Art Work: CB support for the arts - Collyer Bristow LLP Lawyers, London, Geneva

Dec 4

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Composition Red and Green #stevenheffer @primrosehillart #contemporarybritishpainting #comtemporarybritishart

Dec 3

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Wishing all our friends and contacts in the Art world good health and a wonderful festive season.

Dec 2

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Study for portrait of Red Ted #stevenheffer @primrosehillart #contemporarypainting #modernbritishart #britishmodernart #modbrit

Dec 2

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Emerging painting Vauxhall Bridge from St George’s Wharf #stevenheffer @primrosehillart #riverthames #riverthameswalk

Dec 1

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Art amidst a pandemic. Dougie Wallace’s ‘Bus Response’ proves how art can be made in the darkest and most surreal of times. Fantastic recent feature in The Guardian of his work.

Apr 22

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Another type of precipice & a most dangerous one by Laura Hudson in her painting #WaitingRoom...a piece that agin resonates with the current #Covidcrisis...in @rosalindnldavis #virtual #Curatorstour

For Laura the act of #painting is a slow
resistance to 21stC #digital waterboarding, where thresholds of #perception can be interrogated through the #haptic mark & loaded brush. Disruption & duplicity are
essential: one thing might mirror another but never entirely fixed to it. Playing with the resemblance of things, her contingent #narratives are duplicitous, darkly humorous & scripted with #political as well as #autobiographical intent. Images evolve that cannot help but reflect both present conditions & previous knowledge. The #hybrid #creatures, masked or augmented humans that appear in her work are a response to the #existential threats we face in a #posttruth climate of ulterior facts, (mis)information & histories rewritten. 🌟

Laura Hudson is a #neurodivergent, gender non-conforming #artist, #writer and #curator. Hudson studied #EnvironmentalArt @glasgowschoolart (BA 1989) and artist moving image at @fine_art_csm (PGDip 1992) before working professionally in film exhibition and new media for organisations such as LFMC (Lux), Cinenova Film Distribution & ACE Broadcast & New Media. Returning to her practice 2016 Laura now holds an MA @cglartschool (2019), thanks to a scholarship bursary from the Royal Female Art School, and is currently the artist in residence at Hertford Arts Hub responding to the legacy of #AlanDavie & working as an #archivist for the @ken.kiff_estate . Hudson has been incl in many exhibits; @trinitybuoywharf , @royalacademyarts, @beeppainting, Sketch Open, 2017, RWA.

Oct 7

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A very #Happybirthday to our #curator @rosalindnldavis who has many hats incl being an #artist, #designconsultant, #writer, a grad of @rcatextiles & Chelsea College of Art. Here’s a little more about her & a beautiful testimonial to share on her special day:
“Intellectually stimulating & well thought through Rosalind curates the smartest, most intelligent & thought -provoking shows of new and emergent art in London of such a consistently high standard. “
Graham Crowley, Painter, Writer, Curator.
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Rosalind has worked for us since 2016 & #curated 12 exhibits incl #graduateaward exhibitions to support #newcareerartists. Davis’ 1st exhibit ; #Complicity reviewed by @arttop10 ; ‘Cracking Show. Superb Artists. Brilliantly curated.’ 14 Artworks sold in the show incl a purchase by a major #collector.Davis carried on building up a database of collectors - new & establishes.
Exhibitions have been reviewed /covered by @Arttop10, a-n reviews,
@thetimes, @City Magazine, @Londonist_com @paulcareykent @DateagleArt blogs. RD co-hosted a number of events & #arttours for #ArtsOrganisations, #artProfessionals; @FineArtgroup @mallgalleries , @ypalondon well as tours for #BarrySchwabsky, the @smithsonian @contemporaryartsociety , @govartcol & loads of other special guests!

As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally & internationally & her work is held in a number of collections incl @sohohouselondon
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Davis lectures expansively across the country incl the @RCA, @firstsitecolchester , @icalondon @camdenartcentre @unioftheartslondon @cglartschool , @fineartistsummit @clayhillarts & many more! Davis has been a #mentor for yrs working for a-n, @artquestlondon , Shape Arts, @plop.residency, UKYA & independently.

Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ commissioned by Octopus Books. Davis has also been an Ambassador & curatorial mentor for @uknewartists
& selected works for exhibits & prizes incl the Robert Walters / UKYA exhibition @SaatchiGallery and @jacksons_painting_prize .
Davis contributed to #BBC4’s Film ‘Tales of Winter. The Art of Snow and Ice.’ As a Consultant Davis has worked for arts organisations, charities & corporations

Mar 4

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Thanks to @carolinebanks for posting on her blog about #MemyselfandI curated by @rosalindnldavis
Works featured in the blog are @mswatkiss @sikelelaowen @ken.kiff_estate @marieharnett @laurahudsonstudio 💥💥💥🙏🙏🙏 see the full blog on Caroline’s website.

