"A Curious Collection"

“A Curious Collection” Damien Hirst, Dan Baldwin and Russell Young

Box Galleries@ Studio 106 Art Gallery

Close Up : What can you see?

studio 106 is delighted to host and support the first exhibition of works from The Fulham Boys School students. This exhibition is not only the first time that these students have ever exhibited work in an art gallery but many students had never done printing before. Therefore, this exhibition is a way of show casing their ‘work in progress’ and they can continue to explore ideas from these works.

These works are a collaboration of both the Year 7 and Year 8 students. The Year 7’s have been challenging their perceptions of the Alphabet, as we know it, by creating their own versions. These prints collectively create a ‘new’ Alphabet; however, look closely at them individually to see the interesting lines and shapes that are created. The Year 8 students have been looking at objects around them more closely through different techniques of drawing and print. Here they exhibit their wood block prints to highlight the variation of lines of the bark that they have then overlaid with different coloured tissue papers. Their responses with colour reflect a wide range of influences from current events to more universal themes.

Private View: Wednesday 4th July 6.30 – 8.30pm

Meet the artist: 5th &12th July 4 – 6pm

Closing Event : 12th 6.30 – 8.30pm

Studio 106 Art Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition by artists from Putney School of Art and Design. The show is suitably titled 481/8 after the eight exhibiting students and their four hundred and eighty one years combined experience. This is the first time that the annual exhibition has been held at Studio 106 Art Gallery and it will provide an exciting platform for the Putney graduates.

Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to see an eclectic mix of creative ideas, styles and techniques with ceramics, etchings, experimental media, and oils among the works on show. The eight artists represented in the exhibition are – RosieCopeland, Debbie Flatt, Clare Frankl, Margaret Gettens, Zohreh Paykani, Pat Rhodes, Chrissie Soames and Sally Shillito.

Diploma Course director, Jan Malaszek comments -

“This promises to be an accomplished and thought-provoking show and represents the culmination of a two year fine art course during which the students have gradually developed their own artistic personalities and are ready to step forward into the limelight of their first group exhibition.”

Artist Statements

Rosie Copeland has lived in London for nearly 20 years.  However, in this exhibition Rosie has returned to her roots with the views and landscapes around her childhood home in Oxfordshire providing the inspiration for her work.  Memories, an emotional and physical attachment to place and the passage of time are themes she explores in her paintings.

Debbie Flatt has been painting and working in experimental media for many years, exhibiting and selling works on paper.  Since finishing work as a psychotherapist two years ago she has had the freedom to develop her work and ideas through the Diploma course and the opportunity to focus on etching.

Clare Frankl has recently moved from running her own architectural practice back to her first love, ceramics.  Triggered by an increasing desire to have a hand-on engagement with the stuff of making, her work seeks to use memory, strengths and vulnerabilities of clay to embody ideas of place and displacement through linked groups of vessels.

Margaret Gettens brings a passion for colour and light to her work centred on the erosion of the North Norfolk coastline and the tenuous relationship between man and nature.  The works are a tribute to her father who died in Norfolk last summer and reflect his love of sea and countryside.  Margaret will continue her studies after the Diploma at Nottingham University.

Zohreh Paykani.  Her experience with watercolours is sufficient to allow her to enjoy using colours with lots of water to produce impulsive marks.  Listening to music gives her the excitement and motivation to paint the emotion and movements as she hears it and sees the colours. Spontaneous sketches are initially in watercolour, which are then painted in different media and surfaces.

Pat Rhodes.  After a career in teaching Pat decided to return to her interest in art and design before it was too late.  Her work centres on the use of logos and branding to promote religious and secular icons using ceramics to explore the theme.

Sally Shillito  has always liked life drawing and portraiture, and has lately become interested in painting trees and trying to express the different atmospheres they create.  The ongoing sale of the old family house in the countryside, surrounded by trees past and present and a large rambling garden, has given a new depth and scope to this project.

Chrissie Soames.  Having experienced working life in central London in the colourful 1960’s as a window dresser and freelance photographer, Chrissie has chosen to explore an earlier darker era.  Her work draws on her memories of childhood spent in Pimlico in the 1950’s.  She has used personally evocative images and sounds from those formative years to illustrate a cathartic journey into her past.

Putney School of Art and Design offers high quality learning opportunities in the visual arts.  It seeks to enable students to realise their creative potential in a flexible way, enabling them to fruitfully progress as artists. The Art and Design Diploma provides specialist, structured study for students of contemporary fine art. Whilst giving a grounding in the core elements of fine art and design practice, the course encourages experimentation and allows for the exploration of a range of media and approaches, giving students the opportunity to develop their interests and their artistic “voice”.

ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, LONDON

Nick says of his paintings,

“ The work is about paint and surface, warmth and light, but mostly it’s about a sense of being. Being at one with the natural world I try to find the coloures that will fit my sensation.

I am obsessed with colours and the physicality of paint.

Colour tastes, colour textures, colour perfumes and colour sounds. Colour can exercise enormous influence upon the body; and the soul.

My subjects are simple, and yet are the life forces of our existence on this little planet.

Sunlight, Precipitation & Vegetation.”

Coming from a creative family Nick remembers ”colouring in” alongside his watercolorist grandmother Norah Vivian.

