Past exhibitions 2015

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The Art Take Away
Outskirts Fundraiser Hosted by Sweet ‘Art
Monday 21 December 6:30 - 9pm

On the 21st of December Sweet ‘Art, a not for profit art organisation based in London dedicated to supporting artists and the arts, will be hosting a fundraising event, The Art Take Away, to raise funds for a new London-based charity called Outskirts. Founded by Sweet ‘Art director and Art Psychotherapist Corrina Eastwood, Outskirts primary focus will be providing inclusive support to women and those who feel marginalised by providing arts therapies, support groups and advice services.

To launch the charity and raise money for the much needed services Outskirts hopes to provide, at a time when vital services for the marginalised are being cut, we will be hosting an exciting art event where guests will be given the opportunity to view and purchase art by talented and established artists at very affordable prices. The Art Take Away will showcase hundreds of art works to suit all tastes, primarily small works on paper, which can be chosen over a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and taken away on purchase. This will be art to go!

Contributing artists so far include Bobby Baker (who’s touring exhibition Diary Drawings premiered at the Wellcome Collection and who’s recent live show ‘Mad Gyms and Kitchens’ was commissioned as part of the 2012 cultural Olympiad) Felt artist Lucy Sparrow (of Corner Shop and Porn Shop fame) Illustrator Maya Wild (who includes Adidas, New York Magazine and The Rolling Stones as her clients) Mark Whithorn (Winner of the British Institution Award at the Royal Academy of Arts), Sue Burns (BP Portrait Award Finalist) and designer Shara Hayz (who includes Vogue and MTV as clients.)
 
At Sweet ‘Art we pride ourselves on hosting fun and approachable art events and The Art Take Away will reflect this along with Outskirts own ethos, by pricing works that are normally sold for thousands, at a minimum donation of £10, £20 or £30. Its gourmet art at McDonald’s prices at The Art Take Away!

For those who can not make the event night at Espacio Gallery, selected works will be available to purchase online for the weekend prior to The Art Take Away, going live on the 19th of December. A section of Sweet ‘Arts Sweet Shop, at www.wearesweetart.com, will be dedicated to Outskirts fundraising efforts.

So do join us on the 21st for a mince pie, glass of mulled wine and that lovely warm feeling that comes with supporting a very good cause while bagging a guilt free bargain!

DELTA
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
14-20 December 2015

Private View: Monday 14 December 6-9pm
A class of German artists joins for DELTA, to bond and balance their developing
positions. All of these are shaped by their common ground, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, an institution set amidst the historically and socially remarkable environment of the former Eastern German city of Dresden.

Although they cover a broad canon in nature and origin, they all belong to the same
generation of young artists that has inherited the task to redefine artistic expression through sincerity, in order to be believable. It is the task to choose a cause in the arbitrary and the attempt to carry seriousness lightly, where art is not competitive delusion but labour at the frontiers of sensual perception.

In his very own way and debate, each of these artists seeks refinement in articulating,
positioning and crafting his work, for it is refinement that reinterprets reality.

Oil painting, as the most immediate transformation of human memory and gesture, is
the predominant medium but gathers with graphical, conceptual and other visual approaches.

Marie Athenstaedt, Katharina Baumgärtner, Ella Becker, Gyde Becker,
Elise Beutner, Josephin Bunde, Michaela Dehnert, Cora Grüssel,
Johanna Failer, Elizabeth Hepworth, Dominique Hille, Wiebke Herrmann,
Patricia Huck, Amelie Hüneke, Melanie Kramer, Jan Kunze, Danny Linwerk,
Ioannis Malegiannakis, Maria Morgenstern, Ruben Müller, Constanze Nier,
Vivien Nowotsch, Erika Richter, Simon Rosenthal, Vivien Schlecht

Hexagon
7-13 December 2015

Private View: Thursday 10 December 6-9pm
Performance at Private View: Kathleen Pearlson

Hexagon Group Artists present their first joint exhibition.

Rydal Hanbury, David Hollington, Catriona Macindoe,
Kathleen Pearlson, Laura Smith, Mark B Timmins

Photography Matters
LIP Central Group
30 November - 6 December 2015

Private View: Thursday 3 December 6-9pm
Do we need to say so? Yes, because then we ask, why? Drawing with Light, the great medium of witness, of record, an opening to understanding, yes but for what? Evidence? Expression? Activism? Celebration? Confession? The answers are both historic and personal. Twenty takes on what its worth might be. Consensus unlikely.

Hady Bayoumi, Heloise Bergman, Dorota Boisot, Mark Brown, Lesley Bruce,
Chris Burrows, Jan Cylwik, Cynthia D'Souza, Judith Jones, Hugh Look,
Peter Luck, Rashida Mangera, Peter Nahum, Ingrid Newton, Jim Paterson,
Sue Roche, Krystina Stimakovits, Edith Templeton, Jim Thorp, Geoff Titley
Special opening hours: The gallery opens on Monday 30 Nov, 1-7pm.

Educating Picasso
24-29 November 2015

Private View: Tuesday 24 November 6-9pm

Illustration
Rob Phillips

Painting
Liz Derbyshire, Kevin Derbyshire, Mikey Georgeson, Paul Helliwell,
Lulu Hoar, Yuni Ko, Lawrence Mathias, Anthony Mavilia, Gideon Pain

Printmaking
Glen Marston

Photography
Giacomo Cannata, Marc Coker, Georgina Howard, Hannes Lin,
Bas Losekoot, Peter Searle

Sculpture
John Humphreys

Istallation/Conceptual Art
Carmen Aleman, Ana Cockerill, Tony Smith, Dean Todd

Curated by Shizico Yi
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Memories of Greatness
Sarah Knight
17-22 November 2015

Private View:Thursday 19 November 6-9pm

An exhibition of paintings by Sarah Knight.

www.sarahjfineart.co.uk

Edge of Ordinary 4
3-15 November 2015

Private View: Thursday 5 November 6-9pm
Edge of Ordinary 4, the moniker for this group of artists and a focal point for many contemporary art practices. A range of genres have been successfully brought together in critical curation under one roof.

