Starting from the entrance, Tuğba Şimşek’s quaint collage series charms with its minimal aesthetic - the coloured mounts and clip frames enhance the hand cut collages superbly.
From Tuğba Şimşek's collage series |
Tess Gray, 'Your street was America' (2013) |
Annie Suganami, 'age+me' (2013) |
The colour red occurs multiple times in this autumn show, perhaps fittingly for the season. Zoe Hall’s painting, titled ‘The Sound of the Bell’ is a wonderfully vibrant piece with a myriad of powerful elements distilled onto a single canvas surface. She is using music, maths and art to represent the tradition of bell-ringing in an ‘abstract, logical way’, which is achieved with a degree of brilliance through harmonious colour and application of paint.
Tom Cardew's mesmerising and disorientating photographic series. |
The combination of fine, figurative lines and three-dimensional typography of Tom Kitchen’s digital illustrations are particularly enjoyable, while in another room Tom Cardew’s series of out-of-focus photographs are somewhat inescapable, with the joyous haze of reverie bleeding into view. Rebecca Floodless’ digital montages of men with animal heads are a comical spin on modern advertising, with the title of ‘The Daily Trudge’ betraying a passive, unmistakably British sense of humour.
Tom Kitchen, 'Let's go' and 'Let's eat', digital prints |
Lastly, and on an amusing note, I enjoyed reading Tudor Gwynn Suganami Jones’ comic-book illustration, entitled ‘When I made this, I hadn’t been laid in a while…”, and would implore all artists to share the same good-humoured attitude to their work.
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