Tony Kemplen
recent and coming soon
The Sheffield Pavilion 2009
"Xanadu" - a new work comissioned by
Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum for the Istanbul Biennale
The Lay of the Land
The Cartography of Real and Imagined Landscapes
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
Street or Studio - a photobook from Tate Modern
Pinhole photo selected for a book following on from
Tate Modern's "Street or Studio" exhibition
My dog's got no nose...
An evening of art on the theme of smell
Bloc Assembly guest curated by utk.
PowerPointism
An evening of high-impact
presentations,bite-sized artworks
and networking opportunities with the creative decision-makers of
Sheffield.
A programme of short art works that use in some way Microsoft
'Powerpoint' or Apple 'Keynote' software.
OurLives
My photograph 'Wall of death' was the winner in the 'Our lives in motion' category of the Curry's OurLives competition. The photo was exhibited at the Proud Gallery in London, and the prizes were awarded by David Bailey.
Dawn Chorus
Dawn Chorus, which was first installed in the Sheffield Winter Gardens, is presented at the Old House Museum, as part of the Bakewell Festival.
Spin
An installation by
utk at the 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe. This work was first
comissioned by the Grave's Art Gallery, and was part of 'Just
when you thought it was all going so well...'
That's the way to do it!
A soundwork made for
Soundnetwork@Futuresonic 07, Victoria Baths, Manchester
Low-tech electronic noise generator used to make sound effects
for an imaginary Punch and Judy show.
Played on headphones in the changing booths of the first class
male bath.
Vexed
Vexed is a new commission
for 'Conflict' at the 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe
Taking the form of five jigsaw puzzles, it looks at the complex
relationships between the UK and other nations
The show includes work by the war artist John Keane, and Richard
Bartle
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1944-94
Also part of 'Conflict' at
the 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe
SK329858 1944-94 is a pack of playing cards that marked the 50th
anniversary
of the wartime crash of an American Flying Fortress bomber in a
Sheffield park.
zero point six degrees
An installation by
utk as part of Talking Points: Local Marks - Global
Impressions
Cooper Gallery Barnsley
13 January to 3 March 2007
The Sonic Picnic
Set
The sonic picnic set is a
low tech modular electronic noise maker housed in plastic lunch
boxes.
It has been seen and heard at Futursonic in Manchester and Sonus
in Sheffield
.
Eine Kleine
Thriftmusik
Eine Kleine Thriftmusik is a
series of compositions using musical instruments bought in
charity shops, car boot sales, and the local
‘Poundland’.
Tracks from the album have been played on Radio 3's Mixing It and
Late Junction programmes.
Siren
Song
Open air sound
installation
part of Bloc Assembly #2
noisy sirens transformed into choral singing
cardboatcard
Christmas Card 2005
an idea borrowed from the Turner Prize winner Simon
Starling
A Decade of Artist's
Books
Exhibition in the School of
Art, Media and Design, UWE Bristol
A selection of editioned artist's books made from 1994
onwards
Just when you thought it was
all going so well...
Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield. utkshow comprising two installations and four
newly commissioned responses to the Gallery's permanent
collection.
Day-to-day
Data
An exhibition of the work
artists who seek inspiration from insignificant details in their
own or the publics' everyday lives - artists who use daily
experience as research material from which to obtain their
data.
Strawberry Surprise
A 60 second film shown as
part of "Host 4: Cinema" - an artist-run project presenting a
programme of thirty-six one-minute artworks in sound and moving
image by artists from across the UK and Europe
Memoir Raft
The installation
‘Memoir Raft’ was made by utkin the aftermath
of the Momart fire, in which many works of contemporary art were
destroyed.
Snap crackle & pop
An immersive installation
using hundreds of metres of bubblewrap and accompanied by a
multichannel soundscape consisting of processed samples of bubble
wrap being popped and squeezed.
10x10x10
utkgroup show in
which ten artists were invited to create work in response to one
of ten randomly allocated subjects using one of ten randomly
allocated media
I was allocated paint as a medium and 'tench' the
subject
Dawn Chorus
A sound piece in which urban
noises are transformed into birdsong
Installed in the new Sheffield Winter Gardens as part of
ArtSheffield03
Encyclopaedia
Mundi
A new work reflecting on the
tradition of the Wunderkammer, or Cabinet of Curiosity and
exploring the contemporary connotations of its medieval systems
of classification and interpretation. Arts Council of England
National Touring Programme commission.
