Talk by Sinéid Codd: Thurs 12th Nov

Gallery talk by Sinéid Codd at Curwen & New Academy in conjunction with the Ben Uri Gallery

Thursday 12^th November 6-8pm
The talk will start at 6.30pm

ALL WELCOME

Making Art Work
Artist Sinéid Codd, in conversation with Mary-Alice Stack, Arts Council England, former Director of Paintings in Hospitals

The discussion will focus on some of the functions of art and art making for an artist working within both private and public spheres - particularly the arts in health sector.

Sinéid Codd is an artist with extensive experience in developing participatory arts projects. Since 1997 she has been working in the arts and health sector on a series of commissions for institutions such as The Royal London Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust and the Great Western Hospital. She co-ordinated the ARTBRIDGE artist in residency program with Paintings in Hospitals (1999 - 2001). In April 2009, her work was featured on a BBC Arts in Health slide show (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8014719.stm)

Sinéid's personal work explores relationship, loss and memory through colour and natural form. She has exhibited with the Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal Academy and has work held in private, public and corporate collections.

Sinéid’s latest solo exhibition 'underneath and in-between' continues at Curwen & New Academy until 21 November.

David Rhys Jones: Spitalfields Revisited

05 Nov – 18 Dec 2009

Opening receptions
Wed 04 Nov 6-8pm
Sun 08 Nov 2-4pm

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

Open first Thursdays of the month 1-9pm
Open by appointment all other times

The work of David Rhys Jones is based on journeys he has made, in the case of this exhibition, the area of Spitalfields has been explored. The imagery collected whilst making the journeys forms a documentation of the landscape and architecture, social cultures and activity within the space. The viewer’s attention is brought to focus upon a selection of intriguing details of the surroundings, which together build a sense of narrative of this journey.

The collected imagery is transferred onto a variety of mediums, most often ceramic blocks, but also onto silk and some work on paper.

David Rhys Jones studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and has exhibited widely including the V&A Museum, The Royal Academy and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Image: David Rhys Jones, Spitalfields Filmstrips, ceramic with transfer, each 11x10cm

Affordable Art Fair 22-25 October

Curwen & New Academy will be at the Affordable Art Fair,
Battersea, 22-25 October

We will be at stand J6.

Please do come and visit us.

We have a limited number of free tickets for the
Charity Preview evening, Wednesday 21^st October, 5.30-9.30pm

and for the Drinks Reception on Thursday 22^nd 5.30-9.30pm.

Please contact the gallery with your postal address if you would like any of these tickets and please state for which evening you would prefer.

They are on a first come first served basis so be quick!

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

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/

NORTHERN GRADUATES '09: 06-26 AUG

Curwen & New Academy Gallery’s 22^nd annual Northern Graduates exhibition provides a showcase for the best of this year’s graduates from the North of England. These select few are all artists who have stood out amongst the hundreds of graduates all completing their degrees this summer and show the most promise for becoming successes of the art world in years to come. The work in the exhibition covers various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and installation and also a great variety of styles and methods.

Some of the work in this exhibition is intentionally thought provoking. Other works are more light hearted and intend more to make one smile. Some works require participation and others shout out their message. Nazmin Abdullah is one of the latter with her wonderfully produced paintings of cultural identity, and the same can be said of Shona Rannachan’s darkly comedic cartoons of the British Armed Forces. In contrast to this are the subtle landscapes by Vicky Mykytiuk, reminiscent of faded drawings from the Far East or Vicky Tomkinson’s genteel illustrations of urban life.

Kyle Saxton’s ‘light graffiti’ shows a different aspect of the urban setting. The dominating essence of graffiti is its temporary nature, Kyle’s graffiti is gone at the speed of light and never seen as a whole by the naked eye, but he captures it to glorious effect via long exposure photography and film.

Chris Porter’s work is only fully appreciated through participation. He has used found bits of old technology, such as TV screens, sound systems & computers, and subverted their original use until they become objects of the sublime. James Daltry is another artist forcing one to interact with everyday technology in an unfamiliar way with his unsettling series of child mannequins. Also reflecting on the fast pace communication of our technological age is Katie Bartley. She creates a wonderful irony by using the patient art of paper cutting to represent images of her web profiles and camera lenses.

On the other side of a lens is Jonathan Lynch producing haunting photographs of desolate interiors, empty of all but the sense of their past. Jenny Gilberg’s work begins with a photograph of an every day item such as a dirty sink, but by the time her work is complete, the image has been elaborated until one is left intrigued as to where the photograph ends and the painting begins.

Also shifting focus on the seemingly banal are the blurred abstractions by Tommy Stables. Some other artists that stood out this year for their playful use of paint include Katherine Holden with her oil resist abstractions and the tactile multi layered blocks of Tara Roberts. Last year’s trend of a renewed appreciation for traditional etching, continues this year through Larissa Greenwoods etchings on old copper circuit boards.

This year’s geographical remit has stretched slightly to include Loughborough and so allows us to include Benjamin Cohen’s incredible paintings.

Northern Graduates ’09 will be split across two separate venues. The main show will be at Curwen & New Academy Gallery, in Windmill Street, W1 from 6-26^th August. The second part of the show opens a week later at the new exhibition space in Spitalfields, The Rectory Gallery, E1. This gallery space is set in the Rectory of Spitalfields Church, and is a beautifully maintained Georgian House. The private view at the Rectory Gallery is on Tuesday 11^th August, 6-8pm and a second private view on Sunday 16^th August, 2-4pm. The exhibition is open by appointment only outside of these times.

Images of work by all artists can be seen via our website http://www.curwengallery.com/gallery/ngrad09/title.htm