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Everything is
graded and judged against that which has come before it and art
is no exception. Each new piece of art is informed by a long art
historical lineage, a pedigree that can be more creative burden
than boon in the contemporary artists’ never ending quest for
the new.
For Sense And Sensibility: Artists Take On Art History each
of the invited artists have been asked to make work in response
to their chosen aspect of art history, whether it is an era, artist
or artwork. Thus creating a rare opportunity for the artists’
to vocalise and engage with these ever present influences in a refreshingly
direct manner.
Hung salon style the show is curated by Paul Murphy and includes
an eclectic range of work across a whole range of media. The result
a microcosm of everything that has gone before churned together
with contemporary themes, techniques and influences to present vital
new work.
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The artists showing include:
NICHOLAS HUGHES’ photograph Untitled #46 depicts
a hanging red curtain, abstracted from any context leaving us with
the pure functionality of what a curtain does – it conceals
and it reveals.
DAMIAN LE BAS the
celebrated Outsider artist, takes on Arman’s 1960s collection
of bathroom rubbish; Condition Of Woman 1, refocusing its
perspective to reflect modern man.
SCOTIA LUHRS’
series of photographs toys with generic labels that get applied
to art and photographic practices, playing off modernist and classical
traditions.
NICKY MAGLIULO shows
a video called Under My Thumb: The Stones, My Mum & Russell
Hobbs, which she describes as “a quiet fugitive intervention
into mid sixties art and rock”.
ALEX MICHON shows
Jacket 1976, A Jackson Pollock inspired paint splattered
jacket made for Joe Strummer of The Clash in 1976. “This wasn’t
made as a fashion statement or to sell but as an emotive, artistic
gesture. This was guerrilla clothing made for hard times”
PAULINE THOMAS
presents a new video titled Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
after a painting by the German artist Casper David Friedrich, which
defines the landscape as an immense, alienating place.
MIMEI THOMPSON paints
fractured landscapes, swirling with brushstrokes and distorted colours.
For Sense and Sensibility she has used Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
as a starting point for a new disorientating view of the world.
Also: Carmen
Alemán, Olly
Beck, Annabel Bluesky,
Isha Bøhling,
Clive Brandon, John
Clayman, Mark Croxford,
Daedalus, Richard
Dawson, Joel Dickens,
Roger Dilkes, Antonio
Gianasi, Nadia Hebson,
Arabella Lee,
Cathy Lomax, Paul
Murphy, James Payne,
Melanie Rose, Hans
Scheirl, Norbert
Schoerner, Marc
Sibley, Andy Swani,
Jason Synnott
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