Read 16 / 15 blog Article here
12th February – 1st March 2015
Thursday – Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment
269 Portobello road, London, W11 1LR
Private View: Wednesday 11th February 2015, 6.30-9pm
The Muse is pleased to present 16/15, an exhibition of sixteen postgraduate artists from City & Guilds of London Art School. The show marks an extension of the group’s mutually informed studio-based practice, as the first formal curation of the artists work in a single exhibition space. Though ideologically and materially distinct from one another, the MA Fine Art course provides the unifying philosophical context for the group as a whole; embracing tradition alongside contemporary theoretical and material practices.
The exhibition presents myriad explorations at the intersection of historic processes and new technologies. Painted works challenge conventional notions of display and question the material hierarchies that accompany such assumptions. Works on, and using paper continue to explore and blur the distinctions between drawing, painting, printmaking and collage whilst instating their relevance to current-day discourse. Sculpture and installation punctuate the wall-based works, affecting one another by prescribing a new contextual environment. The exhibition challenges the viewer to take an active role in deducing the ideas presented by each individual, whilst another layer of meaning can be interpreted from the dialogue created within the space.
The group’s commonality is willingness to stretch the boundaries of their practice through rigorous studio immersion and research, continually testing and searching for new ways of pushing their artistic method. In light of these theoretical and material discoveries, The Muse will host several artist talks over the duration of the exhibition; acting as a chance for individual artists to explain the process and intellectual context for their work, and for further audience participation and response.
The exhibition is an important marker of the artist’s achievement to date and an invitation to witness each individual’s practice transform to a resolved body of work at the MA show in September 2015.
The Sixteen
Caroline Jane Harris, Arthur Laidlaw, Katherine Russell, Madeleine Inkin, Zanny Mellor, Celia Scott, Heather Graham, Annie Farrer, Lorraine Fossi, Lynn Krol, Katrina Bovill, Jonathan Armour, Ben Moore,
Benedict Hughes, Jane Hayes-Greenwood and Flora Scrymgeour
For more information: cgma2015@gmail.com
