Small, Smaller, Smallest

Undone (literally), oil on canvas, May 2010
30x60cm

Domesticity

A few drawings from a growing series emerging from the need to scale down (ironically).

Box Of Desires

Z4RD Volume 2: Box of Desires
Curated and edited by Paul Kindersely
Centre For Recent Drawing
London
N1

…a frenzied exploration of eroticism, desire, possession, longing and the body. Ranging from the abstract to the pornographic, the sexy to the sadistic, the sublime to the rubber, drawing as a way of ownership of our unattainable fantasies.(C4RD)

The second edition of Z4RD, is released to tie-in with the C4RD’s exhibition HAND JOY, which explores eroticism, desire, possession, longing and the body through drawing. Each artist contributed 20 original artworks, ranging from original drawings to poems to DVDs to photos. This edition is a unique opportunity to own a collection of exciting artworks by new and established international artists.

Curated by Paul Kindersley, Volume 2 is presented in a plain brown cardboard box, that, like Pandora’s, when opened unleashes the secrets, desires and fantasies of the artists involved. A cornucopia of drawings, from the pornographic to the abstract, exploring the energy of the artists hand. A plain box, a time capsule, hidden under a bed, opened in private, explored, each encounter offers up something different, individual artworks, for the owner to paw over, investigate, watch, read. Trying to evoke the excitement and longing of desire, Box of Desires, presents a unique artwork, a thrilling secret exhibition.(C4RD)

For a review of HAND JOY from art blogger ‘art-pie’ click HERE

The launch will be on Wednesday the 19th May, with a drinks reception, where the Z4RD will be available to buy. The limited edition of only 20 boxes is available for only £120.00 pounds from both C4RD and Walter Keoning books at 80 Charing Cross Rd, WC2 020 7240 8190

This is an out take from the drawings I submitted. (The submitted drawings are exclusive to the Z4RD Box Of Desires)

Displacements

11 March-11 April 2010 (posted after the exhibition had ended)
Taylor Gallery
London
E9
I know this exhibit has ended (by a few weeks now-sorry). I just really wanted to share the pictures I took and attempt to describe the experience. The most successful piece probably being the most difficult to accurately put into words.

Displacement in the current vocabulary implies a physical move from one place to another – as if the act of displacing was to move (something) from its usual place, or to remove (someone) from a post or position of authority. In substance, a body dislocated.(JT Gallery)

This exhibition twists and plays around the free association of words and meaning, an association without any restrictions. In fact, the connotation of the act of a physical displacement is deliberately displaced from the physical condition to a mental state. Thus, the possibility of movement exists only in our mind, transporting the viewer to new worlds of imagination, to places and feelings once forgotten, where the individual is free to explore creativity unfettered by rules and convention. This becomes a game between the viewer and what they perceive. The overlapping realities confuse the eye and drag the spectator to reflect upon physical movement and mental change.(JT Gallery)

There’s nothing here: Oh! right, yes there is. Areas of the corridor and main room have been photographed and enlarged to life size and then placed as if a mirror on the walls. But some of the images are not mirror images but the space behind the wall on which they are placed.

Through this torn hole (the picture torn is of a street/parking area) is a combination of the room beyond and photographic copies of the scenes behind doors, walls and in cupboards. An added reflection is that this room is also filled with water-perhaps an inch deep.

A game of perception: Where I am not really sure if I am being shown what is really in the hidden spaces, while most of the time its uncannily difficult to understand what is real and what is a photograph or even imagination.

Click HERE for photographic out takes
List of artists:
Alexandra Hughes
Rinat Kotler
Kala Newman
Pietro Spoto
Carla Esperanza Tommasini/ Elisa D’Ippolito
Carolina Vasquez
Curated by Juliette Rizzi and Eleanor Clayton

He loosened his hold so she could pull her arms free

Artrix

North Worcestershire Open
6 May – 13 June 2010
Artrix
Bromsgrove
B60

As part of the spring calendar this year Artrix is hosting an open art exhibition.The exhibition is to showcase new, exciting, contemporary art work by professional and amateur artist’s…..bringing an eclectic mix of contemporary art to the area. Curated by Carol Cox. (Artrix)

I will be exhibiting painting and drawing.

Private View 5 May
7-9pm

For More Details click HERE