Painting as a dialogue. Painting as a message. Painting as an exchange.<\/p>\n
Gary Simmonds and Dale Holmes started a conversation through painting ten years ago. The modes of address have changed, morphed, abstracted, reconfigured, and made new to fit the need to carry on communicating. They have used the languages of painting\u2014from abstraction and formalism to figuration and narrative and most things in between\u2014as the subject and the material of this conversation. Recently this conversation has been mainly through the LCD screens of smart phones.<\/p>\n
The paintings as uneven material things becoming images that are cropped, filtered, brightened by the backlight of the screen. The paintings (no longer paintings) are now apprehended through a mediated visibility, at once constrained and expanded through the technological infrastructure of contemporary communication.<\/p>\n
They exchange images of paintings: some of theirs made in their studios, sometimes images of paintings made by others, often made now and sometimes made in the past in order to approach paintings to be made in the future.<\/p>\n
Gary Simmonds<\/a> is an artist and Fine Art Course Leader at Sheffield Hallam University. His practice is concerned with the space between abstract painting, design, and ornamentation. He makes paintings that flirt with formal abstraction, beauty, decoration, and disorder. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, including solo shows at One in the Other, London, De March and Solbiati, Milan.<\/p>\n Dale Holmes<\/a> is an artist and Senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, His work is situated at the intersections of painting, performance, and sculpture, with the social and spatial relations of the domestic space, infrastructure, temporary architectures, and ad-hoc structures. Recently he has been exploring the potential of long distance endurance cycling as an accelerated psycho-geography, using the work and biography of Carl Einstein as a map. His project The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein<\/em> will be published by MA BIBLIOTHEQUE in 2019 with related events in Huddersfield, Berlin, and London.<\/p>\n Transmission<\/em>: Gary Simmonds and Dale Holmes\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Transmission<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an annual series of lectures and symposia, now in its seventeenth year, and is a collaboration between Fine Art, the Art & Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and\u00a0Site Gallery<\/a>. Convened by Sharon Kivland in 2001,\u00a0Transmission<\/em>\u00a0was developed collaboratively with Lesley Sanderson from 2001 to 2004, and with Jasper Joseph-Lester from 2004 to 2012. The\u00a0series is now convened by Sharon Kivland, TC McCormack, Hester\u00a0Reeve,\u00a0and Julie\u00a0Westerman,\u00a0in association with Site\u00a0Gallery,\u00a0Sheffield. The lecture series has an annual theme, and involves students\u00a0from\u00a0Fine\u00a0Art,\u00a0from undergraduates\u00a0to\u00a0PhDs.<\/p>\n Transmission<\/em> is the passing of information via a channel, and this is the intention of the Transmission<\/em> project. We enquire about the aesthetic and discursive forms required by practices in the field of contemporary art and theory that address sociality and subjectivity. It has encompassed a lecture programme, seminar discussions, an annual symposium, a print portfolio, four series of books: Transmission Annual, The Rules of Engagement, Transmission chapbooks, and five volumes of discussions\/interviews, entitled Transmission: Speaking and Listening. These are published by Artwords Press, London.<\/p>\n Site Gallery\u00a0is Sheffield\u2019s international contemporary art space, specialising in moving image, new media, and performance. Pioneering emerging art practices and ideas, Site works in partnership with local, regional, and international collaborators to nurture artistic talent and support\u00a0the\u00a0development\u00a0of contemporary\u00a0art.\u00a0At\u00a0the\u00a0heart\u00a0of\u00a0what\u00a0Site\u00a0does\u00a0is\u00a0the connection of people\u00a0to\u00a0artists\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0art,\u00a0inspiring\u00a0new thinking\u00a0and\u00a0debate\u00a0through\u00a0its\u00a0public\u00a0programmes and participatory\u00a0activity.\u00a0Through\u00a0diverse\u00a0programming,\u00a0Site reveals\u00a0the\u00a0process\u00a0of\u00a0making\u00a0art\u00a0to invite\u00a0its\u00a0audience\u00a0to engage,\u00a0explore,\u00a0and\u00a0connect.\u00a0In\u00a02018\u00a0Site\u00a0Gallery\u00a0re-opened after\u00a0a\u00a0building programme\u00a0which\u00a0trebled\u00a0the\u00a0scale\u00a0of\u00a0its\u00a0public area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Painting as a dialogue. Painting as a message. Painting as an exchange. Gary Simmonds and Dale Holmes started a conversation through painting ten years ago. The modes of address have changed, morphed, abstracted, reconfigured, and made new to fit the need to carry on communicating. 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\nTuesday 05 March<\/strong>, 4.30PM – 6.00PM<\/strong>
\nPennine Lecture Theatre, Owen Building<\/strong>
\nSheffield Hallam University, City Campus S1 2LW<\/strong>
\nPlease register on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n