Stour Collective 2012 Information Sheet
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STOUR COLLECTIVE 2012 Celebrating its 5th biannual group show, resident artists at Stour Space will display a collective exhibition showcasing the diverse practitioners and varied mediums working in the converted warehouse gallery. With over 40 in-house artists and practitioners, Stour Space invites you to explore some of the work being produced by people living and working on the fringe of the Olympic Park. The exhibition will run until February 4th 2013 9:00am – 5:00pm. ALEXIE SOMMER Alexie Sommer is a graphic artist who runs a communication design practice: thomas.matthews by day and creates with type by night. Her work is Inspired by typography from the turn of the 20th century when industrial manufacturing influenced the form of letters and characters became concretized through typefaces and the printed process. Alexie plays with the analysis of expression in type and is inspired by design great Alan Fletcher “A typeface is an alphabet in a straightjacket.” www.lexdesignlondon.com ALEXIS ZELDA STEVENS Alexis speaks many visual languages: sculpture, installation, painting and most recently contemporary dance. Solo shows include ArtSway (2005) where she was artist in residence, and Phoenix Arts Association (2006). Notable site- specific group shows include Wheal Art Weekend (2007) an artist lead initiative produced by the collective Level2, held outdoors on a Cornish world heritage site, Wheal Francis Mine. Mentions in the press include a ‘Pick of the Week’ in The Guardian for her solo show at ArtSway, and article ‘The St.Ives New School’ in New York Arts Magazine by critic Max Andrews A number of her paintings and drawings are held in private collections and Alexis has been invested in by Arts Council England (Grants for The Arts), The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, and The ArtHouse Doncaster. She was a Morethan12 bursary holder in 2005 and won an Erasmus Scholarship to study at L’Accademia di Belle Arte Venice in 2003. Also interested in collaboration she currently researching the dialogue between the visual arts and dance. Alexis first collaborated with dancers during Attik Dance’s Moving Summer residency in 2007 on winning a bursary from Creative Skills Consortium, Cornwall. Most recently she was one of fifteen young choreographers offered in house professional development support by Sadler’s Wells through The Jerwood Space Big Intensive Programme 2010. As a dancer she featured in Watergate Bay, a film for Attik Dance by Chris Lewis-Smith. Alexis holds a first class BA Honours in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art (now University College Cornwall) and a Certificate of Higher Education in Dance Performance Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. Catalogues were produced for ArtSway and Wheal Art Weekend available from the artist. www.alexiszeldastevens.com ANKE SUPERVILLE Anke Superville aka cOokiE was born October 14, 1977, in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. She grew up in a small village in the south of former East Germany under Russian rule and was destined to become a farmer as employment opportunities were limited in the communist country. After the reunion of Germany, however, she moved to Hamburg where she studied fashion design and fine art. In 2001 she decided to move to England together with her then partner and joined the Metropolitan police force after having settled in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Her only son Téjuan was born in 2007 and one year later her marriage broke down. Being a single mum and working full time as a police officer proves to be very demanding at times and Anke escapes in her world of creativity to find the relaxation so much longed for and needed in an eventful and restless life. www.paintingsilove.com/artist/cookie GUNTHER JANCKE The annual Stour Collective Exhibition always marks the focal point of every art-year. This year I want to show an art piece that was inspired, again, by the people of East London, their diversity, pace, their stories, styles and their walks of life. However, for the first time I present a photographic piece that expresses my love of the Urban London Life in a more explicit direct way. 144 Broadway Market is a kaleidoscope of 144 photographs taken within 90 minutes at Broadway Market. This is a tribute to the uniqueness of merging cultures in London. The multiplication of an ordinary street scene turns into a scope of difference and dynamic – a form of genuine street art. madebygunther.wordpress.com For sales enquiries please contact: [email protected] / +44 (0)208 9857827 www.stourspace.co.uk
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STOUR COLLECTIVE 2012
Celebrating its 5th biannual group show, resident artists at Stour Space will display a collective exhibition showcasing the diverse practitioners and varied mediums working in the converted warehouse gallery. With over 40 in-house artists and practitioners, Stour Space invites you to explore some of the work being produced by people living and working on the fringe of the Olympic Park.
The exhibition will run until February 4th 2013 9:00am – 5:00pm.
ALEXIE SOMMER
Alexie Sommer is a graphic artist who runs a communication design practice: thomas.matthews by day and creates with type by night. Her work is Inspired by typography from the turn of the 20th century when industrial manufacturing influenced the form of letters and characters became concretized through typefaces and the printed process. Alexie plays with the analysis of expression in type and is inspired by design great Alan Fletcher “A typeface is an alphabet in a straightjacket.” www.lexdesignlondon.com
ALEXIS ZELDA STEVENS
Alexis speaks many visual languages: sculpture, installation, painting and most recently contemporary dance. Solo shows include ArtSway (2005) where she was artist in residence, and Phoenix Arts Association (2006). Notable site-specific group shows include Wheal Art Weekend (2007) an artist lead initiative produced by the collective Level2, held outdoors on a Cornish world heritage site, Wheal Francis Mine. Mentions in the press include a ‘Pick of the Week’ in The Guardian for her solo show at ArtSway, and article ‘The St.Ives New School’ in New York Arts Magazine by critic Max Andrews
A number of her paintings and drawings are held in private collections and Alexis has been invested in by Arts Council England (Grants for The Arts), The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, and The ArtHouse Doncaster. She was a Morethan12 bursary holder in 2005 and won an Erasmus Scholarship to study at L’Accademia di Belle Arte Venice in 2003.
