In/Site / An exhibition by Jon Bird, Martin Davidson & Julie Held
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Opening Times
Mon 28th Sept - Sat 3rd Oct 10.00am - 6.00pm
Jon Bird - Jon Bird is an artist, writer and curator. His art practice combines drawing, painting, photography, collage and object-making. Subject matter currently segues between architectural and spatial references, and the forms, colours, patterns and textures of the natural and mineral world: landscape, clouds, mountains, trees and water. This extends to notions of ‘deep time’ embedded in geological formations and terrestrial and extra-terrestrial objects: rocks, meteors and asteroids. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer exhibition; Daniel Arnaud gallery, London and Venice; the Drawing Room Drawing Biennial; The Drawing Works, London Art Fair and Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York.
Martin Davidson - Martin Davidson’s recent paintings are still lives and landscapes based on observation. For him, this is the most exciting and intense experience. Observing the subject, he tries to capture the essence without preconceptions. Sustained looking and drawing with paint has been the most wonderful adventure. Once the brushwork with colour of right intensity, value and hue, locks into the rest of the painting, the result is magical, creating space and giving the painting a life of its own. Recent exhibitions include Affordable Art Fairs in London and New York, Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, Zillah Bell Gallery, Art Movement Gallery and the Freud Museum. His work is in a number of private and public collections in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Julie Held - Julie’s work is in several public collections including Nuffield College, Oxford University, Edward Murray Hall, Cambridge University, The Ben Uri Museum, Baker McKenzie and Thomas Choir School, Leipzig. Julie often returns to explorations of our humanity and our relationship to the environment we inhabit. As such, a wide range of subjects are featured in her work: people, love, sex, war, our relationships to our inner desires and that which exists within these spaces. The works she presents in this exhibition are about London – the movement of people here and the pleasures of belonging against the fragility of not being able to belong. Acceptance, tolerance and their converse. Life in a time of war and strife in the broadest sense.