Curated by Ruth Bridget Brennan

HOUSE
3rd – 9th May 2013

Preview: Friday 3rd May, 7-9pm

White Art presents three photographic bodies of work at HOUSE in May of this year. Three contemporary practitioners address the nature of the institutionalised gallery space through three strands of white.

Born in 1992 Jack is a photographic artist from a small town outside Southend-on-sea in Essex. Jack is now based in North-West London.

The Harrison Museum, explores the dishonesty of the photograph, playing with truth and lies, reality and fiction. Photographer Jack Carvosso has fabricated an entire collection of sculptures by Arthur Harrison, who, to the viewers knowledge spent a lifetime accumulating these objects.

Born in rural Northamptonshire Ruth Bridget Brennan is a visual artist based in London. Ruth works within the Fine Art framework, centring her practice on colour photography and colour darkroom processes.

Frustrated with the display of contemporary photographic portraiture in the gallery, Untitled comments on the interaction of the viewer with the portrait in the white cube setting. The way in which contemporary portraiture is displayed depends heavily on post-production techniques, creating a densely detailed portrait which leaves no room for sentimental representation of subject.

Avon Ammanda Bashida (born Copenhagen, Denmark 1986) began her studies at Parsons the New School of Design in New York before moving to London. Avon Bashida is of Danish/American mixed race descent. Being of different nationalities and a racial mix of African American/Native American and Caucasian have brought a natural interest to how the interaction of different lives take form. Her work often circles around the placement and function of the human body.

The last project, Inspired by frequent visits to MoMA, NY — where Avon Bashida observed/noticed the racial disparity between those attending the museum as visitors, and those ensuring security as employees of the museum — the artist explores how race is still defined. The project is realised on three framed, hand printed, black and white diptychs.

White Art has been supported by Hevey Building Supplies Ltd and GRS Roadstone Ltd.
Notes to editors:

All three participating artists are currently in their second year at the University of Westminster studying BA (Hons) Photographic Arts.

The Artists: Sarah Clarke, Rosie Connolly, Jess Crichton, Nicola Lake, Alicia Laishley, Jennifer Morgan and Emma Pitches.

Show Running: 16th April – 1st May 2013 Opening Times Monday- Saturday 8.30 – 4.30

Private View: 20th April 2013 7.00pm – 9.00pm

The ‘In The Midst’ exhibition brings together the work of seven artists from around the UK, whose practices engage with a multitude of different mediums. Social, political, spatial and ephemeral ideas are explored through the materiality of the work, whether it is in the form of a discussion or something that we see every day. The show brings together these themes through a critical engagement with what it means to be creating artworks in contemporary society. The artists are delving into a multitude of exciting new areas, pushing the boundaries of contemporary art by negotiating the historically loaded medium of clay, the place of gender and the individual within society, educational and institutional systems and geographical space. The exhibition has been put together with an active interest in the visitor’s response and engagement with the work, using a variety of methods to collaborate with the viewer through feedback and direct interaction.

‘In The Midst’ brings the themes being discussed by each artist together into a critical and public arena.

Guided conversations will take place every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2pm throughout the running of the exhibition.

 Rebecca Sangster

Opening 23rd March until 12th April. Closed Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday. Private View on the 22nd March, 7-9pm.

‘She Lost Her Native Land,’ a solo show by artist Rebecca Sangster exhibiting a collection of work made over the last year.

Sangster’s understanding of herself as having an absence of cultural traditions or a belief system has come to culminate in a series of multimedia depictions of an imagined culture that the artist has created for herself. Imagery from religions and traditions alien to the artist are appropriated, and manifest as a masked figure serving as the artist’s avatar through which to explore cultural nomadism and the erosion of boundaries between cultures and places. This figure shifts between purposes, sometimes professing to have the abilities of a diviner telling people their future, whilst other times being represented frozen as an artifact of a lost civilization through sculpture, or as a new unknown god through drawing.

Masked plaster figures stand still in mid-movement in the gallery space, overlooked by an ominous god like figure drawn across multiple black panels. Meanwhile, paintings and a video projection evoke a far away land half way between reality and a dream, hypnotic and visceral.

‘She Lost Her Native Land’ aims to seduce you into a place which is abstracted from reality and, in turn, liberated to draw references from everyone, everywhere and from every time.

Mandy Williams

Waiting for you/An Open Door

Waiting for you is an exhibition by London artist Mandy Williams featuring photography and video from 2009-2013. It is her first solo show in a London gallery.
Mandy Williams’ interest in the psychology of place has frequently been a catalyst for both autobiographical and voyeuristic projects with ‘home’ being a dominant theme in her photography and video work for over a decade.
Waiting for you explores home as a place of aspiration and desire in the 21st century. Like her previous work, it is interested in the fusion of home and identity and how our social and affective lives interconnect. It looks at the seductiveness of home at a time of social instability. The exhibition includes two videos; Dream House, 2012, which interweaves fantasy and reality as children visualise their ideal adult home, and Inside, 2010, which voyeuristically observes domestic rituals in stranger’s homes.
Other works include Waiting for You, 2013, a new photographic work which invited the participation of selected unknown residents, and two series of photographs; Home, 2009, which explores media stories of domestic life, and Before, 2012, which documents the last traces of home in pre-demolition buildings. There is also a new installation, Setting, 2012.

