Hondartza Fraga

My first solo exhibition at Babel, opening Friday 19th Feb 2010 at 7pm.
More info on the gallery Babel here.

During Feb and Mar I am a guest artist at LKV studios in Trondheim (Norway),
click here to see my journal.

OXHOUSE the alphabet is launched!
An online alphabet made for and about the digital native; by Clare Adams
OXHOUSE-ALPHABET

My work for this project is D for Distance.

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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO INSTINCT
AN EXHIBITION COMPRISING THE WORK OF SIX ARTISTS WHO WILL EXPLORE INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOUR

PRIVATE VIEW: 15/01/10 AT 7PM
34 THE MOOR, SHEFFIELD, SOUTH YORKSHIRE, S1 4PA
OPEN 16/01/10 – 22/01/10 12 – 6PM, CLOSED SUNDAYS

The early bird catches the worm
It’s a dog eat dog world
There are plenty more fish in the sea

It is not a new idea that we humans are not so different from the rest of the animal kingdom. Instinct can be described as behaving spontaneously, reacting in an animalistic way, not by learned behaviour or based on experience but by intuition. When are the moments when we feel most instinctual? What is it to be human or animal and what is the relationship between us? We live in tandem with animals; in fact, our genetic make-up can be extremely similar, yet as people, we consider ourselves the dominant species. We ultimately govern the planet and yet we, the more ‘intelligent’ species, are in many ways actually destroying it.

From this huge topic a few of us artists will pose our own questions and comment on our ‘animalistic’ side, which vary from the humorous to the macabre, from the confessional to the symbolic and representational. The artists have been selected because these questions are already festering within their respective artistic practices, and are being grappled with through a range of media and visual languages.

I will have some works for sale at The Big Hang at Bank Street Arts,
More info: www.bankstreetarts.com

A couple of my works will be included in Short Shorts. A showreel of short films as part of Art in Unusual Spaces.
The films will be projected into the window of 42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds
More info at www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk

Exhibition of new works by Helen Blejerman, Lisa Murphy and Hondartza Fraga.
Opening night Friday 4th December from 8pm at
COLAR…TE ….. GALLERY
centro de arte independiente
c/macias picavea 2 santander

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The Sheffield Pavilion will be part of the Cross-Cutting exhibition at Sierra Metro in Edinburgh.
12-20 December 2009
Exhibition opening Friday 11 December 7pm-Late
Cross-cutting comprises The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, Ewan Sinclair, Inefficient Solutions, Corinne Mynatt & Angus H. Braithwaite.
More at: Sierra Metro

My work “Shell of Shells” will be screened at the next Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2009.
The work is included in the New:Vision Award section.
Dates 6-15 Nov 2009
More info:
www.cphdox.dk

I will have some work screened at the next Aurora ‘Common Groun’ 2009 festival in Norwich in collaboration with Outpost. The screening including my work will be on the 8th November at the Norwich Arts Centre.

For more info on the festival and on Outpost gallery visit:
www.aurora.org.uk
www.norwichoutpost.org

Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum presents The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, a screening programme and limited edition DVD of specially commissioned and existing video works by eleven Sheffield-based artists. 

The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 will be screened and distributed during the opening days of the 11th Istanbul Biennial at Büyük Londra Hotel (www.londrahotel.net), presenting the work of Sheffield-based artists and promoting contemporary art activity taking place in Sheffield, UK in an international context.
 
Istanbul Launch and screening times:
Screened and distributed at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009
Screenings: 10 – 13 September 12 – 6pm
Launch: Saturday 12 September 8pm onwards
Büyük Hotel Londra, Mesrutiyet Caddesi 117, Beyoglu, Istanbul

Artists: Richard Bartle, Chloë Brown, Katie Davies, Hondartza Fraga, Steve Hawley, Esther Johnson, Tony Kemplen, Haroon Mirza, Paul Morrison, No Fixed Abode and Third Angel. 

The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 is a screening programme and a limited edition DVD, launched at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009, with a UK tour to follow. Visit www.artsheffield.org for more information and to download accompanying essays, images and artist information.