Site-specific Contemporary Art in Derbyshire
- 2010+CommissionsLatest news itemNewsFor the second year of re:place we are delighted to have selected Philippa Lawrence for the Main Commission, and Flore Gardner and Charles Monkhouse for Intermediate Commissions.
- Wirksworth
Wirksworth Festival2009 ProjectsIn 2009 re:place supported Wirksworth Festival, specifically showing work by Alec Finlay and Kate Genever, both commissioned for re:place, and a new Contemporary Art Focus weekend. - Sutton+Scarsdale+Hall%2C+S44+5UR
The Centre of Attention2009 ProjectsThe pavilion of postcontemporary curating: a semi-staged total art work - Chesterfield
Charlotte A Morgan2009 ProjectsMarketPlace is a site specific event which took place at Chesterfield Art & Markets Festival from Thu 29 - Sat 31 October 2009. The project addresses changes in global and local trade and their influence on the structure of towns and cities, exploring the local and global manifestations of the marketplace and its shifting position socially, spatially and economically. - Belper
Sandarbh UK2009 ProjectsBelper based artist Ivan Smith put together an international artist residency project from 1 - 18 May 2009. Over the past six years over 250 artists have come together at the Sandarbh workshop in India and have created many works with the participation of local people, which has created a genuine interest and curiousness about art, and how society and art can come together. This was the first reciprocal residency in Derbyshire. - Peak+District
Alec Finlay - white peak | dark peak2009 ProjectsAlec's intention is to creatively map ‘white peak’, using a hybrid form that he calls a word-map. - Tibshelf+Services%2C+DE55+5TZ
Matthew Smith2009 ProjectsMatthew's practice seeks to question how we think about nature, exploring how our ideas of landscape and the rural are mediated through the lens of mass culture. - S11+7TZ
Kate Genever2009 ProjectsKate's proposal outlines a practice based intensive period of research and making on two working farms in the Peak District in order to reveal and celebrate their unique homemade tools and technologies. - Creswell+Crags
Bruce Rimell2009 ProjectsAround one hundred Perspex (acrylic polycarbonate) art objects, which draw their inspiration from the inscribed art and archaeology of the Palaeolithic caves at Creswell Crags, will be deposited in various locations around Derbyshire. - Peak+District
Alec Finlay - white peak | dark peak2009 ProjectsAlec Finlay has now made several visits to Derbyshire, each time based in a different part of the Peak District and collaborating with different poets. The 'word map' of the Peak District is complete.
