Elise Ferguson, Anna Hutton, Mark Pearson, Chloe Steele. The unusual structure of the Pump House Gallery's four-storey exhibition space provides the focus for this exhibition, the artworks presenting visual commentaries on the multi-layered architecture of the building in which they are temporarily housed.
Elise Ferguson, Anna Hutton, Mark Pearson, Chloë Steele
The unusual structure of the Pump House Gallery's four-storey exhibition space provides the focus for this exhibition, the artworks presenting visual commentaries on the multi-layered architecture of the building in which they are temporarily housed.
Elise Ferguson's intricate gouache paintings of patterned parquet flooring describe virtual expanses of architectural interiors, whilst her precariously balanced house-of-cards highlights the vulnerabilities of ambitious construction and the fragility of modern life. Anna Hutton's site-specific artworks explore the transient spaces of buildings. Drawing over walls, floors and other surfaces with coloured adhesive tape, her complex installations realign our experience of existing built environments asking the viewer to consider even the most insignificant of spaces.
With the heroic energy and aspirational creativity of a dubious DIY enthusiast, Mark Pearson builds brutal physical structures that challenge the apparent limits of their craftsmanship. In contrast, Chloë Steele's delicate drawings and simplified sculptures of modernist tower blocks both contradict and celebrate the vast scale of the actual buildings, whilst observing the formal subtleties of the architecture they represent.
Image: Elise Ferguson - Cards on Parquet 2001
Many thanks to Norwich Gallery/EAST International
Events: Sunday 22 February 2pm - Multistorey An informal talk and tour of the exhibition.
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VERBALEYES - Thursday 11 March 6-8pm
A Pump House Gallery and Apples and Snakes collaborative project that places poets with the artists from Multistorey to create an evening performance informed by the visual artists practice.
Tickets: £2.00 including a glass of wine/juice
For further details please ring the Pump House Gallery or Monika Neall at Apples and Snakes (020 7738 0832)
Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park SW11 4NJ
London