Housework
Group show at Angel Row
Gallery, Nottingham
The three pieces of work I made for the utkshow
'Challenging Rooms' were shown
Solitary
Pleasures
Three separate, but related
installations by utkat the LMU Gallery, Leeds. Notions of
autonomy and social control are addressed obliquely, engaging the
viewer with all five senses in an immersive
experience
Pretty Pollytics
Made for HOST -
Re-inventing the Museum, curated by Mario Rossi
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Shown shortly after the 2001 general election
The
End
New work commissioned by the
Site Gallery for Everything is NumberJune 2001
A neon sign that will light up when the world
ends.
Towards Entropy
A projection on the Site
Gallery window for Everything is Number
Bedroom Makeover
Made for HOME - (from 8
to 10pm)at Rotherham Art Gallery. The video takes the gasps
of delight from home makeover programmes and adds them to close
ups of sensual brushwork.
Time and Motion Study
An Installation at Speedwell
Works, Sheffield
Part of Fivestarthe Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art
MA show
Setpiece
A home made sign
anticipating the year 3000 millenium celebrations
Part of Fivestarthe Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art
MA show
Sponsored by the Time
Seven channel sound
piece
Part of Fivestarthe Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art
MA show
How will it be?
Shortlisted for a Beck's
Futures Award, Tony Kemplen's short film How Will it Be? is an
exploration of youth and growing up.
Link to Adobe website where this piece is
featured.
Polyglot
Commissioned for Babel -
contemporary art and the journeys of communication
at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
bow-wow, pooh-pooh,
ding-dong
A large scale sound
installation in which the visitor is immersed in a chaotic babble
of primitive language elements.
The title refers to theories of language
origin.
About Time
Seven channel sound piece in
which time related sounds are played via a large seven segment
digit on the gallery floor
A large illuminated digit on the wall indicates which channels
are active.
Avocado/Avvocato
Audio CD and booklet made as
part of Challenging Rooms, in which members of utkmade
work in the homes of people who had answered an advert in the
local paper.
Route
31
Route 31 was a
utkproject in which work was placed on and along an urban
bus route
My contribution was a composition for recorder quartet played on
two of the buses.
No Overall
Control
Installation with 12 record
players in a disused nightclub, part of the Redundant Technology
Initiative's inaugural show Size
Matters
The Alphabetical Odyssey
Sound installation in the
fiction section of Waterstone’s book shop. Commissioned by
the Site Gallery for Site & Sound
Also 24 artist's books placed among the books in the A-Z fiction
section.
Shadows of the Republic
Made for Lexiconat
the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research
Everything except the punctation was removed from Plato’s
Republic, leaving only a ghostly shadow.
Historical Records
Made for Buildings and
Contents- contemporary art in a museum context.
Twelve artists made work in response to some aspect of a Tudor
building, the results were displayed alongside the museum’s
permanent collection.
Crystal Clear - Artists Challenge the
Armouries
A postcard commissioned by
Crystal Clear to coincide with the opening of the Royal Armouries
in Leeds, and work on the windows of Holy Trinity
church.
Rebound
101 artist's interventions
in copies of a Jeffrey Archer biography.
An exhibition I co-curated for the Site Gallery.
Part of the Off the Shelf literature
festival
Ursa Major
Outdoor work in the
Sheffield Botanical Gardens. The constellation Ursa Major
was mapped onto the park, and signs placed in trees showing where
each star would be.
Part of the SCAT show Bearings
SK329858 1944-94
One person show at the
Mappin Art GallerySheffield.
Large bronze plaque and series of prints and collages to mark the
50th anniversity of wartime crash of an American Flying Fortress
bomber in a Sheffield park.
Merry Christo Mr. Javachef
Group show at the Graves
Art GallerySheffield.
Each participant was given a wooden fruit crate in which to
create a piece of work
A Case of Towermania 1944-94
Display in the window of
Woodcock Travel in Sheffield.
A range of artefacts and ephemera relating to the Eiffel Tower
obsessed Anton Melnek