rotagavin

S1 Salon

2012-03-08T16:50:00.002Z

Cress Goes on Tour!

2011-12-06T19:10:00.000Z

November Pavillions

2011-11-16T16:34:00.000Z

The Link

NORWICH
An exhibition of work for sale
by over 50 contemporary artists
Preview
Friday 18 November 6 – 9pm
Open
Saturday 19 – Sunday 27 November
12noon – 6pm
Pitt Street
Norwich
NR3 1DE

Artists Talking Event at Peckham Space

2011-11-16T16:28:00.000Z

Here's the link
To blog or not to blog?, Peckham Space, London
17 November, 5-7pm
Contact info@peckhamspace.com or 020 7358 9645 to book
Both Alex Pearl and Aliceson Carter will be presenting at the third Artists talking event. Cannily timed to coincide with Sonia Boyce's exhibition 'Network', the talk will launch an ongoing partnership with Peckham Space. It will also draw in Camberwell College's Enterprise Week, thus demonstrating again the broad networking potential of the blogosphere.

I'll be there, I wont be wearing a suit.

The Next Count

2011-09-13T11:24:00.000+01:00

The next chapter of The Count of Monte Cristo goes on show at the Folkestone Triennial (fringe) on the 16th - 17th September at the B&B project space.
The show will change throughout the day.

Creative Machines / Minamalist Sculpture

2011-08-27T18:29:00.000+01:00

I shall be showing some Automatic Films at this event in Birmingham

22 October - 30 October 2011
Off site group exhibition : Creative Machines / Minimalist Sculpture
Birmingham and London exhibition collaboration
Trove Projects and Minnie Weisz Studio.
The Event Festival 2011 : Curzon St Station, Birmingham.
www.the-event.org.ukwww.trove.org.uk

Pulp Fictions

2011-08-27T18:22:00.000+01:00

Transition Gallery
PULP FICTIONS - curated by Cathy Lomax

3 - 25 September 2011
Gallery Open: Fri–Sun 12-6pm

Preview: Friday 2 Sep 6-9pm

Look at all these people in it!
Phillip Allen
Kirsty Buchanan
Lindsey Bull
Ruby Cedar
Jake Clark
Gary Colclough
Annabel Dover
Tracey Eastham
Jeremy Evans
Stephen Harwood
Sam Knowles
Laura Lancaster
Hayley Lock
Cathy Lomax
Alex Michon
Alex Gene Morrison
Kathryn Newman
Gary O'Connor
Alex Pearl
Rachel Potts
Emma Puntis
Matt Rowe
Robert Rush
Alli Sharma
Corinna Spencer
Emma Talbot
Mimei Thompson
Virginia Verran
Jessica Voorsanger
Mary West
Mark Wheatley
Teresa Whitfield

Installation shots

2011-05-23T16:11:00.001+01:00

Here are a couple of installation shots of my work for Monika Bobinska's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" opening on 9th June. Come along it will be a great show. (full details below)

The Man Who Fell to Earth

2011-05-20T14:42:00.002+01:00

a Monika Bobinska project

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Alex Gene Morrison Adam King Jost Münster Alex Pearl Karen Seapker

4-25 June 2011

Jens Hills, Penthouse (Unit 40), SoDa Studios 0786 606 3663

open Saturdays 12-6pm or by appointment

Private view: Thursday 9 June 6-9pm

Vanish | Alex Gene Morrison | courtesy of the artist and Charlie Smith London

Monika Bobinska is pleased to present the first of two group exhibitions at Jens Hills London.

The shows will utilise the interior and exterior spaces of the distinctive 8th floor penthouse at SoDa Studios, with its panoramic views extending over the city.

The Man Who Fell to Earth explores the ‘otherworldly’, against a backdrop of new and post modernisms, the discourses of science fiction and of global events.

Alex Gene Morrison’s nuanced paintings employ a highly personalised language to engage with a universal cosmology, whilst referencing retro-futuristic science fiction cinema and the lofty ideals of suprematism.

Adam King’s collages and assemblages compose new worlds which speak of cultural myth and invented narratives, and pastoral traditions in the context of an urban consumerist culture.

Jost Münster’s two and three dimensional works inhabit a fragile territory between abstraction and figuration, the observed and the imagined. A delicate use of colour, and a subtle ordering of forms and materials is combined with an ongoing engagement with the material world and its dynamics.

Alex Pearl’s humorous works typically convey a sense of the improvised, the accidental, eternally on the brink of failure or collapse. His recent sculptures, ‘DIY apocalypses’ created from expanding builders’ foam, seem to have an unruly, malevolent life of their own.

Karen Seapker’s figurative paintings combine dynamic brush strokes with a deft use of colour and black-and-white, her language of visual slippage suggesting both nostalgia and a sense of the unsettling distance between memory and fact.

For more information, please contact Monika Bobinska on 0786 606 3663 or mail@monikabobinska.com

NEXT EXHIBITION – Savernake: the spirit of the place 2-31 July 2011 Private view 7 Thursday

Two shows

2011-05-18T10:55:00.001+01:00

I am participating in two exciting shows in the coming months.

The first in London (I am installing next Monday) is for Monika Bobinska's show "The Man Who Fell To Earth".

http://www.lounge-gallery.com/displayProj.php?id=44

Then the next chapter of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is being presented by Transition Gallery in Limerick.

http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/Influx/monte_intro.html

Both will have previously unseen work so I am quite excited.

