'Tightrope'
The China Shop Gallery,
Oxford
7th October-3rd December
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Recent Exhibitions:
'Marmite Painting Prize'
The Nunnery,
London
7th April-1st May
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'Hybridity & Mutation'
Truman Brewery,
4 Wilkes Street,
London
www.hrlcontemporary.com/
P.V Tues 29th March 2011
30th March-17th April
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'Hello Paradise, what would you like?'
Kingsgate Gallery,
London
P.V Tues 22nd March 2011
23rd March-27th March
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'Episodes'
Kingsgate Workshop Studios
110-116 Kingsgate Road
London
NW6 2JG
An exhibition of work created by recipients of Kingsgate Emerging Artist Residency 2010
Thomas Helyar-Cardwell, Amy Moffat, Oscar Murillo
Preview: 18th February 2010, 6 – 9pm
19th February – 28th February 2010
Thurs - Sun, 12 - 6pm
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'Swan Song'
St.Annes House
Diadem Court
Soho
London
Private View Friday 15th January 2010 6pm-9.30pm
And Saturday 16th January by appointment only.
Artists include:
Carolina Ambida - Tereza Buskova - Romela Crnogorac - Keran Dee - Aidan Doherty - Katarina Forss - Mathilda Holmqvist -
Katie Honan - Yolande Kenny - Henry Krokatsis - Amy Moffat - Jamie Partridge – Nathaniel Rackowe - Alex Roberts - Harry Scoging Beer - Yukako Shibata - Andrea Tyrimos
Date: Friday 15th January 2010
Time: 18.00 – 21.30 with afterparty on site
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'Hunting the Phoenix'
OVADA Gallery
Gloucester Green
Oxford
14th-24th December 2009
Private View 18th December 5pm-8pm.
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'Reaction'
Pop-up-Shop C73
73 Parkway
Camden
London
4th November-22nd November
Private View 19th November
Residency and Exhibition
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'Surface-Image-Event'
Standpoint Gallery
Hoxton Square
London
3rd July-1st August
S t a n d p o i n t
Surface - Image - Event
Nick Carrick, Amy Moffat, Fionna Murray, Andy Putland, Ilona Szalay
Opening Thursday 2 July 6-9pm
3 July – 1 August 2009
Surface – Image - Event presents painters working with emergent figuration – whose primary engagement is with the act of painting, out of which a subject emerges; paintings where representation is an event rather than an illustration. The figural (opposed by Deleuze to the figurative) captures the ‘sensation’ of the object, which to succeed must retain its indeterminacy and openness. Conceptually and formally, these five painters continually address the boundaries between abstraction and representation, materiality and illusion.
Nick Carrick’s paintings are slippery explorations of the surface, weight, colour and texture of the act of painting. Usually his surfaces have a particular glowering presence, even as they represent a flower. Exploiting chance from the outset in thin washes of lead primer, all the potential of incident is captured.
For Amy Moffat the image is chosen mainly as a tool to explore the medium of painting. She elaborates the visual associations in her subject matter via Google searches – the odd, elusive connections between the works thus build into a theatrical view, with props and characters that may or not come from the same play.
Fionna Murray examines the role of place, separation and memory in her delicate renditions of uncertain, incomplete interior spaces, which suggest the familiar whilst retaining a distance that belongs to the world of the painting itself, a parallel place with its own accumulation of small truths, resemblances and fictions.
Andy Putland’s paintings filter and embellish images collected from observation and memory, drawing on an ever evolving collection of stories and places, heroes and anti-heroes, many of whom will be familiar to the viewer. His paintings can be brutal and messy, but are invariably loaded with an undercurrent of black humour.
Ilona Szalay’s technique speaks as much through what is left out or rubbed away as what is allowed to remain, often resulting in images that are enigmatic or even eerie. Always interested in structures and hierarchies, Szalay’s imagery suggests a sexualized and politicised subtext of dominance and submission, the surveyors and the visually available.