Light Lit by  Oliver Howlett

11am – 5pm Monday 26 February

Private View 7 pm Monday 26 February

This exhibition, by Oliver Howlett (a third year BA Photography in the Arts student at Swansea Institute) explores the relationship between changing light and this gallery as it changes, too.

The work will be exhibited in the Mission Gallery, Swansea, and will concentrate on the changes a gallery goes through. The work is to be shown on a day which normally would be closed to the public; in between two official exhibitions. As one exhibition is taken down there is time to reflect on the space as an empty room as apposed to a gallery space, and notice a change before the next artist comes along.

Does the gallery space stop being a gallery space if there is no work in it? Is a urinal just a functional object or a work of art if Marcel Duchamp declares to be the latter? Should a space renowned for exhibiting art always have to deliver art as such? My work will question what makes a gallery. Polaroid’s are shot to the same scale as to what is seen on the wall, only by getting in close can it record a segment of wall, so close that the camera cannot focus on the subject.

This work should encourage the viewer to ask questions about the space, what a gallery is, and how art changes and moves on within it.  The site-specific and performative recording elements to the work suggest and strengthen the ideas of change, time and space. I think of my work more as a performative installation than a photographic exhibition as the whole space will be taken into account, not just the images I place in the space.

Oliver Howlett

Bring Music

Bake Bread

7pm Friday 23 February 2007

Introducing ‘Framework’ a Swansea based Artist Collective.

We invite you to play your favourite song

and create fresh bread together.

An act of nourishment for the coming year.

All ingredients will be provided, please bring your

favourite piece of music/track on tape, CD, vinyl, MP3

Framework would like to thank:

M&S Dillane, The Bacon Stall, Stall 27A, Swansea Market

With thanks to: Swansea Food Connections

Film

Screening

7pm Wednesday 21 February 2007

Holy Cow                                                                        

Lionel Snares                                                                        

Larry Edmur’s Suit                                                            

Emile Zile

POP                                                                                      

Paul Emmanuel

Sound Effects of Death & Disaster                                         

a collaboration between John Rowley and Rob Hardy

Frunk                                                                                  

Silas Money

Photos Pattern                                                                    

Derek Yiu

Coming to Terms with Solitude                                               

A short poetic film by Martin "Sonny Boy" Williams.

Poetry by Martin Williams, visuals by Noel Hines.

Paul Emmanuel
the end
Private View 7 pm Friday 24 February – on until 26 February
Using street drop-in centre slogans, film sequences, soundtrack and location shoot. the end replaces movie title and end credits in a simulation of grand narrative. With signs of hunting and community care provision and through the re-emphasis of star billing, song listings, technical crew credits and copyright logos, the end presents the mediated spectacle of movies as DIY rehab and end credit soundtrack memorial. the end is a dual screen projection of the opening and end credits of two different movies simultaneously

Paul Emmanuel is a graduate of Goldsmiths and has shown widely in the U.K. and internationally. Most recently MOCA Los Angeles. SLY Art Taipei. Ffotogallery Cardiff and will be working in China this spring with support from Wales Arts International. He lives and works in the Brecon Beacons.

Fascination Bound
Private View 7 pm Monday 27 February – on until 3 March
Students from the Foundation Course in Art & Design at Swansea Institute of Higher Education present film and performance work.

Daniel Rees
Variable peace (up to 21)
Private View 7 pm Friday 3 March – on until 5 March
A new video work by Daniel Rees (a past SIHE Foundation Student and recent graduate of Camberwell School of Art) whose first one man show will be at Mission Gallery in 2007.

‘TITLED’
Private View 7 pm Monday 6 March – on until 10 March
Experimental film work by staff and students from the Faculty of Art & Design at Swansea Institute of Higher Education

Adam Goodge
Cliff Richard v Tom Jones
Private View 7 pm Friday 10 March - on until 12 March
A lyrical face-off between the ‘Peter Pan of Pop’ Cliff Richard and ‘Welsh Sex Bomb’ Tom Jones.

Gallery Talk 12 o’clock Saturday 11 March 2006
Meet the men behind the masks, a discussion between Cliff, Tom, Adam and Another.

Paul Jeff
Life is Perfect
7pm Wednesday 8 March
PAUL+A (aka Paul Jeff) will be posing questions on relativity, singularity and representation in regard to the recent suite of 'murder' photographs - 'Life is Perfect', - the work will be shown in projected form, in entirety, during the evening.