Mar 29

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Today on the #virtualtour by #Curator @rosalindnldavis of our #exhibition #MemyselfandI there is a connection between the concealment of @laurahudsonstudio figure in a helmet and the washing machines with their glass faces in @nathaneastwoodstudio painting, but also in both paintings the hidden facial expressions and the expressiveness of the bodies depicted- in this piece ‘Twos company threes a crowd’ it is perhaps of quiet contemplation, peaceful solitude...a perfect #MeMyselfandI moment.... Nathan Eastwood’s greyscale realist, enamel paintings reveal the dialectics of social existence, everyday life; moments that normally go unnoticed. These subjects he has chosen to paint are, mainly the universal #proletariat. These #obsessive, intensely #atmospheric and #melancholic #paintings operate within the conceptual framework of photo-realism, yet the works reveal loose brush marks and surface imperfections such as trapped dust and hair under a seemingly shiny surface. In this way the paintings are fictional rather than strictly Photo-
Realistic. 🌟🌟 Nathan Eastwood (b. 1972) is a #Londonbasedartist. He graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. Eastwood is the winner of the 2014 East London Painting Prize and has been selected for the Threadneedle Prize, @mallgalleries, London, 2013; @jmpaintingprize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2012; Celeste Art Prize, T2, Old Truman Brewery London & Lyon & Turnbull Galleries, #Edinburgh, 2007. Eastwood’s recent exhibitions have included; My England at @sidmotiongallery, Laptop & Chips at SE9 Container Gallery, Work/Recreation/Freedom at Nunnery Gallery, London; Made in Britain: 82 Painters of the 21st Century, the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland; Present Tense at Swindon Art Gallery, UK, and @PaintBritain, Ipswich Museum, UK.
Publications: Made in Britain, group
exhibition catalogue, National Museum, Gdansk, Poland 2019; The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, Edited by Matt Price, Published by Anomie.

Jul 16

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We are deeply saddened to share the news that the wonderful talented Elly Thomas has passed away. Artist, writer and inspiration she will be missed by many.

Elly exhibited with us in #Reassemble in 2019 curated by @rosalindnldavis who recalls what a pleasure she was to work with “ I had admired Elly’s work for some time and immediately thought of her work for the themes in the show which fitted perfectly. She was incredibly intelligent, engaged and generous taken too soon. Our condolences to her family & friends.”
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Elly employed game playing strategies in her practice but with different, less defined and shifting outcomes. Her work engages with play as an immersive activity defined by risk-taking, tension, conflict and subversion. This enables a process to defer concerns with outcomes to allow for emergent, experimental object and image making. Animating or toying with material to produce the unforeseen outcome was the central force within her working process. These are assertively absurd processes that endlessly resist finality. Through an engagement with #clowning & #slapstick she revelled in a discrepancy between originating concept & emergent outcome. Made from a diverse range of materials including #papiermâché, #latex, #fabric, #plaster, #silicone and found objects, the kit remains as a loose collection of forms with which to improvise and experiment. Structures & combinations are reconfigured & reassembled in response to their spatial environment. Therefore, any assemblage can be seen as #provisional, just one proposition among many.
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Elly (1978-2020) was an artist and writer based in London. She received her PhD from the @sladeschool 2013. Publications include ‘Suwasa’ in Eduardo Paolozzi, exh.cat., @whitechapelgallery 2017, ‘Meccano Work: Eduardo Paolozzi’s kits’, Sculpture Journal, Vol. 25, No 1 and ‘Eduardo Paolozzi – Why Now?’, The British Art Journal, XVI, 2. Her book Play & the Artist’s Creative Process: The Work of #PhilipGuston & #EduardoPaolozzi published by Routledge. She was in a number of exhibits incl a solo show @ascgallery.

Apr 5

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Next to @brobirns #Sightseers who see nothing and remain in their isolated bubble we appropriately move to #Kingbaby by @eleanor_moreton “The King Baby is omnipotent, childish and narcissistic.”
in today’s #virtual #curatorstour by @rosalindnldavis.
“The King Baby is a character from an alternative world of #archetypes and #allegory that I am creating. I think painting itself is a kind of metaphor, making a communal object out of #subjectivity...I realise that many of my paintings are meditations on #morality, the #psyche and the possibility of evil.” 🌟

Eleanor Moreton studied #painting at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea College of Art; and Art History and Theory at the University of Central England. She has had solo shows with @cerihand Hand Gallery, and Canal Gallery both in London, The Phoenix, Exeter, @arushagallery in #Edinburgh and Jack Hanley in New York. She has taken part in many group shows in the UK, including East International, @jmpaintingprize and in Stockholm, Paris, and New York.
Her work features in #PicturingPeople by Charlotte Mullins (Thames and Hudson 2015) and the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price (Anomie 2017).
She was Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence 2007-8 and has work in the #GovernmentArtCollection and a number of #privatecollections. She is based in #London.

