By Chromed Hooves It Travels Now John Andrew, Steve Green, Paul Hosking, Peter Lamb
15.1.10 - 31.1.10 PRIVATE VIEW 14-1-10 / 6.30-9PM
Is a proposed show that brings together four artists that question the nature of art making in their practice, whilst producing metaphysical works, drawing, painting or sculpted objects. Collectively they explore themes of creation and why art works amount to more than their material properties. All four artists are involved in a constant process of de-constructing and re-constructing imagery and as the shows title suggests, something has changed, been transformed and some form of alchemy has occurred that has given gilded wings to the language of art to make it travel further.
John Andrew
Andrews work functions as a vehicle for attuning or returning, individual patterns of attention and perception. The works activate perceptual complexity; they create a horizon, in a phenomenological sense, and the viewer is left to process and stretch the mind.
Makes metaphysical sculptures that resemble relics from a fallen temple of the future, exploring a variety of themes including Spirituality and notions of abstraction through representation in decorative objects. They pursue a course that engages numerous primitive belief systems including shamanistic rituals, black magic and the early pursuits of religion. As without obvious function the artworks become a vehicle for intimacy or sentiment. Ambivalently autonomous beautiful objects, potent with energy, hope, desiring spiritual, ritualistic or primitive acceptance, coupled with resurfacing melancholy and bewildering emptiness that instills doubt or shines vulnerable light on the paths they choose to inhabit.
Paul Hosking
Hosking uses a simplistic approach where sculptures are essentially derived from ready-mades. By gathering a glut of visual references such as joke shop bones that are cast into resin, Hoskings work becomes a memento-mori and a transformed piece of modern day waste.
Cut-and-paste and preservation/obliteration are typical of Lamb's work. His paintings and installations contain a personal symbolic language evoking an extreme and almost shamanistic journey at the edges of reality.
