Aedas Presents - project managed, marketed and promoted by PlatformE
From 2010 to 2012 Aedas Presents was an ongoing programme of art exhibitions lead by PlatformE and independent curator Charlie Levine. It was founded to support and showcase the work of emerging artists, students and graduates from local universities and colleges and to help them get on the first rung on the career ladder in the United Kingdom.
Key supporters include the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at University College Birmingham, the Birmingham Library, the Royal Institute of British Architects and Arts Council West Midlands.
30 artists | 12 exhibitions | 2,000+ audience
Key supporters include the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at University College Birmingham, the Birmingham Library, the Royal Institute of British Architects and Arts Council West Midlands.
30 artists | 12 exhibitions | 2,000+ audience
Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar
Bharti Parmar made a piece work about substitution for Aedas Presents. By making an intervention within the space and fabric of the studio, she has substitute a green designer shagpile carpet to make us think again of what we see.
SHAG is a human hair sculpture. The hair has been sourced from wigmakers’ suppliers and originates from Europe and China. Additionally, hair donated by staff at Aedas has been incorporated into the carpet. SHAG contains over £700 worth of hair.
SHAG is an important artwork and in placing it within a minimal corporate space it brings to mind notions of discomfiture, taboo, fetish and matter out of place. The accompanying video provides insight into the artist’s process of making the carpet.
See a copy of the video HERE.
SHAG is a human hair sculpture. The hair has been sourced from wigmakers’ suppliers and originates from Europe and China. Additionally, hair donated by staff at Aedas has been incorporated into the carpet. SHAG contains over £700 worth of hair.
SHAG is an important artwork and in placing it within a minimal corporate space it brings to mind notions of discomfiture, taboo, fetish and matter out of place. The accompanying video provides insight into the artist’s process of making the carpet.
See a copy of the video HERE.
Aedas Presents Illuminate
Birmingham City University’s MA Product Design students present sixteen illuminated ceramic model buildings inspired by the diverse range of architecture from our city.
Research for the project involved visiting the buildings by day and night and uncovering their unique histories and importance to the people of Birmingham. Architectural styles vary from neo-classical to modernist and brutalist to post-modernist.
Each building has its own story to tell, represented through the chosen lighting effects produced. Along with the illuminated ceramic buildings, graphical presentations, original plaster casts and interesting mishaps will also be on display.
Research for the project involved visiting the buildings by day and night and uncovering their unique histories and importance to the people of Birmingham. Architectural styles vary from neo-classical to modernist and brutalist to post-modernist.
Each building has its own story to tell, represented through the chosen lighting effects produced. Along with the illuminated ceramic buildings, graphical presentations, original plaster casts and interesting mishaps will also be on display.
Aedas Presents i have glimpsed the future
Aedas Presents i have glimpsed the future explores issues arising with scientific and medical experiments and discoveries.
Boundaries between fact and fallacy are blurred in order to challenge the assumptions including 'the camera never lies' and 'seeing is believing'. Anne Guest works across various media which includes video, photography, drawing, text and found objects.
Boundaries between fact and fallacy are blurred in order to challenge the assumptions including 'the camera never lies' and 'seeing is believing'. Anne Guest works across various media which includes video, photography, drawing, text and found objects.
Aedas Presents: Sparrow + Castice VS.
'Sparrow+Castice VS...' is a show in which we make work in direct competition with other artists on topics chosen at random, both selected by an impartial curator Charlie Levine. It is conceived in an attempt to demonstrate our fascination with the peculiar collision that is working against and alongside other people (artists, curators, the audience etc.) simultaneously.
Aedas Presents artistswill be 'battling' Sparrow + Castice on the following topics for you to pick your favourite from: "Interiors"(Kate Peel), "Balance" (Chris Clinton), "One Hundred Pounds"(Daniel Salisbury), "Structure" (Aedas Architects), "Presentation" (Edward Wakefield) and "Negative" (Annabel Dover).
Aedas Presents artistswill be 'battling' Sparrow + Castice on the following topics for you to pick your favourite from: "Interiors"(Kate Peel), "Balance" (Chris Clinton), "One Hundred Pounds"(Daniel Salisbury), "Structure" (Aedas Architects), "Presentation" (Edward Wakefield) and "Negative" (Annabel Dover).
Aedas Presents Tom Butler
Aedas Presents was delighted to showcase the works of US artist Tom Butler for a month long show.
Tom is fascinated by the human desire both to hide and to perform. His studio practice conspicuously conceals found images of people by incorporating personal symbols such as hair, hoods, mirrors and masks and in the process attempt to reveal aspects of imagined inner personalities. For example, the Victorian Cabinet Cards with gouache painting on the surface. He uses these portraits as psychological clotheshorses in which to create grotesque and sinister scenarios, enabling him to project thoughts, fears and anxieties in an immediate and direct way and often with a macabre sense of humour. The people in these portraits are part of a community, a subliminal citizenship of his imagination.