All the art exhibited is recognized by its art kinds, of which there are many on display. Dominic McIver Lopes, in his recent book “Beyond Art”, talks about the concept of art kinds. He writes that any work of art belongs to an art kind, and which in turn enhances an overall understanding and appreciation of art.

In the forthcoming exhibition Edge of Ordinary 4, the artists will exhibit new work that pushes at the boundaries of their practices. Drawing on what lies beyond those ‘edges’ comes the inspiration for their new works of art.

These artists have come together to present a concoction of performance, sculpture, painting, installation, photography and ceramics.

Dom Chastney, Olivia Davis, Charlie Dillon, Pamela Gerrie,
Graeme Messer, Gail Olding, Jane Price

Curated by Gail Olding

ALIGNMENTS
An Exhibition of Paintings
26 October - 1 November 2015

Private View: Wednesday 28 October 6.30-10pm
ALIGNMENTS reflects not only the friendship and connections shared by John Crossley, Derek Marks and Jim Vernon, (the three main exhibitors and co-curators) but includes the work of friends and fellow painters who share a belief in painting as a means of personal expression and exploration – an art that looks within to reach out.

John Crossley, Derek Marks, Jim Vernon

Invited Artists
Rebecca Bergese, Sharon Drew, Frances Edmonds,
Gethin Evans, Philippa Tunstill, Peter Wells

Special opening hours for the exhibition:
Monday - Saturday 11am – 7pm, Sunday 11am – 3pm

FLESH
20-25 October 2015


Private View: Thursday 22 October 6-9pm
Flesh. Just the sound of the word is evocative and provocative. For some it conjures thoughts of a juicy steak, served rare, still slightly bloody. For others it brings images of Soho bookshops and red-light windows in Amsterdam. And for the spiritually-minded, there's the mystery of communion and of God made flesh in Jesus.
 
However you approach it, flesh is the bedrock of our very existence as human beings. Without flesh we could not experience the temptations and terrors of the world around us.
 
This stimulating exhibition celebrates the physicality and sensuality of the human body. The artists are invited to submit work which confronts the many meanings of flesh, and challenges socially-imposed taboos and notions of sin and virtue as well as exploring our preconceived notions of what it really means to be made of meat.

Robin Beuscher, Beast & Burden, Nicky Callaby, Jo Colvert, Peter Dobbin,
Liliana Gallagher, Jose Gomez, Goojee, Yannick Hopt H.YaYa, Esther Insa,
Ellen Jewell, Sarbjit Johal, John King, Nikhil Kirsh, Piotr Kolanko, Judit Martinez, AnnyRose, Frank Pohlmann, Pia Rogers, Simone and Max, Chris Simpson

Organised by Carlos de Lins

Note:
On Thursday 22 October the gallery will open at 3pm.

Confluence
13-18 October 2015

Private View: Thursday 15 October 6-9pm
As artists we are always mixing – materials, ideas, colours, disciplines, our various sources of inspiration. It is in the mixing that creativity happens – that we create something new. This is Confluence.

And it’s not just the art objects themselves that manifest this. Art requires and it produces a confluence – of people. Confluence has brought together fourteen different artists, but it also brings together all the many viewers who come to visit the work.

Whether you come out of curiosity, for inspiration’s sake, or because life just happened to bring you here, something is shared. And like two streams of water meeting and joining the larger river in a geographical confluence, in coming together, we, too, become greater than ourselves. In this melting pot of ideas, things and people, change can happen.     

Mavis Barber, Robin Beuscher, Julie Caves, Coulsoom, Isabelle Fouque,
Beth Gadd, Nasser Ghazizadeh, Gerd Jahns, Caroline Guth, Ronald Hernandez,
Rosana Miracco, Sarah Nabarro, Yuki Otake, Nara Walker

Organised by Carlos de Lins
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Original Print Fair 2015
29 September - 11 October 2015

Private View: Thursday 1 October 6-9pm
The annual Espacio Original Print Fair presents bold new work by Espacio Gallery printmakers. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to browse two floors of original, hand-pulled prints and talk to the artists about tools and techniques. There will also be live printmaking demonstrations both weekends.

“Our passion is print ” says exhibition curator Zelda Eady “and we are very keen to raise awareness of this versatile art-form. Purchasing an original print is often a very cost-effective way for people to start collecting contemporary art - so we invite people to come and browse – several of our artists have a growing international reputation and have been selected for the prestigious RA Summer Exhibition.”

Tania Beaumont, Helen Benson,Christine Calow, Zelda Eady,
Robert Fitzmaurice, Sally Grumbridge, Nina Harma, Peter Lang,
Wendy Poole, Wendy Roberts, Karina Savage, Ann Simberg,
Alexandra Sivov, Jane Stothert, Tina Viljoen, Erika Wengenroth,
Liz Whiteman Smith

Curated by Zelda Eady

Blurring the Boundaries
Massimo Casagrande and Liz Wellstead
21-27 September 2015

Private View: Tuesday 22 September 6-9pm
Blurring of the Boundaries is a collaboration between print designer Liz Wellstead and menswear designer Massimo Casagrande. Inspired by London street maps, the installation focuses on translating them into geometric shapes, patterns and gender neutrality within fashion.

The installation focuses on looking at simplifying the maps into geometric shapes that include pattern and line influenced from the evidence on the maps themselves. This was applied to the design process by using the London maps as an idea that the city is a design hub of emerging new ideologies and concepts. The collection focuses on the layering of fabrics and the blurring of print, embroidery and gender neutrality to create a new direction.

