Exhibitions

When

Where

Creative Art Gallery

Cupid's Garden 26/01/2007 to 15/02/2007

ASC Gallery - It’s About Time

Curated by Christina Niederberger and Paul Carey-Kent 02/11/2013 to 21/12/2013

Motorcade/FlashParade - The Belgian Synesthesia Association

Curated by Neil McNally 06/07/2012 to 15/07/2012

Phoenix Gallery - PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS

Curated by Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson 23/01/2015 to 07/03/2015

Castlegate House

Curator's Choice 04/03/2011 to 28/03/2011

David Roberts Art Foundation - Bouvard and Pécuchet's Compendious Quest for Beauty

Curators' Series #5 05/04/2012 to 09/06/2012

Beaconsfield

Curators’ Conversation 25/04/2014 to 25/04/2014

The Courtyard

Curiously Cuban by Beccy Mair 02/03/2007 to 14/04/2007

Harris Museum & Art Gallery - an experiment in collecting digitalart

Current 26/03/2011 to 04/06/2011

Curwen & New Academy Gallery

Curwen Prints 11/01/2012 to 28/01/2012

Pier Arts Centre - ARTIST ROOMS on Tour Beautiful Being

Cy Twombly and Alex Katz 26/03/2011 to 04/06/2011

Rebecca Hossack Gallery

Cybele Young 02/05/2011 to 21/05/2011

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Curated by Neil McNally - The Belgian Synesthesia Association

The Belgian Synesthesia Association

Blueprint 2012

Wout Lecocq
Anthone de Knut
Laureyns Amant
Boudewijn Beerblock
Jana van Wamberghe
Cornelis van Agast
Guido de Brune
Joris Ghuuleke
Pieter Speeck
Lucrece Spillebeen
Milan Diksmuide

Curated by Neil McNally

Thursday 5th July
Preview: 6pm-late

Thursday 12th July
Curators talk: 6pm

Exhibition continues:
Friday 6th – Sunday 15thJuly
Opening hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm daily

A number of years ago Neil McNally went on a poetry reading tour of Belgium. He ended up in the Flemish town of Ghent. At a loose end and with a few hours to spare he visited the Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Face to face with Hieronymous Bosch’s St Jerome at Prayer (c. 1500) he suffered a bout of something akin to Stendhal’s Syndrome and synesthesia and passed out. He heard colours, smelled sound, tasted touch.

Rescue came in the form of a Belgian synesthesia associate , who recognised the symptoms, and rushed to his side to offer sympathy and advice on this condition. McNally has been indebted ever since. In honouring this moment of identification, this exhibition will show the work of several self-taught Belgian synesthetes who are members of the association.

Synesthesia is thought to be a perceptual experience in which stimuli presented through one modality will spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality. The condition occurs from increased communication between sensory regions and it is involuntary, automatic, and stable over time. It can occur in response to drugs, sensory deprivation, Dutch oil paintings, or brain damage.

Synesthetes are thought to be the people of the future. For most people, the name Tabitha does not taste like pickled walnuts dipped in Dijon mustard; a symphony by Mahler is not cerise and salmon pink. This neurological condition, although little understood, is surprisingly common among artists, writers, left handed people and Belgians.

Their work will be curated in the spirit of the writings of Pessoa, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Nabokov and Huysmans, and others who have sought to explore the syndrome.

Neil McNallys' The Belgian Synesthesia Association was selected for Blueprint 2012, a curating competition selected by Ruth Claxton (Artist and Associate Director, Eastside Projects, Birmingham), Gordon Dalton (Artist, Curator, Mermaid & Monster, Cardiff), Paul O'Neill (curator, artist, writer, Bristol).

Blueprint is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Motorcade/FlashParade

06/07/2012 to 15/07/2012

Open Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm

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