DIY Educate: a new brand of ART education at Core Gallery

Deptford,  London- January 12th  2011 - Core Gallery and Cor Blimey Arts is proud to launch DIY Educate; a contemporary education programme run by artists, curators and other art professionals to encourage artistic development for those seeking to further their career in art.

From peer-led and one to one critiques, professional practice workshops as well as a number of artist’s and curator lectures, DIY Educate provides opportunities to learn, network, share ideas and knowledge, providing impetus for artists to develop their practice.  DIY Educate also gives practical guides and resources to help artists survive in an unstable and competitive climate, making the most of their skills.  

Jane Boyer, artist and one of the DIY Educators says this about the program, “we are firmly situated in the heart of artistic practice,  we are taking our practice and careers into our own hands.  We have developed DIY Educate to address issues we have faced ourselves.  DIY Educate picks up where art school leaves off.  There can be a gap in arts education in terms of professional practice which can leave artists ill-equipped or unaware of the realities of being a successful artist.  We are attempting to bridge that gap.”

DIY Educate was also developed to assist practicing artists who are perhaps working in isolation and artists recently moved to London who may have no real support networks .  DIY Educate will help these artist to connect with other artists to network and get feedback on their work through peer critiques and tutorials.  “It is seven years since I had a one-to-one crit, ( which I had courtesy of Core Gallery ) with someone who was prepared to look at my work and tell me, honestly, what they saw. The connections, sparks, observations that arrived out of that hour will nourish me for a long while yet,” says Annabel Tilley, artist and last year’s Deptford X Fringe Award winner for her piece entitled Drawing the likeness of a brick.

All our workshops and talks will be led by professional established artists, curators and arts practitioners, in cooperation with other arts organizations such as a-n, AIR and Artquest.  Artists involved include Graham Crowley, Rosalind Davis, Elizabeth Murton, Nick Kaplony, Andrew Bryant, Jane Boyer, Annabel Tilley, Arnold Borgerth and Rob Turner, amongst others.

The DIY Educate program offers five areas of instruction.  They are as follows:

Nuts and Bolts Talks/ Workshops
The stuff they don’t teach you at art school….

A range of workshops designed to develop professional practice; whether it be writing an artist statement, applying for an exhibition, selling work, approaching galleries or increasing an artistic profile. The workshops will also focus on the practical side of surviving as an artist; whether through an arts related job, funding applications, private/public commissions, being a lecturer or delivering creative workshops.

Individual Tutorials   

Opportunities to get critical feedback on artwork with established artists or curators. Tutorials will be led by Graham Crowley, one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today, amongst others.  These individual tutorials will help guide participants to consider issues of current critical debate which may have bearing on an art practice.

Engine ChatChat - art critique

Enging ChatChat started in 2007 in the kitchen of Cor Blimey artist and DIY co-founder, Elizabeth Murton, as an informal place to discuss work and get feedback from other artists. It is an opportunity for artists of any discipline to focus on the ideas, content and context of their work.

Curators and Artist Talks

Opportunities to listen learn and take part in discussions about artistic and curatorial processes and concepts.  These talks are by established artists and curators from the RCA, Goldsmiths, Wimbledon and Chelsea College of Art as well as International Artists from Paraguay and Brazil.

Practical Workshops
Cor Blimey studio artists run a variety of workshops throughout the year, including photography and painting from Lecturers from the University of Arts London and Goldsmiths.

Education Programme launches in Spring 2011 with 3x Taster Events which are free for all:
Saturday February 26th 2011Engine ChatChat ( peer crit ) 12-3pm
Artists and Curators in Dialogue 3.30-5pmTuesday 1st March 2011, 6.30-8.30pmNuts and Bolts Workshops :
Practical Guide to being an Artist

DIY Educate Membership is just £18 per year and allows access to all of these DIY workshops and talks for free or at a concessionary rate, with more opportunities throughout the year.  Membership is not required to attend our workshops and talks but members will receive discounted rates on workshop fees and also a reduced rate on our Core Open Submission later in the year.  Email educate@coregallery.co.uk for more information concerning membership.  

Cor Blimey Arts, established in 1995, is a registered charity and rents affordable studio space to artists.  Core Gallery was established last year in the Cor Blimey Arts studio complex and since its inception has worked with around 100 emerging and established, international and UK artists and curators.

" In the 12 months since its inception, Core Gallery has mounted a series of diverse and intelligent exhibitions of contemporary art. Core Gallery has established itself as an important venue...."  Graham Crowley

Contact:
Rosalind Davis
info@coregallery.co.uk
C101 Faircharm Trading Estate
8-12 Creekside, Deptford
London SE8 3DX
Tel: 0208 692 2783

Core Gallery to launch DIY Educate in Februrary 2011

Core Gallery is delighted to launch DIY Educate : A contemporary evolving education programme run by and for Artists, Curators and Art Professionals to encourage artistic development.