Curated by Massimo Casagrande and Liz Wellstead


Gemma Sangwine
22-27 September 2016

Private View: Tuesday 22 September 6-9pm
For one week the Cotswolds based milliner Gemma Sangwine will be working at Espacio Gallery creating new pieces for her signature collections of headwear. Using vintage jewellery, lace, feathers, crystal and pearl, commissions are undertaken for bridal and special occarions. Meet the designer, try the pieces and find something truly unique.

Nick Ozanne of Leto & Ariadne
22-27 September 2016

Private View: Tuesday 22 September 6-9pm
For one short week the Cotswolds based handweaver Nick Ozanne of Leto & Ariadne, is bringing his loom to Espacio Gallery during the London Design Festival, when you can see him weaving and hand finishing his signature collection of unisex silk scarves. Work is available to buy or order from this award winning designer maker who is currently one of the 19 makers selected for the prestigious Crafts Council Injection programme.

Place & Space
15-20 September 2015

Private View: Thursday 17 September 6-9pm
The recent film about J.M.W.Turner has introduced more people to the breadth of expression that can be achieved in the exploration of landscape painting.

Place & Space, the new show at the Espacio Gallery carries that conversation forward by displaying a range of work by contemporary artists who make a statement about their place in the modern world with its ever expanding complex infrastructure.

‘Place’ represents the formal ideas of landscape in real or imagined locations. Our physical presence is somewhere that can be clearly defined.  It may be a place we reside, work or visit. In this age of GPS positioning, our ‘place’ can be digitised and our residences ‘post coded’ and Googled. Our minds however, can be in places where our body is not; in this way place can be exotic or transcendent.

‘Space’ may represent the miniscule detail or the enormity of the infinite. Work in this show presents concepts of distance and transcendence; the relationship of objects within a described space, land reflecting sky, transition of sea and shore, arrangement of buildings in man-made space, or simply the relationship between two or more objects on a table.

Place & Space explores a contemporary view of landscape evoking the world of abstraction through paintings, prints, and photographs. Cary Whitworth illustrates her exploration of ‘inner landscapes’ derived from memories of place and time.  Lee-Ann uses her photographs to explore the cartography of the human body and common elements found in the known environment to convey their own unique sense of landscape.

This exhibition aims to engage the visitor in a conversation about how we envisage landscape and our environment.

Helen Benson, Helen Campbell, Laurence Causse-Parsley, Anthea Eames,
Pia Goddard, Juli Jana, Lee-Ann, Clive Patterson, Cary Whitworth,
Helen Ryan, Annie Hudson, Laurel Keeley, Justine Lois Thorpe

Curated by Clive Patterson & Anthea Eames
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Form and Vision
1-13 September 2015

Private View: Thursday 3 September 6-9pm

This exhibition is a burst of visual energy which engages both the emotions and the intellect.

Artist/curator Terry Beard has invited a select group of artists to join her in revealing their core concerns. The result is an inventive and vigorous investigation into the human condition and the world we inhabit.

There is an astonishing breadth of subject matter on display here; identity and displacement, the way mind and body work in unison, how we connect within one another in the urban landscape, the shaping of the land over time, internal and geographic fault lines, the way that memories and dreams break into the presence of nature, invisible inner spaces and the symbolic and aesthetic value of insects are a few of the themes explored in this thought provoking and resonant exhibition.

Ceramics, painting and a variety of printmaking techniques feature in this two week show. Whatever your tastes and interests, there will be something here to catch your attention and activate your imagination.

Terry Beard, Christine Calow, Anthea Eames, Stuart Green,
Philip Leevers, Alison Lumb, Natalie McIntyre, Stephen Murfitt,
Jenny Price, Matt Smith, Lindsay Terhorst North, Jim Vernon,
Erika Wengenroth, Pam Winbolt

Curated by Terry Beard

Naked Boundaries
25-30 August 2015

Private View: Thursday 27 August 6-9pm
Naked Boundaries is an exhibition that will take the viewer on an erotic journey via art created by fourteen artists. The exhibition is directed at breaking the boundaries of perception through naked bodies positioned in provocative realities, disruptions of the self-containment of modesty.

Artists will break all social rules by taking the viewer’s gaze far beyond conventional limitations, shocking the senses through exposure to realities that most people don’t wish to see, thereby provoking mental participation in fantasies that are often hidden behind closed doors or in the furthest depths of our minds, only to be brought out after lights are out.

Voluptuously fleshy bodies connecting, crashing and banging together in sweet delightful lust, the aromatic flavours of the vagina and penis merging in the entwining of naked forms resonate through these works, invoking the unconscious universe underlying rationality.

The Uncanny in the embodied self manifests. Each artist is to use their own style and methods to create their own vision of Naked Boundaries.

Ruth Bircham, Paul Burke, Rocio Reyes Cortez, Watson, Fanta Celah,
Paolo Iaderosa, Peter Reeds, Nigel Rudkin, Adrian Farrell,
Elizabeth Bullock, William Blaise, Gudums-Ade Ogundimu,
Nana Yaw Amoako Boafo, Mary-Ann Young, Chris Francis

Curated by Forbidden Fruit
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Punch
Sweet 'Art
18-23 August 2015

Private View: Thursday 20 August 5-8:30pm (Afterparty at Juno Bar 7pm – late)
Sweet 'Art, a non-profit arts organisation based in London, are hosting their first Summer Arts Festival in collaboration with curator Shannon Rose, including an Art Bar Crawl.

Sweet ‘Art’s Summer Festival will be an exciting week of art, music, installations and activities, free to all and supporting the charity Papyrus.

On 18 August, three Shoreditch venues will open their doors to showcase a celebration of culture in the city; The Espacio Gallery on Bethnal Green Road will be hosting ‘Punch’, The Looking Glass Bar with its quirky Alice in Wonderland vibe will hosting the ‘Queen of Arts’ exhibition and Juno on Shoreditch High Street will be hosting the ‘Salad Days’ event. The exhibitions will include the work of talented artists working in the media of painting, sculpture, photography and print.

