Past Exhibitions at Hart Gallery

2011
	8 - 24 December 2011 Exhibition to Celebrate Anne Desmet's election to the Royal Academy of Arts.
	17 November - 7 December 2011 Jake Attree Architects of Harm A new group of work influenced by the story of Medea.
	13 October - 2 November 2011 Marzia Colonna Between Dream and Reality After a decade of becoming ever more concentrated and more abstract in her vision of humanity and its yearnings, Marzia Colonna is turning to more openly figurative and expansive forms. Adrian Hamilton, The Independent (extract from catalogue).
	8 - 28 September 2011 Vanessa Gardiner Aegean Coasts This new collection of paintings focuses on the Aegean Coast. 'Certain drawings and watercolours will go on the wall and I'll start to select those elements I feel will best evoke the landscape - a distillation, in a sense, of the lines, shapes and colours.' Vanessa Gardiner 2011
	2nd - 22nd June 2011 G.W.Bot Australian Glyphs G.W.Bot "has mastered the textual nature of her landscape through giving them a language of personal ideograms that is subject to all manner of internal as much as external weather" . Anne Kirker from catalogue essay G.W.Bot Australian Glyphs G.W.Bot is a renowned Australian artist and has been voted as one of the 50 most collectable artists in the Australian Art Collector.
	5th May - 25th May 2011 Jessica Cooper A Place To Be New paintings of landscapes and still lifes. 'It is what what you cannot not see and hear that is revealing in such minimal work - the surplus, such as riotous beds of gorse, restless sand dunes, inventive skylark harmonies, a pounding shorebreak pulled up and pulled back to the twin tidelines by the distant moon, like a bedsheet cast off and recovered. By omitting this surplus, yet hinting at it slyly, Jessica's paintings sing.' Extract from catalogue. Sam Bleakley Travel writer and professional surfer
	10th March - 30th March 2011 Austin Wright 1911 - 1997 Centenary Exhibition This exhibition is not the major museum retrospective that one day will surely happen but an opportunity to see some of the drawings that have never been exhibited before. For many years these works have been in a chest in a bedroom in Upper Poppleton and they will be a revelation to many who don’t know the work of Austin Wright as well as a delight to his many loyal and admiring collectors. The exhibition also includes a small selection of some of Wright’s sculptures so that the drawings can be put in context. John Hart
	10th February - 2nd March 2011 Lewis Noble The work in this exhibition is drawn from the landscape near my home in Derbyshire’s Peak District, and of the very different coastal landscape of southern Cornwall. All of the smaller paintings are completed on location. It’s essential for me to paint outside as the main theme of the paintings is the experience of being in the landscape rather than any particular place or time. Although I am sometimes more specific about where and when a painting was made, it is the atmosphere that is the real subject.
	13th January - 2nd February 2011 Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri. This is the first London exhibition of perhaps the most remarkable sculptural duo of the present time, the more remarkable in that both of them are that rare thing, carvers of sculpture in stone. If one encounters the works of Thomson and Katagiri together, as they have often wished to present it, one may be immediately impressed by how perfectly complementary they are. But it would do less than justice to these contemporary masters of sculpture if we did not first consider them as individuals. Individuals from opposite ends of the world, brought together by happy chance during their own pursuit of professional development. Extract from catalogue, By Douglas Hall
2010
	11th November - 1st December 2010 Anne Desmet, Olympic Metamorphoses . The subjects of exciting new body of work come from the vast construction site that will eventually house the London 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibition shows edition wood engraved prints and exceptional one-off pieces using collage and other materials. Elspeth Owen, Old Hands. 'In you, together with the beginner, is an old hand' Samuel Beckett When Elspeth Owen found some work from twenty years ago it prompted her to show old and new work together. When placing the pieces together she says 'As well as eons apart they give a happy hint of connection and continuity, of the beginner beginning again.'
	14th October - 3rd November 2010 Richard James, Offshore. This new body of work by Richard James continues his fascination with assemblages of found objects which comment on the transience of life. Each piece tells a story through it's delicate components and composition.
	9th - 30th September 2010 David Blackburn, Works from the last decade. Many eminent art critics and writers have written about Blackburn and many more will do so in the future. But rather than add to that worthy library of art criticism I wanted to say something as a personal tribute to the effect Blackburn's work has had on me. When I was quite young I saw my first Blackburn and seemed to 'get it' straightaway. What I got is hard to define; in 'art speak' it was perhaps 'the spirit of place'. Something in the work spoke to me and revealed something about my surroundings that I knew was there but had not fully grasped. David Blackburn by John Hart
	10th - 30th June 2010 Michael Sheppard, Actually Looking ''And as always there comes a point where the whole thing starts moving on its own and you're just the bloke faffing about with a brush and paint, and it takes a life of its own. And this is when the best happens: when you're just there to mix colours and things. I think you always are at the service of the painting. If you start imposing things on painting your in trouble, really...'' Extract from an intereview with Michael Sheppard by Patrick Gale.
	13th May - 2nd June 2010 Tania Rutland, Tempered Lands and Jay Battle, Sculpture. Tania Rutland's has for some time had a preoccupation with the symbolic, referential and picturesque qualities one finds in a piece of fabric or cloth. This fascination has led her to explore these qualities in landscape as the remnants of 'human presence'. Jay Battle displays a new collection of work which explores the combination of stone and resin. Battle cuts stone and re-asembles them with resin to create magnificent results.
	18th March - 7th April 2010 Gareth Edwards RWA Man of Flowers In this remarkable collection of new paintings produced in 2008-09, Edwards presents a series of new "flower" paintings, such as the 'Blooms' and the 'Flower Heads' as well as several major paintings inpired by the sea and landscape, providing a link to previous shows.
	14th January - 3rd February 2010 Brian Graham NOW AND THEN Graham continues to explore and be fascinated by ancient archaeological sites. These resulting atmospheric and evocative paintings are Graham's homage to the courage and determination of out earliest ancestors and to the landscape of the British Isles.
2009
