Many thanks to all who attended 'land water darkness'!

Many thanks to all who attended my exhibition 'land water darkness' over the last month. The last day of the show was this past Saturday 4 October, with a steady stream of visitors, the last being someone who had lived in Copenhagen and had a strong interest in the Greenlandic people. So we watched the slideshow of my Greenland photos from 2008 and had a very interesting discussion. As I did with all of the visitors, except the day when the room was full for most of the afternoon - not quite the Matisse all-nighter at Tate Modern (see my review of this event here http://indigovioletlarkin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/feeding-eyes-matisse-all-nighter-at.html) but very busy indeed for the size of the gallery, and impossible for me to talk to everyone personally, though I would have liked to!

In a word, thank you all for coming, for your attention, for your time, your questions, your responses, your interest, your enthusiasm. It has made it all worthwhile.

As for this blog, in the days and weeks to come I will resume posting all the changes to the exhibition over its month-long run, with some responses to some of the feedback as well, and answers to some of the questions that were asked. I will also continue reviewing some of the exhibitions visited, in my 'Feeding the Eyes' series. So keep this page bookmarked, and be sure also that news of my forthcoming exhibitions and activities will also appear here.

Last day of 'land water darkness' exhibition at the Gas Gallery - Saturday 4 October 2014

Tomorrow (Saturday 4 October) is my last day for this exhibition which has run since 4 September. I will be in the gallery upstairs from around 1pm until closing at 5pm, after which the exhibition must come down. There are more photos on display than ever, so if you haven't been for a while - today over 30 new photos went up, most of which are mixed media pieces with aint and/or ink. Everyone welcome, look forward to meeting you!

The Gas Gallery / Oriel Nwy is located about 50 metres left of the rail station, or parking is at Matalan and cross the road. Look for the red brick building with a huge glass front.

Last week of Indigo Violet Larkin's show 'Land Water Darkness' at Gas Gallery

It's the last week of my show at the Gas Gallery in Aberystwyth, and I am making many dramatic additions and changes each day! Am in the gallery every day this week from 12 noon to 5 pm (from 2pm on Friday) so if you haven't seen the exhibition, seen me in it, or even haven't seen it in a while, now's your chance!

After the show finishes on 4 October, blog postings will resume.

http://indigovioletlarkin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/indigo-violet-larkins-solo-show-poster.html

Indigo's photos shown with Mar Shro Gora at Cardiff's Scratch Platform

 

 

Above a rather shabby Irish-themed pub, a nice square of banquet chairs and leather sofas surround a professionally lit bit of floor, the platform for an evening of experimentation. On this floor treads a cream silk-suited creature in a hat suitable for meeting, or possibly impersonating, royalty. In one black-gloved hand she holds a camera. In the other hand she also holds... a camera, and a red ribbon, which she proffers to an unsuspecting soul in the front row. He takes it, and she moves slowly away, all the while taking photographs of herself.

Meanwhile, my photographs are being passed around the room.

This is my friend Mar Shro Gora performing the first version of a performance art piece she calls 'Taking the self for a walk', in a reworking of the famous line by Paul Klee. My photographs, a series also depicting a night time walk, are a last minute addition to this performance at Scratch Platform, held in Four Bars, Cardiff, on 31 August 2014.

The photographer Piri was also taking photos of Mar Shro, but for some reason I was not. Am entitled to the odd night off.

Photos and performance copyright Mar Shro Gora 2014.

With thanks to Fizzi Events for making Scratch Platform happen.

Indigo's videos screened at Stories by Gaslight evening

A darkened room, a standing lamp, a wooden floor, three rows of chairs, a gradually accreting audience, a sheet with wavy wrinkles serving as a screen onto which images of ceaseless waves melt into the electric colours of evening.

Or, to give the prosaic account:

Was very pleased to be asked to screen my videos at the 'Stories by Gaslight' evening at the Gas Gallery / Oriel Nwy on 3 September 2014. Organised and hosted by Peter Stevenson, 'Stories by Gaslight' has become a regular feature in the upstairs gallery, allowing the traditional art form of storytelling to exist surrounded by contemporary art. My work was the opener for the narrative ballads of folk singer Lynne Denman, whose songs from long-ago Virginia I found particularly enchanting.

Screening list (all Aberystwyth premieres):

'WATER: aberystwyth' (2014)

'treemorph' (2014)

'WATER: plymouth' (2014)

'Daisy Daisy' (2014)

That'll do, Pig.

Photo copyright Indigo Violet Larkin 2014.

Exhibition preparations: installing the furniture

The furniture in the gallery is to create the open studio workspace for me as I will be in Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons (and probably other times as well). Do drop in and say hello, feel free to ask questions. Videos will be playing when the artist is present, so that's an added incentive to visit.

All photos copyright Indigo Violet Larkin 2014.

Indigo Violet Larkin's exhibition 'land water darkness' continues at Gas Gallery / Oriel Nwy in Aberystwyth until 4 October. The gallery is open Monday to Saturday 11am to 5pm, and admission is free. Indigo Violet Larkin will be present in the exhibition from 2-5pm Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and quite probably at other times as well.

Feeding the eyes: Matisse all-nighter at Tate Modern

 

After a very successful opening of my own exhibition 'land water darkness' at Gas Gallery / Oriel Nwy last Friday, raced home for a few hours' sleep before treating myself to catching the last weekend of the 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' exhibition at Tate Modern in London, with its special all-nighter. So it is possible to share these exclusive photos of what it was like around 10pm when a huge number of people were queueing for timed admission. The show was very crowded most of the day, but well worth seeing. A review of the exhibition itself will appear here after I've brought the Indigo Violet Larkin exhibition postings up to date.

All photos copyright Indigo Violet Larkin 2014.

 

Everything about the exhibition design was big and chunky.
 

 

Was so excited I forgot to attend the free screenings of 'Matisse in Tangiers'!

The man in the dark jacket was trying to organise the queue.

Tate employee remaining chipper dealing with processing a six-foot chain of tickets.
 

The queue to enter the exhibition at 10pm went on and on.
 

And when they finally got to the front of the queue...

 

 

...everybody packed up in the first room. It was very crowded, but not impossible.

 



Downstairs does not normally look like this on late openings!

The new downstairs bar in the Turbine Hall was doing a roaring trade. Did not look to see if there was any special Cut-Outs beer.