Iris Turns at the Oxo Tower
Iris Turns
Third Year Fine Art Students from UCA Farnham, Interim Show.
Private View: 08/03/2017
6.30pm-8.30pm
Exhibition Opening: 09/03/2017 – 12/03/2017
Guided tours available with the artists for the duration of the Exhibition.
IRIS TURNS showcases the work of 30 artists who have spent the past three years exploring the diameters of both their technical and theoretical interests. The range of work on show poses questions for the immediate society. Ideas around accelerating digital technologies, narcissism and the body are sat beside more traditional interests in materials such as painting and sculpture. This diverse range of works is united by the aim of challenging an audience’s perception, subverting expectations to demystify assumed truths. Each artist has pushed the limits of their practice and the wider context that they sit within, in order to give a fresh and considered take on these historical and contemporary subjects.
The Bargehouse at OXO tower wharf provides a unique setting in which to display these works and ideas due to its historical features and originally functional design. IRIS TURNS then signifies a quite literal turning point for these artists, marking a retrospective milestone for the moment they defined their practice. In many ways IRIS TURNS is all about the self. It is for the artists to establish their practice and interests to a wide audience. Ultimately, we invite you, reader, to navigate through the Bargehouse and explore the urgency of our observations. Imagine these spaces as lenses, which allow and encourage you to peer at the world through a critical gaze in order for you to draw conclusions about our co existing world. If only it were harmonious.
Iris Turns
Third Year Fine Art Students from UCA Farnham, Interim Show.
Private View: 08/03/2017
6.30pm-8.30pm
Exhibition Opening: 09/03/2017 – 12/03/2017
Guided tours available with the artists for the duration of the Exhibition.
IRIS TURNS showcases the work of 30 artists who have spent the past three years exploring the diameters of both their technical and theoretical interests. The range of work on show poses questions for the immediate society. Ideas around accelerating digital technologies, narcissism and the body are sat beside more traditional interests in materials such as painting and sculpture. This diverse range of works is united by the aim of challenging an audience’s perception, subverting expectations to demystify assumed truths. Each artist has pushed the limits of their practice and the wider context that they sit within, in order to give a fresh and considered take on these historical and contemporary subjects.
The Bargehouse at OXO tower wharf provides a unique setting in which to display these works and ideas due to its historical features and originally functional design. IRIS TURNS then signifies a quite literal turning point for these artists, marking a retrospective milestone for the moment they defined their practice. In many ways IRIS TURNS is all about the self. It is for the artists to establish their practice and interests to a wide audience. Ultimately, we invite you, reader, to navigate through the Bargehouse and explore the urgency of our observations. Imagine these spaces as lenses, which allow and encourage you to peer at the world through a critical gaze in order for you to draw conclusions about our co existing world. If only it were harmonious.
Iris Turns is a diverse and innovative exhibition, bringing together the works of third year fine art students from the University for the Creative arts. Showcasing a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, film, photography and performance. Touching upon themes such as the everyday, identity and the body, senses, equality, and materiality. Iris Turns encourages people to change the way they view the world, subverting expectations and moving away from the traditional white cube setting. This self-curated exhibition represents the development of our individual practices and marks our turning points from students to artists.
Lewisham Arthouse
https://www.artrabbit.com/events/tarmac
Tarmac
Christopher Beattie, Amber Clausner, John Connor, Charley Dawson, James Fish, Ariel Hack, Lily-Joy Jackson, Laura Rowe.
Private View: 16/01/2017 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Opening: 16/01/2017 – 23/01/2017
Tarmac brings together a diverse collection of artists and mediums spanning across disciplines including painting, sculpture, film and photography. This is the third independent exhibition for a collection of emerging artists currently studying Fine Art at UCA Farnham following the success of Chrome at The Lacey Contemporary Gallery and No Ordinary Disruption at The Flying Dutchman.
Tarmac touches upon themes such as cinema, the everyday, the existential, process and perception which all ultimately exist under the umbrella of exploring our reality. The work throughout this show plays with the idea of disrupting and altering that which already exists, whether it be a surface, object or idea; opening viewers up to the possibility that the way we view the world could be wrong, overturning established ideals and conclusions.
