Newlyn Art Gallery

The future's not what it used to be

Presented across both galleries, The Future’s Not What It Used To Be is a group exhibition of international artists who explore multiple perspectives of the past, present and future.

The Long Awaited

The Long Awaited (2008) by Patricia Piccinini

At The Exchange 9th February - 13th April 2013
Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Darren Almond, Matt Bryans, Susan Hiller, Jeremy Millar, Patricia Piccinini

Launch Event:The Exchange, Friday 15th February, 7-9pm
Pay bar available, all welcome

Vernon Ah Kee appropriates text from historical events to comment on the present with theendoflivingandthebeginningofsurvival.
Tony Albert’s series of posters play on the stereotyping of cultures through using the inspirational colloquium of Be Deadly, encouraging the next generation to stand together, be positive and ‘be amazing’.
In The Last Silent Movie Susan Hiller provokes a sense of loss, with sound recordings of languages that are extinct or under threat of dying out. Patricia Piccinini’s The Long Awaited introduces an otherworldly creature.
Jeremy Millar’s photographs As Witkiewicz of Papua New Guineans completes an anthropological project begun in 1914, while Darren Almond’s Clock marks the passing of time and in Untitled Matt Bryans erases time through the labour intensive process of rubbing away details from newspapers

At Newlyn Art Gallery 16th February - 27th April 2013
Tony Albert, Darren Almond, Marjetica Potrc, Ged Quinn, Amie Seigel

Curator’s Talk:
Newlyn Art Gallery, Saturday 16th February,11am.
Join Deborah Smith, Curator and Hannah Firth, Head of Visual Arts, Chapter, Cardiff as they discuss the work and themes of The Future’s Not What It Used To Be. Free

Acre: Rural School by Marjetica Potrc is a case study of a primary school built in a remote area of the Amazon forest. Potrc’s work focuses on how to make life on earth more sustainable, accommodating humanity’s need for shelter, wellbeing andcommunity.
Tony Albert’s Be Deadly poster series are shown across both sites, promoting positive messages of Aboriginality. Darren Almond’s The Principle of Moments is an evocation of the passing and the memory of time. Ged Quinn’s paintings Places in the World to Hide and Being There consist of fragments of literature, history and mythology within pastoral landscapes resulting in complex systems of information.
Amie Siegel’s The Modernists presents a cross-section of photographs and super-8 film that document a couple through the 1970s and ‘80s and the connection to fashion, sculpture, photography and modernism that the images suggest.

A Chapter exhibition curated by Deborah Smith. The exhibition has received financial support from The Henry Moore Foundation and Queensland Government, Australia.

EXHIBITION EVENTS

Launch Event:
The Exchange, Friday 15th February, 7-9pm
Pay bar available, all welcome

Talk By Jeremy Millar:
Falmouth University, Lecture Theatre, Falmouth Campus, Woodlane, Falmouth,
Friday 15th February, 5pm
Millar’s photographs are showing as part of The Future’s Not What It Used To Be. There will be transport available after the talk from Falmouth to Penzance so that you can attend the launch event at The Exchange, returning to Falmouth. Free, but booking essential fro talk and transport at http://jeremymillar.eventbrite.com/

The Wormery Reading Group
The Cafe, The Exchange, first session Friday 15th March, 3-5pm.
The Wormery is a new reading group which will meet once during each new show at The Exchange. It will take a sidelong glance at each exhibition and discuss texts which relate to themes that emerge.
Kathryn Ashill from Chapter’s artist-led reading group Tooth&Clawr will host the first session, having selected HG Wells’ The Time Machine and Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams as companions to The Future’s Not What it Used To Be. A knowledge of art theory or visual culture is not expected, just curiosity.
Discounted copies of both texts are available from The Edge of the World Bookshop, Penzance.
Free, places limited, booking essential via eventbrite