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Exhibitions: 2022

‘An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas’

3 December – 20 January 2022

White Conduit Projects presents a group show under the theme of
small scale representation.
Click here to view the installation and the each works

Exhibiting Artists
Anna Van Oosterom, Anna Ilsley, Antoni of Antoni and Alison, Andy Gashe, Atsuko Barouh, Bella Easton, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Clare Mitten, Clare Petherick, Darren O’Brien, Eric Butcher, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Fiona G Roberts, Fiona Grady, Gemma Holzer, Hannah Hughes, Hannah Maybank, Helen Maurer & Angela Moore, Jake Clark, Jake Tilson, James Brooks, Jillian Knipe, John Peter Askew, Jonny Briggs, Juan Bolivar, Kate Lyddon, Karen Knorr, Karen David, Katie Pratt, Kristian Evju, Lee Maelzer, Liane Lang, Liz Elton, Marie Harnett, Mandy Hudson, Maria Marshall, Nadege Meriau, Paul Westcombe, Phoebe Stringer, Rebecca Byrne, Robin Dixon, Sam Jackson, Sharon Leahy-Clark, Simon Leahy-Clark, Takumi Kato, Tadashi Maruyama, Tania Rowlings, Theo Ellison, Uli Ap, Yukako Shibata, Yumi Katayama, William Mackrell.

‘I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.’ – William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2.

An infinite world can exist in a condensed object. ‘An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas’ attempts to uncover the maximal imaginary perspectives secreted in the minimally-sized works of more than forty participating artists. Each idea finds its form within an economical 37 x 37 cm, and is reflected in short texts by the artists.

Exhibitions: 2021

Virtual Artist Residency with Louisa Chambers (UK), Julia Wenz-Delaminsky (DE), Tamara Dubnyckyj (UK), Traci Kelly (UK/DE), Danica Maier (USA/UK), Clare Mitten (UK)

Co-led by Danica Maier and Louisa Chambers.

Bee-eaters: A Virtual Residency focussed on developing art practice through a supportive communal structure. An intensive 3.5-day residency brings six artists ‘together’ via online platforms for conversations, thinking and listening, while working independently within their individual studios. The residency’s core focus is on developing creative practice in a critical and supportive environment without any pressures of outcome. Committing to a small group of individuals the time was spent within our own studios experimenting, testing, developing, thinking, contemplating, reading, doing/not doing with three ‘checking in’ points throughout the day. Working with the spirit of a ‘Thinking Environment’ (Nancy Kline) during our coming together moments we shared, talked, and listened to enable individuals’ thinking and practice to grow.

 


A virtual tour of the exhibition with Graham Crowley and Robert Dunt

Exhibitions: June – October 2019

Collyer Bristow presents:

The Immaculate Dream

14 June – 30 October 2019
Private View: Thursday 13 June, 6.30-9pm

Guy Allott, Sandra Beccarelli, Sasha Bowles, Hannah Brown, Emily Jane Campbell, Michael Coppelov, Graham Crowley, Robin Dixon, Carrie Grainger, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Steven Heffer, Julie F Hill, Roza Horowitz, Robyn Litchfield, Cathy Lomax, Clare Mitten, Monica Ursina Jäger, Joanna Whittle, Alice Wilson

Curated by Rosalind Davis

The Immaculate Dream is an exhibition of fantastical landscapes and constructed spaces, dark fairy-tales and silent stage settings. Works by nineteen artists invite us to explore a looking-glass world in which pasts are re-imagined and futures projected through the various lenses of cinema, technology, science fiction and cosmology. These places are fragile, experimental, romantic, alchemical. All beyond reach.

The gallery is open Monday – Friday during office hours, with viewing by appointment. Please contact gallery@collyerbristow.com | 020 7242 7363.

Collyer Bristow LLP
4 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4TF

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Exhibitions: Sept/Oct 2017

Press Release

PIY PaintLounge at Sluice Biennial London 2107

PIY PaintLounge is a salon exhibition, fundraiser and series of conversations with over 40 contemporary painters and arts professionals talking about painting as a part of Sluice Biennial 2017.

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Press and VIP Viewing 12 -3pm Saturday 30th September, Public Preview 3 – 9pm.

PaintLounge opening talk at 4pm Saturday 30th September with painter Sara Berman, collector Valeria Napoleone and curator Niamh White. The opening preview and drinks continues till 9pm along with all exhibitions at Sluice Biennial.

