Open Season15th March – 27th April 2008
Artists in Residence
Lyn Wait
Colin Pearsall
Sue Slack
Maria Silmon
Open Season is a new initiative offering artists an opportunity to develop new, innovative and challenging work. The selected artists have an open-ended remit to challenge themselves and our audiences by making new or experimental work in public. The artists selected; Lyn Wait, Sue Slack, Colin Pearsall and Maria Silmon will present work featuring video, mixed media painting and sound installation.
The six week period of the project will be split into 3 two-week slots and offers visitors the chance to meet the artists, talk about their work, and join in the making of new works.
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15th March – 29th March
Lyn Wait Sound Installation
Wait intends to continue her engagement with notions of language, meaning and travel. She will develop a sound piece using fragments of audio recorded by residents of Ryedale for whom English is not their first language. Her work is intended to explore our responses to the impact of migration by inviting the audience to add to the soundscape in their own language. Experimenting with audio equipment Wait intends to explore ways in which she can create an environment which is sonically, spatially and physically dynamic.
30th March – 12th April
Colin Pearsall Trellis Works
Pearsall intends to produce a number of large scale collaborative mixed media works in which the artists will paint across an extendable lattice construction. These works extend the scale, scope and ambition of Pearsall’s earlier small scale paintings and can be manipulated to extend, distort and deconstruct the traditional picture surface.
Sue Slack: Hole of Horcum
Slack is a painter whose main preoccupation is the landscape. Her work takes a familiar location as the motif for a series of paintings which explore different aspects of the artist’s response to a particular place. Slack’s images explore her emotional responses to the landscape and during the residency she will be working on a series of large scale canvases based on the Hole of Horcum in the North York Moors.
13th April – 27th April
Maria Silmon Four Elements
Based in the North York Moors, digital artist, Maria Silmon intends to develop a multi-screen video installation exploring the presence of elements Earth, Air, Fire and Water in the changing seasons and aspects of the landscape around her home. Silmon has exhibited her digital images at various festivals in the UK in the last three years but this will be the first time she has presented her video work in a gallery context.
Supported by Arts Council England
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