Lisa Wilkens - The Shadow of an Unseen Power
2015
Description
12 September - 24 October
Fields
Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting
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70 years ago the first Atomic Bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The Shadow of an Unseen Power is an exhibition of drawings informed by the artists personal experiences of anti-nuclear war activism growing up in Germany in the 1980s.Lisa Wilkens practice is based in drawing with a focus on the potential of images as catalyst for discourse and change. Assembling images related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons and radioactivity, Wilkens combines elements of historic and scientific information, social action and political secrecy.Wilkens understands the act of drawing – however detailed and laborious in performance – as subtle activism and enduring resistance addressing political conscience and passivity. The preciseness of depiction is used to reflect a desire to investigate what exactly is present in an image, to find out if there is something within the manual rendering of the image that will reveal an alternative reading, a different truth. Her work often acts as a framework for personal exchange and political discourse, a way to explore ideas and establish common ground.Lisa Wilkens was born in Berlin and grew up in Bremen, North Germany. She completed a degree in scientific illustration at the University of the Arts, Zurich Switzerland graduating in 2005. In 2007, Lisa completed an MA in printmaking at Camberwell College, University of the Arts London. Her work was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 and exhibited at the SS1 space Sheffield and the ICA in London. Further exhibitions include Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Paper at Saatchi Gallery, and Block 336, Brixton.
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Exhibition Catalogue
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The Shadow of an Unseen PowerEssays by Reece Jones & Elise Routledge32 pages29 x 21cm2015£10 + £2 p&pClick to purchase via Paypal -
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Drawings
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Weighing the Atmosphere
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
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2015
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Atoms for Peace
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
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2015
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A Threshold for the Future
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Unruly waves in Order
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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The Party to End all Parties
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Finale of an Adventurer
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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On the Surface
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Preface to a New Age
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
86.5cm x 60cm
2015
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Searching for Substance
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Strength in Wandering
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Taste for TogethernessChinese Ink on Found Paper29 x 21cm2015 -
The Invisible Medium
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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The Search for the End of the Rainbow
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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A New Note of Uncertainty
Chinese Ink on Found Paper
29 x 21cm
2015
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Installation Views @ PAPER
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9 April - 14 May 2016Fine Arts2016 -
30 January - 24 April 2016
The Link Gallery
Dean Clough, Halifax, HX3 5AX
Open Daily 9am - 5pmDrawing, Fine Arts, Painting2016 -
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Private View: Thursday 2 June, 6-9pmFine Arts, Painting, Print Design2016 -
Leo 15, Lucerne, Switzerland: 9-12 June 2016
PAPER, Manchester, UK: 21 August - 25 September 2016Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2016 -
27 February - 2 April 2016Fine Arts, Painting2016 -
Exhibition Dates: 9 January - 20 February 2016
Private View: Thursday 7 January, 6-9pmCartooning, Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 31 October - 12 December 2015Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2015 -
Residency dates: 25 July – 5 September 2015
Opening Times: 11am – 5pm every Saturday
Launch: Thursday 23 July 2015, 6-9pmAnimation, Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 6 June - 18 July 2015Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 18 April - 30 MayFine Arts, Painting2015 -
Allan Bech / Jenny Core / Susannah Douglas / Aly Helyer / Shinbo Hiroshi (Shin Button) / Paraic Leahy / Sharon Leahy-Clark / Richard Meaghan / Graham Watson / Hannah Wooll
17 January - 26 April 2015
The Link Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax
In 1924 Andre Breton wrote the first Manifesto of Surrealism, in which he defines surrealism as: "Pure psychic automatism by means of which one intends to express, either verbally or in writing or in any other manner, the actual functionality of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, free of any aesthetic or moral concern." For the exhibition The Functionality of Thought we have asked several contemporary artists for whom these ideas remain prevalent in their practice today to further explore ideas of surrealism.
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15” Deep Pan Stuffed Crust Portuguese Man O’ War (Totaller’s Studio)
Exhibition dates: 28 February – 11 April 2015
Private View: Thursday 26 February, 6-9pm
Opening Times: 11am – 5pm every SaturdayFine Arts, Interior Design2015 -
Exhibition dates: 10th January – 21st February 2015Fine Arts, Sculpting2014 -
Hermione Allsopp / Alan Baker / Carole Cluer /
Michelle Rheeston-Humphreys / Conor Rogers / Jenny Steele
Eleanor Watson / Rachel Wrigley
Exhibition Dates: 8 November – 13 December 2014Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
Exhibition dates: 23rd October – 1st November 2014
As part of Manchester Science Festival -- proudly produced by the Museum of Science & Industry and supported by Siemens -- PAPER will present new work on paper by artist/researcher, Daksha Patel in our temporary annex space. Her drawing Dust, responds to the conservation and cleaning of historic wall hangings at The People's History Museum, Manchester. Daksha's practice engages with visualisation technologies, and her research process involved examining dust samples using SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and optical microscopes. The resulting work explores the different values associated with dust; it is something that contaminates, a physical trace of history, and also a substance with magical properties. The drawing is produced from natural pigments such as minerals and iron oxides; materials that can be found in the earth.
Daksha's practice is centred upon drawing, and she often employs unusual drawing materials and grounds such as oil, clay and raw cotton. She is interested in mapping and measurement, both in relation to the environment and the human body. Her practice responds to the medical body, particularly technologies of vision and the medical visualisation.
Daksha Patel is a Manchester based artist who exhibits widely, both nationally and internationally. Her work was included in the Wellcome Trust exhibition Brains: The Mind as Matter at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester in 2013, and she is currently showing new work at the Imperial War Museum North as part of the Asia Triennial Manchester. Later this year she will have a solo show at Touchstones, Rochdale.
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Exhibition Dates: 2 August - 13 September 2014Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
An exhibition @ Peek-a-boo Gallery, Perth, Australia
Alice Bradshaw - Jenny Core - Andrea Cotton - Susannah Douglas - Bethan Hamilton - David Hancock - Phill Hopkins - Paraic Leahy - Sharon Leahy-Clark - Naomi Lethbridge - Hayley Lock - Richard Meaghan - James Moore - Leanne Richardson - Richard Shields - Jenny Steele - Pär Strömberg - Graham Watson - Hannah Wooll - Simon Woolham - Rachel Wrigley
In response to the City of Perth Winter Arts Season 2014, PAPER have asked a number of gallery artists to respond to the theme of winter. This unseasonal theme during the UK summer, inspired the title 'Snow in Summer', and asks each artist to push the boundaries of their practice, conjuring representations of what 'winter' means to them.
The project is supported by Gotham Studios.
Gotham Studios is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Season.Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2014 -
Exhibition dates: 26th April 2014 – 7th June 2014Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting2015 -
Exhibition dates: 8th March 2014 – 19th April 2014Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition dates: 18th January 2014 – 1st March 2014Fine Arts, Sculpting2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 23 November - 21 December 2013Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 4 October - 17 November 2013Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 22 June - 3 August 2013Fine Arts, Performing Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 4 May – 15 June 2013Drawing, Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 16 March – 27 April 2013Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 19 January – 9 March 2013Fine Arts, Painting, Print Design2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 24 November - 24 December 2012Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 6 October – 17 November 2012Fine Arts2015 -
Exhibition Dates: 1 September 2012Fine Arts2015