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Venus Revisited


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The Venus Revisited is a creative response project on body and self-image for women who are going through the menopause (at whatever age, including early menopause), or have done so in the past. It focuses on exploring changing self and body image, mainly in clay, with a related drawing element.
 
 

Kath McDonald, of King Street Arts, developed this project as a personal response to her own menopause and ageing. After a successful pilot last year funded by LDCVS, this year the project has been funded by Arts Council, England and the Eric Wright Charitable Trust, and supported via the NHS local Integrated Care Communities. It has worked with 17 local women working in small groups in both Lancaster and Morecambe, looking at each person’s own response to the menopause and ageing and working with this in both clay and drawing. After a series of workshops the participants invite you to see their work in two exhibition areas:

 

Lancaster exhibition areas: 31 July  – 3 August


·       Ceramics - The Storey (1st Floor and in the Storey Garden)


·       Drawings -  King Street Arts


·       Book Display – Waterstones- see the Venus revisited booklist on display until end of August -  compiled by participants

 

Morecambe exhibition: 6- 31 August


·       Ceramics, Drawings and Book display - Morecambe Library

 

Please tell others about this exhibition and encourage them to visit. Thank you.


 

Kath McDonald


5th Affordable Art Fair: 8th - 16th December 2021


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In 2021 we decided to go big with our regular December exhibition and show in the large upstairs gallery in The Storey Building. With nearly two years of lock-downs we felt we needed more space and more art to share with the local population. 

With the extra space we increased the ceiling price and maximum size of work we could accept into the exhibition.

This was an open call exhibition for original art, ceramics and craft with a maximum selling price of £250 which was promoted through our news letter and on our social media networks. 

Many of the artists we had worked with before but there were also many artists we hadn't met before.

In total we were able to display over 350 pieces of work from 77 artist (local, regional and national).








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Art of Music: 14th - 25th October 2021



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 The Art  of Music

Presented by: 
King Street Arts in collaboration with Lancaster Music Festival

The exhibition covered two sites in Lancaster city centre:

The Galleries upstairs at King Street Arts (Studios) at 5a King Street
(video, photography, assemblages, textile, sculpture and paint)
&
The Gallery upstairs in The Storey Building
(Paintings, print-making and drawing)

There is a long history of links between art and music; throughout the twentieth century many artists made links to music, a few examples are: Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942) and Matisse’s Jazz (1959) and further back Nicholas Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time (1636).

This exhibition seeks to explore some contemporary connections between visual art and music. We asked artists to submit work they had created which had been inspired by music. We also asked musicians who also had a visual art practice to submit examples of the work they create. Accompanying the artworks are short statements about the artists influences. 
What we have from these 49 artists in over 90 art works is a snapshot of the range and individuality of the creative spirit coming from many regions and cultural backgrounds sharing a common interest and fascination were art and music come together, with clear examples of a shared language/values encompassing a sense of rhythm, tone, colour, shape and form. All this, we believe is another example of how art and creativity are a conduit for expressing our shared humanity.







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Beyond the Horizon  11th June - 14th August 2021


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Beyond The Horizon
11th  June - 14th August 2021
at 5a King Street by appointment and online 




The horizon for our lives has been curtailed: our view restricted. We are now in a place of rediscovery and of redefining who, what and where we are.


Although not themed: ‘Beyond the Horizon’ is an exhibition of work created largely during this time of limitation and Lock-downs, by artists belonging to the King Street Artists Associate Group and reflects upon the ability, and limitless energy and imaginative power of the creative spirit, to bring to us this reward of colour line and form into our lives.







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ART <£120  4th Dec 2020 - 9th Jan 2021



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ART<£120
4th  Dec 2020 - 9th Jan 2021
online 




Welcome to ART<120

For this exhibition the plan had been to have it online and also in our gallery; but sadly a new wave of Covid prevented the gallery part of the exhibition.

This was our 4th annual Christmas exhibition of independent and unique artwork.

We really appreciated all the engagement and sales we had from this online exhibition resulting in artists sending their art out and around the country to its new owners.








Pairidaeza 15th June - 27th July 2019


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Pairidaeza
Nazanin Moradi
15th June - 27th July 2019

Exhibition Statement:

Frida Kahlo said, “I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” 
I investigate into space, either the intimate space of the body or the physical space which surround us, fictional or ideal spaces. My work is a way of narrating my real life experiences, not just as representational images, but how they are accumulated and remembered in the complex layout of my mind and psychology. 

Staircase Sculpture:
We come and go in the circle,
turning 
and turning
the horizon is vertical, vertical 
and motion is swing-like
this void 
and this prisoned flight 

Gallery 1 and 2:
You don’t need an excuse to leave
you just need luggage full of hatred
and even sometimes full of denied happiness 
when you don’t want to stay, you don’t need an excuse, you would leave anyway 
even without a suitcase...

In the back of my mind is a niggling memory. ‘Zār’, ‘witch house’, and ‘mum’ are a flashback of my childhood. I saw my ‘mum’ miscarry baby boys a few times; the misogynistic superstitious relatives blamed a five year old girl and took her to the ‘witch house’ to be the material for their ritual ceremony in order to cancel the curse of ‘zār’.  

By working on ‘please don’t leave me’, ‘waiting’, ‘halted’, and ‘the vanishing.’ I wanted to focus on creating spaces where I can overcome my vulnerability within my feelings of loss. We all are the result of an accident accrued in the void of the universe. And we all are waiting for something. Take me for example, all my life I’ve been going around waiting for something. In fact, I’ve felt as if ‘waiting’ between the silence in the text messages, and as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but ‘halted’. Like long wait to return to the void, ‘the vanishing’.

I imagined an other space that could exist ‘beyond left & right’, with their two opposing forces; by passing through vibrantly coloured ‘portals 1-2-3’, in contrast with the mysterious grey spaces of ‘the contention’ and ‘water & blood’. I wanted a deformed body, dragon, mythological entity, floating ornamental shape and water fountain/Hoze*. It narrates the contemporary situation; the dragon is the symbol of the uranium age and Hoze is a symbol for global warming. These opposing forces have become a key theme in much of my recent work. My double-headed or double-figure images suggest the sense of two very separate forces relentlessly attached together and harshly wanting to separate.

*Hoze in Persian relates to what could be refered to as an ornamental pond as found persian gardens.




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