Things That Fall In Between is an exhibition featuring work by sixteen artists at Lisburn’s R Space Gallery. The pieces on show range widely in scale and impact, from the incidental yet beautifully crafted insects by maker Lotus De Wit—where individually hand-crafted flies and cockroaches festoon a bathroom, to larger, more immersive installations.
Alice Clark peels back layers of history through her hanging latex curtains, while Sharon Adams’s Tools are shaped specifically to clean dust from the ornate mouldings and cornices of the building.
The exhibition takes place at R Space Gallery in Lisburn, located within the Castle Street Conservation Area, with the artworks deeply infusing and responding to the historic rectory setting.
Contents
My role in the project was to create both still and moving image pieces documenting the journey of the exhibition. The final set consists of seventeen video pieces, all available online in 720p HD via a Vimeo album.
The main gallery has been transformed into an “archive” of drawings, notes, sketches, images, sounds, and stories that trace the evolution of the artworks over time. Images captured with a pre-production Fujifilm X-Pro1 Camera.. See In Praise of the Fujifilm X-Pro2
Mak9 R Space Gallery Photos
Some of the exhibiting artists will be giving a talk about their work on Saturday 16 June at 12pm in the main gallery.
I had the pleasure of taking the first set of photographs documenting the journey of a group of artists who have embarked on an exciting project entitled Things That Fall In Between. The end result will showcase the practices of makers whose work sits between the three pillars of craft, design, and fine art.
The work will explore the creation of objects through process, ideas, installation, and discussion, drawing upon wider traditions and associations within and between these three fields. This collection will be a direct response to the environment, demonstrating the possibilities for innovative, thoughtful, and well-made work when boundaries are ignored.
It is envisaged that a series of site-specific installations and curated settings will demonstrate interactions within this part-renovated, part-derelict space of the R Space Gallery. The artists and makers enter into a visual dialogue with the building, developing the Georgian Rectory on its journey towards becoming R Space, a contemporary space for the Applied Arts in Northern Ireland.
The main exhibition will be centred in the main gallery space on the ground floor, where an archive comprising samples, drawings, documents, sound recordings, photo essays, and film will capture the essence and activity of the makers and their completed works, which will be installed throughout other areas of the building.
The project is managed by MAK9 and will work with ten to fifteen makers, artists, and designers who are interested in investigating the creation of objects, the process of making, and engagement with materials through installation. Both three-dimensional and two-dimensional works will be integrated throughout the space.
The R-Space Gallery exhibition will be accompanied by archived documentation containing essays, text, and imagery provided by the artists. Running alongside this will be a series of talks and workshops documenting and expanding upon the project.
Most of the documentation involved moving-image capture, shot throughout on a 50mm lens, and features a mix of artwork in situ and artist-focused footage.
About The Exhibition: R Space Gallery
Venue: R Space Gallery, 32 Castle Street, Lisburn, BT27 4XE
Dates: Wednesday 16 May – Saturday 16 June 2012
Opening Hours: 11am–5pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Artist Tours: 2pm–4pm, groups by appointment
About The R Space Gallery
The R Space Gallery in Lisburn is a contemporary, artist-led space located in a historic former rectory on Castle Street. The gallery supports experimental exhibitions, interdisciplinary practices, and site-responsive work, fostering dialogue between artists, audiences, and the building’s architectural heritage.
The lead image above features a Living Pot by Hannah-Chloe Magee. The clay is infused with seeds that eventually take over and transform the pot itself.
Links
Mak9 Website
R-Space website
Through the Mill Exhibition
About Mak9
MAK9 is an arts collective who collaborate with a shifting number of practitioners from project to project. At its core, MAK9 is concerned with materiality and making as a multi-disciplinary exploration to develop dialogue, understanding and cultural enrichment.
MAK9 recognises that professional practice is in a constant state of flux. Artists and makers respond to shifts in social dynamics and from this contribute to our curatorial and critical programme of national and international projects. This lays ground for new audience development and forges links between creative networks and organisations within Northern Ireland and further afield.
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