Bad Language

About

As written language can be reduced to letters and punctuation, these works strip down everything bar the essential. The processes usedare laid bare and to an extent dictate the visual proposition of the works. The apparent directness at first glance suggests clear, perhaps even logical meanings but this logic often loops back on itself. Repetition, masking and the artists hand result in chanceand the incidental. These very human instances create a deep ambiguity. As if a sentence is begun and veers off into a quite different one.

Katrina Blannin was born in London where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester where research centred around ideas about systems and painting with a focus on the British Constructionists working in the latter part of the twentieth century. She teaches at UAL Camberwell and UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring program for Turps Banana, London.

https://www.katrinablannin.com

Neil Zakiewicz is a graduate of Goldsmiths College MFA and Cardiff Institute of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work widely, regularly published texts in Art Monthly and AN and has curated numerous exhibitions. Recent group exhibitions include Skewed Logic, Coleman Project Space (2021) and Mass, Saatchi Gallery (2021) and he has a current solo exhibition Come Alive at Domobaal (25.02.22-02.04.22), London. He is represented by Domobaal.

www.neilzakiewicz.com

Caterina Lewis lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Central Saint Martins in 2008 she has shown work in the UK and abroad and co-directed artist run spaces. Recent shows include, Flirting with the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery (2021) and The Collector's Room (Houdini), JGM (2020). Caterina has been artist in residence at Hickster Projects (2019) and was a recipient of a Norwegian Research Council scholarship and artist in residence at National Academy of the Arts in Oslo in 2003.