Proposal

Amie Cooper

Brief 2 proposal

I would like to present a collection of car/automobile themed postcards that have been found and sent back to their original owners, with a response of how it felt to receive the postcard again and the story of the car pictured. I would present them scattered on a wall including the responses which could be email, letter or phone conversation.

I am also a keen photographer and would like to include in the exhibit a series of photographs of abandoned cars around Liverpool as I think this is a theme related to the postcards but also to the exhibit environment.

"Abandond"

I will begin the next project by collecting more postcards but concentrate on collections of cars ! I will send them back to their original owners with a letter asking if the image on the front of the postcard (some sort of car!) meant to them and why that postcard was chosen ! I aim to send about 150 postcards in a hope to get enough responses for Willow Gallery exhibit .

As the postcards will be a theme for the exhibit I hope to take my work further by adding photos of abandond cars from around the North west .

Busy past few weeks

I have been researching for new projects which I will be posting soon , I have turned to photography lately using red scale film . For the willow art project exhibition I am going to visit some galleries in Liverpool for   inspiration and scrap and junk yards and take loads of videos and photo's . This exhibit is testing my creativity as I have not worked towards a brief in 3 years !!

the new brief for 2012

TORQUE – an Exhibition at the Willow Gallery, Oswestry January 2012.

A CALL FOR WORK

Who: emerging and established artists from around the West Midland and Welsh Border region

Where: The Willow Gallery, Oswestry, Shropshire

What: Sculpture/installation and wall hung work in any media, specifically created for this show

When: 06 January-07 February 2012:  Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 July 2011.

The Show:

The Gallery occupies the site of a former Peugeot dealership; for many years it was the ‘Roy Evans Garage’ and locally is still fondly remembered as such. With this in mind the central idea for the show is to revert the gallery to the appearance of a car showroom, thus creating surprise and intrigue. This focal display will be supported by further works inspired by the notions of ‘The Car’ and ‘The Showroom’. Applicants may choose from two briefs which largely correspond to the two main gallery spaces. There is also limited external space. Under the overall title ‘TORQUE’, the works should be inspired by notions such as:

·       The machine as Art.

·       Art as a machine.

·       Juxtaposition of gallery and showroom.

·       Transportation: Mind/matter.

Brief 1:

In the gallery space that was formerly the showroom, there are 5 car display bays in which we would like artists to create work that uses the body of a car as the starting point. Real car bodies may be stripped down/deformed/crushed as relevant to the artists’ idea, or artists may want to create a ‘car body’ from unconventional materials. In support of these pieces we would also like artists to create works inspired by showroom graphics and décor – the common conceptions of a car showroom. It is important that this display presents the first impression of a ‘real’ car showroom with ‘real’ cars.

There are essentially two parts to Brief 1: car based, and décor based. If any artists would like to respond to both we ask that they please submit their ideas as separate proposals.

Brief 2:

The other gallery space, known as the Dunbabin Room, and the rest of the site, will display work inspired by the same core ideas, but these pieces may take any form or media and do not have to resemble the shape of a car.