Exhibition

Bottom Drawer

30 Sep 2022 – 26 Nov 2022

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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GBS Fine Art

Wells
England, United Kingdom

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Contemporary artists Jemimah Patterson and Rachel Schwalm’s ‘Bottom Drawer’ is a metaphysical one which they reveal to us in this exciting new two-man exhibition.

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Historically ‘Bottom Drawer’ was a place where valued items would be placed and preserved for another point in life. Contemporary artists Jemimah Patterson and Rachel Schwalm’s ‘Bottom Drawer’ is a metaphysical one which they reveal to us in this exciting new two-man exhibition. Emotions, shadows and memories are neatly packaged within vintage boxes and precious frames; antique books and entomologist’s drawers. Together they rework these treasured forms adding their own new layer of human presence to them. The finished pieces are a palimpsest of their past.

Ever present in Patterson’s work is the acknowledgement of her being one of a set of
conjoined identical twins now separated. Her paintings make twins of us all through their
manipulation of paint on mirrored and reflective surfaces. Her subjects - her chairs,
metamorphose on these surfaces to explore human emotions. Sometimes isolated chairs
become complete once paired or grouped together. Often an imperfect chair becomes
entire once viewed through a reflection. There’s an overwhelming sense with her work that you are not alone, and in fact part of something else which makes up a whole form.
For Bottom Draw Schwalm uses original framed Victorian Ambrotypes which she embellishes with props. These unnamed persons, photographed in a formulaic seated portrait style, are now actors, the protagonists of fairy tales, myths and legends.
Bottom Draw, the exhibition, runs alongside Head to Head at GBS Fine Art in the gallery in a Georgian townhouse overlooking the Cathedral in Wells in Somerset.

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Jemimah Patterson

Rachel Schwalm

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