The Parlour Project Space Gallery and Studios

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ON THE SURFACE

PV Friday 12 December 6-9

13 December - 18 January 2009 (closed over Christmas w-e 26-28 Dec), Fri-Sun 12-5.30

The Parlour Gallery and Project Space is pleased to present ‘On the Surface’ – an exhibition of work by eleven contemporary artists exploring the covering, uncovering and discovering of marks on surfaces.

We human beings find it hard to leave surfaces alone. Over the centuries, we have painted, stitched, incised, etched, built, shaved and carved marks onto every kind of surface: textiles and building materials, manufactured objects, the earth itself, and our own skin.

Philip Lee will perform Stable V – a live body action - during the opening event of On The Surface at The Parlour on Friday 12th December (6-9pm). He will use clay and pigments on his body to mark paper and other media; the remnants of the performance and prints become part of an installation.

Estelle Holland’s films explore the voyeuristic gaze through the making of marks on skin. For On The Surface, she takes elements of the body and uses them as canvas, subjecting them to automatic drawing.

Cally Trench observes the marks found on the surface of the earth: paths, road markings, graves, boundary fences, flower beds – and maps them on to paper or canvas. In On the Surface, she is showing a life-size, segmented Grave.

Frances Anne Greenough starts from the marks and lines on Ordnance Survey maps, and from geological and botanical information about an area, to create landscape paintings that balance between fact and fiction.

Lis Mann works with multilayered surfaces and manufactured materials; in In the Year 2424, the materials are woven to represent the garden of the future in a world where natural materials have disappeared.

Tânia Bandeira Duarte creates drawings and installations which exist between real space and illusion, questioning how we think and perceive the world. For this exhibition, she explores surface as a medium for abstraction and representation, leading the viewer to experience different levels of perception.

Imogen Welch covers objects with everyday materials. In Data Protection, an office workstation is patch-worked with the patterned paper that lines the inside of envelopes.

Alex Dewart’s paintings explore our need for order in the juxtaposition of the regular patterns of origami paper set against motifs from classic English suburbia.

Patrick Jeffs uses a high degree of contrasts and a complex variety of graphic marks to create coloured surfaces which evoke a mysterious inner world of imagined forms.

In Jacqueline Ashmore’s small monochrome paintings of everyday surfaces, the familiar becomes both solid and unstable.

Alan Franklin writes: My work arises out of a simple curiosity for the world. For me making art is just another way of exploring the ideas and complexities of the human condition. No doubt in my youth I left my initials carved on a tree or scratched on a desk. By now the wound to the tree will have healed over and the desk is perhaps buried ash in a field. It is hard to believe that any of our marks will be more enduring and yet collectively we have the power to change the entire surface of the planet.

Guest-curated by Cally Trench

Past Activities & Events

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The BIG DRAW workshop: DRAW TIL YOU DROP

Saturday 25th October

On Saturday 25th October The Parlour in association with Mapalim has held a one day drawing workshop titled 'Draw Til You Drop', as part of the BIG DRAW series of national events celebrating drawing.

The event has been a great success with nearly 40 participants of all ages joining us throughout the day and contributing towards a massive 3D drawing all over the gallery space. Paper has been stretched allover the walls and floor and multi-layered drawings, paintings and collages have sprung up throughout the day, creating an amazing colourful mosaic.

We would like to thank GO Partnership, Queens Crescent Community Centre and Rhyl Primary School for their great support in helping to organise the event and making it a success. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the day and we are hoping to see you very soon at one of our next events!

The project was supported by Camden Arts and Tourism. Camden values and celebrates the diversity of its community.

Past Projects

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Past Exhibitions

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15 Nov - 7th Dec 2008 "Landscape I -Memory" Exhibition of drawings, paintings, photography, installation and video by Oana Camilleri, Emily Candela, Thomas Doran, Coco Hewitt, Sachiyo Nishimura

2008

11 October - 9 November- "Little Things" As an antidote to the big and monumental, Little Things takes a look at the small, tiny, modest, subtle and quiet. Yet strong, powerful and affirmative at the same time. Presenting drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture and installation by Jessica Claire, Jomi Kim, Kasia Kwiatkowska, Maria Laet, Kit Merritt, Lucinda Oestreicher, Jacqueline Utley and Mary Yacoob. With live performance - a series of guitar improvisations by Stephano D'Silva on the opening night. Curated by Kasia Kwiatkowska.

23rd August – 16th September -"Stucture"Stephen Doran,After a slow development of previous landscape work, Doran reduces his perception to lines and boxes. Primarily about the structure behind the surface, the artist has taken the battle between the natural and the man-made into his own unique way of seeing.

24th May – 14th Jun - "Passes Of The Alps" Works by Jessica Holmes and Kasper Pincis

26th Apr – 17th May - “Syncopate” Group exhibition by Amy Cunningham, Liane Lang, Aishleen Lester and Annabelle Moreau. Taking their cue from music, the artists subtly change emphasis, distend and modify the subject and materials of their practice.

8th – 29th Mar - “New Exposure” New Exposure presents ’11 Stops to Baghdad’ an exhibition by London based photographers, Tom Saunderson, Tim Smyth and Charlie Thomas. The project explores the variety of national communities living within London.

2007

15th – 26th Nov - “Slade At The Parlour” Artists from The Slade School of Art have been invited into the Parlour. Toms Dawson, Jacob Farell, Katie Miller, Stephanie Mills, Ben Nathan, Anna Sikorska and Nir Segal.

14th Oct – 11th Nov - “Stones And Glass House” A solo exhibition of London based Italian artist Gianluca Cosci

12th Aug – 16th Sep - “Vespers” A solo exhibition by Painter Katy Kirbach

26th Jul - “5 By Four” An evening event of Contemporary Video Art showcasing works of Anthony Aslund, Bindu Mehra, Himanshu Desai and Roz Cran

24th Jun – 5th Aug - “From Here To There” A solo Multi-Media exhibition by Emma Hunt

22nd Apr – 13th May - “Play To Win” Play to Win (parts one and two) are collaborative site specific works produced by installation artist Sinta Tantra and Choreographer Kartie Green.

18th Mar – 15th Apr - “Zones Of Exclusion" A solo exhibition of works on paper by Jessica Holmes.

1st Mar - “Young Parlour” An art exhibition by young people in Camden

26th Jan – 24th Feb - "Elusive" The exhibition features newly commissioned works by London based artists Yu-Chen Wang, Cyril Lepetit, Andro Semeiko and Tbilisi based artist Mamuka Japaridze.

28th Jan – 18th Feb - “Footprint” Footprint brings together the work of three photographers concerned with different aspects of contemporary Britain: Emma Hunt, Hannah Guy, and Michael Greenhalgh

Studios & Project Space

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The studios consist of two large spaces. Studio 185 (28.56m2) offers an individual space for a creative organisation whilst Studio 187 (56.45m2) offers a more affordable rate for visual artists sharing with others.

The Parlour Gallery and Project Space is also available for Sessional Project Space Hire (41.52m2) at affordable rates for creative professionals. The Parlour is 45m2 white walled space with track lights, as well as lots of natural light. It can be used for drama, music, dance rehearsals as well as workshops, seminars and lectures. The aim of this is to encourage other creative practices to respond to the exhibition positively, possibly resulting in a cross fertilisation of ideas, interests and shared ambitions. There is an application procedure for Project Space Hire whereby all users are requested to become Parlour members.

Should you be interested in studio or project space hire, please contact the Artistic Coordinator and Curator Kasia Kwiatkowska at kasia.kwiatkowska@mapalim.com

Flyers

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