FEBRUARY GROUP SHOW 18 - 28 FEBRUARY 2015
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Curated by Jason Colchin-Carter and Agnieszka Perche ISIS PHOENIX ARTS PRESENTS: Artist Anonymous p... 6 Andy Flett p... 8 Shaun Stamp p... 10 Bartholomew Beal p... 12 Eleanor Watson p... 14 Tarik Berber p... 17 Clifford Charles p... 23 Charles Moxon p... 25 Dorte Kloppenborg Skrumsager p... 28 Jack Tanner p... 30 Ben H. Summers p... 32 Richard Twose p... 33 Nathan Royes p... 38 For Press, PR, Sales and general enquiries, please contact office@isisphoenixarts.com
ISIS PHOENIX ARTS Located in London , New York , Hong Kong & Geneva www.isisphoenixarts.com office@isisphoenixarts.com
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ART IS PUTTING UP NEW SHOOTS Opening February 17th, the elegant new Darren Baker Gallery in Charlotte Street offers a selection of works by a spectrum of artists now living and working in this country. The exhibition is a collaboration between Jason Colchin-Carter, founder of Isis Phoenix Arts, and Agnieszka Perche, director of the gallery.The bustling diversity of the London street scene outside will be more than matched by what can be seen in the handsome gallery space. The point of the show is not to emphasise any particular movement or tendency, but to illustrate how various the London art world has become, and what a large number of extremely different initiatives it now has to offer. The artists include a number of the rising stars who are emerging from British art schools – among them Bartholomew Beal, still in his 20s, who recently had a sell out solo show at the Fine Art Society in Bond Street , and Richard Twose, equally recently a major prize-winner at the National Portrait Gallery – but also non-British artists who have chosen to live and work in this country. Examples are the figurative painter Tarik Berber, who is of Bosnian origin, and who trained at the celebrated Florentine Academy, and the abstractionist Clifford Charles, a black South African artist with a studio at the great Goodwood estate in Sussex. Britain has welcomed these and others to its ever-expanding art community.
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The idea of a unified, officially supported ‘avant-garde’ is still being vigorously pushed by a number of respected institutions in this country. However, as more and more new artists emerge on the British scene, it is becoming evident that this model, however convenient it may be to established critics and curators, is no longer valid. China’s Communist regime, once, in the 1950s, adopted the slogan “ Let a thousand flowers bloom.” It turned out that Chairman Mao and his party committee didn’t mean it. Let’s not make that mistake now. As the old definitions of what is avant-garde and what isn’t crumble and dissolve, it is time to embrace a new kind of pluralism. This show shows the extent to which old orthodoxies are being challenged. Spring is almost with us. Fresh green shoots are appearing – some of them in wholly unexpected places. This is true in art, just as it is in nature. Edward Lucie-Smith
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ARTIST ANONYMOUS Splicer Afterimage (virtual painting) Colour-Reversal Paper on Alu/Dibond with 4 mm perspex front-mount 90 x 90 cm
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ARTIST ANONYMOUS Alice’s Apocalypse, Afterimage, ( virtual painting) Colour-Reversal Paper on Alu/Dibond with 4 mm perspex front-mount 150 x 190 cm
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ANDY FLETT Thinking and Doing, Alone and Together 1 Oil on Canvas 100 x 70 cm
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ANDY FLETT Thinking and Doing, Alone and Together 2 Oil on Canvas 100 x 70 cm
ANDY FLETT Thinking and Doing, Alone and Together 3 Oil on Canvas 100 x 70 cm
ANDY FLETT Thinking and Doing, Alone and Together 4 Oil on Canvas 70 x 100 cm
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SHAUN STAMP Self Portrait Photography (edition of 5) 27.75 x 18.5 cm 2012
SHAUN STAMP Motivation for a Point 45 x 30 cm Photography 2013
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SHAUN STAMP Departure Photography 90 x 90 cm 2015
SHAUN STAMP Study for the Void. Self-Portrait Photography 15.5 x 10.5 cm 2013
