The Dark Rooms

Location of The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall whilst a boarded up ex community centre now CAST
Tim Shaw sculpture The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Room by Taap film by Richard Ballinger The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Rachel Maclean, Video The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, and Tim Shaw sculpture at CAST, Cornwall
Michelle Hannah The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith Michell Hannah video and Ishmael Hamon drawings at CAST, Cornwall
The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith Installation by Sam Bassett at CAST, Cornwall
Performance by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, The Forgiving head
Performance by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, CornwallThe Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, The Forgiving head
Performance by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, The Forgiving head
Performance by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith, The Forgiving head
Curator Talk with Tim Shaw sculpture The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Film by Jesse Leroy Smith and Paul Becker with Tim Shaw sculpture The Dark Rooms -Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Video by Janet Mcewan in The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Painting by Louise Thomas in The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Film by Graham Gaunt The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Video of Performance by Matthew Benington - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Installation by Lucy Willow - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Installation by Jonathan Hayter - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Camera Obscura Installation by Faye Dobinson - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Installation by Mark Messenger and Film by Susan Bleakley The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Installtion by Emma Saffy Wilson - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Video by Roger Thorp - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Painting on boarded up windows by Ben Sanderson - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Paintings on boarded up windows by Ben Sanderson - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Perimeters of the dark curated by Cat Bagg and Rosie Thomson-Glover - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Interactive Darkroom installation by James Hankey - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
After performance by Jesse Leroy Smith - The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall
Poster The Dark Rooms - Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith design by Chris Priest at CAST, Cornwall
Description:

The Dark Rooms

 

Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith – 2013

 

The old Passmore Edwards School of Science and Art- Helston – Now CAST 

 

‘Over 40 Artists (with international reputations to graduates) transformed every room in the old school building into an individual work of art.  Beginning on the ground floor, where works of art in a wide range of media contribute to a brooding cacophony of sound and dissonant imagery, exploring the psychology, politics and complex identities of the human condition. On the upper floor of the building the mood of the exhibition changes, to embrace expansive and dream-like landscapes. This exploratory journey finally resolves in the last rooms of the exhibition, with meditative and observational films that reflect on the natural landscape. In Jesse Leroy Smith’s exhibition scenario Individual works of art become points in a narrative that draws on the history and ethos of the Passmore Edwards building’  

 

From press release by Terese Gleadowe, instigator and director of CAST 
 
Details:

1. Boarded up ex Community centre now CAST – 2012

 

2. Tim Shaw Sculpture at entrance 

 

3. Room by TaAp, film by Richard Ballinger

 

4. Rachel Maclean ‘The Lion and Unicorn’ – Video and Tim Shaw sculpture ‘Ketamine’

 

5. Michell Hannah video singing ‘How soon is now’ and Ishmael Hamon drawings ‘Don’t Serve these people’ 

 

6. Installation by Sam Bassett

 

7. Performance and Installation by Jesse Leroy Smith’ The Forgiving Head’ with Performers and collaboration from Sheila Ivery and Alex Kitedagger and drawing by Jessica Pemberton, Sound by Dominic Allen

 

8. As above

 

9. As above

 

10. As above – See responses to’ Forgiving head’ in Articles

 

11. Curator Talk with Tim Shaw sculpture

 

12. ‘Revenants -Palmer White’ Film by Jesse Leroy smith and Paul Becker with Tim Shaw sculpture

 

13, ‘Tunnel’ Video by Janet Mcewan

 

14. Painting by Louise Thomas

 

15. ‘Dark nights’ Film by Graham Gaunt

 

16. Video of Performance by Matthew Benington

 

17. Installation by Lucy Willow

 

18. Installation by Jonathan Hayter

 

19. Camera Obscura Installation by Faye Dobinson

 

20. Installation by Mark Messenger and Film by Susan Bleakley

 

21. Installation by Emma Saffy Wilson

 

22. Video by Roger Thorp

 

23. Painting on boarded up windows panels by Ben Sanderson

 

24. As Above

 

25. From ‘Perimeters of the dark’ curated by Cat Bagg and Rosie Thomson-Glover

 

26. Interactive Darkroom installation by James Hankey 

 

27. After performance by Jesse Leroy Smith

 

28. Poster – Design by Chris Priest 

 

 

Artists included 

 

Von Calhau Richard Ballinger, Sam Bassett, Matthew Benington, Faye Dobinson, Graham Gaunt, Marie Claire Hamon, James Hankey, Michelle Hannah, Jonathan Hayter, Mark Jenkin, Liam Jolly, Rachel MacLean, Janet McEwan, Chris Priest, Ben Sanderson, Tim Shaw, Kate Southworth, Louise Thomas, Roger Thorp, Rupert White, Lucy Willow, Emma Saffy Wilson, Paul Carter and Alexandra Zierle, Gillian Wlyde, Jesse Leroy Smith

 

Curators Cat Bagg and Rosie Thomson-Glover were invited to put together an exhibition alongside called ‘Parameters of the dark’ which features works from current MA and BA students of Falmouth University.

 

Featured – Frances Walsh, Karl Arbuthnot, Tom James Bond, Beatrice Brown, Joshua Smith, Mark Messenger, Kate Holford, Ben Wayman, Sam Hyde, Rhys Morgan, Ashley Sheekey and Tim Chandler

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