Twisted / Cognitive / Sublime
Escape Bar and Art, 214-216 Railton Road, SE24 0JT
Private View: 12th September from 6 pm Exhibition continues until 3rd October 2006
Please contact Mary Paterson for further images and details: marypaterson@gmail.com
Sara Bevan was born in Wales. She graduated from Goldsmiths in 1999, following this she completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2003. In 2002 she won the Folio Society’s Illustration Award for her illustrations for Dracula by Bram Stoker. She works mainly as a freelance illustrator while also producing animated and three dimensional work. She works at the Department of Art at the Imperial War Museum and teaches at the London College of Communications. She has participated in several group exhibitions and her first solo show was held at Haji&White, Brick Lane, in November 2004. Following this, in 2005, she exhibited an installation, Forty Thousand Against The Arctic, at the Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpool Street and at the Dissenters Gallery in Kensal Green Cemetery in March 2006.
Cemetary 2 £300 (framed)
Forest £400 (framed)
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"In this particular series, “Viewz”, the images, which are drawn from parts of landscape and from objects found in the landscape, are sent on a journey across the terrain, by post as it happens, to my studio address. Most arrive, some don’t arrive at all. The uncertainty that the work will arrive reminds me of the expeditions of the explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries. As the work goes off on its journey through the darkness and the distance, it assumes an independent object status and identity of itself and arrives, if at all, bearing the history of its travels such as stamps, postal markings, scuff-marks, the occasional tear and so on which have become imprinted upon the images of its place of origin."
Viewz from Candelo £525
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"Moving deftly back and forth between the analytical and the sensual, the images in Uncertainties often evoke the forensic - lifting the skin of the eyelid to see what the eye sees, or piercing under a membrane to depict hurt. The granular surface of a path leads somewhere that could either be stable ground or sinking sand. A clump of hair or fluff or fur is caught in an eddy, clinging to a place, insecurely, depending on the rage of the flow. Emerging forms flicker at the end of a tunnel of darkness, like dusk or dawn in an unknown territory. Are you safe or uncomfortable? Enclosed or engulfed? Human or animal? Is this a horizon of flesh or feeling?"
Cherry Smyth, Poet, Curator, Writer, Florence Trust Catalogue
Catherine Jacobs is a London based artist whose photographic work has been shown both nationally and in the USA and is in held in many private collections. Catherine’s imaginary terrains invite viewers to participate in a game of associations of physical sensations and interior states. Created especially for the camera, the work is made from small-scale, temporary installations with no digital manipulation employed. The work reflects the insights gained through Catherine’s established career in psychological research, giving her a unique perspective into the themes she explores. Her particular areas of interest are in attachment theory and the ways people relate to each other and their surroundings.
The artist describes the work as Constructing psychological terrains which recall in viewers physical sensations and interior states. Alex Boyd, Exhibition Curator at the Midland Arts Centre, where Catherine recently staged a successful solo show writes Aesthetically, there is a play on scale where a tension prevails between the macro and the micro essence of the work. It is this push and pull between the everyday and the ethereal that tugs at our consciousness.
Uncertainties 16 £350 framed and editioned
Uncertainties 20 £350 framed and editioned
"Photographs of the ‘lunar’ landscape of Vale de Lua in Brazil focus on the sculptural qualities of the rocks created by the action of the river. The series of 12 photographs reveals the diversity of permutations in these geological formations. For me, It was astonishing to think that water which in itself is without form, has created these diverse forms. The stone, in spite of being one of the hardest elements, is eroded, shaped, sculpted by the most fluid of the elements. And in that process the has adopted some of the characteristics of the water itself: flowing lines, rippled surfaces, subtle textures. The stone becomes the negative (shape) of the water. Rocks become the static version of the river. Water creates new realities.
"Photographs of the Moon Valley in Chile focus on the relationship between the rocks and sand. Wind and sand play the same role in the shaping of these rocks, as has the river in Vale de Lua in Brazil."
Moon Valley (1) Brazil £95
Moon Valley (1) Chile £90
"The starting point for my work is the way in which the blank map was used by would-be colonisers in order to both erase the existing culture, and to justify settlement. I use found, second-hand domestic fabrics or furniture (blankets, table cloths, chairs), which I divide, reassemble and then cover with concrete or plaster - thus erasing their previous history, meaning and use value. I create something new that does not quite make sense or fit together. In some instances I use folds or thread to demarcate the surface/ landscape of the piece."
Blanket £350
This piece is about the correlation of looking, experiencing and relating to space in keeping with the approaches of using system and sequence which appears in much of my work. In this case how we experience a sense of place through documentation (photo), memory and reality (physically walking round the perimeter of an area.
I took one of the original photographs I had taken back in 2001, manipulated it in Adobe Photoshop, and scaled it up in to a sequence of eighty four 7" X 5" prints. Another series of eighty four photos that I took in 2004 around the perimeter of The Silent Pool, were traced off the computer screen and transferred to superimpose onto the photographs.
SP Edge Over Central £1900
"Gardens are a place to relax, spend time with friends and family. Gardens are places to reflect on your life or spend time alone in the sun and in private. They are a safe haven or an oasis in a busy life.
"The artworks shown in this book aim to remind us of these important and precious moments. When we allow ourselves to take in the tranquillity of nature through our gardens."
3 Geese Nocturne
"Since childhood I have been fascinated with the timelessness of the natural world. I am inspired by travelling and visiting places where there is miminal evidence of human life. I imagine the lanscapes before and after the age of mankind. Through experimenting with old film and printing techniques, I convey the serene but often foreboding nature of these landscapes"
Te Anau (1) £270
Te Anau (2) £270
"Making no reference to the surface of landscape my current work focuses on the space between what you are looking at and what you experience emotionally. Working with vinyl I am exploring its use and surface which is both temporary and unsympathetic to the subject of nature and landscape."
Pole (Positive) £330
Pole (Negative) £330
Lucy Williams uses photographs, both digital and traditional combined with collage techniques to create new and original images. She shoots and uses specifically sourced images as well as found imagery to present alternate ' views' .Her approach is often to re-work images of the built environment here and abroad, to show alternate and critical ‘views’ of cities which reflect an unstable and dystopic reality. Much of her imagery explores how urban space is transformed, new views generated and she is especially interested in how demolition and city ‘regeneration’ affect our physical sense of place, and may disturb or jolt our memories. Her city building collages start with photographing a building demolition and then cutting and assembling its broken elements to ‘reconstruct’ a new version of the building and a new configuration of the space it occupies.
The Heights (Not For Sale)