ARTSHED GLAISDALE

ARTSHED GLAISDALE is an experimental art space tucked away in a remote corner of the North York Moors. It provides the space for artists to focus on exhibition as an experience, with the unique, rural surrounds supplying a catalyst for creativity and a subject for dialogue.

The Programme

In 2024 the main event at ARTSHED will be an exhibition of work by James Hugonin and Nick Kennedy. The opening event will be on July 20th. Apart from the opening event viewings will be by appointment only between July 21st and August 19th. This is not a gallery open to the public on a regular basis. For a viewing between July 21st and August 19th phone 07885 544 138.

ALWAYS AND NEVER THE SAME
James Hugonin and Nick Kennedy

Always and Never the Same is a joint exhibition by British artists James Hugonin and Nick Kennedy. Although distinctive and visually different, their practices share a close bond through affinity to time, process, systems and the parameters they set themselves. For both artists, it’s a voyage of discovery into how their works manifest themselves to a place beyond the artist’s mind and the excitement this engenders. There is a ‘magic’ in the combination of processes used by both artists where the work goes beyond their perceived imaginations, and that is why they continue to produce the work that they make.

Previously at ARTSHED

SWIMMING THROUGH A DIAMOND

Bridget Riley

Francesca Simon

Rachael Clewlow

Trevor Sutton

Curated by Nick Kennedy

August 5th to September 2nd 2023

The exhibition brought together four British painters who engage with human perception through a language of reductive abstraction. Simple geometric elements such as the triangle, the circle, the rectangle and the grid provide these artists with the pictorial tools to create new worlds of syncopated rhythm, fugitive light and mutable colour. For each of these artists, painting is a process of discovery that connects them with both a particular sensation or encounter with the natural world and also with its ungraspable universal, elemental forces.

HEAD BLOCKER

Sally Taylor

May 20th to June 24th 2023

Head Blocker, was a solo exhibition of drawings by Sally Taylor. Using found materials and drawing media such as graphite, pen and pencil, Taylor creates head-like forms. Helen Welford, curator at MIMA, writes that ‘the repeated imagery in and across the series of works creates a sense of familial relationships and gives the impression that pieces are in constant chatter and interaction within and between themselves.’

BAR NOTATION

Francesca Simon

March 6th to May 5th 2023

In Bar Notation Francesca Simon presented new work, on linen, a rewarding departure from the previous work on aluminium.

In his catalogue essay Chris Yetton writes that this is a move, ‘from constructivist modernity with its reference to fabrication and bright reflective hardness to a softer airiness with painterly intimacy’. He goes on to suggest that Francesca’s work belongs to a British school of Concrete Art , headed by Bridget Riley, in which the non-figurative rules of the continental concrete artists are creatively broken, in what purports to be pure abstraction the world and its landscapes are revealed.

CONSTRUCTING EXCHANGE

Tony Charles + Jamie Macdonald

July 9th to August 6th 2022

Tony Charles and Jamie Macdonald, colleagues at the Northern School of Art, have recognised for some time that their individual practices start from the same beginnings, albeit with different visual vocabularies, and from alternate, yet complimentary, viewpoints.

The starkness of the industrial environment in Macdonald’s photographs corresponds with the sombre stoicism of those whose way of life on the oil rigs has also been dismantled. They record Macdonald’s visits to these desolate sites and provide a visual interpretation underpinned by local knowledge gained through talking to the people involved.

Concerned with the culture, history and process of photography, Macdonald’s use of analogue cameras, which involve turning out prints in the darkroom, is integral to his creative practice in both the capture and production of his work

Macdonald views the decommissioning process of a North Sea oil rig on the horizon with respect and wonder. His interest is in both the industrial and photographic and this acts as a foil to Charles’s deconstruction of painting and presentations of industrial praxis.

Charles’ work draws on his years of experience in the steel construction industry. He creates process based painterly objects using industrial paint and tools in their manufacture. He questions whether his ‘Unpaintings’ are paintings or presentations of an industrial process and whether his sculptures, created through a similar process, can resonate as ‘ironic’ art works. This approach is reinforced by an in-depth knowledge of life within the industry which continues to inform the work.

The continuing exchange between these two artists is being tested here at ARTSHED for the first time. Their visual dialogue is afforded a space in a rural environment, so different from the environment of its origins, and the viewer too is invited to compare, contrast and reflect; to analyse the aesthetic and the narrative and the interchange between these divergent visual languages. 

ACOUSTIC COLOUR

Trevor Sutton + Carol Robertson

May 14th to June 18th 2022

Acoustic Colour brought music and colour into a space that has previously had little, if any. ARTSHED, an old cart shed built for housing tools and equipment, has now been beautifully restored. Trevor Sutton and Carol Robertson's inaugural exhibition will transform it with art. Just as the acoustics of any space give us a different experience of sound and music, so too can our appreciation of art be enhanced in a new environment.

"As one might expect from living and working together for many years, our work reflects both shared preferences and distinct differences. Crucially, we use geometry and colour as key elements in enabling us to explore our relationship with the world. This exhibition brings together works we feel complement one another but also highlight our particular vernaculars.”

Trevor Sutton has a strong architectural sensibility, playing one colour off against another in formal associative arrangements.

Carol Robertson makes figure/ground relationships, often working with circles, setting the solidity and mass of geometric forms into atmospheric or light-filled spaces. 

Both artists listen to music whilst working in their studios; there is a playlist available as part of the viewing experience. 

Contact

ARTSHED
Midge Hall
Glaisdale
Whitby
YO21 2PZ
07885 544138

How to find ARTSHED

ARTSHED, Glaisdale, YO21 2PZ 

ARTSHED is at the far end of Glaisdale, approximately 3 ½ miles from Glaisdale village, taking the road for Dale End only. You are nearly there when you pass a right-hand turn to Rosedale. Do NOT take this but continue over a little bridge, then past Yew Grange Farm, past Hob Garth and then a detached barn slightly above the road. After this the road drops down and ARTSHED is the track straight ahead before the road turns to the left. The google and what3 words links below take you to the start of the track.

You can also reach ARTSHED from the moor, taking the steep downhill turn which is initially Caper Lane, turning into Common Lane half way down. At the bottom turn right and follow the instructions above, from over a little bridge.

As ARTSHED is situated on the far edge of the postcode the adjoining postcode YO21 2QA might be more helpful. 

 Using what3words turn onto the track and off the road at ///proof.adopting.sniff 

 The google pin is C46W+XCG Whitby (54.4124258, -0.8539131)