Apr 17

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Whilst we delve further into our psyches we travel to Room 1 in the #virtual #curatorstour of the exhibition #MemyselfandI by @rosalindnldavis and aptly find on this Friday eve The #Alchemist mixing some drinks...& feel rather nostalgic for times we could be together "This painting began in 2017 originally inspired by #Bosch's 'The Conjurer', but as with most of our work it became influenced by our personal experiences. We spent an evening in a bar transfixed by a barman mixing cocktails, throwing, shaking and spinning the concoctions that he became the model for our alchemist - using slight of hand to tranform things before your eyes.” We hope our lives will be transformed back in the not too distant future too... 🥂
Do raise a virtual glass with us this eve to celebrate all of the amazing people out there in health and social care, key workers et al keeping everything going and to the creatives out there who we also need in this #quarantine. 🌟

Collaborators since 2003 Broughton Birnie have always used humour to facilitate discussion of society’s stresses from political & cultural change in their work. Figures in their work often epitomize #heroic #sissyphianstruggles, courageous futility and the travails of the #humancondition. “Living & working together means we experience and are affected by the same things. The trust & intimacy gained by our relationship allows the unique way our painting style has developed – we don’t plan or discuss a work before or during its production, we rely on each other to respond or develop the painting as one would a conversation until we find a mutually agreeable conclusion, like #conversations the painting can start & stop change directions but only concludes when all is said on the subject-working independently towards an unspecified connection point which expresses a joint psychological state.” 🌟

Kevin Broughton studied at West Surrey College of Art & Design & @rca_painting Fiona Birnie studied @at Exeter College of Art & Design. They began collaborating in 2003 and made their collaboration permanent in 2005. Please see our other posts of Broughton Birnie’s work on our other posts as Insta have a character limit ;)

Apr 16

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We continue with @rosalindnldavis #virtual #curatorstour in Room 5 with the complexities of #identity, #selfhood and finding one's place in the world with @eleanor_moreton piece with Into the Underworld 2 (90x130cm)
“The main character in this painting is Janet, from the ‘#JanetandJohn’ children’s reading series. These primers are amongst my earliest memories of depictions of #children and #families. Janet here stands on the edge of a convoluted #underworld, perhaps on the edge of exploring the complexities of her own psyche.” What also weaves the 3 works in this room together (Jenkin by @georgina.clapham & Andrew by @manongraphy ) is the extraordinary and complex details in these three works - of the embellishment whether in the clothing of Jenkin, the tattoos of Andrew - both like armour, and the foliage in Eleanor’s piece - protecting too at the precipice of the girls descent - who is not armoured....
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Eleanor Moreton studied #painting at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea College of Art; and Art History and Theory at the University of Central England. She has had solo shows with @cerihand Hand Gallery, and Canal Gallery both in London, The Phoenix, Exeter, @arushagallery in #Edinburgh and Jack Hanley in New York. She has taken part in many group shows in the UK, including East International, @jmpaintingprize and in #Stockholm, #Paris, and #NewYork.
Her work features in #PicturingPeople by Charlotte Mullins (Thames & Hudson 2015) and the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price (Anomie 2017).She was Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence 2007-8 and has work in the #GovernmentArtCollection & a number of #privatecollections. She is based in #London.

Mar 15

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#MeMyselfandI is an exhibition investigating artists’ self-enquiry and expressions of the
interior self. Works speak to a range of lived experiences recalling personal and political struggles, #family #relationships and memories of #childhood. Across #painting, #drawing, #photography and #assemblage the show reflects on themes of #freedom and #solitude,
#collectivity and #belonging, #disenfranchisement and #loss. In liminal spaces between fact
and fiction, the fantastical and the everyday, twenty artists grapple with - and celebrate -the complexities of #identity, #selfhood and finding one's place in the world....in the current climate all seem very much more pertinent... Here are images from the first ten artists (in alphabetical order @paulben63, Broughton Birnie @brobirn, @georgina.clapham, @nathaneastwoodstudio , @margarita.gluzberg, @ken.kiff_estate, @iamayahaidar @willhar_ , @marieharnett

Curated by @rosalindnldavis
The gallery is temporarily closed due to Coronavirus.

Jun 24

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We are delighted to share a #freetalk by the incredible #GrahamCrowley – In Conversation with @annamcnay @heatherley_school_of_art
Graham exhibited in shows at the gallery curated by @rosalindnldavis
Part of a series of #online in conversation events with artists, painter #GrahamCrowley speaks about his work to #artwriter and journalist Anna McNay.
Crowley is clear in referring to himself as a #painter, not an artist. He regards painting as a discourse and an occupation, which allows him to straddle the boundary between thought and action, fiction and nonfiction.

In conversation with McNay, Crowley will talk about the effect of the legacy of #conceptualism on his practice – ‘it is a reminder of the complexity of the creative process and the need to constantly challenge assumptions and orthodoxies’ – and how he long resisted the academic orthodoxy’s view that painting was dead – by continuing to paint and subvert traditional genres. He will discuss how the acknowledgement of the dualism epitomised in the paintings of Manet – the ‘window on the world’ and the painting ‘as its own object’ – is fundamental to his work, as well as touching on the influences of #romanticism, #humanism and #theosophy. 🌟
Crowley is a practising painter and writer, b.1950. At the age of 18, he went to St Martin’s School of Art, where he studied painting. Four years later, he continued his studies @rca_painting has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. He has work in many public and private collections worldwide. He has been selected 10 times and won prizes twice at the @jmpaintingprize , in 2008, he became a selector.
In 1998, he was appointed as professor of painting at the Royal College of Art. He held that post for eight years. During that time, he guest lectured extensively at numerous colleges and universities worldwide
On leaving the RCA he continued to exhibit and write about painting and fine art education and in 20-19 had two major solo exhibitions at the Peterborough Museum and the Highlanes Gallery.. @annamcnay is freelance #artwriter and #editor. 💥💥💥 Link to #zoom in our biog. You can also hear Graham speak on the wonderful @arttop10

Apr 7

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A painting by @sikelelaowen is very much to be appreciated and to remind us all of happier times and moments, where we could wave a wand and make wishes...
Placed next to the strange fairytale of @ken.kiff_estate we continue with @rosalindnldavis #virtual #curatorstour

Sikelela Owens work is made up predominately of loose #figurativepaintings, #drawings, and #prints of #friends, #family, and people of interest. Ideas of #community and #intimacy are central to the artist’s work. The work draws from the history of paintings, personal imagery and their associated #memories and through the collection of wider imagery so readily available. The use of undefined spaces and underpainting brings a certain distance and unpredictability to the work as the figures enacting everyday rites and absorbed in their moments of leisure.

