Hypocentre, Hiroshima 2008
Pickle bowl, Hiroshima 2008
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EMERGED Curated by KIRSTEN LLOYD Exhibition SATURDAY 26 & NATHALIE DE BRIEY 12-6 PM DAILY Artist Talk SATURDAY 26 APRIL |
EMERGED would like to invite you to the opening of an exhibition of new works by Nathalie de Briey this Saturday, 26 April from 12 noon. At 5pm the artist will also give an informal talk about the exhibition and her wider practice. Refreshments will be served. Throughout the month of April, Nathalie de Briey has been working in Brunnenstrasse 185, Berlin. Her time in the gallery and sculpture garden culminates in the exhibition Ground Temperature: 3000°C. Ground Temperature: 3000°C forms a response to a period of research the artist recently undertook in Japan during which she worked with the archives of the Museum of Meteorology in Ebayama and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Artefacts found in their collections included everyday domestic objects unearthed in the aftermath of the A-bomb: bowls, cups and sake jugs, distorted and broken through the shock of the blast and intense heat which reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius. At 8.15 am on 6th August 1945 these items instantaneously changed from anodyne household objects to witnesses of a world changing event. Nathalie de Briey’s work deals with ephemerality and touch. Through tactile transformations of everyday events, she attempts to make sense of our placement in a larger time continuum, marking moments, which range from the ephemeral to natural and historical events. Reworking relationships between objects and materials, she brings together different worlds in one space. Her diverse approaches have included manufacturing ice - transforming the breath of the viewer into visible frost on an object, putting wind into a gallery space and reconstructing vanished geological terraces out of rubber bands. |
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Biography Nathalie de Briey is an interdisciplinary artist. Since graduating in 1996 from the Master of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Hobart’s Plimsoll Gallery, Australia and Glasgow’s Market Gallery, Scotland. Nathalie participated in the 2006 Glasgow Art Fair and has exhibited in a number of group shows, including the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland. Nathalie has been awarded significant international artist residencies in Canada and Australia. Nathalie has lectured in various art schools across the UK. From 2003-2008 she was an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, now the University of Cumbria and is currently a visiting artist on the Master of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art. Nathalie de Briey is a studio holder and board member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios |
EMERGED would like to thank the following: GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS Vlado Velkov & Jan Winkelmann
For further information contact Kirsten Lloyd or Amy Sales via amy@emerged.net
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