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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181114
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SUMMARY:Christina Reihill: Glad I Did It
DESCRIPTION:Glad I Did It\nChristina Reihill\n14 November – 1 December\n  \n  \nNight club manageress Ruth Ellis (1926 – 1955) poses for one Captain Ritchie\, 1954. The setting is probably the flat above her club on the Brompton Road in Knightsbridge\, London. In 1955\, Ellis was convicted of the murder of her lover\, David Blakely\, and hanged at Holloway Prison\, becoming the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\n  \n  \nThis November\, installation artist Christina Reihill will recreate the prison cell of Ruth Ellis\, the last woman in Britain to be executed by the state\, after she shot her abusive lover\, 25-year-old racing driver David Blakely in 1955. Glad I Did It will be an artist’s interpretation of Ruth Ellis’ cell\, imagined moments after her hanging\, informed by a close reading of the psychiatric notes\, prison files and diaries. A video piece on the lower level of the gallery will feature an exclusive interview with the artist presented by Madeleine Keane\, Literary Editor of the Irish Sunday Independent. \n  \nRuth Ellis’ execution on 13th July 1955 was a turning point in the death penalty debate in the UK. Ellis unapologetically declared her intent was to kill her lover\, who she shot five times at point-blank range. In court she infamously stated: \n  \n“It’s very obvious that when I shot David Blakely I intended to kill him” \n  \nMany sympathised with the abuse she suffered at the hands of Blakely\, who famously caused her to miscarry following an alcohol-fuelled row about another woman. \n  \nGlad I Did It asks visitors to step into Ellis’ mind at this crucial moment in history and to consider how easily they could have been in her shoes. The installation examines the thwarted desires and impulsive behaviours that led to Ellis’ execution\, and explores how we all can be victims to our own addictions. \n  \nRecalling the darkness of her own addiction to drugs and alcohol\, artist Christina Reihill prompts visitors to questions how ambition\, desire\, loss and grief impacts our lives and asks the question ‘how dissimilar are we all from Ruth Ellis really?’ \nThe prison files illustrate Ellis’ relationships with her family\, psychiatrist\, lawyer and even the prison warden\, and reveal the woman behind the media speculation\, who has been on trial by the British public ever since. \n  \nEllis famously declared her reason for wanting to die:  “I want to join him” she repeated despite efforts that could have saved her from the hangman’s noose.  If she had presented herself as a victim this could have spared her execution. But she didn’t. The artist believes Ellis wanted to die and appreciated her time in jail. \n  \nIn her prison cell\, Ellis\, a Jewish nightclub hostess dismissed as a “tart”\, could\, for the first time in her life\, experience the respect and dignity she needed.  Here she was addressed as “Mrs. Ellis” and listened to\, and the relationship plagued by violence and alcoholism that her lover had tried to hide\, was front page news. \n  \nThe artist Christina Reihill claims that in all that has been written\, staged\, documented and filmed\, Glad I Did It reveals facts about Ruth Ellis\, never identified before. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the trial of Ruth Ellis \nEllis\, a 29- year old Jewish girl from North Wales was working as a nightclub hostess in Knightsbridge when she met wealthy racing car driver David Blakely. Their affair was passionate but violent\, marked by alcoholism\, abortions and infidelity.  On Easter Sunday at 9pm\, April 10th 1955\, Ellis shot Blakely five times at close range\, outside the Magdala Tavern in Hampstead and put the gun to her head for the last bullet\, which failed to discharge. She was hanged for his murder three months later. “It’s obvious I intended to kill him” she famously declared in court. Her trial was highly publicised and caused widespread controversy\, as details of the violence she endured throughout her life emerged. Following pressure from the British media including the Evening Standard and the Daily Mirror\, the case against the death penalty was strengthened\, and in 1965 it was abolished in Great Britain. \n  \nAbout Christina Reihill \n \nBorn and educated in Dublin\, Christina studied psychology at Harvard\, and later went on to read multi-media and communications at the London Institute\, before starting a 12-year career in journalism working for Vogue\, The Evening Standard\, Irish Times and Sunday Independent. \nIn the early 90’s she returned to Ireland for drug and alcohol treatment at The Rutland Centre. For the next decade she trained and practiced as apsychotherapist. During this time she wrote her debut book SoulBurgers\, and later created a performance based on the book\, and has since produced a number of award-winning installations. In 2012 she won the Allianz Tile Style Artist of the Year Award. Christina created an Urban Art work in 2016\, called WallWalks and last year staged Wit’s End\, a major installation at Smock Alley Theatre on Dorothy Parker’s last days before her death\, opened by Patrick Murphy\, Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
