Works on paper 2013
January and February saw lots of experimentation with paper in the studio. Here are a selection of oil on photographic works which have taken a series of disused photographs and a combination of positive and negative spaces from previous source material to create small studies.
Prophetic Diagrams at George and Jørgen
Prophetic Diagrams reopens at George and Jorgen after the winter break and has been extended till Saturday 16th February. The large survey exhibition of drawing/ diagrammatic mark making features artist from UK and New York including a number of established artists often showing rare lesser known/ preparatory works. One of my Plane Sight diptychs features alongside works by Sarah Lucas and Dan Perfect, a piece I felt was made for the show when I read the brief. I’ve been following George and Jorgen for since they opened at the end of 2010 and have been introduced to some great artists through their program, personal favourites include – Peter Ainsworth, Martin Newth and Tom Pope who have each had stand out solo shows with the gallery in past 2 years. I highly recommend you take the time to see this diverse and rich exhibition while you have the chance. George and Jorgen sits just off Bermondsey Street (a short walk from London Bridge) and next door to the new White Cube space.
James Pimperton
Feeler, 2012, pencil on paper
27.5 x 19.5 cm
George and Jorgen
9 Morocco Street
London
SE1 3HB
Open Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm or by appointment 0203 583 8825
Chris Baker, Mike Ballou, Nathaniel Mellors and Chris Bloor, William Corwin, Rose Davey, Julius Doehner, Claire Dorsett ,Clara Fialho, Paddy Gould and Roxy Topia, Noah Landfield, Ronnie Landfield, Sarah Lucas, Paulina Michnowska, Roxy Paine, Simon Patterson, Bruce Pearson, Joyce Pensato, Elise Co and Nik Pashenkov, Dan Perfect, James Pimperton, Nathalie Provosty, Fiona Rae, Nick Roberts, Bob and Roberta Smith, Ellen Stanford, Carin Riley, Gaetan Sigonney, Sandi Slone, Lucy Skaer, Pinky Tesfay, James Trimmer, Jessica Voorsanger, Tom Webb, Andy Wicks, Holly Zausner.
Lucy Skaer
Solid Ground – Rib, 2006, aluminium leaf on Fabriano paper
140 x 200 cm
William Corwin’s essay for the exhibition is inspired by the illustrations in an 18th century book of black magic that he discovered in a dumpster in Greenwich Village in 1993. Assembling a diverse group of established and emerging artists from the UK and New York, he invited them to respond to his essay. The artists then created or chose a piece from their own collection to put in the show.
The exhibition explores the role that drawing plays within an artist’s practice. Corwin explains that “drawing is so often subsumed as a very practical preparatory act of the artist, or, in an effort to be very notpreparatory, it can often be very finished—very inky, or very big—but the theme of this exhibition, prophetic diagrams, is more about the artist’s preparing their thinking, not necessarily for anything in particular, but a necessary ordering of the universe, a summoning of the artistic spirits.”
Click here for William Corwin’s essay and online catalogue for the exhibition
Fiona Rae
Untitled (small collage no.3), mixed media on archive paper on board
19.2 x 16.1 cm
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas all! Thanks for all the support this years, its been a good one! Here’s this years Christmas card (Lino print & stencilled acrylic)
First Come First Served at Lion and Lamb Gallery
Last Friday I turned up with a work on paper in hand for First Come First Served at the Lion and Lamb, a new gallery set within a pub in Hoxton run by Peter Jones of Turps Banana Magazine. In spite of the open nature of the exhibition it was interesting to see the calibre of artists who turned up with works, perhaps down to the niche while connected Painters on Painters approach of both the Lion and Lamb and Turps Banana. Artists were invited to arrive with a work on paper under 70 x 70 cm and ‘install’ with the supplied blu tack.
The show continues until 11th January and being a working pub can be viewed 7 days a week until late.
