Method Lab 3

Join us this Friday for our final showcase from 4-8 pm at Trace Gallery, Nottingham. Come and witness the culmination of our recent creative journey!

As a collective, we’ve embarked on several play days, delving into innovative approaches to art creation and the importance of play and experimentation. Throughout these sessions, we’ve collaborated to develop a range of ideas, both individually and collectively.

‘Method Lab 3’ has pushed us to embrace unconventional methods compared to our usual practices. We’ve dedicated time at General Practice in Lincoln, engaged in enriching online discussions, and enjoyed playful days at the University of Lincoln. During these sessions, we’ve even begun crafting objects together, including ‘zines.’

While some aspects of this process have been straightforward, others have presented unique challenges - all integral parts of the creative journey. As a group, we’ve often contemplated the concept of ‘the messy middle,’ akin to the idea of persevering to reach another stage, drawing inspiration from each other’s work and energy, and embodying the collaborative studio ethos.

So, mark your calendars for this Friday and join us for a delightful evening of art, conversation, and perhaps a drink or two! Your presence will make our showcase complete.

Date: 29/09/23

Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: Trace Gallery, Nottingham, 179 Wollaton Street, NG1 5GE

We look forward to seeing you there!

The [gP]'Shop Show'

Attention shoppers! general practice is putting on a Shop Show to keep our experimental contemporary exhibitions coming your way. We're facing tough times and need your support to fend off those pesky energy bills. Come and see what we've been creating to meet your consumer needs and grab some original bargains, and don't worry, we'll still be putting our very [gP] approach into the show, so it's definitely worth a visit!

Join us and help us keep the creativity flowing. Thank you for your support, and we can't wait to see you at the Shop Show!

Friday 14th April 2023

5-9pm

General Practice Studios

25 Clasketgate

Lincoln

LN2 1JJ

Blubber

The artists invite you to join them in the gallery space to mark the end of their residency at General Practice. Blubber is a week long artists' residency, exploring ideas arising from the phenomenon 'Whale Fall', and how we may find potential in decay; particularly in relation to the current bleakness of the political and environmental landscape we find ourselves in. Work produced during Blubber will be viewable at the closing event on Sunday 12th March, where conversation and drinks will also be provided.

Featuring work by:​

Karolina Dworska

Based in London, Karolina's multi-disciplinary practice focuses on the feeling of the awkward in-between, fantasy spaces as well as dreamscapes, in which things are not quite right, undefined and uncomfortable, explored through a variety of sculptural and textile mediums. Her current focus is on playful experimentation with rug tufting and investigating its broad sculptural potential, while grappling with the aforementioned subject matter.

Andia Coral Newton

A contemporary artist working across drawing, textiles and installation, Andia's work dwells on the place of human beings in the ecology of planet Earth, the alternative intelligence of sea-creatures, and how we perceive history through images. Hermit crabs, spacecraft and celestial phenomena are all motifs commonly occurring in her work, alluding to a fixation on survival in the face of terrible, awe-striking environmental forces.

Andy Williams

Using sculpture and mosaic with an emphasis on the sensory experience of repetition and general aversion to image-creation, Andy's work often materialises in obsessively constructed monochromatic ceramic forms that suggest (but ultimately deny) domestic functionality through banal acts of their own distortion or destruction. The work references the often farcical nature of historic acts of iconoclastic vandalism, as well as the archeological methods with which they have been exposed. It is in this sense that the use of mosaic presents a framework with which to consider contemporary object-making (and breaking) as well as an outlet for broader sculptural and material exploration.