Christopher Beattie, Amber Clausner, John Connor, Charley Dawson, James Fish, Ariel Hack, Lily-Joy Jackson, Laura Rowe.
Private View: 16/01/2017 6pm-9pm
Exhibition Opening: 16/01/2017 – 23/01/2017
Tarmac brings together a diverse collection of artists and mediums spanning across disciplines including painting, sculpture, film and photography. This is the third independent exhibition for a collection of emerging artists currently studying Fine Art at UCA Farnham following the success of Chrome at The Lacey Contemporary Gallery and No Ordinary Disruption at The Flying Dutchman.
Tarmac touches upon themes such as cinema, the everyday, the existential, process and perception which all ultimately exist under the umbrella of exploring our reality. The work throughout this show plays with the idea of disrupting and altering that which already exists, whether it be a surface, object or idea; opening viewers up to the possibility that the way we view the world could be wrong, overturning established ideals and conclusions.
Lewisham Art house supports artists and arts-based learning through creative work space and specialist facilities. They run an exhibition and events programmes of visual art and experimental music.Members of Lewisham Arthouse share their time, equipment and knowledge with wider communities on a non-profit basis. Besides renting space, each studio member commits at least 5 hours per month in support of the organisation’s wider programmes. Each year, this generates in-kind support work more than £27,000. This echoes the original intentions of the Carnegie library building we occupy to enrich communities by nurturing their creativity.
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Our third show will be held at Lewisham Art House anuary 16th - 23rd Private view : 16th 6pm-9pm |
NO ORDINARY DISRUPTION
At The Flying Duchman In Camberwell
This is the second show we are curating for our group of UCA Emerging Artists. We have put this show together to exhibit our newest works, through painting, sculpture, performance, film and photography we look at how these materials and physical images communicate to an audience. We took the idea of disrupting a space, object or surface exploring this through a variety of artistic techniques. This show establishes our individual’s practices and mediums, collating work from the last 6 months.
AboutLocated in up and coming Camberwell, the Flying Dutchman is a historic Victorian pub whose interior has been completely restyled and is now a beloved home to the thriving South London alternative scene.
Our Mission is to promote difference, diversity, and the arts. We are an LGBTQ friendly venue and active member of the LGBTQ community and of local residents associations. We strive to provide a tolerant space where issues of gender and identity can be respectfully explored. We collaborate with the Mori&Stein gallery to promote contemporary and alternative art. This second show I am curating for our group of emerging artists. The space is one I found that isn't on the same scale as our first show, but it is about getting your work out and making a name for yourself, showing also what we can make using different spaces. Our group will be exhibiting 26th - 29th September |
CHROME
Lacey Contemporary Gallery
CHROME
Lily-Joy Jackson | Charley Dawson | Ariel Hack
Angus Spearman | James Fish | Laura RoweSix Emerging Artists from the University of the Arts Surrey
3-6 June 2016 | PV Friday 3 June 6-9pm – RSVP
Lily-Joy Jackson | Charley Dawson | Ariel Hack
Angus Spearman | James Fish | Laura RoweSix Emerging Artists from the University of the Arts Surrey
3-6 June 2016 | PV Friday 3 June 6-9pm – RSVP
About
LILY-JOY JACKSON uses painting to explore the theme ‘Chrome’. Her works are abstract and look at painting in its most basic form. She explores how the paint connects to the canvas and portrays a message from the artist to the audience through the freedom of gesture. Her works also connect to shape, form and colour as she uses mark making as a way to challenge our perceptions and understanding of a work of art.
LAURA ROWE uses the everyday as a material to create new objects from the readymade, linking her works to the production and repetition of objects in the quotidian. Using the medium of sculpture to realise her ideas, the work shown in this exhibition shows the use of paperclips and a hammock frame as a way to explore reproduction.
