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Shane Waltener

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‘Music for walls and other takes' .
Shane Waltener will show two installations in the gallery, together with photoworks and knitted webs.In the front room, the sound installation Music For Walls is an invitation to walk through the gallery looking at a repeated pattern on the walls while listening to a specially designed soundtrack. The effect will be to bring real and imagined spaces into the visitor's mind as he/she moves through the architecture of the space.

The light installation Turn Me On in the back room is a physical manifestation of movement and light. By using lo-fi lighting devices, words are projected onto the walls in perpetual rotation as if the meaning of these, the ‘writing on the wall' as it were, was not fixed.

The series of photographs are pictorial renditions of movement, space and time as still images, and thus have a strong relationship with the two installations.

Take Me In is a knitted web, spelling these words, which compliments the light installation in the back room.
The text refers to the object itself – the web as a trap. In this room the viewer risks simultaneous entanglement in a web of light and knotted words.

Lastly Gangster Doilies are webs stretched against the window pane at the front of the gallery.
Giving the impression of shattered glass, a disquieting trick is played on the viewer as he/she realises that they aren't what they appear but the product of a skill tradfitionally used for home decorating.

Shane Waltener(1966) lives and works in London(UK).
He has recently exhibited ‘Chihuly Doily', part of Craft Rocks, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He will stage a performance at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in July and be part of the British Art Week at Tate Britain in September. Works by him are also to be seen in Berlin and Cologne this Autumn

		Gangster Doliy

		Music for Walls
						Take me in
		Turn me on

Selected Biography

	Shows: • 'Chihuly Doily' (2004), Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Two large elasticated nets installed around the Dale Chihuly chandelier for the event Craft Rocks held at the museum. • 'Moral Combat' (2003), St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London. Contributed 'The Stations' in this exhibition which was part of a week of events organised by the Talking Foreign Policy. • 'London Fashion Week' (2003), Time for Tea, Shoreditch, London. Crochet pieces presented as part of the Castoff collection during London Fashion Week's ‘off schedule' programme. • 'Exhumed' (2003), curated by Jordan Kaplan and Danielle Arnaud for the Museum of Garden History, London. Featured 'The 26,000', a crochet canopy, suspended above the knot garden at the St Mary's Churchyard. • 'Bootleg' (2003), Spitalfields Market, London. Contributed 'Wonderwebs' for this group exhibition on the theme of Bootlegging. Curated by Tom Morton, Pablo Lafuente, Pernilla Holmes and Catherine Patha. Featured the work of Cerith Wyn Evans, Richard Woods, Cedric Christie, David Thorpe amongst others. • 'Diversion' (2002), curated by Danielle Arnaud for Museum of Garden History, London. Contributed 'Squaring the Circle', a collaborative piece with Steve Morgan, with soundtrack engineered by Andy Ramsay (Stereolab).

Shows:

• 'Chihuly Doily' (2004), Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Two large elasticated nets installed around the Dale Chihuly chandelier for the event Craft Rocks held at the museum.

• 'Moral Combat' (2003), St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London. Contributed 'The Stations' in this exhibition which was part of a week of events organised by the Talking Foreign Policy.

• 'London Fashion Week' (2003), Time for Tea, Shoreditch, London. Crochet pieces presented as part of the Castoff collection during London Fashion Week's ‘off schedule' programme.

• 'Exhumed' (2003), curated by Jordan Kaplan and Danielle Arnaud for the Museum of Garden History, London. Featured 'The 26,000', a crochet canopy, suspended above the knot garden at the St Mary's Churchyard.

• 'Bootleg' (2003), Spitalfields Market, London. Contributed 'Wonderwebs' for this group exhibition on the theme of Bootlegging. Curated by Tom Morton, Pablo Lafuente, Pernilla Holmes and Catherine Patha. Featured the work of Cerith Wyn Evans, Richard Woods, Cedric Christie, David Thorpe amongst others.

• 'Diversion' (2002), curated by Danielle Arnaud for Museum of Garden History, London. Contributed 'Squaring the Circle', a collaborative piece with Steve Morgan, with soundtrack engineered by Andy Ramsay (Stereolab).