PAPER: IN THE VIEWING ROOM

20 November 2024 - 10 January 2025
  • To coincide with our current solo exhibtion Ambrosine Allen: In The Course of Ages, a rotating exhibition of works on paper is on show in our Gallery Viewing Room and online.
     
    From print to collage, works on paper have historically acted as studies towards larger works and can offer a glimpse into the artist's ideas and processes. This curated selection of works includes drawings, prints, collage and paintings by gallery artists Lindsey Bull, Laura Ford, Kathryn Maple and Jonathan Michael Ray, alongside works by exhibited artists, Rachel Howard, Bridget Riley, Rose Wylie and Clare Woods.


    • Rachel Howard, Bicycle, 2024
      Rachel Howard, Bicycle, 2024
    • Rachel Howard, Double Breasted, 2020
      Rachel Howard, Double Breasted, 2020
    • Rachel Howard, Untitled, 2023
      Rachel Howard, Untitled, 2023
    • Lindsey Bull, Bride (study), 2024
      Lindsey Bull, Bride (study), 2024
    • Lindsey Bull, Lipstick (watercolour), 2024
      Lindsey Bull, Lipstick (watercolour), 2024
    • Lindsey Bull, Ponytail, 2024
      Lindsey Bull, Ponytail, 2024
    • Lindsey Bull, Cape (watercolour), 2024
      Lindsey Bull, Cape (watercolour), 2024
    • Lindsey Bull, Robes (study), 2024
      Lindsey Bull, Robes (study), 2024
  • Rachel Howard

    Rachel Howard

    Rachel Howard is a British painter, who has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 3 decades, and whose works are held in public and private collections worldwide. She was born in 1969, in County Durham, England, and graduated from Goldsmith's College in 1991 with a degree in, Fine Art and Critical Theory. Howard plays with the tensions between control and chaos, order and entropy, making and unmaking, beauty and destruction. She revels in the sheer joy of her material. The intense physicality of her process grapples with notions of uncertainty, fragility, beauty and horror. Religion, repetition, mortality, madness and violence are recurring themes in the work.

     

    Rachel Howard is currently included in 'War and The Mind'  at the Imperial War Museum alongside the permenant collection, and  'Pattern:Rhythm and Repetition' at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester until 2025. She is also on the jury of the John Moores Painting prize China 2025.

  • Kathryn Maple
    Kathryn Maple

    Kathryn Maple

    Kathryn Maple trained at the Royal Drawing School, and her love of drawing is forever present and  often acts as a starting point for her larger scale works. Taking direct reference from the landscapes and interactions between passers by, Maple beautifully captures these fleeting moments in time while walking in local London parks. Her initial sketches and loose watercolour studies are scaled up to create works on canvas that are densely packed with layers of texture, repetitive mark-making and layer upon layer of shapes and bursts of colour.

    • Kathryn Maple, Untitled 1, 2024
      Kathryn Maple, Untitled 1, 2024
    • Kathryn Maple, Untitled 2, 2024
      Kathryn Maple, Untitled 2, 2024
    • Bridget Riley, Fold, 2004
      Bridget Riley, Fold, 2004
    • Laura Ford, Fast Red Car, 2023
      Laura Ford, Fast Red Car, 2023
    • Laura Ford, Slow Blue Car, 2023
      Laura Ford, Slow Blue Car, 2023
    • Rose Wylie, Unidentified Artist, 2014
      Rose Wylie, Unidentified Artist, 2014
  • Clare Woods

    Screenprints

    Clare Woods was born in Southampton, England, in 1972. She studied for her BA Fine Art at Bath College of Art 1991-94 and for her MA Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, London 1997-99. Having initially trained as a sculptor, Woods’ understanding of sculptural forms underpin her paintings, collages and prints, which depict still lifes, interiors and portraits.

     

    She reinterprets found imagery, cropping or repositioning the subjects so that they hover on the edge of legibility and figuration and present the viewer with both the familiar and the uncanny, the gentle and the sinister. Woods explores the ambiguous threat of every-day life, mediating between moments of beauty and mortality.

     

    The artist has a dedicated print room in her studio complete with a printing press. Since making her first graphic works almost ten years ago, printmaking and the development of her collages have become central to Woods’ practice.

    • Clare Woods, Laughing out Loud, 2024
      Clare Woods, Laughing out Loud, 2024
    • Clare Woods, Midway, 2024
      Clare Woods, Midway, 2024
  • Jonathan Michael Ray

    Earth Pigment Drawings
    The pen and ink “Elevation” series are drawn arrangements of neolithic (4000-2500bc) inscriptions discovered at various sites across the islands of Orkney. These inks are handmade from Orkney earth pigment (collected on Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust funded residency) and oak galls from Cornwall.
    • Jonathan Michael Ray, Elevation No.7 (burnt umber), 2024
      Jonathan Michael Ray, Elevation No.7 (burnt umber), 2024
    • Jonathan Michael Ray, Elevation No.7 (iron black), 2024
      Jonathan Michael Ray, Elevation No.7 (iron black), 2024