I am pleased to announce that my work ‘The Bearded Iris’, will be exhibited as part of the group show ‘MUD, FOR YOU’ at The Fitzrovia Gallery in London, from the 28/03 - 2/04.
There will be a private view on the 31/03 at 6pm.
You can reserve tickets here: MUD, FOR YOU
Is it just mud or gold that you see on these walls?
"The pigment itself is reverse alchemy, a gold that becomes shit in our studios, and our task is to try to turn that shit back into gold" - from Amy Sillman's book ’Faux Pas’, 2020.
As illustrated in this book, all painters speak of their paints becoming “mud”, and this happens with any other medium too. All artists struggle to turn muck, grime and filth into something one will see as an artwork.
The 25 international artists included in this exhibition see their work stem from a deep engagement with the medium, an exploration of its possibilities for the contemporary world, and the necessity to shift between countries and contexts. Enrolled at Turps Art School, they share an affliction; a compulsion to make and to reinvigorate each other's work.
The works on display are the simple by-product of hours of alchemic research and inevitable mistakes, however, it is only by working through the mud, by putting it out there and throwing it on the walls of galleries, that it can become something else.
"It is by serving our mud to you in this gallery, that we attempt to elevate the mess we make. Here is our mud, for you."
25 ARTISTS
Alexandra Beteeva (@getbeta), Alison Berry (@alisonberry28), Caitlin Heffernan (@caitlinheffernanstudio), Cathy Hayes @oreillyhayes_art, CD Lewis (www.cdlewisstudio.com), Darina Meagher (@darinameagher), Djuro Selec (@djuro.art), Elspeth Penfold (@elspeth_billie_penfold), Eugenia Cuellar (@eugeniacuellarartist), Hermione Carline (@hermione.carline), Jane Peacock (@jane_peacock_art), Jantil Moon (@jantilmoon_art), Jenny Blake (@jennyblakeart), Jo Fleming Smith (@jo.fleming.smith), Joanne Boyle (@joanneboyle76), Louise Evans (@louisealisonevans), Matthew Swift (@mswiftyart), Nick Ivins (@nick.ivins), Penny Green (@pennygreenceramics), Sarah Ria Mursal (@sarahria), Susan Montgomery (@susan_montgomery__), Victoria Snazell (@victoria_snazell), Vivienne Baker (@vivienne.baker.art), Zelga Simone Miller (@zelgamiller), Zoë Rivas Zanello (@zoerivaszanello)
Fitzrovia Gallery
139 Whitfield Street
London W1T 5EN