There are two Collage Parties coming up in October and November!

——–Saturday 29 October, 12-4pm at Spike Island, Bristol

——–Saturday 12 November, 12-4pm for 48-Sheet Project with EC Arts
Unit 2, Park Street, Birmingham (Next to Moor Street Car Park)

Images – Courtesy of Robin Close (top) & Lesley Guy (below), made at Collage Party, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2010

Nail House, Ink on Newspaper, 2011

Memory of a Hope
Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
5 August – 3 September 2011

“Ideology collapses and vanishes, utopianism atrophies, but something great is left behind: the memory of a hope”, Henri Lefebvre.

Devised with gallery artist Matthew Houlding, this summer exhibition draws on a key text by Henri Lefebvre and the autobiographical writing of JG Ballard, reflecting spaces caught between construction, destruction and nostalgia.

Each gallery artist was invited to select two artists in response to Houlding’s concept. The resulting exhibition includes 36 artists and over 100 art works, including film, photography, painting, sculpture, text and audio work – much of it seen for the first time in the UK.

Andrew Graves, Angus Braithwaite, Anthony Shapland, Antoine L’Heureux, Bedwyr Williams, Clare Kenny, Dan Ford, Doug Jones, Eleanor Moreton, Elizabeth Rowe, Geraint Evans, Grant Foster, Henny Acloque, James Ireland, Jen Liu, Joseph Welden, Juneau Projects, Kim Rugg, Louise Bristow, Mary Griffiths, Matthew Houlding, Mel Brimfield, Mernet Larsen, Nevan Lahart, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Peter Harris, Rebecca Lennon, Riccardo Baruzzi, Rita Sobral Campos, Samantha Donnelly, Simon Faithfull, S Mark Gubb, Stuart Edmundson, Tamy Ben-Tor, Tessa Power, Vicky Wright

www.cerihand.co.uk

Billboard Commission at Bloc, Sheffield
July-September 2011

Also featuring: Collage Party
Turn Up, Tune In, Cut Out
Collage Party invites you to cut up and stick down
Collage Party is about having conversations while you are making
Materials are provided
DJ-ing is provided
Bring your own refreshments
Collage + Music + Conversation + Drinks = Collage Party

Saturday 2 July, 12-4pm

Tuesday 5 July, 4-9pm

http://blocprojects.co.uk/

29 September -7 November 2010
Jerwood Space, 171 Union St, London, SE1 0LN
Monday – Friday, 10-5, Saturday & Sunday, 10-3
Tube: Southwark, London Bridge, Borough

www.jerwoodvisualarts.org.uk

2-14 September
Opposite ‘The Works’, corner of Pershore Street & Sherlock Street, Birmingham

Tuesday 14 September, 6-8pm
Take a walk around the four billboards commissioned for the project, followed by drinks at The Anchor.

48 Sheet is an experimental pilot project utilising advertising billboards as blank canvasses for artists, produced by EC-Arts.
www.ec-arts.com

Come along to Dudley Library to view a special commissioned piece of artwork to commemorate its centenary, 1909 to 2009. Artist, Elizabeth Rowe will be at the library to formally present the artwork on Friday July 2 at 2pm. Refreshments will be served.

HALLelujah 2
A group exhibition curated by Janie Nicoll, featuring artworks by, Alex Hetherington, Amy Marletta, Anna Francis, Hanneline Visnes, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Janie Nicoll, Jim Colquhoun, Karen Vaughan, Kenny Hunter, Kevin Hutcheson, Krisdy Shindler, Elizabeth Rowe, Neil Coombs, Oliver Braid, Rachel Mimiec.

Opening event Saturday 17th April 2-4 pm

Venue: 212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL
Contact no. 00 44 141 575 9773 mob. 07971 602270
Opening times 17th – 24th April 11-5pm (not Sunday 18th)
25th – 2nd May by appointment.

Rumiko Hagiwara
Dillan Marsh
Elizabeth Rowe

10 February – 4 March
Opening 25 February, 6-8pm

Dillan Marsh and Rumiko Hgiwara will display two video works in the gallery window for the duration of the exhibition. Elizabeth Rowe has designed the artwork publicising the show, Fuck Reason, and will present a new commission in the Coventry telegraph classifieds on the 25 February.

Castle & Elephant, Unit 11, City Arcade, CV1 3HX
www.castleandelephant.co.uk

Rowe presents new collages, sculptures and drawings made from material she has accumulated during her residency in Rotterdam. Using objects that she has found in the street, bought from second hand shops, newspapers, magazines and books, Rowe has processed the mass of stuff she has gathered by cutting up, reassembling or drawing over. The resulting works incisively interrupt different personal, political and historical realities, walking the line between irreverent and heart rending.

Het Wilde Weten, Robert Fruinstraat 35, 3021 XB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

www.hetwildeweten.nl