click on images to see 'covers'
‘Covers’
Exhibition and Residency. April 30 th to June 11th, 2005.
Greg Daville is one of three artists who have been selected to partake
in the Phoenix Studios ‘Watch this Space’ Residency.
During the six week period of the residency you are invited to pose as
your favourite album/CD cover.
Every day there will be a consultation period (from 12-2p.m.) where you
can talk with the artist about the cover you wish to recreate.
As a result a time and location will be arranged for you to be photographed.
This will be in the studio or outside according to what is appropriate
to your cover. If you cannot get into the gallery you can email me your
ideas at the address below.
The interpretation of your chosen cover can be as minimal, accurate or
theatrical as you like. The only accuracy has to be the position of the
person/people within the 12 inch format, (or 12 by 24 inch if it’s
a gatefold sleeve).
The original cover will act as a catalyst for a the making of a personal
portrait that in turn will celebrate your visual tastes, your love of
music, and the pleasure of being a ‘fan’.
The inauguration of the Residency will be on Saturday
the 30th of April from 5p.m. onwards.
Come dressed for stardom and/or bring props as Greg Daville will be photographing
the group as Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. ‘Covers’
at Phoenix Studios. 10-14 Waterloo Place. Brighton BN2 9NB. Tuesday–Saturday
11 am–5 pm.
To arrange an individual photo-shoot drop into Phoenix or email Greg Daville
at: art@gallery-daville.co.uk
Closing Celebration and Final exhibition: Saturday, June 11, 2–5
pm.
click on image to see urbicide
"Different
things have inspired this work. The B.B.C. documentaries on 'Parkour'
or 'free-running', where groups of youths use their surrounds to run
over, and fly through their urban landscape. This has a resonance with
the Situautionist's idea of 'La Derive', or the concious drifting through
the City as an activity.
A friend of mine recently moved to Saltdean, a small town on the South
coast. It is a swamp of bungalow architecture which I am drawn to and
at the same time am repulsed by. There is something so 'reduced' about
one-storey habitats that scream 'domicile', rather than 'home'. The
domicile can be seen as the antithesis of the spirit of Parkour. The
house as container, or prison. One could extrapilate this as a model
of the psyche; the unconcoius hidden behind the facade we present to
the world.
I have since begun working on larger architecture. Listening
only to 'Einsturzende Neubauten' whilst making these pieces of work
has added to the quiet, brooding paranoia I see in these buildings."
‘Urbicide’
Exhibition. May 7th to May 29th, 2005. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.. Sundays:
12 midday to 10.30 p.m.
Opening night Wednesday May 11th. 7 p.m. onwards.
'Grand Central'. 29-30 Surrey Street, Brighton. BN1 3PA.