25 September 2012
'Entrance' marks opening of new exhibition space
An exhibition by two Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) graduates will help mark the opening of the institution's new Cooper Gallery Project Space.
Janey Muir graduated from DJCAD with a Master of Fine Art in 2010, while Cordelia Underhill obtained her practice-based PhD in the same year. Their joint exhibition, 'Entrance' will expose the process behind the artists' practices through live components, offsite interventions and process-led, changing elements within the exhibition. The two artists will present entirely new works for this exhibition, which opens with a preview evening on Thursday, 27th September.
Entrance is the inaugural exhibition to take place in the Cooper Gallery Project Space, which was formerly the Lower Foyer Gallery. Functioning as a test bed, the space encourages experimental and process-led works and will support DJCAD graduates, emerging artists and curators by providing opportunities to publicly present their work.
"Entrance is a space to introduce 'things' both material and abstract through a collaborative process undertaken by Janey Muir and Cordelia Underhill," explained curator Sophia Hao.
"Although their individual practices are distinctly different in character they share a recognition and use of the transitory effects of material and the space it can occupy. The artists will work with the idea of 'entrance' in mind, both as a physical place and a symbolic event.
"The exhibition will be continuously developed during and after its presentation and will extend beyond the immediate space of the gallery in a series of off-site workings."
The preview evening, to which members of the public are invited, takes place on Thursday, 27th September between 5-8pm. Entrance will remain open until 13th October, with offsite interventions taking place from 15th-27th October.
The exhibition opening times are 9.30am-5pm on weekdays and 10.30am-4.30pm on a Saturday.
Notes to editors:
Janey Muir works with found material to build unsure temporary environments, offering a physical presence to match the sensation of social anxiety. Surfaces borrowed from the household and studio are presented askew, manipulating the surrounding environment and blurring architectural planes: walls become floors. Akin to the visual disturbances of anxiety, the components and space are not permanent. Objects perform to body and body performs to object, each taking and offering control. In the nature of being interchangeable, components are reused or returned to their original status, reinstating their intended use-value, consequently remaining fluid, in flux.
Cordelia Underhill collages, draws and paints on different surfaces; constructed and found. She uses line to define and open the space of drawing. The themes of her work are built upon figurative narratives found in the tension and space between figures or forms. The materials employed are often those that seem to manifest a story of relation that is strained or dysfunctional in its telling; the seductive surfaces of advertising print that imply a sensual connection actually withheld, and home improvement or interior design products that never fulfill the promise of polish they seem to offer.
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