May 2016

Selected Works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection, The Minories, Colchester, 2016

Girl with Book, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40cm

A unique art collection dedicated to 21st century British Painting, the Priseman Seabrook Collection holds over 100 paintings produced by leading artists practicing in Britain today. It first went on museum display between November 2014 and March 2015 at Huddersfield Art Gallery.

Containing work of international significance, artists include European Sovereign Painters Prize winner Susan Gunn, East London Painting Prize winner Nathan Eastwood, John Moores Prize winner Nicholas Middleton, Academy awardee James Quin, John Player Portrait Award Winner Paula MacArthur, 54th Venice Biennale exhibitor Marguerite Horner, Griffin Art Prize exhibitor Matthew Krishanu, Colin Self and Tracey Emin as well as works on paper by Peter Blake, Graham Sutherland, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Alan Davie and David Hockney.

Download the pdf catalogue here

Exhibition Dates: Saturday 14 May to Saturday 9 July 2016 at The Minories, Colchester Open to the public and admission is free.

*Mon-Fri 9—5, Sat 9—4 (Sun closed)

April 2016

Aviary, Transition Gallery, London, 2016

Rose Wylie, Acorn and Jay, 2009, watercolour and collage on paper, 84 x 118cm

Aviary is an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and drawings of birds. The aim is to create an Aviary of artworks of birds that feel ‘alive’ (without necessarily being realistic looking). In a way the birds function as self-portraits (or familiars) for the artists: they are cultural signifiers as well as stand-ins for memories and emotional states.

The works come from a wide range of artists – canonical and outsider, contemporary and historical, and a broad sweep of nationalities and ages. Three of the artists in Aviary (Sutapa Biswas, Aubrey Williams and Rose Wylie) have works in the Tate collection.

Aubrey Williams’s Tick Bird belongs to a wider series of paintings of tropical birds – documenting the birds of Guyana (where Williams was born), the Caribbean and South America. Rose Wylie’s large drawing Acorn & Jay incorporates text, collage and paint to create a playful narrative of two halves.

Other works include Sutapa Biswas’s watercolour birds, Franki Austin’s glass work, paintings from Frances Cowdry, Nathan Eastwood, Jennifer Hooper, Matthew Krishanu, Alli Sharma and Chiz Turnross, porcelain bird sculptures by Annabel Dover, drawings and printing from Adam Bottomley, Mehrdad Rashidi, Alice Sielle and Rita White, and large scale drawing ‘scrolls’ by Susan Sluglett.

Aubrey Williams, Tick Bird, 1979, oil on canvas, 460 x 610cm

Aviary is co-curated by Matthew Krishanu and Niamh White

Matthew Krishanu is a painter based in London. He recently co-curated The London Painting Survey (2015), and has curated collaborative exhibitions for English Heritage, Iniva and RIBA. Niamh White is an independent curator based in London. She is co founder of Hospital Rooms, which commissions contemporary art for mental health hospitals, curator of the Dentons Art Prize, and curator of The Pierrot Project.

Transition Gallery Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN

www.transitiongallery.co.uk

Studio Visit, Resonance FM: A curator round table featuring Helen Nisbet and Marie D’Elbée on Opensource; Matthew Krishanu and Niamh White on Aviary; and Hansi Momodu-Gordon and Orla Houston-Jibo on Future Assembly. Presented by Morgan Quaintance. Download here: Curator Round Table_Studio_Visit

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December 2015

Contemporary Drawings from Britain, Xi'an Province, China, 2015

42 of my works on paper will be showing as part of Contemporary Drawings from Britain, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Xi’an Province, China, 1 — 6 December 2015.

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