As part of the event, Sweet ‘Art will host a program of free workshops for adults and children at the spacious Espacio gallery. Everyone will be invited to interact with our beach-ball ball-park installation, snack on themed edibles and drinks, and enjoy a night of live music, live painting and DJ’s at our arty party.

Sweet ‘Art will also be hosting London’s first ever Art Bar Crawl. Visitors will be welcomed with drinks at each venue, with talks and Q&A by our talented artists, before heading to the next venue with aid of our Festival Map and Art Tour Guide.

Drawing Workshop at Espacio Gallery
19 August 17.00-19.00
Draw your own narrative from the exhibition. Through mark-making and drawing participants will explore narrative, illustration and composition - creating a concertina book inspired by the exhibits. Literally tracing their own pencil line across the landscape of the show, participants will be encouraged through line and mark to use the exhibition as a starting point for new imaginings. Led by illustrator and CSM tutor Joanna Layla, participants will each create their own concertina book drawing inspiration from the show to delve into brave new drawn worlds.

Printmaking Workshop at Espacio Gallery
23 August 11.00-13.00
This is a fun workshop all about screen printmaking. Children will be able to create bold images, exploring colour, shape and texture.
We will be exploring the theme ‘Memories of Summer’ using a range of materials, tools and colours. Children can take away any prints they create! The workshop is open to children from 8 to 12 years old and we ask adults to come along and join the fun too. Our printing workshop will be run by practicing artist Joseph Kopiel.

Urban Angles
4-16 August 2015

Private View: Thursday 6 August 6-9pm
Urban Angles - The ever-changing spirit of the city.

The artistic heritage of a city is created and shaped by the artists who live and work there; this exhibition reveals the city as a hub which enables the cross-pollination of multiple ideas and cultures.

Printmaking, painting, illustration, graphics, photography, sculpture and mixed media come together as each artist brings their own experiences to the collective.

We invite you to join us on a fascinating journey of discovery revealing the artists' unique experiences of the city as site, subject and inspiration for their work.

Mavis Barber, Helen Benson, Steve Buggle, Paul Butler,
Rosa Cives, Ana Cockerill, Coulsoom, Mathilde Dauguet,
Carlos de Lins, Nina Harma, Mehreen Hasan, Raymond Isaac,
Lisa Kreuziger, Joao Trindade, Cary Whitworth

Curated by Carlos de Lins
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CHEMCRAFT
28 July – 2 August 2015

Private View: Thursday 30 July 6-9pm

EVENTS
Chemcraft Salon Discussion - The Art of Chemistry and the Chemistry of Explosions: Saturday 1 August 3-5:30pm
Chaired by Artist Mat Clum from ideas-matter-sphere
Featuring: Artist Alex Bunn and Forensic Scientist Dr Nadia Abdul-Karim
Organised in association with www.ideas-matter-sphere.com

C.Mitrentse Projects is pleased to present CHEMCRAFT a large international multidisciplinary exhibition featuring 60 emerging and mid-career artists from UK, EU, USA & Asia.

Curator Christina Mitrentse invited artists to respond to the theme 'For Love of Chemistry' and to look at the aesthetic forms and their opposites within their practice. The exhibition promotes a dialogue among the disciplines of Chemistry and Visual Arts including artworks made using the mediums of wet paint collodion, photography, cyanotype, screen prints, installation, sculptural configurations, painting, digital prints, text video works, film & sound.

Audiences are invited to celebrate images of intense sexual chemistry, interactive prints with mixed pheromones, sculptural installations made of growing crystals, very large microcosmic photographs, paintings depicting molecular structures and alchemical laboratories and a dedicated screening room featuring films about liquid forms, universe and drugs. 

Aga Tamiola, Akira Yasuda, Alex Bunn, Alice Cazenave, Andreas Müller,
Andrew Baird, Anka Dabrowska, Anne Crossey, Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh,
Aoife Collins, Arlette Ess, Artemis Potamianou, Audrey Aguirre, Chris Kenny,
Clara Aparicio Yoldi, Darren Van Asten, David Buonaguidi, Emi Avora,
Emma Coop, Felix Friedmann, Gözde Mimiko Türkkan, Harry Rose,
Jason Gibilaro, Jim Racine, Jimmy Ruf, Johnathan Reiner, Jonas Ranson,
Jonna Kina, Kate Kotcheff, Kentaro Takahashi, Kirsty McKenzie,
Kyriakos Vaggelis, Laura Pannack, Lina Pigadioti, Lorenzo Belenguer,
Malgorzata Drohomirecka, Mania Efstathiou, Mari Terauchi, Mouhitori,
Nana Hwanhee Kim, Nicola Morrison, Nicolas Laborie, Nina Sever,
Oliver Fowler, Patrick Colhoun, Peter Evans, Peter Sharp, Ralph Dunn,
Sadie Weis, Sandra Berghianu, Sigrid Calon, Sophie Lindner, Steve Mitchell,
Sujata Majumdar, Susan Beattie, Suzanne  Caines, Sylvia Toy St. Louis,
Tara Tate, Tomoe Murakami, Yutaka Inagawa

Curated by C.Mitrentse Projects

The City Lit Fine Art Course Exhibition
21-26 July 2015

Private View: Thursday 23 July 6-9pm
Students from the final year of The City Lit Fine Art Course will be exhibiting a variety of works from drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media. 3d and animation.

Works ranges from intimate fantasy landscapes to large gestural works on canvas and metal plate. Sequences of prints exploring locations such as accident black-spots will sit alongside work inspired by oriental art and large figurative works exploring personal  memory.

