LLE will be exhibiting at London Art Fair, 17-22 January 2017
Tuesday 17 January - VIP Preview: 3pm – 6pm* - Preview Evening: 6pm – 9pm
Wednesday 18 January - Photography Focus Day - 11am – 9pm
Thursday 19 January - Thursday Late - 11am – 9pm
Friday 20 January - 11am – 7pm
Saturday 21 January - 11am – 7.30pm
Sunday 22 January - 11am – 5pm
LLE are participating in the ‘Dialogues’ section of Art Projects at London Art Fair. Art Projects is a curated showcase of the freshest contemporary art from across the globe. ‘Dialogues’ is a guest curated section within Art Projects featuring collaborative presentations between invited UK and international galleries. Miguel Amado, Senior Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, curates ‘Dialogues’ for the 2017 edition of the Fair. Art Projects is situated alongside the main Fair on Gallery Level 1.
LLE at London Art Fair Lindsey Bull Aly Helyer Ben Risk Toby Ursell Casper White
For ‘Dialogues’, LLE will be showcasing the work of five painters who use the classical themes of portraiture and figuration in new ways. The subjects of the paintings are a diverse troupe – some based on the self, others observed or imagined, but all ask you to question who they are and why they are here. Ben Risk’s work is an ongoing exploration into a series of ‘socio mythic’ characters which appear as a semi-fictional cast, becoming lost and distorted within the painted surface. Lindsey Bull’s paintings seem to wash the canvas with figures, often lonely, melancholy, shy and introverted, as if trying to avoid our gaze or to distance themselves from the world. Casper White conceals and reveals the sitter with light hues of watercolour on fabric. He plays with the traditional idea of a backdrop of a portrait, elevating this prop to a work of art in its own right. Toby Ursell’s work approaches the history of painting in a truly literal way, his work an imagining of himself in dialogue with characters from historical paintings. Aly Helyer's work interrogates representations of the self. Her oil and gouache paintings excavate the performance of character, the ruptures, tension and violence at stake in our image. While the history of the figure in painting is implicit within all the artists’ work, the subjects are resolutely of today and the modern desire for a singular depiction of identity and the self.
September 2016 -
The Manchester Contemporary
Private View
Thursday 22 September 2016 16.30 - 17.30
Opening Night
Thursday 22 September 2016 17.30 - 21.00
Exhibition runs:
Friday 23 September – Sunday 25 September 2016
The Manchester Contemporary, Old Granada Studios St Johns, Quay Street, Manchester, M3 4PR
PRESS RELEASE
LLEgallery is focused on contemporary painting. For Manchester Contemporary LLEgallery are showcasing a range of painters who use the traditional theme of Landscape in new ways. The paintings are immersed and grounded by the history of Landscape painting but they attempt to move the subject forward and upwards, standing upon shoulders to get a new view. Their work has a respect and appreciation of the processes of painting, how a landscape is assembled via time, photographs, memory and experience, capturing what Paul Nash called genius loci, or 'the spirit of a place'.
Gareth Kemp’s paintings arise out of a process of carefully planning the collection of elements in each painting, mentally cutting and pasting between photographic sources, and drawing on memories of growing up in rural Wales. This method results in repetitions and occlusions, recurrences of motifs and, frequently, a blurring between foreground and background.
Similarly Tom Pitt’s paintings draw on memories of places he’s walked by hundreds of times or a photo that he may have put aside years ago. Tom paints places, objects, or things he categorises as somewhere between place and object. They are the starting point for a process of improvisation and meditation.
Lindsey Bull’s imagery is widely sourced, from fashion magazines to witchcraft journals. The figures in her paintings are often costumed, and although Lindsey’s work is figurative, the environment her figures reside in is equally important, adding to the air of other-worldliness in the paintings.
Catrin Llwyd Evans re-appropriates imagery to create new objects. The works are drawn from pre-existing imagery, including photographs, video stills and images from contemporary and historical events. Through the process of filtering the original concept, Catrin removes the narrative, furthering the image from the original context, allowing for new interpretations to emerge.
A sense of being many times removed from a place is also evident in the work of Lara Davies. Lara makes numerous studies of the same or similar image, where the photographic image is gradually disregarded and the paintings become about pattern and tone.
