April 8 - April 30, 2022
Group show
front gallery - installation view
front gallery - installation view
front gallery - installation view
front gallery - installation view
front gallery - installation view
back gallery - installation view
back gallery - installation view
back gallery - installation view
Space can be invaded in many ways.
Liz Thomson has presented her black and whites, her painted bronze moths in grid formation, but with absences or negative spaces aplenty within. Her allusion to Space Invaders, the early 80’s video game, is much appreciated and full of wry humour.
Elizabeth Thomson - Invaders From The Black And White: The Fall Of The Fifty-Five, 2006/2022
Zina Swanson’s free-standing window(s) in their frame feel uncanny in space, the upper sash ajar suggesting the exchange between an inner world and out. Eerily, the entire sculpture has been literally invaded with cloves – hundreds of them pushed into the window frames, an assault from without, or perhaps even an explosion of virus from within?
Behind Swanson’s Strange Pomander, Oliver Perkins’ Holborn features a host painting in washed greys and lilac literally invaded by another canvas – a painting in bricky orange inserted beneath the skin of its host. T’is a reminder this, that parasitic relationships can be informed by sympathy and beauty even!
Elsewhere, Miranda Parkes’ painting, pipe-dreamer, energetically folds off its stretcher right out into space – playing stripes in dark blue and light crimson off against surfaces pale blue and golden. Colour describes volume here, whereas in Melissa Macleod’s Salt of the Earth form is handsomely rendered in charcoal to achieve a serious sense of mass. Both women create space with their keen eye for tone, touch and edge. Macleod’s drawing, however, has a strange and strong use of perspective that sets it apart.
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Melissa Macleod - Salt of the Earth, 2016
Andrew Drummond - City Vein Print, 4/15, 1984
Elizabeth Thomson - (detail) Invaders From The Black And White: The Fall Of The Fifty-Five, 2006/2022
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Neil Dawson - Red-Tail Black Cockatoo Feather, 2021
Pete Wheeler - He who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger, 2021
Miranda Parkes - pipe-dreamer, 2022
Marie Le Lievre - Bidder’s (Paraphernalia), 2022
Rob Hood - CASS, 2008, ed of 3
Oliver Perkins - Holborn, 2020
Tjalling de Vries - Slab Crude, 2019
1984
hand-printed lithograph from slate, 4/15, framed
700 x 2040mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2006/2022
cast bronze, patina, casein paint, oil pigment
2000 x 4500mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2016
charcoal on paper
1400 x 2000mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2022
oil & graphite on canvas
750 x 750mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2008
LED print, 1/3
510 x 510mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2021
painted polycarbonate, aluminium & acrylic
1810 x 260 x 270mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2021
smoke, enamel on spider web on canvas
1800 x 1400mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2021
oil & pigment on canvas
1700 x 1500mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2022
acrylic on canvas
750 x 850 x 300mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2019
mixed media on cotton duck
850 x 750mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2020
ink, size, acrylic on canvas
450 x 450mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2021
found window, cloves
2100 x 900 x 190mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders
2022
found object, tiles, grout, plaster
1500 x 600mm x 100mm
Exhibited in
Space Invaders