New show

2011-04-13T18:47:00.005+01:00

The Count of Monte Cristo (Island of True Stories)

2011-03-10T11:38:00.000Z

Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
Gallery Opening Times: MON - SAT: 10am-5pm SUN: 11.30am-5pm. Entry is FREE.

Fri 01 Apr - Sun 15 May, FREE

This exhibition employs Alexandre Dumas’ classic adventure novel to bring together the work of five artists, Annabel Dover, Cathy Lomax, Hayley Lock, Alex Pearl and Mimei Thompson.

Working in a range of disciplines and media, they each plot their own responses to the overarching themes of betrayal, disguise, revenge and patience, mapping out a story of imagined objects, characters, conversations
and relics. By turns, they spy and exact subtle forms of revenge, concoct imaginary aristocrats and elaborate fantasies to dispose of rivals, compare the various cinematic and TV interpretations of Dumas’ book and respond to the island settings of its narrative. This treasure-laden exhibition examines the playful space between reality and illusion, charting voyages from the sublime to the ridiculous.

EYE OPENER DISCUSSION
Wed 13 Apr, 10.45pam, FREE but booking is essential

Time is Love.4 [show 2]

2011-02-02T21:48:00.001Z

International Video Art Exhibition
curated by Kisito Assangni
Saturday February 26, 2011
HEXAGON SPACE
1825 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
USA
Featuring: Jennida Chase (USA) | Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay/Italy) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China) | Pauline Horovitz (France) | Neil Howe (Australia) | Karen Landey (USA) | Lemeh42 (Italy) | Rachel Maclean (UK) | Adamo Macri (Canada) | Joas Nebe (Germany) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Alex Pearl (UK) | Antti Savela (Sweden) | Guy Wouete (Cameroon) | Kisito Assangni (Togo/UK)
7pm: Screening
8pm: Talk: Kisito Assangni with Shaina Craft, Director of Hexagon followed by a public discussion
9pm: Live soundtracks

Time is love Screening is an annual exhibition of projectable videos from an international selection of artists active around the world. The screening explicitly emphasizes the idea of love in these hard times and socio-cultural interference, the way in which technology and society give rise to new forms of artistic expression by using the new media.
The project aims to consider the work of these artists as part of the global phenomenon that is contemporary art, and asks the audience to reflect upon how the time that led to the production of these works was formed. Conceptually diverse, emotionally incisive and visually inventive, the selected works transform the most familiar video art into an illuminating investigation of contemporary culture.
Time is Love.4 brings to the world a refreshing perspective on video art.

http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
Interview in SpaceCoolHunting:
www.spacecoolhunting.it/en/parsepage.php?tpl=tpl_news_detail&sqlpam1=6690

The Badlands

2010-12-22T18:51:00.000Z

Monika Bobinska has invited me to be involved in her show The Badlands, to be presented at the London Art Fair 19th-23rd January

Monika Bobinska
London
07866063663
www.monikabobinska.com
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Monika Bobinska gallery presents a stimulating, independent and ambitious programme of solo and group exhibitions by emerging artists who we believe are worthy of critical attention.

Artists are encouraged to see their exhibitions as an opportunity to extend the boundaries of their practice in innovative ways.

Artists we have worked with in depth include James Brooks (David Roberts collection), Adam King (Saatchi collection, Celeste Painting Prize), Jost Muenster (John Moores, Artfutures, Celeste Painting Prize), Laure Prouvost (Frame solo presentation at Frieze 2010, East International winner 2010, Bloomberg New Contemporaries), Greg Rook (David Roberts collection and exhibition) and Sinta Tantra (UK National Government collection).

Monika Bobinska is a graduate of Cambridge University, and has worked in the fields of comedy, theatre and visual arts. She is currently an Axis MA Stars selector.

Our presentation for London Art Fair 2011 is a curated exhibition - The Badlands.

In Close Succession

2010-12-22T18:38:00.000Z

Saturday 8^th January-Saturday 19^th February

10am-6pm, Monday-Saturday, free entry
A group exhibition of animated moving image work by Alice Bouttell, Trisha McCrae, Alex Pearl, Tom Wiles, and Simon Woolham.
The exhibition title refers both to the method of animating still frames, and to the thematic concerns in many of the works, namely using unconventional narrative structures, and the process of associating and archiving memory.

Alex Pearl & Annabel Dover NEW SHOW!!!!!!!!!

2010-11-10T17:14:00.000Z

New Show

2010-11-08T13:55:00.001Z

I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other

2010-09-13T14:04:00.005+01:00

My next solo show at TAP Southend possibly the longest title ever. (A boyish dream perhaps) It opens on 18th November for a month. Here is the title.

I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!

UnSpooling - Artists & Cinema

2010-08-27T16:53:00.003+01:00

From Sat 2 October to Sun 9 January 2011

GALLERIES 2 & 3

A series of fly-posters reconstructing Jean-Luc Godard’s infamous long take from Weekend;a remix of Stanley Kubrick’ s 2001: A Space Odyssey and a guerrilla-style re-enactment of Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice are just some of the things art lovers and cinema-goers alike may encounter as they explore the work of 20 artists dispersed throughout Cornerhouse and beyond this Autumn.

Celebrating 25 years of Cornerhouse and produced as part of AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival, curators Andrew Bracey and Dave Griffiths present UnSpooling – Artists & Cinema, a large and ambitious group exhibition that straddles two giant bodies of reference – art and cinema – showing 20 international artists.

