New Skin Old Ceremonies

15/11/2019

For those of you who have not made the trip to the exhibition yet, the wonderfully colourfully intricate lithographs of Michael Horsley...

10/11/2019

Wonderful day of talks and performances by printmakers and artists yesterday with unexpected tai chi warm up with . Followed by great talks from artists Clarissa Upchurch, Clare Jarrett, matthew Bennington , Maria Pavledis and a rare opportunity to hear Micheal Horsley talk about his powerful lithographs. Performances by printmakers followed kicked off by , a solo by david greaves on guitar. And lastly an incredible performance by Jillian Bain Christie: Visual Artist and Soprano. Incredible acoustic and atmosphere.

Thanks to everyone who came, spoke, played and sang.

08/11/2019

https://open.spotify.com/user/mpavledis/playlist/2IVHhTogOiliItp2HSgSbG?si=oYvesjIXRleTqTGzeAlRDA

I asked my fellow printmakers in New Skin Old Ceremonies what music they liked to print to and this is the resulting playlist . I’ve made it collaborative so if you have a favourite printmaking track please add to it or post it here and I will add and we will play it tomorrow

A playlist featuring Björk, Floating Points, St Germain, and others

07/11/2019

The exhibition is up and running and is open daily, 11am-5pm until Sunday 17th November. These images depict an installation made especially for New Skin Old Ceremonies by Jillian Bain Christie.
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Senbazuru for Cio-Cio-San (Screenprint and manipulated musical score) is inspired by a recent performance of the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini.
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In Japan, the crane is a mystical creature and is believed to live for a thousand years. In addition to this, the birds mate for life. Subsequently, in Japanese culture, the crane represents good fortune, longevity and fidelity. The Japanese refer to the crane as the ‘bird of happiness’.
The legend of Senbazuru- the folding of one thousand origami cranes, is an old Japanese tradition, where it was believed that by doing this, one’s wish would be granted by the Gods. Senbazuru are often given as wedding gifts or left on shrines in the hope that that they will bring good luck.
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Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly, the title role in Puccini’s opera, is a young Japanese woman. She marries an American Naval Officer, who leaves her shortly after their wedding night. Butterfly consequently spends three years waiting and praying for her husband’s return.
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The finished work is constructed using the opera’s musical score, and as well as referencing Butterfly’s unwavering fidelity, one can imagine her folding the cranes in the hope that her husband will come back to her.
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The idea of making a piece involving multiples alludes to the building’s past as a factory with the ritualistic process of repetition.
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@ The Shoe Factory Social Club

05/11/2019

Big up to guest invigilator Simon Marshall for saving the day !

05/11/2019

We are excited that the exhibition is up and running- and it’s looking fab! We’ll also continue to share examples of artwork included in the show on Instagram and Facebook. These images feature the work of David Greeves.
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My current work focusses on the interplay between two different states of being by juxtaposing imagery reflecting my own immediate surroundings with those captured by people from other global locations. The aim is to reflect on contrasting experiences of serenity and mortal peril, abstraction and representation, mediated second-hand experience and personal memory.
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Stemming from my “Onlooker” oil painting series, the “Deformation” series exhibited here draws source material from motion blurred and corrupted video stills of archived footage from the Japan tsunami of 2011, juxtaposing two separate experiences to explore the dichotomy of how momentous historical events are witnessed by passive observers via digital media and by those surviving in the midst of events as they unfold. These “abstract” elements are currently printed with mezzotint on copper and wood engraving. The sky element of the print is derived from enlarge drawings on photographic negative film, deliberately blurred in the darkroom enlargement process.
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04/11/2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06nn7dp. So,Maria Pavledis Artist is going to be a shameless media w***e again and will be on The Jack Jay show tonight between 8-9pm .

The show is open, it looks great. Powerful, kick ass printmaking, all grown in or associated with Norfolk

Prepared to be amazed. Join ringmaster Jack Jay as he explores life on the Norfolk coast.

03/11/2019

Incredible teamwork today putting up what looks like an amazing show
With massive thanks to these people for the hard graft: Anna-lise Horsley, Siri Taylor, david greaves, Marie van Berkel-Chargois, Tina dartnall, , Frank van B, Brian, Clarissa Upchurch , @ Cathy Rumsey Clare Jarrett - Visual Artist Jillian Bain Christie: Visual Artist and Soprano Maria Pavledis Artist. It’s like having a blooming baby !!

02/11/2019

In the lead up to the exhibition opening, we’ll be sharing some examples of artwork included in the show on Instagram. These images depict the work of Rebecca Hearle.
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My practice examines my interactions with landscapes, usually those that are familiar and local or those that have similar qualities of emptiness and space. I work with landscape bordering The Wash and the nearby Fens, but I have also investigated the Salient battlefields of WWI and have recently visited The Cairngorms on an initial research trip. I explore slowly, often on foot, and I frequently introduce some form of ritual into the process.
My postgraduate research project, developed from my own strong attachment to The Wash landscape, examines how people form connections to landscapes and how, for some people, that connection to place forms an integral part of their identity; they become a part of place and the place becomes part of them. Sometimes they describe themselves as ‘transparent’ to it. For ‘I Called Your Name on the Wind’ I walked part of the Peter Scott walk, which runs alongside a section of The Wash, on one day of each month of 2014. Thoughts, observations and images were captured during each walk and were recorded in two diaries and developed into the flags. Borrowing from the Buddhist tradition, the printed paper prayer flags were raised on the marsh on an auspicious day and they printed the air with their words. Consequently, they are shaped by and hold the memory of the wind. This was the first of my works to be realised as a site-specific installation.
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