'Directional art with an unorthodox backdrop lend Art Below its fresh, original edge that's currently causing a creative awakening amongst commuters and the Damien Hirst's of tomorrow'   THE GUARDIAN

In the run up to our 5th Anniversary in April we have loads of opportunities for artists and designers to display their work in the biggest public art gallery in the world - The London Underground where nearly 2 million people travel daily.

THE ART OF MARCH

We are now accepting submissions for our next public art campaign starting mid March, displaying the works of artists, photographers and designers of all backgrounds on public display space for 2 weeks in the London Underground.

Please note: If your application is successful there is an exhibition fee of £389 +VAT (Category A) or £289 + VAT (Category B) payable to Art Below.

Please click here to view the different categories and what is included in the fee.

If you would like to display your work with Art Below for 2 weeks this March, please send your proposed image/s as low res jpeg/s to submissions@artbelow.org.uk by  Monday 28th February 2011 and let us know what category you would like to display in.

 

Litro Magazine have teamed up with Art Below to challenge aspiring  writers to come up with a 200 word account based on 'something you have experienced whilst travelling on the London Underground.' This can be real or fictional.

All entries wil be viewed by a panel of judges including Ben Moore, director of Art Below and Eric Akoto chief editor of Litro Magazine.

 

The winning entry will be displayed as a billboard poster in a major London Underground station 2 weeks as part of Art Below's 5th Anniversary poster campaign in April.

The top 5 runners up will be featured on artbelow.org.uk and Litro.co.uk and in April's edition of Litro Magazine.

All entries to be emailed to litro@artbelow.org.uk by the 7th March 2011.

 

Litro Magazine is distributed throughout London, from art spaces including the ICA, Tate Britain, Serpentine Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts, to onboard the Eurostar, in bookstores, libraries and cafes in various locations across the Capital and beyond. With a
monthly circulation of 100,000, it offers a great opportunity to showcase your talent to a wide audience of art and culture lovers.

 

If the artists are feeling a little left out by the writer's poster challenge then worry not as we have a fantastic opportunity for all artists and designers out there.

We are challenging you to come up with a design for April's front cover of Litro.

Past cover artists have included Royal Academy Fellow Stephen Farthing, acclaimed painter Gillian Ayres, Maaike Schoore (Mauren Paley Gallery) and Khosrow Hassazadeh (Scream Gallery, London).

To enter, please submit  your entry to competition@litro.co.uk by the 7th March. The issue theme is ‘Science’.

The deadline for entries is the 7th March 2011. The winner will be announced on www.litro.co.uk and artbelow.org.uk on the 14th March.

Lisson Gallery, 52-54 and 29 Bell Street

 

 

Dylan Culhane
Transcendental Wayfaring
10 June - 26 August 2011

 
Dylan Culhane, U-Turn, (South Africa, 2011) 120x 90cm, Multiple exposure photograph, C-print, Courtesy EB&Flow and the artist
     
EB&Flow is pleased to announce Dylan Culhane’s first London solo exhibition. Culhane experiments with multi exposure photography. His work features meticulous layering of multiple exposures on celluloid in the way a painter might build up brush-strokes of oil upon canvas.
 
He will be presenting a series of photographs which demonstrate a unique and personal representation of place. Many were taken in and around his native Cape Town. Photography is one of South Africa’s most dynamic art forms yet gritty documentary images within the tradition of struggle have dominated Western perceptions entrenching a very one-dimensional view of the country and its art. Culhane aspires to push these boundaries of convention by embracing a fresh, experimental, view of the country in his work and harnessing the sizzling zeitgeist.
 
"By layering contrasting exposures, Dylan forces us to appreciate how an artist can be an illusionist, transfiguring generic landscapes into emotive, alternate realities. Dylan pushes the visual boundaries and capabilities of the camera for the aesthetic delight of us, the viewer."
Margherita Berloni, Co-Director, EB&Flow
 
Culhane regards the celluloid negative as a canvas, layering it with dabs, splatters, slits and shapes of light. In his new work he explores the tactility of working with paint and collage in multiple exposures. He works reductively by stripping layers of emulsion from the celluloid negative in a sequence of exposures dictated by the interplay of light and shadow on film.
 
Drawing on a variety of influences including MC Escher, Japanese sumi-e painting and Op-Art, Culhane’s work is distinctive in that wherever possible he resists the lure of digital manipulation, using oft-forgotten in-camera techniques to create provocative images more akin to illustration, painting, or digital design than photography. Steering clear of any single subject opens up the final product to an array of interpretations. The Buddhist philosophy, specifically the idea that nothing is constant or fixed, also plays a strong influence in his work.

Key Information
Dylan Culhane exhibition dates, 10 June – 26 August 2011
Address: 77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday 10- 6pm, Saturday 11- 3pm
Nearest tube: Old Street
Phone number: +44 (0)20 7729 7797
Website: www.ebandflowgallery.com

For press information and images please contact:
Sophie da Gama Campos or Toby Kidd at JBPelhamPR
Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 3959
Email: sophie@jbpelhampr.com or toby@jbpelhampr.com