Hemington - Nakao

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

The first exhibition of the collaborative work of Tim Hemington and Hiroko Nakao. Subtly stretched surfaces are sewn and sprayed and the wet white insides of pressed flowers which have a varnished sheen slide over babies and butterflies.

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The Andrew Mummery Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of the collaborative work of Tim Hemington and Hiroko Nakao.

Lovely life alters artificial art and minimal meetings measure marriages. Cupid changed the creepy collages then pressed and punctured painted photocopies.
He removed and ripped the re-attachments, transforming and transposing, transgressing and transcending.

Brushed blue baby freezes the feminine fumes of flowers while dripped drying dolls dribble and outside, organic qualities ooze emotional entropy.
Subtly stretched surfaces are sewn and sprayed and the wet white insides of pressed flowers which have a varnished sheen slide over babies and butterflies.

Split split and stage struck, plinths, pink and pleated, perform and torn toxic theatrical toys are hidden under splattered sopping skins which stay stapled sticky and sewn.
Machines support stars in patterned puckered pools, wriggling and rendering repeating and romancing.

Tim Hemington. Born in England, 1968. 1988-91 BFA Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. Selected solo exhibitions: Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (1996 and 1999) Despite Straight Lines Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon (1999) Living in the White Monochrome, Galleria Carbone, Turin (1998)

Hiroko Nakao. Born Kanagawa, Japan, 1971. 1994-98 Chelsea College of Art & Design, London. 1998-2000 Royal College of Art, London. Selected solo exhibitions: Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Worcester (2001) Project Room, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (2001) Selected Group exhibitions: Tale of the Thread, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto (2003) Beyond the Pale: Material Possibilities Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2002) Assembly, Stepney City, London (2000).

Private View: Tuesday 10 June, 6-8pm

Tim Hemington and Hiroko Nakao were married in 2002 and started working together shortly afterwards. At the end of 2002 Hiroko gave birth to a baby daughter, Koyuki. Both artists live and work in London. Hiroko Nakao is represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery.

For further information, please contact Andrew Mummery, tel: +44 (0)20 7251 6265

Forthcoming exhibitions at Andrew Mummery Gallery:
17 July - 23 August
Richard Walker

Project Room
Philip Akkerman
Mark Kennedy
Jockum Nordstram
Christopher Stevens

ANDREW MUMMERY GALLERY
63 Compton Street, London EC1V 0BN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 6265. Fax: +44 (0)20 7251 5545

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Two exhibitions
dal 24/10/2006 al 10/11/2006