Working on a Dream
25 - 28 August 2022
Thur to Sun, 12-5pm
Private View :
Thursday 25 August 6-8pm
Exhibition Walk Through with Artist Luke Tomlinson:
Saturday 27 August 1pm
Artists Participating: Gabriela Giroletti, Luca Longhi, Lizzie Munn, Luke Tomlinson, Tommy Ramsay, Silke Weißbach
Working on a Dream
Each artist in Working on a Dream is looking to stretch the medium and territories of painting, coaxing their attitudes and materials to bend and breathe. Painting is a medium which allows each artist to pose their own unique questions. The artists in Working on a Dream seek to question boundaries, structures and visual hierarchies that are embedded within painting to re-envisage learnt languages and signs to find new landscapes, new modes of communicating and to cultivate the conditions for renewal and change.
Gabriela Giroletti works with layers of thin and thick paint to bring nuances of light and colour to the fore. Luca Longhi’s work stretches and plays with the materiality and physicality of paint. Lizzie Munn plays with the rules of abstraction, testing pictorial space and the tension between the surface and the gesture. Luke Tomlinson’s work combines a graphic style with traditional materials to question the role of the artist, by exploring the space between performance and life. Tommy Ramsay’s practice is rooted in painting but stretches across screen printing, casting and 3D printing and uses the format of the multiple to question attitudes towards narratives and languages in painting and the traditional myths of display. Silke Weißbach’s work combines painting, sculpture, photography, and time-based media to create installations that operate at the intersection of materiality and technology.
Artist Information
Gabriela Giroletti received an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2018. Giroletti explores the relationship between the painted image (the meaning, the immaterial, the metaphor, the mind) and the material presence in the painting (the corporeal, the touch, the physical presence, the body). Deliberately ambiguous, the paintings fluctuate between their crude materiality and their metaphysical aspect, encouraging the viewer to formulate peculiar connections with our tangible surroundings as well as with individual and unique lived experience.
@gabrielagiroletti
Lizzie Munn is a current student at the Royal Academy. Munn’s practice is centred on an abstract exploration of painting’s fundamentals- colour, shape, pictorial space, gesture and surface. Through a combination of insight and intuition, her paintings explore a visible tension between the surface and the application of paint. The aluminium panel undergoes the same scrutiny each time, layers of paint battle against the lustrous surface; some sit comfortably whilst others hover awkwardly.
@lizziemunn
Luca Longhi received an MA from the RCA in 2019. Longhi’s works relate in their proximity to architecture, tentative sentiments and the broad public significance of mural paintings. Mural paintings with their paint as an integral part of the wall’s surface make painting and building one. Longhi takes a playful stance on this ambivalence. Whilst emulating the wall, his paintings on canvas and tiles are independent objects with definite borders. As much as they seem autonomous, it is hard to get rid of the sense that they were part of something larger.
@lucaaalonghi
Luke Tomlinson received an MA from the RCA in 2019. Tomlinson’s work could be described as conceptual painting, his work is concerned with ideas around identity and explores the space between performance and life. The paintings combine traditional materials, a graphic style and appropriated imagery, to question the role of the artist and examine social interaction within today's society, by exploring the space between performance and life.
@ l_k_tomlinson
Tommy Ramsay received an MA from the RCA in 2019. Ramsay’s practice is rooted in painting but stretches across ceramics, screen printing, casting and 3D printing. I use the format of the multiple to question histories of painting and the traditional myths of display. The multiple forces the eye to move in and around, to collect up disparate elements in order to make a whole. It both creates and disrupts narrative; through its very nature it stops painting from becoming static and introduces an instability in the work.
@tommy.ramsay
Silke Weißbach received an MA from the RCA in 2020. Weißbach’s work uses raw and consumable materials from the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries like glucose, cocoa butter, and wax against conventional materials, such as plaster, pigments, and time-based media, I dissolve concepts into the idea of materiality. Ongoing transformations, caused by alchemistic interventions, create impermanent and fragile material states such as leaking fluids, disintegrating textures, and fragmented objects.
@si__we__