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Gathering (part of Hatton Gallery Exploding Collage programme)

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Julia HeslopORCiD, Dr Edward Wainwright

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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an exhibition that has been published in its final definitive form by Hatton Gallery, 2018.

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Abstract

"Exploding Collage explores how avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century expanded the notion of collage into immersive, often ephemeral, formats. The exhibition comprises presentations by contemporary artists whose work examines, celebrates or reinstates such avant-garde figures, with an emphasis on those whose radical practice has led to their contribution being less well-recognised in canonical histories of the medium. Julia Heslop & Edward Wainwright present Gathering within the larger Exploding Collage exhbition - an architectural intervention which is designed to host the work of other artists, as in Kurt Schwitters’ Hannover Merz Bau, which combined a series of niches dedicated to his artistic heroes. Likewise, Gathering is comprised of an interconnected sequence of ‘grottoes’ assembled from found and given material, each of which will be dedicated to an artist whose work deserves to be reconsidered in relation to collage as an expanded, immersive or time-based practice.Gathering hosts a programme of interventions which will unfold throughout the course of the exhibition. Every fortnight, an invited artist or researcher will dedicate another ‘grotto’ to the work of an avant-garde figure who they consider to have expanded collage towards new potential forms, with an emphasis on those whose radical practice has led to their contribution being less recognised in canonical histories of the medium." Hatton GalleryHeslop and Wainwright explore in this work ideas of material ecology including the reclamation and reuse of materials, design flexibility and adaptability and what ideas of ‘degrowth’ mean for art and architectural practice.

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Artist(s): Heslop J, Wainwright E

Publication type: Exhibition

Publication status: Published

Year: 2018

Number of Pieces: 1 room sized installation

Venue: Hatton Gallery

Location: Newcastle University

Media of Output: Timber, fabric, metal, paint

URL: https://hattongallery.org.uk/whats-on/gathering

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