Flat
19 - 21 August 2022
12-5pm
*** Change of Date for Discussion Event ***
Due to the announcement of a Tube and Bus strike on Friday 19th August we have decided to move the Artist Discussion and combine with a Finissage on Sunday 21st August at 2pm.
If you are only able to come on Friday 19th August we will still welcome you at 5pm for a (probably much smaller) PV.
Please join us for drinks and conversation at either event.
‘Of immobility alone does the intellect form a clear idea’ (Bergson, Creative Evolution)
The painting is fixed to the wall and doesn’t move, its flat surface is divided, marked, layered with pigment. And yet, the sensation before the work is of movement, of life. This exhibition juxtaposes paintings in which one senses movement across boundaries, across scale and perhaps across time and place. The duration of a life enfolded in the work is unfolded (paradoxically) through the appearance of an immobile, flat and bounded surface.
Artist Introductions
Nicky Coutts is an artist and writer based in London and Glasgow. Recent exhibtions include 'A puff of smoke to the face' (2020) Galeria Diferenca, Lisbon, (Curators: Theo Ereira-Guyer and Jorge Santos); The Animal Gaze, (2020) John Cass Gallery, London (Curator: Rosie McGoldrick); Beast (2019) OSG, UK (Curator: Emily Glass) and The Beholders Share (2019) Lokale, Copenhagen, Denmark (Curator: Stine Ljungdahl). She is Research Lead at the Glasgow School of Art.
Catherine Ferguson is an artist, curator and writer based in London. Recent projects include The Undersides of Practice (catalogue) APT, London (2020) and Hard Painting, Pheonix Gallery, Brighton (2020). Publications include ‘The Façade and the Picture Plane’ in the Journal of Contemporary Painting (2017). She is a Research Tutor at The Royal College of Art and a visiting tutor at Chelsea College of Arts. She completed a Fine Art PhD Deleuze and the Art of “Surface Effects” in 2007.
Wendy McLean is an artist based in Surrey, UK. Recent exhibitions include: The Continuous Line, Oceans Apart Manchester; A Hand Stuffed Mattress, Terrace Gallery, London; A Riotous Assembly, Déda, Derby; a two person exhibition with Sandra Lane and Square Art Projects, at Swab, Barcelona; and The Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London. She has work in the David Roberts, Simmons and Simmons and various private collections. She received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2011) and is a Lecturer in Art at the University of Reading.
Tim Renshaw lives and works in London, and is the current recipient of the Lorne Award. Recent exhibitions include: Multivision20/20, Museum Wihlem Morgner, Germany, 2021: The Continuous Line, Salford, 2020; Art/Architecture Intersections, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 2020, Le Modular, HLM, Marseille, France, 2019; Drift, Thamesside Gallery, London; Cosmic Laziness, Coleman Projects, London 2018; Imagining Architecture, isdaT, Toulouse, France, 2018; Fully Awake, Royal College of Art, London, 2018; Renshaw organises exhibitions with the group Outside Architecture www.outsidearchitecture.org