Sikelela Owen (b. 1984, London) where she lives and works, holds a PG Diploma from the @royalacademyschools and her work was featured in 2015 @thamesandhudson publication ‘#100PaintersofTomorrow’.Owen has exhibited nationally and internationally. Including a solo exhibition at the @jamesfreemangallery (2019): HSBC space London (2018) and NAM projects Milan (2014). Group exhibition includes Gesso Space, Vienna (2019); @jerwood_space , West Sussex (2015) and Spaces, London (2017). In 2019 Owen was an Abbey Fellow at the @britishschoolatrome and in 2020 she will be working with @_hospitalrooms Rooms Charity.

#Blackhistory #femaleartist #Londonartgallery #temporaryclosure

Apr 9

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$@rosalindnldavis #Virtual #CuratorsTour continues with the #KenKiff Piece #manwalking @ken.kiff_estate Rosalind had the great privilege to view the @john.talbot7 collection & pick these pieces. This litho delighted her in all its tenderness and sweetness and we hope this summons a smile in you all and remember brighter times 🌟 Never could these words by #GrahamCrowley seem more profound as to where we are now in society than when he wrote this about the power of #KenKiff works. “A society in which harmony & understanding coexists with incomprehension & isolation” Ken Kiff is an internationally #renowned #figurativepainter who painted about “#anxieties, his fractured sense of self & his place in the world….simultaneously #fantastic, #delightful & #disturbing. His paintings have the #emotional range and power which permits the paintings to simultaneously appear both #joyful and oppressive; harnessing the perpetual, involuntary and random maelstrom that is the #innervoice. The internalised chatter; the running commentaries that ‘occupy’ our quieter moments. The stories we tell ourselves. #Jungian archetypes abound and jostle. They watch, they touch, they converse, they reflect. Ken’s Sequence is a parallel world that conflates the symbolic, the #psychological, the #poetic and the #political. A simultaneously delightful & perplexing mix of the Arcadian & the dystopian has come to epitomise his work.”Graham Crowley. 🌟 Ken Kiff (1935-2001) studied at Hornsey School of Art (1955-60). He taught at Chelsea School of Art & at the RCA (60’s-80’s) and influenced a generation of students. He was represented by Nicola Jacobs gallery,Fisher Fine Art, and then @marlborough_gallery in 1990 by which time he had also begun to exhibit internationally and, by the time of his death in 2001, had work in major #publiccollections, incl #MOMA, The #MetropolitanMuseum, NY, #TateBritain. He was AssociateArtist at the #NationalGallery 1991-3 and showed there in 93-94. He was elected an RA in 1991. Numerous group shows included #ArnolfiniGallery in 1979 & #MOMA in 1981. Major #soloshows have been @serpentineuk @marlborough_gallery @sainsburycentre @ascgallery$

Sep 24

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Huge congratulations to another #CBGArtist @cigherette for also winning the #emergingartist prize from @newlightart as well as being featured on the invite.

We were delighted to show Linnet’s work in #MemyselfandI this year curated by @rosalindnldavis 👏🏻👏🏻💥💥
#championingemergingartists #supportingthearts #artistsoninstagram #throwbackthursday

Mar 17

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Due to the closure of the gallery our curator @rosalindnldavis is going to post the show as you are meant to traverse the show #MemyselfandI explaining the themes and strands knitting the show together artwork by artwork... "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality” #FridaKahlo

Starting with @mswatkiss Charmaine Watkiss’ work which is placed in the reception, that encapsulate many themes in the show - heritage, family, identity and the wider mysteries of the universe in her ‘memory stories.’ The stories are created primarily through research connected to the African Caribbean diaspora; she then maps these stories onto life sized figures. She draws herself as a conduit to relay stories which speak about a collective experience; usually starting with a theme, she then allows intuition and a dialogue with the work to take over. Pencil and paper are her main materials of choice, and as the work develop’s she often includes other materials such as
#watercolour, #wax, #ink, #coloured pencil etc. Layering of material allows her to weave additional #narratives into the work, allowing the material to speak in a way that the drawing itself can't. Charmaine works in a nonlinear way by accessing libraries and archives, and often gaining inspiration from totally unrelated sources which helps to add surprising elements to the work.
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Charmaine Watkiss graduated from MA Drawing at @wimbledonual 2018. Following the MA she was invited to give a talk at the V&A in an evening of Black Women’s
art around the theme ‘I am the person I know best’; in response to the #FridaKhalo: Making
Herself Up exhibition. In 2019 Charmaine’s work was shortlisted for the @trinitybuoywharf #Drawing prize; the exhibition was on show in London, and then moved to
the De Montford University Gallery until April 2020.

