10th November – 9th December
Opening: Friday 9th November 6.30
Jo Chate, Thomas Hylander, Eleanor Moreton, Sarah Pickstone, Mark Van Yetter, Simon Willems
curated by Simon Willems
‘Let the world slip’ conjures up an image of casual abandon to a better place. Like the web of deceit that informs its context in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew however, the expression is born of a double bind. ‘Escaping’ the world in one sense becomes its wanton downfall in another.
Curated by Tim Allen
Mark Hammond, Bob Lawson, Coiln McNaughton, Paul Manners, Peter Watson
Ok…Abstract paintings by 3 geordies, 1 geezer, 1 home counties, 2 roofers, 1 author, 1 drummer, 2 anarchists, 1 organ player, 1 carp breeder, 2 poets, 1 mechanical giant, 1 therapist, 1 social worker, 1 tree planter.
There may be more or less, but all should/could show more.
Curated by Laurence Noga
Anthony Daley, Katie Pratt, Caroline List, Raf Zawistowski, Laurence Noga.
Private View 7 September 2012
Exhibition 8 – 29 September 2012
This exhibition refers to a shared approach through process and materiality. A conscious strategy to subvert intuition is developed by an engagement with rules or games, often through self-imposed instructions. Colour underpins decisions, and surface facture can be pared down and translucency used to create sudden density. The luminous atmosphere in each of the works combines painterly tension, dynamic motion, peripheral forms and imperfect geometries.
Anthony Daley uses ‘blackboard’ rules as a mantra, surface being re-worked with physicality and determination. Katie Pratt’s use of drawing/dripping reflects self-conscious decision-making, marks quickly repeated in scale and proportion. Caroline List’s compositions depict a floating world, collisions in time and space. Raf Zawistowski explores a density of surface through an encaustic technique of wax and oil paint. Laurence Noga’s paintings are ‘in control and out of control’, colour producing a disorientating depth of field, allowing intuitive events to collide in a frontal approach.
Luna Park
Curated by Jake Clark
Rosalind Davis, Jeffrey Dennis, Robin Dixon, Gunther Herbst and Jake Clak
Private View: Monday 16 July from 6.30pm
Exhibition runs from 17 July to 25 August 2012
All of the paintings in Luna Park deal with the idea of constructing a fantasy space within the landscape – a quest for inventing a very particular world of scale and illusion. In Travels in Hypereality Umberto Eco writes about this as a fake landscape and the simulation of the real. Originally, Luna Parks, which included more iconic rides, were built in the 1900s and can be found in cities around the world.
Using figures or the landscape within a deconstructed picture space creates a particular narrative, and collage, pattern and juxtaposition are all used to try and deal with questions of internal and external realities. Pattern and structure are often applied as part of the painting processes that get buried but seep through later stages of the making of the works, often appearing to be at loggerheads to the final images.
Chris Baker / Dominic Beattie / Isha Bøhling / Ian Bottle / Alice Browne / Simon Callery / Keith Coventry / Natalie Dower / Tom Hackney / Jumpei Kinoshita / Hannah Knox / John McLean / Sarah McNulty / Neil Mendock / Mali Morris / Jost Münster / Selma Parlour / Geoff Rigden / Dan Roach / Danny Rolph / David Ryan / Estelle Thompson / Julian Wakelin & curator Katrina Blannin
The Lion and Lamb is a unique opportunity for painters to curate painting shows: perhaps visual essays or a kind of platform where artists can examine current practices in painting, take works from their usual contexts and experiment with new juxtapositions. The title ‘Double Vision’ alludes to notions of double layering in painting, whether material, compositional or theoretical. The show aims to raise, for viewer and fellow artist, questions about figure/field, surface/depth, symmetry/asymmetry, chance/system, historical or contemporary, democratic or elitist: structure, facture and the material.
2 June – 14 July 2012
Nelson Diplexcito / Alexis Harding / David Leeson / Gavin Lockheart / Anna Lytridou
Curated by Sean Didlove
21 April — 19 May 2012
The works in this show share an involvement with fracture, either through their surface, within their images or in relation to the space they inhabit. Whether shaped or orthogonal the works in this show could be described – maybe just as those who’ll enjoy the hospitality of Niall and Tanya’s Lion and Lamb pub – as ‘half-cut’.
In Nelson Diplexcito’s painted psychological cityscapes, disjointed moments, similar to clips of film, are caught and spliced into contemplative spatial planes. Gavin Lockheart’s luminous overlapping layers of paint suggest coloured glasswork, where light cuts through the surface.
Anna Lytridou’s works on paper explore a framed imaginary space in clusters of graphic activity. Alexis Harding creates aesthetic surfaces that are almost transient, moving both as painted substance and structural form. David Leeson’s paintings employ both illusionistic and more formally constructed material opening out both behind and across the surface on which they are hung.
Curated by Stuart Elliot
8 March — Saturday 7 April 2012
Peter Blundell and Julian Wakelin are two artists working on painting, with a scrubby, apparently informal approach to this territory. The works of both artists are as if pushed around, ruffled, roughened. There is a sense of recurring elements, a vocabulary in formation within Julian Wakelin’s paintings that complicates the sense of improvised abandon. Marks and gestures are reiterated across paintings, linking them despite their difference when taken as wholes.
Peter Blundell’s works bear the traces of the stencils through which paint is pushed, which means that the forms in his paintings come and go. They accrue ‘blind’ to some degree. This juxtaposition is apt, because in the practices of both artists there is a sense of burrowing out from the stubbornly particular into a critical space that may open out onto questions of larger import than may be apparent from the modestly local initial horizons of such works. They are worldly paintings in this sense; handled, and in fact worked through, as much as on.
The Lion and Lamb is a new gallery dedicated to contemporary painting – each exhibition is curated by a painter.
Find us:
Lion and Lamb
46 Fanshaw Street
Hoxton
N1 6LG
Opening times:
Monday 1pm to 11pm
Tuesday – Saturday 12pm to 11pm
Sunday 12pm to 10pm
