Hondartza Fraga

Wednesday 30th March 2011, 5-9pm Westgate Studios Project Space
Prudential Building, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 1BW, UK

For the first installment of Temporary Art Show 3, selected artists and collectives present diverse works of sculpture, installation, intervention, performance, drawing, sound and video for one night only.

Anna Beam & Lois MacDonald, Georgia Boniface, Alice Bradshaw, Jenny Core, Hondartza Fraga, Debi Holbrook, Duncan Lister & Bob Milner, Milk Two Sugars, Susan Mortimer, Music For Installations, Georgie Park, Matthew Smith, Kathy Toth, Steve White.

Curated by Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner, Curators in Residence, Westgate Studios Project Space.

Download pdf (935KB): http://bit.ly/TAS3part1

Temporary Art Show 3 Part 2 will be held on Wednesday 25th May 2011, 5-9pm.
Temporary Art Show 3 is sponsored in kind by Ossett Brewery http://www.ossett-brewery.co.uk/
http://aliceandbobcurate.wordpress.com/

Call for video works that engage or question the meaning of home, elsewhere and all the distances in-between. This screening seeks to showcase a varied selection of other artists’ interpretations of the elusive character of the domestic and the unknown. Under the title ‘Ever Remote’ and curated by Hondartza Fraga, the screening will take place at South Square Gallery in Bradford on the 6th of May 2011.

Videos will have to be no longer than 10 minutes.

To be considered please email a link to the video online and a brief CV/statement about the work. Alternatively, you can send a DVD (please contact me to request address).

Email: mail@hondartzafraga.com
Subject line: call for videos

For more info on South Square:
http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/
For more info about Hondartza’s show at South Square visit:
http://www.hondartzafraga.com/blog/2011/01/27/south-square-bradford/

During March 2011 I have been chosen artist of the month at Axis by invited selector Dominic Mason.

To be Dominic’s text about my work visit:
Axis Webpage

New video work and new drawings from the series “As It Falls, either Remembered or not Seen”, and some existing and new video work.
For more info and press release please visit:
South Square Website

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I will be showing some work at the following:

‘Above the Serious’
Private View Saturday 27th Nov 6-9pm
From 28th Nov – 9th Dec 2010 at The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, London
Curated by EEL PROJECTS
above the serious – press release

‘Minutiae’
Private View 25th November 6:00pm-8:00pm
From 23rd Nov – 18th Dec 2010 at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
23rd November – 18th December
Tuesdays – Saturdays 10am-5:00pm
http://bankstreetarts.com/

I will have a few works screened as part of Light Night 2010, in Leeds on Friday 8th October.
Soup & Cinema at PSL [Project Space Leeds]. Screenings at 7pm, 7.45pm, 8.30pm and 9.15pm.
Melange: a programme of artist interventions curated by Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre and presented in Harvey Nichols as part of Light Night between 7-10pm on Friday 8 October.

Links:
www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk
www.leedsmet.ac.uk

Between the 15th and 18th of September I will be at PSL taking part on the project The Drawing Shed (Leeds).
Pop round any time during opening hours or join us for the closing party on Saturday 18th, 2-4pm.
For more info visit: PSL Website or The Drawing Shed Blog to see the work in progress.

10th -25th September
Private View: 10th Sept, 7-9pm
Bloc Projects, 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield, S1 4RB
http://blocprojects.co.uk/

Bearing Elsewhere is the first solo UK exhibition of new works by Hondartza Fraga. Drawing and video are the chosen mediums to ponder about the notion of journey, both geographical and mental, as a place in itself. Taking the position of a traveller who observes the world from the safe distance of an endless wandering, neither here nor there. This new work seeks to confront the fictional and elusive character of home and the exotic.

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Group exhibition that celebrates and explores the medium of drawing. Features works from 22 artists. I will be showing my series of drawings based on found images of beached whales and shipwrecks, As It falls…, introducing a new drawing in the series. Prints will also be available for sale at the exhibition.

Opening 16 July 6 – 7.30 pm
Exhibition 19 July – 11 August 2010
Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield
For more info click:
www.artsheffield.org/listings

I have been invited to take part in the first Mardin Biennial in Turkey. I will be exhibiting a new drawing work titled Twenty-seven Passages

Private View: 4th June
Exhibition will be on till 5th July 2010
For more information please follow this link:
http://www.mardinbienali.org/bienal/artists.asp