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Glithero
Burn
Burn Burn, 2011
Courtesy
of the artists and Jerwood Visual Arts
FORMED
THOUGHTS
Curated by Clare Twomey
18
January - 26 February 2012
Featuring: Phoebe Cummings, Glithero &
Tracey Rowledge
Jerwood Visual Arts (JVA) presents
the forthcoming exhibition in the Jerwood Encounters
series.
Formed thoughts explores the fundamental
collaboration between maker and material in the forming of
concepts and works. Curator Clare Twomey brings together work
by artists Phoebe Cummings,
Glithero (Tim Simpson & Sarah van
Gameren) and Tracey Rowledge to explore the
active dialogue that materials provoke in the conception of
new work and in its physical formation.
‘Material use is a given in the making of art and
craft objects. In this curation I address the use of materials
from artists who predominately make contributions to practice
within the areas of material specific works, engaging the
materials as co authors.' Clare Twomey, 2011
Works
on display will include new work in Glithero's Burn Burn
Burn series (previous work pictured), in which a flame
travels over a path of flammable screen-printed paint, leaving
behind it a charcoal trace which reveals the memory of a
moment that has already passed. Phoebe Cummings' Vanitas
explores the possibilities of clay as a raw material,
disregarding notions of ceramics as a studio-based practice
and as permanent possessions. Her installation will be
constructed on site at Jerwood Space, where the work will be
left to disintegrate and be broken down over the course of the
exhibition. Tracey Rowledge will create new work for the
exhibition, drawing directly onto the gallery wall over a
10-day period. Her solid graphite wall drawing,
Surface, creates a reflective plane that captures and
subdues the light and the movement in the gallery
space.
Phoebe Cummings studied
Three-Dimensional Crafts at the University of Brighton before
completing an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College
of Art in 2005. Since graduating she has undertaken a number
of artist residencies, in the UK, USA and Greenland, including
a three-month Arts/Industry residency at the Kohler Co.
factory, Wisconsin in 2008 and six months as ceramics
artist-in-residence at the V&A, London in 2010. Recent
exhibitions include Down There Among The Roots, a joint
exhibition with sound recordist Chris Watson, at Newlyn Art
Gallery, and as part of 60|40 Starting Point Series 2011,
where she created work in direct response to the architecture
and activities of Siobhan Davies' Dance Studios in London. In
October 2011, Phoebe Cummings was selected as the winner of
the British Ceramics Biennial Award.
Studio Glithero is British
designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who
met and studied at the Royal College of Art. From their studio
in London they create product, furniture and time-based
installations that give birth to unique and wonderful
products. The work is presented in a broad spectrum of
mediums, but follows a consistent conceptual path; to capture
and present the beauty in the moment things are made. In the
past year Studio Glithero has presented solo shows in London,
Paris and Rotterdam, as well as exhibitions in Spain, Milan,
Berlin and Lisbon. In 2009 they were inaugurated into the
Vauxhall Collective, were awarded the Crafts Council Maker
Development Award and became visiting tutors at the Royal
College of Art.
Tracey Rowledge studied Fine Art
at Goldsmiths' College, London and Fine Bookbinding and
Conservation at Guildford College of Further and Higher
Education, Surrey. Her work has been shown internationally and
is held in various private and public collections. She is a
partner in Benchmark Bindery, established in 2009 with Kathy
Abbott, to produce high quality and intelligent bookbinding
work. She is a founding member of Tomorrow's Past, an
international bookbinding collective and a founding member of
the independent artists group 60|40, which was formed in 2008
with the ceramicist Clare Twomey and the silversmith David
Clarke, to expand the environment and opportunities for the
applied arts. Recent exhibitions include 60|40 at Gustavsberg
Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden and Siobhan Davies Commissions,
London, UK, touring (2011) and U-N-F-O-L-D, Vienna, Austria,
touring (2010).
Clare Twomey is a British artist
and a research fellow at the University of Westminster who
works with clay in large-scale installations, sculpture and
site-specific works. Within her work Twomey maintains her
concerns with materials, craft practice and historic and
social context. She is actively involved in critical research
in the area of the applied arts, including writing, curating
and making.
Jerwood Visual Arts (JVA) is a
contemporary gallery programme of awards, exhibitions and
events at Jerwood Space, London and on tour nationally.
Jerwood Visual Arts supports and showcases the work of
talented emerging artists. It aims to make connections and
provoke conversations within and across visual arts
disciplines. A major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable
Foundation.
Jerwood Encounters are one-off
curated exhibitions which provide artists and curators with
new exhibition opportunities and the chance to explore the
issues and territories in the borderlands between the main
disciplinary fields of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.
Previous exhibitions in the Encounters series have included
Passing Thoughts and Making Plans (4 November - 13
December 2009), For the Sake of the Image (3 March - 1
April 2010) and TERRA (9 November - 11 December
2011).
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