Oct 14

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#cbgartist @justinjhibbs in a group show in #mexicocity right now!
Justin showed in #complicity #rulesoffreedom curated by @rosalindnldavis #supportingartists

Aug 4

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May 12

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On Monday 18 May at 2pm @rosalindnldavis will do an #instagramlive about Curating the current show #MemyselfandI and give some insights into the thought process behind the show and the Background in how she selected the artists for the exhibition: @paulben63, Broughton Birnie @brobirn, @georgina.clapham , @nathaneastwoodstudio , @margarita.gluzberg, @ken.kiff_estate, @iamayahaidar , @willhar_ , @marieharnett , @laurahudsonstudio, @marjojo2017 , @eleanor_moreton, @katemurdochartist , @manongraphy, @sikelelaowen , Conor Rogers @rogersconor , Linnet Rubaya @cigherette, @wendymsaunders, @mswatkiss, @erikawinstone
please join us if you can #artisteducation #curatorialinsight
A wider programme of #Instagramtalks will be announced soon!

Oct 18

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In loving memory of #paulbenjamins @paulben63 whose 70th birthday would have been today. His cancer diaries were part of #MemyselfandI curated by @rosalindnldavis (images 2&3 “The pieces were from the last series of work Paul created when he was diagnosed with #terminalcancer, they chart his reaction to his illness, providing him with a way to process his #prognosis. They became a #record of his journey, documenting #positive & #negative experiences.
More than 120 of these paper works are #published in a book ‘This Time it’s for real.” produced as a #limitededition of 200 at a cost of £300 per book with all profits going to @stchrishospice who cared for Paul at the end of his life. Jaqui Benjamins
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The print is also available to buy (framed) @£600 (40.5x32.5cm)
Paul “My work is influenced by where I am from, my surroundings & experiences. I am a #Londoner, & my work has often been influenced by living in the #city. My work has fluctuated between being #semiabstract & having #figurative aspects. I try to create an atmosphere, something people might relate to, somewhere they might have visited or a feeling experienced. I take lots of photos & occasionally include these in my work, but I usually just use these as a reference point to create a #memory of an #experience. I want my work to evoke a #thought or spark a memory. I want to be able to provoke a reaction”

Paul (1950-2015) grad @Camberwell School of Art & RCA. He had a no of #soloshows @Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris & with Thumb Gallery, Jill George Gallery, Advanced Graphics, London, as well as Lander Bank, Austria Champagne Vraken, Galerie Wam & Brighton University. Selected Group shows incl: The Hayward Annual, John Moores, Liverpool, Art Haus, Austria, International Contemporary Art Fair LA, Advanced Graphics, Galerie Musee d’Art Contemporain de Chamalieres, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mural Herouville-St-Clair, John Jones, London, Musee Toulouse-Lautrec, France, Musee des Beaux-Arts,France, Gallery Bhak, Korea, Galerie, Wa,France, #GlasgowArtfair, Santa Fe Art Fair, #TorontoArtFair, Chicago International ArtFair, @londonartfair @royalacademyarts #PrintFair.Paul’s work is in #privatecollections

Nov 30

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Some pieces from the Collyer Bristow acquisitions from exhibitions over 28 years. The first and most recent is Sat Firing Squad Mk3 by @ameliakatesampson exhibited at the gallery in 2018

Apr 10

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We continue to move around the room and we next come not quite a fairytale but a fable with @eleanor_moreton painting : Rider, Death and The Devil depicting A small rider on an orange horse making her way down a path, beset by evil and fear. In the manner of medieval allegory, she is encouraged to be steadfast and not step beyond the moral path. The painting is loosely based on Dürer’s etching Knight, Death and the Devil. ...I realise that many of my paintings are meditations on #morality, the #psyche and the possibility of evil.” #virtual #curatorstour by @rosalindnldavis. 🌟

Eleanor Moreton studied #painting at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea College of Art; and Art History and Theory at the University of Central England. She has had solo shows with @cerihand Hand Gallery, and Canal Gallery both in London, The Phoenix, Exeter, @arushagallery in #Edinburgh and Jack Hanley in New York. She has taken part in many group shows in the UK, including East International, @jmpaintingprize and in Stockholm, Paris, and New York.
Her work features in #PicturingPeople by Charlotte Mullins (Thames and Hudson 2015) and the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price (Anomie 2017).
She was Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence 2007-8 and has work in the #GovernmentArtCollection and a number of #privatecollections. She is based in #London.