40 plus contemporary painters and curators take a turn on the sofa in a series of talks throughout the Biennial: Sunday 1, Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 October 12 -6pm. Artist speakers will also be exhibiting work in our PaintLounge.Please see below for full schedule of exhibitor/speakers.

In addition, PIY PaintLounge is taking this opportunity to support Hospital Rooms, an arts and mental health charity, and highlight as many painters as possible with a unique fundraising exhibition of small works. The ’Make Your Mark’ exhibition will support Hospital Rooms with 20 x 20cm painted works sold for £30 each, with all profits to go to support the charity. The makers of submitted works will remain anonymous until after Sluice, when they will be posted to the purchaser and their identities revealed.

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PIY PaintLounge is a collaborative project between paintbritain and PaintUnion which aims to bring as many painters as possible together to discuss and celebrate painting in all its many and various forms as part of the Sluice Biennial 2017 in Hackney.

PaintUnion, founded by Rebecca Byrne and Liz Elton, organises exhibitions and talks about painting. paintbritain is a part of Contemporary British Painting and is led by group members Wendy Saunders and Paula MacArthur.

Sluice Biennial 2017 — the fourth biennial international fair of artist-run galleries and projects. This year the fair will feature approximately 30 artist/curator-run and emerging galleries and projects in several spaces in the heart of Hackney Central, East London. Entry to the fair, talks, screenings and performances are all free to the public.

If you have any questions, please contact us at piypaintlounge@gmail.com

Sluice Biennial 2017

PIY PaintLounge #piypaintlounge #hospitalrooms #sluice

Exhibitors/speakers

Sara Berman, Katrina Blannin, Isha Bøhling, Simon Burton, Rebecca Byrne, Marcus Cope, Emma Cousin, Graham Crowley, Karen David, Rosalind Davis, Liz Elton, Oli Epp, Geraint Evans, Nadine Feinson, Alastair Gordon, Bea Haines, Adam Hennessey, Alice Irwin, Ann-Marie James, Matthew Krishanu, Mindy Lee, Paula MacArthur, Sophie Mackfall, Stacie McCormick, Clare Mitten, Ian Monroe, Sid Motion, Valeria Napoleone, Sarah Pager, Selma Parlour, Fabian Peake, Becca Pelly-Fry, Charley Peters, Ruth Philo, Clare Price, Tamsin Relly, Giulia Ricci, Wendy Saunders, Tim A Shaw, Dominic Shepherd, Susan Sluglett, Geraldine Swayne, Jo Volley, Niamh White, Tess Williams, Sue Williams A’Court

Saturday 30 September 4pm

4pm

Sara Berman Niamh White Valeria Napoleone

Sunday 1 October 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm

12.30pm

Emma Cousin
Oli Epp
Adam Hennessey Alice Irwin

2pm

Sophie Mackfall Selma Parlour Sid Motion

3.30pm

Ann-Marie James Karen David
Ian Monroe

5pm

Marcus Cope Alastair Gordon Paula MacArthur Sarah Pager

Monday 2 October 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm

12.30pm

Stacie McCormick Becca Pelly-Fry Jo Volley
Tess Williams

2pm

Graham Crowley Rosalind Davis Clare Mitten

3.30pm

Bea Haines
Clare Price
Tim Shaw Geraldine Swayne

5pm

Charley Peters Isha Bohling Giulia Ricci

Tuesday 3 October 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm

12.30pm

Katrina Blannin Nadine Feinson Ruth Philo

2pm

Tamsin Relly
Liz Elton
Dominic Shepherd

3.30pm

Wendy Saunders Sue Williams A’Court Simon Burton Matthew Krishanu Geraint Evans

5pm

Rebecca Byrne Fabian Peake Susan Sluglett Mindy Lee

PLANTWORKS at William Morris Gallery, 5 April – 21 May 2017

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PLANTWORKS: A Factory As It Might Be
5 April – 21 May 2017
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
Stairwell and Story Lounge

A site-specific intervention of cardboard plant-machines and 2d counterparts.

PLANTWORKS stems from a re-imagining of A Factory As It Might Be  – William Morris’s vision for how beautiful factories would act as centres of education and creativity – and is influenced by Victorian science fiction, botanical models and bio-inspired technology.

PLANTWORKS will be accompanied by a publication with commissioned essay by Esther Leslie, and a series of events at William Morris Gallery, including a symposium on Saturday 13 May 2017.

Artist Talk/Exhibition Tour
Sunday 16 April, 2pm (Please note this date has changed from 23rd)
FREE. All welcome, no booking required.