Tom is fascinated by the human desire both to hide and to perform. His studio practice conspicuously conceals found images of people by incorporating personal symbols such as hair, hoods, mirrors and masks and in the process attempt to reveal aspects of imagined inner personalities. For example, the Victorian Cabinet Cards with gouache painting on the surface. He uses these portraits as psychological clotheshorses in which to create grotesque and sinister scenarios, enabling him to project thoughts, fears and anxieties in an immediate and direct way and often with a macabre sense of humour. The people in these portraits are part of a community, a subliminal citizenship of his imagination.
Aedas Presents Craig Marchington
For this exhibition, Marchington experiments with the possibilities of 3D photography. He has previously created a series entitled 'Hidden Manchester' drawing attention to the unsung urban beauty-spots of the city, emphasised in an immersive and interactive medium.
For his 'Aedas Presents' showcase, Craig has adventured his way around Birmingham's canals and back streets, taking in the post-industrial Jewellery Quarter, before winding his way up onto the roof Aedas' own Colmore Plaza, the very venue of the show.
For his 'Aedas Presents' showcase, Craig has adventured his way around Birmingham's canals and back streets, taking in the post-industrial Jewellery Quarter, before winding his way up onto the roof Aedas' own Colmore Plaza, the very venue of the show.
Aedas Presents In To View
For Aedas Presents Birmingham based artist, Caitlin Griffiths, debuted a new film and several Aedas specific text pieces. Continuing within her past work theme of identity and relationship, Griffiths' new work looks into perhaps the closest relationship of all - the relationship between father and daughter. In addition, Griffiths cuckooed herself into the stories of some Aedas employees and created some additional new site specific text pieces.
Aedas Presents Matthew Andrew
Matthew Andrew's work explored one's preconceptions of what a reference photograph should be and how much information is conveyed to the viewer using a visual medium such as photography. He is interested in the relationship between truth, knowledge and photographic representation.
Aedas Presents Matt Robinson
Matt Robinson’s work whisks together a violent harmony of mind bending puns associated with perception. Matt playfully borrows from a wide array of visual techniques associated with advertising, religious iconography, and many other sources which, take form into a one-off sculpture to be exhibited only this once.
Aedas Presents Jo Gane
The third event in a series of exciting exhibitions promoting students and emerging artists; Aedas Presents Shadow Maps - the work of Jo Gane.
For Aedas, Gane assembled a body of work made with teams of field archaeologists at various dig sites which explored the search for evidence of history and plotting of time within the landscape. Instead of unearthing finds, the archaeologists spend time chasing shadows and mapping out past events.
The installation for Aedas Presents included both photographs of archaeological constructions and projections of shadows. The photographs act to give the shadows a physical reference point and will describe the functioning of time as a mapped spatial dimension, whilst the shadows will describe the unknown historic events that occurred within these sites.
For Aedas, Gane assembled a body of work made with teams of field archaeologists at various dig sites which explored the search for evidence of history and plotting of time within the landscape. Instead of unearthing finds, the archaeologists spend time chasing shadows and mapping out past events.
The installation for Aedas Presents included both photographs of archaeological constructions and projections of shadows. The photographs act to give the shadows a physical reference point and will describe the functioning of time as a mapped spatial dimension, whilst the shadows will describe the unknown historic events that occurred within these sites.
Aedas Presents Accessorise
Aedas Presents showcased 18 alternative lifestyle products for the Triumph motocyle owner, based on compomets from the Triumph Bonneville T100 by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design MA Product Design students.
Presented with a first prize of a voucher plus a weeks work placement with Triumph, Nick Orme.
Second place, presented with a voucher, Wa Ya-Lin for her fuit bowls
Third place, presented with a voucher, Elena Matayas for her jacket stand.
Presented with a first prize of a voucher plus a weeks work placement with Triumph, Nick Orme.
Second place, presented with a voucher, Wa Ya-Lin for her fuit bowls
Third place, presented with a voucher, Elena Matayas for her jacket stand.
Aedas Presents Hannah Ainsworth
The first event in a series of exciting exhibitions promoting students and emerging artists; Aedas Presents showcased the work of Hannah Ainsworth.
For Aedas, Ainsworth assembled some of her most important works, focusing on matters relationship with light, movement and surface. Durationwas explored through work that is in a state of decomposition alongside a process that could be eternal. Perceptual experience measured through time is tantamount to the reading of Ainsworths work and these works in particular.
For Aedas, Ainsworth assembled some of her most important works, focusing on matters relationship with light, movement and surface. Durationwas explored through work that is in a state of decomposition alongside a process that could be eternal. Perceptual experience measured through time is tantamount to the reading of Ainsworths work and these works in particular.