'Shadows and Projections'

In April I am showing a range of recent work in a one-person exhibition in Glasgow, ‘Shadows and Projections’. As well as photographs, this will also include paintings and drawings. The exhibition opens on 3rd April at The Art Space in Cass Art, 63-67 Queen Street G1 3EN and runs to the 18th April.

Earthwise/Hopscotch

I am showing some new and previously unexhibited work in two exhibitions opening in London this week, with openings on Wednesday & on Thursday. For 'Earthwise', an exhibition, event and publication by PhD and MRes students from the Royal College of Arts’ School of Arts and Humanities, opening this Wednesday, I am showing a photographic-text piece, not dissimilar to other recent work.

Earthwise
Wednesday 21st June–Saturday 1st July 12-5pm
Private View: 6-9pm Wednesday 21st June
Beaconsfield Gallery, 22 Newport St, London SE11 6AY
https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/earthwise/

The other exhibition is 'Hopscotch' and forms the physical iteration of the RCA's Research Biennale, and opens on Thursday, in which I am showing a kind of 'sketch' for a photographic work, intended to be made in the darkroom, but which I never made as planned due to the pandemic.

Hopscotch

Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th June 10am–6pm

Private View: 6–9.30pm Thursday 22nd June

Closing event: 6-9.00pm, Saturday 24 June
Copeland Gallery, Unit 9, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, Peckham, London SE15 3SN
www.copelandpark.com

Undertow at Unit 1 Gallery

Moving below the surface current and in a different direction, the subterranean emotion is held carefully under the surface, as the understated surface half reveals and half-conceals the turmoil beneath.†

When prevailing discourses tip towards hyperbole, generalisations or simplification, there is a need to

swim against the current, to carve out a space that allows for ambiguity, correspondence, and a quieter

voice. In the employment of few words, a scale of action or use of minimal materials, understatement

can be both a way of confronting moments of crisis, or of evading them. Undertow brings together a

group of artists working in dialogue around these concerns. The Undertow research group's remit is

open, as is the shape it takes, and the work is rooted in the sensibilities of material and material

understanding. Our practices span the use of text, ceramics, wood, paper, paint, film, photography.

This exhibition is an opportunity to regroup, to re-open conversations and begin new ones, to test

ideas in the absence of pre-conceived outcomes, but with purpose and direction. What emerges in the

work coalesces around language, data, codes, a collapsing of scale, of how a still surface half-reveals,

half-conceals subterranean undercurrents.

†. Michael O’Neil, and Madeleine Callaghan, (editors), ‘Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices’, in Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon, 2011 

Undertow Research blog

Alex Simpson
Alison Rees
Lauren Ilsley
Nicholas Middleton
Sarah Wishart
Tana West

Unit 1 Gallery

1 Bard Road, London W10 6TP

3rd-25th March 2023

Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

Private view, Thursday 2nd March 6-9pm
 

Undertow at Sluice HQ - opening tonight

Heatwave, installation at Sluice HQ

In the exhibition Undertow, at Sluice HQ, London, opening tonight, 6-9pm, I am showing a piece titled Heatwave, comprising a series of twelve photographs, printed on 8x10 Ilford Multigrade RC paper and Kentmere VC Select. The photographs were shot using a Mamiya-16 Automatic, a Canon Cine Zoom 512 on Orwo UP15 double-8 film and a Canon A-1 on 35mm Rollei ATO 2.1 Supergraphic for the texts.

The exhibtion runs until 13th April 2019.

Undertow
Sluice HQ
171 Morning Lane, London E9 6JY

23 March - 13 April 2019
Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12-5pm

See also previous post Undertow at Sluice HQ

Undertow at Sluice HQ

When prevailing discourses tip towards hyperbole, generalisations or simplification, there is a need to swim against the current, to carve out a space that allows for ambiguity, correspondence and a quieter voice. In the employment of few words, a scale of action or use of minimal materials, understatement can be both a way of confronting moments of crisis, or of evading them.

Undertow brings together a group of artists working in dialogue around these concerns. The exhibition at Sluice represents a momentary iteration of the research group’s findings, the public-facing part of an ongoing series of interconnected activities. The group as a structure has developed to create a support network for the artists involved, to initiate conversation, to share knowledge, and to provide context. During the exhibition, the gallery space will be used by the artists as both a forum and as a residency, a means to test ideas and outcomes.

The Undertow research group's remit is open, as is the shape it takes, and the work is rooted in the sensibilities of material and material understanding. What emerges in the work coalesces around language, data, codes, a collapsing of scale, of how a still surface half-reveals, half-conceals subterranean undercurrents.

Alex Simpson

Alison Rees

Lauren Ilsley

Nicholas Middleton

Sarah Wishart

Tana West

Undertow
Sluice HQ
171 Morning Lane, London E9 6JY

23 March - 13 April 2019
Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12-5pm