Two parallel exhibition opening on Thursday 30 April 6 – 8pm. All Welcome
Rue Five & David Galletly
How Children Learn
1 May – 6 June
(See info below)
Julian House/Ghostbox
The New Spirit Happening
2 May – 6 June 2009
The New Spirit Happening is the first exhibition by Julian House, co-founder of Ghostbox records who records under the name The Focus Group. He is also an acclaimed graphic designer with Intro, best known for his work for bands including Primal Scream, The Prodigy, Oasis and most relevantly, Stereolab and Broadcast.
The New Spirit Happening,is an exhibition of collected ephemera, screenprints and moving image that hints at the supernatural phenomena and events taking place at the new spirit hall in Belbury, a fictional provincial English town. London-based House’s work is largely collage-based, and draws on record design and comic book art, with an acknowledgement of pulp influences.
His visual work and music are united by a shared obsession with ‘a very British kind of weird’ – library music, folklore, programmes for schools and collages, British horror movies, lost soundtracks, haunted landscapes, defunct educational establishments and supernatural stories by the likes of Algernon Blackwood.
For The New Spirit Happening these influences spill over into The Changing Room’s 18th century gallery space.
Produced for Le Weekend music festival, Tolbooth, Stirling www.leweekendfestival.com The New Spirit Happening tours to Analogue Books, Edinburgh in June 09 www.analoguebooks.co.uk
Rue Five & David Galletly
How Children Learn
Part one: Killycode
1 May – 6 June
Part two: Naughts & Crosses
9 – 27 June
How Children Learn is a two-part collaborative project by Stirling-based artists / designers, Rue Five and David Galletly. Working cumulatively they will transform the gallery into an idiosyncratic environment, folding one body of work into the next until - by part two of the exhibition, the entire gallery space will be taken over by the project.
Galletly and Rue Five are influenced by Scottish folklore and culture, creating characters and environments that are reflections of both local customs and the urban sprawl.
Brought to life with their signature style of hand-crafted imagery, How Children Lean features new drawings, sculpture and installation that brings the diverse methods, styles and influences of the two artists’ work together in one tightly knit collaboration.
ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES
London-based Julian House is co-founder of the record label Ghostbox, for which he records and releases his own music under the name The Focus Group. He is best known for his commercial output for the design collective Intro, and his graphic design work for bands including Primal Scream, The Prodigy, Oasis, Razorlight, Stereolab and Broadcast. For more information visit www.ghostbox.co.uk and www.introwebsite.com
David Galletly currently lives and works as a graphic designer and illustrator in Stirling. Recent solo exhibitions include Janny Netties, Amble, Philadelphia (2008) and Sideshow, The Changing Room, Stirling (2007). Group exhibitions include Illustrative 08, Zurich Messehallen (2008) and at Here Shop & Gallery, Bristol (2008), Wanderlust, Sub Octo Gallery, Philadelphia (2007), Complete Control and Rouge, Flesh Design, Edinburgh (2006). He is currently working on a new issue of Running Amok a publication series by Analogue Books, Edinburgh and In The Woods & At The Sea, a book of poems for Stuart Crutchfield. For more information visit http://galletly.blogspot.com.
Scottish artist Rue Five’s work comprises a variety of mediums including painting, illustration, typography, sculpture, photography, film, animation and graffiti. His art touches on the notion of survival and instinct. Streetwise and fanciful, Five’s creations inhabit an Autumnal tinged world. His solo exhibition Finger Discount was at The Changing Room, Stirling in 2007. Recent group exhibitions include Holiday Special, Re-Coat, Glasgow (2008), The Cans II Festival, The Leake St. Tunnel, London (2008) and Wanderlust, Sub Octo Gallery, Philadelphia (2007). For more information visit www.ruefive.com and http://ruefive.blogspot.com