DIY Educate providing opportunities to learn, share ideas, network, and knowledge, providing impetus to develop your practice.
All our workshops and talks shall be led by a range of professional established artists, curators, arts practitioners, involving a wide range of organisations such as a-n and artquest.

Education Programme launches in Spring 2011 with 3x Taster Events which are free for all

Saturday February 26th 2011
Engine ChatChat ( peer crit ) 12-3pm
Artists and Curators in Dialogue 3.30-5pm

Tuesday 1st March 2011, 6.30-8.30pm
Nuts and Bolts Workshops
How to write and talk about your work

DIY Educate provides the following:

Nuts and Bolts Talks/ Workshops
A range of workshops designed to help with your professional practise: whether it be writing your artist statement, applying for an exhibition, selling your work, increasing your artistic profile and sustaining your practice.

Engine ChatChat art crit
Discuss your work and get feedback from other artists. An opportunity for artists to focus on the ideas, content and context of their work.

Curators and Artist Talks
Opportunities to listen, learn and take part in discussions about artistic and curatorial processes, practice and concepts

Individual Tutorials
Opportunities to develop your practical work with established artists or curators.

DIY educate is just £18 per year and allows you access to all of these workshops either for free or at a concessionary rate plus more special offers around the year including a discount on the Core Gallery Open Submission.

For more information please visit http://www.coregallery.co.uk/diy-educate/
or to sign up as a member please contact us at educate@coregallery.co.uk

Core Gallery, Part of Cor Blimey Arts.
C101 Faircharm Trading Estate
8-12 Creekside
Deptford, SE8 3DX

Art Talks at Core Gallery this weekend for GIFTED

Core Gallery Open studios. Part of the GIFTED Weekend

Cor Blimey Studios , Artists Talks. Free!

 

Core Gallery/ Cor Blimey Arts, C101 Faircharm Trading Estate, 8-12 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3DX

www.coregallery.co.uk 

Part of the GIFTED weekend of Art and Design in Deptford

Time	Art Talks
2-3pm	Becoming Part of Something Rosalind Davis, Mixed Media Artist&Writer Rosalinddavis.co.uk  Rosalind Dais is a mixed media painter, freelance lecturer, award winning blogger and Core Gallery Manager. She will discuss all of these roles:  her paintings and career through from textiles to fine art, blogging and becoming nominated to AIR to represent artists across the UK.
3-4pm	Talking Photography Arnold Borgerth, Photographer www.arnoldborgerth.com Come along and follow a step by step guide through the development of my career as an artist, academic and commercial photographer. Experience photography as a language, and hear about my take on how to move from taking pictures into making them
4-5pm	Enver Gursev www.emporiumofwonder.co.uk "Celebrated Artist Enver Gursev of 'Core Gallery' fame would be delighted if you joined him for an afternoon of discussion.  He will be talking about Art as a lifestyle, concept development, the delicate skill of 'seeing' and how to mix a damned fine cocktail."
Time	Sunday 5th December
2pm	"What the hell am I doing here?!" Neil Kelly, Mixed Media Artist www.neilkellyart.com Neil will be talking about how his life experiences have shaped and informed his practice showing examples of the above. As a mixed media artist Neil works with just about anything he can get his hands on ….
3pm	“ Process and Progress ” Elizabeth Murton, Artist www.elizabethmurton.co.uk Elizabeth Murton practice explores a curiosity for woven forms, mark making and using unusual materials (such as 1400 tin cans!) to explore ideas of chaos, movement and order. Elizabeth will talk about her work in the current show Relay, her artist selection  and commissions for the Crafts Council Deptford X 2010.

RELAY EXHIBITION OPENING THIS FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 18:30

Blue Drift, Graham Crowley

Relay

42 artists collaborate in pairs for Relay at artist-led space Core Gallery

Exhibition Dates: 27th November-18th December
Relay Private View: 26th November 6.30-9pm

Cor Blimey Arts Open Studios 4th-5th December
Private View: Friday 3rd December, 6.30-9pm

Open Saturdays and Sundays only 11-5pm or by appointment
http://www.coregallery.co.uk/

Cor Blimey Artists slip on their curating shoes as they each select one guest artist to partner with for Relay. The ensuing dialogue between work bounces within Relay as each 'pair' of artists exhibit side by side. From these collaborations, unexpected associations venture out and connect across the whole of the show. The exhibition shall explore a range of themes and trends that proliferate in contemporary art today. This range will cover the distance of subtle similarities and narratives passing between works to contrasts in themes and aesthetics. All finding expression and relevance through the vitality of a shared connection in thought.