Artists

Alex Pearl, Ben Gwilliam & Matt Wand, Benedict Drew, Cartune Xprez, David Claerbout, Elizabeth McAlpine, Gebhard Sengmüller, Greg Pope, Harald Smykla, Juhana Moisander, Kerry Laitala, Mario Rossi, Michaël Borremans, Ming Wong, Roman Kirschner, Sally Golding, Sheena Macrae, Stefan Zeyen, Wayne Lloyd

Curators

Andrew Bracey, Dave Griffith

Pearlville

2010-07-31T16:27:00.002+01:00

Tomorrow I am off to Manchester for a Production residency at Islington Mill Salford. The resulting work Pearlville will be shown at the Cornerhouse as part of Unspooling - artists and cinema, curated by David Griffiths and Andrew Bracey in October. A blog following my progress can be read at www.pearlville.blogspot.com

2010-07-08T19:16:00.001+01:00

One Minute Volume 4, Fri. 4th of June at the Meinblau, Berlin

2010-05-30T08:55:00.000+01:00

One Minute Volume 4, Fri. 4th of June at the Meinblau, Berlin

a programme of artists moving image curated by Kerry Baldry

This touring programme is the forth in the series, an eclectic range of moving image with formats such as 16mm film, Super 8, video, stopframe animation, superimposition, all constrained by a time limit of one minute.

One Minute Volume 4 includes work by:
Katharine Meynell, Jonathan Moss, Eva Rudlinger, Chris Meigh Andrews, Martin Pickles, Gordon Dawson, Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson, Tony Hill, Laure Prouvost, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker, Kerry Baldry, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Anahita Razmi, Kate Jessop, Bob Levene, Erica Scourti, Elizabeth Hobbs, Liam Wells, Claire Morales, Michael Cousin, Tina Keane,Virginia Hilyard, Riccardo Iacono, Fil Ieropoulos, Marty St. James , James Snazell, Stuart Pound, Richard Tuohy, Simon Payne, Tansy Spinks, Louisa Minkin, Zhel Vukicevic, Leister/Harris, Nicki Rolls, Nick Herbert, Daniela Butsch, Michael Szpakowski, David Kefford, Cate Elwes.

Fri June 4th, Meinblau, Pfefferberg

doors open at 8pm, screening starts at 9pm

please be on time

Launch 6

2010-05-17T09:21:00.001+01:00

Launch 1

2010-05-12T09:03:00.001+01:00

Meleager's Garland

2010-05-10T09:16:00.001+01:00

Field Broadcast

2010-05-08T11:04:00.000+01:00

PROJECKT presents Field Broadcast as part of Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents www.fieldbroadcast.org

A series of live broadcasts direct to your computer desktop May 8 - 16 2010

9 Days 33 Fields 33 Artists

To access Field Broadcast visit www.fieldbroadcast.org and click 'download viewer' to install the Field Broadcast application

Field Broadcast enables artists to stream new work live from a remote location; a broadcast that is literally from a field to your computer via a desktop application. All works, whether video, animation, performance, sculpture or live data will be created in the field with no editing or post-production. Each broadcast will be viewed by a dispersed international audience, at office desks, in cafes, on trains and at kitchen tables. Once you have installed the viewer each broadcast will arrive directly to your computer desktop.

Broadcasts from: Bram Thomas Arnold, Ed Atkins, Dave Ball and Oliver Walker, Christopher Bassford and Jonathan Ryall, Richard Bevan, Sara Bjarland, Martin John Callanan, Susan Collins, Dan Coopey, Alexander Costello, David Cotterrell, Michael Cousin, Juan Cruz, Sean Edwards, Simon Faithfull, Florencia Guillen, Hamilton, Southern and St Armand, Toby Huddlestone and Sarah Jane Parton, Fritha Jenkins, David Kefford, Olivier Leger, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, Neil Luck, Revati Mann, Elizabeth McTernan, Alex Pearl, Eric Rosoman, Jennie Savage, Rob Smith, Dan Walwin, Ian Whittlesea, Luke Williams, Laura Wilson

Field Broadcast is presented as part of Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents, a Field Broadcast bell will ring in Wysing’s gallery to mark the start of each new broadcast and there will be a special live screening at Wysing on the 16 May, for further details visit www.wysingartscentre.org

Field Broadcast is curated by Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith. PROJECKT was established on the 1 January 2009. Through curatorial experimentation it provides new and innovative contexts for contemporary artists and practices. www.projeckt.org.uk

For further information please contact field@fieldbroadcast.org / Tel: 07719 976830

One Minute Volume 4

2010-05-05T09:52:00.001+01:00

Hope you can come along to:
One Minute (volume 4) which will preview tomorrow (Thursday 6th)at Moors Bar, 57 Park Road, Crouch End, London, N8 8SY
Doors open at 6.30pmScreening starts at 7pm
One Minute volume 4 will also screen continuously at Moors Bar as part of the Crouch End Open Studios during the weekend of 8th and 9th May from 11am – 9pm
One Minute Volume 4 includes work by: Katharine Maynell, Jonathan Moss, Eva Rudlinger, Chris Meigh Andrews, Martin Pickles, Gordon Dawson, Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson, Tony Hill, Laure Prouvost, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker, Kerry Baldry, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Anahita Razmi, Kate Jessop, Bob Levene, Erica Scourti, Elizabeth Hobbs, Liam Wells, Claire Morales, Michael Cousin, Tina Keane,Virginia Hilyard, Riccardo Iacono, Fil Ieropoulos, Marty St. James , James Snazell, Stuart Pound, Richard Tuohy, Simon Payne, Tansy Spinks, Louisa Minkin, Zhel Vukicevic, Leister/Harris, Nicki Rolls, Nick Herbert, Daniela Butsch, Michael Szpakowski, David Kefford, Cate Elwes.

