Urban Contemporary, Annette Fernando will be taking part in a joint exhibition at the @thamessidestudiosse18 . The Exhibition, entitle Void Feelers, runs until the 5th of May and is open everyday by appointment. For more information email [email protected]. Thames-Side Studios Viewing Room is located on the ground floor of Unit 8. Exhibition open to all studio holders and to non-studio holders by appointment. Fernando draws from mediated images, sourced primarily from television and film. She selects the part of the story that resonates with her, while bringing to light clichéd depictions of masculinity and femininity embedded within cultures. www.annettefernando.carbonmade.com Entrance to Unit 8 is via The Atrium. Turn left upon entering the main site, walk through The Atrium turning to the left, to find the exhibition located between studios TB-10 and TB-09. For more information email [email protected] Viewing Room, Unit 8 Thames-Side Studios Harrington Way, Warspite Road Royal Borough of Greenwich London SE18 5NR
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Urban Contemporary, Charles Williams will be co-curating an exhibition with Francesca Flowers at the house of Angela Flowers in County Cork, Eire. A show of work in watercolour, by English and Irish artists. Wash 2 Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc, Downeen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork P85 RW60 Exhibition dates: 11th – 25th August Private View 6 - 8pm on Saturday 10th August 2019 Exhibition to be opened at 6.30pm by Eoin Mcgonigal S.C Artists: Anthony Daley James Frost, Vincent Hawkins Tess Leak, Enzo Marra Janet Murran, Peter Murray Iain Nicholls, Mick O’Dea, Laura Wade, Chanelle Walshe and Charles Williams '15 figurative artists, 80 eclectic pieces of work, what could possibly go wrong? Strangely…nothing. I enjoyed the whole experience from the smooth hang to the lively private views. Fantastic work, skilled professional artists and a fabulous gallery to show in'. -Sarah Lowe Much pleasure and constructive thought has arisen from this show. The cumulative warmth of spirit was a joy to be part of. The pulse of life on the street outside complimented the exhibition and seemed to suggest another theme! -Michael Johnson 'Wow, that was a terrific exhibition to be part of. Amazing how well the eighty paintings fitted together. What a group of diverse artists looking at their best in such a fine hang. Painting forever'! - Michael Major My work stems from combined observational and imaginative drawing. Unpremeditated layers of meaning and narrative accrue, weaving together a response to personal and socio-political circumstances. On a recent residency at Dumfries House this process took on the nature of performance art, working before the historical heft of a stately home and taking it on like an inadequate matador. Drawing in the midst of things, the street, is perhaps part performance and yields a unique energy. It is from this that I have sort to make work for this show. Michael Johnson on Artstack.com My work has been described as ‘views from a surveillance camera.' I use the removed observation to try to portray the conflicting feelings of detachment and intimacy that come from living and working in a busy city, such as London. Inviting the viewer to catch a snapshot of figures as they move through public spaces, or the brief passing of strangers. Work for this show is focussed on people in and around Liverpool Street Station and Brick Lane, as they go about their daily business and titles are taken from snippets of overheard conversation. https://www.sarahloweart.com/ A stones throw away from my studio in Stockwell is what many people think is quite an ugly church, but I think it’s magnificent. With it’s pebbledash rendering and dilapidated appearance, it’s under threat of demolition. I’ve featured it in quite a few paintings recently along with neighbouring buildings and shops. As a starting point for my work, I use my everyday experiences of people, events and, in many of my paintings for this exhibition, my local environment. I guess they all become metaphors for something or other and the more successful paintings seem to connect a sense of time and place with feelings and the physical sensations of how they’ve been made. http://www.grantwatson.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/grant_watson_paintings/ A group of paintings in this show describe a red tower near the Thames Barrier. It has appeared in other paintings in small ways and seemed garish and functional but sometime last year I saw it differently. As I work from life, for this series I stand in a dusty road full of lorries carrying waste, with workmen passing, which I also mean to record in time. I was in Siena a year ago and really loved the architecture and the way it is used by artists such as Simone Marini and Sasetta. This, and the colour of the red tower itself which is quite sienese, may have fixed my attention to it. The 11th in our series of blogs from the 'Urban Contemporaries' comes from Michael Major and his take on the urban experience. 'How to whittle down a years work to ten paintings proved tricky. It wasn’t intentional but they grouped themselves by locality. I like them. They look good together, small paintings but heavy with paint'. More information about Michael's work can be found on our website home page and his website http://www.michael-major.co.uk The urban is where we all live in ‘the West’. Even people who live in the country really live in the city, because it’s the norm, it’s on their screens, it’s where their news comes from, it’s where all the stuff comes from. Even when turning your back on it, it defines the activity itself, it controls the turning. The human condition – it’s a pompous phrase but I can’t think of a better – implies the urban. Narratives of all kinds cross each other more the closer you are to the denser areas of population. London carries on glowing with the overload of it all, filthy, glorious. I am currently doing a PhD, trying to understand what I have been up to in the past thirty years. Also this year I am curating an exhibition with Francesca Ibbotson Flowers in Duneen, Ireland, called ‘Wash 2’, judging the Hermione Hammond Drawing Prize at the FBA, having a solo show at Studio 1.1 on Redchurch Street, London, and I am a British Council fellow at the Venice Biennale, pursuing my own research and stewarding the British Pavilion. www.charleswilliamsartist.com @Swiftcharles #wearebuildinganewandbetterworld My main interest in the urban setting