The Sculpture Network Brunch 2014

Miles and Dacombe were invited to show InTenz, their mobile sculpture kit as part of the Kettering sculpture network exhibition, part of the 5th International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture. The sculpture network international New Year Brunch, was an opportunity for sculptors to connect at the same time, in different 14 different venues throughout  Europe. The Brunch took place at 181 Stamford Road Kettering artspace Susan Williams Sunday 19^th January 2014 between 10.00 - 2.00. 

The event was a wonderfully warm, lively, joyful event beautifully hosted by artist Susan Williams with homemade soup, scrumptious cakes, wine and hot drinks. 

In Susan's studio there were laptops and computers live-streaming the event, films and slideshows showing work from the artists in Kettering alongside international artists. 

The sculptures were installed in the garden, summerhouse and outbuilding and after weeks of rain and a 

very cold, grey installation day, the sun put in an appearance enabling visitors to walk and explore under vivid blue sky.

the event timeline

getting the slideshows ready

international linkup - live streaming

artists and friends raising a toast with artists in other venues and timezones

InTenz at York Minster - part of the rolling slideshow

artist films being simultaneously projected and shown on screens

The exhibition included work by 

Susan Williams, 

Graham Keddie, 

Sharon Read, 

Christina en Bosch, 

Jill Hedges, 

Warren Shaw

Miles and Dacombe

 The Sculptures

InTenz by Miles and Dacombe

a piece made during our Fingerprints on the Pew project

Inspired by St Peter and St Andrews Church

Beanfield Avenue, Corby

exploring the space from the inside

 it was great to see the work in an urban garden setting

Kasia Williams thought that being inside InTenz was like being inside her mind with thoughts converging and creating new or different viewpoints.

The sculpture is made of three identical tent-like structures that can be configured in a multitude of arrangements. The three tent-like express spaces that reference action, communication and rest and were a product of our experience and conversations surrounding the regeneration taking place in Corby at the time

The work is easily transportable and can be hired, with the artists for events, workshops or projects. If you are thinking about staging an exploration of space, landscape, architecture, shelter in an interior or exterior setting please do not hesitate to contact us.

More images can be viewed here

Graham Keddie

Sharon Read

Susan Williams

Jill Hedges

 Christina en Bosch

"Great, thought provoking work, good company and food!" 

"Some wonderful contemporary work was on show"

From the Sculpture Network

Dear Artists and Supporters of the Arts,

 

Many thanks for attending sculpture network’s New Year’s Brunch 2014 last Sunday.

 

About 2,500 artists, art mediators and friends of the arts gathered simultaneously at 45 different venues, in 14 countries. This has by far exceeded our greatest expectations and we are extremely pleased that there is such an enormous interest and solidarity for sculpture. 

We produced a short video to mark our 10^th anniversary this year, which you can watch here 

Images and videos from all venues in Europe will soon be uploaded here

 

Sculpture Network hope to meet you again, at any of our events around Europe during this coming year and we wish you all the best for 2014!

 

Kind regards,

 

The Sculpture Network Team

sculpture network

Fäustlestrasse 3

80339 München

Germany

P.S.  Save the date for sculpture network’s 

New Year’s Brunch 2015 

on 18^th of January 2015

INTENZ at Corby Open

 

During March we took part in the first Corby Open Exhibition in the Old Library. Artist Phiona Richards has written a lively, comprehensive post describing how the exhibition came about which you can read here.  The Old Library is a wonderful space and there are many artists working towards making it a more permanent Gallery and Studio Spaces. We decided to enter a variation of our installation INTENZ called Conurbation which utilised the big triangles and three sets of smaller triangles.

INTENZ was originally created as part of our project Fingerprints on the Pew and in response to the architecture of St Peter and St Andrews Church in Beanfield Avenue, near our studios. It is a portable sculpture which can be moved and changed, creating many different permutations. INTENZ has already appeared at a number of sites in a variety of configurations.

Parents and children making sculptures

at the Boating Lake in Corby

During the Festival of Christmas trees 

at St Peter and St Andrews Church

 

At York Minster

Now we had a new venue, at the Corby Open, to arrange our adaptable sculpture. Setting up was quite eventful as we had been allocated a space to be shared with artists with films to project. It was a tight squeeze and took several hours to install but we were helped and encouraged by one of the exhibition volunteers, Nick, a landscape designer who completely understood and enjoyed the flexible nature of the sculpture and its exploration of space. Nick spent several hours with us, playing with the permutations of the sculpture's structural possibilities, and relating it to his own thoughts about garden structures.

We were just about to tackle the lighting when it was all change! The space was also going to be used for a poetry reading during the Private View and the other artists felt the installation would block the flow of people through the room. We were left in a bit of a quandary as we had been allocated the space and couldn't immediately see where we could move to.

After investigating other spaces and making a flurry of phone calls, we set about dismantling the installation, moving furniture and reassembling everything in a completely different configuration in another room! Again the space was quite tight, there was no room for people to interact with the sculpture as we had originally intended and there was definitely no flow through.

In many ways the space was challenging to use and the results not completely to our satisfaction, but we wanted to add our support to this new venture in the heart of Corby. We rose to the challenge, this being another opportunity to reconfigure the installation once more to fit yet another space!

We were able to set up some of our small lights 

and darken down the room to create some dramatic effects.

Ann Leonard, who originally saw INTENZ at St Peter and St Andrews, and came to Corby Open, said "Loved Miles & Dacombe's installation, it gains new dimensions whenever I see it."

Here are a pair of visitors who decided to turn on the main lights to see what was in the room! Carole was at the gallery that day and invited them to make their own sculptures with the smaller triangles.

Although it had proved challenging to install INTENZ at the Corby Open, we once more had some great interactions with people who saw the work and had a chance to interact with the structural shapes. All the elements of INTENZ are made in the same proportions, an irregular tetrahedron, in a variety of sizes, from the very tiny to the huge! It is constantly fascinating just how many structural inventions can be made from the same elements and it was great fun to give the installation another outing!

Miles & Dacombe plus INTENZ can be hired to help your
school, gallery or group explore space, light and sculpture.
Further details available upon request.