Apr 11

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Adjacent to @eleanor_moreton is another character: Bu-Ra-Ti-No! by @margarita.gluzberg whose drawings of children, animals and fictional creatures from animated TV series index a language that evokes the iconography of the late 70s #Russianculture, now reachable through the Internet. These characters all attempt at communication, though they also hint at the highly reconstructive, frivolous and ambiguous nature of human recollection. They facilitate the artist’s endeavour to access the past, her personal quest for reunion, but also a
closure.”
#Virtual #Curatorstour of #MemyselfandI by @rosalindnldavis
The piece is 145x185cm and the second image has #CBGartist @justinjhibbs on the real life tour back in Feb. 🌟
Margarita’s work “explores the tensions & reciprocal interplay between the past & present, #memory & #fiction, & the politics of desire. She is fascinated with surface reality & material manifestations of consumer culture and has a multi-faceted approach to image-making and production of meaning. Her practice, ranging from #drawing, #photography & #performance to sound & film installation, drawing upon historical events, semi-biographical stories, and eclectic cultural references to create visually charged environments that summon memories of the past and negotiate aspects of contemporary existence.” Dominik Czechowski, Curator, Pushkin House

Born in #Moscow, Margarita Gluzberg has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the @ruskinschoolofart, University of Oxford and the @rca_painting . While studying, she worked on theatre productions as a designer and illustrated 2 x children’s books.her work has been presented MAC/VAL, Paris; CAC, Vilnius; Rooseum, Malmö; KAdE Kunsthal, The Netherlands; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; British School, Rome, @drawingroom_ldn ; and @sitegallery, Sheffield. In 2016 her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock On Bones’, a series of multi-media Performance Lectures, was staged at the @delawarr ; Performance Studio, London; and the RCA. Her most recent solo exhibition In Paradise, took place @pushkinhouselondon. Gluzberg has had an extensive teaching career, becoming Senior Lecturer at the @royalacademyschools in 2018.

Mar 16

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We were very proud to see
#MemyselfandI Curated by @rosalindnldavis was featured in one of the #topexhibitions to see in @anartistsinfo #review alongside heavy hitters @mattsgallerylondon @ikongallery amongst others 🌟There’s also a link there to @katemurdochartist blogs about the show - pictured here- in which she gives her insight into her work and it’s wider context. Go read 💥

Artists: @paulben63, Broughton Birnie @brobirn, @georgina.clapham , @nathaneastwoodstudio , @margarita.gluzberg, @ken.kiff_estate, @iamayahaidar , @willhar_ , @marieharnett , @laurahudsonstudio, @marjojo2017 , @eleanor_moreton, @katemurdochartist , @manongraphy, @sikelelaowen , Conor Rogers @rogersconor , Linnet Rubaya @cigherette, @wendymsaunders, @mswatkiss, @erikawinstone 🌟🌟🌟🌟 We hope we can reopen the gallery again soon so you can come and see the show!
Look after yourselves and others.

May 4

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@rosalindnldavis can’t think of anything more inspiring than @peterliversidge #installation of #supportnhs #supportkeyworkers that grows every day and brings joy to all the people passing #romanroad and us online.
The piece has been in the @guardian @the.independent and photographed by many who pass without knowing who this is by...so please share...#artistsbringjoy
#valueartists #mondaymotivation 💥💥💥💥
We were privileged to show Peter’s work in #Complicity 2016 and #rulesoffreedom 2019 and he is represented by @katemacgarry @seankellyny

Mar 8

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Wishing you all a Happy #Internationalwomensday and celebrate the many female artists in our show curated by @rosalindnldavis

Pictured here are some of the works that are in the exhibition #MemyselfandI that portray and celebrate womanhood in its many guises.
In order of appearance
@katemurdochartist & @wendymsaunders
@iamayahaidar &
@marjojo2017
@sikelelaowen
@mswatkiss
@cigherette
@laurahudsonstudio
@eleanor_moreton
@margaritagluzberg
@erikawinstone ‘Me, Myself and I’ is an exhibition investigating artists’ self-enquiry and expressions of the interior self. Works speak to a range of lived experiences recalling personal and #political struggles, family relationships and memories of childhood. Across #painting, #drawing, #photography and #assemblage the show reflects on themes of #freedom and #solitude, collectivitity and belonging, #disenfranchisement and loss.

Mar 25

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As we continue through @rosalindnldavis #curatortour and the ideas of labour we look opposite Aya Haidar’s work and look at another different form of #labour and #youth with this piece by @nathaneastwoodstudio
Young men are queuing for something...we see them from the back, hooded and anonymous waiting for a door to open. possibly a job centre but we can’t be sure...but uncertainty emanates and draws us to a much more different more youth group in the show.
Nathan Eastwood’s greyscale realist, enamel paintings reveal the dialectics of social existence, everyday life; moments that normally go unnoticed. These subjects he has chosen to paint are, mainly the universal #proletariat. These #obsessive, intensely #atmospheric and #melancholic #paintings operate within the conceptual framework of photo-realism, yet the works reveal loose brush marks and surface imperfections such as trapped dust and hair under a seemingly shiny surface. In this way the paintings are fictional rather than strictly Photo-
Realistic. 🌟🌟 Nathan Eastwood (b. 1972) is a #Londonbasedartist. He graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. Eastwood is the winner of the 2014 East London Painting Prize and has been selected for the Threadneedle Prize, @mallgalleries, London, 2013; @jmpaintingprize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2012; Celeste Art Prize, T2, Old Truman Brewery London & Lyon & Turnbull Galleries, #Edinburgh, 2007. Eastwood’s recent exhibitions have included; My England at @sidmotiongallery, Laptop & Chips at SE9 Container Gallery, Work/Recreation/Freedom at Nunnery Gallery, London; Made in Britain: 82 Painters of the 21st Century, the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland; Present Tense at Swindon Art Gallery, UK, and @PaintBritain, Ipswich Museum, UK.
Publications: Made in Britain, group
exhibition catalogue, National Museum, Gdansk, Poland 2019; The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, Edited by Matt Price, Published by Anomie.

