Surface Dwellers
Opening night 4th May 6pm-8pm
May 5th to May 13th 2010
This month Surface Gallery presents its first in house exhibition of 2010: Surface Dwellers, an impromptu group exhibition showcasing the work of our many surface inhabitants.
This month Surface Gallery presents its first in house exhibition of 2010: Surface Dwellers, an impromptu group exhibition showcasing the work of our many surface inhabitants. The exhibition seeks to bring together practitioners from the recently opened studios and our team of devoted gallery volunteers. The exhibition will document a diverse range of activity, from works created within the gallery walls to works created or conceived beyond them.
The exhibition explores notions of ‘encounter’ and ‘participation’ as well as the exchange of thoughts and ideas. The launch of our studios opens up an exciting new space for our organisation, a territory we wish to share and celebrate with the public. Our studio Artists are brought together simply by a need or desire to inhabit a space for creative production, our volunteers in turn are motivated by a desire to challenge themselves and to share an interest or passion in Art. It is this desire that generates exchange, our volunteers and artists are brought together through a shared will to develop and explore, a conception that lies at the very heart of the visual arts, an objective will to participate in culture outside of direct economic benefit.
So these objectives lead to a ‘site’ or ‘dwelling’ a space which caters to this activity, an organisation like Surface Gallery, Volunteer run, volunteer led, an instigator of exchange and a promoter of opportunities. Our volunteers come from a wide range of backgrounds and a diverse range interests, likewise they perform a wide and diverse range of tasks, our accountant could be a performance artist, press officer an abstract painter or our funding coordinator a physicist, and not forgetting the roles they perform within the wider economy in order to support these activities.
Surface Dwellers ultimately seeks to celebrate and reward our inhabitant’s constant commitment to cultural activity.
