North + South
John Hansard Gallery
John Hansard Gallery visitors can explore six artists’ work. Newly commissioned artists include Jennifer Anyan, who examines the eccentricities of English regional fashion through multi-layered photographic works, museological displays of objects and clothing, and informal observational images and text. Is the English dress-sense inherently eccentric, or do conformities and localised styles exist?
7 Nights, 7 Bed & Breakfasts, 7 Full English breakfasts by Jane Chavez-Dawson is a playful film work examining ‘quintessential’ English B & Bs. Located in towns and villages that assert their own English 'authenticity' in different ways, the work asks whether the idea of Englishness is imposed upon or can genuinely be part of an English town.
Other works include Samar Asamoah’s Greenhouse, 2006, John Kippin’s large-scale photographic works, Nationality, Identity and Mythology, 2005, that examine how nationalism is frequently linked to ownership or ‘rights’ over land and territory.
Also showing are Susan Diab’s Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!, 2006, shown in all six venues, and Track and Place, a mail art project co-ordinated by Matt Hearn and Sarah Warden.
To accompany North + South, a selection of rarely-seen films by Wilf Thust and William Raban, exploring English multi-cultural identity from the 1980’s to the present day, will be shown in the Gallery Project Room. Films courtesy of Lux.
Associated Events
Susan Diab Thu 2 Aug 7.30 - 8.30pm FREE
Meet in the Gallery
Meet Susan Diab, whose work Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! is shown in all six venues. It features the quintessential English song of the title, sung in Arabic by the artist and explores the notion of being simultaneously ‘at home’ and ‘foreign’.
Jennifer Anyan Thu 23 Aug 7.30 - 8.30pm FREE
Meet in the Gallery
Southampton-based Jennifer Anyan will introduce her new North+South commission, which examines how clothing and fashion convey national identity. How do the English dress?
Back to North + South
What: North + South
Where: John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
When: Continues until Sat 1 Sep 2007, Tue - Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 11am - 4pm
Associated Events: Susan Diab Thu 2 Aug 7.30 - 8.30pm
Jennifer Anyan Thu 23 Aug 7.30 - 8.30pm
Further Information: John Hansard Gallery website
Contact: info@hansardgallery.org.uk
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