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New Works: Pavilion Commissions 2008
13 September - 25 January 2009
Pavilion commissioned five emerging UK-based photographers to each produce a new body of work for exhibition at the National Media Museum.
New Works: Pavilion Commissions 2008 presents the works of the five artists selected: Peter Ainsworth, Tess Hurrell, Jo Longhurst, Moira Lovell and Kevin Newark.
Peter Ainsworth
Spring and Summer Angel Road (A406)
Image: Peter Ainsworth. Summer, 2008
Spring and Summer, Angel Road (A406) represents an engagement with the peripheral and ephemeral within urban edge space. Marrying aspects of staged, documentary, performance and sculptural practice the project has, from its inception, been a dialogue between differing approaches to photography.
View some of the images selected from Spring and Summer, Angel Road (A406) and hear Peter Ainsworth talk about his practice, and the new work commissioned in an interview filmed at the National Media Museum. Read More
Statement & CV: (PDF 53KB)
Peter Ainsworth: www.peterainsworth.co.uk
Peter Ainsworth's work is featured in the new Pavilion Commissions 2008 publication. Read more
Jo Longhurst
A-Z of Gymnastics
Image: Jo Longhurst. A-Z of Gymnastics (detail), 2008
A-Z of Gymnastics is an installation of hundreds of individual editorial sports photographs, sourced from commercial, museum, and individual archives. This visual taxonomy, loosely based on elements of a gymnastics routine named after the gymnasts who invented them, explores the subject of Perfection - in photography, and in gymnastics.
View some of the images selected from A-Z of Gymnastics and hear Jo Longhurst talk about her practice, and the new work commissioned in an interview filmed at the National Media Museum. Read More
Statement & CV: (PDF 48KB)
Jo Longhurst: www.jolonghurst.com
Jo Longhurst's work is featured in the new Pavilion Commissions 2008 publication. Read more
Tess Hurrell
Drawing Light
Image: Tess Hurrell. Drawing Light no.1, 2008
Drawing Light extends an interest in perceptions of space and sculpture within the photographic image. This new body of work is a series of constructed light abstractions, which represent an imagined and metaphysical space within a realist framework.
View some of the images selected from Drawing Light and hear Tess Hurrell talk about her practice, and the new work commissioned in an interview filmed at the National Media Museum. Read More
Statement & CV: (PDF 42KB)
Tess Hurrell: www.tesshurrell.com
Tess Hurrell 's work is featured in the new Pavilion Commissions 2008 publication. Read more
Moira Lovell
Stand Your Ground
Image: Moira Lovell. John & Liz, 2008
Showered and dressed (wearing their training kit) the Doncaster Rovers Belles perform once more before they return home after the match. Away from the pitch and positioned in the changing room the footballers treat Moira Lovell’s camera like an opponent.
View some of the images selected from Stand Your Ground and hear Moira Lovell talk about her practice, and the new work commissioned in an interview filmed at the National Media Museum. Read More
Statement & CV: (PDF 47KB)
Moira Lovell: www.axisweb.org
Moira Lovell 's work is featured in the new Pavilion Commissions 2008 publication. Read more
Kevin Newark
Nephology
Image: Kevin Newark. Nephology, Number.10. 2008
Nephology documents photographically the occurrence of aircraft exhaust and condensation trails. The series presents an observation of pale marks adrift, ruptured from the line that connected the present with the past; a glimpse along the passage discloses something of the fabric that constitutes the sky at high altitude.
View some of the images selected from Nephology and hear Kevin Newark talk about his practice, and the new work commissioned in an interview filmed at the National Media Museum. Read More
Statement & CV: (PDF 52KB)
Kevin Newark's work is featured in the new Pavilion Commissions 2008 publication. Read more
Each of the artists collaborated with Pavilion and Programme Mentor Max Kandhola, photographer and Head of Photography at Nottingham Trent University in the development and realisation of the commissioned work.
All works by Peter Ainsworth, Tess Hurell, Moira Lovell and Kevin Newark as featured in the exhibition are available for sale. Please contact Ruth Haycock E> ruth@pavilion.org.uk or T> 0113 242 5100 for all sales enquiries.
Programme of Events
A programme of public events accompany the exhibition. Read More
New Works: Pavilion Commissions 2008 forms part of the Ways of Looking events. Read More
Related Links:
Max Kandhola: Autograph ABP: www.autograph-abp.co.uk | Dewi Lewis Publishing: www.dewilewispublishing.com | Light work Syracuse New York: www.lightwork.org
National Media Museum: www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/newworks
The Pavilion Commissions Programme 2008 is a Pavilion initiative, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The exhibition is curated in partnership with the National Media Museum, Bradford.
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