Welcome to the Waterfront Gallery, an innovative and exciting exhibition space for UCS. Last year the gallery hosted a wide range of exhibitions, we started 2010 with an exhibition by Desomnd Brett featuring site specfic sculpture. The diverse programme continued throughout the year with a range of exhibitions including paintings, photography, drawings, installation, projection and the launch of a new initiative Solo 2010 offering a solo exhibition to an emerging artist. We ended the year with a retrospective exhibition by Russell Walker that chronicling 35 years of Illustration and design.
In 2011 our dynamic programme will continue to provide local audiences with the opportunity to engage with contemporary art.
Current Exhibition
Kirsty Tinkler, Hoist
Ip Art Award Winner
25th June - 16th July
Kirsty Tinkler’s work references the historical language inherent in architectural features, subtly questioning the implications of its usage and its place in the continuity of the western identity and outlook. Taking her cue from the Waterfront Gallery’s position, Ipswich’s shipbuilding history and its role as a port, she has set up a physical exploration into place and memory. The materials of the marina: rope, wood and canvas, are employed to question how memory sits within the mental landscape as something ephemeral and loosely tied to place. For the artist, Ipswich holds a personal relevance: as the town where her English mother married her Australian father, before journeying to Australia.
Ip Award recipient Kirsty Tinkler, has chosen to work with writer and artist Sam Robinson to add a literary element to her sculptural installation. Robinson responded to Tinkler’s initial ideas for the exhibition, producing words and phrases that have in turn influenced Tinkler’s thought processes. He has physically added text, both to the space and to the work itself, engaging its physical presence with often ambiguous notions that seek to combine close visual readings of the work with wider literary ones.
Kirsty Tinkler (b.1971 Australia) studied Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2007- 09) and The National Art School, Sydney (1995-98). She spent her early career creating large sculptural installations, receiving emerging artists grants and honourable mentions in Sydney’s annual Sculpture by the Sea Exhibition. In 2004, she received a travel bursary to represent Australia at the ART/OMI International Artist’s Colony in New York and in the same year completed a work on Brooklyn’s waterfront. Tinkler has been resident in the UK for the past 6 years. She most recently participated in the Brazier’s International Workshop and Aid & Abet’s inaugural exhibition, Small Scale Survival in Cambridge.
Sam Robinson (b.1981, London, UK) studied at Chelsea College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. Having shown widely as a painter, he is currently working on his first novel. Forthcoming exhibitions include a major project for the Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire.
Open to all
Mon, - Fri, 9am - 8pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm ( subject to change)
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