NATURE’s trajectory
A Collective Exhibition of 5 International Artists
28th September 2023 – 10th January 2024
ArtMoorHouse, Moor House building 120 London Wall EC2Y5ET London, UK
presented by ArtMoorHouse in collaboration with @m.o.n.i.c.a.c.o.l.u.s.s.i
ArtMoorHouse, London 2023 theme: NATURE
When choosing this year’s theme we wanted to select a topic that reflected a cultural shift that is happening now or that it is about to happen. Our aim is to create a series of exhibitions that explore the concept of Nature through the very unique point of view of each of the artists or the projects selected. The concept that de fi nes Nature has gone through an innumerable quantity of meaning both historically and geographically. To this day, Nature remains a very difficult world to define and it is ultimately being considered a mental
Michele Turriani - ‘Mid August’ from series ‘The Season in Seasons’ stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 118.9 x 89.1 cm, 1 of 5
construction resting more on Experiences and Reflection rather than on a concrete notion.
It is for this reason that Nature offers vast range of possibilities embracing subjects as diverse as the wilderness of the natural world and our emotional connection with the environment to a more metaphysical abstraction of its organic interpretation edging to the ambiguous relation between what is considered natural as opposed to artificial. Moreover this year theme provides the opportunity to explore the interconnection of all living things and to investigate the more complex relationship among man and Nature. It is in that vary balance in fact we see the deepest change in the interpretation of its meaning which can span from a more mythological significance to the very materialistic theory that views Nature as an endless resource available for human consumption
ArtMoorHouse aim is to establish a unique platform for promoting an unsurpassed synergy between creativity and business. We create curated visual experiences and presentations, working with emerging and internationally acclaimed artists. We strive to engage, inspire and provide a talking point and an ice breaker in the banking and commercial environment. Currently collaborating with Savills and CBRE for the art exhibition program in a number of commercial building in London, UK
Molly Gaisford - So many winters, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Monica Colussi specialises in connecting art with media, generating art projects with artists and galleries, sponsors and partners, developing creative and commercial synergies. She lives in London where she operates.
Michele Turriani is a London based photographer and director. After graduating in Italy in graphic design and art direction he assisted with artists Jeff Koons and Rob Scholte, working in Germany, Belgium and Japan.
Finding inspiration in the British photography and design scene he moved to London in 1992 to pursue his interest in the music industry’s innovative approach to visual communication. He soon started shooting imagery for record sleeves for seminal labels like 4AD, Real World and Virgin Records, and has since been active internationally, working on fashion, editorial and advertising assignments. He has produced stills and moving images for brands such as Levi’s, Honda, Pirelli, Samsung, Heineken, Nike and Diesel to name a few.
He is also known for his celebrity portraiture and his fine art large scale still lives.
Beginning of June from series ‘The Season in Seasons’ Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 1 of 5 118.9 x 89.1 cm
Michele Turriani
Block and Bilge Pump Filter from series ‘Vestiges and Bloom’
Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 5 of 5
118.9 x 89.1 cm
Michele Turriani
Michele Turriani
London Yellow Two from series ‘Vestiges and Bloom’
Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, unique at this size
196.4 x 147.6 cm
Mid August from series ‘The Season in Seasons’
Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 1 of 5 118.9 x 89.1 cm
Michele Turriani
Stochastic
89.1
Michele Turriani
Plywood from series ‘Vestiges and Bloom’
pigment print on baryta paper, 5 of 5
x 118.9 cm
Orangutan from series ‘Memento Extingui’ Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 1 of 5
118.9 x 89.1 cm
Michele Turriani
Lowland Gorilla with Timer and Tulip from series ‘Memento Extingui’ Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 2
Michele Turriani
of 5
89.1 x 118.9 cm
Michele Turriani
Cable Spool from series ‘Vestiges and Bloom’
Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 2 of 5
118.9 x 89.1 cm
Mid June from series ‘The Season in Seasons’ Stochastic pigment print on baryta paper, 3 of 5
89.1 x 118.9 cm
Michele Turriani
Molly Gaisford
My paintings range from calm, layered abstract landscapes, to colourful expressionist abstracts, to evocative still life and portraiture.
