Sheyda Porter: Idea Generating Machines

• LocationNorth East
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• Artformvisual arts
• ContactChristopher Yeats info@vane.org.uk

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Sheyda Porter: Idea Generating Machines

Exhibition preview: Thursday 12 January 5-8pm

Dates: 13 January – 25 February 2017

Sheyda Porter celebrates the sculptural possibilities of discarded everyday objects as representations of the mundane world. Porter has an intimate, personal way of perceiving abandoned items, transforming them into aesthetic objects. The repeated gesture of applying paint rids these objects of their practical connotations, reducing them to their ‘thingness’ in order to redefine and reinterpret them. She creates the illusion of mere physical material without a history or a beginning.

Sheyda Porter was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. She studied Fine Art Practice at the School of Creative Industries, Newcastle College, Newcastle upon Tyne (2013-15) and BA Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (2015-16) and is currently undertaking an MA in Curating at Sunderland University, Sunderland. She was awarded the Lim Ai Fang Art Prize in the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize 2016, with an accompanying exhibition of shortlisted artists at BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Also opening on Thursday night are Mark Joshua Epstein’s ‘Just below the bang bang’ and Mark Joshua Epstein and Stina Puotinen’s ‘Hold Tight’. All three exhibitions continue until Saturday, 25 February.

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Sheyda Porter: Idea Generating Machines