Gasworks Gallery & Studios

Events at Gasworks Gallery & Studios

• Boris Dornbusch at Gasworks

  Art

  10 Jan 2012 to 3 Apr 2012

  Working with a range of media from video to more object based sculptural installations, Boris Dornbusch draws on a broad range of formal references to explore commonplace objects, social situations and environmental conditions that he alters and then documents. Through this process he investigates the relationship between perception, visualisation and understanding. The resulting works reflect on the everyday whilst making visible the poetry of chance connections, moods and paradoxes. As one of the departure points for his residency, Dornbusch will be considering the antiquated worker's practice known in France as 'Perruque' that consists of using factory tools and machines outside of normal work hours in order to produce objects for a private, personal purpose or for an undeclared job. German born artist Boris Dornbusch lives and works between Berlin and Auckland. His residency is supported by Creative New Zealand and the IFA - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany.

• The Challenger's Report at Gasworks

  Art

  10 Feb 2012 to 15 Apr 2012

  The Challenger's Report is the first UK solo exhibition by Argentinian artist Irene Kopelman, which looks at how relationships to landscape and the natural world are culturally conditioned and subject to change. Kopelman's work is rooted in drawing in situ and guided by laboured processes of copying and re-production which reveal a fascination with landscape and the act of looking.

• Curators Tour: The Challenger's Report at Gasworks

  Tour

  24 Feb 2012

  Gasworks Exhibitions Curator Robert Leckie leads an informal tour of the current exhibition.

• The Graphic Telescope at Gasworks

  Course

  14 Apr 2012

  Tiemen Cocquyt, Professor of Optics and Curator at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden (NL), leads a workshop centred around the graphic telescope - an optical instrument developed by British artist and inventor Cornelius Varley in 1807. A Replica of the telescope is displayed as part of Irene Kopelman's current exhibition at Gasworks.