Christmas Closing Event
Saturday 18th Dec, 2-4 pm
Mulled Wine and Mince Pies
Come and help us mark the end of
our current exhibition Latitude/Tropic and partake
in some festive mince pie eating!
Christmas Comment Tree ...let us know what art you've enjoyed in 2010 (at PSL and elsewhere) and what you are looking forward to in 2011.
Christmas Exchange* (10th - 18th December 12-5pm) - If you are an artist (budding or established), curator or collector please bring along an artists' book / multiple/ edition to swap and find a fantastic christmas gift.
Look forward to seeing you, wear warm seasonal attire!
*Christmas Exchange
10th- 18th December
Wed- Sat 12-5pm
Exchange is back at PSL in the run up to Christmas- come and swap your original artworks, books, multiples and artists' editions in time for the Holidays!
Exchange is a work by Pippa Hale, commissioned by PSL [Project Space Leeds]. It provides a platform for visitors to exchange meaningful objects and works of art with each other.
Hale’s design resembles a table or cabinet. Made of plywood, it incorporates surfaces that slide back to reveal a number of coloured cube-shaped recesses in which visitors to PSL can swap art works, trinkets, much-loved books or beautiful found objects – things they value but would like to pass on.
If you would like to take part, bring your objects to PSL during opening hours Wed-Sat 12-5pm.
About Exchange
Pippa Hale’s design incorporates architectural as well as design principles, occupying and exploring grey areas – is it furniture or is it an artwork? Is it decorative or functional? The artist is interested in sculptural objects that combine aspects of design and have a functional facility.
Inspiration for the work came from Hale’s fascination with the way merchandise is displayed in gallery shops, and the resulting piece is designed around a cubic shape measuring 200mmx200mmx200mm.
The work could be described as a metaphor for the way people like to organise things, classify things, put them in boxes. It ventures into territories of obsession yet contradictorily implies a loss of control through the way in which it will be used: to display random objects placed in and on it by random passers by. This will create a piece of work that is constantly changing in an unpredictable way and offers anyone who wishes to an opportunity to take part. [JG]
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'Exchange' by Pippa Hale; ply, matt emulsion paint, steel, casters; 326.8 x 67.2 x 100cm; 2008/09
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