Up for Grabs
2 - 12 September 2021
12pm to 5 pm, Thur to Sun
A 2-week exhibition of painting, dance, sculpture and film, including a 3-day open workshop in the gallery space
Artists: Jonathan McCree, Bruce Ingram,
Dancer: Jonathan Goddard and
Designer: Joe Walkling
Up for Grabs
Painting and performance, painting as performance and the performances of paintings. UP FOR GRABS is an experimental research project that builds upon previous collaborations between artists Jonathan McCree and Bruce Ingram, dancer Jonathan Goddard and designer Joe Walkling.
Playful and spontaneous, UP FOR GRABS will work with the unfixed and unpredictable outcomes offered up via collaborative exchanges between artist and audience. Research centres on the idea that we are never separate from that which we observe. We constantly negotiate and construct our experiences by being in and part of the world. By moving within the world we allow the world to move within us. By entwining the elements of dance, painting, sculpture and audience we hope to explore how each is indexed within the other. Each element exists within a reciprocal set of relationships; drawing as a choreographed gesture, performance as material form.
The exhibition will be split into two distinct halves, each exploring the opportunities of collaborative process.
Week one, the artists will be present and working within the gallery, testing the installation of painting, drawing and sculpture and working collaboratively with visitors in an open workshop situation.
Week two will show the results of the collaboration in the large open spaces of the APT gallery. New film, paintings and drawings will share the space with scheduled dance performances.
Participating Artists
Jonathan McCree
Jonathan McCree works with film, installation, painting and sculpture as a record of movement and emotion through space. He pushes the boundaries of what is normally perceived as architecture and demonstrates how experimental practice can help uncover new strategies for exploring spatial ideas and qualities. Materiality and structure are main considerations, giving way to a deeper understanding of the spaces we navigate on a daily basis. He works with traditional notions of architecture but also with the architecture of the body and the mind. With references to the historical, the biographical and the quotidian, McCree’s work reflects a series of moments, the concept of potential, a space where anything can happen. Exploring lived experience in the body, paint, and painting, serves not only as a visual medium, but as a performative one, a study of the physical across space and time. Jonathan lives and works in Southeast London and is represented by Sim Smith.
sim-smith.com | jonathanmcree.com
Joe Walkling
Joe Walkling is a freelance graphic designer and creative. Trained as a dancer, he had a 15-year career performing work by William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Arthur Pita, Cathy Marston and Matthew Bourne among others. He is a founding member of New Movement Collective and was a tutor at The Architectural Association, School of Architecture for their MA/MFA in Spatial Performance and Design. He now runs a creative design studio in East London, specialising in brand and visual identity, film, digital, website and print design.
joewalkling.com
Bruce Ingram
Bruce Ingram’s artwork is born out of an engagement with the everyday and familiar, with the collection and arrangement of found objects providing a starting point for his assembled sculptures and layered paintings, brought together with an eclectic mix of traditional art materials.Through the process of deconstruction and layering, the formal qualities of these shapes and textures provide components for a wider exploration of composition and form. The cyclical nature of his studio process is central in this exploration, with collage and appropriation informing new outcomes and dialogues. Form and surface are concealed through marks and gestures, artworks become a manifestation of personal histories and experiences which remain evident in the works’ rich and layered surfaces. Bruce lives and works in Hastings, East Sussex.
bruceingram.com
Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard is a dance artist, movement director and choreographer who has worked for many major British dance companies including Rambert. He is a founder member of New Movement Collective and has been a tutor at the Architectural Association in London. His most recent work includes The Mother a full evening duet with Natalia Osipova, choreographed by Arthur Pita, which premiered in Edinburgh (2018), Moscow (2019) and at the Southbank Centre London (2019) and Sochi, Russia (2020). Jonathan was nominated for Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award in 2007, Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2008, Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer 2011 and 2012. He has won the Critics' Circle Award for Best Male Dancer twice, in 2008 and 2014, also winning Outstanding Male Performance (modern) in 2014 and 2019. Credits as Movement Director: Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, Beaux Stratagem, As You Like It, Sunset at the Villa Thalia (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Broadway); Timon of Athens, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company). Movement Associate: Matilda (Netflix), West Side Story (Leicester Curve) Dance Associate: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End). His choreographer credits include While You Are Here with director Lily McLeish and Company Chameleon’s Pictures We Make (Linbury Theatre).
jonathangoddard.com