CHRIS MOODY
'Reflections'
Etchings, Lino-cuts and Works on Paper
Saturday 7th September to Sunday 22nd September
Three Weekends : from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm
Chris Moody writes: Born and brought up in South London I have lived and worked here nearly all my life. I started printmaking about fifteen years ago and am a keyholder at Thames-side Print Studios. I have exhibited in the Leicester City Open, Fishslab Gallery Whitstable, Greenwich Open Studios and was shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition this year.
I divide my work between drawing and etching tonally and colour work in linocut. Much of my work is based on memories of holidays in Wales as a child,or early travels as a student. I still travel a lot. Buildings in landscape or mirrored in water is a major theme, and the passage of time leaving the merest traces of past cultures and industry. I hope I convey something of the excitement of my first encounters in what I produce, often much later, after soaking them in memory and reflection.
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FOWOKAN GEORGE KELLY
SCULPTURE AND PRINTS
Saturday 28th September to Sunday 13th of October
Three Weekends : from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm
Fowokan George Kelly (born 1 April 1943) is a Jamaican-born visual artist who lives in Britain and exhibits using the name "Fowokan" (a Yoruba word meaning: "one who creates with the hand"). He is a largely self-taught artist, who has been practising sculpture since 1980. His work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European. Fowokan's work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west. He has also been a jeweller, essayist, poet and musician (a former member of the funk group Cymande in the early 1970s).
In 2011 Fowokan featured in "Better than Good", an arts education initiative to highlight the achievements of Black artists in Britain. His work was shown prominently in the exhibition No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990, held at the Guildhall Art Gallery between July 2015 and January 2016.
The biography Becoming Fowokan: The Life and Works of Fowokan George Kelly, by Margaret Andrews, was published in January 2022.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Seven Artists around a theme
Saturday 19th of October to Sunday 3rd of November
Three Weekends : from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm
Private View Friday 18th October 6.30-8.30
‘For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you’
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass is an exhibition by seven artists working across sculpture, photography, drawing, and sound. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s epic poetry, the exhibition at White Box features new work by Cheri Allcock, Esme Bone, Sophie Parker, Anna Presilia, Nicola Roper, Dominic Rose and Willow Winston, all of whom recently completed the European Fine Art Masters programme at The Margate School.
The themes that run through the exhibition reflect Whitman’s expansive vision encompassing humanity, democracy, nature and the universe. The artworks on display mirror this vision of nature and the cycles of human life, the minutiae and the whole. Often working in ephemeral media the artists focus on the tapestry of connections both within the poem and within the gallery walls. Leaves of Grass dances playfully at the intersection of art and poetry, where individual creativity and collective expression meet.
Contributing artists:
Cheri Allcock draw-sing-move.net
Esme Bone @esmebone https://esmebone.com
Sophie Parker @sophieparker_art
Anna Presilia @annapresilia annapresilia.com
Nicola Roper @this.place.between.us https://nicolaroper.myportfolio.com
Dominic Rose @dominicroseinst dominic-rose.com
Willow Winston willowwinstonart.com
GRAHAM HIGH
'THIS EARTH'
SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS
Saturday 9th of November to Sunday 24th of November
Three Weekends : from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm
Through a long and varied career Graham High has produced a variety of work, in various media, that has engaged with issues of ecological fragility, climate change, the threat of extinctions, as well as the dangers of unregulated enthusiasums for technological development at the expence of conservation in the name of economic gain. This exhibition brings together examples from ealier phases of work, canvases and works on paper, that explore the 'landscape' of climate change, together with some of his most recent sculptures. These rather edgy creations juxapose biomorphic forms with misdirected technological intervention. Works which are intended to invoke vague feelings of anxiety and discomfort and seem to be the result of a mismatch between natural processes of growth and the intentions of electro-mechanics with a resulting form that seems to be a subversion of both.
