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Caves, by Tom Down
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Lost Shanty Town (HK 1980s) by Antonia Jackson
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Berber by Susie Hamilton
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Cypress Trees by Nicole Price
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Ed Saye (untitled)
Exhibition
The Landscape of Time
13 Jan 2018 – 29 Mar 2018
Event times
Private View: Tuesday 16th January 2018 , 6-8 pm
Panel discussion: Friday 23rd February 2018 3-5pm
Open daily: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-4pm, (Sun Closed)*
*Occasionally The Crypt closes for private meetings, you can phone ahead to check times:
020 7935 7315 or 07809330592
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 17 Marylebone Road
- London
- NW1 5LT
- United Kingdom
This exhibition, hosted by Contemporary British Painting, brings together artists Helen Bermingham, Tom Down, Susie Hamilton, Antonia Jackson, Nicole Price & Ed Saye who explore the idea of time and memory through their painting practice ranging from the figurative to the semi abstract.
About
"Memory is always incomplete, always imperfect, always falling into ruins; but the ruins themselves, like no other traces, are treasures: our guide to situating ourselves in a landscape of time"
Rebecca Solnit, The Ruins of Memory*
While Rebecca Solnit relates to ruins as architectural, these can take many forms: for instance rediscovered family photographs, old film footage, disregarded objects or sketches executed in haste as to record a fleeting trace of time. Once taken out of their original context, these artefacts can take on new meanings at the hand of the artist and open up a space for the recovery of memories. Such is the starting point for the artists involved in this exhibition and it is eventually the transformative and illusory qualities of the painting process that allows their final re-invention.
In a world where the immediate is ever so important, the painters involved in this exhibition attempt to slow and recapture time. Through their varied use of colour, composition, choice of scale and versatile brushwork, each of them recreates half remembered, half imagined spaces, imbued with a sense of melancholy and at times existential. They invite the viewer to pose and reflect.
* Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscape for Politics. Rebecca Solnit, 2006
For more information about the artists, please checks their respective website:
http://helenbermingham.weebly.com/
http://www.susiehamilton.co.uk/
