Wednesday 12th December, 6pm
You are invited to a tour and discussion of the exhibition; led by Matt Roberts, Chairman of ALAS/Matt Roberts Arts and Paula MacArthur, artist and curator of Seeing in the Dark. Exhibiting artists Kirsty Lowry, Tom Banks, AnnaMaria Kardos, Bernice Wilson and Nick Archer will be talking about their responses and artistic practices. Explore the shadowy spaces of the disused Fletcher Centre, by torch light before we switch on the spotlights, discuss the exhibition room by room and end with drinks in Kirsty Lowry’s Light Café.
RSVP to paulamacarthur@me.com
Matt Roberts Arts is a not-for-profit organisation creating opportunities for artists in
new locations and contexts. Matt Roberts Arts offers support to creative practitioners through regular lectures, workshops, national and touring exhibitions. After five
years of providing artists’ professional development support Matt Roberts has launched ALAS as a means of sharing knowledge about ways in which artists can gain exhibition experience and exposure for their practice. The Salon Art Prize is a yearly open call competition and part of the MRA programme.
Paula MacArthur is an artist and occasional curator. Trained at the Royal Academy Schools she has exhibited widely, e.g. John Moores Biennial Liverpool, National Portrait Gallery, RA’s Sackler galleries and Summer Exhibition. MacArthur has previously curated ‘Ivon Hitchens & his Contemporaries’ at Rye Art Gallery and co-curated a RAS Post- Graduate show at the Leipzig Grassi Museum (Germany). She recently took part in the ALAS Autumn Residency with several of the exhibiting artists where the inspiration for this new project began to take shape.
