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

ArtSlant Review: Kupferstichkabinett at the White Cube

Not the catchiest title perhaps, but Kupferstichkabinett is certainly a memorable show. Referring to the collections of the German aristocracy which in turn lead to the more accessible print and drawing rooms in museums, this show draws on the past to prove that drawing is very much alive and kicking in contemporary art... (read more)

Kupferstichkabinett: Between thought and action
White Cube, Hoxton Square, 8 July - 28 August 2010

ArtSlant Review: After the Volcano at Frith Street Gallery

The Frith Street Gallery draws from its exciting roster of contemporary artists for an intriguing ‘summer show’, a stone’s throw from the grand mélange of the Royal Academy’s equivalent. Proving that scale doesn’t equal success (got that RA?), this compact exhibition is judiciously hung, allowing each work the space to breathe and to convey the loose theme of a mysteriously altered world... (read more)

After the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists
Frith Street Gallery, 3 July - 14 August 2010

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.

Ellipsis: Sketchbook Experiments Drawing with Stitch

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

Little White Lies Interview: Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men

Having cemented her reputation in artistic circles with her work in photography and video installation, Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat has struck out into cinematic territory with her first feature film, Women Without Men. Taking a preoccupation with the role of women in the Islamic sphere from her art, Neshat’s film brings together the fates of four women against the British-American backed coup of 1953 to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected government.

Engaging with a period of Iran’s history that is often overlooked in the West, whilst bringing together influences from her Persian upbringing and her time in the US studying and working as a conceptual artist, Neshat’s film radiates a fascinating mix of political engagement, existential musings and stunning aesthetics... (read more)

Little White Lies Review: Tacita Dean's Craneway Event at Frith Street Gallery

Trained as a painter, Tacita Dean has nevertheless become better known as a filmmaker over the course of her artistic career, but perhaps ‘painter with a camera’ might be a better way of describing her. With a compelling body of work marked out by an insistence on using 16mm film and a pensive, deeply still style, Dean is one of the UK’s leading moving image artists. No wonder then that her latest film commands the Frith Street Gallery... (read more)

More squares

Sensing a theme? These are random images, but I like what happens when they're displayed sequentially.

Sketchbook: tonal squares

Squares and graphite - two of my favourite things. Playing around with tone and mark making in my sketchbook.

Drawing for Atomised

This was a drawing project that formed part of the research for Atomised. I used one of the photographs described in the video, deconstructed it through printing with acetate and then drew the results in graphite. It relates to themes of repetition and distortion that were the backbone to the project.

Atomised video

An excerpt from the footage for Atomised, a dual screen video installation shown in Central London in March, see below...

Little White Lies Review: The Joneses

The Joneses: of course it’s keeping up with them that’s the problem. Replace that generic name with the Beckhams, the Cruises, the Obamas, or God forbid the Rooneys and there you have our rampant yet insecure consumer society... (read more)

Polaroid Prints

A couple of prints forming part of my research into Polaroids for Chinese Whispers, an ongoing painting project. Images will follow...