Exhibition
Emotions through Materiality
20 Nov 2021 – 3 Dec 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Saturday
- 17:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 21:00
Address
- 238 - 246 King Street,
- Hammersmith
- London
- W6 0RF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 391 190 267 H91
- Tube Ravenscourt Park
- District Linę
About
Emotions Through Materiality is a group exhibition consisting of two artists Madalena Daniel and Michael Garvey. The two artists create an artistic dialogue around domestic violence, grief and homelessness. They do this by exploring how society understands the complex hidden issues of violence, grief and homelessness. Too often our contemporary society attends to ignore or not fully understand feelings of grief, the impact of domestic violence and homelessness. Madalena Daniel and Michael Garvey, coming from different cultural backgrounds, will be using various mediums including diverse materials to express and make aware the traumas and emotions related to these issues. They use their artworks to shine a spotlight on these problematic questions encouraging people to be open to discuss these concerns.
MADALENA DANIEL is a artist with a Portuguese with African background who works in various mediums, including clay, painting and using household objects, sometimes brutally combining all. In her work, she combines paint and sculpture that she manipulates into new works with skill and dexterity.
For this exhibition, Madalena explores emotions and makes sculpture to ask in contemporary context, how is the body and mind warped plus changed after a person is subject to domestic violence. She is trying to eloquently describe how human psychologically changes through physical violence and abuse.
MICHAEL GARVEY is a British artist who is primarily a painter who combines text and image. For this exhibition, Michael’s poems contain a wide breadth of human emotions. He explores the problems caused by homelessness both mental and physical. He looks at trauma caused by never having a 'constant home', global problem gentrification and the unbelievable strain of finding settled life while all around you changes. The poems verge on the political while juxtaposing with seemingly balancing the pastoral and bucolic but holds dark undertones in the gestural brushwork.