Relay will present a variety of artworks; painting, drawing, photography, performance, printmaking, installation and ceramics by established and emerging artists from the UK and around the world.

Studio Artists on the left , invited artists on the right:

Gillian Best Powell selects Jonathan Huxley
Arnold Borgerth selects Silvia Battista
Jane Boyer selects Annabel Tilley
Eleanor Bowen selects Miray Mehmet
Rosalind Davis selects Graham Crowley
Josie Dick selects Denise Hawrysio
Kasia Fijalkowska selects Tim Giles
Kelda Hole selects Melike Sen
Pierre Gerard selects Claire Astruc
Enver Gursev selects Antonio Pauciulo
Sarah Hervey selects Clare Stanhope
Neil Kelly selects Vanessa Smith
Ling-Ting Kao selects Alberto Torres
Stuart Kelly selects Tam Joseph
Geoff Litherland selects Chris Wraith
Elizabeth Murton selects Jenny Weiner
Rebekah Narewski selects Sandy Brown
Mo Negm selects Hannah Hopkin
Edd Pearman selects Ceal Warnants
Zoe Powell selects Mehtap Birgun
Deidre Ruane selects Stella Harding

Rosalind Davis, painter and Core Gallery Manager, says this about Relay,
"The idea for the exhibition came through a desire to allow our studio artist members to become their own mini curators and collaborators and for the exhibition to be a celebration of the achievements we have made at Core Gallery this year since opening in April 2010. The artists and artworks that have been selected are diverse and thought provoking. It is going to be a thrilling exhibition"

Davis invites mentor and fellow painter Graham Crowley, one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. Both painters project the historical, social and political backgrounds which infuse their painted environments with the identities of those who inhabit these physical environments but are absent from the painted scene. We're left with a distilled extraction of human psychology through environment.

Other examples of topics examined in Relay are an exploration of coding by Cor Blimey Artist Elizabeth Murton and her guest, artist Jenny Wiener who shapes her work from a desire "to understand the numerical systems that we create to organize our lives". Murton relates to these numerical systems through material and process. She is interested in "the linear visuals that are formed as materials are manipulated under pressure in a process such as weaving."

While Cor Blimey member Neil Kelly and his guest Vanessa Smith both explore flatness of line and colour in strange domestic scenes or banal landscapes. The flatness in their work reveals the tension and mystery in what can be termed ‘ordinary'.

New Core Gallery associate member, Jane Boyer extends an invitation to Annabel Tilley. Their collaboration for Relay entitled Extreme Narrative explores interrupted identity. Their contrasting approaches: idea/fact, abstraction/reality, gestural/graphic combine to create the friction of a spinning coin with elements from both sides visible at once. Boyer says, "through pairing my work with Annabel's, I've actually found a meaning to one of my works which I was struggling to find on my own. This show has been really stimulating."

Please read our Core Gallery interview with Relay artist and Core Gallery associate Jane Boyer here

Psychometry Previews this week, the fab Nick Kaplony is back!

Psychometry Reminder: Preview this Friday 5th November

Curated by Nick Kaplony

PV: 5 November 6.30 - 9.30pm
Exhibition Dates: 6-20 November
Artists & Curators in dialogue 20 November 3pm

We also have a wonderful Core Gallery Interview with Nick Kaplony here

Core Gallery is delighted to present Psychometry, an exhibition of works by 12 contemporary artists that channel and manifest the intangible and invisible through their work. The exhibition takes its title from a practice employed by psychics and mediums, whereby past events and personal histories are divined through physical contact with an object.

Claire Haddon, Peter Jones, Nick Kaplony, Sean Langton, Debbie Lawson, Sophie Molins, Michaela Nettell and Tom Simmons, Richard Paul, Helen Pynor, Melanie Stidolph, Karen Stripp.

Please see our website for more information

Sisyphus Pictures

Facebook (24) | Sisyphus
Images of the exhibition and the Private View !
Come down for ' artists in dialogue ' Saturday 30th September at 3pm!

Sisyphus now open at Core Gallery

www.coregallery.co.uk
SISYPHUS: THE ABSURD HERO
Curated by Rachel Price, read her Core Gallery Interview here 
Core Gallery Deptford, London, SE8 3DX

22 OCTOBER - 30 OCTOBER 2010
Deptford Last Friday Late Opening: 29 OCTOBER 2010; we remain open until 8.30pm

(Part I): Nick Bailey │Alexander Bates │ Jim Bond │Rodney Dee │
JooHee Hwang│ Matthew James Kay│ Rachel Price

New sculpture and video by 7 artists across in response to the Greek myth of Sisyphus. The exhibiting artists all explore notions of the absurd, futility and circularity in their practice whilst simultaneously displaying an immersion in the process, be it material or conceptual.

