SOMETHING MADE DIFFERENT SHEFFIELD
Owen Richards (UK), Seiko Kinoshita (JP), Jo Peel (UK), Florence Blanchard (FR), Christopher Jarratt (UK)
July 1st - 24th / B&B Gallery, Sheffield
Opening times: Saturdays 10am - 4pm / weekdays by appointment
Private View: Friday 1st July / 6-9pm (Please RSVP )
After
a successful debut at Parades Gallery in Matsumoto, Japan, we are
delighted to bring this wonderful group show to a UK audience. Join us
for the second instalment of SOMETHING MADE DIFFERENT - a collaborative
exhibition of new works by 5 international artists, inspired by Japanese
imagery and experiences.
The
juxtaposition of Japan's rich cultural heritage sitting alongside
unique social and pioneering technological environments lends itself to
diverse responses. Each artist has spent time in various parts of Japan,
which has informed their individual take on a country of great
contrasts. Photographs, paintings, textiles and mixed media
installations will be on view throughout in the B&B gallery space
throughout July.
Summer is here and it is time for SOMETHING MADE DIFFERENT.
A selection of artworks from this exhibition is available online: http://www.bandbgallery.com/category/something-made-different
Owen Richards (UK)
Owen
Richards is a London base photographer. Alongside his personal studies
and exhibitions, he shoots for a variety of clients and publications
including Google, The Financial Times and Rapha. Richards uses his
graphic sensibilities to capture the subtle and unnoticed aspects of
people, places, objects and everything in-between. Having spent some
time shooting in chaotic Japan, Richards demonstrates through his work
that tranquility is never far away. The images he presents to us for
this exhibition are a group of carefully selected personal observations
and reactions to exploring the spaces away from the masses: Photographs
from the quiet and immaculate suburbs of Kyoto, the serenity of
Kamikochi national park and the narrow streets of Kyojima in Tokyo.
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Seiko Kinoshita (JP)
Seiko
is a Japanese Artist based in Sheffield. She uses traditional textile
techniques to create contemporary artwork and installations. "Positive
concepts derived from everyday life and nature influence my work. Nature
has always inspired me. Its form, colour, sound, taste, texture excite
and sometimes frighten me. I feel there is nothing equal to its
magnificent power and pure beauty. The challenge to design alongside the
power of nature will continue. I intend to create my works to present a
moment of peace to a viewer who lives in our hectic world and to push
the boundaries of textiles being perceived as craft".
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Jo Peel (UK)
Jo
Peel spends her time documenting in great detail her fascination with
everyday scenes and scenarios. From abandoned east London construction
sites to the streets of Tokyo and Pittsburgh, all are captured in her
well observed and uniquely executed style. By drawing, Peel offers her
view that these cityscapes are as important to the topographic psyche as
the organic beauty of the nature surrounding them. This is not finding
beauty in the dust; this is offering a new language to understand what
is beautiful.
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Florence Blanchard (FR)
Florence
Blanchard is a French painter, muralist and screen-printer based in the
UK. Blanchard's work depicts abstract molecular landscapes populated
with figurative elements, questioning our ideas of visual perception.
Her murals can be seen in America, Australia, Europe and Asia. The
largest being a 350sqm painting in Betsukai (別海) Hokkaido,
Japan. During her studies at New York University she collaborated with a
group of Brooklyn-based Japanese dancers and took part in several
breakdance contests. This marked the beginning of a lifelong interest
for Japanese aesthetics and culture, prompted her to visit Japan on
several occasions.
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Christopher Jarratt (UK)
Christopher’s
award winning work has gained international recognition and has been
extensively published and exhibited worldwide. Christopher encourages
the use of our imagination. As a child we dream up fantastical ideas and
stories, looking at objects questioning why things are the way they
are. A child can find a slightly bent branch on a woodland walk and turn
it into a bow, sword, machine gun, magic wand or drawing implement. As
we get older we tend to forget our old friend, imagination.
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Gallery Hours:
Saturdays 10am - 4pm
Weekdays by appointment
For more information, please contact: bradburyblanchard@gmail.com
B&B Gallery, 95B Mary Street, Sheffield, S2 3HH
