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17/7/2003

Group show

Florence Trust Studios, London

Summer Exhibition 2003

Liz Bailey, Alfredo Cramerotti, John Davison, D'Este Hanson, Catherine Jacobs, Valerie Josephs, Cathy Littlejohn, Tim Lole, Lucinda Oestreicher, Tamsin Pearson, Andrew Secchi, David Webb

Select 12 of the freshest contemporary artists and offer them studio spaces in a great vaulted Victorian Gothic church. See what they've achieved under the influence of each other and the dramatic setting at the Florence Trust Summer Show.

Although their practices differ greatly, themes of containment and release recur in the work of Alfredo Cramerotti, Lucinda Oestreicher, Liz Bailey and Andy Secchi. Cramerotti's 81-day diary uses buoyant figuration to express the mechanism of fight or flight, while Oestreicher paints and constructs 2D and 3D abodes which have quietly absorbed human characteristics. Bailey's motorway-scapes tease out the hemmed-in mood of long car journeys in small-scale panoramic paintings. The struggle between the organic and inorganic in Hackney is played out in the eclectic, gloss and metallic paintings of Andy Secchi.

East London street furniture, like smashed televisions and vacant light boxes, feature in the 10-dernier-palette paintings by Cathy Littlejohn, while European courtyards and cafés exude a hankering for places you've never been in Tamsin Pearson's small landscapes. Mediterranean languor and rich colour distinguish paintings by David Webb which negotiate the line between abstraction and figuration. Catherine Jacobs invents a photographic language for interior psychological states with a cool slickness that inches towards stickiness. The theme of inner and outer also guides the theatrical and forceful landscapes of John Davison, inspired by immersion in a Yorkshire forest.

Formal considerations dominate the practice of Tim Lole, whose striking canvases question the role of painting itself, while Valerie Josephs draws on a poetic, multi-media approach to explore iconographies of light and form. Finally D'Este Hanson's witty conceptual objects bring a bathos and taunting humour to what is a wonderfully diverse and dynamic group show.

The show is curated by critic and curator Cherry Smyth and accompanied by a full-colour catalogue.

The Florence Trust Studios will also be on stand S9 at Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, 18-20th July.

Further Information From: Rod McIntosh - Director, 020 7354 4771 or 07973 904972

Preview: 18th July, 7 - 9pm

Exhibition: 19th - 27th July 2002
Open Monday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm
Or contact the gallery for an appointment

Florence Trust Studios
St Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London N5 2AR

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