ONSHOW, A Collaborative Exhibition by Nevill, Crumpton & Leach, the 8th - 18th August

"ONSHOW": a display of painting and drawings by three distinct Devon-based artists.
Keiron Leach produces landscape inks from one ana a half metres long down to thumbnail size, invoking a sence of poetry.
For Acquire he will be displaying his move toward unusually tall drawings, which use brush and mark making to lead the viewer through a subtle landscape-derived journey.
Creydi Nevill is a painter of large abstract oils. He has discarded all physical reference, shape, and the horizontal. He has stripped his work down to basics; comprising of colour, edge, line and surface. Creydi will be displaying his best, most recent and some just-dry pieces,
Ed Crumpton's work is time-based; ink drawings from art adventures, the latest of which have included his coast to coast of America when he did a drawing every 6 hrs, and the 101 mile Two Moors Way when he did one every mile. For Acquire Ed will be showing his journey from Devon to Battersea!
For full details, links images and video clips see www.onshow.org.uk or facebook them at http://www.facebook.com/pages/ONSHOW/126077994097901

fromOne , 26th July - 6th August

fromOne: Alice Corby, Amy Waters, James Norton, Jane Askew, Katie Parfey, Mat Stanton, Rosina Godwin and Toff Rigert.
26 July to 6 August 2010
11 am – 7 pm daily
Private View Night: Wednesday 28 July 2010 6.30 – 9 pm
An exhibition by fromOne collective: eight artists from the South who graduated together in 2009, reunite a year on to show a broad range of thought-provoking and exciting work: non-representational sculpture constructed from utilitarian objects, striking photographs of banal urban spaces, seamless photomontage that unites disparate realities, visceral sculptural textiles, abstract paintings utilising layered typographical motifs and figurative paintings about modern life, people and places.
www.fromone.co.uk

The Dream Machine curated by Plasticine Art Factory, 16th - 23rd July

“ The Dream Machine - because dreams often form the foundations of new artistic ideas. In dreams people are completely honest and explore their fears, they discover what they love, and what they hate, without pre-conceived perceptions – it’s where art is from.”

A new art collective led by London-based artist Bruno Giordano will show its inaugural exhibition on 16-23 July at Battersea’s Acquire Arts Gallery.

The Dream Machine exhibition will showcase the work of twenty international emerging artists, including those from Italy, Australia, Belgium, Germany and England, who were given the freedom to create a piece of work in any medium that they felt captured their individuality and passions. Curated by art collective Plasticine Art Factory, the exhibition is the first in a series of exhibitions that will provide a platform for innovative, experimental new art.

The exhibition includes work by Fiona Kennedy Altoft-Fabio Usvardi-Luigi Francischello-Rohan Graeffly-Bruno Giordano-Davide Bernardi-Matteo C.Farkas-Max Mondini-Shireen Qureshi-Emiliano Stella-Lauraballa-Simon Collins-Pierfelice Vazzana-Justus Cox-Sara Pretelli-Alessandra Spagnolo-Emer Costello-Veronica Rastelli-Viola Kunst-Erica Calardo

Acquire Arts Gallery is an intimate, contemporary gallery space in Battersea that seeks to promote little-known artists. The private view on 16 July will feature innovative performances by music project Vivianne Viveur , shadow puppet theatre and music outfit Matthew Robins and singer-songwriter
Adam Clark.

Plasticine Art factory

194A Queenstown Road
London SW8 3NR
020 34418807

www.plasticinefactory.co.uk
plasticine@live.co.uk
www.myspace.com/artprojects
www.aquirearts.org
www.myfayrecords.com

Beyond the Real by Artists: Lara Clarke-Wardle, Mark Prethero, Ed Smithson, Rebecca White, 20th - 26th August

Heads swivel and roll in a bewildering blur; a faceless figure with long blonde tresses cavorts around a domestic space. Bears brawl in an underpass; a chimp slumps, desolate, in a lonely place. A rock face, barren and beautiful, imposes itself on the black sky that looms behind it: the natural growth that clings to it, preternaturally bright.

These are magical worlds, mysterious and marvelous, yet modelled in a medium that, according to convention and tradition, mimics reality as we perceive it and understand it. Not so: tantalizing sur-realities that ordinarily belong to the realm of dreams and nightmares are, instead, made manifest in our conscious world through the skill of four photographers, who have learnt to compose and manipulate their images to suit their own creative needs. In doing so, they feed and fuel both our fantasies and fears.

Lara Clarke-Wardle, Mark Prethero, Ed Smithson and Rebecca White have used photography and post-production digital technology to ‘make strange’ reality; to seduce us with imagery that preys on some shared, cultural, visual repertoire. What they suggest is not the everyday but, rather, those weird happenings that occur in one’s peripheral vision: an alternative to all that is rational and easily explained. The photographs act as portals to parallel worlds, making material the desires and dreads that haunt our subconscious.

Strange liminal spaces, both sensuous and oneiric, these images are wonderful – in all senses of the word. Their power lies in their potential to deliver us from the petty and banal that dictates so much of adult life.

Jane Fletcher

Artists websites:
www.markprethero.co.uk
www.laraclarkewardle.co.uk
www.rlwhitephotography.carbonmade.com
www.edsmithson.carbonmade.com