JAMBON

2011-10-21T09:15:00.001-07:00

Newbridge Project Open Studios
Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October

As the Turner Prize comes to BALTIC, visitors to NewcastleGateshead will have the exciting chance to see what else is happening at other contemporary art venues around the region – one year old, the award-winning NewBridge Project now provides affordable studio space to over 60 visual artists. On 29th and 30th October, all five floors of the 29,000 sq ft building will be fully accessible offering the North East a fascinating view of what goes on behind the scenes at the studio and the opportunity to speak to the artists involved directly.

By marking its first birthday during Turner Prize week, visitors to The NewBridge Project will be able to see other work made in the city and witness another important step in the evolution from office block to city centre art studios.

From 6pm on Saturday 29th the public are invited to explore the expansive studios and will be among the first to see a series of artist films commissioned by Turning Point North East which feature artists living and working regionally who are gaining National and International profile. The films, made to co-inside with Turner Prize at BALTIC and part of a series entitled 11 for 2011 give an insight into the practice of 11 artists, including 3 based at NewBridge Studio. The NewBridge Project Open Studios will be free of charge and open on 6pm – 8pm on Saturday evening and 11am – 5pm on Sunday.

2011-10-21T08:56:00.000-07:00

I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move
Andrew Maughan & Graeme Durant
Rogue Artist's Studios, Manchester
Preview - 28th October 6-9pm

I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move is the fourth in a series of exhibitions by Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant. The pairing is based on a shared understanding within their individual practices of the interchange between the processes of thinking and making. By addressing the format of the collaborative exhibition-model and the double act, the work of Maughan and Durant confidently exposes the moments where cohesion and dissonance - or slippage - takes place.

Andrew Maughan's paintings exist in the unstable border between figuration and abstraction, visible form and nebulous formlessness. His work pushes these mutable, fluctuating states exploring their own materiality, surface qualities and the emergent disparity between the real and depictions of the real (or the visible) through painting.

Graeme Durant is a gatherer of redundant domestic and industrial objects. Through a process of recycling, improvisation and low-tech construction methodologies, he attaches new meaning to the original materials. Durant reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form volume and matter creating objects brimming with possibility.

For their exhibition at Rogue, Maughan and Durant will show a body of work consisting of new sculptures and paintings.

Artist Biographies:

In 2009, Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant both completed a BA (Hons) Fine Art at Northumbria University. Recent exhibitions include; ‘I don’t even like Macaroons’ Supercollider-Blackpool, JAMBON, Cobalt Gallery Space-Newcastle, ‘Forkhandles’ Lime Street Gallery- Newcastle, ‘I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move’ The Royal Standard- Liverpool, Northend Studios- Detroit, Space Gallery- Newcastle and ‘New Stuff’ Embassy Annuale-Edinburgh.

www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2WH

2011-08-10T10:11:00.001-07:00

Andrew Maughan & Graeme Durant
The Alley Project, Detroit, USA

2011-08-08T09:37:00.000-07:00

I Can't Follow You You If You Don't Move
Andrew Maughan & Graeme Durant
Northend Studios, Detroit

2011-07-05T05:36:00.000-07:00

JAMBON 'New Stuff'

Whitespace, Edinburgh, Annuale 2011

2011-06-15T04:43:00.000-07:00

'I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move'

Andrew Maughan - Graeme Durant

Northend Studios Detroit.

Preview: 16th July 2011 7-10pm
Continues: 17th - 30th July 2011

Northend Studios
2937 E.Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI

2011-06-15T03:41:00.000-07:00

JAMBON 'New Stuff'
Edinburgh Annuale 2011
Preview: 24th June, Whitespace, Edinburgh

2011-06-07T11:48:00.000-07:00

'I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move'

Artist Talk / Workshop / Party
The Royal Standard, Liverpool

2011-06-07T11:40:00.000-07:00

'I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move'

Andrew Maughan / Graeme Durant
The Royal Standard, Liverpool

Life Itself, In All Its Glory and Hopelessness.

2011-05-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

“Life Itself, In All Its Glory and Hopelessness”
New works in felt by Andrew Sandercock

Click poster for large version.

“Life Itself, In All Its Glory and Hopelessness” is a visual synthesis of a dark comedy; a celebration of pointless morbidity, hopeless machismo and the hardman’s rhetoric.

Taking salvation in the sharing of strife rather than the celebration of success. The perverse joy of hardship and the nihilistic freedom of the negation of purpose.

The banner, a format reserved for protest and celebration, expropriated for a much more downbeat communication.

2011-04-21T11:08:00.000-07:00

I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move
Andrew Maughan - Graeme Durant
Preview: 12/05/2011 at The Royal Standard, Liverpool.

I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move is a touring project by Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant.

The tour starts at The Royal Standard in Liverpool on the 12^th May and will evolve throughout the year with new works in different locations.

There are some obvious parallels between Durant's sculptural practice and Maughan's paintings; The seemingly instantaneous (but in reality, highly laboured) physical qualities, the way in which their work appears to embody fluctuating, convulsive or mutating states, the fine balance between figuration and disfiguring abstraction, their abundant concerns with materiality, indeterminacy, and the essential inadequacy of symbolization. But what is most interesting about this pairing is not simply the similarities, but the dialogue in which moments of both cohesion and dissonance - or slippage - take place.

Here are two artists speaking in two languages (or dialects, sculpturally and painterly) to evoke an open-ended conversation which is full of irreverence, anxiety, and poignancy.

