From Friday 7 August People and Places
Sula Rubens / Three boys with football /oil on canvas / 76 x 91cm
Nahem Shoa / Head of Ngong Akim /oil on canvas / 60 x50cm
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Cornelia FtizRoy/ Hardley bluebell wood /pastel on paper / 77 x 97cm
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.
Cornelia FitzRoy / Sotterley lake. lime tree / acrylic on paper / 77 x 97cm
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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.
Postponed till 2021 Wilhelmina Barns- Graham (1912 - 2004) and Patricia Cain PS, ARWS, NEAC
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (Willie) was one of the key influencers of Modern British Art and an early member of the St Ives School. We will be showing Willie's work alongside that of Scottish artist Patricia Cain. Patricia has had many solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in Scotland and England, including a major exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow called Drawing (on) the Riverside. In 2013 Patricia was awarded an RSA residency through the Barns - Graham Trust at Balmungo House in Fife, Scotland. One of her paintings from this residency won the RWS Award at the RWS Contemporary Competition in 2014. We are very grateful to Rob Airey, Director of the Barns- Graham Trust for his support in putting this exhibition together.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (Willie) was one of the key influencers of Modern British Art and an early member of the St Ives School. We will be showing Willie's work alongside that of Scottish artist Patricia Cain. Patricia has had many solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in Scotland and England, including a major exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow called Drawing (on) the Riverside. In 2013 Patricia was awarded an RSA residency through the Barns - Graham Trust at Balmungo House in Fife, Scotland. One of her paintings from this residency won the RWS Award at the RWS Contemporary Competition in 2014. We are very grateful to Rob Airey, Director of the Barns- Graham Trust for his support in putting this exhibition together.
Wilhelmina Barns -Graham / Water Dance (Porthmeor) II 2004/ Signed limited edition print (edition of 70) 56 x56cm
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Patricia Cain / Forest Mark II
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12 November 2020 The Narrative of Trees
Co-curated with Dr Angela Summerfield and the well known Arborealist group of artists, founded by Tim Craven in 2013, we will be exploring our love of trees and their meaning for our personal and collective identity.
"We all bring and take stories and memories from the trees, forests and woods we visit, whether in the country or towns and cities. This exhibition, The Narrative of Trees, explores this enduring relationship we share with trees through the work of respected contemporary artists from East Anglia, London and Gloucestershire. We see the work naturally drifting into a number of categories; Cultural Heritage celebrating iconic trees or woods, Living Memorials of trees honouring a life or signifying a place, trees as Places of Well-Being and Continuity, tree drawings as Forms of Portraiture, and trees capturing a Future or Imagined state." (Dr Angela Summerfield).
Featured artists include: Emma Buckmaster and Jane French (collaborators), Patricia Cain, Claire Casnick, Perienne Christian, Lara Cobden, Tim Craven, Blaze Cyan, Kate Giles, Jane Human, Caroline Poole, Nahem Shoa, Angela Summerfield.
"We all bring and take stories and memories from the trees, forests and woods we visit, whether in the country or towns and cities. This exhibition, The Narrative of Trees, explores this enduring relationship we share with trees through the work of respected contemporary artists from East Anglia, London and Gloucestershire. We see the work naturally drifting into a number of categories; Cultural Heritage celebrating iconic trees or woods, Living Memorials of trees honouring a life or signifying a place, trees as Places of Well-Being and Continuity, tree drawings as Forms of Portraiture, and trees capturing a Future or Imagined state." (Dr Angela Summerfield).
Featured artists include: Emma Buckmaster and Jane French (collaborators), Patricia Cain, Claire Casnick, Perienne Christian, Lara Cobden, Tim Craven, Blaze Cyan, Kate Giles, Jane Human, Caroline Poole, Nahem Shoa, Angela Summerfield.
Jane Human, Autumn Woodland
