Mega – Events Cities

Public 53 published Public Journal, Canada, Edited by Peter Dickinson, Kirsty Johnston, Keren Zaiontz 2016

During the summer of 2015 Neville Gabie was invited as a guest speaker at a conference in Vancouver, Canada focused on the impact od host cities of holding Mega Events – particularly sporting events such as the Olympics and Football World Cup. Neville Gabie was invited to speak about his as Artist in Residence during the construction of the Olympic Park in London, host of the 2012 Olympic Games. This recent publication, based on an interview with Keren Zaiontz looks at that work as well as referring to his wider practice.

For the full interview text please see PDF Gabie_Public53

Cambridge Rules 1848 –

a new commission by Neville Gabie and Alan Ward

Neville Gabie and Alan Ward have been commissioned by Cambridge City Council to create a significant new artwork celebrating Cambridge’s special contribution to the creation of the football rules. Said to be the first written rules for football as it is played today, they were specifically written for university students playing on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge.

The commission is due to be completed by the end of 2017

Please see the press release for more information, or go to the project website.

project website

camb-rules-press-release

BeHave Residency, Belval Luxembourg.  November 2015 – May 2016

Neville Gabie has recently been selected as one of nine International artists to develop a new work during a four month residency in Luxembourg. Belval is a former steel blast-furnace complex, the structures of which have been preserved and restored. Currently the whole area is being redeveloped as the University of Luxembourg. Neville will begin his residency in late November 2015 and complete it by May2016.

The whole project is being curated by Stephanie Delcroix and Michael Pinsky; http://delcroixpinsky.com/projects/behave/

Participating artists are; S. Attie – D. Von Berner – W. Engelen – Feipel & Bechameil – A. Francesco – N. Gabie – J. Kopp – G. Licari – D. Rickard

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what a fantastic week – thank you to everyone for their support –

Please see our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BPABreakGround

Breaking Ground – FINALPress Release

Breaking Ground is a site specific project funded by ACE and supported by the National Football Museum, Manchester. Initiated by Neville Gabie and archaeologist Jason Wood, and working with artists Alan Ward, Louise O’Reilly, Giorgio Garippa, and Oliver Palmer, archaeologist Rob Nichols, historian David Pendleton and the Geophysics Department at Bradford University, the team will spend one week uncovering the history of this once significant football club and ground. Designed by Archibald Leitch, the ground was abandoned in the early 1970’s.

The site will be open to the public during the week of 6th – 12th September and the resulting work will be exhibited at the National Football Museum, Manchester at a date yet to be announced. For a full project proposal please see the PDF.

BREAKING GROUND – PDF

Bideford Black – a new commission.

Neville and Joan Gabie have recently been selected by Flow Projects and the Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, to develop a new work in response to the naturally occurring pigment, Bideford Black. The work will be developed over 2014/15 with an exhibition to be held in September 2015. Neville and Joan will be working in collaboration with Professor Ian Cook, Social Geographer at Exeter University.

For more info see;

http://flowprojects.wordpress.com/home/projects/

http://bidefordblack.blogspot.co.uk/

On Big Drawings – Columbia College, Chicago, USA October 2nd – November 1st 2014

Curated by Friedhard Kiekeben, Neville Gabie’s Video work, Experiments in Black and White VII will form part of the exhibition. For more details see;

www.OnBigDrawings.com

www.colum.edu/adgallery/

Neville Gabie has been invited as a guest speaker at the International  Conference ‘The Life and Death of the Arts in Cities after Mega-Events’. The conference takes place form the 13-16th August 2014 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, in Vancouver Canada. He will be speaking specifically about his time as the first artist in residence on an Olympic Park during construction in London leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games. He will also talk about his post-Olympic Project, ‘The Greatest Distance’ and his experience, both positive and negative about the impact of the games on London and the arts.

For Further information

http://acme2014conference.wordpress.com/

WOMAD 2014   – Experiments in Black and White

Between July 24 – 27th Neville Gabie developed a new commission for WOMAD ‘Collective Breath’ as well as showing new and existing films and doing a performance work on three days. Curated by Tammy Bedford and Jeni Walwin, the work was reviewed by David Lillington for Art Review Online. To see the review;

http://artreview.com/opinion/opinon_neville_gabie_womad_2014/

On May 16^th the first public screening of AFLOAT took place in Achiltibuie community hall to a packed audience. More dates and venues to be announced shortly

WOMAD 24th / 27th July 2014

Neville Gabie has recently been commissioned to be the visual artist at this years WOMAD Festival. Curated by Jeni Walwin and Tammy Bedford, Neville will be showing existing film based works as well as making a new piece of work specifically for the festival. Details to follow.

Cambridge Community Collection

Final approval has recently been given for a new five year project in South Cambridge by Neville Gabie. The intention, to plant a forest of apple trees of every variety – approximately 2,700, from the city centre outwards in South Cambridge. Commissioned by Cambridge City Council, managed by Nadine Black, a website and public launch will take place in June 2014.

Modern Art Projects – Richmond, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

During Feb/March 2014 Neville Gabie will be in residence developing the work he began here in 2012.

Initiated by Harrie Siertsema, MAP is a response to the economic crisis faced by many isolated rural towns across South Africa.

For further information about the work;

http://map-southafrica.org/projects/neville_gabie_01.html

Experiments in Black and White VII

has been selected for this years Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition. The Exhibition at the Jerwood Space runs from 11th Sept – 27th October.
PV Tuesday 10th Sept 6.30-8.30pm

Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Str, London SE1 0LN