CONWAY + YOUNG
ABOUT
PROJECTS
The Southville Arts Trail
Open
The Unredeemed Pledge
Show Tell
Cooling Towers Collectibles Co.
Wall of Statements
A to B
A Walk From A to B to A to B
Graduate Development Programme
Dott 07 Alzheimer 100
Round About
An Ode to Modbury Town
Broadmead to Broadmarsh
University and College Union
I Won’t Dance Don’t Ask Me
Goldeny Hall Garden Party
Darfur Memory + Exile
Confluence
Dependency
Newport Newport
Project 100
Here / There
This World / That World
This Space is Your Space
Opening
Let it Grow
I Have Something To Say
THE ACTUAL SHOP
NEWS
CONTACT
LINKS
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We are currently living in what used to be an old shop on Coronation Rd. Our house is situated along a busy commuter route. Everyday, lorries, bus’s cars bikes and pedestrians pass by our window. Since moving in we have been inviting artists and practitioners to exhibit work in the shop front window from Sunday to Sunday. As opposed to a traditional gallery space, these windows offer an open context for work to be displayed in.
Above image: Pawn Shop by Steve Monger
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The Unredeemed Pledge
Having converted our under stairs cupboard in to a bed, we invite people to stay for one night and two days in the cupboard to make work in response to their experience.
The name, The Unredeemed Pledge, references the first occupants of our house who ran it as a Pawnbroker in 1897.
Rules of the Residency
Residencies held at 254 Coronation Road are for the period of two days and one night.
We will provide you with your meals and bedding.
You can use the house and garden as you wish but you must sleep in the under stairs closet where you will be accompanied by a radio.
The work you produce whilst completing the residency must be site specific.
Your piece(s) of work can be anything; a song, script, poem, drawing, film, sculpture, performance, painting, photograph, a record of an installation etc.
Because we are renting our accommodation we ask that the work you produce is removable.
To celebrate the end of your residency the work you produce will be
exhibited in the shop window.
You must leave something at the end of your residency as a mark of you having taken part.
Before you leave please place an entry in the guest book, you must include the date of your residency and your contact details.
Resident One: Alice Osborne January 19th – 20th 2008
Resident Two: Alex Ostrowski February 2nd - 3rd 2008
Resident Three: Gordon Armstrong March 15th - 16th 2008
Show Tell
The next Show Tell is likely to happen in Leeds but we are not sure when yet.
Show Tell is run once a fortnight, on Wednesday afternoons, at Bristol AMD Bush House studios and is open to all disciplines. There is an open invitation for people to bring something/anything that they find interesting and tell the group about it.
A chance to see and hear things that you otherwise may not.
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Shown and Told
A stylophone.
A plastic duck.
Eroca Nicols Made to Order DVD of performances 1-3 2008.
Butcher Something Embed a radiant head CD.
Subbuteo Westham away team.
Match Day: Football programmes by FUEL.
Sounds of Bristol 7 inch record, recorded 1967.
A ‘Take It Easy’ birthday card by Big Up Design featuring Will Smith.
Information about Listening Post exhibition at Science Museum.
Graphic 10: Taking a Line For a Walk - Diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks.
John Wood and Paul Harrison From One Thing To Another exhibition catalogue.
A printing error.
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July.
Aids to Tray and Trolly Setting, published 1960.
Tokyo – illustrations by Stefan Marx.
Mushrooms and Toadstools in Colour, published 1971.
A collection of 190 postcards of Switzerland, presented in an album.
7 inch recording of garden bird songs, recorded 1976.
The Tart newspaper issue five.
Ladybird book of Danger Men, published 1970.
2 envelops filled with found things.
See How it Works flicker book.
An old biscuit tin.
12 inch recording of Dutch organ music.
One deer antler.
Matt Sewell, Swan Vista exhibition information.
One self-published poetry book from 1980’s by the Bristol Hut Writers.
Collection of Medical Illustrations Volume 1 Nervous System by Frank H. Netter, M.D.
Example of ‘Suited for Subversion Suit’ for protests by Ralph Borland.
Workbooks in Primary English number 5 by O. B Gregory.
A super 8 film of Miami and Florida with music from Jean Michel Jarre.
1950s music sheets: Annie Get Your Gun, My Fair Lady, The Echo of Serenade.
Two candles: Bust of Lenin and Stalin.
4 x postcards from the Statue Park, Budapest.
