Exhibition
The Wood and the Trees
1 Nov 2010 – 6 Nov 2010
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 23 Vyner Street
- London
- E2 9DG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- buses: 55,26,48
- Bethnal Green/ central line
- Cambridge Heath
Group Show, John Tate, Gail Mallatratt and Lucinka Soucek
About
Wood must be the most sculptural of all printmaking media. It shows its presence both in the kind of mark made in it, and in the grain itself, the sign of growth and time. It is a powerful medium and, although one of the oldest means of print, its popularity has recently revived.These three artists demonstrate original and individual approaches to the medium, finding in its unique properties a resonance that expresses personal interests and concerns.
Gail Mallatratt: The setting for this work is the wilderness of New England with its vast, raw and natural beauty, its lakes and forests. Small areas of settlements tucked into it are engulfed within it. Tension between man and nature undermines the tranquillity. Man's intervention suggests menace, threat and a need for respect. The viewer perceives a slippage between the real, the remembered and imagined.
Lucinka Soucek: Capturing 'the transient, the fleeting, the contingent', (Charles Baudelaire), I convey a sense of the familiar through action, atmosphere and detailed settings. I like exploring man's addiction to the rat race and looking closely at where urban energies seem to exercise their greatest influence on people, and to acknowledge the accelerated pace of modern life, with an almost futurist twist.
John Tate: Memory and experience co-exist, human experience is layered and fragmentary, and I look to express an area where the ancient and the contemporary, the perceived and the dream, are aligned. I use images and signs that are themselves ambiguities, that question borders, and hence the self.