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THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY  2012

Exhibition open :  1st JUNE - 29TH JUNE  2012

CAMERA OBSCURA - MINNIE WEISZ

TUE–SUN 10AM-6PM. OPEN BANK HOLIDAY 4 & 5 JUNE.

Spanning the last seven years, these photographs are born out of her interest in the identity of spaces, particularly buildings
on the brink of change, such as the Great Northern Hotel, or the Fish & Coal Offices in King's Cross.
Weisz investigates the surroundings and social history of these sites, which worm their way into the photographic process.  
Although persons are sometimes introduced into her pictures, she tends to leave them out,
using installations of found objects – a suitcase, shoes, an old pair of roller skates – to author fictional memories of a building's past. 

Alongside a more sober, documentary approach, highlighting the materiality of the architecture,
Weisz fashions these deserted spaces as a camera obscura. Allowing light in through the pinhole of a darkened room,
this technique inverts the outside view, projecting it back onto the walls inside.

In this way, as the artist explains, the camera obscura becomes “the key which unlocks a dialogue between exterior and interior worlds.”
In architecture and psychology, the term ‘liminal’ has often been used to describe places or moods that exist at the passage
between alternate states. It is this kind of ‘between-ness’ or ‘third space’ that Weisz’ photography brings to the fore –
both in terms of these buildings’ transitional nature and the creation of landscapes that lie at the threshold between dream and reality.


Minnie Weisz studied Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Printing. The artist has been turning buildings  ' inside out ' since her first camera obscura show at the 2006 London Architecture Festival. She has shown in London, Istanbul, and most recently at the 2012 Pinhole Photography Festival at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. She works from her studio in the heart of King’s Cross, collaborating and curating shows, as well as running photography workshops in her darkroom.




 



















details about the festival 2012 :  
 
www.lfph.org








KONBINI   - French internet channel / arts and popular culture
THE ARTS CLIQUE - directed and produced by John Paul Pryor and Craig Thomas
Seehttp://www.konbini.com/#/the-arts-clique-minnie-weisz






New Guardian App : King's Cross - London Street Stories  2012

Artist Minnie Weisz talks about her studio and the parade of shops on Pancras Rd. Launches 21st March 2012.


www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2012/mar/21/kings-cross-london-streetstories-app












THE PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL  EDINBURGH 2012 
Opens 5th March - 17th March 2012

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN  

Kenny Bean     Minnie Weisz      Justin Quinell        Katie Cooke       Bethany de Forest       Mark Tweedie.  



PINHOLE   NOIR  © MINNIE WEISZ  



Curated and produced by photographer Kenny Bean, Edinburgh's first Pinhole festival
brings together five exciting UK pinhole artists for an exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 
and will include a series of workshops and discussions.  
 

Information about artists exhibiting and events happening during the festival
www.pinholephotographyfestival.co.uk
The Royal Botanic Garden  Exhibition details 
www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/event-details/2380


PRESS: 
www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/pinhole-cameras-a-simple-device-that-gives-you-the-whole-picture-1-2165040
edinburghnapiernews.com/2012/03/.../pinhole-photography-festival/

www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp

www.edinburghlofi.com/exhibitions/2012pinholefestival







  UBI SUNT AT THE OLD CHAPEL - caroline gardens, asylum road, Peckham
   29th JULY - 14th AUGUST 2011

Berlin-based artist Oliver Pietsch’s recent film From Here to Eternity explores the theme by presenting a history of death in the history of cinema.

Flemish artist Elza Jo series,Something Sacred in theWoods,places her as shaman in this series of hand crafted photographs. Jo allows the viewer to take a peek into her personal surroundings; her friends, her cat Rico and herself are most definitely favorite subjects. In the ever-evolving digital era, Elza Jo prefers genu- ine handcraft. She adds extra layers to her photos and videos by gluing, stapling, sewing and embroidering. Alison Honey’s work seeks to explore the perennial relationship between worship, wildness and enchantment. Totem I and Totem II conjure the hybrid nature of hunting – an act of domination, but also at times of deep spiritual significance.

Minnie Weisz is creating a series of camera obscuras reinventing past histories of the Chapel reflected in the medium of camera obscura and photographic installations using found ephemera and stories she tracks down along her journey into the mysteries of the Peckham area playing with time and notions of place.