The New Architecture of Europe, Pelican book.
Scotch 3M tape box.
12 inch recording of XTC Go 2.
Plug socket book by Mark Pawson.
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
3x photos of Juliana Capes Pavement constellation from the Shifting Ground exhibition
Cooling Towers Collectibles Co.
Produced in collaboration with post industrial city lovers Go, based in Sheffield,
we designed flyers and posters to advertise the opening of a temporary shop;
Cooling Towers Collectibles Co.
After Go won a Channel 4 competition to turn the towers in to an art gallery, Eon who own the towers have announced that they are going to demolish them. To mark the end of a four-year campaign to save the towers, the memorabilia shop was set up to celebrate the cooling towers as Sheffield’s civic icon.
Go also commissioned us to create a piece of cooling towers memorabilia for the shop.
We designed and screen-printed a limited edition picture postcard book, Without You on the Horizon, inspired by the likely demolition of the towers.
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Wall of Statements
Wall of Statements is part of a work exchange initiated by the Enschede Academy of Visual Arts and Design, Netherlands. Members of eight universities are invited to produce a poster, in an edition of eight, that make a statement. Posters will be distributed to participating universities and pasted on a designated wall.
In response to this project we have printed the first of a forthcoming series of posters marking the 80 year anniversary of women's right to vote. Inspired by this anniversary, the series will address and challenge gender inequalities that still exist and document our relationship to the world as women, feminists and female designers.
Dedicated to Millicent Fawcett, founder of the national union of women's suffrage, the first of the series addresses the gender pay gap.
A to B
For four days in October, as part of the Typevents Moving Type Conference in Birmingham, we ran the A to B workshop; a collaborative project about moving found type from one place to another. We were based in a cold warehouse in Digbeth, the oldest part of Birmingham. From our corner of the warehouse, we invited participants to explore the city of Birmingham; scouring for type on their way to work or on their way home, on the journey to and from the conference; in lunch breaks and on walks in the area directly around the warehouse.
We then asked participants to bring what they found back to the warehouse,
from where it was re-distributed.
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A Walk From A to B to A to B
Birmingham based historian, Ben Waddington, who was running architectural type tours in Digbeth as part of the Typevents festival, devised a special type tour in response to the title of the workshop we were running, ‘A to B’. On the third day of the event we, along with nine other participants, joined Ben on a walk from A to B to A to B. We walked from A B Row to Stratford House on Stratford Place. Whilst on the walk we photographed pieces of typography where the letters a and b were consecutively in place.
A B stands for the Aston and Birmingham Parish Boundary. A B Row is the street
demarking the boundary.
Carved into the doorframe is the date 1601 and arranged in a triangle are the letters A B R. These letters stand for Ambrose and Bridget Rotton, the farmer and his
wife who once lived there.
Thanks to Ben Waddington for suggesting the walk.
Thanks to Carol Stevens, John Hammersley, Bobby Leach, Ollie Kay, Millie Glynn, Fern Dunn, Liam Randall, Myles Lucas and Chris Wright for walking.
Graduate Development Programme
The Graduate Development Programme is a new education programme at The University of The West of England. The Graduate Development Programme exists to connect and encourage the development of the different parts of student’s education. Our role was to simplify the 50 page course handbook to communicate the purpose of the new module, to both students and staff and create intrigue about the new programme.
We distributed a variety of 18 posters around the university campus’s to deliver short statements and questions addressing the content of the module in a public setting. These where removed after three weeks and replaced with a final poster, which offered an explanation.
Dott 07 Alzheimer 100
In September we spent the day at the studio of London based communication company Think Public, generating ideas for their Alzheimer 100 window display at the Dott 07 festival.
Round About
During the summer of 2007 we moved to Nottingham to work at the eco-friendly screen-printing studio, I Dress Myself. Whilst there we we took part in an interactive exhibition, involving a drawing exchange between 9 Nottingham based artists at
The Nottingham Art Organisation.
An Ode to Modbury Town
This tote bag was produced for I Dress My Self as part of an artists limited edition series.
The bag is an ode to Modbury town for ceasing to use plastic carriers bags in 2006.
Avaliable at www.idressmyself.co.uk
Broadmead to Broadmarsh
Whilst working at the screen-printing studio we printed a publication and poster about coming from Bristol and repositioning ourselves in Nottingham, using both cities major shopping centers as a reference point.
University and College Union
For the Bristol Branch University and College Union we designed and made a banner for their protest marches.