Nathalia Ah-Fong, Antonia Aracil, Svetlana Alatavina, Sally Bennett,
Ross Bicknell, Suzanne Bridgewater, Anna Maria Carta, Roger Carter,
Katherine Dike, Michelle Dow, Sarah Elliott, Elizabeth Freedman,
Helen de Freitas, Nozumo Gonzales, Sue Hamilton Richie, Pa Haythorn,
Tracy Holtham, Mister James, Melina Makatsori, Shirley Morgan-Knott,
Maria Oleynik, Neil Pennington, Karen Pollock, Matthew Robak,
Phil Wood, Gitana Vaicyte, Patricia Wheeler, Wei Xun

Curated by Chris Hough
Mono is a month-long black and white season at Espacio Gallery. In two consecutive exhibitions, Mono 1 and Mono 2, artists meet the challenge of making a purely monochrome statement, while being free to explore a variety of subjects, styles and media.

Black and white are polar extremes for the artist, and for all of us another way of saying Yes/No, Good/Bad, Hero/Villain. Similarly, white light contains all colours - black their absence - and it is this duality which gives us the magic of old photographs and cinema, as well as works by famous contemporary artists such as James Turell, Bill Culbert and Jenny Holzer. 

Yet aside from these positive and negative aspects black and white also can suggest refinement, taste stripped back to the simple contrast between two elements. Without the emotional charge of colour the artist’s intent and expressive means are laid bare. Neither the artist nor viewer can take refuge – art in black and white carries a concise message and demands our immediate attention.

MONO 1
23 June - 5 July 2015

Private View: Thursday 25 June 6-9pm
Performance at 8pm: Graeme Messer: Memories in Black and White

Moich Abrahams, Mavis Barber, Terry Beard, Steve Buggle, Paul Butler,
Krzysztof Cieslak, Olivia Davis, Isabelle Fouque, Christine Fourdraine,
Pia Goddard, Caroline Guth, Lee-Ann, Alison Lumb, Charles McLaren, 
Bettina Stuurman, Joao Trindade, Maria Vesterinen, Scott Weingarten
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Performance at the Private View - 8pm
Graeme Messer: Memories in Black and White
Artist and performer Graeme Messer brings his colourful childhood back to life with black and white photographs from the past. 
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MONO 2
7-19 July 2015

Private View: Thursday 9 July 6-9pm

Tania Beaumont, Mark Bell, Rosa Cives, Kanwal Dhaliwal,
Ahmed Farooqui, Kitty Finegan, Robert Fitzmaurice, Beth Gadd,
Laura Gompertz, Mehreen Hasan, Philippa Hilliard, Sal Jones,
Lisa Kreuziger, Peter Lang, Jill Meager, Rosana Miracco, Matt Smith,
Nora Velazco, Annie Zamero
Performance at the Private View - 8pm
Graeme Messer: Memories in Black and White
Artist and performer Graeme Messer brings his colourful childhood back to life with black and white photographs from the past. 
Curated by Carlos de Lins

Reflections
16-21 June 2015

Private View: Thursday 18 June 6-9pm
To reflect means to show, or to bring something to light. But when an artist paints or photographs the world they see, they also bring their own ideas, inspirations and emotions into play.

This exhibition draws together seven contemporary artists who view the natural world and the body from fresh, engaging perspectives.
 
Christine Fourdraine’s powerful photographs reflect how she connects with striking landscapes - both natural and man-made - as well as contradictory images of women; while in her most recent series of drawings, Maria-Lena Hedberg has studied reflections from the sun and its impact on different materials. Depicting these reflections, within the limited media of pencil on paper and using everyday scenes, she attempts to create an understated dialogue with the viewer.

Ronald Hernandez’s paintings of nudes strive to capture intimate, personal moments, which reflect his own emotions as much as the personalities of his hero-like subjects; while Philip Leevers’s mixed-media paintings combine glimpses of woodland foliage with watery reflections and luminous organic forms to evoke the haunting power of the woods.

Marina Mos creates paintings that shimmer and glow with cosmic energy, drawing you into intriguing, mystic visions of people and nature; and finally, Nara Walker reflects on lust and fantasy with paintings that cast the viewer in the role of voyeur. Brush strokes become as sensual as touch, creating a raw connection between viewer, artwork and artist.

Katerina Alexandraki, Christine Fourdraine, Maria-Lena Hedberg,
Ronald Hernandez, Philip Leevers, Marina Mos, Nara Walker

Organised by Carlos de Lins
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Artists in Wonderland
2-14 June 2015

Private View: Thursday 4 June 6-9pm
Artists in Wonderland commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice in Wonderland.

The exhibition reveals the artists’ distinctive interpretations of the classic children’s stories. From tiny details through to sweeping concepts, each artist brings you their own unique insight into the world of Lewis Carroll: here visitors can enjoy a range of exhibits from an interactive, mechanical sculpture, bespoke hats through to imaginative character portraits. Running for 12 days the exhibition includes tea parties and talks for visitors.

The Alice stories have inspired a wealth of artistic responses. The subjects and styles are wonderfully diverse. The artists’ reactions to the Alice theme have resulted in a unique, thoughtful and challenging body of work. The exhibition brings together a wealth of complementary artwork and opens up a dynamic and intimate dialogue with you, the viewer. Please join in by visiting Artists in Wonderland. As with other Espacio exhibitions, the artists are actively involved and you will be able to discuss the works with several present at the gallery each day.

Graham Asker, Julie Caves, Mireia Donat Melús,
Esperanza Gómez-Carrera, Nick Hazzard, Ruth Jones,
Peter Lang, Valerie Gladwin Montgomery, Matt Smith,
Liz Whiteman Smith, Sara Wickenden
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Germination - Chelsea Fringe
19-31 May 2015

Private View: Thursday 21 May 6-9pm
Espacio Gallery 3rd annual event on the Chelsea Fringe trail, comprising works in a variety of media giving a fresh look into some of the aspects relating to the natural world.