CHARLEY DAWSON uses painting as a medium to explore the notions of a non- descript image. Her works are all made with chance in mind, and as there is no set idea of an end result, the final canvas becomes a product of an ‘unconscious process’. Her works challenge ideas of interpretation and non-subjective seeing – what one person see’s may not be what another would. Using her paintings as a platform for the audience to project their own relative interpretations, the works shown dance around the notion of ‘Chrome’.
JAMES FISH is an artist whose works are interdisciplinary, using media such as sculpture, drawing, photography and printmaking to create works that explore notions of materiality, colour and process. Using chance and the juxtaposition of the inexpensive and expensive, shapes and platonic solids and the reuse of materials, these photographs depict the notion of making and creating with an underlying root in how art links to current affairs such as the refugee crisis.
ANGUS SPEARMAN is inspired by the work of Anslem Keifer and Peter Doig. Through both the mediums of painting and sculpture, Angus explores the relationship between metal and paint to create his resulting abstract artworks. The pieces exhibited as part of ‘Chrome’ illustrate various mark-making techniques on steel, including the use of a grinder and blow torch to create different patterns.
LAURA ROWE uses the everyday as a material to create new objects from the readymade, linking her works to the production and repetition of objects in the quotidian. Using the medium of sculpture to realise her ideas, the work shown in this exhibition shows the use of paperclips and a hammock frame as a way to explore reproduction.
CHARLEY DAWSON uses painting as a medium to explore the notions of a non- descript image. Her works are all made with chance in mind, and as there is no set idea of an end result, the final canvas becomes a product of an ‘unconscious process’. Her works challenge ideas of interpretation and non-subjective seeing – what one person see’s may not be what another would. Using her paintings as a platform for the audience to project their own relative interpretations, the works shown dance around the notion of ‘Chrome’.
JAMES FISH is an artist whose works are interdisciplinary, using media such as sculpture, drawing, photography and printmaking to create works that explore notions of materiality, colour and process. Using chance and the juxtaposition of the inexpensive and expensive, shapes and platonic solids and the reuse of materials, these photographs depict the notion of making and creating with an underlying root in how art links to current affairs such as the refugee crisis.
ANGUS SPEARMAN is inspired by the work of Anslem Keifer and Peter Doig. Through both the mediums of painting and sculpture, Angus explores the relationship between metal and paint to create his resulting abstract artworks. The pieces exhibited as part of ‘Chrome’ illustrate various mark-making techniques on steel, including the use of a grinder and blow torch to create different patterns.
Chrome, my first self curated and organised show!
http://www.laceycontemporarygallery.co.uk/chrome/
Facebook event- We invite you to the private viewing of six emerging artists from UCA Farnham. The exhibtion will take place at the Lacey Contemporary gallery in Clarendon Cross, London W11 4AP, on the night of the 3rd of June until the 6th of June. The work revolves around the theme of 'chrome'. The exhibtion includes a vast variety of work from sculpture, print and painting. Private viewing will take place on the 3rd from 6pm, drinks on arrival. Work will be for sale and 10% of proceeds will go to Great Ormond street hosptial. |
LACEY CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
Launched during the autumn of 2014 in Clarendon Cross W11. Founded by Andrew Lacey, Lacey Contemporary represents UK-based contemporary artists, and supports artists from emerging contemporary markets. The selected artists are recognised for their excellence in craftsmanship and technique whilst also demonstrating unique experimentation in their processes and concepts. The artists represent the diverse styles of British contemporary art, from both emerging talents such as Katrine Roberts who is currently finishing her MA at the Royal College of Arts, to more seasoned artists such as Laurence Wood, who has been exhibiting for over 20 years, with collections in the Royal Residences and the National Trust Foundation for Art. Lacey Contemporary artists can be recognised for their vibrant colours, their strong technique and painterly style, with more figurative painters such as Geoff Diego Litherland and Katie Buckett, to the pure abstracts of Louis Savage and Arthur Lanyon. Artists such as Ross M Brown and Merlin Ramos draw from site-specific sources including iconic architecture and landscapes, while artists such as Angela Smith or sculptor Simon Bacon reference both the human form and inner psyche. |