Melanie Stidolph

PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS is an exhibition curated by Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson, exploring contemporary artists’ manifestos and works inspired by the manifesto format. I’m showing a new collaborative work made with Max Catterall, artists include; Dean Kenning, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, Mathieu Beausejour, Clunie Reid, Oona Grimes, Richard Paul, Frank Wasser, Katie Schwab, Jenny Moore, Dominic from Luton, Alice Walton, Tanja Ritterbex, Benedict Drew, Doyle and Mallinson, Shane Bradford, Cedar Lewisohn, Patricia Ellis, Harriet Murray, Neil Taylor, Peter Lamb, Ami Clarke, Sarah Lucas, Leigh Clarke, Jessica Voorsanger, Emma Hart, Melanie Stidolph and Abigail Lane. Touring show, first iteration at AirSpace Gallery in June 2014. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

Very pleased that Except the Mirror, my proposal for a group show has just been accepted for Format Festival 2015: Evidence.  It explores the movement and positioning of objects and found images in relationship to an evidencing and externalizing of artists’ thought. Included artists; Sophie Clements, Annie MacDonell, Tom Lovelace, Richard Paul, Alice Walton and myself.  More information available on the Format Festival – www.formatfestival.com. Evidence will run from 13th March to 12th April 2015 in Derby, UK.

Showed 4 short films on Thursday at the Whitechapel Gallery Open Screening. Recent works including Studio Noises from collaborative series with Max Catterall produced over the summer. Five emerging and established artist filmmakers presented their short film work and discussed it with the audience and Adjunct Film Curator Gareth Evans. Part of quarterly Open Screenings at www.whitechapelgallery.org.

New publication – Photosoup An Imperfect Choice – features new work by existing Photosoup contributors – including Gianni Forte, Carlos Saladén-Vargas and Eti Wade and new artists selected through the ‘early birds’ open call.  I have contributed new work and an introduction – ‘This form of interaction and group presentation that Photo-Soup is interested in pursuing suggests itself as a temporary alongsideness; creating and sustaining connections that enhance collaborative enquiry.’ Purchase hard back or download from photo-soup.org.

New publication – Play Ground 3, produced by Schools and Teachers team, Learning, Tate London and designed by Shining Studio.  My text ‘I wanted the best for you’ stems from my experience as Art School Curator for the Schools and Teachers team.  The text is written around the notion of ‘allowing’ and is informed by and responds to the close working relationship with the artists, the logistics of working in a large institution and the possibility of freedoms to respond directly to the group and the artists’ practice. The publication features texts by artists and curators including Rosanna Mclaughlin, Sam Keogh, Amy McKelvie, Alice Walton, Elizabeth Graham and Anna Lucas. The publication will be launched at the Learning private view on Friday 28th November at Tate Britain – www.tate.org.uk

Talking at the Camden Arts Centre Get The Message Symposium: Disability in Galleries, on behalf of Touretteshero and Schools and Teachers, Tate London, where I’m Curator for Art School.  Sharing the recent project We Forgot The Lot, which was a day event at Tate Britain aimed at young people with Tourette’s and their families.  The schools and teachers team worked collaboratively with Jess Thom and Matt Poutney from Touretteshero to programme a ‘take over’ of Tate for the day. www.camdenartscentre.org Broadcast live and archived on http://thisistomorrow.info

The graduating year from BA (Hons) Arts University Bournemouth, where I’m Senior Lecturer, had their opening last night. Three floors of new practitioners at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, congratulations everyone!

Recently contributed to a discussion and resulting text with Jo Addison, Amy McKelvie and Alice Walton in the context of her solo show Not Her Real Name with Tintype Gallery.  ‘Alice staged a conversation from the work, not to talk about it so much as besides it. Noting that she had become aware of a circulating set of ideas, words really, that had kept her company for some time, and which increasingly resonated with (informed/borrowed from) conversations happening in and beyond the studio, she proposed talking with people and sharing ideas from the atmosphere of the show.’ Download the text here – Tintype Contemporary Art.

Second part of workshop with AUB students, working in the afternoon with students Joana Picolo De Souza, Holly Hennessey, Kiran Tasneem and Harry Carter.  Working with the premise of Moving Sound – using as a starting point recent works including The Conversation which features pieces of photographic equipment ‘talking’ to each other in the studio.  Using moving image and the studio and its equipment as subject matter – students produced a video piece featuring a 360 degree single take – see the film here – vimeo.com

Exhibition : May 2nd – June 7th, 2014 – PV : May 1st 6pm-9pm

PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS is an exhibition curated by Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson, exploring contemporary artists’ manifestos and works inspired by the manifesto format.

ARTIST LINE-UP
Dean Kenning, Jennet Thomas, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, Mathieu Beausejour, Clunie Reid, Billy Childish and Harry Adams, Plastique Fantastique, Oona Grimes, Leslie Deere, Arnaud Desjardin, Richard Paul, BAZ, Alexis Milne and Tex Royale, Andrew Gilbert, Frank Wasser, Katie Schwab, Jenny Moore, Dominic from Luton, Kevin Hunt, Alice Walton, Tanja Ritterbex, Benedict Drew, Stewart Home, Mark Pearson, Colin Lowe, kennardphillips, Doyle and Mallinson, Shane Bradford, Mark Beasley, Simon Fujiwara, Cedar Lewisohn, Patricia Ellis, Lucy Harrison, Natalia Mali, Anna Francis, Harriet Murray, Neil Taylor, Emma Holmes, Peter Lamb, Ami Clarke, Sarah Lucas, Pat Rock, Leigh Clarke, Common Culture, Laura Oldfield Ford, Jessica Voorsanger, Emma Hart, Melanie Stidolph and Abigail Lane.