance.

Scattered within the space and pub were Doireann Ni Ghrioghair’s monumental and phallic sculptures comprised of plaster and concrete. Ghrioghair subverts these monumental structures through her use of gregarious pastel colours. The sculptures toy with our conventions and ideologies of the monument and take the form of architectural follies. Which brought an air of frivolity and playfulness to the pub, something which felt unexpected within this environment. The arrangement and impermanence of the sculptures were in keeping with the curated night of short performances that were about to take place.

To read the full REVIEW: Click here

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London Art Fair Highlights 2012

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INTERVIEW WITH BRIDGET BAKER

Bridget Baker is a South African artist living in London and Cape Town. Her work forms a series of complex visual fragments realised through object making, installation, film and documented performance.  Chantelle Purcell talks to Bridget Baker to find out about her current exhibition “Wrecking at Private Siding 661″ at CHRISTIAN FERREIRA at The Wapping Project. (29 September 2011 – 11 February 2012).

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PREVIEW | AMY LORD 'THE TAKEAWAY SHOP'

Amy Lord is a live artist and designer making original multi-textured and layered encounters and experiences; mixing installation, performance and craft. Her work is mostly concerned with, and inspired by human behaviour and experiences. Chantelle Purcell talks to Amy to find out about her upcoming project ‘The Takeaway Shop’ at Number 82 Gallery.

Exhibition dates: 20th – 27th January 2012

10am – 6pm weekdays, 12 – 5pm Sat & Sun

Late night Friday 27th January (until 8pm)

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INTERVIEW WITH DAVID WALKER 'BRIDES OF FIRE' ROOK AND RAVEN GALLERY

I caught up with artist David Walker, before the opening of his first solo exhibition ‘Brides of Fire’ at the Rook and Raven Gallery. David Walker has developed a signature multi-layered style working with only spray paint he revitalizes preconceptions held on portraiture to create striking and experimental paintings. The large and dominant paintings spread over the two floors of the expansive gallery space to create an immersive environment that brings the energy and exuberance of urban art into the confines of the gallery space. I find out his intentions behind this spectacular show.

Chantelle Purcell

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INTERVIEW: PATRICK MICHALOPOULOS AND ISMAIL ERBIL, CURATORS OF "ALLOTMENTS" EXHIBITION AT SCHWARTZ GALLERY

Chantelle Purcell interviews Patrick Michalopoulos and Ismail Erbil founders of Schwartz Gallery in Hackney Wick and co-curators of the current exhibition A-L-L-O-T-M-E-N-T-S 2011. Allotments is a site specific exhibition that challenges the conventions of exhibition making. The exhibition welcomes ‘chance and play’ into the curatorial process to create a space that promotes dialogue and exchange. Transforming the gallery into a ‘meeting ground’ where the polyphonic voice can be heard. A thought provoking and engaging exhibition, A must see for August!

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INTERVIEW WITH KATIE SURRIDGE

Katie Louise Surridge talks about her latest exhibition, Voo-dology, at EB&Flow gallery.

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INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK MORRISSEY AND CLIVE HANCOCK

It is a pleasure to interview Patrick Morrissey and Clive Hancock (Hanz). In this interview I find out about the forthcoming show ‘Monochrome Set’ at Core gallery. Which is a collaborative project between Patrick, Hanz and ceramicist Leyla Folwell. The title of this show is intended to bind the works together under a theme which may evoke any number of associations with Pop culture and kinetiscism.

Morrissey’s work represents a development of ideas initiated whilst taking his degree at Goldsmiths College. Morrissey utilizes geometric and numeric systems to create a visual field or ground which contradicts and simultaneously informs the audience’s perception of each piece.    Hanz has evolved his method as an outsider artist. He started to produce art in the late 1970s, very much influenced by the punk art and music scene. He uses ‘discarded’ material in his work.

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INTERVIEW WITH JAMES WRIGHT

It is a pleasure to interview James Wright a selected artist in Core Gallery’s Open Exhibition for Deptford X 2010. Wright is one of Eighteen artists who were selected from an outstanding pool of entries from across the world by Graham Crowley, one of the UK’s most distinguished living painters, Matt Roberts of Matt Roberts Art and Kate Jones, Marketing Director of John Jones.

Wright graduated from the Royal College of Art. His work uses a vocabulary of symbols and motifs, often from historical painting but many of his own making, to denote the themes of original works which the artist revisits. James Wright was singled out by Kay Saatchi in the 2008 Selfridges Art Exhibition:'Anticipation' as well as Jerwood painting and drawing prizes as well as being shortlisted for John Moores 25. James recently completed a residency at Gloucester Cathedral, culminating in two solo shows: ‘As It Was In the Beginning’ and ‘Memento Mori’.

I speak to Wright to find out about; his motivations for applying to the Open Competition 2010, the work he submitted, how significant the residency at Gloucester Cathedral was in the development of his work and the possibilities of his current practice.

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INTERVIEW WITH GRAHAM CROWLEY

It is a pleasure to interview Graham Crowley, one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. Born in 1950, Graham Crowley studied at St. Martin’s School of Art London 1968-72 and Royal College of Art London 1972-75, and has held significant teaching posts including Professor of Painting at the RCA (1998-2006)

His paintings span a vast variance in style from the appropriationist art of the 70s to his brilliantly luminous landscapes of the present day, tracking a fundamental narrative with political, cultural and personal histories within them. 

Crowley is one of the guest judges for the forthcoming ‘Open Competition at Core Gallery for Deptford X 2010’, where eighteen artists have been selected from an outstanding pool of entries from across the world. I speak to him to find out; his views on the education system, ‘modern art’ and what it was like to be a student in the revolutionary 60’s.

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Peter Davis is probably one of the greatest sculptures of our time. His work needs no interpretation as it speaks immediately to the viewer. What we experience in his work is a rare level of skill in collaboration with a sense of beauty and connectedness that make it impossible for a feeling mind not to be deeply touched by his work and which would require a high level of constraint from a feeling body to resist the temptation of touching his work. Luckily, at Core Gallery, the admirer is allowed to give in to this urge so he can enjoy the oppulance of these carved shapes with the touch of his bare hand.

Markus Kuehl, Sep 17, 2010 06:31 PM

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INTERVIEW WITH PETER DAVIS

I am pleased to interview Peter Davis, a renowned Sculptor who has a long track record of group and solo shows in UK (RA and Barbican). He has been successfully working since 1966 and collectors include the National Gallery of South Africa.

I want to find out; how he embraces sensuality through the bodily form, more about the upcoming show 'The Pleasure Parlour' and the sustainability of his art practice.  September 2010.

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