Flora Whiteley
6-26 November 2008
Flora Whiteley’s paintings seem to sidestep attempts to apply narrative structures. Different links and associations appear to be made between the individual paintings but these are often superficial and lead the viewer nowhere. For her, the act of painting seems to come first…
10-25 October 2008
Unlock a code, take time to decipher, discover a secret. Hidden in Plain View is a project about what characterises people – and designers – from Northern Europe, about what connects us, differentiates us and makes us who we are…
Jock Mooney
24 July – 2 August 2008
To mark the launch of Jock Mooney’s self-titled book Vane is hosting an exhibition of the artist’s recent work. Since 2004 Mooney has exhibited internationally in a string of critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions. Mooney’s work is also familiar to many music fans, having recently graced the covers of a number of releases…
Paul Becker
17 May – 14 June 2008
Paul Becker’s images are hard to define. What makes them so initially difficult is their apparent lack of continuity. Their themes are as multiform as the progression of a daydream…
Kerstin Drechsel
10 January – 2 February 2008
Kerstin Drechsel’s usual subjects are the capturing of intimate personal moments, of how an individual or group expresses or identifies themselves through their rituals or the environments they create around them…
Paul Becker, Nadia Hebson, Sara MacKillop, Morten Schelde, Flora Whiteley
14 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 4’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom references or plunders found and/or historical images and artistic styles, filtering and re-working them in the process…
EC Davies, Jorn Ebner, Michael Mulvihill, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth
7 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 3’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom shares an interest in landscape and the natural world, mapping and site, their approaches to which vary from the literal, to the psychological, scientific, and the satirical…
David Beech, Rupert Clamp, Jock Mooney, Alex Pearl, Richard Phipps
30 November 2007
‘Vane Shorts 2’ presents works by five artists, each of whom explores play and recreation in their work, ranging from the combination of formalist sculptural techniques with domestic and utilitarian elements (Beech), military re-enactments (Clamp), a carnivalesque parade of twisted figures (Mooney), to videos of low-fi inventions (Pearl) or seemingly random actions and scenes that evoke other things (Phipps)…
Graham Dolphin, Pat Flynn, Dodda Maggý, Andrew McDonald, Miranda Whall
23 November 2007
First in a series of one-day events showing the work of various artists, ‘Vane Shorts 1’ presents works by five artists, each of whom is showing video works that share an interest in repetitive and/or seemingly compulsive actions…
Stephen Palmer
25 October – 17 November 2007
‘Worthless little tokens’ is a series of paintings cataloguing a collection of free, found and received objects: matchboxes picked up in pubs or in the street; pens received through the post from charities and credit card companies as an incentive to sign up to a particular product or scheme; sugar, salt and sauce sachets collected as mementos of trips to, and along the way to, places far and wide…
Simon Le Ruez
10 May – 2 June 2007
Simon Le Ruez makes sculptures, installations and drawings which reflect on notions of escape, longing, desire and possible places sought in order to find relief or refuge. Working with materials as varied as leather, pearls, copper, wax and artificial trees Le Ruez’s recent work conjures a sense of imagined yet dislocated landscapes…
Nadia Hebson
8-31 March 2007
Nadia Hebson makes melancholic portraits, marine-scapes and flower studies coalesced from a proliferation of collective art historical imagery. The paintings occupy an ambiguous position – it is unclear whether they explore real or fabricated, scenarios, events or personalities…
Trine Boesen
8 February – 3 March 2007
Trine Boesen’s paintings, drawings and collages plunder freely from the image bank of everyday modern life – be it from images found on the internet, from adverts, magazines and books, or drawn from her own personal snapshots of friends, buildings, social occasions, holidays and other things…
EC Davies
23 November – 16 December 2006
EC Davies’s previous work has taken its inspiration from the simplest of everyday objects – such as marbles, glitter, balls of wool, or the motion of a bird’s wing in flight. These otherwise mundane objects are then transformed, using a combination of digital video and animation techniques…
Sara MacKillop
19 October – 11 November 2006
Sara MacKillop takes mass-produced found objects, slightly manipulating or juxtaposing them to re-focus attention towards their formal qualities. Their useful life finished, these objects are resurrected by MacKillop, who rescues them from the thrift-store and grants them new life…
Jock Mooney
31 August – 23 September 2006
Jock Mooney’s work explores the cultural outpourings of the human mind, whether his own or that of the world at large. His work can be seen as concerned with the liberation of the human spirit through confronting us with our own everyday ridiculousness…
Craig Fisher
11 May – 10 June 2006
Craig Fisher’s work challenges our habits of viewing. Located outside of traditional boundaries, Fisher’s work stubbornly refuses to conform to being any one thing, discipline, state or position. Be it image or object – the work remains uncontrollable…
Dodda Maggý
2 March – 1 April 2006
Dodda Maggý creates a series of female characters based on personal experiences, which are then enacted in front of a video camera, accompanied by piano music composed and played by herself, sometimes re-worked using a simple recording technique, building layers as if sculpting…
Jorn Ebner, Alison Unsworth
12 January – 11 February 2006
‘Ordinary monuments’ brings together work by Jorn Ebner and Alison Unsworth that examines the urban environment, considering both its planned and random nature and highlighting aspects that often go unnoticed…
Miranda Whall
25 November – 17 December 2005
Miranda Whall's drawings, photographs, videos and, most recently, animations are self-portraits. Whall explores her own identity in an attempt to recognise herself in relation to both the accessible and inaccessible, natural and man-made world around her…