Photography by Adrian Flower – First Solo Show

Brixton-based photographer Adrian Flower will be holding his first solo exhibition at House Gallery, Camberwell. The exhibition shows work from two series of images; the first from the North of England and Scotland, taken in Summer 2011 and the second from London, taken in summer 2012. The aim is to examine urban and rural landscape and the contrasts between them, in the two locations he calls ‘Home’, having originally grown up in Cumbria.

Adrian has been based in London for 20 years as a commercial photographer; however this is his first solo exhibition of his personal work. As a supporter of local grass-root art organisations he is proud to be showing in House Gallery and stated “I’m pleased to be able to show images that have personal significance to me at a venue in my local community”. The exhibition will run from 22nd Feb to 1st March 2013, with a private view from 7pm on Friday 22nd.

About Adrian Flower:

Adrian Flower is based in London and works as a commercial and wedding photographer, and manages the art gallery Studio 73 in Brixton. He has previously exhibited as part of a group show at Photofusion Gallery, London.

Private View 2nd February.

Group showcase.

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B S S P K M R H M S H Art presents a show over 8 days featuring artists, Bonnie Lovely, Steph Bryan, Sophie Flanagan, Phoebe Brown, Katie Caroll, Messua Wolff, Rosie Brunning, Hannah Williamson, Marie Melly, Sophie Morton and Heather Brandon.

After meeting at Kingston University, to study BA Hons Fine Art, all of the artists decided to form B S S P K M R H M S H Art, a group in which they could collaborate ideas and works to form exhibitions and therefore promote their artwork.

This exhibition features a fusion of film, photography, Painting, Sculpture, and cake art. Each artist demonstrates their own individual styles and concepts through the work exhibited.

During the exhibition there will be a happening and the audience are invited to take part in consuming the edible installation. The diverse work also ranges from that of the more traditional means of creation such as painting, drawing, photography and sculpture to more conceptual works and means of forming art.

Please join us for the private view on the 2nd February, 7-9pm.

Sian Therese presents her first solo show “Sketch to Print” at the House Gallery from Saturday 8^th December to Friday 21^st December 2012.

Sian takes as the theme of her exhibition, three journeys: Still life in Switzerland, The Derbyshire Hillside, A woman on a plinth

She starts each journey with a series of charcoal sketches and concludes with a selection of lithographic, callographic or mono type prints.

Sian is less interested in the production of large print editions, but rather takes advantage of the physical print making process that offers very immediate results.

Sian says that although all of the work in the exhibition is for sale, she is more interested in having conversations with local people about her work and exchanging ideas.

Sian plans to be at the gallery on Saturday 8^th and Saturday 15^th December between 10am – 4.00.

Including work by Riccardo Attanasio, Camilla Brendon, Michaela Delmonte, Malgorzata Drohomirecka, Owen Lacey, Lauren Minchinton, Thom Morgan, Mauricio Ortiz, Helen Osborne, Andrew Walker, Yi Xin Yan, Maria Christoforatou

Thursday 1st Nov – Friday 16th November 2012

Private View Fri 2nd Nov 6-9pm

A collective of artists across a range of disciplines from installation to illustration, each is currently working in the hospitality industry to support their practice.
Celebrating the triumph of creativity in a time of continual funding cuts for the arts, here is the necessity of the artist within society – to question and explore our culture, and to direct our attention to whatever they might find there.

November 2nd will also see the launch of the website artistwaiters.com, an online gallery and community where artists share their experiences of the notoriously difficult creative industry and the notoriously unreliable hospitality industry.

“I have been fired many times and I must say I am very bad waitress”
-Malgorzata Drohomirecka Printmaking

With inspiration drawn from cheese and toast to the less conceptual joy of line and texture making; the vibrancy and dedication of the ‘Artists who are Waiters’ are as present in the depth and colour of Osborne’s abstract application of household glosses, home made paints and nail polish as in Morgan’s sinister etchings of woman serial killers.

“I’ve worked in six different bars and three restaurants. This has made me a very good waitress however that was never my entire aim.”
-Lauren Minchinton

We are also introduced to the artists’ stories considering the effect hospitality work has on their creative practice. Some state the very need to get away from it inspires them to ‘draw more often’, others enjoy the chatter and constant flux of a busy café and the opportunities for observation that subsequently arise.

Please click on the following links to view artists work.

Cardiac- Helen Osbourne

Malgorzata – Malgorzata Drohomireck

Imaginary world – Ellie Rassia

Art exhibition inspired in Mandela’s biography

Caroline Payne

September 17th – 24th

Private View – Monday 17th 6:30 – 9pm

Caroline Payne developed a love for Art and Art History at school and then completed a foundation course at Parsons Paris.
She continued her studies at Camberwell College of Art. Caroline’s painting focuses on the experiential through the use of colour to depict thought and feeling.
Caroline is hoping to teach applied Art and English in India from January of next year and hopes to develop and sell her art from there.