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COPYO9O9by Gihon River Collective [GRC] www.gihonrivercollective.comGRC Invited Artsists/WritersBrian Belott, USA (Visiting Artist)

“Brian Belott’Books” Smallbooks for small hands,Belott’s books are at a farremove from AnselmKiefer’s enormous,decaying, lead-and-semenledgers. They work well ingroups; it’s nice to have acluster of them on a shelf....

....The absence of objects is one of the subjects.-ByDonald Baechler (French West Indies, Dec 2006)www.brianbelott.com

Ed Smith, USA (Visiting Artist)

Ed Smith is aGuggenheim Fellowin Sculpture andDrawing. His work isrepresented inpublic and privatecollections in theUnited States and

abroad. These include The British Museum, The RoyalMuseum of Fine Arts, Antwerp Belgium, Ministry of theFlemish Community, The Hood Museum, The DavisMuseum, Yale University and many more. Ed Smith’s work is about the human condition andreferences antiquity, classicism and the dignity of labor.www.edsmithfineart.com

Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpacesponsors the additional events www.westbournegrovechurchartspace.org

Cole Swensen, USA (Visiting Writer)

Cole Swensen is the Directorof the Creative WritingProgram at the University ofDenver. She is the author offive collections of poems,including Try (University ofIowa Press, 1999), winner ofthe 1998 Poetry Prize; Noon

(Sun and Moon Press, 1997),which won a New American Writing Award; and Numen

(Burning Deck Press, 1995) which was nominated forthe PEN West Award in Poetry.

Cole Swensen’s poetry is based on research projectsthat attempt to collide the language of informationwith language as art, underscoring--and perhapsdisrupting or dissolving-- the distance between thesemodes.

Gregory Botts, USA (Visiting Artist)

Gregory Botts attendedthe School of Visual Arts in1970-72. He won ascholarship to theSkowhegan School inMaine in 1972. He wasmost recently representedby the Salander O'ReillyGallery in NYC and The

Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico wherehe also keeps a studio. He still paints in NYC on theBrooklyn waterfront and has recently taught at the NYStudio School and at the National Academy School.www.gregorybotts.com

Kathy Black, USA (VSC Program Director)

Kathy Black’s workforces togetherimages that may notbelong together,gives the intenseinformation thatcomes throughpainting from life and

creates a place to explore metaphors that emergefrom the collision of objects and images. She hasshown her work in numerous group and soloexhibitions throughout the US and abroad. Kathy iscurrently the Program Director at Vermont StudioCenter. www.kathyblackstudio.com

George Pearlman, USA (VSC Executive Director)

In painting as in reality theappearance of space istwo dimensional and theexperience ismultidimensional. Inpainting we call thisphenomenon plasticity. Inthe dynamics of thisspatial experience lies the

expressive value of a painting . It reflects the artistsdeepest feelings and touches on his/her everyexperience. I have found in my painting the more Ipush to explore these feelings the more I haveattempted to capture a more expressive interpretationof the visual experience. Abstraction frees the spirit toallow for the deepest exploration of this expressiveexperience.www.vermontstudiocenter.org/georgepearlman

This exhibition has been organized in agreem ent withVermont Studio Center is a 501(c)(3) non-for-profit

organization founded by Artists in 1984, the largest

international artist and w riter’s residency in the United States.

Every m onth for the past 25 years, VSC w elcom es to Johnson,

Verm ont, over 50 sculptors, painters, installation artists,

printm akers, photographers, m ulti-m edia artists, poets and

writers from around the world. And developed by VSC alum ni of Septem ber 2009 www.vermontstudiocenter.org

Christy Symington, UK (Curator in Chief, VSC Alumni 2001)

Christy [A] coalesces amorphousforms with scars of absentman-made structures; [B] unveilsindividuals, often people of colour,which history has little recognized; [C] wrestles with the beauty,symbolism and survival threats ofthe Tiger. She is an AssociateMember of the Royal BritishSociety of Sculptors [and Trustee

2003-07]. She has studied and exhibits in London, Parisand New York including the Threadneedle Prize, Societyof Portrait Sculptors and Freedom to Create Prize.www.christysymington.com

Tontxi Vazquez, Puerto Rico/UK (Chair of Panel Discussion)

Wide cultural,institutional andcorporate experiencesin the sphere of FineArts have spanned afew decades where hehas been criticallyacclaimed as an

Artist/Curator in alternative spaces in the NYC scene andLatin America. He is well read in photography, music andis currently receiving accolades for his filmmaking.Currently living in the UK where he continues to exploreissues of first world people, post-colonialism andcontinues to empower young people into their unique

brilliance. www.myspace.com/barrioobrero www.goldenfleecefilms.co.uk

GRC Fellowship offers FREE Residency @ VSC for UK artists & writers See our website for application process

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Artist “The greatest gift you can give an artist is time in the studio to explore his/her imagination. The Gihon River Collective has created its own simple but effective initiative embodying artists supporting artists.

They are offering an opportunity for a peer to have this time through money raised from the sales of Small Works

that they have each donated. Away from daily distractions artists and writers can work on their aesthetic and

political concerns and take the next step to a broadening global artistic practice. All of the exhibitors of COPYO9O9

have had that experience as offered by a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA.

Now they want to give someone else that time. I hope you will join me in supporting their cause. ”

EVENTS to accompany writing and artwork in the form of an exhibition EVENTS HELD @ COPYO9O9 EXHIBITION SPACE:

*** Small Works Fundraiser endorsed by YINKA SHONIBARE MBE will be introduced at Launch Party *** ! LAUNCH PARTY Thursday, 9 September from 6-9pm

! Artist & Writer Networking Saturday, 11 September from 2-5pm

! Sharing the Residency Experience Saturday, 11 September from 7-9pm

EVENTS HELD @ WESTBOURNE GROVE CHURCH ARTSPACE:

! Writer & New Media Event Monday, 13 September from 3-6pm ‘The Border Escaped Her’ presented by Christopher Lee|Liliana Valenzuela|Renata Szur

! PANEL DISCUSSION Chair: Tontxi Vazquez Tuesday, 14 September from 7-9pm *Curators Tour of COPY0909 Exhibition from 6-6:45 (before Panel Discussion) ‘Residencies: Beyond Everyday Life’ Panel: Amna Ilyas|Ed Smith|Liliana Valenzuela|Mark Dilks

! Children’s Workshop facilitated by Juliie Beech Sunday, 19 September from 3-5pm

Exhibition Team: Christy Symington Curator in Chief (UK-based)|Chutima Kerdpitak (Nok) Curator (UK-based)| Erin Lee Benson Curator (US-based)|Tontxi Vazquez Marketing Director|Wendel Ward Project/Financial Manager Many thanks to our Sponsors & GRC Supporting Artists: Alice Cunningham|Briony Marshall| Gareth Hughes|Jean Walcot|Joanna Pierides|Lynn Todd|Mikkel Mechior Faerch-Jensen