Arty

2010-04-04T21:46:00.001+01:00

The new "Arty" is out info at:
http://www.artymagazine.com/pages/arty27.htm

Arty 27: spring / summer 2010
Magic / k

'As I began to put together this issue of Arty I found Magic gradually segueing into Magick with the stage tricks of the professional magician moving into the sinister bedevilment of Aleister Crowley and the often-reactionary mysticism of folklore. Then with a tap of my magic wand and an abracadabra I pulled together a series of contrasting ideas and images to provide some personal takes on this subject. And so I have pleasure in presenting to you the charmingly illogical game of Situationist Poker (Francis Farmer) set out alongside the Victorian illusion known as Pepper’s Ghost (Alex Pearl) and an embroidery of a folklore-ish fishing cat based on an image of the model Devon Aoki (Emma Duggan).'
Cathy Lomax

Cosmic Mysteries II

2010-02-23T15:44:00.001Z

Cosmic Mysteries, curated by Monika Bobinska is now on at the Gallery Espacio, Valencia
http://lounge-gallery.com/displayProj.php?id=38&type=1&mode=1

Location:Valencia

Quiet Voices

2010-01-07T19:08:00.000Z

Come to the "Late at Tate" event 8th Jan at 18:30. One of my films is screening at 19:30 hurrah

-- posted abroad

Cosmic Mysteries

2009-12-13T17:12:00.002Z

Monika Bobinska gallery is delighted to present Cosmic Mysteries at London Art Fair (12-17 January 2010) and Gallery Espacio Valencia (19 February-10 March 2010.

Cosmic Mysteries touches on the great existential mysteries - life beyond planet earth, dark matter, dark energy, the multiverse - through the haunting and often humorous filter of the practices of five original and compelling artists.
Alistair McClymont (MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art) will create a tornado installation (described by The Guardian as 'a piece of metereological magic') at London Art Fair. McClymont's diverse practice often sets out to investigate the romanticism with which contemporary cultural products have been invested, and incorporates drawings, videos, photographic work and installations.

Adam King, whose 'Pandamonium' installation for the WWF was recently featured in the windows of Selfridges, collects and appropriates objects and images which are then reconfigured to create strange and ambiguous forms and landscapes. His richly worked, yet 'low fi' collages are influenced by the 17th century age of discovery, and the creation of wonder chambers as a repository for the exotic and the strange.

Laura Morrison, who was selected for both Bloomberg Contemporaries and ARTfutures, considers the powerful and seductive techniques of visual language, and uses painting and sculpture to explore the resemblance of art making to the exercise of religious belief.

Alex Pearl's 'stargazer' films and projections attempt to recreate the feeling of staring into the night sky, and the sense of nostalgic wonderment it gives. His 'spaceship' drawings, films and small sculptures derive from his love of TV science fiction and the 'starview' - the screen shaped image of the cosmos as seen from the bridge of a TV spaceship.

Laure Prouvost's surreal fantasy world is both richly imaginative and outrageously implausible. Her complex works, spanning video, installation, sound and painting, draw us irrevocably into their confused illogical universe. Prouvost won East International this year, and her work will be featured in Art Now at Tate Britain in March 2010.

Cosmic Mysteries begins life at London Art Fair, and will then tour to Gallery Espacio, Valencia. Adam King is represented by Pippy Houldsworth and Alistair McClymont by Wyer Gallery.

For more information or images, please contact Monika Bobinska on 0786 606 3663.

www.monikabobinska.com
mail@monikabobinska.com

NEWS
The gallery is currently relocating to London E8 and will reopen in 2010
Correspondence can be sent to 242 Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9DA

2009-12-11T10:05:00.000Z

http://monstertruck.ie
The Monster Truck Holiday show featuring multiples by me will have its opening this Friday 11th, December 6-8pmish. It then continues on December 14-22nd.

-- posted abroad

One Minute vol 3

2009-11-26T21:24:00.001Z

I'm in this and it will be screening in the Merrion centre Leeds as part of 'Art in Unusual Places'

-- posted abroad

2009-10-27T15:34:00.001Z

Click to enlarge, The image is from the Black Flag Game and is by The Colins Movement

S Mark Gubb write a lovely review

2009-10-26T20:45:00.003Z

S Mark Gubb wrote a lovely review in AN of Mike Cousin's For Sale Baby Shoes Never Worn at g39, Cardiff

Click on image to enlarge

The Logos is Common

2009-10-19T19:20:00.004+01:00

The Logos is Common
Alex Pearl, Richard Peel, Rob Smith

7th November -12th December
Open Friday - Sunday 12noon - 5pm

www.thegreatcentral.org

Don't miss the London leg of this great show (I'm in it)

2009-08-24T16:04:00.001+01:00

Images from Monstertruck Gallery

2009-08-23T20:34:00.002+01:00

You can just see my "Incidents at Sea" in the lovely Multiples Cabinet at Monster Truck Gallery Dublin

New Blog

2009-07-18T18:21:00.003+01:00

Read my new blog detailing my experiences as I prepare for next year's Whitstable Biennale

Multiples

2009-07-10T11:20:00.001+01:00

A limited edition of 25 'Incidents at Sea' can be bought at Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin.

