Art From London Markets, a-n feature

So yesterday was the take down at the APT for the Creekside Open the gallery was very pleased with the show and the turn out, and did a lovely last day thing, providing us with tea and cake so that the artists could really get to know each other, this was great.

So I was chatting to Amanda Knight, whose work shown here is related to the butchers in Deptford, she uses recycled materials to make a great big 3d painting of cheap meat. We got talking markets, as you can imagine, and were onto conversations about the way in which the language you use for different projects changes: Talking about the shifting acceptance of the fact that an artist might produce abstract and figurative works for different purposes within the same time scale.

The other side of the Mountain
Our group got bigger and then Katherine Fry suggested we guess whose works belonged to who, which turned into a really fantastic conversation…we heard from Maggie Learmonth about travelling to the other side of the mountain, with a self made residency exploring the area so near and yet so far from where she was born, somewhere that is both home and is not.

Barometers of Mental wellbeing
We heard from Rebekah Dean about how your emotional state leaks into your work in ways which are not always self aware, but can bring self awareness once that work is in the past, the significance of the frame around her work was suggested by Maggie.

The Butchers of Deptford
We talked bout Amanda Knight and her comments on Jeff Koons making kitsch pop objects in very expensive materials… and how she had limited herself to a £1 budget to make the work, partly as a comment on that: She used recycled cardboard from the street and acrylic paint and a gloss medium to give her the meaty texture. She talked about the care and the work of the Butchers of Deptford in the way that they present their ultimately very cheap cuts of meat. This conversation sieged into one about food security, farming practices and food prices, and the potential influence of American practices in post Brexit Britain.

Pearls of Wisdom
We looked at Katherine Fry’s work and she explained about the site specificity of her work, that site is the starting point for her video work. And how she likes to make it leak into the space where the work is shown, playing with the boundaries of the film and the “real” space of the viewer.

I think I talked a lot about pigments…

It was a fascinating share, and great to talk to a whole group of artists new to me. I am so delighted to have been part of this.

At the end I caught up briefly with Geoff Titley, and met two of my fellow corner sharers in Hannah Luxton and James Randell which was a pleasure, and just as I was leaving I spoke very briefly to Charlotte Mortensson who I would have liked to talk to more.

Congratulations go to Pascal Ungerer and Sarah Pager who were in this show and have been selected for SOLO.

Hurray it’s the bank holiday weekend and the sun is shining. This weekend on Saturday I’m going to help Rachel Dein on her stall at Chelsea Flower Show which is always enjoyable, her work is so lovely.

Then on Sunday it’s the final day of the Creekside Open Jordan Baseman curation, so get along to the APT Gallery if you have not been already. I will be there drinking tea on Sunday afternoon. Then I’m moving on the prepare for a small exhibition locally, of my small and tiny experiments in colour, and get busy preparing for Art Fair Malaga…I need to research the local galleries who will be there, so that I can hope to make some good contacts in person there. In addition I will be visiting the gallery for my Lincolnshire project as that slowly gets going.

Small experiments in colour No 2

Here is the pieces selected it is on show at the APT until the 28th May. I am so delighted to have been selected by Jordan Baseman for this years show. go along and see his interesting curation, creating little groupings, some balanced, some creating imbalance:  Playing with anarchy.

I have just got back from a lovely afternoon at the Creekside open. The show seems to have mixed the dark and the funny and the darkly funny. It was a pleasure to meet Sasha Bowles who I have only known before only as an online presence. Then to bump into (literally) Jordan Baseman himself oops.

The work had been placed in little groups which suggested a coherence but then perhaps led you to find a relationship which certainly had not been there to start with

So pleased to be part of this show alongside other really fantastic artists. It was interesting to talk to Geoff Titley about his digital work using limited palettes. The winners were Annie Atridge, Enzo Marra and my personal favourite Katherine Fry.