Central heating Submission request

Central heating Exhibition Open Brief

To celebrate mid winter The Bin Gallery will be hosting a wall-mounted (also known as Panel mount) heater exhibition titled "Central Heating". The show will run from the 10th of June - 10th July and will exhibit 17 heaters.

The Bin Gallery is inviting everyone to submit designs for the show. T he top 16 designs will be chosen and screenprinted onto the heaters by our friends over at Colorfast.

Artists will pay a submission fee once accepted which will entitle them to the display version of the heater once the show is complete. Heaters will be sold in editions of 9. In addition to the initial payment the artist will receive a subsidery payment for each heater they sell.

designs may be a maxium size of 40 x 50 and a maximum of 2 colours.

The theme: interpretation of winter warmth.

Submissions are now open and close on the 21st of June. At which point The Bin Gallery in conjunction with Fittees and Colourfast will select the top designs and inform the artists of our desisions.

send jpeg submissions (not final high-resolution versions, filesize no larger than 2.5mb's) to info@circuslabs.co.za

send any questions, queries or complications to the same address.

Submissions are open to international entrants too, and no limit to the number of submissions by one artist (heres your chance to get a soloshow!)

Quelle Horreur

Quelle Horreur, an exhibition by 4 Illustratrators will open on Sunday the 6th of May 2007, 11am - 4pm, and run till the 28th of May.

The illustrators are:
- Davey Jones
- Ian
- Maximillian
- Abi

The theme of the show is Quelle Horreur, a twist on the traditional Horror theme.

Quelle Horreur

Quelle Horreur, an exhibition by 4 Illustratrators will open on Sunday the 5th of May 2007, 11am - 4pm, and run till the 28th of May.

The illustrators are:
- Davey Jones
- Ian
- Maximillian
- Abi

The theme of the show is Quelle Horreur, a twist on the traditional Horror theme.

Lovestick Posse - 1st April

The Lovestick Posse show opens on Sunday April 1st
11am - 4pm
The Bin




The Lovestick posse is a 3 peice collective featuring talented artists Justin, Loveme & Motel 7.

This is the first solo exhibition for The Lovestick Posse.

The show has a theme of Carnivale and works range from R100 - R1250.

The Bin opens Permenaant Gallery on 17th May 07

PERMENAANT GALLERY

On the 17th of May 2007 The Bin will open our newest art project – PERMENAANT. A non show based gallery that aims to showcase a variety of works from the deep pool of South African Talent.

Permenaant will not focus on exhibition openings but rather be a space for artists to hang works on a permanent basis.

Works will be for sale in the space.

The gallery will be open with the same hours as The Bin.

Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm
Saturdays – 10:30am – 3pm
Select Sundays – 11am – 4pm

The gallery will hang a maximum of 3 works from any given artist. Unsold works from exhibitions will, from time to time move into the Permenaant space, and will be marked up slightly higher than the show price (this is to avoid people waiting till after shows to buy work and create added value to the work whilst it is on show)

Permenaant rises from a discontent with the increasing use of art as a commodity rather than a medium of expression and aims to contribute towards the re-balancing of art as product / art as expression.

Our hope is to provide a space for artists that may produce small amounts of work over long periods and who are not looking for short term exhibitions.

We are pushing out an open call for artists to provide us with works for the gallery space.

For further information, and/or to set-up an appointment where we’ll be able to view your works and discuss the pro’s and cons of our new space, please contact.

permenaant@thebin.co.za

Shades

show closes on the 28th March

The Jam - Review

Last sunday we hosted our first paint jam - titled, The Jam.

The idea was to demonstrate the different techniques used by Street Artists and Graffiti Artists, and to give some insight into how artists work towards their final work, a process most often completed under the dark cloak of night.

We invited local Graffiti Crew "Running Lines (RL)" well known for their prolific attack on all public facing property ranging from trains,bridges and walls to signboards, street poles and even tarmac itself. And Street art collective "The Lovestick collective" recorgnized as a creative group well versed in various mediums from stencils, stickers and spraypaint, to wheatpasting, fine art and graffiti, to partake in the event.

heres a few photos from the day - THE JAM - Lovestick vs. Running Lines.

The Jam - This Sunday - 25th Feb

Join us at The Bin this sunday for a 1 day event

THE JAM

live painting by Running Lines & The Lovestick Collective

wors rolls - R10

the usual sunday shenanigens.

11am - 4pm

The Bin Gallery Feb - May Schedule announced

We're very proud to announce our gallery schedule for Feb - May 2007

Painting in the street:
Sunday 25th Feb
11am - 4pm

Join us for a day event where 5 artists will perform live painting - we'll have music and a stand selling wors rolls as well as the traditional sunday opening shenanigens.

At the end of the day the work will be cut up and distributed for free to those who attend.

Shades:
Sunday 4th March - Wed 28th March
11am - 4pm for opening *(gallery hours - mon - fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10:30 - 3pm)

An exhibition of over 800 pairs of original 70's and 80's sunglasses. All shades will be on sale ranging from R175 - R850.

(Teusday 20th March is The Bin's 2 year birthday and we'll be doing a surprise event for that)

The Lovestick Collective
Sunday 8th April - Wed 2 May

The Lovestick Collective are currently one of the Capes most creative and prolific Street art Collective - check out their profile here

This marks the collectives first Solo Exhibition.

Auction show bids updated

Brandt Botes - Love
current Bid - R550



Brandt Botes - Trojan Horse
current Bid - R700