Building Sites
(6th - 28th October 2007)
Francis Hair Fashions Gallery are pleased to present a group show of 12 artists exploring the theme of "Building Sites" through painting, writing, photography and installation.
Roger Healey-Dilkes, Jennifer Taylor and Tânia Bandeira Duarte present work that forms a reappraisal of the direct subject matter, materials or construction practices of building sites.
Healey-Dilkes photographs scaffolding saturated with layers of colour. He presents an aesthetic world that references the process of abstract painting. Taylor creates dense environments by manipulating manufactured materials into organic forms. Their ghostly appearance presents a world that compliments the constructed world with the natural. Duarte creates elegant repetitive structures, which highlight both physical time and the underlying fragility of her building process. The final piece reveals the building up and falling down that has occurred throughout the installation.
Tony Rickaby and Emily Mason comment on our changing relationship to the built environment. Rickaby literally produces an installation of signs, that are a critique of the transition from historical grand estates to the contemporary housing estate. Mason analyses through delicate chalk drawings how memory of and associations with familiar spaces, are constantly in a flux of assertion and erasure.
Taking a more conceptual approach to the exhibitions theme the artists John Deller, Mark Wilsher and Olly Beck challenge conventional definitions of building and site.
Deller carefully describes the process of making as a simple list of choices and decisions that are both literal and yet obscure. By directly writing these on the gallery wall, questions of where the work is situated start to ensue.
Olly Beck designates the canvas as the site on which he builds up a painting by employing grid systems, areas of relief, gestural paint marks and scribbles. The end result flips between a site of development and archeology.
Mark Wilsher chooses to intervene with the gallery as a whole asking the gallery to literally open up windows and doors. The gallery staff and visitors are asked to endure and make strategic decisions about how to accommodate the weather, noise and smell of the outside within the gallery space.
This show is supported by a written publication exploring the notion of building sites, featuring contributions from Alex Michon, Robin Bale, Laura Oldfield Ford and Matthew Burbidge.
Featured Artists:
Alex Michon, Tony Rickaby,Roger Healey-Dilkes, Jennifer Taylor,Tânia Bandeira Duarte,John Deller, Mark Wilsher, Olly Beck, Emily Mason, John Deller,Robin Bale, Laura Oldfield Ford and Matthew Burbidge.
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