Exhibition

Rock Paper Scissors

29 Jun 2018 – 7 Jul 2018

Event times

Friday 29 July, Thursday 5 & Friday 6 July, 10.00- 4.00pm and other times by arrangement.

Cost of entry

Free

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SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Studio

London, United Kingdom

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An exhibition of prints by Laura Bianchi, Natalia Gonzales Martin & Matthew Young

About

Rock, Paper, Scissors explores the work of three up and coming artist printmakers who work at SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Studio.

Laura Bianchi's practice springs from a personal and intimate narrative, in which the relation to the medium is as important as the references she draws upon.The human figure is a recurring subject of the research and practice. Laura's approach to the body is often sentimental, focussing upon aspects concerning mortality and fragility, with a nostalgic look. Laura is inspired by a multitude of sources - readings, images, daily life - which come to inhabit the imagination prior to becoming new visual narratives. Allegory – understood as a non-literal form – has always been a valuable source in her research. Through the work, she strives to evoke rather than to describe. Drawing, at the core of her practice, allows Laura to develop her work fluidly, mark after mark, in a repeated initiation, staged within the arena of the paper.

Natalia Gonzalez Martin’s multi-disciplinary practice questions the assumptions of mankind’s physical history through the examination of found artefacts. Working from objects in museums and more recently, photographs found online, Gonzalez Martin’s installations, paintings and works on paper distort the vessels, rocks and figurative sculptures that she has studied so that – in her words – ‘you can barely tell where they came from’. Born in Spain, Gonzalez Martin now lives and works in London.

For Matthew Young the opposition between grease and water is a simple starting point to examine the incredible complexity of the world. The sometimes mysterious nature of lithography has opened up a new world of exploration and kinship into mark making that was beyond his imagination. Embedded in the stone is the memory of decisions made that have led to this point. Then something emerges from the wreckage, when cold hard stone turns to water. This is when something comes together that couldn’t be arrived at any other way or by any other means.

Laura Bianchi and Natalia Gonzales Martin are current SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Prize Winners. The SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Prize is chosen by SLAUGHTERHAUS director Michelle Avison and other members of the studio each year at the MA and BA degree shows at Camberwell College of Art and City & Guilds School of Art. It allows the chosen artist access to the studio, presses and equipment for one year, and to benefit from support, technical advice and mentoring opportunities. Previous prizewinners include Saori Parry, Louise Pallister and Inma Berrocal.

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Natalia Gonzales Martin

Matthew Young

Laura Bianchi

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