Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig

Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
6-11 June 2013
The Belfry Art Gallery
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Road
E2 9PA London

Curated by Amy Cutler.
This exhibition investigates the properties of forest memory through text, archive, and ‘xylarium’, or wood collection. Between the French horticultural term “forest trauma” and Robert Pogue Harrison’s “forests of nostalgia”, a whole discipline around history, witnessing, and the memorial qualities of woodland opens up.  Art works examining the cultural expression of time and history in the forest are placed here alongside archival photographs, small press texts, artefacts, and museum objects, in an old, low-lit belfry designed by Sir John Soane.
A candle-lit collection on forests, memory, and social and natural history ● Cabinets of book works, wood works, paintings, drawings, prints, film projection, and music ● Wood specimens and photographs from Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany, English Heritage, the Epping Forest archive, the London Metropolitan Archives, and local collectors ● Tree ring slices and materials from dendrochronology labs ● Installations and one-off editions from forty artists, including Colin Sackett, Chris Drury, Bryan Nash Gill, Richard Skelton, herman de vries, Katsutoshi Yuasa, Stefka Mueller, Alec Finlay, Tony Lopez, Willem Sanders and Amy Todman.
Peter Foolen Editions supplied books and works for this exhibition by herman de vries, Willem Sanders, Chris Drury, Oooms and Paul van Dijk.

website: http://amycutler.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/time-the-deer-is-in-the-wood-of-hallaig-6-11th-june/

Walk On – 40 Years of Art Walking

Walk On – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff
40 Years of Art Walking
26 March – 6 May 2013
PMG, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery & House
Walpole Park
Mattock Lane
London W5 5EQ

Group exhibition with works by a.o. Richard Long, Alec Finlay, Marina Abramovic, Hamish Fulton, Chris Drury & Tim Robinson

curated by Cynthia Morrison-Bell & Alistair Robinson in collaboration with Mike Collier & Janet Ross.
Touring in 2013-2014 to NGCA Sunderland, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art

Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art

25 August – 30 September 2011

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Cohen Memorial Hall

1220 21st Avenue South

Nashville, Tennessee 37203

www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/

Reading Pictures examines the intersection of text and image in contemporary art through more than fifty examples drawn from the Fine Arts Gallery’s collections. While some works are associated with the modern tradition of concrete poetry, many use text as a means to linguistically “illustrate” accompanying images, or vice versa. Still others employ text either alone or in conjunction with images in order to trigger associations, thoughts, and memories within the viewer. Featured artists, some in collaboration with writers or in response to existing text, include Robert Barry, Harmen Brethouwer, John Cage with Calvin Sumsion, Enrique Chagoya, Thomas A. Clark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Devereux, Lesley Dill with Emily Dickinson, Jim Dine with Frank O'Hara, Chris Drury, Ian Hamilton Finlay with Janet Boulton and Cornelia Wieg, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Sol Lewitt with Paul Celan, Thomas Locher, Richard Long, Jill Mathis, Deborah Muirhead, Michael Peel, Alyson Shotz, Jack Werner Stauffacher with Albert Camus, Antoni Tàpies, Kees Verbeek, Hans Waanders, and Lawrence Weiner.

Reading Pictures is organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and curated by Joseph S. Mella, director. Student research assistant, Ellington Griffin (B.A., Vanderbilt 2011). Reading Pictures is presented in conjunction with The Book as Art: Beautiful Books, organized by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries.

In this exhibition are several works on display which I published with Peninsula and October Foundation, a.o. Fulton, Long, Finlay, Waanders, Clark, Barry, Devereux, LeWitt, Gordon, Locher and the print of Lawrence Weiner on the poster

Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Nashville has a new home, the newly renovated and expanded historic Cohen Memorial Hall.
In 2004 I made the exhibition Far from the sea: October Foundation 1998 – 2003 (25 March – 20 May 2004) at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery (see my post on 10 March 2009).

