Prepare to Cheer
Amelia Crouch's new site responsive artwork Prepare to Cheer launches at Leeds Town Hall. A series of 6 brass plaques refer to both past and present, symbolic and functional uses of Leeds Town Hall commemorating cumulative, everyday or fabled activities alongside the grand events usually included in such inscriptions.
Also launching are the Postcard Project in which postcards were distributed around Leeds for people to adorn with their Town Hall memories, and Leeds Town Hall - Inside Out a photography project by David Lindsay.
Prepare to Cheer
Launch: 10 March 2011, 4.30-6.30pm
Leeds Town Hall
The Headrow
LS1 3AD
The work will remain in place for the
foreseeable future and be viewable during
the Town Hall's regular opening hours
(Mon-Fri 9.30-4.30).
Amelia has been commissioned by PSL Project Space Leeds to create some new work in response to the Artemis archive.
Artemis is the artefact and art loan service for Education Leeds. The service holds 10,500 objects including many from world cultures in its Holbeck storage facility. Six artists, including Amelia Crouch, Rhiannon Silver, Lisa Stansbie and Nathan Walker, have been commissioned to work with the Artemis collection and to produce new projects in response for the spaces at PSL. The project runs from 20 April – 31 July 2011.
Video works by Amelia - Fences I and II and Worth (all will be well) - will be exhibited in the exhibition Home from Home. The exhibition curated by Louise Atkinson.
With ideas ranging from the domestic to displacement, over 80 artists from 7 different countries have contributed to this years Artist Book Collective exhibition around the theme of Home. 153 Woodhouse Lane is the setting for Home from Home, to be shown alongside the 14th Leeds International Artist Book Fair. As a spacious Victorian terrace situated over three floors, it provides the perfect backdrop for this site-specific exhibition >>more>>
Amelia is exhibiting a series of her 'Text Pieces' in the Richmond Atrium at Bradford University with Gallery II
Text Pieces
20th September 2010 - 24th January 2011
Richmond Atrium, ground floor
University of Bradford
Richmond Road
Bradford
BD7 1DP
01274 233365
www.brad.ac.uk/gallery
Text Pieces
Amelia Crouch's combination of images and words explore the relationship between looking and language and Amelia's interest in the potential differences in how visual and verbal media address a viewer.
With an emphasis placed on word as opposed to image these compositions have as much, if not more, to do with textual structure - formal arrangements of language, incident and time - as spatial or pictorial concerns.
The pieces explore how image and language aren't always distinct but intermingle in processes of fantasy and interpretation. Although the human body is never visually represented the works are frequently figurative, representing human actions and interactions.
Amelia has a new billboard work 'Concourse Quartet,' commissioned by Leeds Met Gallery, on display at Leeds Railway Station
Concourse Quartet
8th August - 5th October 2010
Billboard in Leeds Railway Station concourse,
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/arts
Amelia is taking part in 'Global Studio' at the Bluecoat, Liverpool. As part of The Royal Standard's contribution to 'Global Studio' artist Hamish McLain has initiated a group exhibition looking outside of his own painting practice, to see how artists working in other mediums realise their ideas. Featuring work by Andrew Bracey, Amelia Crouch, Michael Lent and Hamish McLain.
Thinking Outside the Box
27th April - 9th May
10am-6pm, daily.
the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
www.the-royal-standard.com
www.thinkingoutsidethebox-globalstudio.blogspot.com
www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk
Amelia has been taking part in a writing project with Critical Communities. In December a resultant publication RITE will be published by New Work Network.
London launch: 12th December, Toynbee Hall at the New Work Network AGM and Christmas social.
Leeds launch in January, details coming soon.
www.newworknetwork.org.uk
RITE is a collection that brings together 18 original texts by UK based art writers that enact expanded acts of criticism, question the essay form, use language as material and attempt to work the different ways that writing can be on or about new work.
Contributors include Emma Bennett, David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg, Emma Cocker, Hannah Crosson, Amelia Crouch, Chloe Dechery, Tim Jeeves, Emma Leach, Johanna Linsley, Joanna Loveday, Charlotte Morgan, Mary Paterson, Jim Prevett, Nathan Walker and Wood McGrath.
RITE is commissioned by New Work Network, designed by Wood McGrath, edited by Open Dialogues and produced by the members of Critical Communities. It includes a foreword by New Work Network and introduction by Open Dialogues. External editorial advisor Maria Fusco. All material is copyright the authors and Critical Communities 2009.
Amelia is exhibiting in A Room Of Words at South Square Gallery.
Launch: 4th December
Exhibition continues: 5th December - 24th January 2009.
Tues-Sun 12.00-15.00.
South Square Gallery
South Square
Thornton
Bradford
BD15 3LD
1274 834 747
www.southsquarecentre.co.uk
Featuring Alice Bradshaw. Amelia Crouch. Annie Carpenter. Shaeron Caton-Rose. Emma Fotherby. Livia Garcia. Jenny Hall. Peter Lund. Denise McIlroy. Merry Swarbrick. Giulia Resteghini. Emmy Twigge. Simon Warner. Lois Whitehead and Amy Wong.
Curated by Deborah Britton
Amelia several works included in The Writing on the Wall at Artlink in Hull as part of the Humber Mouth Literature Festival.
Launch: 4th June 6.30-8.00pm
Exhibition continues: 5th June - 6th July 2009.
Mon-Sat 10am-4pm.
Artlink
Centre for Community Arts
87 Princes Avenue
Hull
HU5 3QP
01482 345104
www.artlink.uk.net
Artists featured in the exhibition are: Diana Ali, Rupert Clamp, Amelia Crouch, Pascal-Michel Dubois, Analiese Jones, Janet Sainsbury, John Steel and Mandy Williams. Amelia will be running a workshop 'Suggestive Space' to co-incide with the exhibition on 20th June. To download the full programme of talks and workshops click here.
Amelia has been nominated for the Site '09 Darbyshire Award. Her work 'Self Same' will be exhibited at Museum in the Park as part of the Site '09 festival, Stroud.
Amelia's work 'Dream Home' is featuring in It's not the end of the world at Leeds Met Gallery alongside works by Mona Hatoum, Cornellia Parker, Sophie Calle, Bob and Roberta Smith, Emma Kay, Donald Rodney, Gary Hume and Asha Krause.
15th January - 14th February 2009.
Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Thurs to 7pm.
Leeds Met Gallery
Leeds Metropolitan University
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
0113 2242284
www.lmu.ac.uk/arts/
It's not the end of the world was curated by a group of 16-18 year olds as part of the gallery's 'Young Curator's' programme. Employing art to survey and articulate their concerns about current issues, Leeds Met's Young Curators have chosen a number of works that they feel reflect the significant effects of corporate finance and global terrorism.Leeds Met Gallery's Young Curators are Emma Binns, Leanne Findlay, Ainslie Innes, Katie Iveson, Theo Temple and Alanah Whittaker-Thompson.
Amelia has a solo exhibition In the body of the text at the Bowery, Leeds.
Launch: 27th Nov 2008, 6pm onwards.
Exhibition continues 28th Nov 2008 - 6th Feb 2009.
Mon-Fri 8am-7pm, Sat & Sun 9am-6pm.
Christmas closing 25th Dec 2008 - 5th Jan 2009.
Bowery Visual Arts
54 Otley Rd
Headingley
Leeds
LS6 2AL
0113 2242284
www.thebowery.org.uk
In the body of the text presents a series of works that use words to evoke figurative, visual images. The works explore how self-identity and the relationships we form are affected by the representations that we have access to. The exhibition runs alongside Imaginary Universe by Bryony Pritchard.
