In Ian Whittlesea’s short film The Demonstration of Gentleness, identical twins Helen and Kathryn Cartwright are seen demonstrating the Ju-no-Kata, a choreographed pattern of judo movement. Commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery for No Competition! in 2012, the film references artist and judo devotee Yves Klein’s Les Fondements du Judo (The Foundations of Judo), published in … The Demonstration of Gentleness
Commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery for No Competition!, Ian Whittelsea’s Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture relates to the exercises that Swiss artist and teacher Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Itten was a devout Mazdaznan and derived these exercises from the book Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture by Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish. Whittlesea … Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture
In Andy Holden’s Chewy Cosmos (Panels to the Walls of Heaven) the splodges and smears of make-up, cut out from women’s magazines, are stop-animated to produce a hypnotically flickering display. Made from one year’s cuttings of images extracted from make-up advertising and editorial features, the work was animated entirely by hand using a flat-bed scanner … Andy Holden: Chewy Cosmos (Panels to the Walls of Heaven)
It is with much pride and fondness that we remember the architect Kenneth Wood who passed away in early January 2015. Wood’s work is reassessed in Dr Fiona Fisher’s forthcoming book, Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948–68, which will be published by Routledge later in 2015. A Modernist in Suburbia is a short … A Modernist in Suburbia: Kenneth Wood Architect (1921–2015)
One + One was a series of staged object-scenarios developed by Daniel Eatock over the course of his 2012 Stanley Picker Fellowship. Eatock prepared an extensive series of proposals for new object-based works that each established a range of formal, practical or conceptual conceits connecting two otherwise independently existing objects. Whilst remaining firmly embedded in … One + One
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape is showing at Wasps Studios, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International 2016 from 8-25 April 2016. Lecture Event: 23 April 7.30pm Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape is an elaboration in space of the ideas presented in the lecture of the same name. In the lecture staged … Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape
The Picker House was designed in 1968 by architect Kenneth Wood for Stanley Picker to live amongst his growing collection of art and design objects. The immaculately preserved home, undisturbed since Stanley’s death in 1982, has now become the subject for a series of artistic projects that reflect upon the house and its collection more … The Occupants
Word Processor is a Research Statement Performance Event forming part of Emma Hart’s Fine Art PhD thesis with the Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University, to be completed in early 2012. The event was developed as the direct result of a three-week period of residency at the Stanley Picker Gallery through January 2012, during which … Emma Hart
No Competition! is an offsite programme of artist projects that explored the relationship between art and non-competitive sport. Three new commissions by Paul Farrington, Charlie Murphy and Ian Whittlesea launched individually over the programme’s three month duration to coincide with celebrations leading up to the London 2012 Olympics as part of Go Kingston 2012. The programme … No Competition!
Daniel Eatock’s multiform career has been defined by a series of high-profile commercial design jobs, together with a vast body of self-instigated works that manifest themselves on multiple, often participatory, platforms including his own website, printed material, exhibitions, and performative actions as part of his day-to-day existence. Developed over the course of his Stanley Picker … One + One