2010
J. B. Spray Squat Evicted After One Year
The court date is 3rd June 2010. One of the biggest, most beautiful squatted buildings in England, the factory looks like it will be left empty and deteriorating for another long period of time once the squatters are removed from their home. If you can help by giving your time, expertise and materials or by lending tools and support, please call 07817493824.
Gold; Sand; Spring - 3 Events To Test Opinion
Lincoln City Centre, on the old bridge by Dorothy Perkins
3 Events To Test Opinion is an ‘active research’ element of a longer term study into what people in Lincoln want from art.
On Saturday 13th March, Charlotte Pratley, Leila Al-Yousefand the Shrug Ladies will be working with Amelia Beavis-Harrison in Lincoln High Street to actively seek people opinions by interacting with passers by in the High Street via contemporary art, and observing their reactions to the work. Whilst interacting with the artwork, viewers will be encouraged to fill out a questionnaire to determine what the Lincoln audience want from art in preparation for a contemporary art event in late 2010.
If you would like to take part in the survey, please visit Amelia's website here and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the questionnaire.
2009
SEAS Skegness International
See her reviews and blog here at Nottingham Visual Arts.
(De)Construction of Ideals
Friday 23rd October - Sunday 8th November
Private View: Thursday 22nd October
Backlit Gallery, The Factory, Dakeyne Street, Nottingham, NG3 2AR
The curation of Charlotte's work with that of Petros Chrisostomou will create a dynamic exploration of the object in both art and life. Petros' stunning artwork is concerned with object/context relationships while Charlotte's previously unseen work focuses on possession as a burden and alternative living in Nottingham.
Black & White in the Grey Area
Wolstenholme Projects, 11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, L1 4JJ
A contemporary collaborative exhibition between Nottingham-based studio group Backlit and Liverpool studio group Wolstenholme Projects. Backlit bring Black and White a literal aesthetic exploration of the colours black and white to Wolstenholme Projects who conceptually investigate the concept of grey. Black and White in the Grey Area fuses the two approaches in an exhibition spanning over two gallery levels.
Black & White Backlit Group Show and Mark Titchner
Private View: Thursday 11th June, 8 - 10pm
Mark Titchner Artist Talk at Broadway: Thursday 11th June, 6pm
Backlit Gallery, The Factory, Dakeyne Street, Nottingham, NG3 2AR
Alongside Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner, members of Backlit studios will exhibit previously unseen contemporary artwork under the uniting theme, Black & White.
Grassroots Strength: Nottingham Visual Arts
Miniature Art Awards Update
Charlotte has been awarded the runner-up prize by public vote, winning a show at the Eye-to-Eye Gallery in Ouseburn, Newcastle.
Miniature Art Awards
3rd Oct 2008 - 23rd Jan
Private View: Thursday 2nd October
Focused Eye Gallery, Art Works Galleries, Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2NP
Challenging artists to submit a piece of work on a contemporary theme to compete against one another, Focused Eye Gallery runs four public competition art exhibitions a year.
Charlotte is displaying a evolution of her piece from Ensemble at the Hand & Heart Gallery in Nottingham. This time the tiny representations of domestic ideals, made from the Nottingham property papers, cling to a collapsing sandcastle positioned simply on the floor.
2008
Ensemble
4th - 30th August
Private View: 4th August
Hand & Heart Gallery, Derby Road, Nottingham
An experiment in displacing site-specific contemporary art, Alan Clarke's Ensemble allows the artists of Future/Past to change their work in transit between Erewash Museum and the Hand & Heart Gallery. Charlotte's sandpit has evolved from a sandpit for children to create future cityscapes with to an island of sand inhabited by tiny fragile houses made from the Evening Post property papers.
You So Dead Ugii
28th & 29th June
Private View: 26th June 6pm - 8pm
Stand Assembly Studios, Dakeyne Street, Sneinton, Nottingham
In her final show as a Tether artist, Charlotte is exhibiting a new installation at Stand Assembly studios exploring Utopian ideals and the frustrations associated with desire. In an allusion to her perfect personal space, fake flowers represent the impossibility of true Utopia - a blissful society without death or suffering.
