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Summer Show
Summer Show 26th July - 7th September
JGM GALLERY
Summer Show 26th July - 7th September
Published by JGM Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition JGM Gallery Summer Show 26th July - 7th September Publication Deisgn: Alice Wilson Foreword: Alice Wilson JGM Gallery 24 Howie Street London SW11 4AY info@jgmgallery.com Š 2018 JGM Gallery and the artists. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced in any manner without prior permission. Leaf image: Alice Nampitjinpa, Takupalangu (Detail) Cover image: Mali Morris, Line Dance/Bright, 60 x 76cm (Detail)
Ralph Anderson Dominic Beattie Katrina Blannin Juan Bolivar Karen David Ludovica Gioscia Bob Tjungarrayi Gibson Alastair Gordon Lilly Nungarrayi Hargraves Stephen Jaques Kittey Malarvie Andrea Medjesi-Jones Donald Moko Mali Morris Alice Nampitjinpa Kitty Napanangka Simon Colin Smith
It’s with great pleasure and excitement that JGM Gallery presents it’s Summer Show, bringing to you a selection of artists that we have been working with over our first year, artists we hope to see more of in the future and a stunning selection of Contemporary Indigenous works by artists that have been part of JGM’s programme for over a decade.
Ralph Anderson
Born in Glasgow, Scotland Lives and Works in London
Ralph Anderson’s paintings bring the transient qualities of light and the viscous nature of paint together in works that analyse visual language and separates a painting’s component parts. Painting with acrylic on aluminium or plywood Anderson uses a jigsaw to cut through the surface of the painting, revealing a solid support and transferring the viewer away from the illusionary surface. The structures are enhanced by the application of fluorescent paint on the reverse of each work, projecting a coloured glow on the supporting wall, and bringing the surrounding environment into play with the artwork. The resulting works hover between illusion and physical reality, investigating gesture and form whilst also playing with the notions of representation and non-representation in art. Anderson has become widely collected, with works in prominent public venues such as the Business Premiere Lounge at Paris’s Gare du Nord, as well as permanently on display in the main atrium at London’s Hospital Club, Covent Garden and Cafe Murano.
Education MA Fine Art Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, 2011 – 2012 BA Fine Art London Guildhall University, 1998 – 2001 Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 Appropriate Matter, C&C Gallery, London 2017 Lucent Umbra Paintings, JGM Gallery, London 2015 The Future of Drip Pop, ArtKapsule @ Koleksiyon, London 2015 I’d Like To Get Off Please, ASC Projects, London 2014 Retrobate, ArtLacuna, London Publications Bonfire of the Vanities, Wall Street International, Dec 2015 Best of Both, The Clerkenwell Post, May 2015 Interpretating the Abstract, Patterns That Connect, 2014 At Lion and Lamb Gallery, Patterns That Connect, 2014 Paint Like You Mean It, Interview Room 11, 2014 Collections The Hospital Club Cafe Murano Landmark Plc Bolivar-David Collection
Image Detail Opposite; Teal Bombastic, 2018
Teal Bombastic Acrylic on Aluminium 60 x 40cm 2018
Yellow Bombastic Acrylic on Aluminium 60 x 40cm 2018
Dominic Beattie
Born, lives and works in London
Dominic Beattie is an abstract artist and contemporary furniture designer from London. His work is fundamentally based around the modernist movement, his current output concerns the development of unique patterns and an exploration into the materiality of painting. He has recently exhibited his work at The Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy, JGM Gallery and Fold Gallery, In 2015 he won the UK/Raine prize for painting at The Saatchi Gallery. Education BA Fine Art Painting Camberwell College of Art, UAL. 2001-3 Solo Exhibitions 2018 Sweet, Fold Gallery, London 2018 CASCADE, JGM Gallery, London 2017 Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam 2015 Studio, Fold Gallery, London 2015 Solo Presentation for The Saatchi Gallery, The Churchill Hyatt Hotel, London 2014 Albeit, Fold Gallery, London Publications 2018 CASCADE - JGM Gallery Catalogue with text by Martin Maloney Ralph Anderson Review of CASCADE for Saturation Point 2017 Unnatural Vibers, exhibition review, Abcrit Da Ă bore Ă Cadeira, Exhibition catalogue 2016, Kaleidoscope, The Week Approaches to Colour, a review by Laurence Noga, Saturation Point Kaleidoscope, Patterns That Connect Ambit Magazine, Issue 224 2015, UK/Raine, Exhibition Catalogue Studio, exhibition review, The Week Studio, exhibition review, ArtLyst Studio, exhibition review, Apollo magazine Studio, exhibition review, Saturation Point 2014, Abstract Critical Interview, by Sam Cornish New Order II: British Art Today, The Saatchi Gallery, Review by Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard New Order II: British Art Today, The Saatchi Gallery, Exhibition catalogue Collections The Saatchi Collection Soho House
