Catch Your Breath

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Catching one's breath can happen if surprised, impressed or even shocked by something, such as an extraordinary object or image stumbled upon that instantaneously changes a familiar viewpoint. It can also be a time to pause or reflect and take stock.

Life in 2022 continues to appear full of uncertainties - After a tumultuous few years with a global pandemic and other crises including the war in Ukraine, and events such as climate change. However, in other ways perhaps we have reached a point of emergence; a tipping point where the potential for possibilities seems real once again.

In St John's Churchyard, Waterloo, The London Group and invited artists whose work fits the discipline of sculpture and installation are responding to the theme, whilst Morley Gallery will host a member’s only exhibition.

Work in the newly refurbished Morley Gallery will include a diverse range of media such as painting; drawing; mixed media; photography on lightbox; small-scale sculpture; code-based audiovisual; video; archival digital and woodcut print techniques. Whilst artists respond in the historic Churchyard gardens using wood; steel & wire; site-specific installation; found objects; bamboo canes & plastic foil; tarpaulin; soil, water, clay, straw, sand, and cement; papier mache and paint, and much more.

Themes across both exhibitions are equally diverse: a work that incorporates dust collected from the Saharan desert; a minimalist blue sphere evokes oxygen(breath); reference to the futility and consequences of all wars; NASA images as an ephemeral reminder of our impact on nature; painting about the joy of the moment; 225 bright red pin wheels mounted on red canes, rising and falling over a grass mound; a work that catches the breath of visitors to the exhibition and a piece inspired by a book that starts with the words 'Breathing In' and ends with 'Breathing Out'.

St John’s Churchyard
St John’s Waterloo, 73 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8TY
Sun 3 July – Thurs 30 July
Open: 9am – 10pm
Picnic & Artist’s Talks: Sat 30 Jul, 1 – 3pm
Nearest tube: Waterloo

Morley Gallery
61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT
Weds 20 July – Thurs 28 July
Open: Mon – Fri 12 – 5pm and Sat 1pm-5pm
Artist’s Talks: Sat 23 Jul, 3 – 4pm
Nearest tube: Lambeth North or Waterloo

London Group Artists exhibiting in Morley Gallery:
Wendy Anderson, Victoria Arney, Stephen Carley, Peter Clossick, Sandra Crisp, Beverley Duckworth, Angela Eames, Eric Fong, Marenka Gabeler, Julie Held, Gillian Ingham, Jockel Liess, Amanda Loomes, Hannah Luxton, Ian Parker, Sumi Perera, Steve Pettengell, Michael Phillipson, Alexander Ramsay, David Redfern, Tom Scase, Philippa Tunstill, Joshua Uvieghara, Bill Watson, Neil Weerdmeester, David Wiseman, Carol Wyss

London Group and Invited Artists exhibiting in Churchyard:
Barbara Beyer, Slavomir Blatton, Paul Bonomini, Clive Burton, Martin Darbyshire, Jane Eyton, Rebecca Feiner, Mandee Gage, Alexandra Harley, Chris Horner, Vera Jefferson, Anne Leigniel, Chris Marshall, James Roseveare, Tommy Seaward, Christopher Simpson, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Paul Tecklenberg, Graham Tunnadine, Sheila Vollmer, Angela Wright, Natalia Zagorska-Thomas