Art Exhbition Docklands South Quay: MATTER 211212

The Departure Foundation are holding a Private View of work from 8 London Artists featuring Painting and Photography on 21st of December 2012

Artists Names:
Dijana Bekvalac, Chantell Stephenson, Marc-Aaron Hyman, Peter Marchetti, Andrew Quartermain, Chris Ward, Luke Fuller, Sara Twomey, Matthew Randle, Anka Dabrowska

The exhibition is curated by Sara Twomey

This group show brings together a collective of 8 artists based all over London working with the material of paint and photography. All artists are reacting to the world around them and the relentless grind of crisis. They come together on this day 21.12.12, a time when great changes were predicted from the past.

The Docklands is right on the river, this exhibition draws on the water that flows like paint throughout this show, as the oily Thames mirrors the obsessiveness of these 8 painters. The turbulence of the thick paint rushes and washes over the canvas, sometimes slowly then vigorously and violently brushed on, and then calmly the moon pulls this matter of lightness and blackness. The colour pigment is pushed and pulled like a tide that turns when the time of one thing is over and a new thing begins.

These are unknown artist’s emerging in unknown times, some have been producing work for many years that have been brought together in this group show at the end of 2012. The group includes exhibitors from the Thread Needle prize, the Cork Street Open 2012 as well as a solo show in the Norman Foster Building 10 Gresham Street