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The Van Der Waals Attraction

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The gecko’s ability to scale vertical walls is due to atomic-scale Van der Waals interactions that occur naturally in the microscopic hairs on the lizard’s toes.

The Van Der Waals Attraction is a unique, exciting event taking place in Barrow on 29th November at The Canteen media and arts centre.

The Tiny Masters event was born through the wish to create a phantasmagorical aural-optical tickling labyrinth of avant-garde music, art and performance. Tiny Masters introduces talent from your doorstep and combines this with gifted artists and musicians from London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and Edinburgh.

Each one of the bands are present and future headliner gems and are tipped as some of the most exciting bands for the future.

One side of the room will be dedicated to live graffiti with a 24ft purpose built wall, and the rest of the room will have over 25 artists exhibiting performance art, audiovisual art, video art, digital art, sculpture, installation, painting and photography.

Bands and DJs performing include Micachu and The Shapes, Pulled Apart by Horses, The Velcro Quartet, The Mooncats, Good Noise Bad Noise, Jonny Hot Sauce, Fidge

Tickets are just £5 on the door – but you can reserve a place by booking here.

Find out more about the acts and artists, visit www.myspace.com/tinymastersunite

Here’s some more information about some of the artists exhibiting at the event.

Good Noise Bad Noise – Cumbria and Sheffield

Good Noise Bad Noise are a loose collective of improvising musicians, sound artists and video artists from Cumbria and Sheffield. The band have grown into a multi-media collective and have played many festivals in the UK as well as just returning from their first tour of the US and will play an improvised A/V set with visuals, three laptops, fiddle and sax.

“Good Noise Bad Noise are sensational at surrounding the listener with all these various odds and ends, ranging from Pandora’s Box chaos to an entrancing industrial sonance.’ EXP/AM (Review of Semiotic Clunker)

Sketchcity Representatives – Manchester

(Pavi, Krek and Starvin Artist attending) Sketchcity aim to promote up and coming artists through as many means available to them, this includes exhibitions, live painting at different events, commissions and workshops. So far Sketch City has showcased artists and their creative methods alongside companies such as: EA Games, New Balance, Revolution (bar chain), Grolsch, The Warehouse Project, CIDS, Junk (fashion outlet), The Font bar, Westworld, plus many others, Sketch City has also run stages and art areas at festivals including: Glastonbury 2007 The Hub festival 2007 New Islington festival 2006/07 DPercussion festival 2005/06/07

Starvin Artist – Manchester

Originally from Ulverston but now Manchester based, Starvin Artist has just won 1st prize at the Konica Minolta Get Yourself Noticed Graphic Design awards and his work is displayed on billboards in London’s High St Kensington and Shoreditch. SA will be returning to Cumbria specially for the event and will be creating live art and exhibiting also.

Faunagraphic and Rocket01 – Sheffield

“They’re Sheffield’s answer to the graffiti artist Banksy – a secretive duo who use derelict factories and warehouses as canvasses for their colourful designs… just like the mysterious Banksy their art, though usually hidden away, is gaining quite a following.” THE SHEFFIELD STAR

As well as exhibiting nationwide, they also do varied work for clients nationally and internationally including the BBC, ITV and the NHS.

Laurie Pink – Manchester

Laurie Pink is an illustrator, designer and sometime street artist currently working in Manchester and its environs. You can see her work in a variety of places in city centre Manchester, and she is also a member of the Sketch City collective based at the Upper Space Gallery at Marlsboro House on Newton Street.

Laurie generally works in line, paint, spray paint, and on her lovely Mac, but she also really loves making creatures, both small and large, and will be bringing some of her friendly monsters to the exhibition. She likes cats, smells, fish fingers and warm socks. You can look at lots more of her pictures on her flicker at: www.flickr.com/photos/laurie_pink. She also has a website at www.veryworrying.com, which is woefully overdue for an update, so best stick with the Flickr.

Otherman – Barrow in Furness

Local stencil, sticker, posca and paint artist Otherman has been creating images for many years. Originally influenced by the Barrovian graffiti artists of the late 80’s, Otherman currently produces both large and small scale stencil work that has been seen all over this year, from festivals to shop doorways.

