21/1/2004
Half Light
Rockwell, London
Half Light shows work by 3 artists; Maxwell Attenboroughs' models, Gordon Cheung's paintings/collages and Anne Hardy's photographs. Half Light is neither pure illumination nor darkness a twilight zone just within and beyond the grasp of everyday brightness. Their work leads us into partially visible worlds creating spaces between reality and fiction.
Maxwell Attenborough
Gordon Cheung
Anne Hardy
Essay by Roy Exley
Half Light shows work by 3 artists; Maxwell Attenboroughs' models, Gordon
Cheung's paintings/collages and Anne Hardy's photographs.
Half Light is neither pure illumination nor darkness a twilight zone just
within and beyond the grasp of everyday brightness. Their work leads us into
partially visible worlds creating spaces between reality and fiction. They
present alternate realities; mindscapes lurking on the margins of our world,
where lucid dream worlds merge with the dark unconscious and desire and
psychosis rupture through the real. Through the prisms of these artists work
we glimpse human order and control crumbling as chaos creeps into the fabric
of the everyday.
In Anne Hardy¹s photographic series 'Interior Landscapes¹ we are led into
spaces where grime, decay, disorder, magic, and beauty collide in an
imaginary world that alludes to a hidden underbelly within our everyday
lives. She builds detailed full scale sets and then photographs them,
creating the appearance of reality whilst at the same time heightening the
psychological impact of these fictional spaces.
The recent paintings/collages of Gordon Cheung offer oscillating dimensions
illuminating utopian and dystopian myths and realities. They reflect an
information-saturated world where the actual and virtual are in flux and
hallucinations and mirages haunt.
Maxwell Attenborough presents a 3D model; translating experiences of the
real world into the hyper-real world of the miniature. The model at once
removes us in scale but then pulls us in, welcoming the viewer to suspend
his disbelief and breathe life into this small world, which flutters between
reality and unreality.
Maxwell Attenborough studied Painting at the Royal College of Art. Exhibited
recently in the 'Space Open' at the Triangle, Hackney, collaborated with
Joshua Thomson and Tom Wooolner in a 'lecture' for the Institute of Ape
Culture and showed work in the Notting Hill Film Festival. He also benefited
from a residency in Canada in conjunction with the NSCAD in Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
Gordon Cheung studied Painting at the Royal College of Art. Recent
exhibitions include 'Yes I am a Long Way from Home', Nunnery Gallery
(toured) and 'Intervention', John Hansard Gallery. He has recently completed
art residencies in Japan and Pakistan. He will be starting an art residency
at the new Chinese Art Centre, in Manchester 2004.
Anne Hardy studied photography at the Royal College of Art. Recent
exhibitions include 'London Calling', con|temporary, Berlin and 'see be
seen', VTO, London. A portfolio of her work was recently published in
'Photography Now' issue 3.03 (july - sept 2003). In April 2004 she will have
a solo show at the Laing Gallery, Newcastle as part of Laing Solo.
Private View Thurs 22 Jan 6 - 9pm
In the Image: 'Bloodshot Vision of an Oasis', Financial Times and ink on board,Gordon Cheung, 2002.
For further information/images/digital images contact Rockwell:
Reece 07941 672 101 or Alex 07970 921 237
Opening times:
22 Jan - 22 Feb 2004
Fri/Sat/Sun 10am - 6pm or by appointment
Transport:
Bus: 30, 38, 254, 48, 55
Train: Hackney Downs/Hackney Central
Tube: Bethnal Green; then 106 or 254 bus
Rockwell
Top Floor
230 Dalston Lane
London E8 1LA