TOGETHER OUR SPACE GALLERY

TOGETHER OUR SPACE GALLERY 12 Old Street, London EC1V 9BE

BLANK SPACE/(Y)OUR SPACE

THURSDAY 20TH MAY – FRIDAY 2ND JULY 2010
A MULTI - DISCIPLINARY EXHIBITION FEATURING ARTISTS
BRINGING TO PASS THEIR SENSE OF THE VOID.

All works explore the artist’s impression of blank space through the creation of art
set against the pull of the void, encompassing a sense of mind, body and literal
space. Together Our Space Gallery will become a creative sensory zone for 6
weeks with works allowing spectators to become a part of the creative space
through the visual, touch, sound and creative participation.

The exhibition features 13 emerging artists based in the UK and 3 artists who are
part of Art Saves Lives an organisation that "empower and rehabilitate people
through the medium of art".

FILL – IN – THE – BL___K

WORK INCLUDES SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS, SOUND, VIDEO,

PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE.

ARTISTS:
MORGAN BERINGER > SUSAN BOWMAN > LUCY EDKINS > CLAIRE
HAZELTON > VICTORIA KARLSSON > PAUL KINDERSLEY > NICOLA
McCARTNEY > EVE McDOUGALL > CHAR MILLARE > AMANDA MOSS >
AXELLE RUSSO > DEAN STALHAM > THEO TAGHOLM > KASSIM BAY &
DEANO DE LA VEGA
MORGAN BERINGER
Abstraction 29

A reflection on the big gray ambiguous void existing within dualistic notions of
structure and metaphysics. The strobe becomes as a transcendental flashlight,
slowing down life's frame rate to illuminate the illusory nature of gray, space, or
the void. In the same manner, film creates the illusion of motion through
presenting still images in rapid succession.

Morgan Beringer is an American video artist based in London. Having spent

and continuing to spend much of his life in transit between different countries, the
thrust of his creative concern stems from the dilemma of living in-between
cultures. An academic background in both philosophy and art pushes these
concerns further into the realms of linguistics, performance, and film/video art.
SUSAN BOWMAN
Video Paintings

Video Paintings are free of narrative, editing, people and sound. They focus on
natural beauty and simple pleasures like the effect of changing light and wind on
water. They offer the opportunity for total engrossment in what you are looking at
without the need for understanding or closure.

Susan Bowman is a multi media artist who graduated with Distinction in an MA

in Textile Culture from Norwich School of Art & Design in 2007. Since then she
has built up a successful exhibiting career, showing her work in Europe, Russia
and the USA. Susan has recently started working in a brand new genre - Video
Painting and is showing one of her recent Video Paintings in this exhibition.
LUCY EDKINS

Wire Dream Sculptures (2010)

The wire dream sculptures express an ephemeral idea of being.

Wire, PVA, tissue paper

Red Detritus (2009)

The junk sculpture symbolises a cluster of wildness within a tame environment.

Household & neighbourhood detritus: wood, metal, wire and baskets.

This grouping instigates the anatomy of a journey, a metaphorical path through life using
the visual currency of dreams.

Lucy Edkins works from a Tottenham based home studio. She exhibits regularly across
London and internationally.
www.lucyedkins.com
CLAIRE HAZELTON
Slippery Soap

'Slippery Soap' is a series of sculptures made from bars of soap, engraved with words
from the composer John Cage's 'lecture on nothing'. It depicts the mind going blank in a
performance or speech; piano keys turning into slippery obstacles, the fear of 'slipping
up', gaps in memory, writers block. The soap bars are positioned like piano keys but also
like foot prints rising into an unknown future, a blank wall; not entirely sure of where we
are going, trying not to slide backwards.

Claire Hazelton is a student at Kings College London currently studying music. She
likes to experiment with the crossovers in visual art, music and writing.
VICTORIA KARLSSON
In Passing

Using paper to create a physical and sonic environment. As with the opening of a book, the
installation envelops the visitor in their own worlds where they themselves are essential to the
creation of their experience. They become both listener and performer of the piece.

The paper environment will decay over time, and as it does the experience will alter for the
visitors. As visitors interact with the installation the sounds produced are recorded, acting as a
record of the installation after it has disappeared. The immateriality of the sound outlasting the
physicality of the installation.

Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist working in London influenced by phonography, psycho-

geography and traditional compositional practices.

Working within composition, live art and installation practices, she creates sonic art that explores
haunted spaces and also haunted sounds themselves. Her work explores space, internal and
external experience, psycho geography and the site specific.

A living, integral part of any physical environment, sound art has the unique ability to suggest and
open up new words on the edges of the real and the imagined.
PAUL KINDERSLEY
I Love You

‘I Love You’ is a new piece of work that deals with the crossover between a physical space (the
object/reality) and a mental space, how our minds generate and change the past dependent on
our interactions with pop culture. Hugely influenced by film and TV, ‘I Love You’ blurs Kindersley’s
own biography with camp film (Black Narcissus), romanticised teenage memories and true crime,
(the kidnap and media portrayal of Jaycee Lee Dugard). The outcome occupies a new place of
uneasy confusion, where there is no longer a hierarchy in source material. The bed as a symbol
of sexuality and both traumatic and comforting memories, isolated in the gallery, becomes the
place of action, past, present and future. While its red PVC sheet conjures up kinky thoughts at
odds with the simple idealistic film loop, displaying a simple yearning for human interaction
becomes merely a headboard or backdrop to the ‘action’. The piece becomes the manifestation
of a misremembered instant, a starting point for the viewer’s imagination.