Lion and Lamb
46 Fanshaw Street
Hoxton
London N1 6LG
Photo Credit : Andy Parkinson
Petite enveloppe urbaine no. 20 Launch at Banner Repeater – Friday 16th Nov
Friday sees the launch of the 20th edition of Petite enveloppe urbaine at Banner Repeater, which is based on the theme of Game. I met organizer (or Coach) Douglas Scholes while he was on SPACE studios Canadian artist in residence program in London, as 1/5th of artists collective Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) he invited a number of artists he met during his time in London to participate.
Mudlarks
Unique lino and digital print on paper with acrylic paint (edition of 70 with hand painted colour varations)
13 x 19 cm
2012
‘Game’ for me spoke of childhood pleasures and timeless boys pursuits which the romantic inside would like to think can still exist in childhoods dominated by the digital. The piece I created takes a Victorian etching of boys mudlarking on the banks of the Thames as a starting point, which I made as a lino and printed over a digital print of a WW2 propaganda image of the Royal airforce flying over a naval convoy. I wanted to make an image which transcended the centuries to show the ageless nature of boys games and messing around in mud, while the war time background image (war games?) possibly featuring boys of a not dissimilar age heading off to war on ships. The figures of the original etching are now wearing Wellington boots, a subtle nod to the shift of era.
Petite enveloppe urbaine no. 20 is a serial artists’ publication organized through the Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) that uses standard sized postal envelopes (A5) to distribute ideas across cultural networks. The edition for this issue is 70 for which the invited participants were asked to produce a work based on the theme GAME. The eleven participants include Daniel Canty & Patrick Beaulieu (Montreal, Canada), collectif_ fact – Annelore Schneider & Claude Piguet (Geneva, Switzerland), Emotional Driven Process Based Parallel Identities (London, UK), Levin Haegele (London, UK), Lukas Heistinger (Vienna, Austria), Pekko Koskinen (Helsinki, Finland), Alan Magee (London, UK), James Prevett (London, UK), NaoKo TakaHashi (London, UK), Andy Wicks (London, UK) and YKON (Helsinki, Finland).
Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM) is a symbiotic (parasitic) research group with no exhibiton space of its own. It uses the pre-existing exhibtion network to present diverse projects. The CRUM is an artists collective of five members dedicated to exploring links between art and urban space.
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Friday also sees the launch of The condition of things, a book documenting Douglas Scholes’ project of the same name that was developed during his residency at SPACE Studios, Hackney, UK (March to August 2012).
The one night only launch is at Banner Repeater on Friday 16 November 2012 from 7 – 9pm, I’ll release details soon of how you can get hold of the publication/print portfolio.
Banner Repeater
Platform 1
Hackney Downs Railway Station
Dalston Lane
Hackney
E8 1LA
Painting-Versus-Object, Standpoint Gallery 9th Nov – 8th Dec
I’m currently showing new paintings in the latest Standpoint Gallery exhibition ‘Painting Versus Object’ which opened last week. It ‘looks particularly at the territory negotiated between painting, painters, objects and the world they inhabit’, with works from Sean Edwards, John Holland, Clare Mitten, Katja Pudor, Mia Taylor as well as my own.
Thanks to all those that made it to the opening, it was a great busy night and first airing for the new paintings from the Skeleton Architecture series which were well received. The exhibition continues for another month so if you find yourself in the area, do take a look.
Sean Edwards ‘ Painting of Empty RS Box’ 2008 Oil on photocopy on board
The exhibition is on until 8th December, open Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 6pm.
Standpoint Gallery
45 Coronet Street
London
N1 6HD
Sluice 2012 – October 22nd – 24th.
The 2012 edition of Sluice art fair will manifest itself as a publication and an exhibition in which all of the work will be auctioned. The whole event will function as a fundraiser for Sluice art fair 2013. The Sluice publication will be launched on the evening the auction draws to a close on the 24th October at HANMI GALLERY in Fitzrovia, London.
