The Lands of the Free?
Drawings: A4. Flag: 115cm x 90 cm. Film: 3 min
In collaboration with Alice Pool, and Charlotte Hayes.
The Notice Board shines a light on current work and international artists. It aims to offer you, the audience, a provocation with its ongoing The Lands of the Free? theme. This show does that with three graduating Fine Art students from across the UK. During Covid their colleges have cancelled their final shows. A significant moment for any art student, it’s a culmination of 3+ years effort to unlearn, relearn, refine and ready yourself for the next stage. This exhibition does not pretend to replace this important point of focus, instead it offers an opportunity for these early career artists to look forward during a unique and strange time. In response to the theme they proposed:
Since Covid 19 our normal everyday lives are being put on hold but somethings have become more noticeable. We hear less cars go past our houses, less traffic, shops, and people that made up noise pollution. The birds tweets become louder to us because they are no longer being drowned out, they’re sound has a new presence in the background of our current lockdown lives. Birds, a lot of the time represent or can be a symbol for being ‘free’ or ‘freedom’. But are they really free in the urban life that humans create (pre-lockdown)? Have birds acclimatised, speaking louder because of noise pollution?
This collaborative response of flag, drawings and film asks us to reflect on our actions to deter birds and their response. The Notice Board also suggests Alice, Charlotte and Sorcha want us to consider not just the assumed freedom of wild creatures but ours too. An imagined thing maybe as we respond to current government restrictions which may or may not alter our behaviours well into the future.
The film can be seen here:
https://alicerosep.wixsite.com/virtualnoticeboard
Sorcha Noble
I am a graduating student from BA(Hons) Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London. In my work I use live forms of recording that produce sound as a response to surface contact and its amplification; ‘hacking’ objects to make sound, drawing on chance and a circuit of processes to activate space. My current practice explores the architectures of collective action, precarity and how space affects what is heard. Using a re-use and re-configuration to talk about the politics of space, architecture and the mapping of acoustic memory and speculative futures. https://sorchanoble.wixsite.com/sochanoble Instagram: @ssorchanobl0
Alice Pool
I am an artist from Sheffield, currently graduating from Sculpture and Environmental arts, at Glasgow School of Art. My current work involves film and animation, using Blender; a software that can generate 3D computer graphics. It is often used to create animated films, visual effects, 3D printed models, and computer games. I make animations about childhood memories and everyday occurrences that I witness. Often other people’s stories or memories play a part in my work, I see them as gifts of inspiration.
https://alicerosep.wixsite.com/alicepool Instagram: alice_pool/
Charlotte Hayes
I am a multi-disciplinary artist from York, and I have just graduated from the Sculpture and Environmental Art course at the Glasgow School of Art. My current practice explores folk ceremonies, such as the Old Govan Fair, which influenced me to begin making flags. I am often drawn to looking at the behaviour of animals in social systems as this can resemble the rituals in ceremonies. I often consider the existence of traditional formalities in the current ‘information age’, such as Dolly the sheep being the modern-day animal sacrifice.
https://charhayes.cargo.site/ Instagram: char__hayes
The Notice Board is a contemporary art project showcasing the work of international artists. Featuring month-long exhibitions curated to the theme: The Lands of the Free? The project aims to connect audiences to the work of diverse artists whilst offering unusual exhibition spaces to artists in the form of this Notice Board and the neighbouring Flagpole.
Current programme of exhibitions for 2020
January/February: February/ March:
March/April: April/May: May/June: June/July: July/August:
Ricki Dwyer & Katy Hawkins – USA/England
Geoff Diego Litherland and Angharad McLaren - England/Mexico/Scotland
Dan Wood - Wales
Mandy Payne – England
International Open Call: Alice White & Cecily Genever-Jones
New Graduates: Alice Pool, Sorcha Noble and Charlotte Hayes
Nisha Keshav
2019 Exhibitions:
For more information: Instagram #noticeboardunited Email: kate@kategenever.com
Kate Genever, Ai Weiwei, Katie Numi-Usher, Pespe, Poly-Technic
A Creative Artists Small Grant Fund from InvestSK supports The Notice Board.
