FOR

FOR brings together a group of artists working with sculpture, video, painting, writing and sound.  Adopting a simple visual conversation as their target, when the “this” of the here and now becomes the “that” of the there and then. 

Lara Kenworthy focuses on the anxiety driven artist and the struggles of success and failure that come with their work. She believes that as humans, we continually try to overcome impossible tasks, with the vision of hopelessness, but being endlessly hopeful. Documenting props in moving image creates a fluid dialogue for viewers to perform as voyeur in the situations that she creates. Viewers relate themselves to the surreal situations, highlighting the madness that we inevitably encounter in everyday life.

Paul Thiry creates paintings without the use of the traditional methods. Making rough but aesthetically pleasing works using fabric, sewing and collage on top of stretchers, his work explores the restrictions and limitations of what painting can be.

Joss Heierli’s assemblages investigate contemporary popular culture. Presenting a symbol of mortality and fragility, the shameless allure emphasizes the power of the artist to transform “things” into cynical deadening splendor.

Rupert Dorey’s practice is not medium specific but tends to take the form of video or filmed performance. It looks at the surreal nature of the self and its clash with the familiarity of being human. Inexperience is tested in order to provoke the often comic reaction of the everyday in settings that contort its effect.

Dwayne Coleman dyes and paints directly onto canvas. The work references past styles that embed the work with a sense of nostalgia, also reacting to more contemporary subcultural trends. Whilst using kitsch patterns, as an attempt to amusingly discuss the effort to be cool, at the same time indirectly critiquing himself

Laura O’Neill’s sculptural objects hover between the familiar and the foreign. Rejoicing humor and elegance in the crudely made, preplanned or improvised, reflects our attempts as human beings to create the beautiful, useful or meaningful, that end most often in failure.

Owen Lacey observes everyday mundane objects and events to inspire his low brow, overwhelming and sometimes underwhelming work.  The circles he has created are created to make the circles exist, and the reason they exist is because they have been created.

Sean Lavelle uses the methodologies associated with materials to create forms. With an architectural approach, forms fill and interpret the space exaggerating and examining function. These forms stand like great monoliths of discarded objects, which hold the integrity of the materials.

Frank Richards looks at the conflict between order & chaos, and an exploration of non-existent spaces & forms.  His work allows a series of random generation algorithms to produce math-based soundscapes, and to interfere with the composition of motion-picture.

Eliska Murray explores the relationship between the female form and body. With surrealist tendencies, she creates sculptures and videos that depict suggestive situations in order to bring forward a sensation and mood to the video.

I WAS HUNGRY

Nawojaka Cracke

Laura O'Neill

Owen Lacey

Jefferon Van Dumen

Lara Kenworthy, Laura O'Neill, Catie Scott

Frank Richards

Catie Scott

The Ball has Started Rolling

Publicity for our upcoming show at Thomas A Becket:
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I Was Hungry reaches the world or at least the web.


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I WAS HUNGRY

I WAS HUNGRY

Group Show at Thomas A’ Beckett

21st-24th November 2011

Artists: Lara Kenworthy, Linda Navjeva, Alice Turner, Rupert Dorey,

Amy Rademaker, Tamsin Taylor-White, Roan Bunny, Paul Thiry,

Jefferson Van Dunen, Barnaby Smith, Bobby Black, Frank Richards,

Owen Lacey, Laura O’Neill, Jon Roscorla, Nawojaka Cracke,

I Was Hungry brings together sixteen London based artists, transforming the former British Boxing Mecca into a show in which those artists, currently emerging from chrysalis of education, use their almost desperate ‘hunger’ to prove themselves with practices they have been developing in the womb of University. Hungry for reaction to their flares as to their silences they try to make a voice for themselves in what is becoming an increasingly bleak artistic landscape. United not only as a group of artists that have been working together for the past two years, but physically unified as a collection of art work that does what is most important; to convey the urgency of interest. That which makes us want to see, to understand and to be part of.

The eclectic nature of the show presents works ranging from; ad-hoc experimental sculpture, figurative and abstract canvases, fragmented narrative films and theatrical performances. Digressing between intention and accident, these artists use visual language to perceive their own concepts as forms of art in a body or work, that on its own terms feels individual.

In the exhibition the artists hunger to prove themselves wrestle with an understanding of the reality of becoming a practicing artist. They test their own perimeters, demonstrating the importance of bending boundaries. Testing their footing while trying to make their footsteps heard. I Was Hungry cannot be summed up between two overlong adjectives, as to see it you realise it is every bit as confused, questioning, worried, cocky, funny and powerful as the artists that have made this work.