Sophia Schorr-Kon’s new photographic works asks you to immerse yourself within the piercing gaze of a lithe and unrecognisable creature. Represent- ing the brink of life, it creates space for the treasures that can be retrieved from meditations in dark and inhospitable places that exist in our emotional landscape.

Samantha Sweeting’s video works The House Falls Down and Vessel mark the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits. She uses the camera to contain a collection of vocal releases and gestures, embracing and letting go of the histories housed in the walls and inscribed on her body.

Chilean-Canadian artist Grace Morgan Pardo’s practice primarily takes the form of portrait and still life painting, as well as performance art. Grace is strongly influenced by folklore and South American spiritual practices, as much as by personal and family history. Her paintings, performances and installations, have at the core, the concepts of the sacred origins of art and the significance of votive objects.Through an installation of ephemera, video documentation and a series of performances, Grace will experiment with a series of binding spells constituting in a performance on the preview evening.     Curated by Jareh Das 











 


Studio Solo : CARL HOPGOOD - MOVING FORWARDS SEEING BACKWARDS -   November 2011


A SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS AND EVENTS  AT  MINNIE WEISZ STUDIO  
JULY  2009 - NOVEMBER 2011

NON OBSOLESCENCE
HEREFORD PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2011
CREATIVE MACHINES 

THE EVENT BIRMINGHAM  
CARL HOPGOOD
POLLY BRADEN 
DAVID CAMPANY

THE LONDON STREET PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2011
A MESSAGE TO KINGS CROSS / PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
ADAM ZOLTOWSKI
JONATHAN BARNBROOK 
CAROLINE COLLINGE  

TOM FOULSHAM  
PHILLIPPA  JOHNSON 

FRANCE SCULLY OSTERMAN &  MARK OSTERMAN 10
REVEAL FESTIVAL
 
SUMMER SALON  MINNIE WEISZ STUDIO LAUNCH 2009
DIARY OF A DERELICT DAIRY - LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2008




 


A MESSAGE TO KING'S CROSS 
BILLBOARD COMMISSION  MINNIE WEISZ  STUDIO June 2011

MINNIE WEISZ  COMMISSIONED  typographer and graphic artist Jonathan Barnbrook  and artist Adam Zoltowski
to respond to King's Cross, to its past, present and future. An ode to King's Cross.
Supported by King's Cross Central. 


JONATHAN BARNBROOK      ADAM ZOLTOWSKI      MINNIE WEISZ





BILLBOARD ART  ON GOODS WAY  KING'S CROSS   
' THE  BUILDING  DREAMS '    PINHOLE  NEGATIVE     CREATED AT  THE COAL AND FISH OFFICES    KINGS CROSS  BY   MINNIE WEISZ

              

 
'ROAD TRIP'  BY  ADAM  ZOLTOWSKI   GOODS WAY  KING'S  CROSS 


' ONCE BATTLE BRIDGE..'   JONATHAN  BARNBROOK   GOODS  WAY  KING'S CROSS




Studio Solo - Caroline Collinge
December 2010 - A Picture Unfolds - 

Minnie Weisz Studio commissioned artist Caroline Collinge to make an origami paper installation on the upper floor of the studio for her show ' A Picture Unfolds' . A fictitious history of the London A-Z visualised through
printed ephemera, origami folds of the london A-Z, and collage paintings.


February 2011 - A Picture Unfolds - London to Birmingham
Caroline's exhibition toured to TROVE, the last wing of the Old Science Museum, Birmingham.
A collaboration between Minnie Weisz Studio and curator Charlie Levine of TROVE gallery.




 
Caroline Collinge is an artist working within Film, Installation and Performance;
currently a PhD student at the London College of Fashion. Caroline studied Theatre Design BA at Wimbledon School of Art
and holds an MA in Scenography at LABAN 2004.

Caroline's artwork was shortlisted for the RIBA 'Forgotten Spaces' Competition 2010 and exhibited at the National Theatre.
She was
shortlisted  for the Museummaker Contemporary Craft commission 2010.




STUDIO SOLO:  TOM FOULSHAM  13/11/09 - 3/3/10
THE TABLE THAT CAN TELL STORIES AND OTHER CONTRAPTIONS   




  

ARMCHAIR BALANCE  - COMMISSIONED BY MINNIE WEISZ  2009 


Tom Foulham’s machines and an insight into his process.