Pattern, architecture, geography, graphic design, graffiti are all assembled upon the canvases of Marielle Hehir, whilst anatomical forms are introduced to suggest human footprint in amongst an environment of rapid change. The paintings intend to concurrently evoke nostalgia for the past, cause us to consider the present state of things and provoke apprehension for the future.
Gordon Dalton’s recent paintings have a quiet melancholy that questions their intentions. An anxious contradiction is on show, with the work being self-conscious of what it is, its possible failings, yet it revels in a new found simplicity and relationships to landscape painting, finding an intimate beauty in both natural and post-industrial landscape.
Whether implicit or explicit, the seven artists in this exhibition all acknowledge the canon of landscape painting and add their own contribution to the field.
June 2016 -
PS Mirabel Open Exhibition 'Spectrum'
Mirabel Studios, 14/20 Mirabel Street Manchester
01.07.16 – 13.08.16
Congratulations to Liam O'Connor and Lara Davies whose work has been selected for the 2016 PS Mirabel 'Spectrum' Group Show. The preview for the show is Friday 1st July, 6pm to 9pm and the show runs until 13th August.
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May 2016 -
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2016: Group Show
The Riverside Gallery, Richmond Museum, London 10.09.16 – 22.10.16
Huddersfield Art Gallery 5.11.16 – 28.01.17
Congratulations to Lindsey Bull and Gordon Dalton whose work has been selected for the 2016 Contemporary British Painting Prize Group Show. They will be exhibiting alongside 13 other artists, showcasing some of the most exciting painting happening in Britain today.
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May 2016 -
Bath Open Art Prize 2016 28.05.16 – 12.06.16 Public Preview: 27th May 6.30-8pm
LLE gallery artist Lara Davies won First Prize at the Bath Open Art Prize 2016. The prize was judged by Debbie Hillyerd (Head of Education at Hauser and Wirth) and David Moxon (Artist and lecturer).
Now in its 5th year, the Bath Open Art Prize displays an eclectic mix of work including prints, paintings, video and sculpture. The exhibition is at the 44AD Artspace for the duration of the Fringe Arts Bath Festival.
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May 2016 -
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Portrait Exhibition 2016 05.05.16 – 20.05.16
Two of our artists, Richard James and Liam O'Connor showed paintings in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Portrait Exhibition. The works were well received and both were sold during the exhibition.
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April 2016 -
Pavilion Open Art Exhibition 2016 17.04.16 – 15.05.16 Public Preview: 17th April 2-4pm
LLE gallery are very pleased to announce that one of their artists, Lara Davies, has won the Pavilion Periscope Award at the Pavilion Open Art Exhibition. The award is given to an exceptional, emerging artist, exhibitiong in Penarth Pier Pavilion for the first time. Lara will now have a large-scale solo exhibition to be held at the Pavilion in 2017.
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April 2016 -
Double Top: Arcade Studio Artists at ArcadeCardiff 2016 01.04.16 – 16.04.16 Public Preview: 1st April 6-8pm
Friday 1st April saw the opening of Double Top: Arcade Studio Artists at ArcadeCardiff. The opening was well attended and the feedback on the work has been very positive.
Lara Davies, Cabin 2, Oil on Board, 40 X 80cm
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Double Top: Arcade Studio Artists at ArcadeCardiff
Gordon Dalton / Lara Davies / Richard James / Hannah M Morris / Liam O’Connor
1st April – 16th April
Preview Fri 1st April 6 - 8pm
Wednesday - Saturday 12:30 - 5:30
Whilst not intentional or themed, Arcade Studios’ inaugural year has focused on painting, drawing and printmaking, with each of the artists taking a contemporary view on traditional genres such as portraiture and landscape.
Although art is not separate from the world around it or from dialogue with other media or techniques, each of the artist’s studio practices recognises its power lies in its own history, tradition, conventions and genres and looks to expand upon them.
Arcade Studios in Fairwater, Cardiff was launched in early 2015 by Arcade Cardiff Director, Robert Kennedy, as a sister organisation to the gallery. Arcade Studios provides professional quality studio provision in Cardiff in a critical and supportive environment.
To celebrate the 1st anniversary of Arcade Studios, the 5 resident studio artists exhibit together for the first time. As well as referencing the studio dart board (an essential of any successful studio), Double Top looks at the differences and shared concerns of 5 artists in their first year at Arcade.
