Upcoming Event: Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair
Saturday 13th February 2010 - Saturday 15th May
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
Culture Alienation, Boredom and Despair is a challenging new exhibition at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, exploring themes of youth identity, subculture and the urban environment. The exhibition includes works by contemporary artists who work with, or seek to represent the issues and dilemmas faced by young people, within a society that is often unwilling or unable to meet their needs.
Highlights include David Hancock’s stunning large-scale paintings, influenced by the visions of the late Victorian painters, representing young people as literary heroes or romantic dreamers. Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller’s installation The Uses of Literacy consists of an archive of artworks, writing and ephemera collected in the mid 1990’s, from fans of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers (who’s lyrics are quoted in the title of this exhibition). The installation, on loan for the collection of Arts Council England, documents the intense relationship between young people and their idols and proposes that the cultural identities created by young people are on a par with more ‘high brow’ artforms.
Many of the artists of the artists have worked directly with young-people, either in the creation of their artworks or in their day-to-day lives. Guy Tarrant presents cabinets of items confiscated from secondary school students collected while working as a teacher and photographer Jonathan JK Morris documented young people, who congregate in groups of up to 300 in Castle Square, Swansea, from towns across the South of Wales.
The show will also showcase video and photography made by young people from the region who worked with North Lincolnshire based artists, Annabel McCourt and Rhian Lonergan-White to explore identity and learn about new digital media.
In addition to his work in the exhibition, and supported by a grant from Arts Council England, Manchester based artist David Hancock will be working with a group of young people within Scunthorpe to create a new body of work. The new paintings and drawings will be shown as a solo exhibition at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre from 28 August to 06 November 2010.
20-21 Visual Arts Centre is North Lincolnshire’s leading venue for the contemporary visual arts. Now in it’s seventh year 20-21 has received over 350,000 visitors to it’s 6 galleries, shop and cafe in the former St. John’s Church building, Scunthorpe.
Event Contact Information
Exhibition Dates: 13 February to 15 May 2010
Artists Opening/ Preview: Saturday 27 February 2pm to 4pm
Youth Art Day of Celebration: Saturday 10 April 10am to 5pm
For further info contact: Dominic Mason (01724) 297070 dominic.mason@northlincs.gov.uk
20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Church Square
Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire
DN15 6TB
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Free Entry
www.northlincs.gov.uk/20-21
(01724) 297070
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