PLANTWORKS SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 13 May 2017, 10am – 2pm
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
Free admission. Please book in advance for this event. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
The event is open to all, although it is restricted to a maximum of 40 people.

Presentations and discussion exploring Morris’s relationship with industry through the lenses of nature and landscape, technology and utopia; plants, production and time; and biomimetics.

Presentations and speakers include:

Infernal Machines? William Morris, Technology and Utopia
Dr Will Abberley, Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Sussex 
This talk will explore Morris’s complex attitude to machines.

Plants, Production and Time
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University College London
This contribution considers the plant as a generator of form and forms that link in peculiar ways to time and industry.

An Introduction to Biomimetics
Professor Andrew Parker, Biomimetics Expert
An introduction to biomimetics, illustrated with fascinating case studies, notably including designs of photonic devices found in nature.

Landscapes of Industry
Dr Matt Thompson, Head Collections Curator for English Heritage
This presentation looks at the ways in which industry began to be portrayed by artists in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Plantworks: A Factory As It Might Be
Clare Mitten, Artist
Clare will cover the development of her project Plantworks and will explore some of the key ideas and themes in the making of the new three-dimensional models and their two-dimensional counterparts installed at the William Morris Gallery

Paul Rosenbloom, (Chair), Artist
Paul has exhibited work based on fossils in several Natural History Museums, including London, Cambridge, Oslo and Cardiff.

Plantworks Drinks Reception and Book Launch
Saturday 13 May 2017, 3 – 5pm
The symposium will be followed by refreshments and launch of the project publication, with commissioned essay by Esther Leslie, on Saturday 13 May, 15:00 – 17:00 in the Acanthus Room.

Plantworks is generously funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts with additional support from Bow Arts Trust and William Morris Gallery.

Please visit my blog for further information and updates on the development of the project: www.claremitten.blogspot.co.uk

 

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Exhibitions: July – August 2016

DA VINCI ENGINEERED
From Renaissance Mechanics to Contemporary Art

Artists: Claire Barber | Sabine Bieli | Savinder Bual | Cath Cambell | Clare Charnley | Nicola Dale | Nicola Ellis | Heinrich & Palmer | Simone Kaern | Ruth Levene | Clare Mitten | Helen Schell

Curated by Lara Goodband

Saturday 2 July – Sunday 21 August 2016

Open daily 10am – 5pm
Last admissions 4pm

Zebedee’s Yard
Whitefriargate / Princes Dock Street
Hull

Twelve faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci’s flight and wind machines loaned by Da Vinci Museum, Florence, demonstrate the remarkable prescience of this great artist and his engineering genius. Alongside these Renaissance machines, specially commissioned and selected works by contemporary artists respond to ideas of flight or explore the use of engineering in their conceptualisation, design or production.

Professor Stephanie Haywood, Head of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Hull launched the Amy Johnson Festival by saying: ‘Engineering is about creating practical solutions to the everyday problems such as housing and water supply alongside tackling the challenges of sustainable energy, mitigating climate change and an ageing population. It is underpinned by science and maths but also needs art and design. It can be about vision and creativity and also about the everyday skills needed to turn ideas into products.’

This exhibition examines how engineering, through practical applications and concepts, is inspiring and being used by artists today. Contemporary art explores the world we live in through a range of media and techniques for making art. Artists are combining traditional skills and new technology to create inspiring and thought-provoking new work. In recent years, art practice has embraced dialogues with people working across a range of disciplines, provoking new ideas. ’Da Vinci Engineered’ demonstrates how such conversations lead to the creation of exciting new work including print series, metal sculpture, video or installation.

The artists in this exhibition have been given the opportunity to re-think their practice in relation to engineering, flight and Leonardo Da Vinci. At a time when young people are often asked to choose between ‘the arts’ or ‘the sciences’ at secondary school, ‘Da Vinci Engineered’ shows us that we should, instead, embrace many different approaches to learning. Engineers and artists are both creative: Leonardo Da Vinci never had to choose whether to be an engineer, a sculptor, painter or architect as designs for his flying machines demonstrate.

A free guide accompanies the exhibition which includes information about each of the artists and the work on display.

Lara Goodband, Curator

In association with Green Port Hull and University of Hull School of Engineering, supported by BAE Systems and Spencer Group.

Da Vinci Engineered – Amy Johnson Festival

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Pistil Whorl, 2015

Pistil Whorl, 2015