Liminal States

existing on the threshold between two states of being


A group show bringing together the work of four artists who share a bold and uncompromising attitude to life. To be alive means passing through a series of transitions; from conception to extinction nothing is ever static.

Embracing these transient states and refusing the safe haven of certainty allows each to be fully immersed in the sea of all possibilities; free to explore these inner changes without pre‐conceived outcomes.


PAULA DAY
As a visual kleptomaniac, Paula keeps and hoards personal and collected images recreating them through the act of translation.

Since a painted scene can never be the absolute translation, it is the loss between the act of looking and that of painting which Paula is interested in. Narratives and associations start to develop revealing the struggle between memory and forgetting.

www.pauladay.co.uk

GAYNOR PERRY
Shrugging off the mannered cloak of self‐ awareness, Gaynor delves into the visual world echoed in the dreaming mind. She treads a path where the impossibility of dreams remains possible and summons forth the emotional truth hidden in plain view.

Invoking these dream characters through various mediums, Gaynor aims to capture the fleeting moments between perception and imagination.

www.gaynorperry.com

STAN LEATHER
Starting from the premiss that we mostly exist in two places at any one time, where conscious thought is only ever an observer of our actions, Stan looks behind the mind's constant babble to explore the inner drivers of this will and desire. Recognising the changing nature of this unspeaking underlying animal self.

www.stanleather.com

DEBORAH GRIFFIN
Deborah wields a confrontational politic and exhilarating sense of fun and transgression. This informs her current sculptural, installation and image based artwork, exploring the relationship between the simultaneous banality and violence of all that is beautiful and the poetic gravity of all that is ugly.

www.deborahgriffin.carbonmade.com


to truly discover something new, you must dissolve all points of reference

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ARBEIT GALLERY, 4 Helmet Row, London EC1V 3QJ
www.arbeit.org.uk
Nearest tube: Old Street

Exhibition runs:
Wednesday 16 May – Saturday 19 May

Private Views:
Wednesday 16 May @18:00‐21:00
& Friday 18 May @18:00‐21:00

Open by appointment at all other times:
Call Stan 0207 739 2193 to arrange a viewing.

For further information contact Stan 0207 739 2193.


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Monsterlune

Portrait of Estelle Riviere

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Physical Medium

Physical Medium: Deborah Griffin

Music: "Bend" by The McCarricks - with their kind permission.

Photography, film & concept: Gaynor Perry

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oil on board, 70 x 70 cm





clay, 20 x 20 cm



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Art Erotica

My photographs were on display in this group show on Cork Street.

Art Erotica Exhibition
28 Cork Street
London W1S 3NG

www.arteroticaexhibition.co.uk

January 19 -27, 2012
Open daily 10:00-18:00

As part of my submission to the show I was asked to write a statement:

As photographer, it is my role to promote and bear witness to moments of acquiescence. The exchange between camera and sitter is, at best, a sensual exchange; a willing trade of consensual energy and not an imposition.

I wait and share moments with the sitter until we reach a point of unspoken consent when we can join together in the act of image creation. Nothing is taken from the sitter; all is freely given in mutuality. So the intimate and authentic truth offered comes from within the frame and is not enforced from without.

To illustrate this further, the compliant bondee sheds any resistance and gives themself over to the act of restraint; wholly immersing into and fully inhabiting their inner reality. Not passive victim, but complete in their own understanding; allowing themself to be held in that volume of space and also suspended in that moment of time.



The process of witnessing the light within the sitter can be helped by encouraging a spirit of playful adventure, a journey into the here and now where an inter‐personal alchemy can bring forth an inner fire usually hidden by daily niceties. Giving the sitter this freedom to explore and express their essential truths can lead to spectacular displays of flamboyance or moments of pure stillness and reflection.



I would like the viewer of my work to be drawn into these scenarios and explore their own sensual response without deliberately guiding them to any foregone conclusion of my own, but opening them up to the tangibility of the inner worlds.

What drew me to explore the visually erotic was a desire to show the beauty of the human form as complete, fully sentient and rational with an emotional depth. The truly erotic exists below the surface.

The Truth Of You

It takes courage to speak one's own truth. The inner voice has gone quiet; a low hum. The voice of reason that assures you all is well lacks conviction and each moment the world grows colder.

This is not the truth of you.













Portrait of Maz Spencer.

Portrait of Sarah Angliss

Sarah Angliss from Gaynor Perry on Vimeo.

The footage is of Sarah experimenting in the crazy mirror set to her music; she's playing the theramin accompanied by a bell riff from her Electric Lullaby played on the Ealing Feeder.





Musician, engineer & writer.
www.sarahangliss.com









Sarah wanted to explore the visual side of herself as a performer.



She doesn't get much time to prepare visually before she performs due to the amount of time she needs to spend setting up her equipment & making sure her machines are ready to perform.







This one Sarah took of me.



After the attack of the sea gulls we decided to continue our voyage of discovery inside.

















& there you have it ... ;-)