Pierre Julien in Metro

Have a look at this brilliant article on one of our artists, Pierre Julien, in todays Metro newspaper,page 3.

It's full of some rather interesting puns, some stretching the English language to capacity.

"He rolls the pioneering popular free paper into 3,000 matchstick-sized tubes, glues them and covers them in varnish.
‘Each animal takes about a month to build,’ he said. ‘When you are working on such a minute scale you have to be extremely patient, making sure each tube is placed correctly.’
‘Each year more and more animals are added to the endangered list and unless we do something to stop it, we will lose some of our most treasured species included the polar bear, tiger, elephant, gorilla, giraffe and black bears.
‘It’s almost unimaginable that we have allowed these great animals to get to the brink of extinction,’ added Mr Julien from London.
The menagerie, named Endangered Species, is at the Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia, west London until Friday. There’s only one thing missing, a paper tiger."

 If you would like to see Pierre Julien's menagerie, including his paper Tiger, it will be on show in the gallery until Friday 23rd December.After that the collection will be moving to The Rectory Gallery for Menagerie at the Rectory http://www.therectorygallery.com/ until 9th March. Call Curwen Gallery for more information on 0207 323 4700.

The Christmas Show

Our Christmas show has now been running for two weeks and we are pleased to say it has been very successful.The Christmas show is an extremely important exhibition for us.  Our selections for this show try to reflect the gallery as a whole.Much of the work currently on our walls is the work of artists that we have been showing for many years, making this a good exhibition to reflect on the history of the gallery, as well as its future.

Keith Roberts, At Swim, £1500



Susie Perring Into the Sun

 This year we have attempted to include all of our gallery artists as well as trying out a few new additions to the usual core choices . Every artist we will be showing next year is represented in this show, with artists such as Susie Perring (showing in the Rectory Gallery next March- May) and Brendan Hansbro (showing at Curwen in April 2012) causing quite a stir. Lee Sellers also, who will be showing at Curwen next December, has been extremely popular, selling the five paintings we initially hung in one go! Other works such as Keith Roberts At Swim will be familiar to many and much loved by everyone here.



Pierre Julien, Gorrilla, £450

The Christmas show is also a great platform for us to look to the future and to try new artists. This year we have been delighted to show Pierre Julien’s Endangered Species series of sculptures. They are made in a very original fashion- from hundreds of rolled up bits of newspaper. Pierre has very kindly given us a brilliant collection of these animals which will also be showing next year in the Rectory Gallery, during the “Menagerie at the Rectory” exhibition running from January- March 2012.Look out for a short article in Metro newspaper on Pierre, hopefully printed at some point this week.

   



Macmillan Cancer Support Weekend, 26th/27th November

The Macmillan Support Weekend is a charitable iniative we have been running for over 30 years.The weekend is a fund raising art exhibition which runs for two days only (this coming weekend 26/27 November). Of every sale 10% of the artwork's price is donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.The show is open from 11am-9pm on the Saturday and 11am-6pm on Sunday.

               Hannah Battershell, Crocodilian, £375

 

Originally started in 1977 at her own home by the gallery director, Jill Hutchings, the exhibition

has been running every year since.Jills particular connection with Macmillan Cancer Support
comes from her backround in nursing in the oncology wing at the Middlesex Hospital, where she nursed cancer patients specifically.

Every year the exhibition raises money, as well as awareness, for the charity.It is also a great opportunity to see a more eclectic mix of artwork than is usually shown by the gallery.Some of our staple artists are represented in the show. Henry Walsh  a much loved and long serving Curwen Gallery artist will be showing Insouciant (below), one of our favourite of his paintings.          
                 

