Carlie-Rose Laverack
AUX

Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Friday 26th February 2010
SATELLITE
61 Thornton Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4AW
United Kingdom
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday

SATELLITE is proud to present
AUX
A new work by Carlie-Rose Laverack.

aux·il·ia·ry
–adjective
1.
additional; supplementary.
2.
used as a substitute or reserve in case of need.
4.
giving support; serving as an aid; helpful.

Satellite is pleased to announce it’s next project Aux a new work by Carlie-Rose Laverack.

The work of Lancashire based artist Carlie-Rose Laverack seems to operate within the realm of paradox by creating situations that are at once a simulation and subversion of their environment.

Laverack’s adaptation of the gallery space is a reflex of her shrewd response to site: responding with calculated discerption to detail and context in order to ensnare you into the counterfeit situation she has created. Her work lies within real time but simultaneously defeats this model.

The seeming normality of the situations created by Laverack creates a logical puzzle that by impulse we try to solve through rational analysis. The environments and interventions she creates speak in a language that describes a circumstance, sometimes banal and always entirely acceptable. Her work relies upon our compulsion to rationalize and uses this inherent human quality in order to exploit it.
2008 work “Temporary Measures” used the claustrophobic nature of a gallery located within a disused underground vault room to enhance the volatility of the space. On entering one assumed there had been an interruption to the exhibition: scaffolding erected centre-space holding up a freshly built concrete support seemingly providing the structural function of preventing the ceiling from bowing and caving in. Through this construct a constant but irregular drip fell through a screw and into a mixing bucket below – indicating a leak from the storey above: a frequent cause of structural damage to a building. The success of this work was completely dependant upon the fastidious attention to detail with which the scenario was engineered, making it completely impervious to scrutiny of its authenticity. It sat not just within the realm of plausibility but the presence held by the work, although overbearing in words, fit so astutely with the space that once the realisation of it being a ruse crept into consciousness, it placed your awareness of the entire situation into conflict and accelerated doubt.

The concept of adaptation is closely linked to a recurrent concern in Laverack’s work: hinged upon the process of perception and offering a believable version or ulterior state. This relates not just to the work but to many of the spaces that Laverack uses whether intentionally or by consequence. From within the framework of project spaces and galleries which modify for purpose an expansive range of disused spaces: underground, above businesses and so on, the fluidity of contemporary art practice has to varying degrees had to fit the circumstances that are able to support it at the time. These works seem to describe a diminishing response or loss of harmony between the individual and wider environment: challenging the existing state and forcing a viewer to participate in an additional loop of repetition and banality.

Laverack’s work is marked with scepticism of its environment, a friction with its context that exerts its own terms of engagement.

SATELLITE is an independent 4 x 3 meter white cube project space for contemporary art situated at Alt Vinyl Record Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
www.satellitesatellite.org

To celebrate the opening of AUX refreshments will be served on the preview evening.
It will also present a special opportunity to browse the Alt Vinyl record collection out of hours, which specialises in rare, deleted and beautiful records, cds, cassettes and all sonic formats.
http://www.altvinyl.com

Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping

FIELD

Preview: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Saturday 23rd January 2010
SATELLITE
61 Thornton Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4AW
United Kingdom
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday

SATELLITE is proud to present

Field

an exhibition of works by Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping

‘FIELD’ marks a new and important development in the dialogue between Glasgow-based artists Ciara Phillips and Jane Topping. Both influenced by language and with a shared interest with the simultaneous promise and frustration of meaning, an abrasive conversation with the viewer.

Towards a semi-autonomous self-perpetuating art (phone sex)

an audio installation by Cai Nyahoe

Duration: 5min 44sec

(phone sex) presents a recent audio work in which Cai Nyahoe initiates a conversation surrounding his artistic practice with a stranger by calling a sex line.

During the length of the phone call that dictates the duration of the artwork Nyahoe broaches a discussion with an outsider to his practice who is completely unfamiliar with its terms or manifestations and yet is willing to embrace it on a wholly accepting level on the terms of her aim to satisfy Nyahoe’s desire – in this case to be accepted as an artist.

The ambiguous tone of the conversation in which the phrase “my art / your art” is used repeatedly but without specification questions the level of autonomy that exists in artistic practice.

Satellite is proud to present ‘_’ a solo exhibition of new works by Rachel Adams.
Adams’ practice is rooted in an exploration of domestic material, looks at the balance between the functional and the decorative and investigates the position that such material holds within a culture of mass production. Sculpture plays a fundamental role in Adams’ process and acknowledges the the post-minimal sculpture. Revisiting crafted upholstery materials and techniques such as drapery trims and tassel fringes through sculpture, drawing and animation, her work sets up a new dialogue with old fashioned and typically feminine objects and processes. These installations present anthropomorphic qualities, and show new objects, which balance domestic, utilitarian and fetishist influences.

SATELLITE is proud to present TUNDRA a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Graeme Durant.
Durant’s work stems from personal reflections upon certain materials and their transformations. Like the anagrammatical use of the artists name embedded in the title of the exhibition (that points, romantically, towards a collectively held understanding of the vast, treeless, perma-frost of a body of land); Durant similarly reorders a formalist sculptural vocabulary of form, volume and matter to play host to personal memory and experience.

For the 3rd exhibition at SATELLITE we are delighted to present Sunflowers a new video work by Noel Clueit. Sunflowers sees Clueit take on a “Van Gogh Color Workroom” booth at a shopping centre in Preston. Clueit enters the suped-up passport photo booth and follows the instructions, narrated in a hybrid international american accent generated by the machine; encouraging him to have his own portrait painted in any 4 of Van Gogh’s wide ranging styles. At the crucial point Clueit unveils a Van Gogh publication purchased from the nearby discount bookstore and holds up an image of “Sunflowers” Van Gogh’s iconic painting and perhaps the most reproduced artwork in history.

For its second exhibition SATELLITE is delighted to present new work by Susie Green.WANTING IT, HAVING IT is an installation that continues to explore Greens interest in the themes of desire, escapism, otherworldliness, and transcendence. Greens practice combines many disciplines with a strong grounding in sculpture, evident through an ongoing exploration of materials and their possible combinations. In new works, it is readily available and cheap materials such as Argos catalogues, free newspapers, gold coloured vinyl, and tissue paper that are carefully and subtly re-appropriated.

For its inaugural exhibition SATELLITE presents a series of new paintings by Mike Pratt (b.1987, Seaham, UK). Pratt’s large canvases immediately engage us with frank and achingly simple phrases borrowed from contemporary life: LOL, I’M WITH STUPID, andHUBBA HUBBA are caked with layers of mixed paint types, from Gloss to Oil to Spray. Each action obliterates the last until the ‘right’ statement has the last word. Pratt’s work knowingly references abstract expressionism, pop art and the paintings of Richard Prince and Christopher Wool whilst maintaining their own immediate and sophisticated language.