My aim is always to create pieces you can live with forever, which don't bow to trends, but which grow and move with you throughout your life. I only paint what I would be happy with on my own wall, and very often I find it hard to let my paintings go, they become such a part of my life and my walls feel strange without them. I sometimes need to live with a painting a while before selling, purely because I need to experience it in my life.
Each canvas is a conversation. They often start as a single mark, and from that they become either storms, racing across the canvas in a kind of frantic searching, an adrenalised journey. These paintings end in a place of refuge and retreat, the layers of bold colour and texture gradually softening to peaceful subtlety, gentle contemplation. Or, they become something truly abstract, driven by apparently random shape, colour, form, but mysteriously, they are not random to me.
Molly GaisfordMy portrait painting career has spanned almost three decades, and ever since I can remember I have loved observing people and faces. My aim is always, above and beyond, to capture the essence as first equal to likeness. With these two in place, I can finally say a portrait is finished.
My paintings, both abstract and portraits, hang in many a home in London, the UK and as far as Hong Kong , New York and Singapore. I recently collaborated with curator Monica Colussi, showcasing my work, exclusively, alongside a retrospective of Norman Parkinson which opened on 27th September 2020 in Marylebone, central London.
I also work as an actress, having trained at LAMDA, in theatre, film, radio and television.
I live with my two sons in Earlsfield, South West London.
Dance like mad
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 cm
Molly Gaisford
Love in the afternoon
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
Molly Gaisford
Beautiful Sacrifice
Oil on canvas
70 x 70 cm
Molly Gaisford
So many winters
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
You again Mixed media on deep edged canvas, ready to hang or frame
80 x 80 cm
Molly Gaisford
The Heartland
Mixed media on unbleached linen canvas, deep edged 60 x 70 cm
Cristina Melotti
“I Consider art an act of discovery.
Each painting is a journey into an unknown terrain in which I surrender logic and allow my imagination full reign to translate intuitive concepts into colours and forms.
Colour has become the most important part of my work. The way I see it, colours are the channel to heart and soul, while the rational mind should be more and more confined to the function of a mere practical tool. Here I am in complete antithesis with the world of intellectuals I grew up with, who revered the predominance of the rational mind over emotions, seen as muddy waves of the barbaric Id. Not so for me.
Passion, curiosity, love, the motions of the heart identify us as humans, and in unison with the sterilised product of the mind lead humanity to progress.
But in Art: when the artist’s “ratio” lets go, “art” manifests itself, and the work takes on a life of its own”
Born and raised in Milan, Italy, coming ( or brought up in) from a family of artists and musicians, Cristina has worked in Milan, Palm Beach, FL, London and New York. She presently works and resides in London.
Cristina Melotti
Waterfall
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 152 cm
Cristina Melotti
Red Tree
Acrylic on canvas
152 x 122 cm
Feeling Blue
Cristina Melotti
Acrylic on canvas
152 x 122 cm
Dance Macabre
Acrylic on canvas
152 x 122 cm
Cristina Melotti
Cristina Melotti
Clare de Lune
Acrylic on canvas
119 x 99 cm
Cristina Melotti
New York
Acrylic on canvas
134 x 101.6 cm
Alison Aye
Alison Aye makes sewn collage from found papers and fabric, calling attention to ‘throw-away society’ and embracing humour, popular culture and current affairs.
Daughter and granddaughter of seamstresses and coal miners, she could sew at an early age, and makes contemporary work that respects traditional craft and class struggle.
Her methods are slow, not just the tiny hand-stitching, but also the meticulous recording of materials, which form an integral part of the process. Some pieces can take years to complete, ignoring the misogynistic hierarchy of the art world, where needlework is often neglected.
Originally from North East England, she now lives and works in South London.
She was shortlisted for The Brixton Art Prize in 2022, and The Evening Standard Art Prize in 2018, and is a member of ArtCan and a proud supporter of Arts Emergency.
Alison AyeHomage To Delaunay, 2020
Textile, 33 x 27.5 cm, framed. One of a kind
Hand-stitched collage made from discarded fabric scraps.
A recreation of the cradle cover Sonia Delaunay made for her son, John, in 1911. The original (copyright, Centre Pompidou) was shown as part of a 2015 Tate Modern exhibition. I was completely bowled over by its beauty.
