Matter of Fact - 4 days left.

[42 New Briggate]

Matter of Fact
42 New Briggate Gallery

If you haven't seen the latest show - Matter of Fact in 42 New
Briggate Gallery the final exhibition days and times are:

Saturday 17th May Noon-7pm

Tuesday 20th May Noon-7pm
Wednesday 21st May Noon -7pm

Saturday 24th 4pm - 7.15pm

check out the gallery's website to see selected photos from the Parent
and Child Workshop held last bank holiday weekend:
www.42newbriggate.co.uk


Coming up at 42 New Briggate next is:

Eggs, Flour, Milk, Cheese
Black Dogs

Opening event - 12th June 5-8pm
Tuesday - Saturday 12-7pm
12th June - 27th June 2008

Further information will posted soon.




Current Exhibition:
Matter of Fact

The story of the Cottingley Fairies, photography and artwork from
Macbeth-related locations and Romeo and Juliet tourist attractions in
Verona, Italy.

To accompany Opera North’s Shakespeare Resounding season, Matter of
Fact presents photography and installation work exploring our
willingness to suspend disbelief for the sake of a good story.
Inspired by the enduring relevance and timeless qualities of
Shakespeare’s plays, this exhibition takes as its starting point the
intriguing relationship between eyewitness account and fiction.

Two specially commissioned works by contemporary artists are displayed
alongside photographs and documentation from the infamous Cottingley
Fairies story, forming an investigation into ideas such as ‘evidence’
and ‘proof’ in art’s attempt to enrich everyday life.

The photographs taken by Yorkshire girls Frances Griffiths and Elsie
Wright are now nearly 100 years old but time hasn’t eroded the impact
of their playfulness. In 1917, it seemed as if the whole world was
taken in by their photographs of fairies in Cottingley Beck, which
were lent further authority by the patronage of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle.

The exhibition will display five photographic prints of the Cottingley
Fairies alongside drawings and writings by Frances and Elsie.
Interviews with the pair nearly 60 years after the original fairy-
furore in a spellbinding documentary made for Yorkshire Television’s
Calendar News programme in 1973 will also be shown. The mischief and
fantastical relish central to this true story is a perfect complement
to Opera North’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.

Distant Relatives is a newly commissioned photographic series made to
accompany Opera North’s production of Macbeth. Artist Giuseppe
Lambertino travelled to the far reaches of Scotland to document actual
sites relating to the real 11th century Scottish king, who may or may
not have been the inspiration for Shakespeare’s play.

Love Capital accompanies Roméo et Juliette and displays the results of
artists Eva Rowson and Yvonne Carmichael’s trip around locations in
Verona associated with the world’s most famous lovers. The
installation will present their souvenirs with an artist’s book
exploring the commercial opportunities created by Romeo and Juliet’s
tragic but everlasting love.




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