BLANK

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some of the cast of 'BLANK'.
L to R; Cheryl, Katy, Martyn, Maff

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the cast and crew of 'BLANK'.

from l to r:

Daren, Cheryl, Michael, Kelly, Nigel, Katy, Maff, Victoria

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Blank.
An exhibition Devised and Curated By Cheryl L Huntbach.

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Cheryl L Huntbach
Pinhole Drawings ( 60 )
2005

A4: Administrative formal structures of commerce / business & the intimacy of correspondence.

Discipline & repetition is used to pit gesture against calculated modes of production. Authorship thrown into question by the irony of procedure.
Repetition alluding to memory, intuition & the fragility of originality.
Concerns with gender / class / taste; the conflation of the hierarchy of domestic decoration & fine art.
Touch: the libidinal, transgressive pleasure of exquisitely puncturing the visceral surface.
Repetition not primarily to induce meditation on temporality, nor Zen contemplation, yet pursuing to its extreme a form of liberation.
Praxis: an attempt to un-pick / deconstruct the surface qualities, in order to explore the poetics of life beyond the facade.

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Pinhole Drawings
Paper (pricked)
Cheryl L Huntbach
all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Pinhole Drawings
Paper (pricked)
Cheryl L Huntbach
all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Prolaritus (16x2)
Card (cut)

Kelly Cumberland

Kelly Cumberland's interest in the link between art and microbiology is
longstanding: as a Fine Art MA student at Leeds Metropolitan University in
1998, she pioneered collaboration between the Microbiology and Radiology
departments and the department of Fine Art.

Dissected objects, drawings and paper works delicately represent the fragility
and strength of the human body. In a multi-layered response to the life of a
virus her 32 piece series of white A4 cut-out's progressively 'decay' and break
apart before reforming in perfect symmetry. They are constructed using
repetitive techniques in a sequence of 16 sections, creating delicate, varied
structures that express a sense of growth, deterioration and fragility that
accompanies disease.

The repetitive action of removal to 'construct' these works echoes the Western
Clinical tradition of (re)production and reduction. Continuous addition and
removal in order to improve or 'cure' results in a coherent body of structural
variations. Working in sequences, the construction process ensures each
component is unique, whilst still retaining the possibility to combine in the
realization of a larger single work.

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Prolaritus (16x2)
Card (cut)

Kelly Cumberland

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Prolaritus (16x2)
Card (cut)
Kelly Cumberland

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Prolaritus (16x2)
Card (cut)
Kelly Cumberland

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Untitled(blank)2005
A4 copy paper in landscape format rolled up to make a cylinder.
Rolling one sheet at a time, paper is added to the previous sheet, contributing to the growth of the cylinder's diameter. This action continues until the two short edges of the paper meet determining the cylinder's final diameter.
The pragmatic and mechanical nature of the work though simple, does need to be executed with sensitivity and precision. However, this said, it is to be expected that there will be a human touch and individual tolerence in evidence and that nuance and incident will emerge.
Perhaps it is this 'margin of error' between an idea, and its realisation, that is the location for what we call art and the poetic.

walkerhill

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Untitled Work (Blank)
paper (rolled)

walkerhill

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Untitled Work (Blank)
paper (rolled)

walkerhill
all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Daren Higham

"Thank you for believing in me…?" (blank) 2005
300 sheets of A4 paper cut and folded into the form of origami bombs, suspended and arranged as a ‘bomb shower’.
The standardised process by which each sheet of paper is subjected to, the cutting, folding and inflating which creates the form of origami bomb, is theoretically identical. But the repetitive process does not necessarily create exact copies. The minor inflections and differences in fold and handling results in a similarity, but no two are the same.
Each is a simple but unique form.
Each a character with a potential that takes up space.
Each is a bomb with potential.
If each was filled with….
Daren’s interest in multiple’s as installation is driven by and attempts to offer a confrontation, a commentary on current affairs. Our individual insecurities and indifference towards them, our apparent inability to accept and address the long histories behind these recent events and the ever growing list of named suicide bomber and victim.

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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“Thank you for believing in me…?”
paper (folded), nylon filament

Daren Higham

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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“Thank you for believing in me…?”
paper (folded), nylon filament
Daren Higham

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

2005-08-16T14:41:00.000-07:00

“Thank you for believing in me…?”
paper (folded), nylon filament

Daren Higham

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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A4 Variations
paper (photocopies)

Katy Devine

CUT COMPOSITIONS i, ii and iii
Three compositions based on the dimensions of A4 and governed by the activity of cutting

EMBOSSED LAYOUTS
Representing three different forms of correspondence - a memo, a formal letter and an informal letter

A4 VARIATIONS
A series of nine photocopies which explore ways of manipulating blank sheets of A4 paper

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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Melvin and Stencil
Cd, paper (laser-prints), text

M.Walters: the consequences of a note typed to a neighbour on a sheet of A4 paper.

all photos © 2005 the blank group and the artist

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