Apr 20

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From ‘ No plan, no control’ in the last post about ‘Chairing by @brobirn to @eleanor_moreton , Dung (80x58.5cm). “On television a dung beetle was pushing a ball of treasured dung up a sand dune. Every now and then both ball and beetle would come unstuck, the ball rolling over the beetle’s back to the bottom of the dune and the process would start again. The beetle was doing all this backwards, head downwards, unable to see where it was going. But apparently able to navigate by the stars. Eleanor Moreton’s work is often metaphoric: “I think painting itself is a kind of metaphor, making a communal object out of subjectivity.” During a studio visit @rosalindnldavis and Eleanor spent a long time discussing the works chosen for the exhibition #MemyselfandI and the #DungBeetle and how similar it can feel as an artist and how we still endure and push forwards even if things do not always make entire sense or cannot be completely planned!
#virtual #Curatorstour 💥

Eleanor Moreton studied #painting at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea College of Art; and Art History and Theory at the University of Central England. She has had solo shows with @cerihand , and Canal Gallery both in London, The Phoenix, Exeter, @arushagallery in Edinburgh and Jack Hanley in New York. She has taken part in many group shows in the UK, including East International, The John Moores painting prize, and in Stockholm, Paris, and New York. Her work features in Picturing People by Charlotte Mullins (Thames and Hudson 2015) and the Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price (Anomie 2017). She was Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence 2007-8 and has work in the Government Art Collection and a number of private collections. She is based in #London.

Jul 23

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#tbt to an exhibition that feels just as relevant now as it did a year and a half ago #Rulesoffreedom.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.’ #nelsonmandela

#A compelling exhibition with a diverse, yet related, group of artists around your theme.”
Feedback from guests from The Smithsonian Institute.

“This inventive exhibition demonstrates how artistic practices might observe and push boundaries of making and seeing as a direct parallel to legal demarkations and questionable social norms.” - Jillian Knipe, @jillaroo_uk

With 24 artists in the show here is a selection.

1. @justinjhibbs
2. @hughmendes11
3. @peterkennardx
4. @peterkennardx
5. @juanbolivarstudio2112
6.@virginiaverran
7. @judithtuckerart
8. @vanessamitter
9. @mrdavidlock
10. @kazzdouieart

Curated by @rosalindnldavis - you can see the full catalogue and all the artists in the Online catalogue on Rosalind’s website in the curatorial section. See link above

Themes include: #displacement #brexit #identity #freedom #imprisonment #rulebreakers #activism #protest #trump #kardashians #divorce #feminism #climatechange
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Jun 23

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#Repost @assemblage_magazine ・・・
“The COVID-19 crisis has meant that artists are in danger of having their livelihoods destroyed and so it is vitally important that they find new ways to sell their work - for example to make promotional videos of their studios or create online exhibitions. I have also witnessed a new phenomena: the rise of the video conferencing service which provides opportunity for online learning and networking. In addition there are public podcasts, interviews, films, photos, blogs and essays to choose from online.” @abaraitser has written a new article for Assemblage about the evolving use of technology by artists and the art world since lockdown began, and how we can utilise the Internet to support ourselves and each other during good and bad times.
Featuring our curator @rosalindnldavis and our friends @judithtuckerart who exhibited in #rulesoffreedom and @robert_dunt @arttop10 who reviewed and filmed many of our Exhibitions and interviewed the artists in our shows. 💻Link in bio📱

#assemblagemagazine #artjournalism #painting #technology #artwriting #artexhibition #onlineshow #artpodcast #covid19 #artworld

Apr 15

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Today on @rosalindnldavis #Virtual #Curatortour we focus on @manongraphy who engages with notions of #identity and the therapeutic values #photography can offer, posing difficult yet essential questions regarding #bodyimage and visual representation. Her work advocates understanding and #compassion while inspiring self-confidence and #positivity with the individuals with whom she collaborates. Manon’s work is born from the desire to learn human stories and to celebrate each individual that she photographs, as Andrew the sitter in the photograph for Me Myself and I says; "Putting myself in front of a photographer, when part of me no longer exists, was for me about seeing how the world sees me. I no longer have all of the body I was born with; how does that look through someone else eyes? Is it brutal? or beautiful? Does it make any difference? I feel the same, but I know I don’t look it." 🌟

Manon Ouimet is a #Londonbased #photographer. Recent exhibitions include Robert Walters Group @uk.youngartists - @saatchi_gallery Gallery, Out of the Mist - ABC South Bank Melbourne and Brisbane City Hall, Orbit Art Show - OXO Tower, PX3 State of The World - Espace Beaurepaire, Tellers - Bower Ashton UWE, Portrait of Humanity - 1854 Media, The Moment Is Then - Alice Black Gallery, Foundations - Martin Parr Foundation, Veterans Work - Ham Yard, Belfast Exposed and others. Her work has also been selected for the Royal Photography Society IPE 162 exhibition touring the UK this year.