Ingrid Anderson, Niccolo Angeli, Tania Beaumont, Lara Cobden,
Sally de Courcy, Mireia Donat Melus, Oliver Freeman, Laura Gompertz,
Peggah Kashian, Marta Kisiliczyk, Philip Leevers, Renee Rilexie,
Gordon M Scott, Joachim Seitfudem, Carmen Stahl, Michelle Tonta,
Teresa Wicksteed

Curated by Tania Beaumont
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Edge of Ordinary III
28 April - 17 May 2015

Private View: Thursday 7 May 6-10pm
At the fringes of language is the ordinary human life it supports. No need for queer entities produced ad hoc to allay our philosophical embarrassment.

Media need not be physical – as is the case with conceptual art. Yet, whilst conceptual art emerges from visual art, it has now come to fulfil its potential as an art kind in itself. But each art in itself has edges; and can learn from what lies just beyond those edges.

Artists are foragers. They notoriously borrow and steal. We are used to them borrowing from other artists in the same art kind, but less used to them stealing from the street or borrowing from non-artistic sources.

The work of the artists who contribute to this show, curated by Gail Olding, is diverse in its nature and calls upon different strands of connection to art kinds and to their non-art relatives. However, each is committed to the fineness of art and the combination of work in this ‘arcade’ is a celebration of that diversity.

Gail Olding, Gianluca Pisano, Pamela Gerrie, Dom Chastney,
Edward Winters, Jane Price, Olivia Davis, Graeme Messer,
Bettina Stuurman, Charlie Dillon

Curated by Gail Olding

Flashback
21-26 April 2015

Private View: Thursday 23 April 6-9pm
Video Screening: Saturday 25 April 7.45-10.30pm
Captured moments, feelings, memories, sensations… An explosion of creativity in which views, visions and thoughts are reflected in a  multiplicity of ways. The  group is eclectic and  the  exhibition promises to be a varied collection of beautiful and powerful works.

Jonathan Graham, Liz Kent, Sabine Kussmaul, Gosia Lapsa-Malawska,
Lawrence Mathias, Mark Nelson, Yohanna Schleder, Omar Obaid, Ben Mellor,
Les Lismore, Carl Meek, Shizico Yi, Beryl Robinson, Janet C Moses,
Katrina Rose, Charlotte Marchand, Sharon Sondh, Sophia Kamal,
Marcia Mar, Dean Mills, Angela Morris-Winmill

Curated by Ana Cockerill

Instants
Saturday 25 April 2015 7.45pm - 10.30pm 

Video Screening
A special evening celebrating the work of eight Brazilian artists and film makers, in a series of creative and inspiring moments translated into photographic images and short films.
                                                                              
Regina Mester - design and photography            
Marcia Mar - short film and performance
Silvio Severino - GIF animation        
Carla Fleck - photography
Ana Cockerill - short film
Asafe Ghalib - short film
Ana Bender - short film 
Marcus Cardoso - photography

Curated by Ana Cockerill & Regina Mester

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The Portrait Show
14-19 April 2015

Private View: Thursday 16 April 6-9pm
A classic subject is given a contemporary twist as twelve established artists give their interpretation of the word ‘Portrait’. At times intimate and unexpected, the works capture the unplanned moment; a fleeting thought that changes the expression, the vulnerability of the sleeping figure, abstractions that hint at flesh and sensuallity.

Come inside and see where a single word can take you.

Pedro Baztan, Eleanor Buffam, Helen Campbell, Laurence Causse-Parsley,
Marianne Frank, Sal Jones, Jill Meager, Maureen Nathan, Gail Olding,
Gianluca Pisano, Jenny Price, Rossella Spoto

Curated by Jill Meager & Helen Campbell

Layers of Identity
6-12 April 2015

Private View: Thursday 9 April 6-9pm
This exhibition focuses on the subject of human identity and how the unique character of each individual can be expressed through the form of art.

The complexity of human emotions, our individual experiences, beliefs or even changing moods, can all influence the artwork whilst it is being conceived. These elements, amongst others, contribute to what’s considered our identity.

Three Polish artists - Bozena Czyz, Michal Cabaj and Lukas Kasprowicz - present their works at Espacio Gallery exploring how the artist engages with their individual piece of art depending on the emotional state at the time of work. Their attempt is to capture some of these intense moments.

In order to achieve this, the working process is often treated by the artists as a guide rather than a fully controlled approach, allowing the spontaneous decisions to take over the control. The highly diluted layers of paint applied one upon another in some of the works or quick and decisive brush strokes in others, create the sense of space and depth. 

All three artists find the emotional element as a critical ingredient in creating a narrative and therefore making a successful artwork following the words of Mark Rothko: "I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

Bozena Czyz, Michal Cabaj and Lukas Kasprowicz
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Y Not?
31 March - 5 April 2015

Private View: Thursday 2 April 6-9pm
An exhibition in aid of International Women's Day.

Y Not? explores the theme of femininity, feminine identity and women’s day with a focus on the female form, gender identity, feminist issues, social and political issues and constructs and personal accounts and perspectives. Works celebrate, critique, challenge, ridicule and reflect notions of femininity in our society and internationally, created by artists identifying as any gender.

Sweet'Art is a non-profit arts organisation based in London, dedicated to the promotion of upcoming and established artists through exciting pop up art events with a difference. Their launch event in 2012 was a celebration of women’s day and they are now going back to their roots in hosting Y Not?

This time Sweet ‘Art will be partnering with two amazing creative organisations: Lensationan and The LMP Gallery.

Lensational, who empower women emotionally and economically through providing photography training and equipment, will be curating an area of the exhibition, showcasing the stunning photography resulting from the workshops they have facilitated with women in developing countries.

The LMP Gallery is an energetic and creative hub in Austin, Texas. This amazing organisation are also hosting an International Women’s Day show in parallel to Sweet ‘Arts London based exhibition and the two spaces will be exchanging 5 artworks to exhibit during the show run, in a display of international solidarity and connectedness! An archive of this cultural exchange will also be exhibited at each show.
 
In addition to the thought provoking, well executed artworks guests attending the Y Not? private view evening can also enjoy welcome cocktails courtesy of Courvoisier along with the usual Sweet ‘Art freebies and surprises. Keep your eye out for those now infamous vagina cupcakes! 
 
