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Future Palette The
South West's most exciting contemporary art show of the year...
and the first chance to see the new work from the 'Colour and
Chemistry' bursary winners. Sherborne House completes the acclaimed 2006 Arts Council sponsored 'Colour and Chemistry' programme in October with an inspiring installation of experimental contemporary art 'in progress'. For the whole month of the 'Future Palette' exhibition - running from 21 October until 19 November - nearly all of the ground floor of the historic Grade 1 listed house will be cleared. Inside the perfectly proportioned Georgian interior, guest Curator Bryony Bond and her three bursary winning artists, Balint Bolygo, Stig Evans and Daro Montag, will create three fully functioning 'studios' where they will exhibit a complete record of their experiments and analyses throughout the year, as well as displaying finished work, and just as revealingly, work in progress. The groundbreaking 'open studio' featuring three brilliant young artists is the triumphant climax of a year's work at Sherborne House, where the 'Colour and Chemistry' programme - made possible by a record breaking £93,000 Arts Council grant - has involved artists, scientists, business and commercial organisations, schools and colleges, as well as community groups throughout the South West. "This vision is to fully open up each artist's work in response to the 'Colour and Chemistry' theme by displaying a 'studio/laboratory' at the House," says Curator Bryony Bond, introducing the final exhibition of five, which have attracted attention far outside the region. "The material on show will include old and new work, source and research material, equipment and substances as well as a series of 'conversations' between the artists and their mentors in the science arena. These virtual 'studios' will follow the different threads of each bursary winner's approach to the theme in order to tell a story about the development of their work. And she adds: "In a way we will be creating a modern 'Marie Celeste' three times over, actually inside Sherborne House. The public will be able to view the work, and the creative process that led to it, and interpret their own version of the story." 'Future Palette' is the most ambitious, and the last, exhibition of the full 'Colour and Chemistry' programme, which began with an open seminar in November 2005. Arts Council funding enabled Bryony Bond, working with Sherborne House Artistic Director Amanda Wallwork, to select three artists to develop new and experimental work, based around the 'Colour and Chemistry' theme. The winners were Stig Evans, currently based in Brighton, a painter whose new work is based around the analysis of the colour of emotions; Balint Bolygo, whose studio in London has been filled by experiments with Nitinol, super flexible and memory shaped alloy wire, used to create immense hanging kinetic shapes; and Daro Montag, a photographer now based in Cornwall, who has been using the land near his home to explore the boundaries between earth science and art. It is all this work, developed over the last year with mentors from the fields of science, industry and technology, together with the creative and experimental processes which led to it, which will return to Sherborne House on October 21, ensuring a fitting climax for the acclaimed 'Colour and Chemistry' programme. Comments Nick Capaldi, South West Executive Director of Arts Council, England: "Colour and Chemistry has brought together artists, scientists, children and community groups who have all learnt from each other and shared creative ideas. The project has been an exciting partnership exploring science and the natural environment through the arts. "The final exhibition shows the work of three talented artists which I think will appeal to people with all sorts of interests." . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS EXHIBITION AND THE ARTS PROGRAMME PLEASE CONTACT Amanda Wallwork:arts@sherbornehouse.org.uk" arts@sherbornehouse.org.uk 01935 816734 / 07816 224015 .
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