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BARTHOLOMEW BEAL Board Oil on Canvas 100 cm diameter 2014
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL Block Alphabet Oil on Canvas 72 cm diameter 2014 NOT FOR SALE 12
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL Master Oil on Canvas 60 cm diameter 2014
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL Pawns II Oil on Canvas 100 cm diameter 2014
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL Pawns III Oil on Canvas 80 cm diameter 2014
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ELEANOR WATSON Old Ground Oil on Canvas 40 x 50 cm 2014
ELEANOR WATSON Settled Oil on Board 25 x 19 cm 2014
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ELEANOR WATSON Setting Oil on Canvas 60 x 30 cm 2014
ELEANOR WATSON Reading Oil on Canvas over Board 47 x 32 cm 2014 15
ELEANOR WATSON Bench Oil on Board 25 x 17 cm 2014
ELEANOR WATSON A Neighbour’s Landmark Oil on Canvas 50 x 40 cm 2014
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TARIK BERBER Sammy’s Rise or Fall, Not Suspension Mixed Media 240 x 160 cm 2014 17
TARIK BERBER Woman in Catalina Blue Mixed Media 55 x 60 cm 2014
TARIK BERBER Woman in English Lavendar Mixed Media 55 x 60 cm 2014 18
TARIK BERBER Lady in Charcoal Stripes Mixed Media 120 x 160 cm 2014 19
TARIK BERBER Blacks 3 Mixed media 42 cm x 29.6 cm 2013
TARIK BERBER Warehouse”Unit12” Mixed Media 32,5 cm x 47,5 cm 2013
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TARIK BERBER Blacks 7 Mixed media 49.6 cm x 35 cm 2013
TARIK BERBER Blacks 9 Mixed Media 49.6 cm x 35 cm 2013
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TARIK BERBER Lady in Dark Olive Green Stripes Mixed Media 160 x 120 cm 2014
TARIK BERBER Lady in Fallow Desert Sand Stripes Mixed Media 160 x 120 cm 2014 22
CLIFFORD CHARLES ‘Chant d’oiseau’ Ink on French Watercolour Paper 103 x 152 cm
CLIFFORD CHARLES Untitled Ink on French Watercolour Paper 103 x 152 cm
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CLIFFORD CHARLES 3 Cities Ink on French Watercolour Paper 800 x 1200 cm
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CHARLES MOXON Girl in A Stage Curtain Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 cm 2015
CHARLES MOXON Girl in A Stage Curtain Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 cm 2015
CHARLES MOXON Girl with Paper House Oil on Canvas 25 x 30 cm 2013
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CHARLES MOXON Lucy in Costume Oil on Canvas 25 x 30 cm 2014
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CHARLES MOXON Lucy in Full Fat Suit Oil on Canvas 25 x 30 cm 2014
CHARLES MOXON Rabbit Oil on Canvas 25 x 30 cm 2013
CHARLES MOXON Girl in Rabbit Costume Oil on Canvas 25 x 30 cm 2013
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DORTE KLOPPENBORG SKRUMSAGER Head Bronze and Wood 28
DORTE KLOPPENBORG SKRUMSAGER Trough Bronze
DORTE KLOPPENBORG SKRUMSAGER Blop Bronze
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JACK TANNER Connect 4 Acrylic on Hand-cut Board 75 cm diameter 2015
JACK TANNER Neutralise (side view) Acrylic on Pozi Screws and Board 35 x 35cm 2015 30
JACK TANNER Screw Up (side view) Pozi screws on Birch Face Ply 76 x 100 cm 2012
JACK TANNER Shepherd’s Delight (side view) Acrylic on Pozi Screws and Board 95 x 95 cm 2015 31
BEN H. SUMMERS Guard Oil / Indian Ink/ Oil Medium on Canvas 150 x 140 cm
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RICHARD TWOSE 2 Apples Oil on Canvas 125 x 45 cm
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RICHARD TWOSE Emerge Oil on Canvas 100 x 60 cm
RICHARD TWOSE Pianist Oil on Canvas 90 x 64 cm
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RICHARD TWOSE Balance Oil on Canvas 60 x 50 cm
RICHARD TWOSE Submerge Oil on Canvas 74 x 50 cm
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RICHARD TWOSE Girl with 3 Kitchen Chairs Oil on Canvas 45 x 55 cm 36
RICHARD TWOSE Girl Reading No. 2 Oil on Canvas 90 x 60 cm 37
NATHAN ROYES Married to the Money Acrilic Lascaux on Board 32 x 30.5 cm
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NATHAN ROYES Son of Gun Acrilic Lascaux on Board 32 x 30.5 cm
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