Exhibition
Quiet Growing Patterns
4 Jun 2022 – 19 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
by appointment
Free admission
Address
- 7 Ravenscroft Street
- London
England - E2 7SH
- United Kingdom
This exhibition sees a group of seven artists based in the Columbia Road area, exploring their relationships with nature and community. It has been initiated by Mark Aerial Waller and Hans Askheim, who live and work close to Columbia Road flower market.
About
Quiet Growing Patterns
4-19 June 2022, 11-6 Sat and Sun (or by appointment)
Dial-A-Ride, 7 Ravenscroft Street, London E2 7SH.
Preview: 3 June 5-8pm
Flower arrangement course Sundays 5th,12th,19th at 2pm.
Bookable on Eventbright
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/350379312957
Askheim + Melsom
Volker Eichelmann
Rachel Reupke
Mónica Rivas Velasquez
Mark Aerial Waller
Vassiliki Holeva
This exhibition sees a group of seven artists based in the Columbia Road area, exploring their relationships with nature and community. It has been initiated by Mark Aerial Waller and Hans Askheim, who live and work close to Columbia Road flower market.
The work shown relates more to wildflowers than cut commercial flowers, it could be the decadence of flora, personal and political memory through the leaves, psychologically charged thrift shopping, or meditation through floral patterns. Certainly, there is a strong bond between us and our flower neighbours.
The exhibition is held at Dial-A-Ride, Waller’s workshop and showroom. When Waller is working, he looks out at a forsythia bush, that flowers in early spring. The exhibition quietly marks that sense of being in the presence of plants. This is something that we all can relate to, and we want to celebrate this relationship with flowers.
The exhibition opens on 3rd June 2022, at 6pm, a date that is already marked as another celebration of the passing of time, of the Royal jubilee, and this has inspired the artists to ask themselves what it means to mark the passing of time.
Each Sunday of the exhibition Waller will host a flower arrangement workshop that becomes a source of inspiration and connection for local residents and passers-by. Flower arrangement can be one of the most overlooked art forms, but is also the most democratic, it can be loaded with sexual politics, class and environmental issues. It uses all the senses, of tactility, scent, and vision to create an arrangement.
Askheim + Melsom paint portraits of local young residents, removed from their contemporary setting and repositioned into backgrounds more associated with classical painting, a kind of social mobility across time. Patterns derived from plants surround the figures as a celebration of human energy. Their work has an international following with a recent exhibition at LNM Oslo.
Volker Eichelmann’s collages connect almost a memory of decadence in a fragmentary and playful way. His work reflects on the neglected oeuvre of early 20th Century flamboyant artist, Stephen Tennant, the brightest of the Bright Young Things, who roamed the London streets at night on elaborate treasure hunts with gold powder in their hair. The work continues from a series recently exhibited at Focal Point Gallery.
Rachel Reupke is principally known as a filmmaker. She is currently working on a project that displaces language classes designed for US troops stationed in Germany in the 1970s. She engages with the interrelationships of language and culture, the sociolinguistics of being addressed as a male serviceman rather than female civilian. For this exhibition she will present a found embroidery. Reupke is a Paul Hamlyn award winner and has recently exhibited at Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany.
Mónica Rivas Velásquez’s collages and texts explore her relationship to folds and corners of the Andean mountains of Colombia, filtered through memory, physical distance and mediated proximity. Belonging to her ongoing project ‘More than an Object, its Shadow’, they manifest iteratively as publications, performative readings and sound works. MOS has been staged at ICA, Stanley Picker Gallery, South London Botanical Institute, AWL Radio, Theatrum Mundi, Clouds and Tracks and Radiophrenia.
Vassiliki Holeva’s ceramic works reflect her interest in museology and ancient craft. She combines ancient knowledge with contemporary forms. Holeva recently collaborated with Waller for a collection of ceramics at Daedalus Street, Athens. As well as working in ceramics, she designs exhibitions, including Troy at the British Museum (with RAA) and several exhibitions for Historic Royal Palaces and museums worldwide.
For further info & booking, contact:
[Instagram] @dial.a.ride
mark aerial waller
hans askheim