Karborn – London

Animations from ‘Cathedral Oceans III’ album to be shown.

“East London artist john Leigh aka Karborn is one of thte UK’s most prolific young artists and creators, having notched up an outstanding client list from ongoing Vjing stints for Akira the Don to art and design collaborations with industry giants, Nike and Polydor. Following a scholarship-funded stint at the Vancouver Film School, Karborn went on to translate his experience in film for the animation and productin of John Fox’s DVD for the ‘Cathedral Oceans III’ album. Working alongside Foxx, Karborn sequenced an awesome piece of footage with Renaissance-like aesthetics which highlighted his phenomenal talent in all areas of artistry. Part of the KDU family in the US, Karborn approaches industries as diverse as art & design, copywriting, video and film and clothing design. His ethos of embracing multiple fields of creation is reflective in his art, with Karborn moving smoothly between artistic styles, each piece pushing the boundaries of originality.”

James Daltry – Newcastle

James Daltry uses his love of welding to mix his interesting video art with his inventive sculptures.

Michaelis Antoniades – Cyprus

Michaelis Antoniades is a Greek Cypriot artist who explores the world of speed painting and illusion performance.

Claire Severino – Barrow in Furness

“I studied fine art painting at Manchester Metropolitan University. The paintings I would like to exhibit are a contrast of innocence and the macabre, at first glance appearing cute and fun, A longer look revealing a very different story. I am working with mixed media, mostly acrylic and crayon. ”

Mr Bowlegs – Barrow in Furness

www.mrbowlegs.co.uk is Jeffrey Bowman with a multidisciplinary approach to design and illustration, with a love for typography, shape, colour, form, space, exploration and experimentation.

Stimuleye

Tom Lloyd and Sean Sanderson will be live vision mixing with laptops and multiple cameras and Tom will also be exhibiting an interactive video installation using motion sensors.

Alex Breeze – Newcastle

Alex Breeze is a classically trained artist who has combined traditional portraiture with video art, in an attempt to explore the emotions of the viewer.

Miles Harrison – Newcastle

Miles Harrison melts and sculpts mannequins, abstractly distorting the human form to magnify mans imperfections and the constant struggle for perfection.

Ulverston Arts

This lantern was so well received at the Ulverston Lantern Festival that it was bestowed one last night out, ‘The Bitch’ makes its valedictory outing.

James Bradbury – Ulverston

James owns The Ink Spot in Ulverston and is a professional illustrator and tattooist, who has a penchant for wolverine, red headed women and many unmentionables.

Steve Graham – Ulverston

Polyurethane (P.U.) Art was established in 2001 by Steve Graham, an Art graduate who lives and works in the Lake District. Steve used his artistic flair combined with an interest in experimentation to pioneer the unique process that is P.U.Art.

By utilising the flowing consistency of P.U. combined with the vivid colours that can be mixed from the dye pigments, an interesting art form was created. Once applied the design reacts to produce a textured durable painting.

David Lurie – Dalton

David Lurie is a formerly partially sighted professional photographer, musician and project manager, and is three halves – he works very hard – of Fotogenesis, a Furness based photography company. David’s work has been featured in BAE publications and for many local business themed events.

Inspired by Hiroshi Sugamoto and with a lot in common with the storybook inspired cinematography of Michael Wylie as well as a disturbing obsession for the colour blue, he will be displaying photographs of whatever obsession is gripping him and his recently restored vision in November, and will also be taking pictures on the night

Design Sex – Barrow in Furness/London

Creative Imaging

Sarah Lockyer – Australia

Sarah Lockyer is an Australian born outdoor instructor, with a not-so-secret passion for photography. She has exhibited widely in Australia, however this is her first UK exhibition.

Daisy Roberts – Lancaster

Daisy Roberts is the youngest of our exhibitors and is studying for her A-Levels. Daisy will be exhibiting some ethereal photography.

VJ Partridge – Barrow in Furness

Video Art