In Greek mythology Sisyphus was the king who for his crimes was subjected to the ceaseless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain only to watch it fall down the other side, and to repeat this for all eternity. However it is Sisyphus’ approach to his hopeless fate that rouses interest and why the myth is so frequently revisited in literary interpretations. The French Absurdist, Albert Camus, refers to Sisyphus as ‘The Absurd Hero’ concluding that:

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy”.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942).

Part 1. Core Gallery
Exhibiting Artists
21 OCTOBER - 30 OCTOBER 2010

Nick Bailey’s work inhabits a realm of mild disappointment and temptation: the apparatus that compose the work entice through traditionally tactile objects such as buttons, switches, handles and hammers. These often readily recognisable and archetypal objects provide a launch pad to understanding notions and concepts behind the work, using both a simple, charming language of familiarity and the more intricate language of whimsical desire and self-restraint.

The work draws the audience into questioning their conventional role; a viewer is compelled to gauge whether it is acceptable to physically engage with the work, whilst coming to an understanding of what the physical form of the artwork offers. One is reminded that, at best, this still only amounts to physical contact with an object or objects, and while the ‘toucher’ may be momentarily rewarded with some form of reaction or consequence this is only a superficial disguise for base positive reinforcement.

Bailey graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2009 receiving the Landmark Award in the same year. Bailey was also named as one of Catriona Warren’s top graduates of 2009. Exhibitions include ‘Hand or Eye’ Adjacent Gallery (2008) and ‘New Artwork’ Et Cetera Gallery (2007). Bailey lives and works in London.

Alexander Bates is inspired by the human desire to create order out of disorder. His practice can be seen as both a reflection of this need and also through the use of scale, materials and context in individual pieces, a way of undermining and rebelling against this compulsion.

In recent investigations, Alexander has simplified his methods, combining the repetitive and accumulative approach used in old artworks with more direct and quicker pieces. This is an attempt to not only enrich and vary his artistic output but also forms a personal enquiry into what defines something as a “work” of art and questions whether an object’s worth is reflective of its duration.

Bates has studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and The Slade, graduating with an MFA in 2008. Bates has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, recent exhibitions including: ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ Arsenal Gallery, Poznan (2010), ‘The Neutrality of this Section is Disputed’ Giatrakou 28, Athens (2009), ‘After the Curtain Falls’ Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool. In addition to his studio practice, Alexander is also co-founder, editor and contributor for quarterly Art zine “Impulsive Random Platform”. In 2008 Bates was nominated for the Adrain Carruthers Studio Award. Bates currently lives and works in London and is a visiting lecturer at The Slade.

Jim Bond is best known for his large scale kinetic sculptures and installations. Bond uses the human condition as a springboard for his mechanical works. Often reductive and subtly humorous these works highlight the circular nature of the everyday. Often the cold mechanical aesthetic of these works is at odds with the very human content evoked.

Bond has been exhibiting both nationally and internationally for over 10 years. More recent projects include: ‘Assembling Bodies – Art, Science & Imagination’ Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge University (2010), ‘Creatures Great and Small’A22 Gallery, Kinetica, Budapest (2009), ‘Domestic Appliance’ Flowers East, London (2008). Bond trained at Middlesex University and Bezalel College of Art, Jerusalem, Awards include The JD Fergusson Award and The Juliet Gomperts Trust Award. Bond lives and works in Yorkshire and is also a visiting lecturer at Nottingham University.

Through his work Rodney Dee explores notions of ritualism and the connections held between physical action and transcendence. Whilst working predominately in video and basing works around the body, Dee looks to explore one’s ability to exceed boundaries, and move between different spaces.

In the context of Sisyphus Dee has been particularly drawn to notions of gravity both as an elemental force acting upon the rock and it’s trajectory, as well as the broader readings of this myth in which the rock denotes the sun rising and falling in the sky in accordance with daily solar activity.

Dee also notes an interest in the perpetual nature of this act in relation to some higher purpose: “For wherein most rituals offer the allusion of transcendence; Sisyphus’ own efforts at pushing the rock are a testament to his absurdity – continually reinforced with every failed attempt. As a result his description as an ‘absurd hero’ is well deserved, for whilst he never reaches the apex of the hill, he is never fully released from the cycle either and therein lays an opportunity to try again”.