I have donated my painting Otto to the auction which is available to view from Monday 22nd – Wednesday 24th October at Hanmi Gallery.
Edwina Ashton / Kerim Aytac / Cat Bagg / Stuart Barnes / David Blandy / Matthew Burrows / Suzanne Bybee / Michael Callaghan / Cordelia Cembrowicz / Marco Chiandetti / Ami Clarke / Toby Clarkson / Wayne Clough / Paul Cole / Gemma Cossey / Emma Cousin / Emma Coyle / Rosalind Davis / David Dipré / Annabel Dover / Alastair Duncan / Brian Dupont / Bella Easton / Karl England / Susan Francis / Alistair Gentry / Steph Goodger / Gabriel Hartley / Jeremy Hutchison / Phil Illingworth / Tom Juneau / Natasha Kahn / Rob Leech / Hayley Lock / Cathy Lomax / Iavor Lubomirov / Ian Maslen / James McMeakin / Whitney McVeigh Hugh Mendes / Phoebe Mitchell / Eleanor Morgan / Emma Molony / Steve Nelson / Michaela Nettell / Kim L Pace / Kate Keara Pelen / Ryan Riddington / Bobby Sayers / Brian Sayers / Mark Scott-Wood / Robin Seir / Andrew Seto / Alli Sharma / Corinna Spencer / Annabel Tilley / Kirsty Tinkler / Andy Wicks / Rachel Wilberforce
22nd – 24th October 2012 / 12 – 6pm
PV 24th 6 – 9pm
at HANMI GALLERY
30 Maple Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 6HA
Leanne Bell Gonczarow and Ian Gonczarow – Moscow There and Back
Leanne Bell Gonczarow and Ian Gonczarow have spent the last 5 week in residence at OMT Gallery, part of Enclave in Deptford. Having just returned from living and working for the past 3 years in Moscow they have been using their time in the gallery to reflect on their experiences within a tough political and economic environment. The resulting work is now installed in the gallery until Friday 31st August.
Tuesday – Thursday 10 – 6pm and until 8.30pm Friday as part of South London Art Map’s Last Fridays.
Enclave UNIT 9
Resolution Way
Deptford
London
SE8 4NT
I have agreed to follow on from Ian and Leanne as 2013 Artist in Residence next summer. I plan on taking advantage of Enclave’s proximity to Deptford Creek and the Greenwich Peninsula to further investigate this raw and ever changing part of the Thames bankside. I’m looking forward to having a base from which to explore this area in more depth by foot and sail/rowing craft (TBC) to produce a body of work which will result in a solo show at the end of my time in the gallery.
OMT Gallery Work in Progress (July 2012)
Leanne Bell Gonczarow – Time Trickles Here, 2011
Ian Gonczarow, Victory Day – 2012
Ross Walker
I managed to catch Ross’s show at Studio 1.1 last month as part of their 30 Artists in 30 days and found myself admiring his print editions on his website only last week. Today i stumbled across a fundraising page (not entirely sure how i found this) in which Ross is looking to raise money to fund him through Turps Banana magazine’s 1st year of their Art School Programme. In exchange for a small amount of money he’s offering a selection of different prints and paintings and while I’m not really in a position to buy more artwork at the moment I couldn’t say no to £60 for one of the very prints I was looking at last week.
Ross Walker – Untitled, Archival inks on 300g cotton paper, 42 x 29 cm, 2012
While we’ve never met I felt a want to get involved and support Ross’s efforts as i had a similar dilemma when I was accepted to the Florence Trust, needing time to make the most of the opportunity without working every hour under the sun to pay for it (I offered a selection of paintings each priced at a months studio rent).
So if you like what you see and want to support an artist you could do far worse than click on the following link -
http://www.sponsume.com/project/funding-12-month-studio-programme
Ross Walker – Untitled, Archival inks on 300g cotton paper, 42 x 29 cm, 2012
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