Monday, October 11, 2010

Film: 'Process' by Timothy Knights



Film gives an insight into a working day in my studio in London. The film also accompanies my solo show at Arena Gallery, Liverpool entitled Process.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Exhibition News: Process at Arena Gallery, Liverpool


The exhibition Actions at The Bluecoat in January of this year introduced London-based artist Beverley Bennett to Liverpool. Her work incorporates principles of erasure,memorability and gesture in delicate pieces constructed from torn paper and pins, and equally in gestural yet diagrammatic drawings that have been said to recall Constructivism.


In fact, these drawings are simply born of a desire to fully explore what drawing is and what it can be, which is why although she is by no means a performance artist, Bennett describes her work as more than just an end result on paper. She sees her creative process as a series of “acts of play that evolve into ritualistic, performative, labour intensive actions, generating a greater understanding of the processes of making, allowing the 'visual' to become secondary.”

In response to this, Process presents Bennett’s creative ritual as more than mere preparation. It introduces the process as a truly engaging element of her body of work and re-establishes its place at the forefront of her practice. To do this, another creative process is used. A newly commissioned film by documentary filmmaker Timothy Knights shows a labour-intensive artistic representation of Bennett’s studio ritual, the film gives as much insight into Knights’ creative process as Bennett’s. As the viewer engages with the film, the awkward angle at which they are forced to watch leaves a physical memento of the exhibition; a strain that empathises with the exertion of Bennett’s process as they engage with her new and existing work.

Exhibition curated by Davinia Gregory

Exhibition News: 100 The Highway

 
100 The Highway is a one-night exhibition of new works, works-in-progress and site-specific works by a selection of artists, self-publishers and past collaborators, at the former location of Maritime Printing Co.

The exhibition features works by Aishan Yu, Alexander Bates, Alexandra Hughes, Andrew Ra...nville, Beverley Bennett, Catalina Niculescu, Charlie Coffey, David Lilley, Hiromi Kawasaki, James Jeff Lindley, Kala Newman, Kathryn Faulkner, Margarita Myrogianni, Marie Roux, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, Rachel Ichniowski, Richard Bevan, Rona Smith, and Sarah Andrew.

Impulsive Random Platform will produce a free publication especially for the exhibition, in response to the works and site.