TEN TAILS

2009-06-21T10:16:00.004+01:00

Book launch:
Thursday June 11, 2009 at 8.00 pm
Útúrdúr The Living Art Museum, Laugavegi 26 (Grettisgötumegin), 101
Reykjavík, Iceland.
Friday June 19, 2009 at 8.00 pm
The ANNUALE, Embassy gallery, held at The Bowery, 2 Roxburgh Place,
Edinburgh, EH8 8EB, Scotland.
Ten Tails is a DVD-R publication that showcases works by artists from Iceland,
England and Scotland; collected by Kristin Dagmar. The publication sets itself to
explore the boundaries and potentials of the book as an artistic medium with
consideration to both historical and theoretical formation of the form. Ten Tails is
published in association with Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and Center for
Icelandic Art.
Artists include Unnar Örn J. Auðarson (Iceland), Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (Iceland),
Sandy Christie (Scotland), Alasdair Gray (Scotland), Stuart Kolakovic (England),
Magnús Pálsson (Iceland), Alex Pearl (England), and artists’ books of Dieter Roth
from the collection of The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Katy Dove (Scotland) &
Simon Yuill (England).

The end of the review

2009-05-16T18:32:00.002+01:00

I got a lovely mention in this review in art monthly for my part in Ian Brown's "Trying to Cope with Things that aren't Human"

Goodbye to most of the daydreams in the Guardian

2009-04-18T17:13:00.002+01:00

Goodbye to most of the daydreams

2009-04-04T19:57:00.005+01:00

My solo show opens at BCA Gallery, Bedford at 12pm 11th April please come along.

More inhuman things

2009-03-19T13:43:00.003Z

Come to the opening of the second leg of Trying to Cope with Things that aren't Human at airspace, Stoke-on-Trent. I'll be there if I can drive fast enough.

New Show opens this Weekend

2009-03-09T19:46:00.003Z

Alex Pearl & Andrew Vass

2009-02-18T20:20:00.005Z

A local show full of new work please come along for a look.

its here

Trying to cope with things that aren't human

2009-01-03T21:33:00.004Z

http://www.thingsthatarenthuman.com/

January

2008-12-09T19:39:00.003Z

Two shows opening in January.
Animated curated by Lotte Juul Petersen at Wysing Arts Centre opens on the 17th - I'll be showing a number of films and sculptures.

Then I'm off to San Francisco to make some Automatic films at David Cunningham Projects as part of Trying to Cope with Things that aren't Human curated by Ian Brown.

Upcoming in December

2008-11-15T13:36:00.003Z

I'm showing different Stargazer films at the member's show at Outpost and online for Refutation.
The Members Show opens on 1st December and will include the first screening of Stargazer 1 and the specially commissioned Small Stargazer will be premiered at Refutation's launch event on 3rd December in Islington. It will be subsequently available for download online.

Stargazer from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

'Stargazer' showing at Reading Experimental Film Festival

2008-10-16T10:18:00.003+01:00

Stargazer 5 from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

From the Picturesque to the Demolished

2008-09-16T11:35:00.005+01:00

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From the Picturesque to the Demolished

Video and performance art event to highlight the illegal demolition of Angel Cottage
The Railway Tavern Hotel
131 Angel Lane, E15 London
(5 min from Stratford Tube Station)
Saturday September 27th, 6:30-10pm

Simon Boudvin, El Vonne Brown, cack-u-like, Lee Campbell, David Critchley, Janet Dooner, Tom Ellis, Friends of Angel Cottage (Gerri Grogan), Julika Gittner, Lee Holden, Adrian Holme, Alex Ingram, Daniel Lehan, Dan Marmot, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Victoria Melody, London Particular (Ben Seymour, David Panos), Alex Pearl, Albert Potrony, John Smith, Prisca Thielmann, William Titley, Jonathan Trayner, Tom Woolner

The evening event will include works by video and performance artists and architects relating to themes of destruction, political protest or regeneration raised by the illegal demolition of Angel Cottage. The event will also feature speeches by local residents and activists who have supported the reconstruction of one of the oldest surviving buildings in Stratford .

Despite its protected status, the Georgian Grade II listed Angel Cottage in Windmill Lane was demolished under the cover of plastic sheeting in November last year. The 1826 Georgian cottage had been sold at auction for £400,000 and stood opposite the Olympic site and the new Stratford City development on some of the most valuable development land in London . The illegal demolition was discovered by outraged local residents who demanded an investigation of the case by both the council and English Heritage.

The local council has subsequently prosecuted the owner and served an enforcement notice to have the building reinstated brick by brick at the owner’s expense. Architects are currently trying to reconstruct the building from old photographs.

The curators acknowledge the support of the Railway Tavern Hotel, whose staff and customers have been vocal in their support for the rebuilding of the Cottage.

Group Shows & a new ltd edition Postcard

2008-08-14T14:52:00.005+01:00

I currently have work in selected group shows at Studio Voltaire, London and Surface Gallery, Nottingham. This limited edition DIY Stargazer postcard is in neither.

Persistence of Vision

2008-07-24T13:51:00.002+01:00

1st - 28th August
As part of Leicester City Gallery's Offsite programme. I will be showing 3 Automatic Films at the Phoenix Arts Centre.

