Working with Commercial Galleries

  A talk by gallerist Ceri Hand

11th December 2013

 

Opening up some of the mechanics of the art world gallerist Ceri Hand discussed the relationships between artists and commercial galleries. Ceri was refreshingly honest in discussing possibilities for regulation in commercial galleries and some of the more covert practices within the industry, such as discounting.

Initially trained as an artist, Ceri Hand draws on over twenty years in the art world. She has previously acted as Director of Metal (Liverpool), Director of Exhibitions, FACT (Liverpool, where she was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006), Deputy Director of Grized...ale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. Ceri Hand Gallery was founded in Liverpool in 2008 and relocated to London in 2012. The gallery has a special focus on conceptual and performance art, producing and exhibiting major new works on and offsite, including publications, editions and multiples. Fostering relationships between gallery artists and their work provides a strong peer support for artist's development and engages curators and collectors. The gallery has actively contributed to developing a regional market in the UK through local, national and international activity and a challenging programme of exhibitions and education events.

Follow Ceri's blog: http://www.cerihandprojects.co.uk/


Ceri Hand Gallery
6 Copperfied Street
London, SE1 0EP
www.cerihand.co.uk

Series 2; Talk No.1

Show Me Something Different: Kubrick, The Shining, and Repetition

A talk by Chris Fite-Wassilak

27th November 2013

Was it 58 times that Stanley reshot Jack Nicholson crossing a street in The Shining in the hope that, as he told me, ”something interesting would happen”?

- Ian Watson, New York Review of Science Fiction, 2000

Writer and curator Chris Fite-Wassilak and artist and filmmaker Tom Flanagan began a multipart documentary film project exploring the myths and methods that hover around the making of Kubrick's version of The Shining (1980). Carrying out in-depth interviews with Kubrick’s colleagues and collaborators, as well as with experimental re-stagings of particular scenes, the project seeks to examine a methodology entirely separate from Kubrick himself and the usual 'troubled genius' portraits. Taking his constant re-shooting of scenes as a focus on a way of working, this talk will provide a glimpse in to their research and process in asking, how do you know when you’ve found what you’re looking for?

The talk included an exclusive ten minute preview from the documentary aspect of the project.

For more information on Chris Fite-Wassilak and Tom Flanagan:

http://www.growgnome.com 

http://cfitewassilak.wordpress.com

http://vimeo.com/tomflanagan

http://www.artspacegalway.com/artistdetail.asp?id=118