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The exposure gallery provides a platform for established artists and emerging creatives to showcase their work – selected not only for their innovative practice, but also their aesthetic qualities. The gallery aims to create intimacy within a high-profile central London location. The programme varies every month and, since its inception in May 2000, the gallery has shown a broad variety of British and international artists. Located in the Exposure reception area, the gallery is always buzzing with a guaranteed audience of Exposure’s own clients, media and the general public. Fronting Little Portland Street and backing onto the exposure bar, the gallery is not only the ideal venue for exhibitions but also private functions, live music and product launches. Feel free to drop in anytime and see what’s on display.
Exposure Gallery, 22-23 Little Portland Street, London W1W 8BU
Monday to Friday, 10am – 6pm
My London: Rob Ryan and Stephen Walter
Exhibition of work by Rob Ryan and Stephen Walter showing their unique perspectives of our capital city.
Ryan is a romantic; his highly decorative and elaborate paper cuts and screen prints show loving couples with hands clasped, surrounded by church bells, boats, boughs, and other motifs. On close inspection, you discover words delicately cut amongst the imagery and see a world filled with dark as well as light where love, hate, loss, pain, fear and death are interwoven. This body of work, beneath its overtly visual romanticism, is visceral in its melancholy. Ryan’s poetry-filled art evokes fairy-tales; the simple and straightforward subjects are in marked contrast to the deceptively sophisticated manner in which the works are made, painstakingly hand-cut with the smallest scalpels from the finest papers.
Walter was inspired by the unfolding drama of city life. ‘The Island: London Series’ is a collection of intricate drawings mapping the 33 individual boroughs as well as amalgamating them into one large island. ‘The Island’ took two years to complete and requires the use of a magnifying glass to decipher its central areas. The geographically accurate maps include many of London’s main roads, railway lines, landmarks and green spaces. However, on closer inspection, ‘they have their own unique identities fashioned by the artist’s idiosyncratic semiotics, wittily juxtaposed with the familiar everyday signage of maps and public spaces. Indeed, Stephen Walter’s lucid combination of diverse source material and his accurate re-mapping of the city that is so compelling, inviting viewers to re-visit the piece and discover something quite new each time, maybe even their own house or road!
Thursday 4th February – Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Gallery Opening Times – Monday to Friday, 10.00 – 18.00
All further information:
Chloé Nelkin
T: 07764 273 219, 020 7907 7200, E: chloe.nelkin@exposure.net
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130, E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
GRADUATE EXPOSURE
Graduate Exposure brings together the works of seven diverse and innovative new graduates, showcasing the dynamic talents of these young artists.
The seductive beauty of Daniel Crews-Chubb’s works mesmerises the viewer and conjures up evocative images of travel and foreign destinations. He has a unique style, depicting popular places around the world in large dynamic oils creating an imagined mental snapshot. Engaging in dialogues with other cultures, these exciting works are a direct comment on the time in which we live illustrating the information available today which allows us to create opinions and pictures and to form decisions.
Using ideas generated through literature, philosophy and film, Michael Hall is intrigued by the interplay between verbal and visual worlds. He has a particular interest in romantic notions of melancholy, exploring landscape in particular. His works experiment with imprinting language upon landscape in an effort to evoke meaning through an emotional response. He explores a mediated experience of ‘place’ sourced from literature, television and real life.
Rebecca Johnston’s work is concerned with the reality of death. She uses the obviously beautiful to make us question the delicate balance of life. Flowers have always been a vital feature and inspiration to her work, she sees them as vessels of sentiment and enjoys the contrast of the metals and industrial paints she uses, suspending flowers within their natural cycle. Her works juxtapose beauty and seduction with unease and discomfort.
Victoria Scott is interested in the visceral nature of oil paint; her abstract work hints at organic forms, such as trees and flowers. She experiments with accidents manifested through the physical reactions of paint and the effects of splashing, blowing and dripping, contrasted with more deliberate ways of applying paint.
Lucy Farley’s work concentrates on specific places, mainly landscapes and cityscapes, with which she has a personal connection. Associated stories, events, myths and folklore often trigger a response that manifests itself through repeated first-hand observational drawing. She depicts personal representations, influenced memory, nostalgia and imagined scenarios.
David Price uses copper-plate etching – a traditional process that is laborious, meditative and intense. Through this technique, he is able to reach back in time and create his images from the depths of the past. He finds it “strangely comforting; to consider man’s enduring state of fear and terror as eternal, a condition of all times, as relevant then as now.” He reworks historical themes and ideas, bringing them into focus for the present day
Eleanor Ross’ works focus on the evolution of man and our desire for material wealth. Many of her projects take form from everyday items, reinventing the normal and mundane into something unrecognisable. Clutching at Straws is an eclectic assortment of fine yarns, combined with brightly coloured plastics and tubes to create intricate 3D lattice structures, which are used to explore possible footwear outcomes.