- Venue
- The Crypt Gallery - St Pancras Church
- Starts
- Saturday, October 5, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, October 20, 2013
- Address
- Euston Road (Entrance in Duke's Rd) London NW1 2BA
- Location
- London
Julie Caves’ first major solo exhibition has taken over two years to create, with work celebrating beauty and its many juxtapositions: work and play, nature and synthesis, life and death. Housed in the peaceful and contemplative 19th-century Crypt Gallery in Kings Cross, this group of work includes eight series of paintings, sculptural installations, an ongoing drawing series and installations created specifically for the Crypt space. The exhibition is located a 5-minute walk from the Frieze Art Fair and is also part of the Bloomsbury Festival 15–20 October. There will be a participatory artwork called A Third Colour on the three Saturdays of the exhibition, whose participants will be documented for a book and receive a certificate that ‘they are art’ as well as artist-led tours. Special guest artist H Locke will have a large drawing installation. Julie Caves says: “I am very interested in the push-pull of visual space and the polarities of ideas – object and ground, positive and negative, good and evil. I have always looked at both sides of the coin, seen the hare and the duck. I’m interested in the structure of the painting and my own kind of balance. Often my method of closing-up, searching for rightness and negotiating each mark results in a complexity nearly hidden in the final simplification, a subtle activation.”