Installation

StART SPACE will be closed until Sunday 1^st June, when we will reopen after the installation of Nick Bowring’s new exhibition “Departure”. We will of course still be open by appointment.

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Beauty and Apocalypse on the North Circular Road
New Paintings by Christopher Campbell

Exhibition closes Sunday 25th May

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Next solo show

Departure

New Paintings and Assemblages
by Nick Bowering

1^st June – 13^th July 2008

Private view Thursday 5^th June 2008 (6 – 8 pm)

Nostalgia for impossible journeys, a treasure chest of vintage toys and the ‘ghost’ and ‘dazzle’ ships of two World Wars, Departure, Nick Bowering’s new body of work is redolent with a sense of being ‘born out of time’.

One starting point of Departure is the exploration of his parent’s journey in 1963 as £10 Poms, when they followed thousands of other British couples who were given assisted passage to emigrate to Australia. Nick was born in Perth, Western Australia, two and a half years later. As a child was fascinated by the photographic slides of his family voyage back home on the Fairsky in 1966 when they returned to England. His new paintings are in part an evocation of that journey which Nick was too young to recall.

One vivid childhood memory is when his father came home with a battered leather case filled with toys and a train set. It was typical of his father to keep small treasures in boxes and old tobacco tins for safe-keeping. The ‘boxing and encasing’ elements of the new work investigate this wish to ‘preserve the precious’.

Nick has also begun to explore the extraordinary roles ocean liners performed in two World Wars in his assemblages based on the ‘ghost’ and ‘dazzle’ ships. The liner Queen Elizabeth became the ‘Great Grey Ghost’ when she was used as a troop carrier during World War II and she is one of the many models Nick has worked from for this series. Using dramatic cropping and elevated viewpoints, Departure also explores the romance of travel, the inherent deception of model-making and the ambiguity of memory.

Nick attended Camberwell School of Art (1982-86) where he received a BA Hons in Illustration and has also studied lithography and photography. He has exhibited widely (London, New York, Dublin, Glasgow and Miami) and has work in private collections, from BP Oil to the Science Museum. Cunard recently purchased a series of ocean liner paintings for their latest ship, Queen Victoria.

New Artist

We are pleased to announce that we will now be showing works by Guy Reid.

Guy Reid, born in Johannesburg in 1963, was raised in London and Shropshire. He completed his first degree in 1984, a BA in Politics and History at the University of North London.

In 1985 Reid began training as a classical carver and restorer and later went to work for the world renowned Spink Workshop where he completed work for institutions as varied as the Metropolitan Museum New York, the Getty Museum California and the Sir John Soane Museum London.

In 1997 Reid went on to graduate with an MA in Systematic Theology at King’s College London. He has exhibited widely at groups and solo exhibitions as well as at art fairs in the UK, France and the USA.

His work is to be found in private and public collections in the UK and abroad including the controversial and much acclaimed Madonna and child at St. Matthew’s Westminster in London.

Reid’s works is always informed by the figure in relation to its spatial and thematic contexts and are either painted, partially painted or left in the natural wood. He is interested in the current debate surrounding painted sculpture and has found that his painted works in particular can still cause controversy, asserting an alternative ethos to the modern tradition which elevates the material.