12 March 2013
Beacon is managing the Friary Studio Group at the Greyfriars building in Lincoln until March 2014. Initiated as part of the Mistaken Presence project in 2012, this is the first artist led studio group in Lincoln and is an exciting departure for visual art in the East Midlands.
If you are interested in affordable studio space, (£80/month) working alongside other artists, please email nicola@beaconartproject.com for more information. Visit the Friary Studio Group blog.
23 November 2012
COMPASS
6-28 October 2012
6-28 October 2012
Woolsthorpe Manor, Grimsthorpe Castle and Ayscoughfee Hall, Lincolnshire
NEW COMMISSIONS
Jordan Baseman, Amanda Coogan, Jem Finer, Bethan Huws
Performance programme: Amelia Beavis-Harrison, Joana Cifre-Cerda, Robert Foster, Laura Mahony, Julieann O'Malley, Hestia Peppe and Sally Anne Roberts
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Museums Journal
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Culture 24
This is Lincolnshire
The Lincolnite
Andrew Bracey
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29 October 2012
Friday 2 November 2012
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
An evening of artists’ presentations and interventions
Guests selected in association with Primary, Nottingham's newest artists' space
Rebecca Beinart, Nottingham based artist and educator
Matthew Chesney, Nottingham based artist and director of Backlit gallery and studios
Yelena Popova, Nottingham based artist
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19 January 2013
The Times Magazine, 19.01.13
Welcome to our designer chapel
Report Vinny Lee Photographs James Balston
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23 November 2012
Beacon would like to thank all of the audience who attended COMPASS, as well as the artists, volunteers, staff, freelancers and site partners who worked on the exhibition with us and thanks to everyone who has sent us kind responses to the excursion and the experience. We greatly appreciate the feedback.
Thank you too, to everyone who has participated in Beacon's other activity during the year.
Beacon has now finished the 2012 activity and we are starting to make plans for next year.
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with best wishes for a good Christmas and New Year,
Nicola and John
22 November 2012
John and I were delighted to have participated in Giant Step 2 hosted at Mostyn in Wales in October. Robert Stephen was the guest blogger to record the event and here is his write up.
Read the post here
3 September 2012
An evening of artists’ presentations and interventions
Friday 7 Sept 2012
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Guests:
Mel Brimfield
Scott Mason
Helen Stratford
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7 July 2012
An evening of artists’ presentations and interventions
Friday 6 July 2012, 7-10pm
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Sarah Staton Artist
Traci Kelly Nottinghamshire based artist, selected by The Summer Lodge (A Fine Art research event at Nottingham Trent University)
Reactor Art group
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24 June 2012
Visibility and Invisibility: Audience, Artist and Curator
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Food, conversation and debate were shared with guest speakers Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales. The programme for the day was structured around the lunch with questions before and answers after, incorporating contributions from two artists previously commissioned by Beacon, Doug Fishbone and Kelly Large.
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator, editor and artist working across a variety of media such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. He directs Mostyn, Wales’ largest and leading contemporary art centre, co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media & art production unit (co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, 2010). He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, Visiting Lecturer in various European Universities among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster, HEAD Geneva and DAI Dutch Arts Institute, and Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
www.alcramer.net
Penelope Curtis In 1988 Penelope Curtis joined the new Tate Gallery Liverpool as Exhibitions Curator. In 1994 she moved to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where as Curator, she was responsible for a programme of historical and contemporary sculpture exhibitions, collections building in sculpture and archive, and research activity including events, fellowships and publications. She has written widely on 20th-century British sculpture, on European art and architecture of the inter-war years, and on many contemporary sculptors including Thomas Schűtte, Gerard Byrne and Isa Genzken. She is author of Sculpture 1900-1945: After Rodin (OUP, 1999) and Patio and Pavilion: The place of sculpture in Modern Architecture (Ridinghouse, 2007) and has recently curated Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Penelope Curtis became Director of Tate Britain in April 2010.
8 May 2012
An evening of artists’ presentations from S. Mark Gubb and Jonathan Roberts and a Beacon Conversation: Collaborative working with Kate Genever.
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