BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1980@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170428 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170529 DTSTAMP:20170417T121712Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/royal-standrad-the-thinking-busi ness/ SUMMARY:The Royal Standard: The Royal Standard: The Thinking Business DESCRIPTION:The Thinking Business\n\nOpening night: 28/04/17\, 6-9pm\n29/04 /17 - 28/05/17\n\nOpen Saturdays and Sundays\, 12-5pm\n\nRebecca Ounstead \nPaloma Proudfoot\n\nThe ‘thinking-business’ will be an exhibition of two halves\, bringing together the work of two female artists\, Paloma Pr oudfoot and Rebecca Ounstead for the first time. Both artists have exhibit ed extensively in the UK\, never once having met one another in person pri or to this project. The ‘thinking-business’ acts as an experiment that facilitates partnership\, and explores the nature of collaboration\; its benefits and its difficulties. It has been the intention of the exhibition to initiate a semi-collaborative and discursive practice through long dis tance conversation between the two artists\, which will culminate in a dis play of work at The Royal Standard.\n\n“It’s not so much that we think alike\, but that we do this thinking-business for and with each other.’ Hannah Arendt\n\nThe ‘thinking-business’ aims to explore the enabling power of collaboration and the potential that partnership can provide tow ards production\, and more specifically in art-making. The exhibition aims to create a transgressive and immersive space where objects\, performance and costume will come together to straddle the opposing forces of instinc t and reason\, pleasure and repulsion\, primitivism and intellectualism.\n \nThe exhibition will endeavor to bring forth the social\, with its taboos and prohibitions\, whilst exploring the relationship between the visual s ensations and visceral reactions. Within these themes\, materiality provid es a discourse to aestheticize the idea of humanity's obsession with the f orbidden\, and the anxiety that is stimulated through disturbing against i dentity\, system and order\; leading to feelings of perversion and fetishi sation.\n\nIllustration and publication by Sumuyya Khadar.\n\nRebecca Ouns tead\nLured into a fetishistic play\; materials beckon to be teased and ma nipulated\, fluffed up and glossed. Swathes of organza lick cool steel\, E gyptian cottons lay sodden\, soft faux furs flirt with becoming sullied. O bject becomes ornament. Painting becomes pattern. Fabric becomes framework .\nArrangement and precise placement activates the work\, suggestive of a lustful touch.\nProtruding. Straddling. Hanging. An aesthete's eye undress es the scene\, noting moments of intimacy between materials. Brushed cotto n fibres. Corpulent folds. Glossy blonde ponytails. A seasoned\, tasteful awareness of colour palette\, pattern and texture are inherent in creating a dialogue which is then performed through the components relationships a nd proximities to each other.\nThe work endeavours to stimulate and titill ate the observer. Proposed\, Poised\, Precise.\nRebecca Ounstead is based in Nottingham\, UK\, and graduated from Nottingham Trent University with B A (Hons) Fine Art in 2012. Recent solo shows include New Condition\, Loser ’s Gym\, 2017 and Tassels ‘n’ That\, Bloc Projects\, 2014. She has r ecently completed a residency in the Netherlands at HotelMariaKapel and ha s exhibited as part of No Grey Areas\, Haha Gallery\, 2015\; Take a Bite o f Peach\, Attic\, Nottingham\, 2014\; Surfacing\, Hand in Glove\, Bristol\ , 2014\; Seven\, Primary\, Nottingham 2013 and Exeter Phoenix Open\, Exete r\, 2013.\n\nPaloma Proudfoot\nI make shells. Pouring slip into the cavity of the mould\, allowing the plaster pores to suck in the moisture of an o uter clay strata before leaving the inner volume of slip to run out of its core\; the fountain of language and slippery matter drained. These are em pty eggs\, skittles without weight\, skin without fruit.\nConcave cheeks\, deflated bellies\, protruding spouts and pupil-like cavities interrupt th e ovoid impenetrability of these ceramic husks. Not quite broken\, they ar e still aspiring\, just falling slightly short. However\, these failings b ecome virtues\, the shallows and openings transform these objects into ves sels\, creating opportunities to fill their emptiness. The lacquer of glaz e\, with its confetti splashes and dribbles that cluster in the grooves\, emphasises these defects\, like lipstick smudged on crooked teeth. Tipped up\, bulging over and teasing they take on a new seduction. A titillating yolk garnishes its ceramic progeny. A languid flower emerges from its lips .\nI am not a cool observer. If my sculpture sits behind the veil of shame \, my performance work\, made in collaboration with artist and choreograph er Aniela Piasecka\, beckons it forth\, daring it to break its silence. Th e clothes and sculpture I make are drawn into our storytelling. They are t ouched\, sullied and broken.\nI am a participant. Walked on\, groomed and gagged\, or the tables turn - and I’m in charge. Breaking eggs: divorcin g yolk from coddling white. Whipping them up to soft sugar-laden peaks\, I lather them on her cheeks. I scrape her face clean but leave the washing up for the morning. It’s a ritual we have\, repeated over and over.\nPal oma Proudfoot (b.1992) is an artist living and working in London\, where s he is currently completing her masters in sculpture at the Royal College o f Art. As well as her solo sculptural practice\, Proudfoot works in collab oration with artist and choreographer Aniela Piasecka\, drawing Proudfoot' s ceramics and clothes-making together in performance. Proudfoot and Piase cka are also co-directors of performance group Stasis.\n\nProudfoot's rece nt solo shows include There is One Missing From Your Bunch\, May Projects\ , London\, 2016 and The Jockey\, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop\, 2015. Rece nt group shows include Herland\, Bosse and Baum\, London\; Sell Yourself\, East Street Arts\, Leeds (both 2017)\; Sunny Side Up\, Rook and Raven\, L ondon\; and Platform 2016\, Edinburgh Arts Festival (both 2016)\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/02/The-thinking-businesstop-1-e1492431416920.jpg LOCATION:The Royal Standard\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, Gra fton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.392268;-2.978806 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Northern Lights\, Cains Bre wery Village\, Grafton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Ki ngdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Royal Standard:geo:53.392268,-2.97880 6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR