Current Events #45. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 45 of 2017.
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Landscape: Paintings by Emma Turpin and Duncan Pickstock
2 – 26 November 2017
Turpin and Pickstock use the natural world as a starting point to inform their paintings, without solely producing illustrative or representational work. Both their work references the light, colour and forms that are present in landscapes.
Turpin uses familiar forms to attempt to find a harmonious resolution which balances colour and form. Pickstock’s paintings seem to be landscapes while remaining abstract; bands of colour remind the viewer of the time of day or the distinction between the horizon and the skyline.
Duncan Pickstock and Emma Turpin
at
The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone
London E11 1HG
Every Me
9 – 12 November
Private View: Thursday 9th November between 6pm-9pm
Every Me/ BenTanıdık Bir Yabancı was an art residency in Adana, Turkey that ran between 21st September to 8th October. Curated by Mustafa Boga, it was a collaboration between local life and visiting artists and examined how experiences that come from culture, education, lifestyles and religion can be explored and interpreted through visual and expressive language.
The residency focused on ‘Self Portrait’ and how participants adapted to a new culture and whether this calls into question one’s sense of identity. It poses understanding new culture as a journey based in the personal and explores assumptions and perceptions that are thrown into question by observing others.
This exhibition is a response to the artists’ experience in Turkey.
Featuring artists:
Alice Kemp
Eva Wilkinson
Lena Heubusch
Manji Kikuma
Matt Siwerski
Mustafa Boga
Subash Thebe
Stephanie Wong
Every Me
at
Lower ground floor
27b Belfast road
N166UN (right next to Stoke Newington station)
Craig Jefferson: A Step Back
2 November – 25 November 2017
A month long, solo show of Craig Jefferson’s paintings at the Georgian Gallery in the Ards Art Centre.
This exhibition explores how Jefferson’s work, which focuses on the profound qualities of his surroundings, has developed since his move to Northern Ireland from Edinburgh. It compares his new and old works: drawings and paintings that explore still life, figure and landscape subjects as well as ambiguous forms which straddle both realism and abstraction.
Craig Jefferson
at
Ards Arts Centre
Town Hall
Conway Square
Newtownards
Northern Ireland, BT23 4NP
Andrew Bracey: ReconFigure Paintings
10 – 25 November 2017
Andrew Bracey’s exhibition consists of reproductions of oil paintings, each varying in style, period and type of figuration that have then been worked over with geometric/ crystalline paintwork. The aim is to disrupt the viewer’s eye and change their view of the original piece that has been reproduced while still creating a work that is unique in itself. There will be a combination of small scale paintings by Bracey and large digital prints from the series at the size of the original painting Bracey has based his works on.
Andrew Bracey
at
The Old Courts Gallery
Gerrard Winstanley House,
Crawford Street,
Wigan,
WN1 1NA
Mali Morris: Pearled and Pasted and Other New Paintings
19 October – 25 November
An exhibition of Mali Morris’s abstract paintings over the last 40 years. Works range from sparse to complex with the paintings consisting of a patchwork of overlaid opacities and translucencies. These play with space and colour to create luminous work that deconstructs formal relationships and exposes subtle contradictions and complexities.
Mali Morris
at
Fold Gallery
158 New Cavendish St
London W1W 6YW
The EY Exhibition Impressionists in London
2 November – 7 May
This exhibition presents works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, Dalou, Sisley, Derain and Legros.
In the 1870s, the Franco-Prussian war and insurrection in Paris drove artists to flee France and seek safety in England. Their experience of London, friendships formed there and their involvement with the British art scene, not only developed the scene itself but dramatically changed their own work.
It is also an opportunity to see the largest selection of Monet’s Houses of Parliament paintings to have been shown in Europe for the last 40 years.
Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
Mychael Barratt: Maps, Myths And Muses
4 – 18 November
Mychael Barratt, current President of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, in this exhibition shows prints and paintings that form a narrative and in fact an adventure through time. His work incorporates themes that show his wide range of interest, including history, art history, theatre, maps and literature, and seeks to create a humorous dialogue between the works. This expands and juxtaposes each piece’s subject matter.
Mychael Barratt
at
Sarah Wiseman Gallery
40/41 South Parade
Summertown
Oxford OX2 7JL
Uncommon Ground
9 – 12 November
A group exhibition of 7 graduates from Plymouth College of Art, showing work from their final year degree show.
The graduates studied a BA Hons programme in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at Plymouth College of Art, which is one of only two independent art colleges in the UK. The programme encourages students to develop a professional practice and includes specialist technical and critical study across a wide range of painting, drawing and printmaking.
The London exhibition aims at forming new collaborations and future project exchanges between artists in London and the South West.
Exhibiting artists:
Marie Taylor
Amelia Webster
Jane Pine
Alex Lee
Michelle Burns
Natalie Rawling
Terry Channell
Uncommon Ground
at
No Format Gallery
Arch 29,
Rolt Street,
Deptford,
London SE8 5JB
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The image at the top is:
Masts 1 by Craig Jefferson, who is showing at the Ards Arts Centre.
