Acme Project Space
The Acme Project Space ran from June 2009 to December 2015. It provided an opportunity for those artists who are part of our Residency & Awards Programme and our International Residencies Programme with a public space within which to develop projects, show new work and engage in a critical dialogue with a wider audience.
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Kate McMillan
‘The Potter's Field’ 4.7.2014 - 13.7.2014
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Thursday to Sunday 1pm to 6pm
Private View: Thursday 3 July, 6pm to 8pm
In this exhibition, Australian Council for the Arts London Residency artist Kate McMillan, uses film, photography, sculpture and sound to excavate the residue and ruins of place and memory.
This exhibition features the residue of images and sounds that have been traced and collected from sites associated with symbolic early memories, including a naturally occurring clay field next to the artist's childhood home, a decaying Roman castle and the sodden clay cliffs along a beach on the Isle of Wight. These residues have been manipulated and intuited into a series of small sculptures that suggest the shape and form of anxiety and heaviness. Importantly the work emphasises the use of hands as a way to mark presence and evidence the traces of self.
The work includes a two-part film that mirrors the artist's hands during studio play and the hands of percussionists and object players in the London Improvisers Orchestra during a recording for another of McMillan’s work that took place at the Rivolli Ballroom in Brockley, South East London. Parallels are made between playing instruments and making sculptural objects and the Proustian association with memory triggers. Sound has long been a key component in McMillan’s work as it defines the emotionally reading of her work.
During the private view, a series of vignettes will be performed by members of the London Improvisers Orchestra. These performances will be recorded and will provide the foundation for subsequent work. This process highlights the linkages between informing, creating and playing as new ideas evolve, incorporating them into the presentation of work. The exhibition will be accompanied by a small catalogue with text by Elizabeth Stanton.
Previous shows
- Emma Corrall — “Summer Ready/ Some Are Ready/ So Ready” (27 Nov 2015)
- Cynthia Cruz — “The Girl Who Ate All Her Hair” (30 Oct 2015)
- Aaron Wells — “Relentless Optimism, a Moment of Blindness Before and After the Dark Space” (25 Sep 2015)
- Milou van der Maaden — “in Spite of the Mass” (4 Sep 2015)
- Rosika Desnoyers — “The Creative Industry of Mary Linwood” (20 Aug 2015)
- Guan Wei and Wayne Warren — “Crossing Lines” (30 Jul 2015)
- Lydia Davies, Chris Ifould, Piotr Krzymowski, Sean Lavelle, Asta Meldal Lynge, Cameron Scott, Tilly Shiner & Nikhil Vettukattil — “juice” (5 Jun 2015)
- Candice Jacobs, Milou van der Maaden, Isa Melsheimer & Rachel Pimm — “Planta: Notes on Botanical Dissidence” (8 May 2015)
- Duncan Pickstock — “Are we there yet?” (26 Mar 2015)
- Love Enqvist — “The World Turned Upside Down” (6 Feb 2015)
- Stephen Fakiyesi & Harold Offeh — “FAKIYESI/OFFEH: How to Speak to Power?” (30 Jan 2015)
- Briony Anderson, George Charman, Bridget O’Gorman, Maria McKinney and We Colonised the Moon (Hagen Betzwieser and Sue Corke) — “From a Studio Exchange” (8 Jan 2015)
- George Charman & Adam Knight — “The Tiny Lag” (28 Nov 2014)
- Jamie Hosegood — “PUBLIC IMAGE” (24 Oct 2014)
- Sarah Duffy — “Breathless” (3 Oct 2014)
- Marianna Simnett — “Marianna Simnett” (5 Sep 2014)
- Matthew Hunt — “Dirty Pools” (29 Aug 2014)
- Kate McMillan — “The Potter's Field” (4 Jul 2014)
- Clare Price — “I Killed a Viper” (6 Jun 2014)
- Sarah Duffy and Maaike Anne Stevens — “DELVE” (9 May 2014)
- Maaike Anne Stevens — “Black Sea” (21 Mar 2014)
- Sophie Jodoin — “how permanent is permanent” (20 Feb 2014)
- Virginia Bradley — “Jeopardy” (5 Dec 2013)
- Various — “Postcard From My Studio” (4 Oct 2013)
- Ninna Bohn Pedersen — “Perforations” (19 Sep 2013)
- Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky — “Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky” (1 Aug 2013)
- Mathieu Beauséjour — “To Be Governed” (12 Jul 2013)
- Ben Cove — “Vernacular Hangover” (7 Jun 2013)
- Ninna Bohn Pedersen, RafaÅ‚ Zajko and guests — “Adjacent Practice Colliding Daily” (8 May 2013)
- Peter Burgess — “Bryant and May . . . and” (28 Mar 2013)
- Tiffany Parbs and Greg Fullerton — “Gloss” (14 Feb 2013)
- Craig Leonard — “Finesse” (7 Feb 2013)
- Roger Kite — “Pathways” (17 Nov 2012)
- Joss Cole — “What's Outside the Window?” (25 Oct 2012)
- Luke McCreadie — “Blob-content” (5 Oct 2012)
- Kate Atkin — “Like A Stone” (6 Sep 2012)
- Anna Moderato — “In Use” (22 Jun 2012)
- George Charman — “Once Again And Always New” (5 May 2012)
- Vishwa Shroff — “One eye! Two eyes! Three eyes!” (1 Mar 2012)
- Helen Johnson — “Dead Metaphor” (26 Jan 2012)
- Andro Semeiko — “Lily of Blythenhale” (11 Nov 2011)
- Rose Davey and Sarah Poots — “Rose Davey and Sarah Poots” (8 Oct 2011)
- Hagen Betzweiser & Sue Corke — “101 Harmless Scientific Experiments To Try At Home” (11 Aug 2011)
- Tom Polo — “Disappointed with many people and things” (7 Jul 2011)
- Briony Anderson / Paul McGee, George Charman, Amy Gee, Adam Knight, Haroon Mirza, Emma Smith, K. Yoland — “Sum Parts” (10 Jun 2011)
- Nedregard & Hillary — “Entrances” (6 May 2011)
- Jan Hendrickse — “Transient” (31 Mar 2011)
- Chantal Faust and Paul Knight — “I'll sit slightly behind you” (3 Mar 2011)
- Gemma Anderson — “Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists” (12 Nov 2010)
- Stephanie Kingston — “Sydney Road” (7 Oct 2010)
- Janne Malmros — “Black-veined White” (3 Sep 2010)
- David Blandy, Harold Offeh and Jan Hendrickse — “Contort Yourself” (4 Jun 2010)
- Michelle Ussher — “An Elaborate Fiction” (21 May 2010)
- Christian Quesnel — “Hearts of Clay (Coeurs d'Argile)” (4 Dec 2009)
- Margarida Gouveia, Tina Isabella Hild & Martin Karlsson — “Chance Meeting on a Drawing Table of a Zebra and a Meteorite” (2 Oct 2009)
- Revati Mann — “Re :ri: rm: hm: ha: h:i ho: hum:” (11 Sep 2009)
- Howard Dyke — “Dance of the Techno Polar Bear” (5 Jun 2009)
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