Goodbye!Sadly this is my final post for the Fishmarket blog. So forgive me for making it a long one. I have been involved with the Fishmarket in some way or another for three years now. First as an exhibiting artist and more recently as the gallery curator. I’ve been deliberating over how to end this blog [...]
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Hiker Meat, Lustfaust & Time To GoJamie Shovlin’s Hiker Meat opened on Friday night and it was an excellent evening. The work on the walls looked great and the epic performance by Jamie and Lustfaust was ambitious enough to really fill the building. Something you don’t see often in the Fishmarket. The weather continued to be unusually good so we were lucky that people [...]
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Final Run ThroughLast night was the final run through in preparation for tonights performance. It was spectacular. The combined effect of the mass of televisions and the aerial audio system was incredible. It’s always surprising how much the gallery space changes from show to show. I think regular visitors to the gallery will be amazed at the [...]
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Tea TowelYesterday we were the proud recipients of our limited edition Stephen Mathewson Tea Towels. This previous post will explain the significance of the images on the towels. Not only are they great documentation of a great day, they are also fully functional drying up cloths! You can either frame them or dry plates with them, [...]
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Not suitable for those of a nervous dispositionAfter an epic final push, the installation is almost complete. All that’s left to do is some final tweaking and some small technical tasks. This is without a doubt the largest installation that we’ve had at the Fishamarket since I was first involved with that gallery back in 2007. Obviously I’m a keen advocate of all [...]
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Zombie Creeping FleshWith the opening of Jamie Shovlin’s Hiker Meat almost upon us, here’s a small taster of what’s in store. This composite shows just a small range of the films that form part of the Hiker Meat installation. There are some fantastic titles including “The Bird With The Crystal Plumage”.
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The Anarchist’s Sistine ChapelA while back I promised to post some text written by David Quigley. It was produced to accompany Stephen Mathewson’s exhibition. Although that show has since been taken down the text is worth returning to as it captures the spirit of the Fishmarket beautifully. ”We are what we say and do. We are words, images and sounds. We [...]
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Final StretchHere at the Fishmarket we now have access to enough electricity to power two small houses, we have more televisions than 30 average UK households combined and we have the ability to make a huge amount of noise. Yes, the installation is going very well.While millions of Britons were out enjoying the summer sun, myself Jamie [...]
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TV Mountain!Exciting things are happening in the gallery as we gear up for Jamie Shovlin’s Hiker Meat exhibition. The installation process has begun. For me, this is the most satisfying part of the job. After all the months of planning, things finally start to fall into place. This being the most ambitious project that we have [...]
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From Midlands to Mid-LevelsI’m very sad to say that after the 9th July I will be leaving the Fishmarket. I have had a fantastic time here and I’ll miss the place and the people. I won’t bore you with the details but the opportunity for my wife Laura and I to move to Hong Kong came up recently and it [...]
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Open//Closings…Tonight sees the start of Jamie Shovlin’s Hiker Meat project and the departure of our curator, Josh Thomson as he leaves us to join his wife Laura in Hong Kong. While I aimlessly clicked my way through Google Translate, looking for something smart to pretend I knew in Chinese, I came across this: “前事不忘,后事之师 = Past experience, if [...]
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Bicycle Basket Bazaar – April 24th.Living outside of the town centre, I am reliant on my increasingly unreliable Fiat to ferry me in to work but for Northamptons stalwart troop of Bicycle Basketeers wherever they park becomes their shopfront and, lucky for us, on the last Saturday of every month that means the Fishmarket.
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First Stop For Musicians – April 17thFirst Stop For Musicians In association with Sole Studios, Northampton The second meeting of the year for the First.Stop.For.Musicians takes place at the Nook Café Saturday 17th April between 3pm and 5pm. All musicians are welcome to come and join in the conversation. Leave you instruments behind and talk to other musicians. They too may [...]
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Goby Gallery – AprilThe Goby is an exhibition space next to the Nook, available to hire on a monthly basis please contact me for further details, This month The Goby is occupied by Annie Bartley: Local creative artist, Annie Bartley is showcasing her first exhibition, ‘Remember you’re Real and Remember you’re Not’ at the Goby Gallery in The [...]
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Shopping at the FishmarketThe Fishmarket has been privileged to propagate a priceless retail offer for Northamptons purchasing public over the past four years and as those first participants move on to pastures new, we welcome a peppy portion of proprietors in: Ama Seka – Amanda Sekayena provides a made to measure clothing service, chose from display pieces or [...]
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Fishmarket ’10The sun came out especially for the reopening of The Fishmarket yesterday, after enduring two dark wintery months where snow fell as heavily inside the building as out, it was fantastic to let Spring 2010 in… …an exhibition of the work of ELEVEN local photographers. Jamie-Lee Facer Wayne Lennon Tom George Emilia Brindisi Jason Lovatt [...]
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Andrew Collins at the Fishmarket!Saturday 24 July welcome local boy Andrew collins back to Northampton with his first one-man show SECRET DANCING …And other urban survival techniques. Northampton’s very own Andrew Collins – the woolly, liberal half of Collings & Herrin with Richard Herring and author of bestselling N’pton memoir Where Did It All Go Right? – makes his [...]
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Entertainment this month at The FishmarketGoodness its been a while! This week is jam-packed with entertainment at the Nook Cafe. On Thursday 20 May we are very pleased to present Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariners Yarn Eric has been receiving rave reviews all over the shop so get your tickets early for a truly magical evening of [...]
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Small Beautiful ThingsA box of hen’s eggs – three brown three white with a perfectly placed wisp of feather, direct from Verity’s happy little chickens. They’ve just been whipped up into a batch of rasberry and vanilla cupcakes (recipe courtesy of Sara, reigning Iron Cupcake Queen) whilst listening to Adam & Joe. What else would one be [...]
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Party in the Gallery & Sunday on the SquareWell its been a busy few days, we launched Stephen Mattewson’s new gallery show ‘My Heart Spins on the Grill’ on Friday night… Friday afternoon was a flurry of activity, last minute touches to the show and a lot of food to prepare! I learned how to make Austrian potato salad by the ton from [...]
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Marinades, Beautiful Bikes & Frou-frous…Tomorrow will see the launch of the Fishmarket’s new gallery show, Mr Stephen Matthewson has been adding the finishing touches to his glorious ‘My Heart Spins on The Grill’ lo-fi narrative directly onto the gallery walls today. It looks awesome – I knew there was a reason I liked working in a gallery! Tomorrow (technically [...]
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Cupcake Queens, Comedy Kings and a lovely rest…Well I’ve had a very lovely few days… I’m just back from a weekend of sleeping, eating and drinking and very little else at my cousin’s wedding whilst my poor comrades in the Nook Cafe dealt with the Bicycle Basket Bazaar crowd (always our busiest weekend of the month!). If you’ve never been to a [...]
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First Contact.Well hello there! Welcome to my bit of the new Fishmarket website, where Josh, Sally and I will be keeping you up to date with what’s happening in our own corner of the Fishmarket universe. We have loads of events in the pipeline, the first of which is this Monday (22 March 6-9pm) when we [...]
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