The Beautiful Game

3 August – 30 October 2009
Opening reception 31 July 6pm – 9pm

Simon Fildes – Dundee, UK; Kevin Henderson – Perth, UK; Matthew Mark Roberts – London, UK; Angela Ellsworth – Phoenix, USA; RAEchel Running – Arizona, USA; Kim Walker – Glasgow, UK

The worlds of sport and art are inextricably linked by a number of deep rooted commonalities; through the conventions which we unconsciously adhere to when judging them; through the aesthetic appreciation we hold for each discipline; through each fields demand for a public arena to showcase talent; and through the athletes personal somatic experiences.

The exhibition The Beautiful Game will seek to explore the relational aesthetics of sport, athletics, art and game play, along with its theory and psychology, mark making and movement, modes of athletic performance, temporal and spatial dissonance. By employing a wide variety of artistic practice The Beautiful Game brings sports into a visual arts context exposing the active aesthetic.

Create and exhibit your own motion-generated artwork

The University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre is looking for people to take part in creating motion based art works.

For the exhibition The Beautiful Game Angela Ellsworth, a multidisciplinary artist from Phoenix, USA, will be staging Training an on going mark making collaboration.

Training is an exploration of where art and exercise overlap. By engaging bodies in motion Ellsworth explores the ‘training’ process required in order to excel in the disciplines of both art and exercise.

For two-weeks exercise equipment in the University’s gym and the moving bodies of volunteers will form a collaboration and function as finely sharpened drawing tools. The atmosphere of the gym will shift as bodies generate drawings by way of moving on (and with) exercise equipment in the gym.

Training has been on going since 2002 and the project at the University of Abertay Dundee will be the first time it has been produced with community volunteers. The outcomes (drawings) of these Training sessions will be exhibited in the Hannah Maclure Centre’s gallery.
To get involved contact us on T: 01382 308324 or email us at exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

Dates Training will be taking place (times to be arranged with volunteers): 20 – 31 July excluding Sundays.

No previous drawing or exercise experience necessary, everyone welcome. For more information about the project, the exhibition and images of past sessions visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions or http://aellsworth.com