Tag Archives: science

11.04.13
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Gerald Shepherd: Are Travel Photographs Art?

02.02.13
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Notice From Paul Malone: The Electric Universe

THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE
A unique and controversial talk on astronomy
Tuesday 12th February 2013. 6:00 – 7:00 pm
(Doors open for refreshments and chat 5:30 – 7:30 pm)
The Better Bankside Space. 18, Great Guildford Street. London SE1 0FD
(Tate Modern end)

Further information : http://www.paulmalone.co.uk/plasmatalk

Venturing forth from where Professor Jim Al Khalili’s ‘Shock and Awe’ (BBC) left off, Deptford based
artist Paul Malone takes you on a unique and controversial tour of the Universe. Originally devised
to introduce artists and designers to the wide range of forms inherent in plasma structures, this talk
follows contemporary speculations into the role that electro-dynamics play in the morphologies of
objects that we see in modern astronomy.
“From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry
connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to
planets and, on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological organisms.
There are no isolated islands in an electric universe”.
David Talbot and Wallace Thornhill, 2004

This event is to fund raise for the charity :
SE1 United
‘Empowering young people to be leaders of their own lives.’
http://www.se1united.org.uk
The talk is free to the public but please donate what you can.
It would be very helpful if you could RSVP to: plasmatalk@paulmalone.co.uk

Electric Universe

12.05.12
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Paul Malone – Notice: Christmas Lecture – Electric Universe

Just to let you know I am doing my next talk on Electric Universe theory this Tuesday 11th December – doors open 6 for 6:30pm start – at the Better Bankside Space, just south of the Tate Modern.
Fir more information you can find the webpage here : www.paulmalone.co.uk/plasmatalk .
This is a fund-raising event for the charity ‘SE1 United’ – www.se1united.org.uk/about.html – free entrance but give what you can. There will be refreshments available.
06.21.12
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Notice From Paul Malone

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know my next Open Studio is tomorrow evening (Friday 22nd 5-8pm) and Saturday 23rd (12 noon to 5pm) at APT 6, Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA.

This is also part of the London Festival of Architecture as the Co_Laboratory project that I am doing with Nicola Rae see http://www.lfa2012.org/events/view/colaboratory-417.

Also on those days is the Delineation exhibition in the APT Gallery see : http://www.aptstudios.org/ where I have installed my wall of genetically engineered chicks.

Hope you can come along.

Best wishes, Paul Malone

www.paulmalone.co.uk

05.01.12
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Ionist Art Exhibition At Paul McPherson Gallery 2012

04.19.12
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Gerald Shepherd: Selected Portraits Of Friends

04.01.12
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Ionist Art: Second Show At Paul McPherson Gallery

IONIST ART

An exhibition of highly original paintings and sculptures at the Paul McPherson Gallery, 77  Lassell Street, Greenwich, London SE10 9PJ.

Private View Monday 30th April between 6pm – 9pm.  

The exhibition continues until Saturday 12th May.

The exhibition presents the extraordinary work of four artists who have wide ranging interests and in their own individual way have extended the boundaries of art.

The term Ionist Art was coined in the middle Seventies by the artist and writer Gerald Shepherd to cover the work he was doing at the time which lay somewhere in between art and science.  In the Eighties he founded the Ionist Art Group to bring together artists and scientists to exchange ideas and collaborate on joint projects.

Below is a brief resume of each artist’s work:

GERALD SHEPHERD has explored system based pictorial art forms since the Seventies.  His highly individual works combine evolving image sequences with controlling structures borrowed from mathematics, the sciences, music and literature.

CATHY WARD has utilised an extremely wide range of artistic disciplines throughout her career to produce penetrating and compelling works which explore pressing social issues.

PAUL MALONE’s toy art uses the language of the 00 scale model railway environment to explore the general concepts of ‘model-making’ and the specifics of working within a scaled environment.

ROY OSBORNE paints, researches, writes and lectures on all aspects of colour.  The resulting art works are unequivocal and powerful statements which have an almost physical impact on the viewer.

03.30.12
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George Perendia: Road Side Steles

George produces memorable sculptures and paintings and has exhibited with me many times.

This is a selection of contemporary “road-side” memorial steles that combine symbols of ancient cultures and crashed car parts as signs of our contemporary, technologically advanced civilisation and its vulnerability. It aims to remind us that the unpredictable behaviour of nature and human psyche may nevertheless lead to tragic consequences for this civilisation as whole.

George’s sculptural work has been greatly inspired by contemporary technology and science, the archaeology and arts of ancient Mediterranean and Mexican cultures and the medieval memorial sculptural art of road-side steles.

Some of the presented sculptures were conceived in the late 1970’s, executed, and shown in several group and one-artist shows during the early 1980’s prior to his move to England. Included are more recent works including “Who is afraid of VW” and “A Memorial for a Known Cyclist” which was shown last year at the London Foundry gallery as a memorial for a friend, a cyclist and artist, killed at a nearby roundabout.

“These works should be displayed in every car insurance company’s reception” (A visitor at a previous exhibition)

03.29.12
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Jill Rock: Two Images From The Waterlogged Series

Jill Rock exhibited with me last year in Greenwich.  She showed a series of painted found sculptures retrieved from beside the Thames in London.  Two works from the series are illustrated here.

Waterlogged 1

Waterlogged 1

Waterlogged 2

Waterlogged 2

Jill Rock – Artist Statement::

In 1997 in the Australian outback I had the opportunity to spend time with some aborigine artists. This experience re-connected me as an artist with nature. On my return to London I picked up a piece of tree bark, cleaned and painted it. My life as an artist had evolved from geometric abstractionist to painter of objects, a sculptor in colour.

From that time on I have painted on natural found objects and geometric forms. My work has been shown in exhibitions in London, UK, USA, NYC, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Holland, France, Germany, Spain, Beirut, Australia and Hong Kong. I have collaborated with poets, musicians, performance artists, playwrights, scientists, mathematicians, social scientists and philosophers. I have also worked in experimental art contexts organising and taking part in events outside the normal gallery situation.

03.19.12
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Gerald Shepherd: The Trials And Tribulations Of “Girl On A Wicker Chair”

Historically I rarely used conventional composition techniques.  My visual art works tended to be system based with (usually) carefully laid out structures controlling the evolution of the images – or small packets of information as I prefer to think of them.  However since I started producing landscapes from the turn of the Century (these combine system based art with observation and my emotional responses to a scene) I have considered the compositional aspects of my work more – probably too much.  With my older work there was a sequential development across the picture plane and when I got to the end of the canvas everything stopped; now I continually reevaluate how the painting appears to the viewing public and make changes accordingly.  This came to a head with GIRL IN A WICKER CHAIR which I changed umpteen times.  I thought it might possibly be of interest if I showed some of the changes below although I didn’t actually record most of them!