URL:https://project-space.london/event/glad-i-did-it-2
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181223
DTSTAMP:20260811T142724
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SUMMARY:Galerie Ernst Hilger : From the Heart of Europe
DESCRIPTION:Andreas Leikauf\, Expect nothing\, 2015\, Acrylic on canvas\, 140 x 100 cm/ 55 x 39 1/3 in\nGalerie Ernst Hilger\nFrom the Heart of Europe\n7 – 22 December 2018\n\nPrivate View: 12th December\, 6 – 9pm\n\nArtists: Daniele Buetti\, Maria Bussmann\, Gunter Damisch\, Oliver Dorfer\, Joannis Avramidis\, Alfred Hrdlicka\, Paulina Korobkiewicz\, Andreas Leikauf\, Oswald Oberhuber\, Hans Staudacher and Miha Strukelj.\n  \nCultural exchange with Vienna-based Galerie Ernst Hilger focuses on the dialogue between Painting\, Photography Drawing and Sculpture. The exhibition is comprised of works in various mediums by ten international artists. \n  \n\nDaniele Buetti is one of the principle artists concerned with consumerism and informed society. His installations\, videos\, light boxes\, sculptures\, drawings\, and performances reflect\, comment on\, and underline our present times in physically powerful\, atmospheric images.\n\n  \n\nThe drawings of the artist Maria Bussmann\, who lives in Vienna and New York City\, are often based on philosophical writings. In generously conceived series\, the artist implements chains of graphical associations\, which she understands not so much as illustrations\, but rather as open commentaries on philosophical thinking in general.\n\n  \n\nGunter Damisch is an influential proponent of the Neue Wilde style is one of Austria’s most significant contemporary artists. His art features strong colouring and is highly abstract\, with sweeping brushstrokes and a furious and intense painting style on the mainly large-format works.\n\n  \n\nA picture says more than a thousand words. In the case of Oliver Dorfer’s work\, this saying is more than appropriate. Dorfer’s pictures should speak for themselves – by means of their own picture language\, a syntax established out of signs from the world of films\, comics\, graphic designs and other pop culture influences that serve as the raw material for his work.\n\n  \n\nJoannis Avramidisʼ work always circled round the human figure. In his search for a compression of the figurative form\, simultaneously with abstraction of the form\, Avramidis always oriented himself in the Greek archaic and classical sculpture.\n\n  \n\nAlfred Hrdlicka was an important Austrian sculptor\, draughtsman\, painter\, and writer. He is considered a political artist\, many of his works being memorials warning against war and fascism.\n\n  \n\nPaulina Korobkiewicz is a Polish visual artist\, photographer and self-publisher. Her practice explores how the political transition influenced contemporary landscape in Poland and neighbouring post-communist states. Her photographs draw inspiration from sculpture and architecture\, and translate to a graphic conceptual style.\n\n  \n\nBest described as “reflexive art gone rock and roll\,” Andreas Leikauf’s masterful style and imagery incites multi-dimensional reverberations\, as he likes to amp up his scenes to a dark and fervent crescendo.\n\n  \n\nOswald Oberhuber is an Austrian painter\, sculptor and illustrator whose works cover a broad artistic spectrum: pieces using or built from plastic\, paintings\, collages\, assemblies and sculptures.\n\n  \n\nHans Staudacher is a multiple award-winning\, Austrian painter whose work is attributed to the genres of Tachism and Action Painting. He is the founder of Art Informel in Austria.\n\n  \n\nSlovenian artist Miha Strukelj is drawn to the ambiguous nature and the confines of space (both in a compositional and geographical sense).  He focuses on urban landscapes and through his paintings and drawings he creates a new sense of place\, combining real and fictitious elements or abstracting real topologies.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://project-space.london/event/galerie-ernst-hilger-from-the-heart-of-europe
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