Showing from Friday 7 August People and Places
Sula Rubens / Three boys with football /oil on canvas / 76 x 91cm / £4000
Nahem Shoa / Head of Ngong Akim /oil on canvas / 60 x50cm /£5000
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Cornelia FtizRoy/ Hardley bluebell wood /pastel on paper / 77 x 97cm /£1800
Elaine Bolt / Woodland Chalk Vessel installation /Thrown porcelain vessels with small holes in the sides. Glazed on interior, exterior unglazed. Twigs, porcelain and stoneware pieces attached with wire./ Prices from £75 to £148. Installation (5 works) £550
Cornelia FitzRoy / Sotterley lake. lime tree / acrylic on paper / 77 x 97cm /£1800
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Exhibition catalogue:
The exhibition features 4 very different UK artists and ceramic artists for whom a sense of "place" defines the narrative of their work. In some cases the work is about a local landscape, sometimes about people and their relationship to a far away landscape, and sometimes about putting local faces into a current landscape.
The exhibition features 4 very different UK artists and ceramic artists for whom a sense of "place" defines the narrative of their work. In some cases the work is about a local landscape, sometimes about people and their relationship to a far away landscape, and sometimes about putting local faces into a current landscape.
Elaine Bolt is an award winning ceramic artist living and working near the South Downs in East Sussex. She works in clay and mixed media creating compositions guided by a sense of narrative about her local environment. Elaine has an MA in Ceramics from UCA Farnham and is an alumni of the Craft Council's talent development programme. Her work was featured in a recent edition of Ceramic Review (January/February 2020). In the exhibition there are 12 pieces which can be bought individually or as part of an assemblage /installation. Examples only below.
Cornelia FitzRoy is a Norfolk landscape plein air artist who uses colour and distinctive shapes to show her local scapes. Often returning to the same places Cornelia captures what is the same and different depending on light and weather giving each work a new character. Her work was selected for the 2019 Royal Academy Summer Show and is featured in the RA Calendar for June.
Sula Rubens ARWS travels widely and immerses herself in the landscapes and people she finds. In 2017 Sula embarked on a remarkable series of work called "Kin" which is about people, their sense of place and their relationship to each other. Sometimes the figures of people and animals are drawn on old maps as if to convey a sense of history and migration across countries and time. Sula shows that love and kinship can endure even in the most challenging of circumstances. Sula's work has been shortlisted for the Castlegate House Gallery prize 2020.
Recently Sula has been collaborating with a Suffolk ekphrastic poet, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, who has written a poem for each of Sula's paintings, drawing out the essence of the work in the written word. The poems are also on display for reading (and taking away) in the Gallery. Sue lives in Suffolk, and her poems are published by London Grip, Ink Sweat and Tears, Brittle Star, Poetry Space, Dempsey and Windle and in various anthologies and magazines. She is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society and is currently completing an MA in Writing Poetry with Newcastle University/Poetry School, London. Her earlier career was with the British Council. Sue's first collection of poems, "A City Waking Up" about Sudan will be published in October 2020 by Dempsey and Windle.
Recently Sula has been collaborating with a Suffolk ekphrastic poet, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, who has written a poem for each of Sula's paintings, drawing out the essence of the work in the written word. The poems are also on display for reading (and taking away) in the Gallery. Sue lives in Suffolk, and her poems are published by London Grip, Ink Sweat and Tears, Brittle Star, Poetry Space, Dempsey and Windle and in various anthologies and magazines. She is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society and is currently completing an MA in Writing Poetry with Newcastle University/Poetry School, London. Her earlier career was with the British Council. Sue's first collection of poems, "A City Waking Up" about Sudan will be published in October 2020 by Dempsey and Windle.
Nahem Shoa is a London artist born and still working in Notting Hill. His reputation is growing internationally as an artist who has been capturing contemporary multi cultural life in London since the 1990's. His work is now more relevant than ever as an artist putting black lives into painting. His work is regularly shown in national museums including the 2019 Black Presence exhibition at the Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport where his portraits were shown alongside historic and contemporary paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Sonia Boyce. More from Nahem about the 3 pictures in this Show on the Nahem Shoa website page.
Last few days of Restlessness 2
In this exhibition artists are responding to the natural flux in the East Anglian landscape, wrought by sunlight and shade, wind and rain, coastal erosion, and new growth. Featuring works by:
Perienne Christian, Michelle Cobbin, Katarzyna Coleman, Alex Curry, Mari French, Jane Human, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Kate Giles, Martin Laurance, Jane Lewis, Ruth McCabe, Sarah Muir Poland, Caroline Poole.
Perienne Christian, Michelle Cobbin, Katarzyna Coleman, Alex Curry, Mari French, Jane Human, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Kate Giles, Martin Laurance, Jane Lewis, Ruth McCabe, Sarah Muir Poland, Caroline Poole.
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