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Sculpture Shock residency: Amy Sharrocks' 'Season for Falling'

Date uploaded: July 8, 2013

An invitation to the culmination of the Royal British Society of Sculptors' second Sculpture Shock residency and to participate in Amy Sharrocks' Season for Falling:

Saturday 13th July 2013
INVITATION TO FALL - 11-5pm - World's End Place SW10 0DR

Ever Fallen. No Matter. Try again. Fall again. Fall better.

A live art work comprising an open invitation for people to fall in view of others, attempting to un-shame falling and to open up a potential for flying.

FREE - everyone is welcome to fall - but click here to book as booking is essential.

Wednesday 17th July
A TIME TO FALL - Outside 1-5a Thistle Grove SW10 9RR - 6-6:30pm

Performance piece for 20 people where all the participants progress together through the shapes of falling.

SEASON FOR FALLING Private View - 108 Old Brompton Road SW7 3RA - 6 - 9pm

Compromising sculptures, photographs, film and live artworks, Amy Sharrocks' first solo show is an ambitious attempt to consider falling in many different ways. It is a chance to contemplate the drop, the moment of letting go, the vulnerability of bodies and the joys of being horizontal.

FLOP
Corner of Old Brompton Road and Cranley Gardens - 7pm
Corner of Old Brompton Road and Gloucester Road - 8pm

exploring vulnerability and the difficulty of being horizontal while others are vertical. Sometimes it is difficult to get up.

RSVP at [email protected] or +44(0)2073738615 or @sculptureshock

Exhibition Open: Wed.17 Jul to Tues 23 July
Opening Hours: Tue. – Sat. 12.30 – 5.30pm

Sculpture Shock encourages surprising site-specific spatial interventions in non-traditional space, outside the confines of the white cube. For more information see www.sculptureshock.rbs.org.uk / @sculptureshock / 02073738615.

Amy Sharrocks falls out of the studio (Image: A. K. Purkiss)

Amy Sharrocks falls out of the studio (Image: A. K. Purkiss)