                  Henry Walsh, Insouciant, £700

Another of our current favourites; Lee Sellers, whose charming paintings have been most recently shown on our stall at the Affordable Art Fair (Battersea) in October.Going for a Walk (below) is without doubt the most delightful of all his work.
                Lee Sellers, Going for a Walk,£750

Two very new artists, both showing at Curwen Gallery for the first time during the Macmillan Support Weekend, are Robin Spalding and Hannah Battershell.Both have an unexplained fascination with Crocodiles! Hannah Battershell's dreamlike and uncanny paintings are both unsettling and at the same time rather adorable.Robin Spalding's Golden Crocodile could be said to occupy similar conceptual ground, its toothless smile making it as cute as it is threatening.
                     Robin Spalding, Golden Crocodile, £450

Alison Neville- Cathedrals,Mosques, Madrasas and Little Houses 3rd-23rd November

Alison Neville is probably the most well travelled artist we have ever met.Her career spanning show at Curwen Gallery is a document of the many exotic places which she has travelled to and been inspired by.

       Alison Neville, Royal Albert Hall, etching, £450 fr

Alison Neville is an adept printmaker with a distinctive, characterful style.This show
builds upon a solid grounding of work from her early career (Westminster Abbey, Poets Corner was shown in Curwen Gallery's first show 30 years ago) and charts both a lifetime of work and of travel.

For me, the most significant factor in this body of work is that Alison is exceptionally accurate when capturing a sense of place.There is a feeling that Alison has absorbed so much from each place and then managed to transcibe this experience into a single image. Each etching is like a distillation of the essence of the subject location.For the places I know, I get a genuine feeling of nostalgia, for the many places I have never been I feel that I must go at once!From conversations with the other visitors to the show, I think these sensations are a surprisingly common reaction to this work. 

                             Alison Neville Mosque-Pesharwar, etching,£375 fr

Her most recent works document a trip down the Congo River.Last Tuesday evening (15th Nov.) Alison delivered a fascinating talk on this rare experience.From this trip she has created a series of delicately produced  etchings of the "Little Houses" she encountered while travelling down the Congo.The remarkable character of these makeshift buildings are what Alison has most faithfully reproduced. One gets the feeling that there are a wealth of different stories which live in the fabric of these little houses.Also, when the whole series hang together, there is a real sense of the narrative of Alisons own journey and the many stories which she could tell of this much mythologised river.

                                         
        Alison Neville,Congo River Series:The Widow's House, etching,£150 fr 
Alison Neville- Cathedrals,Mosques, Madrasas and Little Houses runs from 3rd-23rd November

The London Suite

The London Suite are a set of 10 lithographs published by Advanced Graphics London in 1982. 10 well known artists were invited to each make one print to illustrate to the world that printmaking didn't have to be flat.They are a very vibrant set of screenprints, all with a unique character and the hallmarks of their artist.The suite is a rare and very collectible set of prints with some of this centuries best loved artists contributing.

Albert Irvin RA Battlebridge

 Advanced Graphics kindly let us borrow their complete framed set which is currently on show in the gallery.We have one available copy of the suite of prints (unframed) which is priced at £7000.

Northen Graduates Artist Wins Northern Lights Art Prize

One our Northern Graduates Artists, Nat Quinn, has just won a £10 000 prize and professional mentoring from established artist Emerson Mayes.

Here is what the judges had to say about his work:


"Nat Quinn's delicate and ambiguous abstract paintings take as much from other media - like drawing and ceramics - as they do from the history of painting. A very worthy recipient in a talented selection. Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society."


Paul Hobson



"Nat Quinn is showing a way to confront painting with a relevance to our inner lives; which in the political and economic climate of today, remains vital."


William Tillyer:


We wish Nat the best of luck in his future career and remind his fans of two things:
1.You saw him here first.
2.We still have some of his work available for sale in the gallery (below)

Untitled 2oil on paper, 59 x 76 cm
£525 fr

Contact us for more information http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/contact.htm

Rebecca Hind: Causeway

Rebecca Hind's new show; Causeway opened last thursday.It is a very serene exhibition of large watercolour paintings exploring different elements.

These paintings form a metaphorical step across a causeway into a realm of the basic manifestations of the elemental forces: Air, Fire and Water. Walking through the gallery becomes a journey though metaphysical energies, leading us to align with the rise, fall and shift of the elements.

