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| Mixed Christmas
11 November - 17 December 2006 Helen Barff • Claire Brewster • Peter Cartwright Richard Devereux • Mik Godley • Assheton Gorton Marcus Hammond • Brian Holland • Asif Kamal
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| This year‘s annual mixed exhibition brings
together new work by gallery artists and work by several artists that
have not shown at Bend in the River before. Two London-based artists make an appearance at BITR for the first time. Helen Barff, a recent postgraduate of Camberwell art school, will be showing ‘Things from the Thames’, a series of black and white photograms. Claire Brewster‘s cut-outs include delicately wrought depictions of British birds made from found maps. Both artists employ highly bespoke techniques in the execution of their art. Helen Barff‘s work found its way into this year‘s Zoo Art Fair and the artist is profiled in next year‘s Thames & Hudson London artists‘ yearbook. Claire Brewster, whose roots are Lincolnshire, has shown in several ‘off the beaten tracks’ venues in recent years, including ArtSway in the New Forest and last month at Fold in rural Cumbria. Another artist making a first appearance is the ceramicist Brian Holland (Derbyshire). Holland, who has a studio at Persistence Works in Sheffield, is both a ‘potter’ and a sculptor of clay, his subject largely the human figure but also the natural landscape. The work that will be shown at the gallery this winter is new and has been made whilst on a three month residency at Rufford, Notts this autumn. |
Figurative and fanciful prints and books by Assheton
Gorton (darkest Powys mountainside) make a welcome return to the gallery.
Gorton, whose work was introduced to audiences last Christmas, is currently
Chairman of the Artists Guild, one of the oldest craftsmens‘ guilds
in England. He was a feature film production designer for many years,
as an obsessive attention to draughtsmanly detail testifies. The work of Lincoln sculptor Richard Devereux is distinctly different to that of Gorton. Devereux, whose exhibition launched the new gallery last spring, has this year been working on a technique that allows him to ‘etch’ with a welding torch. The work exhibited this Christmas is entirely new and has not been exhibited before. This year‘s painters, Peter Cartwright (Southwell, Notts), Mik Godley (Nottingham), Marcus Hammond and Asif Kamal (rural Lincolnshire), bring together a diverse range of techniques yet alone painterly styles. Their methods include watercolour, encaustic (paint and wax), template spraying and collage. High levels of colour perhaps unify this disparate collective of individuals. A shared theme, if any can be found!, could be said to be memory – images from times past, often fragmented and almost always merely glimpsed. |
