Project Space, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
Exhibition open: 19 January � 23 February 2009 Private View: Saturday 24 January 12 - 2pm Open: Mon - Fri 9 - 5pm, Sat 11 - 3pm
Heidi Locher�s series of concrete painting installations intend to interfere with the fabric of the Jerwood Project Space. These pieces will be installed to fit within the architecture but to somehow disrupt the visual reading of the space by creating tension between the floor and the walls. The seductive surface of the paint and the starkness of the concrete appear to hold hidden obsessions, memories and fantasies at the hand of the artist, as though it is divulging a secret or hidden memories, the link between intimacy and discomfort.
Locher comments: �Architecture has its own realm a special physical relationship with life, an envelope for the life that goes on around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of the footstep on the floor or the silence of our sleep. Art is a message or a symbol of that place real or imaginary that penetrates to the very core of our existence. A smell, a noise, a conversation, the heavy door closing behind you, a dark corridor, an unspoken threat, a buried memory, the nuance of things, the implied and deepest experience I know.�
Heidi Locher uses paint to explore the viewer�s experience of the surface which she communicates emotional experiences of pain, seduction, intimacy and paranoia in the hope of drawing the viewer into this dark and physical place. The evocative materiality of paint is crucial to her work. The paint becomes like a skin exploring recurring themes of sex, violence, obsession, fantasy, and the nuance of gesture.
Heidi Locher graduated as an Architect from the RCA and went on to setup her own cutting edge modern architectural practice, Paxton Locher Architects who, in 1998, carried out the original transformation of the site at 171 Union Street into the Jerwood Space. She has recently completed a Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. After graduating with distinction, she has been involved in a number of group shows and has three solo shows scheduled for early next year. Recent solo exhibitions include: `Suicide Blonde, dyed by her own hand�, Recent group exhibitions include: �Liverpool Artist Book fair� at Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool Independent Biennale, `Never was there so much wasted wine, so many dead flowers�, Terrace Annual, London (2008) �Lost Boys� at Rod Barton, London (2008), Quick & Dirty, Barge House Oxo Tower Wharf, London (2006). Forthcoming exhibitions include: `Material Consciousness�, Kingsgate Workshops Trust, London (2009), `The Black Widow� The Muse at 269, London (2009), Rod Barton, London solo show (2009).
INVISIBLE CITIES
EXAMINATING THE TRANSITIONS FROM HEADSPACE TO PHYSICAL DEPICTION IN PAINT
Invisible Cities is an exhibition curated by artists Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly. The works in the exhibition are by a mixture of nine established artists who all have a previous relationship with Jerwood: Basil Beattie, Tom Chamberlain, Prunella Clough, Katy Dove, Vincent Hawkins, Sarah Morris, Carol Rhodes, Thomas Scheibitz and Daniel Sturgis. These particular painters are for the first time being shown together at the Jerwood Space.
Invisible Cities is the second exhibition in a series of conversations across the Jerwood Visual Arts series. The Jerwood Visual Arts series encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, applied arts, and moving image in a regular series of awards, prizes, and exhibitions.
The metaphorical understanding of space that the artists give themselves to make the paintings is a reference to the book Invisible Cities and is used as an allegory of that process.
Curators Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly commented: We wanted to approach this curatorial opportunity as painters, and to bring together works that visually engage us as a juxtaposition. We struck upon the idea of conceptually focusing the exhibition around Italo Calvino's �Invisible Cities� because it addresses the dilemmas of visual invention and illusion. Rather than illustrate the book, the painters in this exhibition have been selected for their various diverse strategies of stating the imaginary in terms of location. The exhibition highlights crossover in our otherwise diverse studio practices.
Invisible Cities will be held at the Jerwood Space from 21 January � 22 February 2009.
TALK SCHEDULE Monday 2 February 2009 Katie Pratt & Roger Kelly in conversation
Monday 9 February 2009 Tom Chamberlain Katy Dove Katie Pratt (chair) Dan Sturgis In conversation
Monday 16 February 2009 Basil Beattie & speaker (TBC)
Gallery events will be held at 6pm every Monday evening during the exhibition, including talks and discussions with the exhibiting artists at:
JERWOOD SPACE 171 UNION STREET LONDON SE1 OLN (Nearest tube: Southwark/ Borough/ Bank)
Curators The exhibition is co-curated by Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly. Katie Pratt graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1998 and went on to win the Jerwood Painting Prize in 2001. She has since gone on to exhibit widely in the UK and abroad, her most recent solo exhibition at Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles 2008. Roger Kelly graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1997 he was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2006. He has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and will be showing at Hale�s Gallery London 2009.
Basil Beattie Basil Beattie studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1957�61. He taught at Goldsmith�s College in the 1980s and 90s; and has twice been short listed for the Jerwood Painting Prize and once for the Charles Wollaston Award and he was recently given a dedicated gallery at Tate Britain 2007.
Tom Chamberlain Tom Chamberlain graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1999 he was nominated for Becks Futures in 2002 he has exhibited widely including Painting and Drawings, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany 2008
Prunella Clough 1919 � 1999 Prunella Clough throughout her long career was fascinated by the urban and industrial landscape. Clough's first solo exhibition was in 1947; in 1999, the year of her death, she won the Jerwood Painting Prize.
Katy Dove Katy Dove lives and works in Glasgow she has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Katy has had solo shows at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and at Hales Gallery London in 2007.
Vincent Hawkins Vincent Hawkins studied at Maidstone College of Art 1984-87. Vincent was a Prize Winner for John Moores 24 Liverpool in 2006 and shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2006.
Sarah Morris Sarah Morris lives and works in London and New York she has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Sarah won the Joan Mitchell Painting Award in 2002 and most recently a solo exhibition at White Cube Gallery 2008.
Carol Rhodes Carol Rhodes lives and works in Glasgow her work has been exhibited at shows across Scotland and around the world, most recently at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Mummery + Schnelle London.
Thomas Scheibitz Thomas Scheibitz lives and works in Berlin, he graduated from HFBK Dresden in 1996 and has exhibited widely in Europe and abroad including The Goldilocks zone, Spr�th Magers Gallery, Berlin 2008.
Daniel Sturgis Daniel Sturgis graduated from Goldsmiths College in1994 and has gone on to show widely in Europe, most recently, Tough Love Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany 2008.
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to responsible and imaginative funding of the visual and performing arts and other areas of human endeavour and excellence. It supports, amongst other things, the Jerwood Visual Arts Series and brings together the Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Applied Arts, Jerwood Contemporary Painters, and the Jerwood Photography Awards. Each exhibition creates an overview of current debate and practice in each of these fields.
For further information or images please contact Chlo� Barker 01372 462 190 or chloe @ parkerharris.co.uk
JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS Gallery Programme 2009
Invisible Cities 21 January � 22 February
Jerwood Sculpture Prize 4 March - 9 April
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 22 April � 31 May
Jerwood Contemporary Makers 10 June � 19 July
Summer show (title tbc) 29 July � 30 August
Jerwood Drawing Prize 16 September � 25 October
A series of talks and discussions will take place on Monday evenings throughout the 2009 programme. For further information visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
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