	12th November - 2nd December 2009 Nicola Nemec LAND LIES IN WATER 'An observer examining Nicola's Land-, sea- and skyscapes for the first tie is likely to be struck not only by their luminescence, but by a sense of uncanny depths beneath their multi-layered surfaces. It quickly becomes apparent this is work that demands re-viewing, since the often spare, mysterious forms and patterns depicted ther invariably lead one to question one's initial interpretations'.
	15th October - 4th November 2009 Vanessa Gardiner CONNECTING LINES Gardiner's latest exhibition brings together work inspired by the coastlines of County Mayo, Argolis and Cornwall. "Gardiner's recent work lets the land's own rhythms dictate the boards to create a strong exciting group of work", Julian Bell, 2009
	17th September - 7th October 2009 Jake Attree ST NICHOLAS FIELDS Attree uses York, his hometown, as a source. St Nicholas Fields, on the edge of the ancient City of York, where a leper hospital stood in the Middle Ages and in more recent times a landfill site which merged into a sprawling estate.
	11th May - 1st June 2009 Bryan Kneale RA "I often get the same feeling looking at Kneale's work as in looking at a beautifully crafted piece of armour or some lethal but beautiful weapon, of no use, even menacing and dangerous, but ultimately ours. With our eyes we can feel the weight of things, with our body the balance of each par t to the other. Echoes of a world we know even without thinking about it, an accessible container for our projected wonders and dreams. No fantasy, but something real, manmade. This is sculpture." Philip King PPRA 2009
	7th - 27th May 2009 Lewis Noble CHATSWORTH REFLECTED "I am delighted that a thoughtful and contemporary artist such as Lewis Noble should have wanted to devote a whole year of his life ti painting in and around the estate. His work will add a new layer to the impressions of Chatsworth that have built up over 400 years, and which themselves shape the way the place is imagined." Duke of Devonshire KCVO, CBE, DL
	12th March - 2nd April 2009 G.W.Bot FIELD OF GLYPHS Glyphs are never literal, but they are always born of a real and specific experience in the landscape. Bot feels that over the years she has increasingly learned to listen to the landscape and to learn from its subtle forms. The artwork possesses a sense of order, a natural structure and metaphysical presence, yet it never loses sight of its origins as a handmade artefact. It is complete, but boundless - suggesting endless possibilities.
	12th March - 2nd April 2009 Judith Davies A beautiful new group of ceramics by Davies. Vessels, torsos and undulating bowls that quietly engages in contemporary debates about female body image. The delicate ethereality of their colouring exists in powerful contrast to their face-on robustness and curvaceousness.
	12th January- 5th February 2009 Jessica Cooper THE CERTAINTY OF UNCERTAINTY "...These paintings speak of home and of a loving life. Jessica Cooper's is an art of the everyday and of every day's engagment with our inexpressible and aspriational inner life. Her painterly language communicates the evanescent but essential. She does not deny or cover up the turmoil and pain of life- or the difficulties of making serious art- but her paintings simply affirm, through their formal completeness, the best, the truest aspect of ourselves." Elizabeth Knowles
2008
	5th - 26th November 2008 Anne Desmet URBAN EVOLUTION 'Urban Evolution', is a touring exhibition which started with a hugely successful show at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. It then continued with a staggeringly positive response at Hart Gallery London. The remaining touring venues are: Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk Liverpool Hope University Royal West of England Academy, Bristol "Desmet is one of the most original talents in contemporary artist-printmaking. She brings to her prints and mixed media collages a unique imagination and an abundance of skill and technical expertise." David Morris
	5th - 26th November 2008 Chris Carter "The farming landscape has always been the inspirations for my work. Today's pots have moved closer to the source of that inspiration. In them is reflected both my landscape now, and a search for those ancestors who farmed it thousands of years ago." Chris Carter
	9th - 29th October 2008 Marza Colonna 'The body is generally the starting point for her work; as she says. 'It is used as a visual language to speak of what I feel about our relationship with others and the world that surrounds us'. This exploration of phyicality, as Colonna describes it 'from the inside out, from the viewpoint of how it feels to be in that moment', directs out gaze and plays upon our imagination and feelings. Here is an artist engaged with transformation of meaning and material, revealed either through the monumentality of bronze or the ephemeral qualities of paper". Annette Ratuszniak
	11th September- 1st October 2008 Richard James Transit 'We are all in transit. Everything is changing and endlessly proceeding to death and rebirth'...'The work hints at an unkown land, somewhere we think we know well, somewhere we live and pass through. But we don't see it all and it's this world on the edge of vision that I want to take a closer look at.'
	11th September- 1st October 2008 Elspeth Owen Speaking Volumes 'I like to hint that there is a conceptual content to my work, so this show is called 'Speaking Volumes' to suggest the links there might be between books and clay containers; without trying to labour the point. Tipping a wink at the two dimensions of the page and the bookshelf, I yet stay loyal to the roundness of bowls.'
	17th April - 7th May 2008 David Blackburn "I like the idea that every area of the drawing should work formally. Form is still to me the central component of a drwing or painting. That is that things exist in some sort of illusionist space. Even if you dissolve it into light, or colour becomes a predominant are I still want a strong formal element so that your eye can move into some sort of illusionist space..." "The big pivotal change came when I decided to work on large panels. What I wanted to do was to show a sense of time, the idea of beginning and an end, so that the pictures in time. And the pictures change with time." Quotations by David Blackburn on 'Landscapes of Mind' DVD on sale at Hart Gallery.
	17th April - 7th May 2008 Sutton Taylor "In every lustre firing the outcome is uncertain. Glazes and kiln gasses may react together to produce colours and texture you do not think possible...Such pieces may be regarded as happy accidents but of course there is nothing accidental about them- they are the result of precise chemisrty which is beyond my control." Sutton Taylor
	AND Michael Sheppard A new and impressive body of work.
	6th - 26th March 2008 Brian Graham "...it is Graham's unrelenting dedication to his subject matter, his innate understanding of the land on which he walks every day, his imagination and his ability as a painter that enables him to create works that offer a lasting tribute to our ancestors' survival, and raise metaphysical questions about our own that will keep us pondering for many years to come." - Charlotte Mullins.
	10th - 30th January 2008 Gareth Edwards Gareth Edward's abstract paintings possess an emotional intelligence that compels us to enter into their intimate narratives.

