#harleygallery

[katieprattartist]

‘Kindred Spirits’ exhibition continues at #harleygallery #welbeck through this weekend, including works from the #jerwoodcollection Repost from @harley_gallery • Meet the Artist: Katie Pratt @katiepratt_artist Katie Pratt is a painter, living and working in London. Her abstract oil paintings impose organisation on disordered, splashy paint, exhibiting a simultaneously organic and geometric quality. The paintings begin with exaggerated, roughly brushed gestures or colour squeezed directly out of the tube and progress towards meticulous systemic order. Any uniformities are organised and categorised, arranging the messy ground, leading to intricate, unexpected compositions. Pratt’s paintings contemplate how humans organise, socially and politically. The core consideration in the works is the societal balance between regulation and individual freedom, as represented by supervision of intuition. Her paintings are exhibited internationally, recently in the John Moores Painting Prize Photo Credit @bjdeakin_photography [katiepratt.net] @jerwoodcollection https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhetPEsqbM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[weehughie]

Some great LEGO art by AME72 (aka James Ame) at The Harley Gallery... • • #ame72 #ame72art #ame72legoart #jamesame #lego #legoart #legoartist #legoartistry #legominifigures #legocube #lovelego #legolove #instalego #theharleygallery #harleygallery #harleygallerywelbeck #welbeck #welbeckestate #brickbybrick #visualart #visualartist #2021visualartscentre #internationalartist #artlovers #loveart #11promax #instaart (at The Harley Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B89NTqOhRx-/?igshid=61s92h0npq9h

[popsyclunk]

A trip to the @harley_gallery today to see the Lego exhibition. If you are anywhere close to north Notts / north Derbyshire this half term then it’s well worth a visit #harleygallery #welbeckestate #halfterm #halftermfun #happyhomewares #popsyclunk https://www.instagram.com/p/B8txtDhFsPv/?igshid=km0z8fr5z60a

[agabag]

You can find our stuff at the gallery shop of the @harley_gallery after you visit their Lego exhibition #agabag #lego #fashion #fashionweek #fashionista #fashionblogger #designer #musthave #trending #ootd #outfitoftheday #photooftheday #giftidea #style #design #instagood #streetfashion #streetstyle #glamour #trendsetter #shoutout #repost #rich #legohandbag #red #handbag #weekend #harleygallery : @mrsclarkeyxx

[galleriesmagazine]

14-5-22 - Harley Gallery - Kyra Cane - Villa Nova X Kyra Cane THE HARLEY GALLERY A60 Mansfield Road, Welbeck, Worksop, Notts S80 3LW Kyra Cane: From Potter's Wheel to Interior Decor. Until Jul 24. Renowned ceramicist launches landscape inspired range with interior designer brand Villa Nova. Michelle Reader: Recycled Sculptures. Until Jul 24. Exhibition of large scale wildlife sculpture using reclaimed and recycled materials. The 5th Duke of Portland - Tunnel Vision. Until Dec 31. Illustrates the life of this great art collector through his architectural projects. Sofia Mitsola: House of Aquamarina. Until Dec 31. Contemporary miniatures are shown with 30 historic miniatures from The Portland Collection. Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4 t 01909 501700 e-m rhardy@harleygallery.co.uk  harley_gallery  @harleygallery  harleygallery web www.harleygallery.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce0HB56I0W0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[captainignatiuspigheart]

Yup, Still Kansas, Just Has More People

Looks like I’m slightly ahead, I’m wrapping up last week only a day late. Surely this augurs great things��� Maybe. By my standards, last week was a veritable social whirlwind. No wonder I now wish to hide in the dark! I have a somewhat quieter week ahead, featuring lots of work to be done and if I’m lucky a couple of Lego-ing slots. 

Evening Drinking

Is the evening the best time to drink? I’m never sure. I kinda like daytime drinking when I’m on holiday, but I’ll confess it mostly leads to dozing off in the early evening and arguably not being the best use of time… But that’s what they would argue, and screw those guys, right? Either way, I’ve done a bit of it this week.

I finally managed to catch up with some of my dearest friends from the sixteen years I spent working in Probation before it went to galactic level shit, courtesy of our government’s ideological obsession with privatisation. I finally abandoned ship some four years ago (to find a wildly pleasing new life in publishing), and as usual, I’ve not retained a huge number of friends out of the many people I saw and interacted with daily for so many years. I absolutely suck at keeping hold of folks, which makes me rather sad at times. And then I forget, until I remember again. It’s a cycle… Anyway, due to the remaining aftereffects of storm Ciara and the nightmare that is Nottingham traffic management, only three of us successfully reunited. I’m not sure why it’s mostly my former line managers that I ended up being closest to, but I’m very glad to have done. I get that lovely feeling I do with my cousins when I see them, of snapping effortlessly back into our relationships, just as we had last time we met. It might be one of my favourite sensations in the whole world. If someone’s created a fiendish term to capture it already, I’d be glad to know. I guess there’s something of nostalgia, and muscle memory all bundled in there. Nice to catch up on various gossip / the sheer hell Probation has inevitably declined into, and its further forthcoming catastrophes. A splendid evening out!

I’ve become a fan of Brews of the World in Burton on Trent. Originally they were just a terrifyingly well-stocked bottle shop, and have gradually pivoted into being a fine micropub with ten taps. I tried most of them this week, and was particularly taken with this Star Trek themed beer (presumably in honour of the new series on Prime). Very tasty! 

