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From the Director’s Archive, published 2016: “One of the exhibitions within our fifty-year history that I have been intrigued by since my time at the gallery is The Raw and the Cooked (1993), an exhibition curated by Alison Britton and Martina Margetts during David Elliott’s long tenure as Director. The exhibition took its title from …
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The invitation was to work with G . F Smith’s Colorplan range of paper to create ‘Paper City’, a series of temporary installations across a range of sites in Hull city centre. The creatives participating in ‘Paper City’ were Adam Holloway, Max Lamb, Lazerian, Made Thought, Jacqui Poncelet, Joanna Sands, Bethan Laura Wood and Richard …
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This new development sits at the intersection of Duke Street and Jermyn Street, a part of London where the roads are narrow and where those not working tend to walk at a leisurely pace, window-shopping or peering into gallery windows. There’s an intimacy to these places; to Duke Street with its art galleries and Jermyn …
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Quotations from the Artist’s Brief: ‘The shutter project is inviting artists to design treatments for specific shutters along the promenade, to create a huge outdoor gallery.’ ‘The North Promenade is a very important destination and arrival point in the town. It defines an edge, between the Humber Estuary shaped by the forces of nature, and …
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Quote from AOTU ‘Wrapper’ leaflet. ‘In Wrapper, and throughout Poncelet’s artistic practice, patterns and colours play a key role as storytellers. She uses them in careful considered configurations and each has a very particular place and purpose in the overall composition. Through this visual choreography, the aims to generate illusionary spaces or simply to modulate …
The carpet is also an arena within which our social and private lives are staged. While sumptuous carpets are agents of pleasure through the soles of our feets, as well as our eyes, the deep-pile carpet has become the cartoonists’ status. We position not only our furniture but also ourselves and others in the territory …