The Invention of Painting

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Centre for Recent Drawing looks at the place of invention and design as received ideas in drawing, as demonstrated in the work of these emerging artists working in London: Philip Goss, Andrew Hewish, Benjamin Jenner, Nicholas Jones and Katie Shipton. Each artist develops their compositions in ways that use recombination, iteration or invention to express an element of instability or shift in the refinement of the work. Beginning with a stimulus such as a ground or mark, Nicholas Jones seeks something new and engaging with no visualised end point, building between works a personal grammar; the drama of risk, intention and chance are central to his practice of investigation and invention. Benjamin Jenner places his painted panel structure at the centre of a drawn narrative; the solidity of the former made uncertain in the drawings - drifting and sinking at will. Andrew Hewish takes the shifted imagery of décalquage monoprint as the starting point for painting, producing a shift in scale and material that combines observation with the non-depictive as meditation on form and flux. Katie Shipton uses selected images of objects and structures in a process of photography, collage, re-collage, painting, erasure and repainting, allowing the image to fall in and out of focus and presence, allowing a formal logic at play. Combining abstract mark making with figurative representations, Philip Goss uses a process of transfer and collage of imagined imagery drawn from his sketch book to evoke a quality of instability that is part of the work's inception. Centre for Recent Drawing is open for this exhibition 2 - 6pm from Thursday to Saturday.