Iris Aspinall Priest

Preview: Thursday 12th May 2011 6pm-8pm
13th May - 9th June 2011
The Royal Standard
Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre 131 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool L3 6BN

2011-03-03T03:55:00.000-08:00

Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant
'I Don't Even Like Macaroons'
Supercollider Gallery, Blackpool.
11/2/11 - 6/3/11

Andrew Maughan, Drawings 2011

2011-01-27T10:57:00.000-08:00

'I don't even like Macaroons' Andrew Maughan & Graeme Durant, Supercollider, Blackpool

2011-01-21T09:53:00.000-08:00

12 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2011
PRIVATE VIEW - FRIDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2011, 6 - 9 PM
FYCREATIVES / 154 - 158 CHURCH STREET / BLACKPOOL / FY1 3PS

http://www.supercolliderhq.org.uk/

Mike Pratt, Workplace Gallery, Gateshed

2011-01-21T09:47:00.000-08:00

15 Jan - 12 Feb 2011

FELT

2010-09-03T09:46:00.000-07:00

FELT YOU BASTARDS
By Andrew Sandercock

Andrew Maughan - Bilderberg -

2010-06-26T12:44:00.000-07:00

Andrew Maughan

As garish as a pantomime dame, and as hapless as road kill, Andrew Maughan's new series of portraits depicting Bilderberg attendees confront us at the tenuous border between fascination and repulsion. His gaudy – verging on grotesque – pallet of colours, and fast, lacerating brush marks, build up paintings which are almost entirely plastic surface, subsuming (or denying) any suggestion of the subject's personality, humanity, or of an interiority to the work. This specularization, and negation of an interior life, serves a double purpose. On the one hand, Maughan utilizes the frenetic painterly gestures and synthetic colours to obscure the identity of the subjects as a simile for the abstracting, and alienating effects of the esoteric secrecy surrounding the Bilderberg meetings. Whilst on the other hand, he is underlining, with jovial cynicism, the complicity of contemporary art in the entirely material, and vacuous systems of commodity culture.

But hold on, Bilderberg? You may well ask. What is Bilderberg?...Surrounded by police tape, political opacity, and media blackout, Bilderberg is reportedly the most well-protected, unofficial, meeting of the world's elite. Whether a supreme cabal, a political conference, or a bombastic shindig (that the rest of us aren't invited to), what little is known about Bilderberg is that it is an annual get together of the most influential politicians, heads of state and directors of big business in a luxury hotel, beyond the public gaze and democratic accountability. Everything else we know are the morsels gleamed by concerned journalists such as The Guardian's Charlie Skelton, reporting from the periphery of the World's most influential party; from outside hotel lobbies, and secret bolt-holes, whilst pursued by shady goons and government security officers.

Invited to produce this series by Skelton, Maughan shares similar concerns in his practice. With impudent curiosity both men highlight the clandestine operations of social axioms and the ideological bankruptcy of pervasive systems of power and influence. With the deceptive playfulness of an itinerant Art school graduate, Maughan adopts the spontaneous, pseudo-macho gestures and raw, barely mixed colours of modernisms predecessors (such as De Kooning). But he deploys these with the slick, cynical virtuosity of Kippenberger to develop calculated paintings which are simultaneously instantaneous, and highly laboured, as indicated by the accumulated layers of texture and colour, the painted, and re-painted details. There is something jarring about these parallels however, and about the appropriation, the plundering of art history's corpse, which operates in Maughan's larger-than-life canvases... The distorted, liquescent faces of Prince Philip, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, hover like carnivorous monsters above backgrounds reminiscent of pre-school imitations of Rothko colour field paintings. Their flat, plastic, and gaudy appearance hints at the tacky reproductions of 'monumental' art works that can be found in gallery gift shops, and on the walls of living rooms and student's bedrooms as dead signs of cultural appreciation and intellectual prestige. This reference seems to underscore the contradictory, and seedy functions of the contemporary Art world, in which Art is now entirely bound up with the mechanics of consumer desires, and of material culture.

Just as the Heroes of Abstract Expressionism – whose work was intended to be variously reactionary, revolutionary, and spiritual – have their works sold at Christie's for millions of dollars to hang in the homes and collections of the rich, Art is now inevitably subjected to the changing fashions of the Art World, the Art Market, and the capitalist Zeitgeist. Painting has seen a revival in recent years after Saatchi's monumental Triumph of Painting (2005) whether this was a savvy reaction to changing trends, or an innovative move on Charles Saatchi's part , painting was firmly reestablished on the agenda of galleries, art publishing houses, and artists alike.

Andy Maughan's distorted, and fragmentary portraits endlessly obfuscate comfortable certainty. They require the viewer to reconstruct the subjects in their imaginations – with their scratched-out eyes, the grotesque mouths, the dribbles of paint – but this is an impossible task. Identity, and recognition, is never complete. It continually shades off beyond the frenetic marks, and beneath the macabre fleshy colours, in the same way as the subjects do; in their inaccessible, elitist echelons of power.

Iris Aspinall Priest

Any one speak Italian?

2010-06-25T08:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine_detail.html?mId=8013

JAMBON AT MOVING GALLERY

2010-06-16T12:34:00.000-07:00

JAMBON GROUP SHOW THURSDAY THE 1ST OF JULY, INCLUDING MICHAEL HADDOCK.

FREE DRINK ETC

Andrew Maughan

2010-03-09T10:05:00.000-08:00

Andrew Sandercock

2010-03-09T09:56:00.000-08:00

Graeme Durant

2010-03-09T09:54:00.001-08:00

Mike Pratt

2010-03-09T09:45:00.001-08:00

Richard Moat

2010-03-09T09:39:00.001-08:00

JAMBON

2009-12-18T05:14:00.000-08:00

MIKE PRATT
ANDREW MAUGHAN
GRAEME DURANT
ANDREW SANDERCOCK
RICHARD MOAT