AN INTRIGUING INSIGHT INTO THE WORKINGS OF MECHANISMS, EVERYDAY SCIENCE AND THE INTERACTION AND PLAY
BETWEEN MACHINE AND SPECTATOR.


…Tom can solve most mechanical problems and realise them against all odds…all sorts of contraptions like a page-turning device that is activated by the waste burning candle, and lots of old leather suitcases stuffed with intricate devices that would make Heath Robinson proud.
Ron Arad 2009.



Tom Foulsham born in 1981 studied Architecture at the Bartlett and was an architectural assistant at Arad Associates. 
He went on to study Design Products MA at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009, under the tutorledge of Ron Arad. 
He exhibited his
‘Balancing Shelves’ at Pecha Kucha ICA in 2007. 
Tom exhibited  ' Candle Balance’ at the V&A group Exhibition ‘In Praise of Shadows’
September 2009.



    WIGGLE TABLE, 2009                                                                                                                                             MAN MAKING MACHINE, 2002

              


PHILLIPPA JOHNSON
REVEAL FESTIVAL, KINGS CROSS 2010
MINNIE WEISZ STUDIO WINDOW INSTALLATION
January - March 2010



Window Installation at Minnie Weisz Studio by Pip Johnson

WINDOW DESIGN COMMISSION



Saturday 22nd May 2010
MARK OSTERMAN AND FRANCE SCULLY OSTERMAN 
"19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY, 21ST CENTURY VISION"

                          





A lecture given by FRANCE SCULLY OSTERMAN AND MARK OSTERMAN about the Collodion process
and their work as artists and process historians in the field of early photographic process at the George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York.


www.collodion.org




REVEAL FESTIVAL KINGS CROSS 2010    
28th April - 12th May  



                                                                                                                                
THE RIVER OF NO RETURN BY MINNIE WEISZ, 2010
 


KINGS CROSS STORIES 
MINNIE WEISZ STUDIO COMMISSION FOR REVEAL FESTIVAL
supported by CreateKX and Kings Cross Central


Minnie Weisz    Caroline Collinge    Aidan Andrew Dun

 
Minnie Weisz continues her exploration of King’s Cross with an exhibition curated in her gallery space under the Victorian arches on Pancras Road. Minnie will be collaborating with Caroline Collinge on an installation transforming the space under the arches into a house of memories, reinventing stories of Kings Cross, past, present, real and imagined. Through film, photography, collage, ephemera and set design, dreamscapes of Kings Cross are woven into a poetic narrative.
 
 
Aidan Andrew Dun will be reading from his epic poem ' Vale Royal ', first launched at the Royal Albert Hall in 1995 published by Goldmark. A psycho-geographical descent into the mysteries of Kings Cross.




PHOTOGRAPHY BY MINNIE WEISZ.  PAPER COSTUMES BY CAROLINE COLLINGE, REVEAL 2010
                                    


Minnie Weisz Studio commission for Reveal, a Create KX initiative which animates Kings Cross through art, live music
and site specific performance, 22 April - 2 May 2010.



MINNIE WEISZ STUDIO KINGS CROSS LAUNCH July 2009
SUMMER SALON SHOW
 
Artists:
 


Robert Fry    Minou Norouzi    Zoe Grace    Florence Peake    Liisa Kruusmagi    Minnie Weisz    Nesta Fitzgerald      
Maria Marshall    Robert Mason
  

A mixed media platform for artists exploring video art, film, photography, illustration, painting, etchings and installation art.


A DIARY OF A DERELICT DAIRY - THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2008

A collaborative cross discipline art event curated by Minnie Weisz

Kindly supported by Kings Cross Central and Blueprint Magazine




FILM INSTALLATION BY MARIA MARSHALL, MILK SPILLS BY WILLIAM COBBING, 2008



OPENING NIGHT OF 'A DIARY OF A DERELICT DAIRY' AT THE DAIRY, WAKEFIELD ST WC1



MILK ROOM, CAMERA OBSCURA PHOTOGRAPHS BY MINNIE WEISZ



BLUEPRINT MAGAZINE HOLD THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 
AT 'A DIARY OF A DERELICT DAIRY' EXHIBITION



             

 
 
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