Dee gained his MA from Wimbledon College of Art in 2008 and has exhibited throughout the UK, recent projects include: ‘(N)everland’ The Nunnery, London (2009), ‘Drawing Room II’ Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (2009), ‘Signs of Life: Part II’ Colliers Wood, London (2008). Dee currently lives and works in Bracknell, Berkshire.

JooHee Hwang’s personal experience of finding herself in unfamiliar surrounds has lead her to questioning notions of space and territory. What she now describes as ‘subjectivity of space’ is explored in her vast sculptural installations.

“After leaving my warm nest what I discovered was the subjectivity of space. It appeared as though we are belonging in the same frame of space and time, in fact, we are living in completely different worlds depending on who we are and how we perceive the space. That is to say, the definition of the space can be varied by one’s own perception”.

Hwang’s interest in Sisyphus lies in the notion of a world within a world. For Sisyphus, the mountain became a world within itself, a new reality.

Hwang trained at Hong-ik University, Seoul and recently gained her MFA from The Slade, London. Hwang has exhibited in both London and Korea, more recent projects include:
‘Surface/Time/Space’ Crypt Gallery, London(2009), ‘Foyer Project’ Fusion Art, Kingston (2009) and ‘Space within a Space’ Woburn Research Centre, London (2008). Hwang currently lives and works in London.

Process and repetition play a major role in the development of Matthew James Kay’s work. Through this largely sculptural practice and research Kay explores themes of the transcendent everyday - a (potentially hapless) quest for fullness of life in the face of the mundane.

This is manifest in works which balance repetition and nothingness with purposeful action and creation, and which walk a line between brokenness and wholeness, between dissatisfaction and hope, doubt and faith. Kay also expresses an interest in the idea of the making process as ritual or a meditative engagement with experience. From this perspective visual poems are created that join together to map exploration of the uncomfortable process of living, a beautiful, frustrating, joyous, holy, painful, funny process of transformation and becoming. These works have most recently taken the form of recyclable temporary sculptures and installations in cardboard, and animated videos.

Kay attended Loughborough University and recently graduated with an MA in Sculpture from The University of The Arts London. Kay has exhibited throughout the UK, recent projects include: ‘Not Holding the String’ A&E Gallery, Brighton (2010), ‘Dead Time and Negative Space’ William Goodenough House, London (2009), ‘Intersections’ The Nunnery, London (2009). Kay lives and works in London.

Adopting an experimental and material led approach to her practice Rachel Price's work is concerned with investigating the dynamic between our material and our conceptual worlds often through the pairing of image and form. Price works on the assumption that our physical experience of the world helps inform our conceptual formation of it, i.e that they should not be viewed as mutually exclusive.

Alongside her studio practice Price works as an independent curator providing opportunities for emerging and established artists to produce new works in response to challenging curatorial themes, providing opportunity for artists to question the context of their practice. In 2009 Price co-curated ‘Skinflint’ at the Arthouse, Lewisham deliberately restricting the materials the selected artists worked with to encourage inventiveness in the midst of the economic downturn.

Price graduated from the University of Reading in 2006 and has exhibited throughout the UK. Recent projects include: ‘Planning Permission’ Squid & Tabernacle, Dalston, London (2010), ‘Skinflint’ Lewisham Arthouse, London (2009), ‘The End is the Beginning is the End’ Central Gallery, University of Reading (2009) as well as collaborative projects including ‘Live Sculpture’ with Release the Hounds Production Company (2009).
Price currently lives and works in New Cross, London.


Notes to editor:

Core Gallery is run by a committee of artists from the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths, Camberwell and Wimbledon College of Arts, amongst others. Focusing on outstanding contemporary art and curated shows, Core Gallery is a key place to visit in Deptford and has seen over 1,000 visitors since its opening in April 2010. Core Gallery is situated in one of Deptford's thriving artist-run studio complexes. Educational talks with artists, guest speakers, curators and artists discussions accompany the exhibition programme. Core Gallery is part of the Cor Blimey Arts charitable cooperative.

For further information on the show/artists contact: Rachel Price sisyphus.exhibition@gmail.com

Deptford last Fridays is supported by Deptford Art Map: http://www.deptfordartmap.com

Core Gallery
Cor Blimey Arts ,C101 Faircharm Trading Estate, 8-12 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3DX

Opening times Monday -weds by appointment
Thursday-Saturday; 12-5pm
For further information, please contact: info@coregallery.co.uk
http://coregallerydeptford.blogspot.com/

NepArtism

NepArtism

 Rosalind Davis, Core gallery manager  begins the October chain of Nepartism

Monochrome Set now open

Monochrome Set now open! Until 16th October
Read our special Core Gallery Interviews here 
Currently featured in October's a-n magazine! 