Y Not? will run in support of the Art’s Therapy project at Solace, a charity that supports those who are survivors of domestic violence.

Curated by Sweet 'Art
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UNFIXED
Free Painters and Sculptors
24-29 March 2015
Gallery 2

Private View: Thursday 26 March 6-9pm
The Free Painters and Sculptors have uprooted themselves from the Menier Gallery in London Bridge for an impromptu exhibition at the Espacio Gallery.

This exhibition will feature a small selection of FPS members as well as a few new faces. Curated by Sally Buchanan this may be a REAL dark horse of a 'Pop up Show'.

Marco Alessi, Rachael Bailey, Camilla Bliss, Joanna Ciechanowska,
Annabel Cullen, Maria Kaleta, Zoe Landau Konson, Peter Murry, David Lee,
Sam Meredith, Roy Osborne, Maria Pierides, Bruni Schling, Wojciech Sobczynski

Curated by Sally Buchanan

Jola Wilk
Tangible Dynamics
23-29 March 2015
Gallery 1

Private View: Friday 27 March 7-9pm
Jola's works start from her passion for digital photography which she transfers and edits on her computer, a simple application that most people can do nowadays. She keeps on working on the image until it loses all formal elements that might identify the subject of the initial photograph. This is transformed into a large composition of colourful pixels on the screen which she keeps on editing patiently like a big colourful carpet where the weave is in digital format. After this whole procedure the selected composition is transferred on canvas, the most popular surface used by artists, it is transformed into a tangible object of art that can be handled by everyone unlike the digital surface from where it all started.
 
These works amalgamates Jola’s research as a student, carpet designer and her passion for digital photography that ends with an interesting form that we identify as Fine Art.

From Dada to Fluxus
17-22 March 2015

Private View: Thursday 19 March 6-9pm
Dada – Fluxus – Surrealism - Popart

An exhibition that is an exploration of specific creative strategies that defy logic and fine art traditions in order to encourage intuition, humour, chaos, the unexpected and the strange.

Artists working in the media of paint, collage, sculpture and performance use ideas drawn from such diverse sources as advertising, collage and readymades to engage the viewer in this process of discovery.

Raymond Isaac, Annie Zamero, Matt Smith, Vera Akotuah,
Mia Wilkinson, Kris Cieslak, Marina Moss, Ann Witters,
Josette Carroll, Antonio Colli, Philippa Hilliard,
Ryan Mehigan, Maria Vesterinen

Organised by Ann Witters
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Rev It Up
Celebrating Women Everywhere
3-15 March 2015

Private View: Thursday 5 March 6-10pm
For Women’s History Month 2015,  “Rev It Up” reclaims a male-dominated phrase and gives it a feminist twist, celebrating the power of passions of women and unleashing a creative roar to blow away the cobwebs and frighten the horses.

This high-octane blend of ideas from a mix-gender group of artist will take you on a multi-media spin through strength, courage, memory, PoW camps, body image and even features of Mother Earth herself.

Christopher Guest, Sally Grumbridge, Maureen Nathan, Isabelle Fouque,
Laura Bello, Brigitte Boldy, Tina Viljoen, Vera Akotuah, Elizabeth Power,
Kanwal Dhaliwal, Marianne Frank, Rosa Cives, Elspeth Penfold,
Renee Rilexie, Valerie Montgomery, Lindsay Terhorst North

Curated by Renee Rilexie

Jim Vernon
Watermarks: An exhibition of paintings
25 February - 1 March 2015
Gallery 1

Private View: Thursday 26 February 6-9pm
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The Magma Group - Exhibition 2015
25 February - 1 March 2015
Gallery 2

Private View: Thursday 26 February 6-9pm
The Magma Group of artists will be exhibiting their sixth show at the Espacio Gallery near the East End of London’s Brick Lane. Francis Lamb says,’ The Magma Group embody the  contemporary mode of the pop-up..., surfing a wave of enthusiasm, camaraderie and enthusiasm that has seen them invited to show at the Griffin gallery, the Vibe Gallery and The Other Art Fair within the last couple of years.’’

The exhibition is a forum for exciting, individual and expressive British and international art. The group will exhibit paintings, drawings and video, ranging between the figurative and abstract. There will also be an evening of live artist performance and video screening.

The aims of the Magma Group are to form an alternative path for the current of conceptually expressive contemporary art. Paul Carey-Kent says, ‘ ... the explicitness of the programme behind The Magma Group ... to fuse expressive and conceptual qualities ... is particularly unusual.’

The Magma Group was founded in 2011 and is made up of artists from France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Russia and the UK, some of whom have shown at the Venice Biennale.

Eli Acheson-Elmassry, Kimbal Quist Bumstead, Siro Carraro, Dagmar Dost-Nolden, Carolina Khouri, Andrew McDonald, Jean-Pierre Roffi , Tess Rachel Williams, Annie Zamero

Curated by Annie Zamero
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Convergence
19-24 February 2015

Private View: Thursday 19 February 6-9pm
Convergence showcases new work from a group of national and international artists living and working in the UK, each with their own perspective and unique approaches to a range of different subject matters.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore the personal, social and artistic relationships between the artists and their work. When the styles meet there are no limits - Expect the unexpected!

The show combines photography, printmaking, painting, installation and mixed media to create a web of new work from artists connected and separated by geography, language, culture and collaboration.

Moich Abrahams, Roan Allen, Paul Bramley, Steve Buggle,
Paul Butler, Saliha Elhoussaini, Beth Gadd, Guilhem, Liz James,
Ryan Mehigan, Rossella Spoto, Justyna Szpygiel

Organised by Carlos de Lins

Colour and Materials
12-17 February 2015

Private View: Thursday 12 February 6-9pm
We live in a world that can be wonderful, challenging  and even alarming.  Art can reveal new insights and interpretations of the issues that can enchant and intrigue us as human beings.  Here at this exhibition you are invited to enjoy and to contemplate how our world is perceived and illuminated by the artists. These works rely on an interaction between colour and material to tell their story.

