In Ruin

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In Ruin Solo exhibition at Stryx gallery Birmingham June 2nd – 20th 2023 Outcome for Pressure Cooker: Soup VI Residency Programme

‘A re-enactment of repetitions and rituals against the backdrop of relentless urban regeneration all around this artists’ studio space and the city in general. The Stryx gallery will present painting, objects and live performance, exploring personal themes in relation to romantic and haunted notions of ruins; of architecture, the body and the mind.’

Ghost Rope

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Ghost Rope A Live 40 min performance for the opening of ‘In Ruin’, solo exhibition at Stryx. Photographs by Marcin SZ

Wearing a fractured mirror man mask (a prop from a previous performance called Time Piece) In this version the character follows a HIIT exercise class on You Tube. The work explored themes of repetition, compulsion and failed desires in a psychological extension of the title of the show which also explored the theme of ruins from art history Romantic era landscape painting as well as modern urban regeneration. In Ruin was the exhibition outcome from Stryx 2023 Residency Program Pressure Cooker: Soup VI

Performance play at Stryx

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Playing around with masks and performance ideas as part of my residency at Stryx, Pressure Cooker: Soup VI for solo exhibition outcome ‘In Ruin’ in June

Pressure Cooker: Soup VI

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Excited to be taking part in Stryx Gallery Pressure Cooker: Soup VI artist in residence programme for 2023, along with: @mollycleaver @ambiedrew @b4g_lord @lilywales. Here’s a taster of work in group show in April before solo exhibition in June…

Vitalistic Fantasies

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Woodland Painting 1 coming out of the swamps into its exhibition debut for Vitalistic Fantasies, at Elysium Gallery, Swansea, until July 16 2022. Curated by Paula Mccarthur and Liam White

We are Stuff as Dreams are Made on exhibition views

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We are such stuff as dreams are made on’  curated by Vivienne Roberts @viviennesroberts for Aleph Contemporary @alephcontemporary

The Cello Factory, London SE1 8TJ pv Tues 16 Nov. Open – 2nd December
Featuring; Helen Brough @helen_brough Ben Westley Clarke @benwestleyclarke Oliver Dorrell @oliverdorrell Archie Franks @archie.franks Alice Macdonald @paulhnewman @alice_mac Joe Packer @joe_packer_ Fiona Roberts @fionagrorbertsart Liorah Tchiprout @tchiprout @jaime_valtierra_studio

Taking words by Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a starting point, Aleph Contemporary presents an exhibition of paintings by ten British artists all about our inner worlds of visions and dreams, and our escapades for cheap thrills.
 Curated by Aleph’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Roberts, this exhibition is about the opposite of IRL experience – our inner-life, unreal psychological world. Far away from socio-economic-political reality, these artists re-connect us to our own imaginations by taking us on a journey through theirs…

 

We Are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

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We are such stuff as dreams are made on’ Looking forward taking part in this enchanted otherworldly exhibition of painting curated by Vivienne Roberts @viviennesroberts for Aleph Contemporary @alephcontemporary and featuring an intriguing group of painters

The Cello Factory, London SE1 8TJ pv Tues 16 Nov. Open – 2nd December
Featuring; Helen Brough @helen_brough Ben Westley Clarke @benwestleyclarke Oliver Dorrell @oliverdorrell Archie Franks @archie.franks Alice Macdonald @paulhnewman @alice_mac Joe Packer @joe_packer_ Fiona Roberts @fionagrorbertsart Liorah Tchiprout @tchiprout @jaime_valtierra_studio

Taking words by Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a starting point, Aleph Contemporary presents an exhibition of paintings by ten British artists all about our inner worlds of visions and dreams, and our escapades for cheap thrills.
 Curated by Aleph’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Roberts, this exhibition is about the opposite of IRL experience – our inner-life, unreal psychological world. Far away from socio-economic-political reality, these artists re-connect us to our own imaginations by taking us on a journey through theirs…

Darkness at Noon exhibition view

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Darkness at Noon some installation details…

A group exhibition curated by Ruth Calland and co-selected with Mimei Thompson for Contemporary British Painting.

APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
Private view: Thursday 4th November 6pm – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: 4 to 14 November 2021

Artists: Karl BielikRuth CallandJules ClarkeDeb CovellGordon DaltonJeff DellowNatalie DowseSusan GunnSusie HamiltonRuth PhiloDavid LockPaula MacArthur, Sekai Machache, Andi Magenheimer, Enzo MarraMonica MetsersPaul NewmanSikelela Owen, Chantal Powell, Cherelle Sappleton, Anna Sebastian, Sarah Sparkes, Harvey Taylor, Mimei Thompson, Casper White, Jonathan Waller, Joanna Whittle.

Darkness at Noon

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Darkness at Noon A group exhibition curated by Ruth Calland and co-selected with Mimei Thompson for Contemporary British Painting.  For it I’m exhibiting The Last Day Revisited, Woodland Study I and Mechanical Fly Study

APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
Private view: Thursday 4th November 6pm – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: 4 to 14 November 2021

Artists: Karl BielikRuth CallandJules ClarkeDeb CovellGordon DaltonJeff DellowNatalie DowseSusan GunnSusie HamiltonRuth PhiloDavid LockPaula MacArthur, Sekai Machache, Andi Magenheimer, Enzo MarraMonica MetsersPaul NewmanSikelela Owen, Chantal Powell, Cherelle Sappleton, Anna Sebastian, Sarah Sparkes, Harvey Taylor, Mimei Thompson, Casper White, Jonathan Waller, Joanna Whittle.

The experience of feeling ‘in the dark’ about what is happening, is part of a Nigredo phenomenon: the term used by alchemists for a time of falling apart, putrefaction, chaos, contradiction, paralysis and closeness to death. Darkness at Noon explores the Covid-19 pandemic as a nigredo phase, in a wider process of transformation, and reverberates with a sense of the paradoxical in our times: the coexistence of anxiety and stillness, doom and hope, fracture and heightened connectivity. A show of mainly paintings, enriched by sculpture and film, many of the works seem haunted by an awareness of loss, impending or already dealt. This show elegantly weaves themes relating to the personal, social, and global effects of Covid. Sikelela Owen’s monumental picture of her family overseas is a testament to enduring connection during separation….

Anxiety & Defiance gallery installation view

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Anxiety and Defiance includes the work of four artists made during the lockdowns of 2020-21, featuring Duncan Kostello, David Miller, Nita Newman & Paul Newman. They reflect on these times through personal and individual responses to their domestic and psychological worlds and to the reimagination of the urban environment.

Anxiety & Defiance Thursday 22nd July – Friday 12th August The Showcase Gallery The Jubliee Trade Centre 130 Pershore st Birmingham B5 6ND