electric angel /design for life

genius loci

our new exhibition in the tiny gallery space is work by students from the yorkshire coast schools creative & media diploma – they’re in the first year of the diploma also studying GCSE’s, so 14 years old. there’s some astonishing work on display – a fabulous dubstep music video that takes ‘scarborough fair’ as its starting point, some witty model-making and this piece by lucy fletcher which particularly caught our imagination. photographing family photos in the place they were originally taken so they become part of the landscape, it’s a great idea, beautifully realised – we’re excited to have lucy on work experience with us this week.

more pics of the exhibition can be found on the tiny gallery website. it runs until 24th of february, do call in for a look.

northerly

we had a great opening night for james’s exhibition on friday – success is usually judged by the amount of drink we get through and we had to wash glasses several times which i think was a first. the exhibition of sea photography taken in scarborough runs until november, we’re open weekdays 10-5 and we’ll be open the weekend of the national pro-surf tour next month as part of the programme of cultural events. prints are on sale at £15- £25.

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northerly – you’re invited

we’ve had some exhibitions that have meant a lot to us in our tiny gallery since opening in february 2010. but even by our standards, this one is going to be rather special…

if you’re reading this, please do feel invited to come along. the exhibition will continue through to november and is part of the arts programme put together by coastival for the UK pro surf tour which comes to scarborough next month.

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little acrobats

our tiny gallery is currently playing host to these little acrobats, the result of a workshop led at st martins primary school by rebecca and artist rachel welford. they were inspired by the three sculptures by bob tuffin we’re continuing to exhibit in the trees outside our studio. more little acrobat pics over on the gallery website.

the little acrobats will be around for about another week before we prepare for an exhibition as part of the uk pro surf tour which hits scarborough in october. more on that rather special exhibition very soon…

RSVP

we spent today working in the studio with pupils from scalby school as part of scarborough museums trust’s ‘RSVP’ day.

pupils from 4 local schools started the day at scarborough art gallery with a quick introduction to ‘bathers in sunlight’, a painting by zdzislaw ruszkowski. they then split into groups to work with a creative of their choice to produce work in response. rather than get bogged down with computers, we took a hands-on approach and created a design in our gallery windows hand-cut from vinyl. well done to john, adam, michael, nathan, james and luke who had no idea what they’d be doing until they arrived and took in their stride a breakneck journey from fine art via design processes to cutting and applying vinyl all within a tight timescale.

we’re hoping to be having a similarly enjoyable time working st. martin’s school pupils next week, responding to bob tuffin’s wire sculptures that we’re currently exhibiting in the trees outside our studio.

everyone’s an acrobat

this acrobat and two of his chums, the creations of bob tuffin, are currently hanging in the trees outside our studio/gallery. they were installed for coastival and we hope to keep them up over spring and into summer if possible.

photograph by james.

winter waves

‘winter waves’ is the current exhibition in our tiny gallery. it’s a collection of hand-made screen prints by custard4gravy aka andy mitchell. and they’re very modestly priced to make perfect christmas presents for the art lovers in your life.

do call in and have a look – they really are fabulous, or if you can’t make it down to us, visit www.electricangelgallery.co.uk where you see some more pics, read a bit more about andy and buy prints. there’s still time to get them posted to you for christmas. plus we have a few free ‘winter waves’ prints left in pink or blue (see below) – we’ll be glad to pop one in your order.

andy’s also been painting on our walls and installing some winter waves of his own which have transformed out tiny gallery space into a wonderfully stormy aviary.

gabrielle naptali – resolutions

some photos of the current exhibition in our tiny gallery.

gaby hanging the main piece of the show which is a 1m x 1m ceramic work. ‘resolutions’ is only up for a few more weeks so do call in for a look soon (we’re usually open 9.30-5.00 monday to friday. if you’d like to visit at another time just get in touch.)

porcelain by post

invitation to the opening of ‘resolutions’ by gabrielle naptali which is showing in our tiny gallery until 24th november.

we liked the idea of posting a little piece of potential artwork out as part of the invitation and so these invites were handmade by gaby and ourselves – the card folds to seal in and protect the fragment although we did hear that one piece had escaped in transit. it is probably now crossing britain in the corner of post bag. the porcelain is layered black and white – the same material that the two main pieces in the exhibition are made from and their random broken shape (each is unique) reflects the element of chance that is part of gaby’s current work in ceramics.

freestyle

a superb end to our [tiny] poetry series last night with rapper james koppert. james was honest, funny, angry, political, questioning, self-depreciating, heart-breaking. the evening finished with some freestyling in which james took us from a play on words with ‘electric angel’ to a fly on the gallery wall and out to the yorkshire coastline.

john allsopp was in the audience and took some footage – you can watch it here.

it’s been hugely enjoyable to put our gallery to use as a [tiny] performance venue and the enthusiasm of the poets and audience has been fantastic. question is, what shall we put on next…

thanks to wordsmiths felix, mark, john and james and to all who came. good, good evenings.

btw, you can catch john w clarke performing by the grotto as part of the crescent gardens art trail tomorrow. he’ll be reading for about 20 minutes at 10.30 and 12.00.