Category Archives: Heat Exchange 2

Beate Gegenwart

Beate Gegenwart is an enamelist and educator originally from Germany who lives and works in Wales, UK. Her studio is located on the beautiful Gower peninsular and she is a Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea School of Art (University of Wales Trinity Saint David). Her large enamel works exhibit an expressive interplay between polished stainless steel and fields of delicately applied and inscribed enamel. She is currently supported by a major production grant from the Arts Council of Wales.

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

Introducing…

March 9, 2016 Beate Gegenwart

Heat Exchange 2 is on its way to Erfurt, Germany and the wonderful Galerie Waidspeicher in the Kulturhof Krönbacken is our next destination.

Elizabeth and I invited six new artists to join the exhibition there.

The two previous exhibition venues, Craft in the Bay in Cardiff and St Andrews Museum in Fife had very limited wall and display space. The Kulturhof Krönbacken is a large gallery and we thought it an appropriate and excellent opportunity to show six artists from the group in Erfurt to mark our working together from 2004 at the Künstlerwerkstätten.

The new artists, participating in Erfurt, are

Arnold Bauer (Germany)

Annemarie Timmer (Netherlands)

Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová (Czech Republic)

Martin Schulze (Germany)

Rolf Lindner (Germany)

Uta Feiler (Germany)

Martin Schulze, work in progress, print on enamel

Martin Schulze, work in progress, print on enamel

Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová The Winter mysteries I — Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová
The Winter mysteries I

Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová The Winter mysteries II — Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová
The Winter mysteries II

Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová The Winter mysteries III — Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová
The Winter mysteries III

Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová Winter in the Mountain — Eva Kučerová-Landsbergrová
Winter in the Mountain

Annemarie Timmer Annemarie likes to work with ornaments and aims to give the hard steel a soft, textile expression. — Annemarie Timmer
Annemarie likes to work with ornaments and aims to give the hard steel a soft, textile expression.

Annemarie Timmer This enamel is inspired by a village in Italy, stuck to the mountains at twilight. She drew it with liquid enamel in a baloon. — Annemarie Timmer
This enamel is inspired by a village in Italy, stuck to the mountains at twilight.
She drew it with liquid enamel in a baloon.

Annemarie Timmer Those panels are inspired by walking the dog in winter every day in the woods around Alkmaar. Usually the weather is gray and the light is white. — Annemarie Timmer
Those panels are inspired by walking the dog in winter every day in the woods around Alkmaar.
Usually the weather is gray and the light is white.

Arnold Bauer Two Figures — Arnold Bauer
Two Figures

Arnold Bauer Three Fish — Arnold Bauer
Three Fish

Beate Gegenwart

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

The Cardiff Exhibition 2

January 31, 2016 Beate Gegenwart

Beate Gegenwart

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

HE2 in St. Andrews Museum

December 1, 2015 Beate Gegenwart

After a beautiful exhibition in Cardiff, Heat Exchange II is traveling to St. Andrews Museum, Fife. We are very much looking forward to Scotland and meeting up with the Scottish artists and friends.

Beate Gegenwart

Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

November 17, 2015 Gudrun Wiesmann

Gudrun Wiesmann

Gudrun Wiesmann lives and works in Germany. Sie hat Architektur studiert und bis 2000 als Architektin gearbeitet. Seit 2004 ist sie freiberufliche professionelle Künstlerin mit den Arbeitsgebieten künstlerische Fotografie, Email, Schmuck und Collage. Aktuell beschäftigt sie sich mit Emailsiebdruck auf Stahl.

Heat Exchange 2, United States

#freakin-laser

June 30, 2015 Melissa Cameron

Melissa Cameron

Melissa is a jewellery artist from Australia living in Seattle in the US. Her works can be found in the National Gallery of Australia as well as the Cheongju City Collection in South Korea. Her enamel works typically display subtle enamel incursions amidst precise laser cut stainless steel layers.

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

Herbei, herbei was Rot sei.

June 11, 2015 Beate Gegenwart

(Come, come all you reds.)

It has been a week since I returned from Erfurt, a time spent being inquisitive and playing. Before leaving I decided to allow myself time to experiment, not to rush towards creating a finished artifact, but to explore. And it was RED I wanted; subtle, beautiful, glowing. Whether the large panels will or can be red, I don’t know yet.

It was a great time in Erfurt; exchanging thoughts with Elizabeth’s original group, Gudrun Wiesmann, Annemarie Timmer, Eva Kucerova and Martin Schulze. Agnieszka Lipp joined us later.

I also met the lovely Fritz Meierhofer and his wife Margit Hart. Fritz currently has an exhibition in Ruthin (http://ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/whats-on/gallery-1-2/) It looks a wonderful exhibition. Both shared so very openly and happily about their work and ideas.

Smallish pieces are always my starting points, testing out surfaces and cutting structures, before embarking on the larger panels. At the moment I am hyper critical with myself; is this actually reflecting what I am trying to say? Always more drawing I can hear myself say, but at some point it is necessary to just go for it.

So, here are a few images from my time in Erfurt, my ‘table’, some test pieces and good conversations with Gudrun Wiesmann.

Beate Gegenwart

Australia, Heat Exchange 2, United States

Out with the old

April 21, 2015 Melissa Cameron

Quite a while back I finished working on the objects that I enamelled in Erfurt (earlier posts here and here), the Jewel for a Wall piece. The name reflects that the parts assemble into a single object suitable for display on a wall, while many of the individual components are human-wearable as well as wall-adornable.

Not long after their completion I realised that these would not be what I will exhibit in Heat Exchange 2. These works were conceived quickly to illustrate the potential of using a base shape that when aggregated could become a tessellated pattern or alternately, used singly or in small groupings as a stand-alone piece. And to illustrate that idea they worked perfectly. However, the evolution of the themes that I’m working with in the rest of my practice has reached a point where the investigations happening in my hand-cut works are becoming bigger, involving objects that take days to cut by hand. I’m at a point where it makes sense to use the laser cutter to do that work for me. So I’m designing a piece that will be cut quickly and enamelled slowly, and be in alignment with the research I have been doing on weapons for those works.

Jewel for a Wall has been instructive, and, like the necklace pieces that I put up here in my last post (which were a trial for what went on to be 3/4’s of a piece with Sean Macmillan called Quatrefoil Quartet), it demonstrates the strategies and processes that the new works will build on.

I’ve vague ideas for what I’m making, and as yet no plan drawing to show you what it will look like, but Jewel for a Wall and the complete Quatrefoil Quartet are the best indicators I have to give you a feel of what my research is pointing towards, and what that might look like.

Melissa Cameron

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, Spain

Meeting in Munich

April 12, 2015 Silvia Walz

Silvia Walz

Silvia Walz was born in Germany. She lives and works in Spain.

Germany, Heat Exchange 2, United Kingdom

New Images

March 21, 2015 Beate Gegenwart 2 Comments

I hope that Cath and Griff’s studio is nearing completion, I find myself without a studio at the moment too. Making in materials has all but stopped. My workshop is being rebuilt and extended, which is very exciting and will be a great improvement, but it also means not having a space to work. So I am trying to be productive by reading, gathering visual inspiration and drawing experiments.

As I said in an earlier post, my interest in spaces, which are situated neither on the inside nor the outside, is continuing and my fascination with the ‘fabric of gaps’ is on-going. I have just returned from a trip to Northern Italy – Milan, Bologna, Padua and Venice, with so much wonderful inspiration. Below is a small selection; the most special is the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II in Milan.