CONCRETE NATURE

Featuring; Carolyn Blake, Jen Dixon, James Fowkes, Paul Newman

The Showcase Gallery, 130 Pershore St, The Jubilee Trade Centre, Birmingham, B5 6ND

Dec – Jan 2024 by appointment. Contact; phnewman73@hotmail.com 07766187030

Concrete Nature explores four individual relationships with urban concrete, through walking, commuting and recording experiences, memory and re-imagining.  Their documents are translated through collage, painting and photography. Each artist presents alternative and overlapping perspectives; interpreting modernist infrastructure and its juxtaposition with nature, the romantic notion of the ruin as explored in art histories and the translation of urban concrete with materials including cardboard and paint.

@carolynblake  @jennifdixon @Jfowkes_art  @paulhnewman

The Visitation, Don Quiote II: Yellow Mountain, & After the Storm are featured in;

Worlds Away: Art, at The Midlands Arts Centre; mac birmingham. @macbirmingham.

2 Sept – 26 Nov.

Featured Artists: Cheryl Beer, Frank Brangwyn, Dalziel + Scullion, Ming de Nasty, Joan Eardley, Ufuoma Essi, Madge Gill, Frederick Hubble, Juneau Projects, John Kippin, Dame Laura Knight, Rona Lee, Richard Long, Lisa Milroy, Rebecca Moss, Mariele Neudecker, Mary Newcomb, John Newling, Paul Newman, Kathleen Ryan, Ian Skoyles, Sir Stanley Spencer, Sarah Taylor Silverwood, Mimei Thompson, Georgia Tucker, Alfred Wallis, Grace Williams, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Curated by Rachel Bradley

This exhibition brings together artists who have been inspired by the natural world and its power to stimulate feelings of belonging, mental and physical wellbeing. Artworks consider a range of views from the romantic vision of nature as a therapeutic companion to a new contemporary era of ‘climate anxiety’ and its enormous global challenges.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Condor and The Mole, 2011. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Kindly supported by The Grimmitt Trust in Memory of Marjorie Welch, MK Rose Charitable Trust, Roughley Trust, Arts Council England, and players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

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

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…

‘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…