Automatic Film II - sideshow from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

PHOENIX 21 Upper Brown Street Leicester LE1 5TE

Mon to Sat: 12pm until 10 mins after the last film ends

www.phoenix.org.uk

Stargazer

2008-06-26T20:36:00.001+01:00

Stargazer from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

I am currently making work about the act of staring at the stars. This piece is made with drawings on a turntable. The sound is taken from Greg Fox's "Carmen of the Spheres" (creative commons license) Made using some sort of mathematical method based upon the orbits of the planets in our solar system

Sizemology

2008-06-06T15:57:00.003+01:00

Little Death 2 and Protest St Petersburg will be screened on the BBC Big screen
Clayton Square, Liverpool from Friday 13th June – Thursday 26th June 2008, daily at 12.00, 14,00, 16.00, 19.00 and 21.00.

Little Death 2 (excerpt) from Alex Pearl on Vimeo.

New Website

2008-05-25T09:49:00.003+01:00

My new website has gone live. The excitingly titled www.alexpearl.co.uk is still in a state of flux but I am notoriously impatient. This and my other blogs will continue as news feeds and testing areas.

Little Deaths - Review

2008-05-15T21:13:00.002+01:00

Read a review of my solo show at the Salt Gallery, Hayle (if you want to)

Published

2008-05-13T21:47:00.004+01:00

Here is a new magic trick video based on one performed by my mum. Also I have a couple of small pieces in Transition Gallery magazine Garageland.

Little Deaths at The Salt Gallery

2008-04-25T13:10:00.007+01:00

Little Deaths, a solo show is now open for two months at The Salt Gallery, Hayle

There & Then

2008-04-18T16:13:00.005+01:00

New works from the Automatic Film making Project are appearing as part of There & Then at Airspace Stoke on Trent.

First Ice

2008-04-01T13:55:00.002+01:00

A film mostly made under a table in Bedford

The Black Flag Game

2008-02-24T17:47:00.004Z

A film made with a simple scrolling machine. Also The Black Flag Game has been launched on Facebook follow link to join in

South Pole Explorer

2008-02-09T11:58:00.001Z

One of a trio of associated films made at BCA Gallery after everyone has gone home.

Residency at BCA Gallery

2008-01-29T13:47:00.000Z

I'm nearly a month into a 3 month residency at BCA Gallery in Bedford. I'm concentrating hard on making a series of films and objects exploring the idea of an imaginary journey to the Antarctic. The films are all made in Bedford, mostly in the studio, and often under my table. There is also an online journal on the AN website and my other blog http://ajpjournals.blogspot.com/ . This will later be published as a limited edition book.

Click here to see a clip of film made by my aurora machine

First Ice

2007-11-02T16:15:00.000Z

This is the beginnings of some new films,books and sculptures based around a fictive proposal not to go to the Antarctic (as I imagine its quite cold and probably full of artists). PLAY

RSVP preview

2007-09-22T20:28:00.000+01:00

Here are a few installation shots of Portrait and a preview of one of the videos showing from Friday 28th at the Foundling Museum, London (two minutes walk from Russell Square tube).

RSVP

2007-09-05T20:14:00.000+01:00

This show will soon be opening in London. To read my diary about the trials and tribulations of a foundling artist click here

Here is a newish surveillance based video which is meant to be viewed on a loop causing narrative disruption

Throw & Catch

2007-08-08T16:54:00.000+01:00

A split screen version of a trick with an invisible ball performed by my dad (and Eric Morcambe) It was designed to be viewed on two screens at opposite sides of a room. Play

Magic Tricks

2007-07-07T20:36:00.000+01:00

I've been commissioned by Commissions East (makes sense) to make some work to be sited in the Foundling Museum in London. I'm writing another blog on the artist's newsletter site
about the details, trials and tribulations. Anyway heres a film that doesn't look like it will make it. Its based on one of the magic tricks I remember from when I was a child.
PLAY

New durational sculptures

2007-06-01T13:20:00.000+01:00

An offshoot of the little death videos, I am starting to make a number of sculptures that are designed to be used and at least partly destroyed. They will soon be appearing as part of Demolition a new show at Site in Liverpool's Albert Dock.

A life - Bury St Edmunds

2007-05-26T20:24:00.001+01:00

I've just completed a residency at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, I've produced three films, a book and 5 comics. This one involved the least effort. play

Joking Aside

2007-04-14T10:44:00.000+01:00

A new show - Joking Aside - is opening at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery on 5th May - 16th June. Its connected with the Bury festival for which I am also going to be artist in residence. For the residency I'm going to be making a series of films based on people's bad thoughts. These are going to be collected from strategically placed ballot boxes. The resulting films will be on show in the art gallery and on this blog throughout the residency. The show at Bury will include a series of little deaths and a new video lenticular card I am having made. (pictured left)

Little Death 4

2007-02-06T13:16:00.000Z

Little Death 4 was filmed using 30 matches a slide viewer and a recording from a town high street. It comes with a number of bystander films which concentrate on the experiences of single matches. Click on the picture for a quicktime movie or on this link for Utube

Little deaths 2

2006-11-28T20:06:00.000Z

Two little tests for a longer series of little deaths using alka seltzer tablets. play

Little Deaths (working title) with sound

2006-11-21T16:42:00.000Z

Click play to see two of a series of a hundred new films I am currently working on. Now with sound

Found films

2006-11-20T14:39:00.000Z

I have started a new series of films using footage found either in the background of other pieces or tucked away on old dv tapes. They are very simple quiet little films (mostly). Play

Upcoming Screening

Castlefield Gallery PureScreen #16: Beta Test

08 December 2006 (18:00 - 20:00)

Featuring artists: Samantha Donnelly, Monika Dutta, George Drivas, Karen Guthrie, Eleanor Morgan, Alex Pearl, Kelly Richardson, Tom Schón, Antti Tanttu, Samuael Topiary & EE Miller, Patricia Walsh.

