Craig Fisher / Louisa
Chambers / Rob Flint
25 November – 17
December 2016
Closing Event with a performance by Rob Flint
Saturday 17 December 3-6pm
The collaborative
exhibition, Razzle Dazzle
takes as its starting point Dazzle
Camouflage, credited to artist Norman Wilkinson where, ‘military
vessels were painted with strong geometric patterns and bold contrasting
colouration so as to misinform U-boat captains bent on attack. The intention
was optical deception: to mislead the eye and manipulate visual perception.’
(Gil McElroy, The Uses of
Abstraction)
Artists Craig Fisher, Louisa Chambers and Rob Flint each employ pattern within their practice as a form of pictorial disruption, interruption and spatial collapse. Initially to start the dialogue each artist will work site-specifically by making work directly on the gallery walls. Over the duration of the exhibition each artist will develop work by responding to the space and each other; artworks will butt up against each other, they may be shown on top of each other making individual practices both indistinguishable and jarring. As the space begins to evolve, as well as adding, interjections will be made where artworks will be removed or displaced. The artists are interested in further crossovers, which will be made during a marked time frame, the possibilities of pattern disruptions and figure/ground painting relationships within the gallery space.
Works in the exhibition are concealed within the overall dazzle effect of the installation producing interesting juxtapositions and correlations.
The exhibition follows on from a public residency at the Harley Gallery in the East Midlands.
Artists Craig Fisher, Louisa Chambers and Rob Flint each employ pattern within their practice as a form of pictorial disruption, interruption and spatial collapse. Initially to start the dialogue each artist will work site-specifically by making work directly on the gallery walls. Over the duration of the exhibition each artist will develop work by responding to the space and each other; artworks will butt up against each other, they may be shown on top of each other making individual practices both indistinguishable and jarring. As the space begins to evolve, as well as adding, interjections will be made where artworks will be removed or displaced. The artists are interested in further crossovers, which will be made during a marked time frame, the possibilities of pattern disruptions and figure/ground painting relationships within the gallery space.
Works in the exhibition are concealed within the overall dazzle effect of the installation producing interesting juxtapositions and correlations.
The exhibition follows on from a public residency at the Harley Gallery in the East Midlands.
There were two main
installation collaborative points during the exhibition. Images taken from
stage one:
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