Untitled 50 x40cm Ink and Spraypaint on Plywood Panel 2018
Untitled 50 x40cm Ink and Spraypaint on Plywood Panel 2018
Untitled 50 x40cm Ink and Spraypaint on Plywood Panel 2018
Katrina Blannin
Born, lives and works in London
Katrina Blannin experiments with simple systems: palindromic and isochromatic structures, and aims to produce paintings and prints with a logical clarity; both spatial and material in character. The re-examination of historical colour theories and early Renaissance painting conventions, specifically concerning form, is transferred to an investigative practice which asks questions of twentieth century constructivist and concrete art, in order to generate new possibilities. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Worcester, teaches at UAL Camberwell and UCA Canterbury and is on the editorial board for Turps Banana magazine. She has co-directed artist-run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1997 and has since then shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad. Recent projects and exhibitions 2017 Exhibitionism, Solo Show - Salle Blanche, Cologne, Germany 2017 Painting Black, curated by Ivo Ringe, Stiftung für Konzeptionelle Kunst, Sammlung Schroth, Wilhelm Morgner Museum, Soest, Germany 2017 Freshtest03, Kunstverein Kölnberg, Cologne, Germany 2017 Approximate Sunlight, curated by Chris Daniels with Tom Hackney, Nancy Milner, Ralph Anderson, Tannery Arts Projects, London, UK 2016 Annodam, Solo Show - Jessica Carlisle Gallery, London, UK 2015 Suchness/Sosein, contemporary painting and materiality curated by Martina Geccelli and Erin Lawlor, Raum X, London, UK 2015 Doppelgänger, curated by Juan Bolivar&Richard Bateman, No Format Gallery, London 2015 Beyond a Rational Aesthetic, curated by Laurence Noga, with Sophia Starling, Tim Renshaw, Alexis Harding and others, C&C Gallery, London, UK 2014 Opinion Makers 2, collaborating with sculptor Kate Terry, curated by Lubrimov-Easton ALISN, London, UK 2014-2016 In-house co-curator Turps Gallery, London, UK 2014 Conversations Around Marlow Moss, curatorial project in collaboration with Andrew Bick, &Model Gallery, Leeds, UK 2012 - 2014 Co-Director/Curator, Lion and Lamb Gallery: artist run gallery space: ‘painters curate painters’, Hoxton, London, UK 2012 John Moores Painting Prize – Short Listed/Exhibitor, Liverpool, UK Recent writing projects include interviews with Jeffrey Steele, Vanessa Jackson, Andrew Bick and Biggs & Collings for Turps Banana magazine, articles for Abstract Critical and Aesthetic Investigations online journals and a visual essay for The Order of Things, a publication documenting an ongoing research project; exhibition and seminar at The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK, curated by Andrew Bick, Jonathan Parsons and Katie Pratt, 2017. Image Detail Opposite; Four by Four, from JGM Gallery’s Works on Paper Collection
Absoulte 55.2 Acylic on Linen 55 x 55cm 2018
Absoulte 55.1 Acylic on Linen 55 x 55cm 2018
Juan Bolivar
Born Caracas, Venezuela Lives and works: London, UK
Juan Bolivar is an artist and curator. His paintings negotiate the tension between meaning and form. He combines elements from disparate sources to investigate hybridity, language and abstraction. Bolivar’s work often re-enacts seminal cannons of modernist painting such as Kazimir Malevich’s ‘black square’ or paintings from Malevich’s late period; using this context of interpretation to create new meanings from the sublime to the ridiculous. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Bolivar graduated from Goldsmiths College and has twice been a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award. His work is included in The Government Art Collection, and selected for significant exhibitions such as New British Painting at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton and East International at Norwich School of Art. His work was included in Nanjing Museum’s first international exhibition of contemporary art where he was a prize winner. He lives and works in London where he is a Lecturer in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts. Education Goldsmiths College 2001-2003 Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 High Voltage, JGM Gallery , London 2015 Back in Black, Horatio Junior Gallery, London 2014 I Heart New York, C&C Gallery, Lonodn 2014 Castaway, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk 2013 Law and Order, Tim Sheward projects, London 2011 Bat out of Hell, Jacob Island Gallery, London 2008 Geometry Wars, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2008 Home Alone, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Switzerland Recent Awards 2015 Prize Winner Nanjing International Exhibition, China 2011 Jacob Island Annual Artist in Residence Award 2009 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award Collections Government Art Collection University of the Arts London Goldsmiths College, University of London Ernst & Young, London Various private collections in UK, South America and Switzerland Image Opposite; Drumsticks, Cobalt Blue, Acrylic on Paper 50 x 50cm from JGM Gallery’s Works on Paper Collection
