Klint / reDux / A new series of work for the Beautiful Crime vs Microsoft Surface 3 exhibition
For the Surface 3 vs Beautiful Crime show, I've been riffing on a new idea, that combines the ghost of a previous study, Vortura, with my love of Japanese paper folding, notably the crane, digital print making, and the classic designs of the Le Klint studio, a widely celebrated lighting design company, who perfectly combined those two most critical of materials, light and geometry, from 1943 onwards.
Transistor at the Battersea AAF 2015
Celebrating my tenth year at the Battersea AAF, I’m exhibiting new work with Bristol based artist’s group Transistor at this year’s fair, alongside new work by Harriet White, Conor Wilson, Francis Elliott, Rob Manners, Ian Chamberlain and Dan Miles. If you’d like a pass for the show, please do get in touch, we’ll look forward to seeing you at the fair.
Lucid / RMX at the Catto Gallery
Lucid / RMX was my third show at Catto, based around the idea of digitally remixing the works, by appropriating ideas and processes more normally used in a music studio.
Lucid / RMX catalogue
Published in March 2015 to coincide with my second solo show at Catto Gallery, Lucid / RMX is a 36 page catalogue, with a foreword by Tim Green. Lucid / RMX takes the idea of the remix from the world of music, especially contemporary electronic music, into the artist’s studio. As such many of the works featured in the exhibition riff on the idea of being visually remixed, or are in some way re-engineered. I liked the idea of working with the concept of remixing works for the show, and experimenting with a broad selection of the pieces made for a more cohesive exhibition in many ways.
Lucid / RMX. An exhibtion of work at the Catto Gallery
Opening tomorrow night, a new solo show: Lucid / RMX at the Catto Gallery 100 Heath Street, Hampstead, from 6pm.
Two years on from my Generator show, the latest instalment of new work is ready to view at the Catto Gallery. Featuring 24 new pieces, selected from the best work produced over the past twenty four months. If you’re in the area, please do come along.
beBop 45
As the date for my upcoming show at Catto Gallery nears, I find myself in that strange hiatus between completing the artwork, and awaiting it’s return from the framers. In the meantime, I thought I’d post one of the new drawings here – beBop 45.
Colour Proofs, Jan 2015
I spent a fascinating day at Tapestry, on Goswell Road, last Friday. As the New Year comes in, so the date for my new solo show at the Catto Gallery in Hampstead comes into focus. The task in hand is to produce about twenty or so of the drawings I’ve been working on over the past two years, as full size editioned prints, all with Diasec mounts, and many of them laser cut.
Ascension / Re:MiX
New year / new post. I thought I’d start the year by posting a new image from a collection of twenty or so new works that I’m putting together for a solo show at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead. The show is set to open in March 2015.
This piece is a geometry that takes on some of the sculptural ideas of the Radial series and combines them with the squared form of Myriad. Titled as an homage to John Coltrane’s Ascension recordings, the colours spiral chaotically outward, and hopefully take flight as they spin towards the edge.
Hong Kong AAF 2014
Good to have six recent works on show with Camilla Giradot’s Art Movement, at this year’s Hong Kong AAF. If you’d like to see more details about the event, the fair’s website is here – http://affordableartfair.com/hongkong/ – and Milly’s project, The Art Movement, is online here – http://www.art-movement.com/
Shine, Bath Fashion Week 2014
Fabulous to be included at ‘Shine’, part of Bath Fashion Week 2014. Guest speakers include the legendary Barbara Hulanicki, founder of BIBA, and Kaffe Fassett at The American Museum. My own pieces are displayed at The Abbey Hotel, North Parade, Bath, courtesy of Bath based curator Jessica Lloyd-Smith. The event runs from 24th April until 18th May.
London Book Fair, 8-10 April 2014
The London Book Fair is delighted to announce that this year’s fair will feature the first ever literary ‘pop-up’ version of The Club at The Ivy, the prestigious London private members’ club.
Curated by James Freeman, a selection of work will be exhibited in the pop up Club at the Ivy, including a number of my own pieces, after the recent two man show at James Freeman Gallery, with noted painter Matthew Small.
Transistor at the Battersea AAF, Spring 2014
The Transistor Project is, once again, taking a stand at the Battersea AAF, on stand J10. Dates are Wednesday 12th to Sunday 16th March. Alongside my own work, we’re very excited to be showing new work by Guy Denning, Frank Elliott, Harriet White, Conor Wilson and Tristram Aver.
Touch / Screen : Chuck Elliott and Matthew Small at the James Freeman Gallery
Look around you in a public place, and almost everyone will be somewhere else, lost in their own virtual otherwhere. This is the digital future: absent communication. Touch/Screen sets out to look at that gap we fall into between the physical and the virtual, using the work of two very different artists: Matthew Small, a painter of raw tactile portraits of urban youth, and Chuck Elliott, a digital artist who gives structure and colour to the digital ether. Somewhere in between is where we spend an increasing part of our lives – somewhere between touch and the screen.
Elemental
I’ve been working on some new images, and editing some of the pieces I put together in the second half of 2013, ahead of the Battersea AAF, which opens in a few weeks, on Weds 12th March. This piece is one of six or more new pieces I’ll be exhibiting on stand J10 with the Transistor project, an artists group I often work with. We’re putting together a new website, the 4th iteration since we started in 2005, and I’m looking forward to being able to post more news about that shortly.
The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust Auction
A great opportunity to bid on a unique studio proof of Radial 3, in aid of The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust.
Colours abloom at The Unit London
Great to be exhibiting Collider / gilded mandala at The UNIT as part of their latest group show ‘abloom’ this month.
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch / MutualArt
Mutual Art feature on TouchScreen, Matthew Small & Chuck Elliott, James Freeman Gallery, 02/2014. Look around you in a public place, and almost everyone will be somewhere else, lost...
Beaux Arts Gallery, February 2014
I delivered some new pieces to The Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, today, for a group show opening next week. Good to see some of Anna Gillespie’s work there, hoping it may remain throughout the show. Opening next week, the show runs for a month or so, and the gallery has fifteen of my pieces on show, or available to view, during the run.
Utopia / Opening night at The UNIT
On the 18th December 2013 we opened the doors to UTOPIA, an international group exhibition in support of Shelter. Thankyou to all who came to see the show - it has been a runaway success! Welcome to Paradise. Videography by Laurence Howe. Copyright The Unit London 2013.
Faster looser
Alongside a number of other projects, I’ve been experimenting with some faster and looser methods for working. Back in 2005 it was at the core of my practice to complete pieces fast, and in so doing hope that the drawings would contain some vestige of a kind of live performance. That idea of speed, going faster and looser, has largely been lost in recent years, as the minutiae of the edit has come to dominate the process. Through a fantastic piece of serendipity, I have stumbled across a production facility in LA, where I can get my images processed much much faster. There’s a lot to be said for it…