I used fabrics of sentimental value, as did Delaunay. Each piece of cloth was once worn by my family and friends. For example, the darker green is from the jacket my daughter wore on her first day at school. Coincidentally, this was the day I started working at the National Portrait Gallery, and the more vibrant red is from my old uniform.
Framed by Jacob at The Framing Room, using sapele wood and UV glass.
Copyright: Alison Aye, 2023
Alison Aye
Alison Aye
Is This A Landscape? , 2021
Hand stitched paper/textile collage, 19 x 52 cm, framed. One of a kind.
Made at my parents’ house during Lockdown, where I found myself living, in what turned out to be the final year of my mother’s life. She was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, just before the pandemic. I was unable to return to my husband and children for fear of bringing germs to my mother and father, who had a stroke a week after my arrival. I accidentally became their carer and lived with them for eighteen months.
During this time, I rarely left the house, and had no art materials. Hand stitching kept me sane. The white cloth is my father’s shirt, and the trees were cut from my mother’s prescription bags.
Copyright: Alison Aye, 2023.
Hand stitched textile. 56 x 56 cm, framed. One of a kind.
Made at my parents’ house during Lockdown, where I found myself living, in what turned out to be the final year of my mother’s life. She was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, just before the pandemic. I was unable to return to my husband and children for fear of bringing germs to my mother and father, who had a stroke a week after my arrival. I accidentally became their carer and lived with them for eighteen months.
During this time, I rarely left the house, and had no art materials. Hand stitching kept me sane. The background is one of my mother’s napkins, and the lettering is cut from my father’s handkerchiefs. It’s about my mother’s massively subservient nature, and how she expected the same of me. Her dying words were that I must iron my dad’s clothes nicely. His house is a four-hour journey from mine.
It was inspired by the title of the Damien Hirst shark sculpture, ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’. At the time, my mother was in her final weeks of life, lying motionless on a hospital bed at home, where I was nursing her.
Her death was imminent and inevitable, but seemed impossible. I carry the guilt of being relieved when she died. I could finally get back to my home and family in London, three hundred miles away. I studied at Goldmiths College at the same time as Damien Hirst, although we only talked a few times.
Artist Katy Lynton has been painting full-time for over three decades. To date this totals approximately 80,640 days of dedication to her art. She studied at London's Chelsea School of Art from 1989-1991. In 1994 she was selected to be one of three students on the Postgraduate course in Advanced Painting at Central St. Martins.
Katy who works from her studio in north west London says:"Painting is a spiritual practice for me. It allows the unseen to become manifest in form, slowly unfolding, like magic before my very eyes. It is an intimate experience with the guiding hand of Great Spirit, and I feel humbled to bring these works into being. For me, art has the power to transform realities, through its healing capacity not only for the viewer but also for the maker. I am endlessly fascinated by the abundance of other worldly realms and forms that strive to be seen. I have visited many sacred sites including meditating inside the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid of Giza; standing atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Bosnia, bathing in the clouds above the Huangshan Mountains and walking the impressive Great Wall of China.
Growing up in Somerset, I was fascinated by the mysticism and folklore of the ancient sites of Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Avebury and Silbury Hill from a young age.
Katy LyntonEvery pilgrimage has activated a remembrance of sorts and contributed to my inner library and presented itself encoded in the paintings. My work encapsulates a passion for the divine nature of reality, and our predisposition towards worship. My deepest wishes are to uplift and inspire positive change, to heal and nurture the soul and enliven the spirit. Furthermore to activate some curiosity and questioning of our reality; past, present and future.
Katy
Temple of remarkable Prowess Oil on canvas
161 x 186 cm
Lynton
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to all Moor House’s building management team who, for the past ten years of collaboration, have been directly involved in the development of ArtMoorHouse thanks to their precious help and great support for our Art Program.
Elisa Martinelli, director at ArtMoorHouse
ArtMoorHouse in collaboration with @m.o.n.i.c.a.c.o.l.u.s.s.i presents: NATURE’s trajectory
28 September 2023 – 10 January 2024
ArtMoorHouse - Moor House Building
120 London Wall, EC2Y 5ET, London UK
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