Leslie Wilson-Rutterford

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+ Brixton Summer Arts Fair June 29 2008 (06/07/2008 - 13:20:13)

+ Summer Art Fair, on Electric Avenue, Brixton, June (29/06/2008 - 16:32:53)

Brixton Summer Arts Fair June 29 2008

A day selling my artists books and other objects at the Electric Avenue Market in Brixton, South London, hosted by Blank Canvas-Art Core Initiatives.

Summer Art Fair, on Electric Avenue, Brixton, June 29 2008

Come along and see some of my artists books alongside other artists and makers at the Summer Community Arts Event, hosted by Core Initiatives, building stronger communities through the arts.

'TIME & SPACE' artists book exhibition at launch of new gallery in Leeds

My work including: Received, With Thanks (a modern-day receipt book) and Retread, a luggage tag book will be showing alongside other artists in the maiden exhibition for a new gallery, The Bowery, in Leeds, UK.

Time: June 12, 2008 at 7pm
Location: Headingley, Leeds
Street: 54 Otley Rd
City/Town: Headingley, Leeds LS6 2AL
Website or Map: http://www.thebowery.org/
Contact Info: 0113 2242284
Event Type: Artists, book, exhibtion, private, view
Organized By: Louise Atkinson from The Artists Book Collective
Exhibition funs from: 2 June - 1 August 2008

Set within the confines of a domestic living space, Time and Space examines new book works created in response to nostalgic associations of place and memory, alluding to the obsolete, discarded and lost.

The show includes work by national and international artists, across the breadth of book art practice, exploring the book as a time-based medium in various forms, including sculpture, found objects, audio, tactile and conceptual.

Contextualised within a living room environment, the work also functions to question how we curate our own private spaces, how we present ourselves and what we choose to reveal to, and conceal from the outside world.

This environment also affords the audience the opportunity to fully appreciate and experience contemporary book works, while allowing them time and space to reflect on their own associations and memories. See more here: Bowery Gallery

If you're in the area pop in to the private View and say 'hello', or drop by and check it out! Leslie x

Making a luggage tag book

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An extra piece constructed for the RE: experimental book exhibition curated by www.weloveyourbooks.com at University of Northampton. A collaborative project, artists were asked to make a luggage tag. I continued with the theme of RE: (as in my Received, With thanks (a modern-day Receipt book), creating a stream of consciousness sequence of 'road' phrases, expressions and song titles. A progression develops, creating a new prose, which culminates in words quoted from Dante: 'Il cammin di nostra vita.* (The road of our life.)

Conception and making of Received, With Thanks

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One Night Stands #1 An Exhibition at the Gallery, Wimbledon School of Art

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Interesting exhibition at Wimbledon School of Art last Monday evening. A good turn-out of people came to see the first 'One Night Stand', one of a series of 'three teams of curators, three provocations and one space'.'The three curatorial groups are taking turns to deliver a provocation to one another and respond to a given stimulus'. Monday night's response was by 'MA curating students of Sheffield Hallam University exploring the theme of ‘defamiliarization’ in response to Victor Shklovsky’s text ‘Russian Formalist Criticism’. The provocation given to them was to take into account the nature of time-specificity'. http://1nightstands.blogspot.com/

I came across a call out from one of the participants, Diana Ali via the Arts Council newsletter. She was asking for a response to the word 'defamiliarisation'. I looked it up in the dictionary, and was none the wiser about what it meant. so, I made up a new definition: the act of obliterating all witches animals. I made an image to accompany it.

I took my little boy with me and we did the 1 and 1/2 hour journey via tube, to Wimbledon from Kentish Town. The students were friendly, and the exhibition was very good. As an artist who works with text alot, I was interested to see how words would be used in the gallery space. I also wanted to see how my contribution would be incorporated. I found out who Diana was, introduced myself and had a nice conversation with her. We agreed how dynamic it was to invite via the internet, and then integrate various contributors from around the world to make one work. A kind of global creation, which relied alot on openness and trust. I was really glad I made the effort to get there, meeting new people - artists- seeing what they're doing and sharing ideas.