Drawing in Conversation

Dartford Creative

REVIVAL Exhibition
Private View
7 November 2013
6pm – 9pm
Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm
& Thurs until 9pm
Open until 22 November 2013

Dartford Creative presents a showcase of contemporary graphic design, art and illustration by emerging artists, with a live performance by Gentlemen Duke!

Exhibition in Dartford

‘What’s time got to do with it? Art once created with passion deserves a second chance for the limelight.’

Core@Nolias Gallery

Press Release:  17 May, 2012

‘What’s time got to do with it?  Art once created with passion deserves a second chance for the limelight.’

An artist’s life isn’t easy; you know the repeated rejections and vagaries of style which come and go faster than designers parading on a catwalk.  A-side B-side Gallery in London’s east side, recently celebrated rejection with an exhibition of works which had been, Rejected.  The title, says it all.

Independent artist and curator, Jane Boyer, invites the artists of Rejected, to ask ‘What’s time got to do with it?  In an unusual move of inviting artists from one show to continue in another of a different, but related theme, Boyer has continued the celebration of rejection to include a second chance for work which has passed its ‘use by’ date.  “All of us have work we’ve shoved in a corner and is gathering dust because we feel it’s no longer current,” says Boyer.  “But who decided that,” she continues, “a work of art is best judged by other criteria not the artificial limitation of a date.”

On the heels of Rejected, a show celebrating rejection at A-side B-side Gallery, comes ‘What’s time got to do with it?’ a show which removes the artificial  limitation of a creation date at Core@Nolias Gallery.  Art once created with passion deserves a second chance for the limelight.

Exhibiting Artists:

Bartosz Beda, John Bingham, Simon Kennedy, Hitomi Kammai, Amber Sindlcair-Ray, Banu Colak, Carlos Burgos, Rabia Aqeel, Melanie Ward, Caroline Money and Nikova Behling, Tinsel Edwards, Catherine Magnani and Jane Bolden, Francesca Alaimo, Mickey Dell and others.

Core@Nolias is part of South London Art Map last Friday tours.  Next tour will be 25 May.

Show Dates:  25 May to 06 June, 2012

PV:  25 May, 5 to 9pm

For more information on the exhibition, contact Jane Boyer at Jane@janeboyer.com / +33 546704225 until 22 May / 07561333028 after 23 May.

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Core @ Nolias Key Information:

Contact:	Gillian Best Powell (for gallery info)
Phone:	+44 (0)798 6564926
Email:	Gillian@coregallery.co.uk
Web:	www.coreatnolias.wordpress.com
Location:	Core @ Nolias Gallery 60 Great Suffolk Street London SE1 0BL
Hours:	Wed – Fri, 12 noon to 6pm Sat – Sun, 12 noon to 4pm or by appointment
Find Us:	Nearest Tube:  Southwark Jubilee Line Nearest British Rail:  Waterloo

Rejected Exhibition

A-side B-side Gallery presents: Rejected

Private View: Thursday May 3^rd 6-9pm

5-9 Amhurst Terrace

Hackney

LONDON E8 2BT

Artists frequently get rejections from shows and competitions; rejection is part of what being an artist is all about. 

Often an exhibition will have a curatorial concept and the work just simply doesn’t fit the theme, in competitions the judges are subjective and essentially select what they like.  Current trends in the art world might make the work more or less desirable not forgetting the provenance of the artist themselves...

‘Rejected’ seeks to celebrate rejection, through a united force of artists getting together to valiantly display their previously rebuffed work.  The exhibition aims to dispose the issue of whether each individual piece is indeed lesser than that of its contemporaries.  Following an open call, every single proposal to the Rejected exhibition was accepted.  Alongside their rejected artwork, each artist will openly display a list of previous rejections from galleries, competitions and art schools. 

Exhibiting artists:

Alexander Heaton | Amber Sinclair-Ray | Ana Schefer | Banu Colak | Barrie J Davies Carlos Burgos | Caroline Money | Caroline Tobyn | Catherine Magnani | Claire Atkinson Cos Ahmet | Darren Beatty | Darren Macpherson | Dave Anderson | Enver Gursev Francesca Alaimo | Georgie Grace | Gulzor Sultanova | Hitomi Kammai | Holly Revell Ingrid Berthon-Moine | John Bingham | Kelda Hole | Laura Harvey | Linda Schliebitz Lucas Lobo | Marcus Downe | Marianne Shorten | Melanie Ahmed | Melanie Ward Nadeem Chughtai | Nickova Behling | Oliver Lassalle | Paul Matosic | Peter Cabocky Rabia Aqeel | Simon Kennedy | Tinsel Edwards | Twinkle Troughton

Following the hugely successful launch, a Dazed & Confused feature and live radio interview, A-side B-side presents the first of a series of curated shows from its 2012 exhibition programme.  

SHOW DATES:

Private View: 6 - 9pm 3^rd May

Exhibition will run for two weeks, last day Sunday 17^th May

Opening times: Thurs – Sun 12 – 6pm & by appointment

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Degree Show

120 x 150cm Coloured pencils on board

120 x 150cm Coloured pencils on board 

120 x 150cm Coloured pencils on board

Degree show installation



Artist Statement

In my practice I explore colour and light through the amalgamation of marks using coloured pencils. The process I use is repetitive and requires a devoted involvement. As a result the close position and time invested in creating the drawings I feel allows them to gain an emotive quality. I am interested in this possibility of the work carrying something deeper as it suggests the drawings could be encoded to store personal emotions.

Working with pencils I feel gives the drawings a sense of playfulness and immediacy allowing them to stay modest and fresh. The medium also gives softness to the marks and gradation in the colour. This integral aspect enables me to investigate the experience and subtly of natural light in the work. The quality of light at dawn and sunsets has always captivated me as it encompasses an expression of silent beauty and composure, a sensation I want to explore in the drawings. I am also interested in the relationship between time passing while making and the transitory nature of light; the imminence of time and light as colours and light change during dawn and sunset.