Curated by Sarah Sparkes / Jane Millar
Jonathan Callan
My practice normally focuses on the nature of information and language, but I‘ve always considered it important to have outliers or contradictory pieces that occasionally throw a spanner in the works.
This is one of those. ‘One thing leading to another’ was made when my son was 9 years old. He was beginning to grow out of cars but there were still a lot lying around the house.. My fascination with materials that allow the imprint of gesture, where they have the tractability of paint, finds a home in these pieces. When I was myself 9 years old modernity didn’t hold quite the same terrors it does today. The earth would quietly comply with humanities onward march and technology was broadly seen in an uncritical light. When I made this series there was much more awareness of the consequences that sit upon any and all of the objects that humans are encrusting the planet with. This view, would of course, have to include art.
These pieces are indebted to the work of Richard Woods and Ian Dawson.
Chudamani Clowes
Chudamani's art practice deals with the post colonial discourse. She is interested in the mechanisms of colonization, exploration and global imperialism. Especially the impact of the British Empire on the issues of immigration and migration.
She utilizes coral to draw attention to ecological issues and matters of sustainability.
Sarah Doyle
Sarah Doyle is an interdisciplinary artist who explores identity formation through visual culture. She merges popular culture with fairy tales and folklore across various mediums. Her themes often focus on finding one's place in the world.
Lydia Julien
Lydia Julien is a UK-based visual and performance artist. She often works within sequences and durational works, interlaced with narratives based loosely upon personal, gathered or abstract experience or memories around race, gender and culture.
Lydia will perform at Bell House on Sunday 12th May
Marq Kearey
Marq Kearey uses gouache paint to create copies of fly-posters. He then cuts up his copies and reassembles them into compositions informed from his sketchbook drawings. These appropriated collages are abstract observations functioning as something familiar.
David Leapman
David Leapman is a painter of enchanted, mystical works of prolific script-like mark making, visual conjuring tricks and philosophical ponderings". Jo Manby.
A graduate of Goldsmith College, his paintings are associated with the YBA art movement and included in 'Shark Infested Waters - The Saatchi Collection of British Art'
Yair Meshoulam
'Spider' is a mobile moving sculpture made from found and transformed objects and materials, and is part of a 2 & 3D series called 'Uncanny Cut Outs'. They are also props for a film.
www.textureofconsciousness.com
Jane Millar
My ceramic and mixed media sculpture is a response to shifting identities of objects, employing visual resemblances, mimicry and re-imagining. It reflects my fascination with extinct human species and cultures.
Stephen Nelson
Skulls: their information, their legacy.
From mitochondrial DNA extracted from the skulls of the Chumash people to the skull veneration of Naples and the memento mori of Cosimo Fanzago.
Victoria Rance
Based at APT Studios, Deptford, London, award winning artist Victoria Rance creates sculptures the viewer can interact with, either physically or in the imagination. She records interactions with her sculptures using photography, film and animation.
Alke Schmidt
Alke’s work explores the healing and nurturing powers of plants, our entanglement with plants and soil within the eternal cycle of life, and how building on this understanding might offer hope for the future.
Lex Shute
Lex Shute’s painting and sculpture addresses the relationship between spiritual discourse, female power and the natural world. Exploring the entanglement between cultural practices, trans-historical belief systems and the mythic imagination, Shute proposes alternative knowledge.
Sarah Sparkes
I was haunted by horses, running from wild fires, in the record- breaking heat of an Anthropocene summer. We watch the fire we have started, transfixed and then we are burning.
Sarah Sparkes is a London based artist and curator.
Ania Tomaszewska-Nelson
The last trip to M. broke me with cold and overwhelming darkness. I underestimated the austerity and loneliness I had to endure that week. In solitude I sunk my hands into the clothing of the people I missed. I tried to evoke their presence. I stitched their clothes together and animated their absence.
Sara Trillo
Sara Trillo’s sculptures incorporate plant-dyed textiles, wool, and clay. They are inspired by her research into dene holes- mysterious mines of unknown age- and her experience of descending through earth shafts into subterranean chalk chambers.
Marianne Walker
Marianne Walker's hand built drawings evidence her interest in animism, folklore and devotional sculpture, their fragmentary forms morphing into signifiers of adaption and survival.
Alice Wilson
These cast houses embedded on logs from the artists studio come from material experiment’s that stem from a consideration of construction, in both structural and psychological spaces.