Meeting Points
Royal Drawing School
26th February – 13 March 2020
The Meeting Points in this exhibition are shared preoccupations with urban existence, colour, drawing and how to address concepts of the traditional and the contemporary in painting.
Meeting Points is a two person show of paintings by Sharon Beavan and Gethin Evans. Working figuratively and from similar points of departure, the exhibition explores where their practices converge and diverge. Both artists share a long history of working from observation and a fascination with the visual world and how to show it; from the city and the people who live there to the Scottish landscape of East Ayrshire. They explain that whilst they each make often extensive and frustrating detours in their working processes, the detours are determined by quite different interests and references.
Gethin Evans: “The series of figure paintings are constructed using particular people and places as a source - often the idea arises from small thumbnail drawings and photographs of something observed. The idea then evolves over a period of time, through extensive drawings and colour studies, towards an image that establishes an oblique narrative. A sense of theatre, light and mood guides the imagery. The ‘magic hour’ of dawn or dusk can be seen as forcing a hallucinatory experience, but the harsh light of a Mediterranean noon or a city backdrop with brewing storm, can also enforce a feeling of ‘dislodged reality”
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Assemble º 20
The Tregony Gallery
21 January 2020 – 1 February 2020
Tregony Gallery is delighted to present its second roving exhibition in central London at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London. Assembleº 20 will introduce our impressive contemporary artists to a new audience and share our distinctive vision and approach to curating and collecting art.
Assembleº 20 brings together a group of artists for whom observation is the touchstone of their practice and is rendered through their diverse perspectives and modes of expression. Distinctive approaches, structural compositions and deeply layered planes of colour and a natural radiance drawn from a deeper well than simply the technical ability to reproduce an object, person or place. The gallery’s artists are divergent but share a common sensibility to their work; a natural sensitivity that enables the viewer’s direct engagement with their subject and intangible influences that led to the creation of each work.
Urban Contemporaries
Urban Contemporaries is a fluid group of figurative painters aiming to explore different approaches to the concept of contemporary communities in urban environments.
We create ambitious responses to the urban experience, responding in ways that are of interest to our individual practice but with drawing as a starting point, painting as the common medium and the human figure in urban surroundings as the dominant motif. One of our aims is to reflect the many varied ‘voices’ of contemporary society in terms of gender, age, ethnicity and sexuality with the objective of ensuring a 50% representation of women artists. We create themed shows that research and reflect on the urban condition in specific situations and are open to site-specific and artistic collaborations and invited curatorial input.
Primary Colour
Highgate Contemporary Art
29 June 2018 – 19 July 2018
Primary Colour' features six emerging and established artists whose approach to colour boldly stands their work apart.
The collections will include further explorations with colour theory in Arjan Van Dal's minimal vases, the dynamic, colour-laden brushstrokes of Nick Bodimeade's semi-abstract landscape paintings and imaginative, contrasting compositions in the still life paintings of Gethin Evans. Rachel Foxwell's wrapped cylinders will soothe the scene with their subtle, egg-shell like exteriors, featuring meticulously applied layers of carefully selected tones, while Barry Stedman's painterly approach sees colour used freely and fluidly, inspired by natural phenomena, places and emotions. The show will also present new limited edition collections of James Pegg's 'action-cast' ceramics, including his largest work to date.
Wall, Window, World
The Tregony Gallery
Opening 13 September 2017
Group exhibition 'Wall, Window, World' opening 12th September, brings together the quiet intimacy of domesticity with the expressive tangibiity of the world outside.
Newly represented artists Nicole Price and Gethin Evans sit alongside the meditative gaze and worldly impressions of gallery artists Kay Vinson, Sara Lee Roberts, Mark Dunford and John Brenton.
New works by Alex Cree, Euan McGregor, Jessica Allen, Judi Green, Gregory Ward, Dana Finch, Karen McEndoo, Sarah Spackman, Ella Carty, Enzo Marra and Daniel Preece employ fine observation and contemplative mark-making. Drawing inspiration and materials directly from the natural world, sculptors David Burrows, Lilia Umana Clarke and ceramicists Bridget Macklin and Leonie Stanton engage inner and outer environments in refreshing new dialogue.
Territories
Galerie Windkracht 13, Den Helder, Netherlands
July 2012 – September 2012
Bromley by Bow Arts Centre, London, England
November 2013 – January 2013
The artists represented work across the boundaries of two and three-dimensional and time based form. The brief is simple – to interrogate and explore the notion of territories. These territories can be linked to space/ place and can be factual, political, psychological, symbolic or metaphorical.
Sharon Bevan’s paintings and drawings map territories with obsessive attention to detail- spaces and places ‘known’ and ‘seen’; Frank Creber displays a visionary sense of the City as a place of dislocated structures containing the dispossessed, precariously ‘hovering’ between the dual forces of nature and technology; Silke Dettmers portrays sociological transformation and upheaval through the use of colour as factually and symbolically signifying the boundaries of the ‘Olympic Village’; Frances Edmondssees the visitors and tourists of the British Museum as people taking refuge in the safety of environments full of artefacts; Gethin Evans considers the images of storefronts and shuttered shops as emblematic structures which allude to a romantic and nostalgic narrative; Atsuhide Ito’s paintings are ghostly manifestations of territorial tensions which are concealed under the political rhetoric and the visual idioms of the news media; PHILIP RITSON’S prints signify a displacement of motif from the home/urban environment – they have a ‘place’ and domesticity of scale linked to boundaries; Robert Welch presents fleeting glimpses of the City as poeticised images of alienation and loneliness. Collectively, the paintings, drawings, prints and photographs amount to a pluralistic portrait of place and space where territories, demarcations and boundaries are constantly evidenced by individual interpretation.
Alignments
The Espacio Gallery
28 October 2015
Alignments reflects not only the friendship and connections shared by John Crossley, Derek Marks and Jim Vernon, (the three main exhibitors and co-curators) but includes the work of friends and fellow painters who share a belief in painting as a means of personal expression and exploration – an art that looks within to reach out.