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
New year. New talent. The Exposure Gallery is now open. Graduate Exposure brings together the works of seven diverse and innovative new graduates, showcasing the dynamic talents of these young artists.
Exploring exciting works from Daniel Crews-Chubb, Michael Hall, Rebecca Johnston, Victoria Scott, Lucy Farley, David Price and Eleanor Ross.
Exhibition:
Friday 8th – Friday 29th January 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10:00 – 18:00
Entry: Free
All sales, further information, press enquires and interview requests please contact:
Chloé Nelkin
T: 020 7907 7200
E: chloe.nelkin@exposure.net
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net