is silence. One almost never finds real silence in cities, but now and then I come across a scene that evokes an atmosphere of silence – by which I mean an atmosphere of stillness, reflection, intimacy. This might arise from a figure sitting apart in contemplation, a certain arrangement of objects, or an unexpected confrontation with oneself in the reflective surface of a shop window. I find these moments all the more powerful for their contrast to the noise and activity that surrounds them. They have a starkness and immediacy that seems to lend itself to pictorial representation. I imagine the framing of the composition as, in a sense, the border that separates one moment with its particular thoughts and feelings from the chaos of the world. http://susannedutoit.com I grew up in the rich but deeply divided borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on the top floor of a flat in Earls Court. Neighbours were strangers but through the window I would watch people’s domestic lives play out like a scene from Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’. London is fascinating as on one hand there are buildings that have stood in the same spot for centuries and on the other hand the neighborhood’s are changing rapidly and it’s this juxtaposition that interests me. I hunt through archives and films for imagery and nostalgically re-appropriate them to form new narratives. I am particularly inspired by films of the British New Wave. Despite these films being set in the late 1950s, the peeling wallpaper, overcrowded housing and domestic dramas depicted in these films are still relevant today. https://annettefernando.carbonmade.com I try to capture the look of London and how I feel about it. I love the colours and patterns of the bricks , slates, pavements and plane trees etc. I work from observation with my portable easel in a shopping trolley or from behind a window recording the evidence of city dwellers in their gardens. I have lived here as a child, a mother and a dog owner, and I often put myself and my family in my paintings. http://www.scottmillerart.com My paintings are informed by life in East London where I have lived since 1968 and aim to reflect its changing character and mood. Recent work comprise a series of 'timescapes' and attempts to convey the disappearing landmarks and shifting communities of this part of the city. Alongside living characters mingle blue ghostly former residents, these figures mingle under the looming presence of other cast 'characters' former landmarks such as libraries, churches, pubs, shops and other markers and emblems of commerce and past civic pride. They throw their blue remembered shadows across populated streets. https://ferhafarooqui.weebly.com Finding and connecting to places by creating emotive responses are central to my practise and recent artistic residencies including working in Jamaica and Italy bring new ideas that inform my work at my London studio. Through using drawing as a vehicle to explore ways of translating what I am seeing often brings a sense of narrative and playfulness to the work. A lot of my work is often on paper and will use washes and economical lines to attempt to achieve a directness within the work. https://royaldrawingschool.org/artists/drawing-year-alumni/elizabeth-mccarten/ 'In my paintings I am often interested in the boundaries that are drawn– whether physical or psychological - between the figure and the imagined space they might inhabit. In two of the paintings in this exhibition the figure is noticeably absent – human presence is suggested by the debris of an urban environment and a stray, feral –like dog scavenging for food. Light and particular times of day, such as sunset or ‘magic hour’ often heighten the drama of the image and act as a catalyst for painting ideas'. http://www.gethinevans.com/home 'What does it mean to be an ‘Urban Contemporary’? In 2016 I left London after thirty seven years, returning each week to teach. Now, I share the common experience of contemporary urban existence of being permanently on the move, always between places. I am part of a community of estranged people coming into London and going out again; a phenomenon played out in cities and countries throughout the world. Transcience becomes permanent. My paintings are set in this kind of no mans land, a limbo, where we are all somebody else’s ‘other’ and nothing lasts forever'. https://royaldrawingschool.org/artists/faculty/sharon-beavan/ Urban Contemporaries - a group of 15 artists painting the urban experience are delighted to be joined by Tim Hyman RA for this first show in March 2019. Tim will be showing two paintings as part of this exhibition at the Espacio Gallery, East London from 5th to 10th March 2018. Further details can be found on the website https://urbancontemporaries.weebly.com 'Many things about Timothy Hyman’s paintings are immediately clear: his passion for London — his City, his Place — and his detailed painterly investigation of his own place in that city, where he fits in and in what way he belongs, and his absorption in the question of how cities have been painted in the past' (Tess Jaray). 'Components of these two pictures: a sense of moving, first-person, through the complex urban world – through cycles of mood-change (often under the sign of Saturn…); dream-aerial flight, prompting flights of the imagination; the cosmic, the curved horizon: …Hoping to fuse the visionary and the everyday' - Tim Hyman RA. http://timothyhyman.net Here is the first of our blogs about Frank Creber, one of the artists featured this week on our blog 'I consider myself to be an artist making positive images of my neighbourhood and my community and dealing with subjects which have a universal relevance. Out and about in east London, finding a good place to draw I see the varied effects of regeneration and the signs of social problems that locals face every day. Recently my paintings have a narrative about outdoor games e.g. Cricket and Tennis, this is a way of referring to the indomitable spirit of east London communities. I am making an image of a hoped for base level; where people in the community have positive human relationships, a sense of purpose and a decent home. The image above is of me working at the top of the Clifford Chance building in Docklands'. http://www.frankcreber.space I was thrilled to be featured in a speech by Lord Mawson to the House of Lords in December 2018 about my work in the community around Bromley by Bow. https://vimeo.com/307846717
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