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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

Anxiety & Defiance

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Anxiety & Defiance

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.

Starting in the home, Nita Newman reinterprets the objects within them, including the domestic still life. Different personas and the inhabiting of housebound characters inspired by Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Frankenstein are explored in the reframing of performance work in the home by Nita and Paul Newman and the artist’s studio space by Paul.  The exhibition also takes the material textures and frameworks of the home environment into a wider exploration of the domestic landscape by David Miller.

Through the window, there are flights of fantasy, sublime imaginary vistas and feverish dreamscapes, with an ominous apocalyptic storm present on the horizon, elements explored by both  David and Paul.

Anxiety about the fragility of our environment is ever present from before, during and in a post pandemic world. It is pressing in on us from climate change to the changing face of where we live with the continuing demolition and rebuilding of new business smart cities like Birmingham, aspects explored by Duncan Kostello and Paul. As  Kostello comments, ‘it is part of the entrepreneurialism and politics that are reshaping our lives.’

And finally, not to leave out, the defiant finger to the frustrations, restrictions, and obstacles of the last 18 months…

These are the anxieties and defiant responses by the four artists.

Anxiety & Defiance Thursday 22nd July – Friday 12th August

Thurs 22nd July 5-8pm. Launch event

Friday 23rd-Friday 12th August by appointment only

The Showcase Gallery The Jubliee Trade Centre 130 Pershore st Birmingham B5 6ND