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SUMMARY:Karen Barbour\, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
DESCRIPTION:curated by Simon Grant and Andrew Hunt \n\n\n\n\n\nMoon Grove Gallery Manchester  \n\n\n\nExhibition : 18 October to 20 December 2024 \n\n\n\nOpen Thursdays and Fridays 12pm to 6pm during exhibitions \n\n\n\nAfter two solo exhibitions in New York at White Columns in 2022 and Jack Hanley Gallery in 2023\, Moon Grove presents Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years\, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape\, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general. \n\n\n\nEssentially\, Barbour’s work can be described as ‘visionary’\, in one respect because her work is imaginative\, direct and raw\, and in another because she is inspired by her infrequent experience of temporal lobe seizures\, a situation she describes as becoming ‘stricken with powerfully intense barrages of very accurate memories from my life’. On a wider cultural level her work is deeply connected and informed by US West Coast grass roots creative moments: the tradition of psychedelic illustration and pattern\, self-taught artistic communities\, and the Bay Area’s pioneering history of supported studios for artists with disabilities. \n\n\n\nLinks between these subjects and those in northern England reside in shared interests in music\, local museum collections\, approaches to painting and equally in artists making work in supported studios. With this connection in mind\, Barbour has drawn reference to her fascination with artworks held in the seminal Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery\, along with the many relationships that these works share with her own. Motifs and approaches include the depiction of strangely built structures\, included in Dusan Kusmic’s towers\, which communicate directly with Barbour’s own visionary buildings\, Drago Jurak’s paintings of inventive monuments and a picture of a striped house by Frederic Vaudour. Irregular figures are also a concern for Barbour: Shafique Uddin pointillist portraits; Guillaume Pujolle’s dancing people; Aloise Corbaz’s colourful likenesses; as well as others works by Anna Zemankova\, Michel Nedjar\, Madge Gill and Valerie Potter. \n\n\n\nA publication that documents this exhibition\, spread over Moon Grove’s intimate\, domestic gallery spaces\, will follow in 2025. This will contain wider contextual information and biographical images\, alongside an interview between Barbour and the curator and writer Simon Grant. \n\n\n\nKaren Barbour (b. 1956)\, lives and works in Inverness\, CA. She received a BA at UC Davis and an MFA in Film from San Francisco’s Art Institute. Barbour has worked as an author and an illustrator\, and over the past twenty years her work has been included in exhibitions in San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, and New York\, among other places. \n\n\n\n\nI collect my ideas and try to put them into the paintings. Most of them evolve slowly over a long period of time. I work spontaneously and the pictures are constantly changing. \nKaren Barbour interviewed by Simon Grant This conversation took place during June and July 2024 ahead of Karen Barbour’s exhibition at Moon Grove\, Manchester.\n\n\n\n\nClick to read full Interview  with Karen Barbour\n\n\n\n\nMoon Grove would like to acknowledge that ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’ has been made possible with generous funding from Manchester Metropolitan University’s AHEAD fund. \n\n\n\nMoon Grove\, 7 Moon Grove\, Manchester M14 5HE \n\n\n\nmail@moongrove.org
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LOCATION:Moon Grove Gallery\, 7 Moon Grove\, Manchester\, M14 5HE
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SUMMARY:ESRC Festival of Social Science : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences\n\n\n\nWhat’s on offer? \n\n\n\nManchester is on a mission to establish itself as a global digital leader by 2026. As a globally recognised digital city\, leading researchers in Digital Inequalities from Manchester Metropolitan University\, in collaboration with experts with learning disabilities\, have joined forces to demonstrate how digital strategies across the UK can be co-produced and include the perspectives of people with learning disabilities. \n\n\n\nThis co-produced interactive session will allow attendees to think critically about the importance of inclusive design and policymaking for digital cities. \n\n\n\nWe will hold space to co-develop solutions to achieve the vision of a digitally inclusive and equitable future for all. \n\n\n\nWhat’s it about? \n\n\n\nPublic sector organisations nationwide are looking at how they can ensure the voices of people and communities are at the centre of their work. This event will share best practice research and provide practical examples. \n\n\n\nThese examples will help inform\, empower\, and enable policymakers nationwide who lead digital strategies to ensure the voice of people with learning disabilities is at the centre of their work. \n\n\n\nWho’s leading the event? \n\n\n\nCharlotte Hardacre – Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nStephen Blake – Manchester People First \n\n\n\nJodie Bradley – Speakup Self Advocacy \n\n\n\nSue Caton – Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nSally Ferguson-Wormley – Speakup Self Advocacy/Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nOf particular interest to \n\n\n\nDigital policymakers and strategists \n\n\n\nPublic sector leaders and decision-makers \n\n\n\nDigital designers and design students \n\n\n\nResearchers in digital inequalities and inclusive design \n\n\n\nAdvocates for people with learning disabilities \n\n\n\nCommunity organisers and social workers \n\n\n\nTechnology and UX design professionals
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/inclusive-digital-access-event/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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