These Works I Seek Are Not My Own

So off I went to the opening night on Friday. 

There was quite a good turn out with lots of different people. 

One woman in particular caught my attention - she had very funky green wedges on - and I was just about to go up and talk to her on account of them until she turned around to face me. 

She was wearing the same glasses as me. The same new snazzy mens glasses that I have recently bought for myself. This took me a back a bit and I missed my opportunity. Damn. 

Never mind - I'm sure the extra cool lady will show up again.

Also I keep meaning to put up a new clothes/glasses/coats/hair post so I will do that soon so that you all know what I am on about.

Anyway back to the art - BV Studios is quite impressive and a lot bigger than I had imagined. With the gallery space being of reasonable size. There was music and a bar and we all know how I feel about both of these factors - particularly the music. 

The exhibition presents works by eight different artists whose practise embodies the idea of extended painting. The show aims to present an understanding of painting through different mediums and installational works.  

This is a performance piece by Megan Hoyle.

Hoyle unpicks canvas material and dips each strand into an oil medium. She then places the strands onto a frame, reconstructing a stretched canvas. Thus exploring the idea of deconstructing the process of painting by exploring the relationship between canvas, frame and oil medium. 

Anna Borowicz

Borowicz's work focuses on the spaces and ambiguity of our interiors. Creating boundaries and cross overs, rooms in between non-existing spaces; windows and doorways into an almost different dimension within an already existing space. She uses plastic, metal, and other objects layering and collaging them to create layers of irony and confusion. I particularly enjoyed the yellowy colour of this piece - it reminded me of those weird acetate sheets they used to give you at primary school to help you read with more ease. Almost as if she is helping us see the space with improved insight. 

Will Kendrick

Through using resin instead of paint Kendrick pushes the boundaries between paint and sculpture. His work poses the idea that the two can exist simultaneously, order and chaos merged into one subtle arrangement and colourful overload. 

Vicky Ley

Ley creates works through a meditative process of cutting, weaving, coating and wrapping - paper in most cases. Through a compulsion to change a material through her subconscious she transforms the material into something we, as viewers, are invited to interpret within our own stream of consciousness. 

Charlotte Bartrop

Expressing the notions of silent urban architecture Bartrop depicts the space through a subtle and authentic use of materials and building techniques. 

Tom Johnson

Johnson merges contemporary forms of layering paint with historical pipictive image making. Merging the digital animated image with traditional painting methods. The gold picture frames allude the viewer into believing that this 'game' has become a treasured image, an icon of the age of arcade and home gaming.

Jenny Cooper

Cooper's work forces you to look at the ignored objects in our lives highlighting their existence by drawing them to the fore front of our attention.  

Darragh Boyd

Boyd wishes to inscribe a greater potential of society. Using literary devices he discusses the tone of the age, from cynical to revolutionary, poetic and political. Questioning ourselves and our era, our universal unifying order.