I Won’t Dance Don’t Ask Me
As part of a teaching fellowship we undertook from September 2006 to June 2007, we art directed a group of four third year students to produce a publication for Bristol UWE’s graphic design degree show 2007. We ran workshops which were devised to gather information about how the students surroundings and situation influenced their personal practices. The content of the publication consists of information collated from the results of these creative workshops.
Goldeny Hall Garden Party
We where commissioned to design a cheap and flexible signage system for the stalls at Amnesty Internationals annual garden party at Goldeny Hall in Bristol.
Darfur Memory + Exile
Through Amnesty International we were put in contact with the Sudanese artist Mohanadim Bakhat, whom we mentored for a period of three months to help him put on a solo show of his work at St Mary Redcliffe, in celebration of him being granted asylum status.
Confluence
Confluence was a group exhibition, held at The University of The West of England in April 2007. During our degree we went on exchange to The Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam for four months, this exhibition explored the theme of exchange and was held in conjunction with Erasmus exchange students. Our response was a window installation advising ‘How to Integrate in a Foreign Land.’ In conjunction we produced a publication to catalogue all the participants experiences.
Dependency
Initiated by London collective Make: Dependency was a group exhibtion exploring the theme of dependency. At the time of being given the brief Conway’s Nana had broken her hip and would be living down stairs for the following six weeks. Jen’s Nana is fiercely independent, walks for two hours everyday and busies herself through accommodating her husband. Now housebound for 6 weeks her independence had shifted and she was now reliant on her
husband to care for her.
We sent both grandparents a disposable camera and asked them to document how their daily lives had temporarily altered since the accident. The results of which where exhibited.
Newport Newport
After not being able to afford the university trip to New York we decided instead to go on a trip to Newport by train for £3.95. This publication was made during the day of our trip and is a collection of drawings and found photos which document our encounters
and our response to New Port.
Project 100
Produced in collaboration with David Young.
As a group we decided we needed a means through which to communicate our ideas and thoughts to people outside of our immediate network of friends and acquaintances. 100 was initiated in response to this, it was produced quickly and cheaply. We relied on friends to distribute Project 100 around the cities in which they are living or visiting. The number 100 represents the number of the building in which we produce the publication.
Project 100 was discontinued when we moved out.
Here / There
We were asked to produce the identity for the Bristol school of Art, Media and Design degree show 2006. This included the invitations, a map, and a signage system. The show was held at two sites, this involved making invitations that emphasized that both sites had to be visited in order to view the whole show. In response to this we named the show ‘Here/There’; when you were here, there was there and when you were there, there became here. Using the title ‘Where’, we used coloured tape to direct visitors around the show. To guide people to the other campus we employed walking tour conductors, who wore t-shirts stating ‘There’.
This World / That World
Thinking about art school and the world outside of university, graphic designers and non-graphic designers, we created a publication to accompany our degree show. To form the content of this publication we organised a one-day workshop for the people on our course. We also questioned people outside of our course; friends, family members and strangers. The publication is a culmination of the responses we obtained. It is accompanied by a DVD.
This Space is Your Space
A four-month investigative project exploring how we are restricted and controlled by private land ownership. This investigation consisted of a number of interventions, which are catalogued and represented collectively in the book. Each intervention attempted to challenge and explore the notions of ownership, access to space, the use of public and private space and act as a catalyst to provoke a response from Bristol’s public. A DVD accompanies the book.
Opening
After clearing the rubbish from a disused alleyway in a suburb of Bristol, the edited discarded and found items were then photographed and hung as part of an exhibition held in the cleared alleyway. Local residents were invited to attend and debate the shared ownership of the space.
Let it Grow
This book was produced in response to a weekend spent in three different locations in Holland. It was produced strictly within three days, without the use of a computer,
using only found imagery.
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I Have Something To Say
Produced in collaboration with Alice Osborne.
I Have Something to Say, was a response to the theme ‘Engagement,’ presented to us by De Anshouw (an exhibition space in Rotterdam). Our aim was to inspire engagement through providing a forum. The posters produced for this exhibition advertised the project in advance but were also designed to offer people a space to say something prior to the event.
We fly-posted the adverts around the city; the blank space also gave those who couldn’t visit the exhibition the opportunity to engage.
At the exhibition itself, stickers where given out and attendees and passers by were asked to write a thought, response, comment or statement and add it to the exhibition space.
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