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
Totem
75 x 56 cm
oil on canvas
Paula Day
GAYNOR PERRY
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 media, Gaynor aims to capture the fleeting moments between perception and imagination.
www.gaynorperry.com
STAN
Starting from the premise 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.
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
Foetalmania
91.4 x 121.9 cm
permanent marker, acrylic paint, metal leaf on canvas
Deborah Griffin
to truly discover something new, you must dissolve all points of reference
Exhibition Photos - my exhibits:
The Jezebel Hussy & The Spy
76.2 x 50.8 cm
b&w print, acrylic, aluminium
Haunting This Place Alive
80 x 80 cm
oil on board
Physical Medium: Case Study I
37 x 27 x 8.7 cm
leather bound wooden case containing six 15.2 x 10.2 cm b&w prints on aluminium
collaboration with Stan
tim-lay-lav
20 x 25 x 18 cm
air dried clay
The Man Whose Name I Dreamed
21 x 30 cm
wire bound book, hand-sewn cover
Thornhide
76.2 x 50.8 cm
b&w print, acrylic, aluminium
The Speed At Which Things Happen
80 x 80 cm
oil on board
Videos:
Ectoplasm Prints #1-9
30 x 21 cm each
b&w prints on paper
Starting From Scratch
20 x 17 x 9 cm
hand tooled, leather bound book containing
nine 12.7 x 10.6 cm b&w prints on aluminium
collaboration with Stan
PRIVATE VIEWS
Jo reading The Man Whose Name I Dreamed
Marnie
Marnie photographing photo of Marnie
The McCarricks
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Exhibition venue:
Arbeit Gallery, 4 Helmet Row, London EC1V 3QJ