The second image is Manon with her work photographed by the fab @davidxgreen

Feb 27

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Mar 31

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@rosalindnldavis #virtual #curatorstour continues...
From @rogersconor piece about #family & rituals we arrive at @erikawinstone piece I’m Not There - who often collaborates with her daughter in her work and within this piece also a memory of her father - working across #generations.
I'm Not There resonates in many other ways in this current #selfisolation period and the absence of others...& almost a warning flagged in the Betting slips of Conor’s of what can happen with addiction & losing someone to that makes the context of seeing this work ever more poignant.
Erika makes #paintings informed by a #drawingpractice & #gestural #video to filter how individuals relate across different #generations, mixing both #personal and #fictionalexperience. Her marks transitively capture and combine the music, actions and communications of others in a #multidisciplinary practice. The #text in her paintings for example; I'm Not There act as signage to her original drawing source- a film about #BobDylan which she orchestrated with footage of her #daughter. Winstone's process of painting and excavating letters on wood relates to a teenage experience when her father’s name appeared in paint shortly after he died. However, it also doubles as a signifier, alluding to the sometime, difficult relationship between who we are, and who we would like to be. 🌟

Erika is a #Londonbased #artist, #curator & #lecturer. Her practice includes #performance, #video & #drawing. These individual elements are configured in her #installations. Winstone is a member of @thelondongroup and was a founder member of [NAME], a collaboration of four #femaleartists. She has exhibited nationally & internationally & is featured in the @britishmuseum catalogue Drawing in Silver & Gold: Leonardo to #JasperJohns. Publications by Scwalb& Mazzullo, Routledge 2019, @patrickheideca 2018. She has an MA @kingstonschoolofart , MFA at @sladeschool, BA Painting at @camberwellual. In 2019 Erika had a #soloexhibition at @beaconsfield_gallery_vauxhall London.

Sep 21

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#Happybirthday to #cbgartist @karensdavid an excellent artist and curator who exhibited in our 25 year #anniversary show #Inthefuture
Karen David graduated with an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art in 2012. In 2014 she undertook a research trip to Marfa, Texas and Roswell, New Mexico. In 2015 she was Artist in Residence at Islington Mill, Manchester, and in 2016 won the Artist in Residence award on the BA Painting Wimbledon College of Art. David also writes, curates and runs Cork Lined Rooms; an artist interview and studio project based on the Proust Questionnaire.

Solo exhibitions include: Crystal Visions, CIMCOT, Pure Reason Tint of Violet, VITRINE, Santa Fe, Art Lacuna, and Searching for the Viable Essence, Jacob’s Island Gallery, London. Group shows include: Mannequin, Griffin Gallery Perimeter Space, Without Shores, ASC Gallery, London Art Fair with White Conduit Projects, Anti-Social Realism, Charlie Smith Gallery, A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, Gallery and Tomb, Shrine, Survey - Marker, Enclave Projects, Expanded Painting: Mock-a-Modern, Oval Gallery and WunderKammer, The Nunnery, London.

Karen David’s #multidisciplinary practice examines themes and notions of mysticism with direct reference to consumerism and the domestic through the use of materials, mediums and subcultures such as; tie-dye, crystals and dreamcatchers. Her research has taken her to the Southwest American desert to explore its landscape and mythologies and to inform an ongoing project consisting of a fictional artists’ commune where residents investigate links between Abstract Expressionism and New Age memorabilia, Para-anthroplogy and new possibilities in gardening.

Apr 24

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$@rosalindnldavis #Virtual #CuratorsTour continues with the #KenKiff Piece #Dahlias @ken.kiff_estate placed next to Paul’s work - a creature full of pathos, resonating here of some of the interior and exterior experiences of Paul ... Never could these words by #GrahamCrowley seem more profound as to where we are now in society than when he wrote this about the power of #KenKiff works. “A society in which harmony & understanding coexists with incomprehension & isolation” Ken Kiff is an internationally #renowned #figurativepainter who painted about “#anxieties, his fractured sense of self & his place in the world….simultaneously #fantastic, #delightful & #disturbing. His paintings have the #emotional range and power which permits the paintings to simultaneously appear both #joyful and oppressive; harnessing the perpetual, involuntary and random maelstrom that is the #innervoice. The internalised chatter; the running commentaries that ‘occupy’ our quieter moments. The stories we tell ourselves. #Jungian archetypes abound and jostle. They watch, they touch, they converse, they reflect. Ken’s Sequence is a parallel world that conflates the symbolic, the #psychological, the #poetic and the #political. A simultaneously delightful & perplexing mix of the Arcadian & the dystopian has come to epitomise his work.”Graham Crowley. 🌟 Ken Kiff (1935-2001) studied at Hornsey School of Art (1955-60). He taught at Chelsea School of Art & at the RCA (60’s-80’s) and influenced a generation of students. He was represented by Nicola Jacobs gallery,Fisher Fine Art, and then @marlborough_gallery in 1990 by which time he had also begun to exhibit internationally and, by the time of his death in 2001, had work in major #publiccollections, incl #MOMA, The #MetropolitanMuseum, NY, #TateBritain. He was AssociateArtist at the #NationalGallery 1991-3 and showed there in 93-94. He was elected an RA in 1991. Numerous group shows included #ArnolfiniGallery in 1979 & #MOMA in 1981. Major #soloshows have been @serpentineuk @marlborough_gallery @sainsburycentre @ascgallery$