Core Gallery Newsletter

Core Gallery Newsletter for Deptford X
Continues until 3rd October 2010

Core Gallery Interviews: Interview with Graham Crowley

Core Gallery Interviews: Interview with Graham Crowley

Interview with Graham Crowley

It is a pleasure to interview Graham Crowley, one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. Born in 1950, Graham Crowley studied at St. Martin’s School of Art London 1968-72 and Royal College of Art London 1972-75, and has held significant teaching posts including Professor of Painting at the RCA (1998-2006).

GC on a 1950 Vincent | pictured on the TT Course (Isle of Mann) | 2007

His paintings span a vast variance in style from the appropriationist art of the 70s to his brilliantly luminous landscapes of the present day, tracking a fundamental narrative with political, cultural and personal histories within them.

Crowley is one of the guest judges for the forthcoming ‘Open Competition at Core Gallery for Deptford X 2010’, where eighteen artists have been selected from an outstanding pool of entries from across the world. I speak to him to find out; his views on the education system, ‘modern art’ and what it was like to be a student in the revolutionary 60’s.

Core Gallery Interviews: Interview with James Wright

Core Gallery Interviews: Interview with James Wright

And the Award Goes to...

 

The Core Gallery Open Submission opened yesterday! The 3 winners who have been selected for a show in Core Gallery in 2011 are Marion Michell, Alyson Helyer and Tom Butler. Congratulations!

Also another fabulous interview with selected artist James Wright on  Core Gallery Interviews

Deptford X: Core Gallery Open Exhibition

The Sacrifice, James Wright

CORE GALLERY OPEN EXHIBITION FOR DEPTFORD X 2010
Private View 23rd SEPTEMBER, 6-9pm
General Opening Times:
24 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2010
Thursday - Sunday 11-6pm or by appointment

Eighteen artists were selected from an outstanding pool of
entries from across the world by Graham Crowley, the UK’s
most distinguished living painter, Matt Roberts of Matt Roberts
Art and Kate Jones, Marketing Director of John Jones.

Jonny Aldous, Eleanor Bowen, Tom Butler, Mr Clement, Robin Dixon, Louisa Durose,
Marenka Gabeler, Alison Hand, Alyson Helyer, Anna-Maria Kardos, Simon Leahy Clark,
Jin Han Lee, Marion Michell, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Edd Pearman, Daisy Richardson,
Liz West and James Wright.

The group of selected artists includes a number of winners of the Jerwood drawing and
painting prizes, Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, John Moores and the Selfridges Art
Exhibition: Anticipation. Many are graduates from The Royal College of Art, Chelsea, The
Slade, Camberwell and Central St Martins.

The artworks comprise painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and drawing
Three of these artists will additionally be selected for a further exhibition at Core Gallery in 2010 to be
announced at the opening.

About the artists:
Jonny Aldous: Jonny was shortlisted for a-n magazine’s emerging artist award 2004. Since this nomination
the artist has exhibited at numerous galleries across the UK, most recently in the Children of the Reservation
exhibition, held in Bristol this year. His latest works express a sense of freedom and play and form momentary
flights of fancy.
www.jaldous.com

Eleanor Bowen: Eleanor’s established career as an artist is centred around her drawing practice, which is mostoften expressed through modes of collage. This, for the artist, is a way of dealing with thought as a
simultaneous process with the ambiguity and instability of personal narrative. Eleanor has previously held
residencies at the Royal Shakespeare Company (Newcastle) and the Centre for Drawing project space
(Wimbledon College of Art).

Tom Butler: Tom Butler uses second-hand postcards as miniature environments in which to create sinister and
fantastical scenarios. Tom graduated in sculpture from the Slade three years ago; this year he has exhibited at
the Barbican Arts Group Trust open show and at the RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
www.tombutlerstudio.com

mr clement: mr clement recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with a masters in Communication, Art and Design. Taking inspiration from comics, popular culture, porn and classical music, the artist seeks to soften the traditionally highbrow fine art by mixing it with popular sub-culture from the West and the East. Working in the medium of figure design, mr clement attempts to create a direct and pure way for people to understand art, centred on the concepts of simplicity and fun.
www.mrclement.com

Robin Dixon: Robin was selected to exhibit at the Salon ’09 at the Project Space, Vyner Street, and before that has long track record of London contemporary art shows, with multiple exhibitions at the Nunnery Gallery and the Seven Seven Gallery. His painting practice draws its inspiration from small details of found photographs. The artist is attracted to strong structural elements and abstract shapes, forming a background scene to be inhabited by figures.
www.robin-dixon.co.uk