Colour and Materials celebrates the world that we inhabit with intimate and individual interpretations that the individual artists bring using a wide range of media.  Each artist brings you their own unique insight into this world inspired by factors ranging from tiny details of daily life through to the natural world. Their individual engagement with such a diverse range of sources results in a unique, thoughtful and challenging body of work.  

From Christine Calow’s opulent hand pulled silkscreen prints and paper collages exploring her personal response to her travels to Lee Herring’s richly textured and multi-layered memory based landscapes, from Terry Beard’s  printed and painted textile hangings to Natalie Sirett’s  combination of egg tempera, acrylic and inks  that depict patterns and repetitions in history Colour and Materials portrays the fertile and diverse aspects of the artists’ collective experience.

Colour and Materials reveals a wealth of artwork ranging from abstracted stories of scents, sounds and colours found across the globe through to poetic narratives of deconstructed forms. The exhibition is akin to a moment of confession, affirmation and delight.  These artists open up an energetic yet intimate dialogue with you, the viewer.  Art is a conversation and we would love you to join in the conversation by visiting this extraordinary exhibition.  

This is a colourful and imaginative exhibition that encourages the viewer to discover and explore the creations of contemporary artists. As with other Espacio exhibitions, the artists are actively involved with the gallery and you can expect to find several invigilating at Colour and Materials each day should you wish to find out more about the artwork.

Terry Beard, Christine Calow, Zelda Eady, Robert Fitzmaurice,
Laura Gompertz, Lee Herring, Lucy Morton, Ange Mukeza, Natalie Sirett,
Matt Smith, Jane Stothert, Tina Viljoen, Sally Grumbridge, Sara Wickenden

Organised by Terry Beard
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Across Boundaries
5-10 February 2015

Private View: Thursday 5 February 6-9pm
Performance at Private View: Borderline by Limor Collins 8pm

Boundaries can be represented as an invisible circle  around us, which is  necessary to provide a safe and comfortable containment.  Unfortunately, they can also promote repression and pain,  if used  as institutionalised elements that divide cultures, classes and races. In that sense they  produce  prejudices, and even interfere in our mental beliefs, and , as a consequence, they close out freedom.

But how should boundaries be defined and applied within art and creativity? To start our investigation we decided to work playfully  proposing 'Across Boundaries' ,  a free-themed contemporary exhibition representing the works of a broad-ranging worldwide group, which includes both emerging and established artists.  

The range of works goes from the representational to the abstract and conceptual, in categories that include painting, sculpture, drawing , photography, mix media, installation, film/video and performance. By not being given a theme to follow, the artists are encouraged to feel totally independent through their engagement  in the creative process, and free to explore any methods and subjects as they wish.

Will the outcome of this show  disclose any resonance, a congregation of views, dissonances?... Whatever the result, creating across boundaries can promise a vibrant and exciting environment; but all may be revealed in the viewers' perceptions.

Beryl Robinson, HérailJägerJackson, Kevin Derbyshire,
Liz Derbyshire, Lawrence Mathias, Mark Nelson, Liz Kent, Ben Mellor,
Leslie Lismore, Niki Hare, Rachel Ducker, Shizico Yi, Chris Francis,
Karina Vettorel, Carla Fleck, Asafe Ghalib, Katrina Rose, Carl Meek,
Chic Curran, Ana Bender

Curated by Ana Cockerill
Guest Performance Artist: Limor Collins
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The Anti Gallery Gallery Show
8-29 January 2015

Opening event: Thursday 8 January 6-9pm
35 artists and art groups are staging a takeover of the Espacio Gallery in January 2015 to turn it into a demonstration site, an encounter space and an ideas laboratory.

Instigated by the Degrees of Freedom artist collective, the Anti Gallery Gallery Show is an experiment in finding ways for artists to change their relationship with each other, their artworks and the public within a traditional gallery space so as to subvert its governing ethos- competitive individualism within a consumerist culture.

The Show is designed as a festival rather than a normal exhibition and aims to create an ever changing, boisterous and engaging experience inside and outside the gallery space. The ambition is to engage artists and visitors, make them think, play and take part in ways that are thought provoking as well as fun.

The takeover is supported by Carlos de Lins, Director of the Espacio Gallery. ”The Anti Gallery Gallery Show makes some very serious points about the nature of the art world and having them made in a gallery space adds an interesting dimension to what they are saying”.

The Show features installations, performances, constructed situations, encounters and happenings that challenge the values, rituals, practices and conventions of the gallery culture. All artworks will be created or completed at the gallery or require participation from visitors.

Participating artists include Ahmed Farooqui, Andrea Artz, Bodo Jackson Artist Collaboration, Chloë Louise Lawrence, Claire Nelmes, Cluster Bomb Collective, Consuelo Celluzzi, Dan Kennedy, Diana Scarborough, Ellen Jewell, Elspeth Penfold, Esperanza Gomez-Carrera, Fans of Feminism, Graham Asker, Graham Johnston, Hysterical Women Collective, Jane Smith, Jeanette Abi Khalil, John O’Hare, Jones Tensini, Kate Walters, Klaus Pinter, Liana Bortolozzo, Livia Garcia, Marta Daeuble, Matthew Kay, Miguel Ivorra, Monika Tobel, Naomi Oduse, Natasha Sabatini, Naya Eleftheriou, S R Jimmy, Stephanie Conway and the Women’s Tap Rhythm Collective.

Information on the daily schedule of events will be available here from 2nd January 2015.

Opening hours: Tues & Wed 3pm-8pm, Thurs-Sat 1pm-8pm, Sunday 11am-6pm, Monday closed.

Instigated and facilitated by the Degrees of Freedom artist collective.
Past exhibitions 2014