 

2007

8th - 28th November 2007 Jo Ganter Creates impressive prints using imagery taken from small installations and theatrical sets that Ganter makes and then photographs.

11th - 31st October 2007 Vanessa Gardiner An impressive new collection of work inspired by a trip to Ireland. "I felt I found in Benaderreen aspects which were in some way representational of the whole of that singular, weathered landscape - the triangular shapes of the fields interlocking with eachother over the headlands, and the geological formations of the cliffs echoed by the lyrical lines of white foam running along their base. The colours are certainly specific to the ares: the gold-greens, pinks, blacks, greys and ever-present rich blues of the sea."- Vanessa Gardiner

 

	13 September - 3 October 2007 Jake Attree Born in Yorkshire in 1950, Jake Attree studied at the York School of Art and Liverpool College of Art, going on to be awarded The Creswick Landscape Prize.
	AND Judith Davies My ceramic work pushes at the boundaries of the vessel form and attempts to conflate the rigour and discipline of modernist ceramics with a contemporary view of the human form as a fragile and fragmented thing.

23 - 24 June 2007 Summer Exhibition (Nottingham) In the garden: Sculpture by Bryan Kneale, Jay Battle, Marzia Colonna, Austin Wright, Michael Dan Archer and Chris Carter. In the gallery: Paintings, Sculpture and Ceramics.

2 - 27 June 2007 Bryan Kneale Bryan Kneale’s sculpture has always been welded and constructed. He has never been interested in any process that does not allow him to work directly with his chosen material: metal.

26 April - 16 May 2007 G W Bot According to Aboriginal totemic belief, each member of a clan inherits a totemic relationship with a particular plant or animal of the region. I like this idea of oneness with the environment. Where I live wombats are particularly prevalent and they have become my totemic animal. The earliest written reference to a wombat occurs in a French source where it is called “le grand Wam Bot”, and hence my exhibiting name - G.W.Bot.

January 2007 Jay Battle - Line and Boundary Line and Boundary is an exhibition of sculpture, using simple and elegant forms to explore relationships between the built and natural environments.

	2006
January Anne Desmet - Babel Flowers	February Gareth Edwards and Gisele Buthod-Garcon	March David Blackburn	April
May Brian Graham	June Michael Sheppard and Sutton Taylor	July	August Summer Exhibition
September Richard James and Elspeth Owen	October Marzia Colonna	November	December Malcolm Whittaker and Chris Carter

• Homepage
• Artists
• Exhibitions
  • Current
  • Future
  • Past
• Contacts
• Publications
• Special Offers

• Events
  • Current
  • Past
• Art in Situ
  • Corporate Collections
  • Private Collections
  • Sculpture Installation
• Face to Face
• Artist Applications
• Terms etc
• Links

Hart Gallery
113 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN Tel: +44 (0) 20 7704 1131
© 2007 Hart Gallery