Among other exhibitions there was Chris Drury – Inside out, Outside in at the gallery in 2006. Related to this exhibition Chris Drury made the permanent installation Star Chamber at the grounds of the Dyer Observatorium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (see: www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/events.html).

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery has a collection of prints published by October Foundation. And an important collection of polaroid photograhs by Andy Warhol.

A recent survey of the collection – from Old Master paintings and drawings from the Renaissance, 17th and 19th Century to Modern Art with artists like Robert Rauschenberg and John Chamberlain – is now to be seen in the exhibition Eye & Mind; A Legacy of Art Collecting at Vanderbilt University (1 October – 17 December 2009)

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Cohen Memorial Hall

1220 21st Avenue South

Nashville, Tennessee 37203

USA

photographs of the new building Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville © Josep Mella VFAG.

Chris Drury, Star Chamber, Nashville, 2006

Chris Drury – Amanita muscaria

Chris Drury – Amanita muscaria, Christmas card, December 2008,
13 x 19 cm

fascinated by mushrooms Chris Drury wrote about a recent project (Destroying Angel) on his weblog, July 25, 2008:
The mushroom Amanita virosa - Destroying Angel - is pure white and utterly deadly if you are foolish enough to eat it. Symptoms of poisoning may take 24 hours to appear by which time it is too late to do anything. Severe vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pains may last a day or more and are then followed by a period of recovery. The patient may think his ordeal is over and may be released from hospital only to die in agony within a few days from liver and kidney failure.
The name Destroying Angel has a strange pull and I have long wanted to make a work with this mushroom. With the events of September 11th and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it seemed like now was the right time. The mushroom is symbolically paradoxical: mushrooms are agents of decay, but by breaking down organic matter into soil they create the foundation of life on our planet. I like this duality; the image of a destroying angel brings to mind the fearsome sword-wielding Shinto deity, Fudo Myoo, who by cutting through the ego, liberates rather than destroys.

Chris Drury – Amanita phalloides

Chris Drury – Amanita phalloides, Sealevel issue 2/1, May 2002
15 x 21 cm, 16 pages
printed in silvery black offset-lithography by Van den Eynde, Belgium
designed by Chris Drury and Tjeu Teeuwen

This issue documents the 'dying out' of spore prints of a Death Cap Mushroom from 1 hour to 6 hours
edition of 300 copies

price € 15

Chris Drury – Algonquin II

Chris Drury – Algonquin, 2008

book about a canoeing trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, in August 2003
published by Chris Drury and East Port, Lewes, Sussex
hand sewn, 24 pages, 15,2 x 21 cm
edited by Kay Syrad, designed by Chris Drury and Peter Foolen
printed in duotone by Van den Eynde, Belgium
edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered.

price € 12

Chris Drury in Lewes

Chris Drury in Lewes, East Sussex, England, 28 April 2008

photograph bottom: Heart Of Reeds, his landscape project in Lewes, growing since 2004

Chris Drury – Algonquin

The Algonquin group of languages is thought to be eleven thousand years old. It is spoken by tribes in an area which encompasses North Dakota through to Michigan and up through Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Around 2000 BC a written language evolved which had its beginnings as bite marks on bark.

I experimented to find out how you could make bite marks on Birch bark and found that if you fold the bark, bite and then unfold, you create a line, which must have formed the basis of a cunelform writing. For each of the seven days I collected one piece of Birch bark and kept a diary of things seen, heard, experienced and sensed. The result is this small publication.

statements Chris Drury

Chris Drury – Algonquin, 2008

A small book about a canoeing trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, in August 2003. Published by Chris Drury and East Port, Lewes, Sussex. Edited by Kay Syrad, designed by Chris Drury and Peter Foolen. Printed in duotone by Van den Eynde, Belgium, in an edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered. Hand sewn, 24 pages, 15,2 x 21 cm.

You can order this book from me or from Chris Drury (see his website)

Price £ 10 / € 12