Lou Hazelwood | Landscapes of the (Un)known
PREVIEW
Friday 6th March | 7:30 - 9:30pm
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Exhibition Remains Open
Sunday 8th March | 2pm - 4pm
Monday 9th March | March | 11am - 2pm
Thursday 12th March | 11am - 2pm
Sunday 15th March | 2pm - 4pm
Monday 16th March | 11am - 2pm
Thursday 19th March | 11am - 2pmExhibition Remains Open By Appointment
Monday 30th March
Lunchtime Conversation
Tuesday 17th March | 12 - 2pm
To get a FREE TICKET for this event visit the link below. 10 places only.
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Lou Hazelwood (b. 1971) originally from Leeds is an artist based in Hull since 1991. She has many years experience of exhibiting both regionally (Hull, Lincolnshire, Leeds, Sheffield), nationally (London, Bath, Blackburn, Cambridge) and internationally (Romania, South Korea, USA, The Netherlands, Portugal) and her work takes many forms and responses from sound pieces, text, film, installation, performance and image based. She is interested in layered imagery of text, image and sound, creating palimpsests for the viewer to navigate. She investigates how our experiences, personal and cultural, and technologies, historical and contemporary, influence our experience of memory and forgetfulness. During 2017 she was the Creative Director for RED Contemporary Arts ‘REDboard’ project and has been on the committee of RED for several years. She actively curates projects and exhibitions as collaborative research with fellow artists and practitioners.
Through the alchemical processes of the analogue darkroom, Hull based artist Lou Hazelwood brings to BasementArtsProject a series of abstract photographic artworks. Using alternative methods of production and old photographic paper stock these artworks are something akin to rural landscapes.
The artist also has a fascination with the rapidly disappearing structures of the gasometer, and alongside her abstracted landscapes will be a series of images dedicated to these now endangered pieces of industrial architecture.
Hazelwood’s exhibition is an exhortation to the viewer to re-engage with photography as an abstract art form and as documentation of worlds both known and unknown.
(Closed due to Pandemic Lockdown)
VIRTUAL TOUR
BasementArtsProject had to close its doors two weeks into Lou Hazelwood’s project due to the emergence of COVID-19 and the governments subsequent lock down of the UK. What follows is a few questions I put to Lou via e-mail and a Virtual Tour of the exhibition narrated by myself and the artist. Over the years BasementArtsProject has also developed a series of community focussed events based around a meal provided by Basement and a guided tour given by the artist. As we were unable to accomplish it this time we instead went online with Zoom and did things differently . . .
Whilst the idea of showing the fine detail of what are in fact very dark images via a computer screen proved to be quite problematic the accompanying videos give a good sense of how the exhibition is laid out and what it is about. Also the conversations in the accompanying soundtracks give an insightful dimension to curatorial, technical and conceptual aspects of the work.
