Exhibition

Take Your Portrait to the Trees

9 Nov 2012 – 18 Nov 2012

Event times

12 - 8pm

Cost of entry

free

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The Simulator Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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Travel Information

  • Waterloo and buses 53, 148, 453, C10,12, 59, 159, all within metres of the studios
  • Lambeth North Tube Station
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Sam Hacking solo exhibition

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The Simulator Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of 'Take your Portrait to the Trees', a solo show of landscape painting by London based artist Sam Hacking:


'Take your Portrait to the Trees' is a more specific body of work on agoraphobia. It focusing on a particular coping strategy when confronted with a large open space, where I pick out points of 'security' or a reference point of solidity of a tree, pylon, fence etc. Tying myself to that point is a kind of emotional editing process, cutting out the sensation of floating away and instead retaining a sense of grounding. On a more generalistic scale, everyone does this through familiarity of landmarks in their everyday life. It is natural to look for the boat on the horizon, or to focus on one star at a time in the sky to feel less engulfed by our own meagreness in such expanses...Painting is an immediate gesture of this exploration, and no other medium has given such a direct emotional understanding of my physical space to the spaces around me. Using tiny bulky canvases gives each painting a talisman and objectional feel to them, restricting the optical space. It makes the viewer engage with them more closely to seek out the detail, but plays with the reduction of what is essentially a large space to the confines of a tiny canvas.'
- Amelia's Magazine (www.ameliasmagazine.com/listings/e763/sam-hacking-at-eyestorm)


Sam Hacking studied at The Slade School of Fine Art. She lives and works in London and has a studio at Studio 180 in Lambeth.

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