30/09/2009

The Rectory Gallery open 1st Thursdays

The Rectory Gallery will now be open from 1-9pm, every first Thursday of the month,

so if you haven’t yet seen Michele Noach’s exhibition of lenticular works, we hope you might visit us at the Rectory tomorrow

 

 

Michèle Noach

A Mice Too Far

08 September – 30 October

 

At The Rectory Gallery, 2 Fournier Street, E1 6QE

 

Open 1-9pm first Thursdays of each month. Open by appointment only all other times

Please call Curwen Gallery to arrange a visit or email view@therectorygallery.com

 

 

Image: Magnetic North, lenticular, 38 x 23cm, edition 10

17/09/2009

Blackburn & Myles

30 September – 24 October
Private view Tues 29 Sep 6-8pm


In the Main Gallery
KEN BLACKBURN: NEW WORK


Image: Arris XXV, mixed media & etched steel on board, 60 x 25cm

Over the years that I have been making these paintings, I have from time to time attempted to verbalise the reasons and motivations behind their production.
Initially, I would say that my paintings were reproductions of existing images of derelict industrial walls, which appeared abstract but were in fact representational.
On the other hand, I found that much of the time I couldn’t resist the urge to let each painting develop in its own individual and natural way and before long found that I was working in a much more process- based way. As such it’s hard to say if my work is processed or idea’s based. Making historical or contemporary references to other artists or ideologies whilst re-assuring, is not particularly helpful.
The reality in the studio is all about decisions and the desire to make something unique and impossible to duplicate.

Kenneth Blackburn



In the Upper Gallery
STILL FILMS: PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITIONS BY NOEL MYLES


Image: Still Film of an Oak, lambda print, edition 12, 75 x 60cm

Buy Art Fair, Manchester


Image: Peter-Ashley Jackson, Boy Dinasowr
ceramic and mixed media, 18 x 10 x 9cm


Come and visit Curwen & New Academy at the Buy Art Fair in Manchester next week!
24-27 September 2009
We will be showing work by some of our past Northern Graduates; Peter-Ashley Jackson, Simon Philpott, Michael Brayford plus other gallery artists David Rhys Jones, Henry Walsh, and some Curwen prints old and new.
Please see details below for how to register for a free ticket.
We are also allocated a small number of preview evening tickets.
Please contact us directly for these – they are on a first come, first served basis!
BUY ART FAIR IS BACK, 24-27 September 2009
Register now for FREE tickets at www.buyartfair.co.uk/register
Following its hugely successful debut last year, Buy Art Fair has announced its return for 2009 with a three-day weekend event from the 24th to 27th September at Urbis.
The consumer art exhibition, one of the largest in the country, will showcase the work of over 300 renowned and highly sought after artists, presented by over 75 carefully selected galleries. Amongst those confirmed are Paul Stolper, BEARSPACE, The Smithfield Gallery and Curwen & New Academy Gallery alongside returning galleries Wendy J Levy Contemporary Art Ltd, Li Kailin and Fiumano Fine Art.
A fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the first presentation of The Manchester Contemporary which is effectively a show within a show and takes up the third floor of Urbis.
For more information and free tickets visit
http://www.buyartfair.co.uk/