"I just want to be taken seriously as an artist...etc"
Shari Hatt
31/03/2012 - 25/05/2012
Launch event Friday 30 March 6.30-8.30pm
Open Thursday - Sunday 12am-6pm or by appointment
LAST Fridays, part of the South London Art Map, late openings monthly 6.30-8.30pm
"Shari Hatt’s photograph’s are brilliant and they really challenge the notions of personality, identity, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and you-name-it. You can’t imagine the lightning storms in my brain when I entered the gallery! " - Douglas Coupland
Space Station Sixty-Five is delighted to present a new exhibition by celebrated Canadian artist Shari Hatt.
This exhibition is the first in a series of preview shows in our new space in Kennington, SE11. In due course the new site will include an expanded repertoire of activities, including studios and café, representing a major new addition to the South London Art Scene, and a considerable expansion of our organisation.
Shari Hatt is a multi award winning visual artist from Nova Scotia, Canada. Hatt’s work often blurs distinctions between high and low culture and reaches beyond the usual gallery or museum visitor to a far wider and diverse audience.
This much anticipated solo exhibition showcases the first presentation of the UK Dog Portrait Series, work originally produced for exhibition at The Public Gallery in the West Midlands in 2009. The exhibition also features the provocative photographic series Clown Portraits (2006) and corresponding video I just want to be taken seriously as an artist… (2007). Also presented is Hatt’s latest video The Studio Visit (2011) and watercolour series Disappointing Paintings (2011).
Hatt’s work is included in collections such as: The Art Bank of the Canada Council, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Banff Centre for the Arts and The Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography/The National Gallery of Canada.
Shari Hatt takes photographic portraits of dogs that demand attention. She has been commissioned to create dog portraits for a broad and diverse fan base that includes luminaries such as the late designer Alexander McQueen.
In the video works I just want to be taken seriously as an artist… and The Studio Visit, Hatt uses humour and ‘clowning around’ to alert the viewer on the act of viewing. As the jokes often fall flat in these powerful pieces of work, the viewer is purposely put in an uncomfortable place, and confronted with ‘one’s expectations’ and the work’s unwillingness to comply.
Hatt reveals an intimate perception of contemporary art, its market and its codes. Masquerade, intellectual masturbation and hermetic language serve a personal, psychological and sociological commentary. The clown figure, an emblem of ridicule and entertainment, questions the line between art and spectacle. To complement the photographic and video works, Hatt also presents a new watercolour series Disappointing Paintings exploring the nature of humour and disillusion.
Shari Hatt also works collaboratively with her Chihuahua Garry-Lewis James Osterberg, a soft sculptor artist and Iggy Pop tribute dancer.
Dogs (on leash) are welcome to attend.
Notes to Editors:- For more information, please contact: Jo David 07976 601281, jodavid@me.com or Rachael House 07815 286340, rachaelhouse@me.com
Shari Hatt
1. Shari Hatt has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally. She has received grants and scholarships from The Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Saidye Bronfman School of the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council.
2. In 2003, Shari was invited by the Canada Council to be Artist in Residence at Space Studios in London, UK and later awarded a New York International Residency, USA. Hatt was a 1999 recipient of The Celanese Fellowship from The Canadian Bureau for International Education, the 2000 recipient of The Barbara Spohr Photography Award from the Banff Centre for the Arts and the 2001 recipient of the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council for the Arts.
3. In 1999, on the CBIE Fellowship, Hatt worked as the Official Photographer to the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Shari Hatt is currently an OAC Chalmers Professional Development Fellow.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/dec/10/photography-art?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/11/photography?INTCMP=SRCH
Space Station Sixty-Five
1. Space Station Sixty-Five (SS65) is an artist-run space based in South-East London. Co-directed by artists Rachael House and Jo David, SS65 was founded by them in July 2002.
2. After nine years of curation, our East Dulwich shop front gallery and project space has become a base from which to re-launch as an expanded organisation, to include studios, bursaries and more.
3. At SS65, we continue to curate the contemporary art we love in accessible venues, unswayed by fashion, trends and the whims of government funding.
4. The SS65 project involves ongoing research into the placing of contemporary art, its audiences and its relationship to the everyday. We place great emphasis on location, with an open door policy. We foster a large, lively and diverse audience.
5. Window exhibitions engaged with the street when the space was not open to the public. We experimented with the way the building was used, exploring the nature of an art space and how to use it.
6. Notable recent SS65 projects include: Misericord by Cathie Pilkington and Jay Cloth, The Marquis of Camberwell, part of Live on Stage at a Camberwell Pub, Carny Town at The Portman Gallery, Peckham Pet-Tastic 3, The Dulwich Horror, window installations at The Waterloo Health Centre (a working GP surgery) and The Peckham Experiment at Camberwell Space, SS65 and other sites in Southwark.
7. Recently the organisation has begun supporting other arts initiatives with which we share similar aims. These include Transfabulous and Drawn Out and Painted Pink at The Drill Hall.
8. Visit the website: www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
Exhibition listings information:
Space Station Sixty-Five
373 Kennington Road, London
SE11 4PS
020 8299 5036
www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
info@spacestationsixtyfive.com
Buses: 3, 36, 59,133,155,185,196, 333, 360, 415, 436
Rail: Vauxhall (then bus)
Tube: Kennington, Oval
Free Admission. Ground floor, wheelchair access.
Space Station Sixty-Five is currently undertaking a process of expansion, which includes these new premises in Kennington. We will keep you informed about exciting future developments.
Please continue to use this postal address until further notice- Space Station Sixty-Five, 65 North Cross Road, SE22 9HP
|
