INTRO (project space) Current Forthcoming Archive   EXHIBITIONS (main gallery) Current Forthcoming Archive

Stephanie Hands, Where do clowns go to die?, photograph, 2008.

INTRO - archive Situated next to the cafe, the intro space showcases the work of emerging artists and designer/makers, and the results of off-site or education projects. With regularly changing exhibitions and special events, intro gives you something new to see or do each time you visit us. Play> An exhibition of recent graduates from the south John Didymus, Emily Draper, Stephanie Hands, Kirsten Hovde, James Lewis, Craig McPhedran, Kate O’Connell, Vicky Wareham 18 March - 26 April 2009 Play> survey’s current trends in contemporary visual art practice through the work of recent graduates from colleges in the south.  Produced using a diversity of media, the artists employ humour to explore current issues. Rather than glib comments on our society, these works invite us to consider media, consumerism and politics in a way that is both playful and intelligent. The exhibition presents a wide range of high quality sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and ceramics in aspex's intro space. Play> provides the artists with an opportunity to show work less than a year out of art school and explores and challenges and issues than can occur once removed from this environment and exposed to the demands of a working contemporary gallery. Curated by Roy Brown.