Louisa Durose: Louisa’s paintings are formal or ceremonial in manner and seek to address feelings of ‘autrui,’
alienation and the plight of the individual. Louisa graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. Louisa has
had three recent solo shows under her belt in London and Leicester
www.louisadurose.com

Marenka Gabeler: Marenka is a graduate from the RCA and her projects have taken her on residencies in
Japan, Syria and Majorca. Exhibiting internationally, her work is held in high profile collections such as Alison
Jacques Gallery, Caldic Collection and Torch Galler, the Netherlands. Layering pain on a canvas like masks
onto a face, the artist works with a process of covering and revealing. Openings are found that lead to an inbetween world, creating new formal connections and figurative possibilities.
www.marenkagabeller.net

Alison Hand: Alison Hand graduated from the RCA in 2001. Since then she has exhibited at many spaces
both in London and further afield, with shows in Germany and Hong Kong. British Airways features in her list of collectors. Her paintings prise a gap between promise and reality; they are invested with utopianist idealism
whilst remaining characterized by displacement and fantasy.
www.beerslambert.com/hand

Alyson Helyer: Alyson is interested in mythological figures, universal archetypes, alchemy, monsters,
amorphous hybrid creatures, deities and many more. In her work she captures fleeting impressions of these
monsters by making the creative process a mix of conscious and unconscious decisions and chance
happenings. A graduate of Chelsea College of Art & Design, Alyson has exhibited this year at the Barbican Arts Group Open, and at the Praxis Gallery, London, 2009.
www.alyhelyer.com

AnnaMaria Kardos: Aimed at collectively inhabited localities, AnnaMaria’s work reveals, negotiates and
activates awareness for our immediate terrain. It reflects on mechanisms that underlie the institutionalised
everyday – authority, discipline and hierarchies are embedded throughout. The artist was born in Hungary and
now lives and works in London, where she has had much success, exhibiting frequently in a variety of
contemporary art spaces in the city.
www.akardos.net

Simon Leahy-Clark: Exhibited with and shortlisted for the 2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize and with a solo show in Japan last year, Simon’s career is already well established. His work is characterized by an innovative
relationship with his medium; the artist works with newspapers which are stripped of their informative qualities, drawing attention to the qualities of the material itself. The resulting artworks offer a quiet and contemplative refuge from the noise of everyday life.
theleahyclarks@yahoo.co.uk

Jin Han Lee: A Korean artist Lee gained an MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins in 2008 after relocating to London from Seoul. This year the artist was selected as a finalist for the Guasch Coranty Painting Prize,
Barcelona. Jin Han Lee’s visual practice is an attempt to undermine both Renaissance perspective and
Greenbergian Modernist flatness by combining both in the single work of art.
www.jinhanlee.com

Broken Britain, Laura Moreton Griffiths

Marion Michell: Marion’s art touches on childhood, on growing up and its anxieties. The artist uses techniques
traditionally linked to a child’s world working with papers, wool and artificial hair to make shoes, figures and
dresses from scratch. This year saw the launch of the artist’s first solo show at The Arthouse, Wakefield.
Marion is a graduate from Central St. Martin’s School of Art & Design with a first class degree in critical fine art practice.
www.marionmichell.com

Laura Moreton-Griffiths: Laura’s drawings explore how sentiments towards the countryside are shaped by art
and culture. The artist looks for traces of landscape and rural tradition in the urban modern world. Laura is a
graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and has been shortlisted for the 2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize.
www.lauramoretongriffiths.com

Edd Pearman: Edd graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking. This year he was included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in addition to showing in exhibitions in the Aspex
Gallery, Portsmouth, and in the Museu da Cidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Edd also works as curator,
curating shows at both the John Jones Project Space and the Mark Jason Gallery, both in London. His recent
works utilize uniforms from national organizations as reference to subvert the often-celebrated cool precision
that uniforms imply in order to suggest other dimensions, whether brutal, chaotic or lethal.
www.eddpearman.co.uk

Daisy Richardson: The subject of Daisy’s paintings is the psychological space of a claustrophobic interior
containing mutating objects. The artist seeks to paint in such a way as to pull the viewer in, in a slightly
unsettling way. Daisy has an international exhibiting history, with recent exhibitions in Beijing, France, Ireland
and the UK as well as a solo show in Antwerp last year.
www.daisyrichardson.com

Liz West: Sheffield based artist Liz makes intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from
arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. Earlier this year Liz took part in the April Fool! show in Leeds Shopping Plaza, part of an Art in Unusual Spaces exhibition. The artist is currently co-curating an
exhibition of her private collection at Leeds City Museum.
www.liz-west.com

James Wright: James Wright graduated from the Royal College of Art. His work uses a vocabulary of symbols and motifs, often from historical painting but many of his own making, to denote the themes of original works which the artist revisits. James Wright was singled out by Kay Saatchi in the 2008 Selfridges Art Exhibition: Anticipation as well as Jerwood painting and drawing prizes as well as being shortlisted for John Moores 25. James recently completed a residency at Gloucester Cathedral, culminating in two solo shows: As It Was In the Beginning and Memento Mori.

