BLOC SHOP
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16th, 17th and 18th December
12-6pm
If you are struggling to find interesting and original Christmas gifts or want to sell some of your work then get down to Bloc Projects!
We will be holding an art sale in the gallery on the 16, 17 and 18th of December. There will be mulled wine, snacks and festive cheer a-plenty!
If you have any work you would like to sell please bring it to the gallery with info and price along with your name and a contact number.
Bloc Projects will charge a 30% commission, which will go towards the running of the gallery.
Bloc Billboard:
Elizabeth Rowe - Bloc Billboards
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BILLBOARD COMMISSION
The work will occupy Billboards on Eyre Lane, S1 4RB and Sylvester St, S1 4RN Between July and September 2011.
Rock Walk, Elizabeth Rowe
Rowe often works with printed matter such as newspapers and magazines, postcards and other found materials to create collages, assemblages, installations and sculptural configurations. Employing a range of processes such as cutting up, reassembling or drawing over, she mashes up and reinterprets different sources, histories and ideas to make works that are curious, complex and captivating. With reference to movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism and Fluxus, Rowe’s practice is a low-fidelity, low-budget form of appropriation from the world of visual culture where overlaps, ruptures and spillages of meaning open spaces between public and private experience.
Her most recent works and featured on the Bloc billboards are an ongoing series of newspaper drawings, in which the artist takes imagery published in newspapers and magazines and draws, paints or prints over them in intricate and interesting ways – sections are obscured or eradicated completely, others left visible or partly so, yet others changed beyond recognition. The resulting images are quite different from their original sources, usually transforming something from the already extraordinary real world into something even more spectacular and at the same time odd, metaphysical, fantastical and poetic.
Elizabeth Rowe (b. 1974, Leicester, UK) lives and works in Birmingham. Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘If Distance Was An Object Between Us” Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL (2009) and ‘Tiny Details Grotesque Proportions’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, (2008). She was commissioned to make work for Dudley Library, (2009). Selected group exhibitions include, ‘Jerwood Drawing Prize’ (2010), ‘Haigwara_Marsh_Rowe’ Castle & Elephant, Coventry (2010), ‘Works on paper,’ Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2009), ‘Video Progetto’ 26cc, Rome (2009), ‘Six Shows’ MOOT, Nottingham (2006).
Discourse:
Click Here to read our latest Discourse: The Thing and I by Becky Shaw. Written to accompany the group show Function at Bloc Projects
Bloc Projects Membership and Associate membership:
Membership
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We have made some changes to our membership. There are now two ways to contribute to Bloc Projects, either by being a Member or an Associate member.
Membership.
This level of membership is open for committed volunteers and those who work regularly for Bloc Projects. This means invigilating, working on the bar, helping to install and take down exhibitions and other technical or administrative work. This level of support is vital to the sustainability our organization. There is a nominal fee of £1.
The benefits to membership include:
· Opportunities to submit to the members show.
· Discounts on Gallery and equipment hire.
· Training and career advice.
· Opportunities to contribute to the running of Bloc Projects.
· Opportunities to contribute in curatorial meetings.
· Social and networking events including trips to other cities.
Associate Membership.
Associate membership is open to everyone and costs £15 per year. You don’t have to be a volunteer or studio holder.
The benefits of associate membership include:
· The knowledge that you are supporting an excellent organization.
· A link on our website.
· Discounts on gallery hire.
· Critical discussion and reading groups.
· Opportunities to contribute at organizational meetings.
· Social events.
For further information about becoming a member or associate member please contact us at info@blocprojects.co.uk
Studios Available at Bloc
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Bloc Studios is an artists led studio complex comprised of 56 spaces and the Bloc Projects Gallery. Its mission is to create a creative and stimulating environment for fine artists to work in. Its location in the heart of Sheffield city centre makes it close to the local amenities, both railway and bus stations, and the local galleries. Bloc provides:
- 24 hour access
- Free parking
- Central heating
- Free WiFi access
- Affordable, secure, self contained spaces with good natural light
- Outside working areas
- Recycling facilities and communal recycled wood shed
- Kitchen and communal areas
- Shared communal garden space
- No additional service charges
Bloc Space – Gallery available for Hire
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Bloc Space, our gallery at 71 Eyre Lane, is available to hire and is ideal for workshops, meetings, as a project space, or short exhibitions.
find out more here