The selection of works, drawn together from the PureScreen open submission call, examines the various ways that artists engage with ideas of action and performance. The content and production methods of the films vary: from use of hand drawn and abstract animation techniques; to cinematic devices used to animate the inanimate; to more ‘traditional’ cinematic aesthetics and ideas, which serve to highlight the avant-garde and experimental.

A wide range of cultural, historical and political references, are deployed in exploring the tensions between action, performance and the audience. Some of the films explore behaviours derived from emotional reactions or situations, while others adopt a more formal approach, with ideas borrowed from performance history and contemporary dance.

PROGRAMME:

1. Marmairein Samantha Donnelly / Manchester, UK / 3’ 04”

2. 6 Goats Monika Dutta / Aberdeenshire, UK / 1’ 30”

3. Beta Test George Drivas / Athens, Greece / 12’ 40”

4. Welcome To Karen Guthrie / Cumbria, UK / 5’

5. Sticky Things Eleanor Morgan / London, UK / 4’

6. Dance Alex Pearl / Melton, UK / 1’

7. Automatic Film 1 Alex Pearl / Melton, UK / 4’ 30”

8. The Sequel Kelly Richardson / Gateshead, UK / 1’ 09”

9. Heimatfilm Tom Schón / Braunschweig, Germany / 2’ 40”

10. Solitude Antti Tanttu / Helsinki, Finland / 4’

11. Gum & Tea Samuael Topiary & EE Miller / New York, USA / 4’ 30”

12. Breath Patricia Walsh / Lancaster, UK / 5’ 55”

Bureau Gallery, Ground Floor, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 5HW. Bus stop on nearby Chapel Street. Buses from Piccadilly: X34, 36, 37, 12, 26.

PureScreen is Castlefield Gallery’s screening event for artist’s film and video. Curated from open submissions, the programme provides a platform for outstanding recent work and aims to support new and emerging practitioners.

For further info or to join the mailing list please contact: Sophia Crilly, e: purescreen@castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Or visit: www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/Purescreen.asp , for programme details and to download PureScreen: Film & Video Artists Information Pack.

PureScreen is supported by Arts Council England.

Dream for the invisible girl

2006-10-10T18:55:00.000+01:00

A two minute dream sequence for the invisible girl. Its made from some old magic lantern slides and a music box found in a barn. Play

Study for the invisible girl (again)

2006-10-04T19:34:00.000+01:00

Yet another piece for the invisible girl project. play

Other news & upcoming shows
Current
60 seconds of Play GET THIS! GALLERY, Atlanta USA

Upcoming
Hun gallery International, Hun Gallery, New York (17th Nov)
Purescreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (screenings)
Explore, Aspex Gallery off site projects, Portsmouth Screen06, Portsmouth (solo screening) (11th Nov)
Tulca, Visual Arts festival, Galway (group exhibition in which my work will be available to mobile phones) (From 3rd Nov)
Norwich International Animation Festival, Norwich (18th-21st Oct)

Study for the invisible girl

2006-09-12T19:49:00.000+01:00

Plans are a foot for some sort of multi-screen projection of invisible girl films. This is a little sketch of one of the ideas. Play

untitled (smile)

2006-09-03T17:04:00.000+01:00

A wind powered flick book with no pictures. play

Untitled (song)

2006-07-18T17:12:00.000+01:00

Play. Another longer film (seven minutes). I have a bit more time at the moment and I am revisiting some earlier pieces. Here is the version with updated sound (if it seems the same as before, try refreshing your page).

Study for the invisible girl

2006-07-17T22:30:00.000+01:00

play. Another study for The Invisible Girl. It is five minutes long so it might take a while to load.

The Invisible Girl (sketch)

2006-06-08T22:42:00.000+01:00

This is a sketch for a new project based on a nineteenth century freakshow. play

New Blog

2006-06-02T23:10:00.000+01:00

I have started a new blog purely for my Clockwork protests. It is intended that this will become an ongoing project to which anybody can contribute by asking for a kit and film their own protest on video, using a digital camera or on their mobile. Films can then be sent back to me for editing and exhibition. I am applying for Arts Council unding so hopfully I will be able to pay expenses. If you want to go to the Protest blog click here or on the picture

Protest Film - St Petersburg, 2006

2006-05-22T22:39:00.000+01:00

This is the second of a series of films in which a small clockwork protest will be made in a variety of locations around the world. It is intended that eventually a kit containing a clockwork protester and placards will be passed from person to person around the globe and that the resulting films will be sent back to me for screening, This film was edited from footage collected in St Petersburg, Russia. If anyone fancies having a go, drop me a line & I will send you a kit & instructions. play

Smile, 2006

2006-05-14T23:06:00.000+01:00

An automated drawing. I have become mildly interested in the smile. It is an incredibly simple but subtle visual sign :) click

