Beyond each other

About

2021/8/28 (Sat) ‒ 9/19(Sun)

PV: 8/28(Sat) 5pm ‒ 8pm

Opening hour: Every Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm 〜6pm

Address: The Florence Trust St. Saviours, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London N5 2AR

Gallery Admission: Free

This is a group exhibition at Florence Trust art studio that presents emerging artists working with various media who are based in London and New York.

This exhibition looks at the artistsʼ belief in their artworks in a way which can also be considered religious.
Religions can of course be more than ideas that we believe in for our lives. Nature, spirits, old tales or family can bring peace. Believing that your surroundings contain spirits is a way of the Shinto, which is similar to but not quite the same as a religion.
The artists in the show suggest their own way of belief through their works.
The exhibition takes place in the nave of a church that was built in 1825. There is a portrait of Jesus as part of a mural in the altar which may provide a point of reflection to the contemporary works in the show.
Human rights and equality have been in our conversation but there is also great struggle around the world. We must know that we should be equal in spite of our race, sex, gender, and status. Religion could celebrate connections between us and all the differences become complementary.

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Exhibiting Artists

Grace Mattingly (b. 1991 USA) is a London-based artist whose bright, surreal figure paintings explore the transformative potential of fantasy. Anthropomorphic plants and animals playfully entangle categorizations of species, gender, and logic. Pleasure̶through glowing, warm, color and dynamic, fluid, material̶invites the body first for the ride. She has shown at Arusha Gallery in Scotland, ASC Gallery in London, Big Pictures Los Angeles, and more. Grace has been featured in artist publications such as Art Maze Mag and Field Projects and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant. Grace received her BA from Columbia University and is currently pursuing her MA at The Slade School of Fine Art.

Website: https://www.gracemattingly.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace__mattingly/?hl=en

Kyoko Hamaguchi (b. 1989, Japan) is a New York-based artist who presents conceptual installations which involve her daily experiences, current events, and logistic system in the society. Her works often provoke general ideas based on her perspective as an immigrant. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York (2020) and a BFA from Tokyo University of the Arts (2015). She has shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and Japan including at WhiteBox, New York; Off Paradise, New York; SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, 2019, and 2020, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. She has had solo exhibitions at ATM Gallery, New York; KOKI ARTS, Tokyo; and F2T Gallery, Milan (forthcoming).

Website: http://kyokohamaguchi.com/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kyoko.hmg/?hl=en

Minami Kobayashi (b.1989 Japan) is a London-based artist who makes figurative egg tempera and oilpaintings, and ceramic sculptures which combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals, and places that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly off- kilter.

She has had solo exhibitions at Goldfinch (Chicago) and Baby Blue Gallery (Chicago) and has exhibited in group shows at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Setouchi International Triennale 2019 (Japan), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Dongdaemun Design Plaza (South Korea) Stems gallery(Belgium), and numerous other venues. She participated in a solo residency at Kate's little angel (Los Angeles) Kobayashi's work has been featured in publications such as Elephant magazine(Artists To Watch, September, 2020), New City (review, February 2019), She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BFA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016).

Website: https://www.minamikobayashi.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/korominami/?hl=en

Salvi De Sena (b. 1998, UK) uses sound, text and animation to tap into alternate modes of temporality. Plants become emissaries to imperceptible worlds buried beneath our feet; ghosts and shadows tiptoe between past and future; and the ground and air become imprint surfaces of unseen pasts and latent desires. Salvi De Sena graduated from BA Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. Recent exhibitions and publications include: ʻ[in]visible cityʼ, UK Mexican Arts Society, London (2021); ʻFlash Fictions: Alternative Networksʼ, ThePhotographersʼ Gallery, London (2021); ʻBare Necessitiesʼ, Haus Gallery, London (2021) and ʻWretched Light Industryʼ, Serving the People, Online (2021).

Website: https://salvidesena.co.uk/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/salv.i/?hl=en

Rosalind Wilson (1992, UK) constructs sculptural installations as optimistic propositions. Using discarded materials and undisguised making methods the work disrupts accepted notions of value.
She has recently shown work with SET Lewisham, Staffordshire Street Studios in

London and T.O.M.A. in Southend. She made sculptural installations for Brainchild festival in Sussex, Greenman festival in Wales and Pete the Monkey in Normandy. She was artist in residence at AMP gallery in Peckham and Digital Artist Residency (online). She has produced performative and participatory projects for Antiuniversity and F.A.T. studio. Her work was published in AArchitecture 39, URgh!#1: alternative art education and online
zine HorridCovid!. She received her BA from Camberwell College of Arts where she has been an Associate Lecturer since 2017. She co founded and runs an on-going peer forum Crit Club and a movable project space On Wheels. She has participated in alternative arts projects 30/30 with 12ocollective and Turntile with The Yes Office.

Website: https://rosalindwilson.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalindfreyaclaire/?hl=en

About The Florence Trust:

The Florence Trust was founded as an educational charity by painter Patrick Hamilton and opened its

doors to artists in 1990 with support from English Heritage and the Council for the Care of Churches.

Hamilton had worked in a large communal studio in Florence, Italy and was inspired to replicate the

beautiful surroundings and atmosphere of exchange that he had found so productive, in London. At the

Florence Trust he created a place where exchange with other artists is productively encouraged and where

the surroundings themselves add beauty and inspiration. The Florence Trust is located at St Saviours,

Highbury, a unique, Grade-1 listed, neo-gothic, former Anglican church, considered one of the best

examples of the work of eccentric architect William White (1825-1900).

For a more detailed look at the Trust’s history please visit http://www.florencetrust.net/history-of-the-trust/

For more information:
Minami Kobayashi / minamikobayashi4@gmail.com