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1af Ebrill - 16 Ebrill
Noson Agoriadol 1af Ebrill 6.30-8.30
Dydd Mercher - Dydd Sadwrn 12:30 - 5:30
Ym mlwyddyn cyntaf Arcade Studios, gwelir yr artistiaid yn ffocysu ar waith peintio, darlunio a gwaith print, gyda'r artistiaid yn creu gwaith cyfoes ar ffurfiau traddodiadol fel portreadau a thirlunio.
Er nad yw celf yn wahanol i'r byd o'i amgylch nac o ddialog â chyfryngau eraill, mae'r artistiaid yn cydnabod bod y pwysigrwydd a'r pwer yn ei hanes, traddodiad, ymddygiad a'i ddulliau ac edrychant i ehangu ar hyn yn eu gwaith.
Lanswyd Arcade Studios yn Nhorfaen, Caerdydd yn 2015 gan Rob Kennedy, cyfarwyddwr ArcadeCardiff fel corff i gyd-fynd â'r oriel. Mae Arcade Studios yn darparu stiwdios proffesiynol o safon.
I dathlu penblwydd cyntaf Arcade Studios, mae'r 5 artist yn arddangos gyda'i gilydd am y tro cyntaf. Gan gyfeirio at y bwrdd darts ( hanfodol ar gyfer unrhyw stiwdio llwyddiannus) mae Double Top yn tynnu sylw at y gwahaniaethau a'r perthynas rhwng y 5 artist yn eu blwyddyn cyntaf yn Arcade.
www.arcadecardiff.co.uk
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March 2016 -
Pavilion Open Art Exhibition 2016 17.04.16 – 15.05.16 Public Preview: 17th April 2-4pm
LLE gallery and Arcade Studios are very pleased that the 4 studio members who applied have all been selected for the 2nd Penarth Pavilion Open 2016. Congratulations to Richard James, Liam O'Connor, Lara Davies and Gordon Dalton.
Lara Davies, Large Tower, Oil on Board, 40 X 40cm
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Penarth Pier Pavilion is delighted to announce
Pavilion Open Art Exhibition 2016
Sebastian Aplin, Jan Bennett, Benjamin Brown, Lily-Beth Charles, Gordon Dalton, Lara Davies (pictured), Sara Dodd, DMK, David Evans, Lisa Evans, Jude Gill, Eluned Glyn, Steve Hines, Rachel Hughes, Richard James, Seungjo Jeong, Jacqueline Jones, Julia Manheim, Liam O'Connor, Tal Regev, Frances Rushworth, Diana Savostait, Lea Sautin, Lucy Stokes, Sabina Tupan, Jan Williams, Jiang Yuxue.
We welcome you to the opening of our next exhibtion at 2-4pm, 17th April 2016.
As an annual part of our programme, we look forward to welcoming you to the 2016 edition of our Open Exhibition. This year we have received over 130 applicants and near 450 individual works; we are delighted to announce the 27 artists & makers that are included in this year's exhibition.
With this extensive variety of works comprising of ceramics, drawing, film, installation, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture and video we see an entire arc of creative practice welcomed to Penarth, not only in South Wales, but in the UK as a whole. Following on from last year, we are announcing the following awards at 3pm, 17th April 2016:
PACL Chair Award: Financial award for furthering the career of the selected artist, awarded by Professor Tony Hazell, Chair of Penarth Arts & Crafts Ltd
Pavilion Periscope Award: Solo Exhibition held in 2017, awarded by the Selectors to an exceptional, emerging artist, exhibiting in Penarth Pier Pavilion for the first time.
Also we will be accepting votes for the People's Choice Award from the opening until the 9th May.
Exhibition continues until the 15th May.
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March 2016 -
Visual Arts South West: Gordon Dalton appointed as Network Manager at Visual Arts South West
LLE Gallery is very happy to announce that one of its artists, Gordon Dalton, has been appointed Network Manager at Visual Arts South West. Gordon will manage the current programme of activity across the region and in partnership with the national Contemporary Visual Arts Network. Working with the steering group, he will formulate a new programme for 2017.
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February 2016 -
Royal Society of Portrait Painters: Annual Portrait Exhibition 2016 Mall Galleries, London 05.05.16 - 20.05.16
LLE Gallery is delighted to announce that two of its artists, Liam O'Connor and Richard James, have had work accepted for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Portrait Exhibition 2016.
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