After studying at the West Sussex College of Art 1967-1971 Nick came to live and work in

London as a Graphic Designer with various studio/agencies until in 1977 he joined two

other artists to set up The Daylight Studio.

The studio specialised in producing hand painted/printed roller blinds for leading designers

and high street outlets like John Lewis. Also at this time Nick started to produce custom

murals for large private households in London and abroad 1977-1981.

In 1982 Nick set up his own studio, designing and painting murals, trompe l’oeil and decorative paintings for prestigious clientele including stars and royalty. Nick travelled the world, sometimes providing and directing teams of as many as a dozen artists on some projects.

 Today, whilst still enjoying mural painting, Nick is concentrating more on his canvas painting from his studio in Wimbledon, London.

Jenny Leach and Jan Malaszek

Studio106 Art Gallery is delighted to announce a joint exhibition with
the recent work from Jenny Leach and Jan Malaszek, two London
based professional artists and teachers.

When: April 24 – May 5, 2013
Where: Studio 106 Art Gallery, 106 Dawes Road, London SW6 7EG
Private view: Wednesday April 24, 6.30 – 9.30pm and Sunday April 28, 2.30 – 5.30pm
Artists in conversation with Rob Dark and Andrzej Maria Borkowski:
Monday April 29, 6.30 – 8.30pm

http://www.artweek.com/art-events/jenny-leach-and-jan-malaszek-exhibition

Please join us for a Private View: Thursday 19th January 2012, 6:30pm

Gallery open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 12pm to 6pm and by appointment.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Featuring 13 artists from around the globe, ranging from the newly graduated to the more firmly established; Studio 106 Art Gallery is delighted to announce an Open Entry Exhibition; U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N? You Tell Us!

The artists all explored the theme of the Unforeseen, the resulting show displays their differing interpretations of the hidden, secretive nature of people, things in nature and the physical world that we do not see, and what is neither obvious nor planned. The exhibition features sculpture, paintings with oil, acrylic, resin and gloss, photography, video installation, digital prints and ink.

Studio 106 Art Gallery is a Not-for-profit organisation that provides a platform to explore, create and present contemporary art and new forms of expression. Focusing on researching and developing collaborative processes intrinsic to art-making, generating dialogues across: generations, cultures, and the bond between art and the audience, Studio 106 Art Gallery programmes Live Art, exhibitions, screenings, forums, artists’ talks and workshops.

Pato Bosich

Luke Beachey

Susan Eyre

Scott Sharp

Eeva-Mari Haikala

Madeleine Burt

Sophie Morgan

Davide Maione

Joanne Brennan

Ruth Geldard

Madi Acharya-Baskerville

David McLeavy

Mirjana Marsenic

Joanne Brennan’s work is an exploration into the ways materials can capture and embody the previously hidden qualities of light.  She projects light through material and takes an image of the resulting projection which is then digitally reproduced; she calls this ‘drawing with light’.

Pato Bosich was born in Chile, but left for Europe in 1997. He has lived and worked in Germany, parts of central and Eastern Europe, before settling in London in 2000.  He has served as the artist in Residence in The Muse Gallery, London and The Museum of Modern Art, Chiloe, Chile.  He exhibits his work globally.  His paintings resist easy readings, instead convey mystery and tension, as the viewer is denied the whole story and can only see a snapshot of psychological drama without the proper context.

Caroline Cary lives and works in London and Southern Spain.  She works in many different mediums, having begun her career in landscapes and figures, she has moved towards abstraction and to experimental work on Perspex. Cary has been showing her work professionally since the 1970´s in both group and Solo Shows. She has shown in London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Nairobi, including, the Jonathon Poole Gallery, Sue Rankin Gallery, Austin Desmond Galler (Devon), Christopher Hull gallery, Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Studio 106 Art Gallery, The New Grafton Gallery and ThePiers Feetham Gallery to namebut a few, and in Spain, Gran Capitan Granada, Houses of Art Gallery, Marbella and in various venues organised by Stephen Howes. She has been represented at most London Art Fairs, The Art Fair Islington, Chelsea Art Fair, Art on Paper at the Royal College, The Affordable Art Fare and Art London.

Susan Eyre explores idealistic fantasies in an urban reality, through her work with screen printing and digital technologies in various media, both 2D and 3D.    She focuses on the human desire for perfect and the illusions we create. She graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA(Hons) in Textiles in 2007 and has displayed her work all over London and the UK.

Luke Beachey was born in Cardiff and recently graduated from Brighton University.  He has participated in several group shows in Brighton and Lewes.  His work is concerned with disembodied erotic entropy and the removal of social conventions and a person’s regression to a primitive being.

Mirjana Marsenic is a Montenegrin artist, currently living and studying for her MA in Pont-Aven, France.  Amongst other awards, she was received the ZAMTES institute of International Relations and Corporation Best Student Award in 2009. Her paintings are intended to stop modern man for a moment, separating him from his everyday obligations and pressures and allow him to see what goes unseen.

Madeleine Burt lives and works in Nottingham, she regularly exhibits nationally and internationally, her most recent shows have been in Berlin and London.  She is artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University. Her work explores themes of separation, loss and preservation. In her latest series of work, she comments on these areas by looking at traditional lace production and moth specimens, an insect associated with the destruction of fabric.

U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N? You Tell Us! Is part of Pivotal Shifts, a project supported by

The Arts Council, England, London.