Paper Jam
OPEN 12-4 PM
FRI-SUN: 26th-28th June
PV: Thursday 25th June
Featuring: JAMES CHAPMAN, JENNY COOMBS, MELANIE COOTE, NINA DELLOW, LUKE KILEY, JEREMY PILCHER, JULES SPRAKE, LEXI STONES
FRI-SUN: 26th-28th June
PV: Thursday 25th June
Featuring: JAMES CHAPMAN, JENNY COOMBS, MELANIE COOTE, NINA DELLOW, LUKE KILEY, JEREMY PILCHER, JULES SPRAKE, LEXI STONES
Eight artists, in process, connected through the act of expanded printmaking. Here, edges are boundaries of both resistance and submission; form and debris can be restructured; and tensions coexist as points of reflection and reconciliation. The body in the state of creating becomes a site of radical machine, where interactions with materials perform as an entangled exploration of the seen and unseen. By-products and the new, the past and present; this is an improvised jam session where misalignment, overloading and malfunctions are embraced. Hidden ruins are revealed, perspectives are challenged, and the opportunity to shut down and restart is revealed through the act of making together.
JAMES CHAPMAN @jameschapman.art web: jameschapman.art
James Chapman is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work concerns how meaning is carried between people through language, objects, and systems of record and of control. He works across printmaking, augmented reality, installation and relational art.
JENNY COOMBS
Jenny Coombs is a printmaker and multimedia artist. She’s interested in the fine grain of her urban surroundings and has recently been thinking about St George.
MELANIE COOTE melaniecoote.com
Melanie is a printmaker and painter interested in exploring the erosion and fragility of structures and frameworks through processes that fluctuate between order and disorder, formation and deformation, chance and intention. For this exhibition, she has worked with ideas of salvage and transformation by reassembling the by-products of her printmaking process to reveal value in debris.
NINA DELLOW @studiocassoulet
Living in a time when face-to-face conversation without documentation feels radical, and privacy is a luxury, Dellow asks, "How do we form new ways of being?" Through video, sound, performance, objects, collage, and photography, Dellow creates works that operate on complex levels, evoking – amidst other feelings - a sense of nostalgia and grief, alongside amusement and laughter, resulting in encounters that are intriguing, complex, and wholly intoxicating. Dellow draws the viewer into a strange, jarring, macabre multi-sensory world where boundaries between fact and fiction, recollection and forgetting, reality and imagination, authenticity and performance are challenged and subverted.
LUKE KILEY
Luke Kiley is a printmaker interested in the material qualities of objects and their printing potential. The process of making the work is as important as the outcome. In his practice, both the original object and the process of its transformation remain visible within the work. Recent work has explored handmade paper as both a material and a subject, drawing connections among printmaking, labour and personal history.
Luke Kiley is a printmaker interested in the material qualities of objects and their printing potential. The process of making the work is as important as the outcome. In his practice, both the original object and the process of its transformation remain visible within the work. Recent work has explored handmade paper as both a material and a subject, drawing connections among printmaking, labour and personal history.
JEREMY PILCHER
Staring out of windows is often described as being vacant. Of course it’s not but my view has been taken away. Now my wonderings follow an unseen river.
JULES SPRAKE @jules.sprake
Jules Sprake is an artist who plays with poetic combinations of words, photographs & everyday objects to make ceramic and printed works. In this project, she has used the movement of small readymade objects to explore alternative ways of imaging the spine.
LEXI STONES @lexi.stones
Whilst making my works with paper, my thoughts are on disruption, disorder, chance, consideration, black and white, colour rhythm, harmony and the creation of order.
