14 - 17 MARCH

Rachael Bannister | Sikander Pervez | Helen Sharratt | Barabara Witowska | Kia Greengrass | Ali Reed | Abbie Ward

Preview 14 March

[OCCUPIED] is a multi-venue collaborative event opening to the public on the evening of Thursday 14 March 2013 at the Airspace Gallery. This preview is set alongside KHIB's exhibition 'The Site is the Question'. 

Hosted by various venues around Stoke on Trent, the event consists of exhibitions at the Airspace Gallery, the YMCA Sky Room and the Spode Factory. Each exhibition is a response to the space in which they occupy, encompassing a range of artistic approaches; installations, sculpture, photography, video, performance and live painting.

 go to : http://www.occupiedevent.com/ for more info

GRANDFATHER

25 January to 2 February 2013

PRIVATE VIEW 25 January 6 - 9pm

Airspace Gallery is pleased to present Grandfather, the debut solo exhibition of inaugural graduate artist-in-residence Adam Kelly (b. 1989) featuring new work created especially for the show, and previous work.

Kelly is enthused to explore the potential of national identity, developing work across themes such as history and ideologies, and produced ranging across various mediums including painting and sculpture. Throughout the residency, Kelly has been gathering disincentive from Stoke-on-Trent’s noted architecture and urban environments, coupled with memories of post-World War II modernism and its desire for innovation, originality and determination. His characteristically Eurocentric work reveals personal successes and failures to represent nostalgic memories that are both devastating and promising to different communities and individuals.

Within Kelly’s practice, his three-dimensional compositions have an autonomous determination and often exorcising approach that links his oeuvre and research to modernism, re-appraising avant-garde techniques with found items, and constructing new situations to comment on the farcical idea of diaspora.

The exhibition takes its title Grandfather from Kelly’s own paternal and maternal relatives, envisioning changes in nationalism, heritage and culture to contemporary culture whilst examining current issues such as generation gaps from various European countries including the UK and Poland.

Utilising language as a subjective tool for objective goals, Kelly’s works border between the individual and the mass collective, striving to initiate socio-political change. Unlike others practicing today, Kelly’s restrained structure in his work assesses the potential use of the frame and materials, developing within a limitation.

Adam was born in London, England in 1989 and lives and works in Surrey, England. Group exhibitions have included 'Airspace Studio Show 12', Airspace Gallery (2012), 'Milk Money', The Gallery in Redchurch Street and 'Eat My Hat', 10 Gales Gallery (2011). Kelly holds a BA from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Airspace is a contemporary art gallery situated in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and hosts numerous events and exhibitions dedicated to arts and culture for national and international artists, groups and projects.

www.adam-kelly.com

AirSpace Gallery invites you to it’s first exhibition of 2013 and the first graduate residency solo show, exploring the cultural and philosophical relationships with everyday objects, design and environment, with the gallery’s very own artist in residency; Adam Grüning.

The exhibition demonstrates two developments in Grüning’s work and explores, through contemporary art, our modern relationship with objects and space; presenting a dialogue between shopping and creativity, along with his most recent work addressing notions of nature verses culture.

Recently graduating from Staffordshire University this; Grüning’s debut solo exhibition, was made possible through Airspace Gallery’s graduate residency program; a 6-month scheme which offered the opportunity to exhibit, curate and work with practicing artists immediately after graduation.

The exhibition is a showcase of the work Grüning achieved on the residency, as well as presenting the artist’s practice and investigations on a contemporary society.

The exhibition runs from the 11th - 19th January at Airspace Gallery in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, and is free admission to the general public.

Well its that time again... airspacegallery and conjunction partners are pleased to announce the forthcoming conjunction 12 biennial, this year's theme is "The Art of Survival". There is going to be a lot happening this year and opportunities to get involved follow this link to find out more and keep upto date.... www.conjunction.org.uk

"airspace studio show 12" is a snapshot of the work of the current airspace studio artists in the 2012.

The Show opens: Friday 21st September: 7.00pm - 9.00pm- and then runs until the 6th October.

featuring the work of: Behjat Omer Abdulla, David Bethell, Andrew Branscombe, Michael Branthwaite, Anna Francis, Janine Goldsworthy, Adam Grüning, Joyce Iwaszko, Adam Kelly, Kate Lynch, Peter Smith, Glen Stoker

Alongside the exhibition we will be presenting a series of other events during the 3 weeks including:

>>>Click Here to View the Works<<<

AirSpace Gallery presents 'SUMMER SALE' a sale of works produced by airspace's own studio artists and artists from around the region. This is your chance to be able to own contemporary, innovative, high quality and affordable work. By buying a piece of work you will not only be supporting the works of the regions artistic talent but also helping to sustain the future exhibition programme at airspace gallery.

The sale is to be held over four days in July and August, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of July and Friday 3rd and 4th of August, 11am - 5pm. We will be making regular updates to the website and facebook to highlight some of the work that is available.

The July days also coincide with the final weekend of the Piccadilly Summer events, so there will be lots of other things happening that weekend on Piccadilly right next to the gallery. 

We hope you will be able to come and find something you like...