While We Can… An exhibition of creative work by staff from University of Bolton’s School of Arts and Creative Technology.

Launching at the Hive Gallery this Friday is an exhibition of creative work by staff from University of Bolton’s School of Arts and Creative Technology. This eclectic show has a wide range of work from embroidery to installation, sculpture to design, and photography to illustration. If you want a great way to start your weekend there will be an opening event on Friday 13th September at 5pm to launch the exhibition!

The exhibition includes work from 15 artists currently working at the university, they are: Liam Ainscough, Sue Brown, Emma Fazackerly, Neil Greenhalgh, Paula Gregorio, Rob Kirby, Bea Lowe, Melodie Neesom, Faye Power-Griggs, Andy Smith, Rachel Smith, Steven Speed, Tom Sutton, Charlotte Wood and Ged Young,

It will be open every Friday and Saturday until October 5th and the artist will be around throughout if you want to meet them and chat about their work.

While We Can…
Community HIVE
Upper Ground Floor
Market Place Shopping Centre
Bolton
BL1 2AL

Preview: Friday 13th September 5-7pm
Open Friday and Saturday 1-5pm until Saturday 5th October
For more information contact Neil Greenhalgh on: n.greenhalgh2@bolton.ac.uk

Some highlights from the exhibition are:

Faye Power-Griggs’ Maps. A recording of every step made along the same path over a six-month period captured through a binary-like marking system that echoes the structure and rhythmicity of the city.

Tom Sutton’s work Ultra Glow. A sculptural floor lamp made from cast concrete, powder-coated steel tube and flat bar, glass washing machine door, dichroic halogen bulbs.

Charlotte Wood’s embroidery that blends old and new techniques to create something that speaks to the essence of human growth in a rapidly changing world with a vivid depiction of personal transformation in the pursuit of happiness.

Steve Speed’s Struggle for Space. A series of four photographs from his time working as a photojournalist that reflect on how, why and by who space is controlled and how this affects people’s lives.

Emma Fazackerley’s, A Sense of Touch. The four-way interactive sensory garment collection. Addressing the needs of adults with A-typical and sensory preferences.

Andy Smith’s, Happy and Glorious and The Real Thing which explore the power of symbols, words and images and examines their influence by recontextualising traditional themes.

Paula Gregorio work that uses an approach of craft and design that strengthens and enhances knowledge, providing new forms of cultural and aesthetic expression contributing to each one's subsistence, valorisation and distinction.

Ged Young’s work that is generated from experiments in printmaking which are then mediated into sculptural objects that play with the spaces not traditionally used in exhibitions.

Liam Ainscough’s paintings and sculptures which are created as a means of investigating social control and the pervasive nature of surveillance in our day to day lives experimenting with the manipulation of imagery and scale.

Neil Greenhalgh‘s Study for a Landscape. A series of paintings that explore a sense of longing for fragments of time and place that are just beyond reach. These overlapping and disjointed memories of places that are appearing and disappearing, fluctuating between distant and forgotten.

Sue Brown’s work, whose current creative practice focuses on printing methods and experimenting with warm glass processes. Examples include visually textured sculptural pieces investigating the concept of materiality using slumped glass and coloured frits.

Rob Kirby’s video work is a representation of a degrading memory of a time gone by; a memory of a loved one now passed; a place you cannot return to. Not a special memory like a birthday or an award ceremony but a memory of the ordinary everyday happenings in life.