For more information please contact us at info@coregallery.co.uk

To read more on our interview with judge Graham Crowley please click here

INTERVIEW: Chantelle Purcell speaks to Enver Gursev & Peter Davis!

Chantelle Purcell in conversation with artists Enver Gursev & Peter Davis to find out about the current exhibition 'The Pleasure Parlour'  taking place this weekend 10-12 September 2010. 

Read the full interview for Peter davis here

Read the full interview for Enver Gursev here

This is an ongoing series of interviews where we invite our programmed curators and artists to discuss their involvement with the gallery space in full.  Watch this space for more discussions linked to our busy events programme of the next few months!

INTERVIEW: Chantelle Purcell speaks to Andrew Bryant, curator of The Eighteenth Emergency.

With The Eighteenth Emergency exhibition launching this week, get the inside scoop from curator Andrew Bryant, in conversation with Core Gallery Press Officer Chantelle Purcell.

Read the full interview here:

This is the first of a series of Core Gallery interviews where we invite our programmed curators and artists to discuss their involvement with the gallery space in full.  Watch this space for more discussions linked to our busy events programme of the next few months!

Deptford X Open Submission results announced!

Thank you to all entrants for Core Gallery's Open Submission exhibition for Deptford X.  The standard of works was extremely high and the judges greatly enjoyed the wide range of fantastic artworks submitted.  Core Gallery is delightful to announce the successful applicants:

Jonny Aldous
Eleanor Bowen
Tom Butler
Mr Clement
Robin Dixon
Louisa Durose
Marenka Gabeler
Alison Hand
Alyson Helyer
Anna-Maria Kardos
Simon Leahy Clark
Jin Han Lee
Marion Michell
Laura Moreton-Griffiths
Edd Pearman
Daisy Richardson
Liz West
James Wright

3 of these artists will subsequently be selected to show in an additional Core Gallery show in 2011.  To be announced at the Private View: 23 SEPTEMBER 6.30-8.30pm

The exhibition runs from 24 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2010, Mon - Weds by appointment, Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm

Core Gallery Artist Elizabeth Murton presents Can, an interactive installation representing Core Gallery in the Deptford X festival 2010.

Using over 1300 used cans as material, Can (2010) creates something spectacular out of the by-products of common life. Consisting of a circular architectural structure, from which lines of cans are suspended as threads, Can builds a wall of fabric out of an everyday object in multiple. By creating a cloth of round cans, Murton teases the viewer by highlighting the inherent three-dimensionality of woven fabric, in spite of its initial two-dimensional appearance. Can’s constructive nature is a key part of the work. By making construction visible, attention is placed on the notion of constituent parts. Cans, once discarded as useless, become the unexpected building blocks of our surroundings.

Can presents a multi-sensory environment that appeals to sound and touch, as well as sight; gaps between the cans allow light to filter and bounce off the metal, creating a shadow-play on the floor. People can enter Can to escape the outside world. Both the subtle sound of the cans’ chiming and the play of shadow on the floor conjure up a nightscape distinct from the busy streets and bright light of the surrounds. Can creates a separate calming space; when you emerge, the contrast jolts the viewer back to the here and now of daily life.

Can is representing Core Gallery for the Deptford X festival gallery plot space. Deptford X is an annual international arts festival, this year held from 23rd September to 3rd October.

For a full press release, please click here.

Pleasure Parlour Press Release Now Out

Full info about Core Gallery's summerfest of sensuality, featuring artists Kelda Hole, Peter Davis, Holly Revell and Enver Gürsev.

Download here.

[Holly Revell, Red Hoop, 2010]

Deptford X Update

Submissions have now closed for the Deptford X Open Competition. Thanks for all entries - we have received over 200 which we are delighted to pass onto our judges - Graham Crowley, Matt Roberts and Kate Jones - for the next stage of the process. Selected artists will be announced on the 17th August, so keep eyes peeled to the blog, website, fb and twitter to hear it first! It's looking to be a great show, and if it's not in your diary put it in there now!

PV: 23rd September
General: 24th September - 3rd October