Exhibition

sceaduwe

6 Mar 2010 – 14 Mar 2010

Event times

Fri-Sun, 12-6pm

Cost of entry

Free

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Madame Lillies

London, United Kingdom

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  • By Bus: 476/73 from Angel / 106 from Whitechapel
  • By Rail: Stoke Newington on overground from Liverpool St Station
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Russell Chater, Helen Scalway, Richard Stone

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sceaduwe - translatable as either shade or shadow; the artists explore this spectral spectrum through viewer participation and a range of media: Continuing the artist's interest in transitional spaces, drawing and the void, Chater whitewashes the gallery windows. A playful yet poetic intervention, the work sets the tone for the show and raises questions about the permanence of the space itself. Visitors are asked to leave their mark on the glass: a scribble, a name, a face — a touch and an affirmation that they were there - that we are here. These ideas are heightened in a series of intimate drawing-like photographs: monochrome images that play with sign and symbol, surface, mark making and the need to leave our trace. Meanwhile, the heightened tapping of a blind persons cane draws viewers to the artists projection piece ‘Probe' — a work resonant with feeling around in the dark. Scalway too is concerned with means of remembering and maintaining a presence. With delicate drawings framed in dark frames, the artist explores nineteenth century mourning jewellery in jet and silver: a brooch, a chain — a keepsake. The dense black in the images and the glass of the frames they're pressed up against combine to both reflect and absorb the viewer like an obsidian mirror. Arranged as if themselves composing a jewel, the work continues the artist's interest in drawing and fluid spatial systems. Engulfed in amorphous wax or with surfaces partly removed, Stone's antique figurines and landscape paintings hover, distanced from their historical domestic settings or purpose. Strange and ambiguous, they both reveal and conceal evocations of self and place, as well as raise questions over appropriation and ownership. Meanwhile, ghostly furniture fittings are placed against the walls, hinting at their original function, but unable to be opened. The walls themselves now full of tension and content. sceaduwe is the third exhibition together by the artists over the last year in London gallery spaces. All the spaces have had previous histories (a former East End pub, a former toothpaste factory and, in the case of Madame Lillie's, a former corset makers and sculpture workshop), whilst one of the previous spaces has since closed - a poignant sign of the times. This layering of history and transience is embraced in the artists work. Russell Chater: further info: http://www.re-title.com/artists/russell-chater.asp Helen Scalway: further info: http://www.re-title.com/artists/helen-scalway.asp Richard Stone: further info: http://www.richardstoneprojects.com/

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