                                                Rebecca Hind, Earthshine, £2250 
One thing that immediately strikes the viewer is the amount of movement in these images. These are not passive elements; they are living, dynamic forces. They are animated images, living states of ethereal flux, celebrating the power of the elements. In her  paintings of water; waves pulse and flex like muscles, in her vivid depictions of fire, sparks of definition crackle over the soft flames whooshing beneath.

Rebecca Hind, Crest ,£4500

One of the newest and most impressive of the paintings on show is her depiction of air: Glitterbirds. Here the sky is represented as a fluid space by the movements of flocks of birds within it. These birds swarm and drift, moving as one body, framed by soft clouds in a sky composed of diffuse beams of light. Similarly, in her representations of water; white spume on the crest of waves ripple and undulate over the calmer washes of colour beneath. This gives visible contours to the movement of the transparent body.

Rebecca Hind, Glitter Birds, £4950

Her use of watercolour is ideally suited to the ethereal nature of this subject matter. With the transparency and flow of the medium comes the suggestion of the transparency and flow of the element represented. Despite, in some cases, being figurative, these images are also enormously expressive. They manage to take on an abstract quality which is as important as their, more obvious, figurative nature.

Rebecca Hind,Sparks on the Summer Triangle, £2250

In this exhibition, Curwen and New Academy Gallery gives a chance to see a new and original practitioner within the tradition of watercolour painting. Her work is attractive and uplifting as well as being academically interesting. The work illustrates the potential of watercolour painting to explore ambitious themes while also being appropriate for domestic spaces. These works fit well in both the gallery and the home, giving equal delight to the casual browser and the determined collector.

Rebecca Hind Causeway will be showing at Curwen and New Academy Gallery until 30th September 2011



Victoria Langdon: Home To Roost

Victoria Langdon, Yellow Golden Pheasant, £350 fr
Last week Victoria Langdon's new exhibition "Home to Roost" opened to a packed upstairs gallery.This new show of bold and colourful screenprints are some of the most good humored work we have shown in a long while.

The subject of the work is the 'country gent' of the bird world; the pheasant.In contrast to the urban pigeons, the subject of her last show, pheasants have associations with rural gentry. Her prints capture the comical quirkiness of the bird, many of them playfully adopting human expressions
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Victoria Langdon, Regal Ridiculous, £350 fr

As can be seen above; Regal Ridiculous bears an uncanny resemblance to Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent from Blackadder the Third.

Home to Roost is showing at Curwen Gallery until 30th September 2011

Some Curious New Sculpture...

Curwen Gallery welcomes artist Pierre Julien


Yesterday morning we were joined in the gallery by a very interesting new artist, Pierre Julien.
He very kindly showed us a selection of his new work (pictured above and below) which we will be showing, as a group, in our Christmas Show .As you may be able to see from the image above the animals are made from many hundreds of rolled up slices of newspaper (Metro!) , glued together to make a solid form.   

These works, as well as many others, will be shown in the gallery from 1-23rd December for the Christmas Show.Private view on 30th November .

Northern Graduates Show at the Rectory Gallery

Our Northern Graduates show at the Rectory Gallery is now open.This is a continuation of our show at Curwen Gallery with each artist from the Curwen exhibition showing here too. There is a wide variety of contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture on show from a selection of the most interesting artists from the northern universities.

Clair Graubner, Electric Blue Railings, £1650

Have a look at some of the pictures from the show by clicking on the link below:

http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/rectory/northerngrads11/title.htm

Northern Graduates Opening

Our Northern Graduates '11 show opened last night and was an exciting event for all involved.
The show aims to represent the most interesting work from this years Fine Art BA graduates from the North of England. Henry Walsh,who worked for Curwen Gallery for 11 years, curated the show, choosing graduate work from the student shows of most of the major northern universities.

