Joanne Masding

Division of Labour present Image Music Text at London’s IMT Gallery, opening on September 1 and running to October 16.

The group exhibition features works by Andrew Gillespie, Andrew Lacon and Joanne Masding, who all live and work in Birmingham. The collaborative project looks at ways of redefining image, music and text through re-construction, a mining of their origin that are “photo-copied, torn-out, ripped-off / the stock is marble, broken concrete, holograms and polythene clouds / pop music and high renaissance excavated from seams of educational documentation… veins of NME… lodes of museum catalogues / antiquity scoured and frack’d”.

In addition to some process-based information, the press release also includes the hashtag #DoLdoesIMT and a spotify playlist to accompany the exhibition.

See the FB event page for more details.**

Joanne Masding, 'New rehang' series 3 (2015). Courtesy the artist. — Joanne Masding, ‘New rehang’ series 3 (2015). Courtesy the artist.

Joanne Masding is presenting solo exhibition stuffs wander off, a shape steps in at Leicester’s Two Queens, opening June 10 and running to July 24.

The presentation of new work by the Birmingham-based artist seeks to think about “what an object could be and how we might experience it”. Combining sculptural and data-based processes, Masding creates “hybrid, animated objects” that explore the “worth, ownership and production of physical stuff” in an increasingly immaterial, endlessly reproducible world.

Privacy screens, holographic car wrap, delicate plaster casts and image reliefs from the printed page all invoke “the power of the objects we own or wish we owned”, and take various repositories like museums and data mines as a starting point.

See the Two Queens website for details.**

Image Music Text @ IMT Gallery, Sep 2

Joanne Masding @ Two Queens, Jun 10 – Jul 24