On Friday 20^th July 2012 we are delighted to be hosting an evening of celebration and a silent auction at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to raise awareness that ONE IN FOUR adults in the UK suffers mental health problems at some time in their life. All proceeds raised will go towards supporting the work that we do in both London and Bristol.

The event will be tied in with an evening at the Summer Exhibition, which is the Royal Academy’s busiest time of year. Artists work will be displayed in the Royal Academy, and of course its all for a good cause! Works will feature on the Studio Upstairs website, in the catalogue for the event and be exposed to art collectors.

You can bid for the artwork here in the Studio Upstairs Shop.

This year thanks to some funding from Arts Council South West we are moving our annual show to the autumn as part of Drawing Through. If you follow us on Facebook and Twitter you will undoubtedly have heard about this already so forgive me if this is old hat:

Drawing Through is a project that sees Studio Upstairs Bristol collaborating with artist Alice Jones and curator Jack Gibbon of Antlers Gallery. It will culminate in three – yes that’s right THREE – shows later this year in venues throughout Bristol. Our annual Open Studio will of course remain at our Studio space in Bristol’s Harbourside but the other shows will be in town and high profile!

So if you are getting your walking boots ready to tackle the  behemoth that is Spike Island’s Open Studios then remember that this year we are not exhibiting. Instead we are planning and plotting our next show! Watch this space to find out more as we confirm dates and venues over the coming weeks.

Dannielle Hodson #1

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Title: Fragile
Lino print onto japanese paper 102 cm by 74 cm.

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" Realising that I can't hide from life - I embrace it.

So then it is not what my work is about that is of importance- as that changes with circumstance, and circumstance is predominately influential. What is important to me is the origin of my creation:

Heart and my soul.

My work is merely the expression that needs expressing, the feeling that needs relieving or the words that I can not say. The processes of change and conditioning are omnipresent in my work. Fascinated by how my world is dictated to and how I dictate to it, both the giver and the receiver, I constantly question my transitory role as a human.

Even when I doodle I am sub consciously reacting to my environment. Abstract at first doodles are formed out of a single thread of automatic line and within those lines my minds content is revealed.

Like I said, I can't hide. "

Awards
2009, Koestler Award Winner, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
2009, Outside In Award Winner, Pallant House, Chichester, UK

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Jamie House #1

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Title: Stranger
Medium: Digital C- Type print
Size: 30"X40"

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Jamie House is an internationally exhibiting artist Camera Obscura builder and educator. He graduated from University of the Creative Arts England with a BA (Hons) in Photomedia (2004) and successfully completed his PGCE in post compulsory education in 2010 at the University of Plymouth.

Jamie’s work explores how we look at the world through representation by critically analysing the medium and apparatus of photography. Employing a range of alternative processes to the latest digital imaging techniques. Image production and dissemination are at the core of Jamie’s practice.

Jamie’s recent project `stranger` sets to show the viewer how we share and store images on-line through social networks and image sharing websites. This project is a result of Jamie producing images of other people’s memories that I have mined from the internet on various social media sites. These people have befriended me online but are not people I have met in person.

Each image is produced by a long exposure focussed on a computer screen while browsing a stranger’s social media images. The resulting images are layers of images and time within someone’s life.

Recent exhibitions include:

2012-PHrame Photography Festival,Brussels
2012-Brighton Photofringe Focus,Solo Show
2011-Aperture Foundation,"What happens Now?" New York
2011-Parallex Art Fair, La Galleria Pall Mall London
2011-Beyond the Lens,Incident rooms Bristol UK.
2011-Print & Design Now, SW1 Gallery, Bearspace London and Art Fair TBA
2011- For Japan, Hotshoe Gallery London.
2011-“Four Walls” Photo Ireland, Photography Festival
2011-WINDOW WORK-Plymouth “The Milky Way, after Herschel”
2011- Graphic Design Museum Boschstraat, Holland. Pinhole Parcel Project
2010- Atomino Festival Germany. `Stranger` project Solo Show
2010- That Gallery Hong Kong, Unwrap your mind Exhibition.

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The next meeting will next be on Saturday 28th April 2012 at 12pm until 2pm.

Screen print donated by Rob Ryan

On Friday 20^th July 2012 we are delighted to be hosting an evening of celebration and a silent auction at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to raise awareness that ONE IN FOUR adults in the UK suffers mental health problems at some time in their life. All proceeds raised will go towards supporting the work that we do in both London and Bristol.

We are now looking for artworks to be donated to the auction from the UK’s most promising artists of 2012, and that could be you!

Bristol based artist Anthony Garratt has already donated a piece to the auction alongside Rob Ryan  and Dan Baldwin.

Auction pieces  will be uploaded to the Studio Upstairs website for bidding to commence online from the 12th of July.

The event will be tied in with an evening at the Summer Exhibition, which is the Royal Academy’s busiest time of year. Artists work will be displayed in the Royal Academy, and of course its all for a good cause! Works will feature on the Studio Upstairs website, in the catalogue for the event and be exposed to art collectors.

To donate work, please email your images in j-peg format including full details of each piece: author, title, medium and size  to charlotte.meddings@studioupstairs.org.uk by 18 June. You may submit 2D or 3D work. 2D work must be no bigger than 1m x 1m and 3D work no larger than 50cm squared.

Works selected to take part in the event will be notified by email and need to be delivered to Studio Upstairs London Unit E3, 3 Bradbury Street, London N16 8JN by MONDAY 25th JUNE.

The next meeting will next be on Saturday 14th April 2012 at 12pm until 2pm.