PREVIEW: Fragment by Jane Grisewood, Tues 28th April, 6-9pm

Private View: Fragment by Jane Grisewood
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 28th April 2009, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION:

Wednesday 29th April to Sunday13th May 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free



JANE GRISEWOOD

Jane Grisewood is a New Zealand-born artist and part-time lecturer based in London. She worked for many years in book publishing before returning to university to study fine art. After graduating with first class honours, she then gained her Masters in 2002 at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD exploring the line and the process of drawing at UAL where she also teaches experimental drawing, alongside running workshops in East Anglia and London.

Jane has been short-listed for The Observer Student Artist Competition and received several awards, including two from the Arts Council. Among a wide range of exhibitions is Edge at the Jerwood Space, Aftermath at Ensign Gallery in London, Marking Time at Firstsite in Colchester and a collaborative live performance drawing, Line Dialogue, at the 2008 Liverpool Biennial. Residencies include the Artist Space at Firstsite and The Centre for Drawing in Wimbledon.

Grisewood’s work explores themes of time and transience, place and memory through works on paper and canvas, photography, performance and writing. Overlaps and drifts between these different media and the use of repetitive processes form a link between the act of making, retracing memory and recording movement. Drawing is the key activity in her work, and the ‘line’ is a consistent subject throughout her practice, providing a way of marking a temporal presence, while also tracing its passing. For her the line is a fluid and multi-layered means of recording – a journey – a process of moving ‘between’.

Recent work marks time and presence through live performance drawing, exploring notions of movement and repetition, mark-making and temporality.


The ‘Marking Time’ series…beyond the process-driven undertaking, these works offer a beautiful abstract landscape of sorts, a geological mapping of a moment.

… she investigates the in-between spaces, recording through drawings, notes or photographs interventions that capture a moment in time whilst simultaneously tracing its passing.

Katharine Stout
Curator Tate Britain and Associate Director of The Drawing Room, London.

www.janegrisewood.com

PRIVATE VIEW: Holly Pereira,'Same, Same but Different', Tuesday 7th April, 6-9pm

Holly Pereira’s work investigates how we create, perceive and maintain identities; cultural, racial and familial. Pereira explores her Singaporean heritage through the lens of half- ang mo (or white Westerner) while investigating notions of female stereotypes, roles and characters, and in particular that of the Asian woman.

She is fascinated by the weird, the unusual, and the bizarre. Taking references from German fairy tales, Kung Fu films and the popular press, she creates images that are both disarming and slightly disturbing.

This current collection of work is the result of a three month residency in the Post-Museum in Singapore. The title “Same Same but Different” refers to a South-East Asian maxim of how cultural differences and divides do exist, but essentially we are all humans; we are all the same.