COLOUR PLAY

Colour Play by Stu Burke

Opening Night Friday 25th April 5-9pm - All welcome

Exhibition continues 26th April – 3rd May

Saturdays 12-4pm or by appointment

Colour Play is an exhibition of new paintings by Stu Burke alongside a new, interactive work in which the audience is invited to create a sculptural structure, from shapes informed by Burke’s paintings, which is designed to fall once let go, it will be captured by photograph to create a ‘momentary sculpture’, the moment of collapse, creating new and exciting forms. The audience can then send the images through, to be included in a publication of these works.

Stu Burke is an artist, curator and co-director of GLOAM Gallery (Sheffield, UK) whose curatorial and artistic interests lie within expanded painting, non-objective art, mark-making, exploring the porous boundaries of painting, sculpture and performance by playfully creating works that inhabit the in between, or exist simultaneously within multiple disciplines.

Burke graduated with a first-class BA(Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Lincoln in 2013, and an MA in Fine Art from Teesside University in 2016, he is currently studying for a practice-led PhD in Art at Leeds Beckett University, investigating ‘play’ as an artistic and curatorial methodology.

Input / Output

Input/Output is a collection of observations using found and recovered images, textures and typography, alongside graphic elements and symbols. Commenting on the mundane and profound in equal measure and seeking to fuse binary and non binary visual elements together to create newness from the missed, unobserved and dirt between the cracks.

A marriage of filth, dirt and grime produced by Dave Eccles, graphic designer, grunge artist and educator.

Opening Friday 11th April 5 - 9pm, all welcome.

Lustratio

Lustratio is an experimental collaborative body of work produced in residence at General Practice Studios in response to Lustratio (2024). This exhibition sees the film’s original collaborators come together once more to expand upon the film’s themes of (re)birth, magick, sex, nature, purification, femininity, and ritual.

Prints, props, paintings, and an olfactory environment have been produced and curated to respond to the space and the conversations that have arisen in lieu of filming.

Stemming from research into symbols of sex and fertility, the original concept behind the film centred it contextually around the life of nomadic women in 20,000 BCE, animal paintings in sites such as Lascaux and Chauvet, and life in the ice age. The show features new and existing work by Lucy Haworth, Luna Ælflæd Shinkins, Will René Thomson, and Amy Wood.

We are thrilled to support 3rd-year BA Fine Art students from the University of Lincoln as they transform the space into an extension of their studio practice. Don’t miss this immersive and intimate experience.

Opening night: Friday 7th March 5-8pm

Open by appointment 8th - 9th March - get in touch to book a viewing.