Exhibition: Head & Whole 2 at Abbey Walk Gallery

 

I'm delighted to have two prints showing in Head & Whole 2: Talking Heads at Abbey Walk Gallery, curated by Linda Ingham. It opens to the public today and there are some really interesting events going on to accompany the exhibition. Go see!

Clifford Chance Exhibition Opening

Last night was the opening reception of 'A Question of Sport: LGBT artists and their relationship to inclusivity', curated by Michael Petry for Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf. 

I worked as Editor on artist Roberto Ekholm's new video 109C, inspired by diver Tom Daley. See below for some stills, video to follow...

Murder Disco! at Pop-Up Circus, Sunday 27 November

My video installation Murder Disco! will be screening as part of Pop-Up Circus in Hackney on Sunday 27th November. See their website for a full list of screenings, performances and art.

From the vaults: Tell Us More

A one minute film from back in 2006 called Tell Us More. Made as footage of the plane crashing into the Penatgon in 2001 was released to the media, this is where my longstanding pixel fixation began.

Tell Us More was selected to screen as part of no.w.here's Archetypes Screening at Transit Space, E1, in May 2006. Although back then I didn't give things titles.

Astriloquy video for China Gorilla Intergalactic

Some wall candy I made for China Gorilla Intergalactic: a 5 min silent video derived from clips of the film Alien (don't sue me 20th Century Fox), dealing with extra-terrestrial contact. Not for the epileptic amongst us.

Video showing at China Gorilla Intergalactic

I'm going to be exhibiting a video and making some virals for China Gorilla Intergalactic this Friday (see Facebook), more to follow...

Ellipsis... what's unsaid

Some images from the show at Red Gate Gallery, where I exhibited four drawings titled Reverb and a video, Lapsed Saxophonist.






This last image is by Lucy Whitford, my fellow curator and a wonderful artist. See her work at www.londonprintmaker.co.uk

Ellipsis: Reverb drawings

Here are the Reverb drawings for Ellipsis... The music manuscripts underneath the drawings are my A level music compositions, A grade thank you very much. Whereas Lapsed Saxophonist expressed some sadness about my previous life as a musician, Reverb takes the perspective that creativity finds a different outlet at different times in one's life, so I melded the graphite mark making of writing manuscripts with that of drawing.

Images from Ellipsis video

Some stills from the film I'm making for Ellipsis...

Ellipsis - New Show this July!

Ellipsis brings together a group of exciting London artists to explore the withheld, the omitted, the implied…what’s unsaid.

Private View: Friday 23rd of July 2010 – 6.00 pm to 11.00 pm

Red Gate Gallery, Brixton

Exhibition runs: Friday 23rd of July 2010 – Thursday 29th of July
Opening Hours: Fri, Mon, Tues, Wed: 11.00am-6.30pm, Sat: 12.30pm-5.00pm


Ellipsis (from the Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission"): a series of dots that indicate an intentional omission of a word or phrase from a sentence; a pause in speech; an unfinished thought; a trailing off into nothing...

Embodying the duality of something deliberately withheld or cut off which simultaneously implies the potential of more to come, Ellipsis opens up a world of understatement and ambiguity.

It is a concept inherent in the production and exhibition of art, where creators articulate their ideas, theories, and deepest emotions through the manipulation of materials, sending the resulting works of art out into the world where they must speak for themselves.

Working in a diverse range of media, each Ellipsis artist employs their own visual language to explore this most elusive concept. Lifting the shroud of silence, they may choose to make the implicit explicit, or simply keep you guessing…

Artists:

Sonia Ali manipulates canvas into sculptural formations, inviting the viewer to reconsider beauty whilst further pushing the textural boundaries of print and paint ● Maxime Angel’s art exists in the performance of a moment captured in a drawing that represents that moment for the rest of the performative aspect of her existence ● Laura Bushell works in video and drawing, exploring the act of deconstruction and re-articulation through both artistic and mechanical duplication processes to question ideas of truth ● Ewan Eason investigates the interplay of contrasts - the notion that one drives the other. Death / life, loose / rigid, serious / funny, hard / soft, light / dark are familiar themes within his work ● Matthew Holder explores paint’s aesthetic qualities to combine and undermine illusionism, creating a dynamic surface referencing sensations and concepts of power, decay, and natural phenomena ● Katie Honan draws and paints to explore how people are constructed through the process of storytelling and its imaginary worlds, aiming to reinstate a sense of wonder in the viewer ● Lucinda Lloyd’s installations explore the theme of identity, questioning the fragility/stability of the human condition; evoking nostalgia or hope, provoking personal narratives into shared dialogues ● Lucy Whitford works in print, ceramics and installation, using the pre-existing relationships we have with everyday objects to explore our response to small moments that lead to irreversible change.

Ellipsis is curated by Lucy Whitford and Laura Bushell.
Contact: ellipsisshow@googlemail.com

Installation: Atomised

Atomised is a dual screen video installation with accompanying graphite drawings, exploring memory and the deconstruction of imagery through artistic and mechanical reproduction.
City Lit, Holborn, London. 24 to 26 March 2010.