The Tour Dates  -  'Race into Time'

The Gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, London                                                     9th to 14th April 2012
Wallingford Food Festival, nr Oxford                                                                26th May 2012
Church Farm, Ardeley, nr Stevenage.                                                              9th and 10th June 2012
Portobello Road Festival - 'Farm the City London'                                            16th June 2012
Glastonbury - Somerset Land and Food Project                                               14th July 2012
Bermondsey Open Art Exhibition                                                                    20th July to 10th August
'Bhopal Enigma' at the Mile End Road to Bow Rally, London                             28th July 2012
and with 'Bhopal, A Silent Picture' by Samar Jodha at Amnesty International       29th July 2012
Visit London. A short stroll by the 'Bhopal Enigma'                                            27th July to 12th Aug 2012
Cork Street Open Art Exhibition                                                                      August 2012
Acton Allotments Open Day - London                                                              2nd Sept 2012
Todmorden The Incredible Edible Harvest Festival                                             30th Sept 2012
City Hall London and the Bhopal Survivors                                                        3rd Oct 2012
Leyton Marshes, London                                                                                21st Oct 2012
'The Diggers 2012', Runnymede on the Thames                                               4th Oct to 24th Nov 2012
The Real Farming Conference, Oxford                                                             3rd-4th Jan 2013                          

We thought the Olympic Games should have been British whilst in Britain, that is British food and drink whilst here in London; Healthy British food without poisonous chemicals. Our Art portrays this from the quintessential English teapot to a prize carrot or pumpkin, or simply a sheep.
So our athletes are running and swimming on English Teapots, when you can catch them, instead of Greek vases or American food packaging.

Destruction of the Environment
The athletes in these sculptures are either hares or elephants representing some of the species endangered by the example of the Olympic Committees. This is the same attitude that destroys The Environment the world over on a daily basis. The sculpture and paintings worry about the land beneath the euphoria, the stadiums and the rest of the world.
Examples are the evictions of the Allotments and then Leyton Marshes, also on this website's Tour and Forum

Contact Details are on the Drop Down Menu of this Home Page

Videos of the Forum on the Forum page

'Race Into Time'  Art take on the Olympic Games in London 2012

The Intent of this Touring Exhibition

'Race Into Time'  is a response to the presence of the Olympic Games in Britain this year.

Food has become the principal issue because of the promises that Lord Coe made to the world prior to winning the bid to hold the games in London. It is evident from the abundance of government websites both in the UK and the USA that there is a huge amount of knowledge out there as to how to grow food safely and eat healthily. But why don't we do it? And why did all the Olympic contracts go to fast food American Giants?

This was an ideal opportunity for British manufacturers including makers of Cornish Pasties, real Pork Pies etc to bring a more healthy fast food to Britain than the American Hamburger as served up by some outlets.

So even though the Exhibition 'Race Into Time' is opening in London and will return to London on more than one occasion, it will spend these intervening months touring the country as best it can, seeking venues appropriate to its message and its Art. The messages behind 'Race Into Time' are orchestrated by the Campaign for Real Farming. Stimulated by statements made by Lord Sebastian Coe to the effect that we were going to show the world how to eat healthily. And by definition that means, how to grow our food healthily.

Whilst it is going to take a long time for farmers to improve, an immediate alternative way to achieve this is to have your own allotment. The Olympics got off to a bad start by evicting all the allotment holders from their allotments, in the same tradition of many councils around the country.

The Exhibition starts its Tour of England at The Gallery in Cork Street,
38 Cork Street, Mayfair, London W1S 3NG

A fun and thought provoking exhibition. From the joy of athletics and competition to the food that the spectators will be eating.

The exhibition starts its Tour of England at
(full details of the tour on its own menu above)
The Gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, London                                                     9th to 14th April 2012
Wallingford Food Festival, nr Oxford                                                                26th May 2012
Church Farm, Ardeley, nr Stevenage.                                                              9th and 10th June 2012
Portobello Road Festival - 'Farm the City London'                                            16th June 2012
Glastonbury - Somerset Land and Food Project                                               14th July 2012
Bermondsey Open Art Exhibition                                                                    20th July to 10th August
'Bhopal Enigma' at the Mile End Road to Bow Rally, London                             28th July 2012
and with 'Bhopal, A Silent Picture' by Samar Jodha at Amnesty International       29th July 2012
Visit London. A short stroll by the 'Bhopal Enigma'                                            27th July to 12th Aug 2012
Cork Street Open Art Exhibition                                                                      August 2012
Acton Allotments Open Day - London                                                              2nd Sept 2012
Todmorden The Incredible Edible Harvest Festival                                             30th Sept 2012
City Hall London and the Bhopal Survivors                                                        3rd Oct 2012
The Diggers 2012, Runnymede on the Thames                                                 4th Oct 2012
Leyton Marshes, London                                                                                21st Oct 2012
future dates to be added over the next year

This will be a most exciting exhibition tour launched from The Gallery in Mayfair London. There is a Forum, a programme of speakers talking about the issues surrounding the Olympics, in the presence of the sculpture and paintings. Look on The Charities Campaign. When the tour starts, the exhibition will include a Sculpture Trail wherever possible.

Unique
In the lead up to the Olympics, the British Press, Charities and Campaigners were talking about the issues surrounding the Olympics. It is some of these issues which have influenced the artists.
'Race Into Time' invited the  Campaigners to come to the Gallery Exhibition of Art and speak there to the public.
Thence 'Race Into Time' goes on tour to parts of  England and slowly the connections between the Art and the Issues become apparent.

Peter Rodulfo   has created many inspirational paintings during this year of the Olympic Games. A quizzical approach to the arrival of these Games. Includes a number of ordinary would-be athletes, the history of Mr Punch and the relationships between people and their vegetables.
www.rodulfo.org 

Stephen Vince  as ever is concerned that the animals of this world are being left out and forgotten. His animals are joining in. The elephant is one of his favourites, loved all over the world. The hare is running for England and Great Britain despite its own demise. These animals have to adapt to survive and to win their race. The Bird has just joined in, but maybe just to watch or hide. The Ring of Spades is a response to the debate on the food people are going to eat at the olympics, and something more far reaching - watch the Charity page.
www.stephenvince.net

Race into Time.
The exhibition is entitled 'Race into Time'. In fact the collection of artworks are all concerned with the race for time and the essence of time itself.
After the joy of running, jumping and competing we wondered - in what direction is humanity is racing. Where will it end up.
The Charities may say that it is a 'race against time'. It is Time that is running out.

British Pride at the 2012 Olympics

London and England and Great Britain are on the world stage this year, the year 2012, because Britain is (or should one say London is) host to the Olympics.

We all agree with the Olympic Committee that we are setting an example to the world as to how things should BE.

1. We want to show the world that we know how to produce good food that is healthy, while at the same time taking care of Nature herself.

2. It seems that the allotment holders were evicted from what is now the Olympic site yet have now been given new sites. One issue here is - is food eaten direct from ones garden better than preserved fresh food and if so why.

3. We read in the press about the victims of Bhopal in India and Agent Orange in Vietnam.

It is the above facts that have come to light through listening to and reading news coverage of the Olympics that has caused Peter and myself to also produce some of the other paintings and sculptures that you can see on this website and at the Exhibition in Cork Street. We do not know whether these facts are true. We trust that what we read in journals and newspapers and hear on the BBC and Sky News is true. We paint and sculpt 'Our Time' based on facts that are ever changing.
Stephen Vince.