Also interested in collaboration she currently researching the dialogue between the visual arts and dance. Alexis first collaborated with dancers during Attik Dance’s Moving Summer residency in 2007 on winning a bursary from Creative Skills Consortium, Cornwall. Most recently she was one of fifteen young choreographers offered in house professional development support by Sadler’s Wells through The Jerwood Space Big Intensive Programme 2010. As a dancer she featured in Watergate Bay, a film for Attik Dance by Chris Lewis-Smith.
Alexis holds a first class BA Honours in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art (now University College Cornwall) and a Certificate of Higher Education in Dance Performance Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. Catalogues were produced for ArtSway and Wheal Art Weekend available from the artist. www.alexiszeldastevens.com
ANKE SUPERVILLE
Anke Superville aka cOokiE was born October 14, 1977, in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. She grew up in a small village in the south of former East Germany under Russian rule and was destined to become a farmer as employment opportunities were limited in the communist country. After the reunion of Germany, however, she moved to Hamburg where she studied fashion design and fine art. In 2001 she decided to move to England together with her then partner and joined the Metropolitan police force after having settled in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Her only son Téjuan was born in 2007 and one year later her marriage broke down. Being a single mum and working full time as a police officer proves to be very demanding at times and Anke escapes in her world of creativity to find the relaxation so much longed for and needed in an eventful and restless life. www.paintingsilove.com/artist/cookie
GUNTHER JANCKE
The annual Stour Collective Exhibition always marks the focal point of every art-year. This year I want to show an art piece that was inspired, again, by the people of East London, their diversity, pace, their stories, styles and their walks of life. However, for the first time I present a photographic piece that expresses my love of the Urban London Life in a more explicit direct way. 144 Broadway Market is a kaleidoscope of 144 photographs taken within 90 minutes at Broadway Market. This is a tribute to the uniqueness of merging cultures in London. The multiplication of an ordinary street scene turns into a scope of difference and dynamic – a form of genuine street art. madebygunther.wordpress.com
For sales enquiries please contact: [email protected] / +44 (0)208 9857827 www.stourspace.co.uk
IAN LAW
Since completing his post-graduate studies in Architecture at London UCL Ian has pursued his joint interests of Architecture and painting. Ian’s interest in both these discourses is to do with the subject of of people. The human form has proved endless inspiration for painters through history and is also the starting point of architecture as all built environments are ergonomic creations. www.ianlaw.info
KERRY SIMMONS
Kerry Simmons is an artist working in the genres of portraiture, topographic and landscape photography. Having graduated with a BA (Hons) in Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster in 2004, Simmons went on to gain a teaching degree from the University of East London.
Over the past two years she has regularly exhibited in and around London. She currently lives and works in London and has a studio located in Stour Space. Plans for 2013 include a return trip to Mongolia to document the impact that mining is having on traditional nomadic culture through out the country. www.kerrysimmonsphotography.com
MARCOS JUNCAL
Education
1998-2000 The Marin School of Ceramic, Pontevedra, Spain
Exhibitions (A selection)
2001 XI Bienal de Cerveira.Portugal2003 Galería Alameda Vanguardia. Vigo2004 Fundación Eugenio Granell.Santiago.2005 Ferias de galerías Españolas,”De Arte” MadridGalería Borron4, Cambados, Pontevedra2006 VIII feria de arte comtemporaneo.Sevilla2007 Feria “De Arte” contemporáneo, VI edición.MadridArt. Madrid, galería AC .Madrid2008 “154m3 “Galeria Contenedor de arte .Valencia2009 Feria “De arte” contemporáneo VIII edicion.Madrid.Galería Borrón 42010 Feria “Espacio Atlantico” Vigo2011 “Smiths Of Smithfield” London2012 Cultivate,Vyner Street,London
www.marcosjuncal.com
The OMC
The Odyssey Media Collective is a collaborative group of filmmakers, brought together by a shared passion for producing cutting-edge work that goes above and beyond. With members of our OMC family hailing from all over Europe we are able to draw upon a wide range of expertise and skills to tailor to a projects needs.
Together with Olympus we are helping to develop their state of the art high- speed camera, the i-SPEED. With access to this technology, we are able to deliver breathtaking imagery and colour. This collection includes music videos, short films and documentaries,featuring work from many of our freelance family; Obi Mgbado, Liam Bream & Joel Craigs, Paul Bryan, Hannah Goodwin-Hayward & Andreas Munksgaard. www.theomc.tv
NEIL MCDONALD
Sculptor and designer Neil McDonald co-founded Stour Space, the exhibition and performance space devoted to supporting the local artistic community of Hackney Wick, working in the shadow of the London Olympics.
This environment, where the peace and rural canal is almost overpowered by one of the world’s largest construction sites, has greatly influences his recent works, which contain many angular patterns and flat panes over twisted organic forms.
For sales enquiries please contact: [email protected] / +44 (0)208 9857827 www.stourspace.co.uk