After having lived in Berlin, Cambridge and London, Paul Kindersley graduated from Chelsea
College of Art & Design with a first in the summer of 2009 and was awarded the Transition
Gallery Prize, which resulted in a solo show last October. Kindersley has exhibited widely in
London and internationally, his writing and images have also been published in Z4RD, Section
Five, Holly White and Arty magazines and have featured on Dazed and Confused online.
Kindersley recently curated two shows at the Centre for Recent Drawing, Stay Lucky! In January,
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and ‘Hand Joy’, running until the 28 May, which brings together 22 young artists from around the
world, exploring themes of desire and eroticism.

www.paulkindersley.co.uk
NICOLA McCARTNEY

Susan

Nicola McCartney is a London based artist and writer on contemporary art. She is
influenced by popular culture and media images, concentrating on perceptions of
femininity. Her research is based upon notions of the biography and artistic identity.
Susan is a portrayal of the subject made object. The repetition and domestication
of Susan Boyle into wallpaper represents the public's claim over and creation of
the documented character they dubbed 'Subo': The phenomenal obsession with the
singer that ensued after her debut on Britain's Got Talent simultaneously manifested
itself in both compassion and victimisation by her fans. McCartney's sensitive depiction
of her famous audition aims to capture the tension between the grace and fear in the
woman, respectfully titled Susan for this work of art.

nicola@nicolamccartney.co.uk
www.nicolamccartney.co.uk
EVE McDOUGALL
Girls Behind Bars
Sculpture made out of found objects from charity and junk shops.

Eve McDougall is a self-taught artist/writer born on the South Side of Glasgow

and spent most of her young life in approved schools which she constantly
escaped from.

Eve is one of the ambassadors for Clean Break and a tutor for Cast, delivering
art, poetry and creative writing. She is also the editor of Cast magazine and has
done an introduction to counseling at Birbeck College to help her deal with the
horrors of the past. She then went on to write her book, ‘A Wicked Fist; A True
Story Of Prison Freedom’ and says, ‘Art saved my life in those dark days and
continues to inspire’.
CHAR MILLARE
Why’d Ya Do it? (2010)

A reflection on an anger felt when confronted with the notion of rejection and the burning questions we ask
after realising something you had was not quite what it seemed.

Taking lyrics from the Marianne Faithfull song Why’d Ya Do It? Char Millare reflects on past relationships
and the obsessions that follow when trust is broken. The video is a personal piece exploring a paranoia that
has taken hold, turning the paranoid into a broken record as she attempts to find solace in her
understanding of the past. Possessed by what she thinks she knows, the only question that seems to
surface is “WHY?”

Why’d Ya Do It? is about breaking a cycle of doubt by confronting the past.

Char Millare is a BA (Hons) Film and Video graduate from the Kent Institute of Art and Design and is
currently based in London.
AMANDA MOSS
Forecourt Triptych: Oil on Canvas 180cms x 60cms overall. 2009 - 2010.

These paintings are based on CCTV footage recorded in our space. The CCTV
monitor also serves as a window enabling me to see outside the building in an
otherwise windowless space. I am interested in the way that people drift in and
out of the frame and inhabit the space for brief moments of time forming part of
the composition. The forecourt becomes a stage where I can introduce a certain
degree of drama and fantasy.

Amanda Moss is a visual artist who lives and works in London she is also a
Director of Corsica Studios an independent arts and music venue
that is located at the Elephant & Castle in South London.
AXELLE RUSSO
You Are Here

Photo: Ex-Voto, Axelle Russo, 2009.

‘You Are Here’ is an evolving and interactive installation where viewers are
invited to settle in the space and make it their own. They are given the
opportunity to share their thoughts, aspirations and desires and start drawing and
writing on the walls, ceiling and floor. It is an intimate space that belongs to all,
where individuals leave their trace.

Axelle Russo is French artist leaving and working in London since 2000. She
works on installations and paintings that question self-identity and individuals'
desire. She uses peoples' own experiences and thoughts to question the way
self-image is influenced by socio-cultural contexts.
DEAN STALHAM

My name is Dean Stalham; I am an artist and have been making art since 2004.

Art saved my life.

In 2008 I was commissioned to design and build an art installation for the EDEN
PROJECTS KEY GARDEN at THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 09. The brief was to
highlight the plight of London's homeless community. These three reclaimed timber
columns are part of forty columns that were adorned by a hand painted stream of
consciousness poem. The Garden won a Silver Medal and was seen by over 150
thousand visitors.
THEO TAGHOLM
Drift

Drift was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation.
I feel the Situationists best describe my intentions

I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.

"Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality,
of engendering dreams"

"We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the
past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original
conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary." Ivan Chtcheglov

Theo Tagholm is a London based artist working predominantly in video. He was

shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards in 2008.
KASSIM BAY & DEANO DE LA VEGA
WE SCRATCH ART aka Scratchadelia

"Too cool to go to school. Too handsome to be homeless. We scratch Art."

Kassim Bay and Deano De La Vega turn their frustration into mind-blowing jewels to
un-program the perception of the spectator/actor and art-eater, in order to re-program it.
On surface level the work could easily be read simply as typography, graphic art and a
style of graffiti. But on closer inspection the work is a contrast of a delicate process and
fragile materials representing imagery of pop and subversive culture. Transcending the
usual street based art work and becoming deeper and richer in its monochromatic play
with light, sight and touch.