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