We mostly skipped Valentines Day this year, save for a trip to the cinema and chicken gorging on Sunday afternoon…

Watching: Sex Education season two

If you haven’t started on Netflix’s Sex Education, you really should. Set in a rather nice secondary school (filmed in Wales I believe), featuring a gaggle of horny teenagers learning about sex and relationships, aided by Asa Butterfield and his sex and relationships counsellor mum, Gillian Anderson. The script is impossibly well-written and the performances are pitch perfect all round. This season begins with absolutely cripplingly embarrassing scenes of Asa’s character Otis getting hooked on wanking… It’s hard to make this sound classy, but it actually is. Particularly deserving of attention are Emma Mackey’s Maeve (part time collaborator in Otis’s under-the-table sex ed business) whose very difficult family situation really shines this season. I like them all, though I’m most intrigued by how they found so many characterful and hideous garments for much of the cast to wear. Well played all.

Watching: Parasite

A singularly odd film which has happily scooped up a tonne of awards, Oscars included. Written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, who made the magnificently strange The Host and the future hell of Snowpiercer come to life, and filled with fantastic character actors, including Song Kang-ho who was in both of those aforementioned films. I’d been tipped off about this one months ago by some mates who saw it at festivals and I was thrilled it won awards that ensured a longer run at Cineworld…  Essentially, it’s the tale of a down-on-their-heels family who inveigle their way into the home of an upper class family in a really nice house, by getting their existing staff fired and placing themselves in line… I wouldn’t want to spoil it for anyone, but it turns out they’re not the only “parasites” on the family, though ultimately I imagine you could argue that it’s the wealthy who are parasitic on the rest. Slow, funny, and very, very dark toward the end – I really enjoyed Parasite, though I confess to being slightly perplexed about why it’s being so lauded. I guess if you’ve somehow never seen a non-English movie it’s particularly striking. Watch it!

Doing: Brick by Brick exhibition at Harley Gallery

On Saturday we met up with some dear friends who we spend too little time with (we blame it on their kids, they blame our appalling laziness – let’s call it a draw) to visit the Brick by Brick LEGO exhibition at the Harley Gallery in Worksop. As at previous LEGO shows there, the Harley Gallery spills the exhibits over a couple of floors, giving the magnificent builds room to breathe, and supplying plenty of table space for folks to build their own models (we all did!) A particular highlight is the work of Canadian-Ghanaian artist, Ekow Nimako, who I’d seen popping up on various brick blogs with lovely work, but his entirely black figurines and sculptures inspired by are simply extraordinary in the flesh (plastic). I took a bunch of photographs which all suck because of the highly reflective bricks, but I urge you to check out his website https://ekownimako.com/. There are many other very satisfying and clever builds too, and various LEGO sculptures made out of glass, merged with paintings, large-scale near-interactive pieces, and I finally got to see some of Jason Freeney‘s superb anatomical LEGO sculptures. Art aside, it was a really lovely day out with friends – cheers Silvers!

Jason Freeney’s anatomical minifigure

More popcorn

Bad picture 3, but this is huge!

Bad picture one…

Bricks on canvas

LEGO pop art

LEGO some idiots got upset about

giant ice-creams

Bad picture 2…

Lovely sculptures

Brick popcorn

Bricks dissected

And… I made this.

Here’s a short video on Ekow, featuring a couple of the sculptures at the Harley Gallery. The exhibition is there till the end of April, so get it together! Brick by Brick at the Harley Gallery

Last Week, Sunday 16 February 2020 - a busy week of socialising, LEGO at @harleygallery featuring #ekownimako #LEGO, plus watching @sexeducation & @parasitemovie @botw_burton #moviereview #TVreview Yup, Still Kansas, Just Has More People Looks like I'm slightly ahead, I'm wrapping up last week only a day late.

[violetmaelucas]

Absolutely awesome trip to see the Lego exhibition at @harley_gallery yesterday. Flick through for more pics. #lego #mybrickswonder #daysout #harleygallery #letthemplay http://ift.tt/2mLexjm

[allofthestuffandthings]

This was an interesting development at the Christmas Market #musicaldogs #christmasmarket #artandfood #welbeck #harleygallery #openstudio (at Welbeck Farm Shop)

[meggysangtheblues]

#tbt to a whole 4 days ago, looking at Lego St Pancras with Lee. #childcouple #Lego #HarleyGallery #BrickCity

[cumbrianblues]

Another detail, #confectedborrowedandblue at the #harleygallery (at The Harley Gallery)

[katieprattartist]

Repost from @harley_gallery • There is one week left of our current exhibition 'Kindred Spirits'. Have you been to see it yet? In response to the exhibition, The Harley Gallery Director Lisa Gee said: "Kindred Spirits is a triumphant celebration of artists connected by a creativity realised outside of the mainstream and the art world at large. This intergenerational and intercultural offering is a testament to the power of art to resonate, and to exist beyond the definition and acceptance of anyone but its maker.” Artwork featured by: @katiepratt_artist Drew Fox Wilfred Avery Joanna Simpson #artexhibition#harleygallery#outsidein#jerwoodcollection @outsidein_uk @jerwoodcollection (at The Harley Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcTOeKsMKP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[c4mera-wh0re-r4wr]

Decorations at the Harley Gallery ! #sweets #christmas #Harleygallery #artgallery #pretty

[violetmaelucas]

Absolutely awesome trip to see the Lego exhibition at @theharleygallery today. Flick through for more pics. #lego #mybrickswonder #daysout #harleygallery #letthemplay http://ift.tt/2n4DJnl

[cumbrianblues]

#confectedborrowedandblue at the #harleygallery (at The Harley Gallery)

[meggysangtheblues]

Lee and I spent a full hour in the craft section of the Harley Gallery the other day. I came out with a masterpiece. He came out with 'Harry Potter yo'. #art #paperplates #collage #magazines #HarleyGallery #nerd

[cumbrianblues]

'Scott's Cumbrian Blue(s), Wild Italian' (from the 'Garden Series') in #confectedborrowedandblue exhibition which opens today at the #harleygallery Welbeck Notts.