Created as a leading national showcase for contemporary art, Three White Walls is now re- inventing itself into a purely photographic gallery. Inspired by the shortage of photography exhibition space in the UK, Three White Walls is dedicated to the promotion of exceptional photography from both national and international artists.
Exhibiting a new collection of work every six weeks, the Three White Walls Gallery always seeks to provide exhibitions that challenge, provoke debate and inspire.
Three White Walls is a joint venture between The Mailbox and one of the UK's foremost commercial galleries, The Artlounge.
Three White Walls Gallery, Level 3, The Mailbox, B1 1XL. Opening times (7 days a week) are 10am to 6pm Monday to Wednesday, 10am to 7pm Thursday to Saturday and 11am to 5pm on Sundays.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
The Beatles Mad Day Out
Private View: Thursday 18th February, 6.30-8.30pm.
Exhibition runs until 29th March
Sixties society photographer Tom Murray had the great unexpected honour of photographing The Beatles in what was one of their most famous official photographic assignments.
Murray was invited to join the renowned photographer Don McCullin, best known for his war photography. He was to assist him in a photo shoot of a rock group. At the time Murray had no idea who his subjects were to be.
In what was to become an extraordinary day in the life of Murray, he shot a series of photographs in everyday locations. From two rolls of film there are 23 surviving shots, which have been hailed as some of the most important photographs ever taken of the group. The shoot was so last minute and the schedule so hectic, the collection of images became known as the Mad Day Out.
For three decades these shots were unseen, stored away in the dark, almost forgotten. However, Murray has now decided it is time to reveal his personal collection of these exclusive images, which are to be released as strictly limited edition prints.
Space Lands
Roadside Rocket 1, 2007, Digital C print, Paul FreemanPrivate View: Thursday 7th January 2010, 6.30-8.30pm.
Exhibition runs until 15th February.
Space Lands is the result of a project executed between 2007 and 2009 in the south west states of the USA. Photographer Paul Freeman was drawn to New Mexico in 2007 when he heard of the extraordinary plan by Sir Richard Branson to launch a space tourist business from a spaceport in the New Mexico desert. This initial visit meant that the artist developed a fascination with the region and its people, influencing him to return many times.
Space Lands incorporates pictures of artifacts from the ‘first space age’ (which ended with the Apollo landings), and the remnants of the space and missile tourism that accompanied this period. It also contains photographs of the landscapes and early development of ‘Spaceport America’ which is currently under construction, and portraits of some of the local people who are connected to the past and future of space exploration. Space Lands explores the uncanny and alien spaces of the desert and the arcs of fantasy, hope and failure that characterize the history of space exploration and its inextricable relationship with militarism and power.
Experiences Experienced
Private View: Thursday 12th November, 6.30- 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 4th January 2010.
Having made a name for himself by producing hand printed, black and white portrait images, Blaize has been taking photographs from the age of 15. The artist has exhibited extensively throughout London and New York, where he lived and worked for four years during which time he captured the life in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Harlem. Other successful and intimate collections portray his perception of the energies in Nigeria and Cuba.
Having made a name for himself by producing hand printed, black and white portrait images, Blaize has been taking photographs from the age of 15. The artist has exhibited extensively throughout London and New York, where he lived and worked for four years during which time he captured the life in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Harlem. Other successful and intimate collections portray his perception of the energies in Nigeria and Cuba.
Ashanti, polaroid image, Blaize Simon
Blaize’s work has adorned the pages of some of the most groundbreaking contemporary fashion, lifestyle and art magazines, such as Dazed and Confused, Arude magazine, Untold and MixMag.
With a portfolio that spans across fashion, music and social documentation, Blaize’s work, while clearly diverse, maintains a distinct sensitivity and depth.
Blaize is an author who drafts stories with his eye and captures each tale with a snap of his Polaroid camera.
When I See Green it Isn't Grass
Private View: Thurday 1st October, 6.30 - 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 9th November 2009.
London- based artist Annette Philo investigates what we see and the way in which we see it through her work in film. By exploring different ways in which a mundane occurrence creates a visual event, the artist aims to drag seeing out of the visual process. With subject matter encountered in the natural environment, the images are worked upon digitally and subsequently transformed through subtle colour alteration.
Philo uses colour to break down the code which identifies objects, beings and entities with the hope of enticing engagement and a visual grasp from the viewer. The films presented in When I See Green it Isn’t Grass, explore the nature of appearances through the clever use of colour and comment on how colour intervenes and often alters our perceptions.
Sound is also used as a means of opening the possibility that events are occurring beyond the image that is offered to our vision and this generates a degree of anticipation on further images yet unseen. It is the environmental nature of her films that allows Philo to work with sound which supports the events occurring and seems to be connected to the footage whether or not the sound originates from it. [Image: An Unknown Hart of the 21st Century ]
The Colour of Time
Private View: Thursday 20th August, 6.30 - 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 28th September 2009.
The Colour of Time by Barbara Downs is concerned with the notion of a journey, both imaginary and real. It is also about ambiguity and unexpected vision – a process of perception and discovery rather than affirmation of pre-ordained facts.
With images that are sometimes abstract and figurative, Downs enjoys exploring the qualities of moving through and around space in both cities and landscapes. The artist’s camera extends vocabularies, catching the colour-embedded rhythm of landscape and the layered multiplicity of cities.
The Colour of Time explores what the artist has seen and her fascination with repeated train journeys, centering around notions of movement, rhythm, fleeting lines and linear colour. Reduced to the bare essentials, Downs work is effectively a visual notebook that documents her evolving sense of personal history. [Image: The Edge of Silence]
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Photography is Dead....
Three White Walls Gallery in collaboration with Rhubarb-Rhubarb is pleased to present a retrospective photography exhibition of some of the best international works that have been presented at the Rhubarb International Photographic Review over the last 9 years.
Private view: Thursday 9th July, 6.30pm- 8.30pm
Rhubarb invited 12 international and national reviewers to nominate one photographer and one image. Each reviewer was then asked to write a piece about the chosen work and why they think it has stood above the rest, subsequently incorporating ideas as to why they think photography is dead....or not as the case may be!
Private view: Thursday 9th July, 6.30pm- 8.30pm
Rhubarb invited 12 international and national reviewers to nominate one photographer and one image. Each reviewer was then asked to write a piece about the chosen work and why they think it has stood above the rest, subsequently incorporating ideas as to why they think photography is dead....or not as the case may be!
Creating an almost topographical exhibition of photography highlighting the last ten years, Photography is Dead... represents diverse practices and a combination of contrasting and evocative styles. Bringing together a cross section of images that have been promoted over the years at Rhubarb, the exhibition effectively engages its audience and questions the current technical revolution that many have embodied even while others still find it binding in a generation of practitioners who know of nothing else. [Image: Han Sung Pil, My Sea]
Exhibition runs until August 18th 2009
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