Push The Boat Out

" Nicola's work searches back deep into the human psyche to confront its most ancient , atavistic fears in making sense of a dangerous world, calling upon myths and fables as sources for imagery, from the transfiguration of Zeus to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream ." - William Packer "Nicola Hicks's sculpture and drawing practice has focused upon heroic, humanized animals and mythic, beast-like humans. From the moment she burst upon the wider public stage, there has been no doubting her remarkable talent. While still at the Royal College of Art, she quickly established an immediate presence among the artists of her generation as a serious and substantial figure. She was remarkable on every count, for she flew in the face of the critical expectations of those days not just in the nature of the actual imagery she celebrated--figurative, romantic and expressive--but also in the direct and gleeful joy she took in the physical making of these things." B...

Gordon Beswick Short biog . Gordon Beswick is an artist and filmmaker. He studied fine art at The School of Art at the University of Brighton and is a member of Westland Place Studios in Hoxton, East London. For the last ten years Gordon has worked as a freelance filmmaker for art galleries and institutions including Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, South London Gallery, Art Fund and Hauser & Wirth. Gordon enjoys painting in his studio as often as he can. He also works on collaborative film and art projects with other artists. He regularly collaborates and exhibits with artist Harry Pye. For more info on Gordon's films click: on here

Artist Statement: Kate Murdoch works predominantly in the medium of assemblage, collage and installation. Her work centres around a lifelong passion for collecting. Found objects, images and other materials, mostly from the everyday and dating from the last century, are modified, transformed or placed together so that they retain a sense of their original function, but also assume new meaning. Work presented for 'Pushing the Boat Out' reflects Murdoch's interest in objects as clear indicators of the passage of time. Steeped in social and political history, the selected images and objects open up opportunities for personal and political discussion, particularly around issues of class, privilege and value and worth. Wider themes of loss and remembrance are also explored, reflecting Murdoch's fascination with the permanence of objects versus the fragility of human existence. Biog: Kate Murdoch is an artist living and working in London. Murdoch has exhibited as part of...

Short Bio Born in 1969 , artist Corin Johnson began sculpting soon after leaving school. As well as working with a variety of artists he worked as a sculptor / carvers apprentice and later attended Art School in Kennington, and through going to the art school he met many inspiring people including the art critic David Sylvester and practicing artists such as Euan Uglow , Craigie Atchison and Peter Snow who encouraged him and championed his work. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Tate modern , Vigo gallery, the London art fair , Pangolin ,The SNOW gallery, the Arts centre in Melbourne ( the show travelled to Sydney and Canberra ) etc and has been featured in publications and most of the national News papers ( including the Times and the Sun ). One of his sculptures was made a the request of Marcus Harvey for a show he was curating called 2 and a half dimensions and he was approached by the artist Paul Noble to create several groups of maquettes and...

Harry Pye – Artist statement. I studied Fine Art Printmaking at Winchester School of Art. I didn’t start painting till 15 years ago which was around the time I turned 30. Art has been a means of finding out how I feel about people and things. It’s also stopped me feeling bored and lonely and that everything is pointless. My paintings often cheer me up. Recently I’ve been working on a transcription of a Van Gogh painting called The Painter on the Road to Tarascon . I’m hoping to exhibit a new painting based on the Van Gogh painting and also a very large painting I made in collaboration with Gordon Beswick which is of Chris Packham and is also a part homage to Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night. Short biog. ************ Born 1973, artist and writer Harry Pye is the founder The Rebel magazine. And has curated dozens of exhibitions including; “100 Mothers” and “Viva Pablo”. Recently he was one of the organisers of the “Inside Job” show at Tate Modern. Harry’s paintings has...

James F Johnston (Red hill - Acrylic on paper 24" X 16' 2018) Short biog. Born 1966, painter and musician James Johnston is founder member of long standing London group Gallon Drunk, and a former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Most recently he has recorded and toured with PJ Harvey, during which time he turned to painting - initially in hotel rooms on tour- and then subsequently as a prolific daily studio practice. 'Push the boat out' marks the third exhibition of his paintings and prints. His work also having been featured in Sargasso Arts magazine, on record covers, and upcoming books both as cover art and illustrations. Above: Kneeling man becoming a dog Acrylic on paper 24" X 16" 2018

Patrick Morrissey Morrissey utilises a modular language to promote an appearance of gradual mutation. Permutating numerical sequences are used in the process of creating images which are febrile, seemingly operating between two and three dimensions. This process leads to a kinetic binary outcome which can either be modified, controlled or left to accrue randomly. In every instance, the intention is not to present an identifiable focal reference point, but rather,to induce in the viewer, a visual and physiological saturation of consciousness. ‘The feeling of a durational changing space is critical to Patrick Morrissey’s work. He employs numerical systems, juxtaposing trapezoids, rhombuses and parallelograms in a ‘meandering geometry’. The works seem to respond to the possibilities in projected imagery, light, monumentality and sequential / serial development. For Morrissey the idea of playback or obliteration of content from continuous playing opens up the notion of an after-imag...

Cedar Lewisohn: "I am an artist, curator and writer. In my studio practice I am interested in Modernist art history and how it was influenced by “ethnographic” artworks from Africa. I have for the last three years been researching various museum collections around the UK and Europe looking at examples of these various artworks, both ethnographic and Modernist, which I reinterpret in my own visual style. I explore this idea of consumption of culture from a black British perspective. My work has recently looked at the marginalisation of the black body and the black experience both within Modernist art history, and within the contemporary psyche. This relates to the politics of the image and integrating the image. In practical terms my practice takes various forms. I make large and small scale wood carving as well as other types of print making and drawing. In 2015 I worked on a major project for the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, making a series of very large scale boo...