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RICHARD WATHEN Futures and Pasts, 2019 Oil on Linen on Aluminium, 61x50cm
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LEX SHUTE Ocular Device (Lyserg) , 2018 Glass, lead, copper foil, solder, 6.5x15x16.5cm
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SUZANNE TREISTER ALCHEMY 2007: ALCHEMY/USA Today, 17th July 2007, Watercolour and felt tip pen on watercolour paper, 122x152cm
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JOHN RICHERT Free Houdini Collectible, 2020 Acrylic on paper, 103x73cm
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HOLLY STEVENSON Key from Key and Cuffs, 2019 Ceramic glazed earthenware, 45x17x8cm
Exhibition
The Collector's Room
20 Mar 2020 – 17 May 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 24 Howie Street
- London
England - SW11 4AY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 19, 49, 170, 319, 345
- Sloan Square, Victoria
- Battersea Park
The group show ‘The Collector’s Room’ is curated by artist and lecturer Karen David, drawing on illusion, stage magic and the escapologist Harry Houdini, and will transform JGM Gallery into a parlour room of a fictitious collector.
About
The Collector's Room holds three narratives: the act of collecting, the lens of fiction, and the illusion of magic. An intangible transformation occurs where the potency of these works in this space take on new meanings due to our viewing experience altering and ‘contorting’ slightly when presented with a fictional agency. We could call this misdirection or sleight-of-hand, or one of many other effects used (to different ends) by stage magicians, faith healers, politicians and, also, visual artists, who using the effect of ‘production’ (i.e. rabbit from a hat) create something from nothing as part of their own presentation, wielding the unconscious into material, thoughts into actions, the invisible, visible.
The Collector's Room becomes a space where myth, rumour and illusion hang waiting and whispering. At once chattering with mysteries and silent in their gaze.
The exhibition include the work of:
Jonathan Allen, Ralph Anderson, Dominic Beattie, Katrina Blannin, Isha Bøhling, Juan Bolivar, Stella Capes Anne-Marie Creamer, Karen David, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Richard Ducker, Austin Eddy Machiko Edmondson, Tim Ellis, James Fisher & Kate McLeod, Ludovica Gioscia, Katie Goodwin, Alastair Gordon Andrew Grassie, John Greenwood, James Hopkins, Chris Jones, Joy Kngwarreye Jones, Richard Kirwan Hiroe Homai, Caterina Lewis, Karl Marrow, Barbara Nicholls, Plastique Fantastique*, John Richert, Lex Shute Sophia Starling, Holly Stevenson, Daniel Sturgis, Phyllis Thomas, Suzanne Treister, Jessica Voorsanger Richard Wathen, David Ben White, Alice Wilson, K. Yoland, Neil Zakiewicz
