'Sensibilities of Belonging'

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Sensibilities of Belonging is a group show, hosted and curated by NoonPowell Fine Art,  showing a collection of work from 11 award-winning British, Irish, Norwegian and Spanish contemporary artists.

The focus and theme of the exhibition loosely explores the notions of belonging, especially within the context of place. Spaces in the exhibition are flooded with light from Andrew Ryder’s captivating installations, whilst a collection of landscape compositions by award-winning Irish fine art photographer, David Magee, will draw you in to the romantic idea of place, with the ocean being a subject he returns to again and again. This also can be said of Pandora Mond’s large-scale sea paintings, which are a formidable feature of the exhibition.  It broadens out to encompass expressive, gestural ideas through the abstract work of Dr Suzi Morris and JJ Morgan. The 150cm diameter oil on canvas planets by Pandora Mond and  photographic work by conceptual Spanish photographer, Garcia de Marina,  explore the wider and more topical ideas of belonging by tapping into a more global and expansive view.  Norwegian artist Eigil Nordstrom’s paintings, Arriving Somewhere I Do Not Recall and The Yearning, occupy a territory somewhere in between remembered light, painterly abstraction and a romanticised idealisation of the homeland.  The colourful and more figurative works of Dido Powell play with ideas of place and perspective, whilst works on paper and canvas by Helen Rawlins examine the everyday, with her use of the china cup as a metaphor for the domestic and the mundane, alluding to these aspects of home and place.  Two landscape oil paintings by Bristol-based artist, Peter McGrath, are also being shown in London for the first time, along with the work of Garcia de Marina, who has shown his work across the world, with this being the exciting debut in London for both Garcia and  conceptual photographer, Cristina Ramos, a brilliant and newly emerging talent also from Spain.