PREVIEW: Alice Hall, Artist in Residence - Solo Show, Tues 9th '09, 6.30pm to 10pm

ALICE HALL
Paintings
Artist in Residence - Solo Show
10th - 28th June 2009
Wednesday to Sunday
12 noon - 10pm

PRIVATE VIEW
Tues 9th June
6.30pm to 10pm

London has been Alice's main inspiration during the past two years, and particularly during the period at The Muse. Through working in situ she aims to optimise the atmospheric outcome, aspiring to capture the fleeting light and seasonal change of the distinctive London scenes.

Her enthusiasm for painting in oils, and their buttery qualities, mean she is not afraid to exploit the contrasting lean and impasto qualities of paint.

In her drawings from which she derives much enjoyment and satisfaction, she aims to reduce her quotidian surroundings to a spare and selective commentary

PREVIEW and LIVE EVENT: RECYCLED, 2nd June '09, 6-9pm, SPLODGE ELECTRONICA (LIVE MUSIC), 7th June '09, 11am-11pm

RECYCLED
The Muse is pleased to present a show of images and sound opening on the 2nd June as part of a collaboration between Damian Rayne (visuals) and Martin A. Smith (sound/projection). For the week of the 2nd we will present a projection installation with sound in the studio leading to a full day of music on Sunday the 7th.

The rest....

'The Muse at 269 & Drawing room events'
present....

SPLODGE ELECTRONICA
Experimental and Ambient
Live music at The Muse
On Sunday June 7th
(free session) 11am-6pm

Picture this....it's a dreary Sunday morning and echoes of Saturday night are seeping from every pore. All you want is a comfy sofa, a decent fry up and a box set of The Wire. Instead, we offer a decent fry up, a comfy cushion and a set of boxed wires producing the latest in ambient and soothing sound frequencies.

Please join us at any stage of the day to relax, surrounded by three projections of cosmic imagery provided by 'Recycled', whilst sipping a bloody mary or freshly squeezed orange juice...whatever your state of mind requires.

Performing experimental and ambient live music will be:

Tim Hooper

Kailas Elmer

Bridge Fazio

Martin A. Smith

Then...

'LOOSHE LOUNGE SOCIETY'
presents:
Supper jazz party from 7:30 - live music with supper included. £12 on the door



The Drawing Room offers Sunday lunch for £9 including a glass of wine. Marvellous cocktails and standard brunch a la carte served all day.

Jin Han Lee, Tues 12th May, 6-9pm

Private View: Jin Han Lee
Beyond and Within
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 12th May 2009, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION:

13th May to Sunday 31st May 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-5pm, with restaurant open until 11pm

Entry Free



Jin Han Lee
The broad explanation of Jin Han Lee’s practice is awkward and strange relationship between layers by using masking tape. Tension and spontaneity are repeated between sharp images and layers. By using “masking,” Lee is making something, which is not a picture in a picture. The method is to paint over masking tape, then, remove the tape so the masking is a drawing. The act of painting is not just putting the colour on, but the taking off of the masking, to cut through that colour.


Also, Lee made viewers not be able to assume the order of each layers, and this leads unexpected tension/ spontaneity. By doing so, her painting is deliberately confusing. Her painting spans from past to present. This is ‘a’ past, ‘a’ past representing ‘the’ past. Viewers are able to see the subject and each element of painting is emerged to each other but recognizable individually. This is ‘ a’ painting representing ‘the paintings.



Jin Han Lee’s private activity beyond the surface of the painting is open to public view by leaving traces from repeated accumulating layers. Full exposure of her intimate activities to public view dramatically reinforced intimacy. It is back to front, beyond to within.

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.

PRIVATE VIEW: URBAN SCRAWL, Tuesday 24th March 2009, 7.30pm

PREVIEW:

Tuesday 24th March 2009, 7.30pm

EXHIBITION:

Wednesday 25th March to Sunday 5th April 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free

URBAN SCRAWL

From the promoters of Upfest, we present Urban Scrawl, a diverse mix of urban artists from across the UK, displaying new bodies of work in Portobello's one and only Muse Gallery at 269.
Featuring:

Agent Provocateur
Andy Council
Avian Security
Dan Kitchener
FarkFk
Nik Ill
Myne
Spqr and the long awaited new print releases from Levi C and Snik.

Upfest was born not to long ago at the beginning of the summer following the Cans Festival in London and inspired bythe SuperCans event in Southampton. It began in Bristol, which has always been intrinsically linked with the Urban Art Scene, being the home of Graffiti’s leading proponent, Banksy.

Opening night includes live street painting and music from London's notorious DJ Benedict Smith. Come along with an open mind - this is going to be one of this year's shows that you won't want to miss.

PRIVATE VIEW: STILL HERE, Artists in Residence Retrospective 2009, Tues 10th March '09, 6.30-9pm

PRIVATE VIEW:
STILL HERE, Artists in Residence Retrospective 2009, Group Show, Tuesday 10th March '09, 6.30-9pm

DATE:Tuesday 10th March 2009, 6.30-9pm

EXHIBITION: Wednesday 11th March to Sunday 22nd March 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

The Muse at 269 are pleased to welcome back those artists who have exhibited with us over the last few years. We look forward to meeting up with them again and seeing how their work has developed since we last saw them. Here is also another chance to have a look at the work of our current artists in residence.

Artists who will be showing include:

Evy Jokhova, Masaki Yada, Corinne Charton, Cinnamon Heathcote Drury, Rose O'Gallivan, Cecilia Sandrini, Alice Hall, Anne Windsor, Patricio Bosich