Alice Sunderland (Lancaster University), Frenzy, £600

The private view was very well attended and we managed to sell a fair few works from a number of the fortunate graduates. It was great to meet many of the graduates and talk to them about their inspirations and future plans, as well as introduce them to our friends and clients.

Sally Orange (Northumbria University), I will be back in touch after Christmas, £380

 

The show will be on in both Curwen Gallery and The Rectory Gallery, running until 1st September.The opening of the Rectory Gallery show is tonight, from 6-8.

Albany Wiseman Article in the Camden New Journal

Have a look at this article from the Camden New Journal about Albany Wiseman's current show at the gallery,published 30 June, 2011:





ARCHITECTURE is a key subject for Albany Wiseman, whose latest one-man exhibition opens at the Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia next week.


This street scene of Bow Street, Covent Garden, shows off the Royal Opera House to stunning effect, with its classical façade alongside the magnificent iron and glass Paul Hamlyn building, known as the Floral Hall....


http://www.camdennewjournal.com/feature-big-picture-exhibition-albany-wiseman-curwen-gallery-july-7-26

Current Exhibitions

We currently have two exhibitions showing at the gallery.Downstairs we have a large retrospective solo show of Albany Wiseman and in the upstairs space, a smaller group show from Derek, Lawrence and Gerald Mynott.

Albany Wiseman, showing downstairs, has a remarkable selection of work from his many years as a practising artist.Albany works from life in oil, print and watercolour taking inspiration from towns and countrysides in which he has lived ;  England, Portugal, Ireland and France.

The Mynotts are a family of lithographic printers;the father Derek and two brothers,Lawrence and Gerald.The prints show two generations of quite similar working habits, focusing on figurative scenes from the artist's extensive travels.Stylistically all three relatives are quite close to each other with Derek and Gerald making carefully observed scenes of parks, gardens and landmarks and Lawrence producing slightly poppier still lifes.

THE MYNOTTS

ALBANY WISEMAN

Artizan Editions exhibitions

A new exhibition has just begun at Curwen Gallery. This show is a bright and colourful selection of limited edition original screenprints by various artists, all produced by Artizan Editions, a screenprinting studio based in Brighton.   

Gilly McCadden's prints feature in our upper Gallery. These prints have also been produced at Artizan Editions and this solo exhibition showcases some new prints by Gilly. These are at a special launch price during the exhibition. For more images and details see the 'What's on' section of our website. http://www.curwengallery.co.uk/gallery/artizan11/title.htm

ARTIZAN EDITIONS

Featuring Gilly McCadden in the upper gallery

02-30 June 2011

If you enjoy the exhibition at Curwen Gallery, you may also like to check out the other part to this exhibition, at The Rectory Gallery in Spitalfields. Here Artizan Editions are exhibiting more screenprints amongst the Georgian splendour of the gallery rooms.

ARTIZAN EDITIONS exhibition continues at

The Rectory Gallery (2 Fournier St, E1 6QE)

02 June – 28 July 2011

Please note The Rectory Gallery is open by appointment only at all other times except First Thursdays of the month, 1-9pm

visit http://www.therectorygallery.com/ for more details

Glynn Boyd Harte Final Week

Our Glynn Boyd Harte show is now in its last week and we are pleased to say has sold very well indeed! There are still a few great pictures left which are really deserving of a good home.

One of our favourites, Asparagus, the only remaining picture from Glynn's last ever show in 2003, is still available much to our surprise. This a large, delicately arranged watercolour composition of asparagus and strawberries; some of Glynn's favourite subject matters in his last years. It is one of our more expensive pieces however it is without doubt one of the strongest in the exhibition.
Also remaining is the archive copy of Sardines II, the last copy of the very popular print of some rather exotic sardine tins and Dogana a lovely watercolour and pastel of Venice.

For those familiar with the area of Fitzrovia, we still have a few prints of Pollock’s Toy Museum and James Smith and Sons umbrella shop. Any of our visitors to the Rectory Gallery will recognise Glynn’s stunning coloured pencil and pastel representation of Christchurch, Spitalfields, also still unsold.

