Arthouse Meath

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Outside in: Peter Andrews

Outside In

Outside In is delighted to have been a part of the Sync South East leadership programme. Set up by Pallant House Gallery in 2006, Outside In offers opportunities to artists who find it difficult to access the art world, whether due to disability, health, social circumstance or art process. The artists involved in this unique project are commonly found working in isolation, frequently with a disability and/or mental health problems. There have been two hugely successful open art competitions in 2007 and 2009 and they are currently gearing up for the summer launch of their third, Outside In 2012.

The project is trying to create a level playing field where access to the art world is possible for all who create. Their aim is not to turn people into artists, but to challenge the art world to embrace and make itself accessible to a wider range of individuals and ways of making.
The main vehicles for Outside In are a national open art competition, a dedicated website with artists controlled online galleries, a gallery in Brighton and Step Up - a training and professional development programme.
Works entered for the national open art competition are selected for national and regional exhibitions by a panel of selectors. A series of awards are presented to winners with the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at the prestigious Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.
The dedicated Outside In website offers artists a presence within an extensive online gallery – www.outsidein.org.uk. This enables artists who find it difficult to access the art world to have their work shown on an international digital platform.

Tomorrow - July 21st, Outside In will be launching their new look website and submissions of work will be open on July 22nd. The launch will mark the new website, revamped so that artists can create their own online gallery.

Here at The Arthouse Meath we are proud that our own Peter Andrews is an ambassador! Peter was one of the six award winners from Outside In , 2009.

My Interpretation

About 'My Interpretation'

It took a long time, months to do it. It took a lot of courage to do it, but I am very proud of it. It makes me proud, it makes my happy thoughts.

To start with, because I felt like doing it, that's why I chose this image. Its very emotional to me to do it, it took a lot of hard work. The ladies in the picture are naked and it's part of my own life, it's nobody else's.

Below are some other artworks by Peter.

Cat n Puss

Reclining Lady

Jardin

Threesome

Venus

David

Living With Epilepsy

It is often difficult for the residents we look after to be able to describe their seizures, these descriptions give a small insight into what they feel when experiencing certain seizure types.

These accounts come from people whose epilepsy affects a part of their brain either before or during a seizure when they haven't lost consciousness entirely, but enough for it to be disturbed in various ways.
Annie Parker.

The seizures start with a feeling of time slowing down immensely while everything is happening in slow motion as it has done many times before. I then get a feeling of warmth and tightness in the pit of my stomach and then a sudden feeling of terror and I know it's going to happen again and I start to panic and feel I can't breathe.

I have a short warning. Everything is amplified tremendously and then the visions start, it starts with a view of a city in ruins. I can never remember afterwards exactly what I see after that. When I come round I'm often extremely disorientated, forget my name and suffer extreme emotional confusion and usually tears.

It's like people whispering, that's the nearest I can get to it. There's a kind of 'fwish, fwish,fwish in my ears for about 30 seconds before I black out. After a seizure I feel disorientated, sounds are muffled and I have a headache. I have little memory of the seizure but as I am semi - conscious when I recover I can realise something is wrong and ask others to verify it.

My chest and stomach start tightening. I feel a kind of exultation and an intense feeling of love and radiance.

People sound as if they are talking through water or through some other medium - I know people are speaking to me but the words are distorted. Then I start to feel dizzy and sick and feel like I'm losing it.

I get a foul smell, like rotting eggs followed by a rising or surging sensation in my stomach, a bit like being on a roller coaster. Then I feel as if I'm being sucked into a narrowing tunnel.

Sunday, 17 July 2011

In Our Studio

I have never been drunk in my life.

- I only drink Coke and Vodka.

Dog silkscreen print by Margaret Mace

Me, You

The Ideal woman would be someone with long hair, not too long a nice figer +nice clothes+ who wears nail varnish+ Lipstick+ hasn't got a boyfriend + wants me +Never ever dumps me.