contemporary

Marie von Heyl

Event Date: 
23/05/2014 - 10:00am to 05/07/2014 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Fri 23 May 2014 - Sat 05 Jul 2014

Gallery Opening Times: Mon – Sat: 10am-5.30pm. Entry is FREE.

Marie von Heyl Of Occasional Tables and Alternative Endings This exhibition of new work by Berlin based Marie von Heyl employs video, installation, drawing and text to explore an ongoing interest in domestic interiors and mundane objects that is central to her practice. Her work playfully dances around things, pointing at the unexpectedly beautiful, tracing the uncanny and tapping into the absurd. Often triggered by linguistic nitpicking, she aims to catch objects in the act of...

Make your own Christmas decorations

Event Date: 
02/12/2012 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
CCANW, Haldon Forest Park

Make your own decorations from forest and other materials in the Education Dome.

£2–£2.50 for smaller decorations, £8 per wreath, noon-4pm.

www.ccanw.co.uk

CCANW exhibition: Games People Play, Round 2

Event Date: 
09/12/2012 - 10:00am to 10/02/2013 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural world, Haldon Forest Park

In this year of the London Olympics and Paralympics, Games People Play e xplores what games can tell us about human nature.

This second part focuses on contemporary photography and video by 16 important international artists who use sporting imagery to make wider comments on the human condition. Here, we see explorations of territorial control and attachment to a team, fascination with spectacle and the culture of competition.

We will also focus on the new generation of video games such as Free Rice and Phone Story which turn away from wasteful escapism to address real...

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