The exhibition combines many old favourites as well as a number of new treasures from the personal collection of Glynn’s widow; Carrie Boyd Harte. If you haven’t seen this most uplifting show already make sure you schedule in a visit before next Wednesday, 25^th May. It could well be the last chance to see such an extensive collection of the work of this much celebrated draughtsman.

Above: Asparagus by Glynn Boyd Harte, one of our few unsold pictures from the current show

Glynn Boyd Harte & Royston Ecroyd

New Exhibitions coming up at Curwen Gallery

GLYNN BOYD HARTE

05-25 May 2011

Private view Wed 04 May 6-8pm

In the upper gallery

ROYSTON ECROYD

05-25 May 2011

Private view Wed 04 May 6-8pm

COMING UP

NEW EXHIBITION PAGES ADDED TO WEBSITE

SEE ‘WHAT’S ON’ UP UNTIL JULY 2011

 

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AFTER A FEW PROBLEMS WE HAVE DECIDED TO REMOVE SALES DIRECTLY FROM OUR WEBSITE FOR THE TIME BEING

WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. PLEASE BE PATIENT AS WE GRADUALLY UPDATE THE SYSTEM

ALL SALES CAN BE TAKEN OVER THE PHONE ON 020-7323 4700

ANITA STOKES ONLINE

THE WORK OF ANITA STOKES IS NOW ONLINE AND

AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM CURWENGALLERY.COM

SEA AND SHORE NOW ONLINE

WORK FROM THE ‘SEA AND SHORE’ EXHIBITION
NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY ONLINE FOR THE DURATION OF THE SHOW

 

'Sea & Shore' & 'Anita Stokes'

NEW EXHIBITIONS at Curwen Gallery

 

02-26 March

 

In the main gallery: SEA AND SHORE: A group exhibition of work around a common theme

In the upper gallery: ANITA STOKES: Photography

 

PRIVATE VIEW TUES 1^st MARCH 6-8pm

ARTISTS TALK TUES 15TH FEB

BRENDA HARTILL WILL BE TALKING ABOUT HER WORK AT THE GALLERY ON TUESDAY 15^TH FEBRUARY 6-8PM

- ALL WELCOME -

Brenda Hartill & Chris Salmon PV

BRENDA HARTILL & CHRIS SALMON
03-26 February 2011

Private View Wednesday 02 February, 6-8pm

See invites below for more details.

Also please note Brenda Hartill will be talking about her work in the gallery on Tues 15 Feb 6-8pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR from Curwen & New Academy & The Rectory Gallery

Two new exhibitions begin this month…

‘A Walk into Spring’, featuring Sheila Jackson
at CURWEN & NEW ACADEMY 12-29 January
Private view Tues 11 Jan 6-8pm

And ‘Four’ an exhibition of work by Adam Bridgland, Sarah Bridgland, Erica Donovan & Edd Pearman
at THE RECTORY GALLERY 26 Jan – 03 March
Private views Wed 26 Jan 6-8pm & Sun 30^th Jan 2-4pm


UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS for 2011:
AT CURWEN & NEW ACADEMY GALLERY

03-26 February (Private View Wed 02 Feb 6-8pm)
Brenda Hartill (main gallery) Artists talk by Brenda on Tues 15 Feb 6-8pm
Chris Salmon (upper gallery)

02-26 March (Private View Tues 01 March 6-8pm)
Sea and Shore (main gallery)
Anita Stokes, photography (upper gallery)

30 March – 21 April (Private View Tues 29 March 6-8pm)
Andrew Murdoch: Charterhouse & Elsewhere (main gallery)
‘small form’ – An exhibition of sculpture by gallery artists (upper gallery)

AND AT THE RECTORY GALLERY
09 March – 25 May (Private Views Wed 09 March 6-8pm & Sun 13 March 2-4pm)
David Haste ‘London Narratives from Five Bridges’