Opening Preview Tuesday 17th January

Andrea Greenwood

We are pleased to announce our 6th and final confirmed artist for Chance Encounters, Slade MA graduate Andrea Greenwood, who will be showing new work in the exhibition. Below is an image from her previous work, 'My Boomerang Came Back':

See Andrea's website for further work and information: http://www.andreagreenwood.co.uk/

Natalia Skobeeva

We will be showing existing video work by international artist Natalia Skobeeva, who has exhibited widely within the UK, Europe and Russia.

Please see the link to her website for further information: http://skobeeva.wordpress.com/

Farrago

Multi-discilinary duo Farrago will be installing a previous work, which we are very excited to be including in the exhibition.

Take a look at their website and blog for more information on their work... http://farrago-at-wysing.blogspot.com/

(Image by Farrago)

Callum Whitley

Callum Whitley will be showing previous work, reinterpreted for the Parlour gallery space. The following images provide an insight to the process behind his work:

See more of Callum's work on his blog: http://callumwhitley.blogspot.com/

Patrick Mifsud

Patrick Mifsud will be exhibiting documentation of  a series of interventions in the local area of Queen's Crescent. Some examples of his previous work can be seen below:

The following is taken from Patrick's statement:

My current research and practice predominantly deals with site specificity and I work with a variety of media both in my installations and sculptures. Whether it is site specific or conceptual; my work regularly engages with minimal forms and materials. Defining new spaces within architecture is the primary aim of my current practice. Using a language derived from minimal art, my work investigates different definitions of space and explores various ways of how viewers interact with it.

Through intervening with architecture, my work aims to alter the way viewers experience space. They are invited to move around my work, whether it is a sculpture or an installation and by doing so, their spatial awareness is heightened.

By using architecture as a starting point, my work aims to become an extension of the site whether it is trying to define or create a new space within the architecture.

Patrick also has an upcoming exhibition at Marsden Woo Gallery:

Marsden Woo Gallery will present Patrick Mifsud’s first London solo show, ‘On Different Levels’, in their Project Space, which is curated by Tessa Peters. 

Along with a series of drawings and photographs of interventions created in public spaces, Mifsud will be creating an immersive installation which intervenes and redefines the architecture of the Project Space. 

‘On Different Levels’ opens on the 15th of February at 18:00 and will remain open till the 17th of March 2012 (Tues - Fri 11:00 - 18:00, Sat 11:00 - 16:00)

www.marsdenwoo.com

Please visit his website to see more work: www.patrickmifsud.com

Matt Glenn

Matt Glenn will be exhibiting new work during our exhibition this January. 

Matt Glenn's images and installations seek to discuss the duality of frailty and beauty.

Remnants of fleeting moments, and occlusions of what may lay just out of reach (or sight)

dominate the themes surrounding Glenn's practice.

The minimal picture planes in Glenn's works are often jilted with a disruptive act - bullet holes adorn the surfaces of metallic or brightly painted objects, baring their violent exit wounds to the viewer. They record a distinct action or event, an acute moment in time- frozen in a perhaps futile attempt to preserve the perishable.

Matt Glenn graduated with an MA from Sydney College of the Arts in 2006. Based in London, he has exhibited in Australia, New York, Cologne, Paris and Berlin.

Matt Glenn is represented by James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney

(words by Matt Glenn)

Please visit his website for more info: http://www.mattglenn.net/