The Nunnery

The Nunnery

The Nunnery is a contemporary project gallery and is part of the Bow Arts Trust. The gallery programme is project driven, initiating and developing projects that reflect and address issues in contemporary art. In doing so, the gallery works with a range of artists, curators, writers and arts organisations. Visitors can expect to see current contemporary work across all disciplines of the visual arts.

For further information contact:

Jeremy Clarke 05601 255 669

jclarke@bowarts.com

Exhibitions

Chopsticks Optional
John Walter and Corinne Felgate

Private View and Performance Thursday 14th January 2010- 6.00-9.00pm

Chopsticks Optional’ is an exhibition about boundaries, about collaboration and crossovers between two very different practices. It is also the pseudonym for the collective work of Corinne Felgate and John Walter.

In investigating their personal and professional friendship, Felgate and Walter have pooled their skills and ideas to produce a multitude of new works. These include artist’s books, costumes, paintings, performances, photographs and sculptures. After establishing a collaborative language, they expanded their practice further, working photographer Ollie Harrop and then with 8 performers from The London Contemporary Dance School.

In another contextthe body of work they have produced might be considered a fashion collection with corresponding catwalk show. Hawever, in the context of the Nunnery each piece becomes a performance and a non-replicable ‘one-off’, treading the line between art and fashion. ‘Chopsticks Optional’, therefore, considers both the boundaries of the individual artists’ practices and those of art itself.

The two artists devised the project as a potential antidote to the prevailing trends within the London art scene; they are discombobulated by the repetitive references to Modernism and the Haiku-like conceptualism which abounds; instead they offer a heady maximalism; visually luxurious, loaded with art historical references but also charged with humour and wit.

http://chopsticksoptional.blogspot.com/

THURSDAY JANUARY 14 TH - PRIVATE VIEW AND PERFORMANCE- 6-9PM

(by invitation)

SATURDAY JANUARY 16TH - COCKTAIL AFTERNOON 1-5 PM

see the exhibition and view documentation of the opening night accompanied by a beverage

SUNDAY JANUARY 17TH - MOVIE MARATHON 12-8PM

The artists select and screen films that have influenced the show

 
SATURDAY JANUARY 23RD - ARTIST’S TALK & CRAFTERNOON 1-5 PM

Felgate and Walter discuss their individual and collective practice and lead a making session.

 
SUNDAY JANUARY 24TH - CLOSING FEAST 1-5PM
Join the artists along with their collaborators for a celebratory closing feast.