Untitled (crawl), 2006

2006-05-11T22:23:00.000+01:00

Another short from the Sideshow residency. Other news, Drawing Links show about to open at International3 gallery Manchester and other work in Streaming Festival {the Hague} and Pixeldance, Greece. Also if you have trouble down loading from this site try Youtube and do a search for Rotagavin. Click to play.

untitled, 2006

2006-05-06T22:54:00.000+01:00

Another sketch from Sideshow. This is one of a number of ornithopters made for the main films but they never featured (or flew)

Untitled (burden), 2006

2006-05-04T22:08:00.000+01:00

One of many tiny films made alongside the main works for Sideshow, Nottingham click to play.
Ps. I have a new site with the Saatchi

Smile, 2006

2006-04-30T18:23:00.000+01:00

My latest piece is my first flash movie click to play

Clockwork Films 2006

2006-01-17T19:50:00.000Z

Clockwork, 2006, This one could be looked at as some sort of Darwinian experiment. I have also been accused of cruelty
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Another clockwork doodle, this one stems from my attempts to build some flying machines for a residency in Nottingham. click to play

Walk is a clockwork doodle which recalls images of the struggling hero.
click to play

Small Brown Case, 2005

2006-01-14T22:43:00.000Z

This film documents three things to do with a small brown case. It should have been 101 but I could only think of three. I was feeling rather misanthropic at the time and I think the film reflects this.
click to play

Time Machine 1

2006-01-08T20:28:00.000Z

Another time machine, this one is made from three motors and an old desk accessory. It generates random dates or, quite scarily, no date at all.
click to play

Now, 2005

2006-01-07T11:35:00.000Z

This is one of a series of time machines made for a recent installation in Ipswich, this one really works (more to follow soon.)
click to play

Machine, 2005

2006-01-03T18:36:00.000Z

Machine is a film from a tv installation of 'time machines'. It charts the artist's mood over time, misery and despair predominate.
Click to play

Dancers, 2004

2006-01-02T10:55:00.000Z

A partner piece to Dance.
Click to play

Wasted, 2005

2006-01-01T11:42:00.000Z

Much of my work uses lost & found objects and throwaway ideas. Mainly this is because I am cheap.
Recently I have become interested in old, and bad jokes, which because of overuse or shoddy manufacture have become a waste material of sorts. For this piece I made a series of short videos using models, joke telling machines and a sort of stand up routine filmed in a hotel room in Amsterdam.

This is showing in Ipswich on a huge scale at the moment check out this link for details Click Here

How to Dance

2005-12-30T15:12:00.000Z

Play Film
How to Dance - instructional video in several parts
Dancing has always held a strange and fearful position in my life. I can see joy and freedom in it, but have only ever experienced sweat and embarrassment. In a desperate attempt at self help I came up with the idea of interviewing people to get advice on how to dance and then making a sort of instructional self help video in several parts. Each film takes either a personal account of, or freely given advice on, the art of dancing. Each section is made by rehabilitating a forgotten, lost or broken object and giving it a chance. Different levels of control exist in the making of the films. A broken clockwork frog is bullied into performing through the use of editing. A dancing balsawood man looks like a puppet but is really a completely free willed automaton. An insect appears uncontrolled but is in fact carefully choreographed by the breath of the artist’s beautiful assistant. Like most self help videos I intend to completely ignore all advice given.

Sing, 2005

2005-12-27T13:07:00.000Z

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rotagavin

S1 Salon

Cress Goes on Tour!

November Pavillions

Artists Talking Event at Peckham Space

The Next Count

Creative Machines / Minamalist Sculpture

Pulp Fictions

Installation shots

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Two shows

New show

The Count of Monte Cristo (Island of True Stories)

Fri 01 Apr - Sun 15 May, FREE

Time is Love.4 [show 2]

The Badlands

In Close Succession

Saturday 8th January-Saturday 19th February

Alex Pearl & Annabel Dover NEW SHOW!!!!!!!!!

New Show

I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other

UnSpooling - Artists & Cinema

GALLERIES 2 & 3

Artists

Curators

Pearlville

One Minute Volume 4, Fri. 4th of June at the Meinblau, Berlin

Launch 6

Launch 1

Meleager's Garland

Field Broadcast

One Minute Volume 4

Arty

Cosmic Mysteries II

Quiet Voices

Cosmic Mysteries

One Minute vol 3

S Mark Gubb write a lovely review

The Logos is Common

Don't miss the London leg of this great show (I'm in it)

Images from Monstertruck Gallery

New Blog

Multiples

TEN TAILS

The end of the review

Goodbye to most of the daydreams in the Guardian

Goodbye to most of the daydreams

More inhuman things

New Show opens this Weekend

Alex Pearl & Andrew Vass

Trying to cope with things that aren't human

January

Upcoming in December

'Stargazer' showing at Reading Experimental Film Festival

From the Picturesque to the Demolished

Group Shows & a new ltd edition Postcard

Persistence of Vision

Stargazer

Sizemology

New Website

Little Deaths - Review

Published

Little Deaths at The Salt Gallery

There & Then

First Ice

The Black Flag Game

South Pole Explorer

Residency at BCA Gallery

First Ice

RSVP preview

RSVP

Throw & Catch

Magic Tricks

New durational sculptures

A life - Bury St Edmunds

Joking Aside

Little Death 4

Little deaths 2

Little Deaths (working title) with sound

Found films

Saturday 8^th January-Saturday 19^th February