Salford students unveil concrete artwork at The Lowry
Photo opportunity: Monday 27 April at 1pm
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Salford College students will take over the Deck Gallery with an exhibition that explores Sarah Staton’s innovative new exhibition, A Clump of Plinths, opening at The Lowry from Sat 2 May until Sun 6 September 2009.
Twenty five art students from Salford College, aged 15 and 16, will consider the key concepts in Staton’s exhibition in order to create their own interpretation of her work.
The students met with Staton to discuss her ideas during a question and answer session. They have also been taking part in 6 weeks of design activities with artist Jack Doyle. The development of this project has been filmed and will be shown via TV monitors in the Deck Gallery.
Staton has a unique vision that takes her across disciplines from fashion and furniture to architecture and sculpture. Her new exhibition uses the zigzagging spaces of The Lowry’s Promenade Gallery to provide the viewer with a series of distinct spaces in which groupings of work are placed - taking the visitor on an extraordinary and unpredictable conceptual journey around the Pacific Rim.
The exhibition starts with ‘Japan’, a series of concrete blocks, adorned with pattern, and continues through groupings of intensely-coloured sculptures, framed by padded paintings made from found vintage fabrics, past tall ‘cityscape’ towers rising up from the floor and casting metal shadows, and culminating with a micro-architecture vision of Hollywood.
Posted on Friday, 24 April 2009 under Press Galleries Press Community & Education Press