Common Cress
An installation event in Caban Unnos: It's Now or Never (No Fixed Abode's One Night House)
New Life Festival, Berlin: 1st - 15th June
Common Cress: 9th June 2008, Alexanderplatz
Sheffield-based group, No Fixed Abode are bringing together a team of artists and volunteers to design and build a one-night-house in the centre of Berlin as part of the New Life Festival, in a project named Caban Unnos: It's Now or Never. This structure, in order to take advantage of ancient squatter's rights, must be built between dusk and dawn of one night and have smoke rising from the chimney by morning. After building the house, Going Nowhere will install a meadow of cress which has been grown by various residents of Berlin, in order to serve egg and cress sandwiches to represent the invasion of British artists in the New Life Festival. They plan to bake the bread using a traditional recipe and cook locally-sourced eggs over the hearth...however, as the house will not have planning permission the project will have to adapt to the situations imposed by the police and local authorities.
Finding Beauty: Unleashed Launch
Friday 29th May, 7.30 - 11.30pm
The Cop Shop, Station Street, Nottingham
The Unleashed project will consist of a variety of catalytic experiences, each an innovative development of the last.
What is Beauty? launch night will set out to achieve the challenge Unleashed had set themselves: to showcase the artists they are working with in Nottingham (particularly Tether, Oldknows and Stand Assembly studio groups), show the value of collaboration and to create debate to launch the next year's 'Finding Beauty' project. The event will make use of the beautiful, abandoned police station next to the Art Organisation, where Charlotte will be performing in one of the old, possibly haunted, cells with Amanda Going in an attempt to capture the fleeting present and recall fading memories.
All Smoke, No Fire
Friday 30th May - Monday 1st June
Private View: Thursday 29th May, 6pm - 10pm
Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London
As well as over 60 degree shows, the Old Truman Brewery will also host work by Tether. Several works are being shown, relating to the theme of All Smoke, No Fire. Going Nowhere will be performing a piece that was born from the frustration of meetings where nothing is achieved and good ideas are rejected in favour of "louder" ideas.
Hatch: Beginnings
Tuesday 6th May
The Maze, Mansfield Road, 7pm onwards, Free Entry
Set to transform the live horizon in Nottingham, Hatch’s first action will be an event on Tuesday 6th May 2008 showcasing the best East Midlands-based practitioners of performance-y work. Going Nowhere, a new project group and artist collective consisting of Charlotte Pratley, Adam Goodge, Katrine Brosnan, Amanda Going and Rebecca Gove-Humphries, will be performing a piece that originated from a weekly aerobics class they organised to combat artistic frustration.
Future/Past
Erewash Museum, Ilkeston
Monday 5th May - Saturday 26th July
10am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday and Bank Holidays. Last entry is 3.30pm, possibly extended during school holidays
Private View: Saturday 3rd May
Alan Clarke has commissioned 6 artists to make site-specific work for Erewash Museum in Ilkeston. The museum, which is often under the threat of closure from the Council, is full of artifacts from Ilkeston's tumultuous industrial and religious history and is situated in a Georgian house overlooking the Erewash Valley.
2007
Throes
Wednesday 14th - Tuesday 22nd November
Private View: Tuesday 13th November, 6 - 9pm
Victoria Court Interiors, 9 Glasshouse Street, Nottingham
As part of Tether Festival, Charlotte is curating Throes with Alexandria Clark; an exhibition exploring the darker side of the human condition.
"Works exploring different periods in the individual's life to the effect we have on nature, the earth and other human beings whilst finding the humourous side of artwork and our individual quirks; this exhibition seeks to challenge and provoke whilst pulling you in to the more subtle pieces."
Exhibiting artists: Christopher Parkes, Anthony Bates, Rose Ruane, Eyal Malleron, Paul Mulleron, Daniel Barnard, Sam Holden, Samia Saidi, Jason Hall, Thomas Donaldson, Heather Tweed, Philip Curtis, Muireann Brady, Morris Ost, Samuel Knight & Ben Martin
Tether Festival
Tether Festival: Sunday 4th - Friday 23rd November
Exhibitions, performances and events throughout Nottingham to launch the Tether artist collective and celebrate the opening of their new studios on Huntingdon Street. For more information see www.tether.org.uk