Let Me Put My Love into You (after Malevich, 1928-29) 46 x 37 cm acrylic on canvas 2015
Shoot to Thrill (after Malevich, 1915) 72 x 52 cm acrylic on canvas 2015
Karen David
Born, lives and works in London
Karen David’s multi-disciplinary practice examines themes and notions of mysticism with direct reference to consumerism and the domestic. Through the use of materials, mediums and subcultures such as tie-dye, crystals, dreamcatchers and The X-Files, which she employs as aesthetic-shorthand for ‘New Age’ and ‘paranormal’ ideas, her work hovers between cynicism and sincerity, creating a space for experiment, magic, mythmaking and new meanings. Her research has taken her to the Southwest American Desert to explore its landscape and mythologies and to inform an ongoing project of a fictional artists’ commune where residents investigate links between post-painterly abstraction, new age memorabilia and new possibilities in gardening. In 2018 David was awarded a studentship for a practice-based PhD with a studio focus on mythmaking, fictional narrative, communes and para-anthropology. Education 2018 PhD candidate at University of Worcester 2012 MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Arts 2004 BA (Hons) Mixed Media Art, University of Westminster Solo Exhibitions 2017 Crystal Visions, CIMCOT, London 2014 Pure Reason Tint of Violet, VITRINE Bermondsey Square, London 2014 Santa Fe, Art Lacuna, London 2011 Searching for the Viable Essence, Jacob’s Island Gallery, London Residencies and Research Trips 2018 Summer Residency at University of Worcester 2016 Artist in Residence on BA Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts 2015 Residency at Islington Mill, Manchester 2014 Research trip to Marfa, Texas and Roswell, New Mexico Projects Cork Lined Rooms: artist studio interview project based on the Proust Questionnaire The Viable Essence Commune; fictional ongoing studio project Co-Founder of Alpine Road; exhibitions, editions and publications of unrepresented artists Curator of Perimeter Space at Griffin Gallery (2016-18); 16m window space for experimental projects Collections Work in private and corporate collections in the UK and the USA. Image Detail OTP: ‘ICE (Season 1, Episode 7)’, Acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm, 2016
Apophyllite VI Acrylic on canvas, apophyllite crystal 51 x 50 cm 2011
Ludovica Gioscia
Born in Rome Lives and works in London
Ludovica in her own words; I am fascinated by the psychological mechanisms that underpin marketing strategies and our relationship with consumption. In particular I am interested in accumulation and destruction, and I often emulate this cycle in my artworks. In my practice I explore compulsions and obsessions that most of us experience; be it our constant need to refresh our emails or check Facebook, our habitual purchase of that same brand of toothpaste or, at its most extreme, an unstoppable impulse to hoard. I collect all manner of things as both a manifestation of, and reflection upon, the latter–organising accumulated material into various archives, as part of the process of investigation. Education 2004 MFA Slade School of Fine Art 2000 BAhons, Chelsea College of Art. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Nuclear Reaction Cosmic Interaction, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome 2017 Infinite Present, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles 2017 Shapeshifters, curated by Marina Dacci, Max Mara, London 2014 Neurotic Seduction Astral Production, curated by Cassandra Needham, John Jones Project Space, London 2013 Vermilion Glow Bleeds Rust, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan 2012 Forecasting Ouroboros, MACRO, Rome 2010 Wild Boys, VITRINE, London 2009 Papered Portraits, curated by Eric Shiner, The Warhol, Pittsburgh 2009 Mikado, Siobhan Davies Studios, London Recent Press 2017 Heinrich, Will. “What To See In Los Angeles Art Galleries This Week. Ludovica Gioscia”, The New York Times 2017 Mizota, Sharon. “Ludovica Gioscia at Baert Gallery: A collision of past, present and future”, The Los Angeles Times
Debrock 45 Ken Done Poster and wallpaper paste 28 x 32 x 19cm 2012
Debrock 26 Commercial Wrapping paper and wallpaper paste 25 x 24 x 13cm 2012
Debrock 41 Commercial Wrapping paper and wallpaper paste 23 x 17 x 17cm 2012
Bob Tjungarrayi Gibson
Born, lives and works in Australia’s Central Desert
Bob was born at Papunya and moved with his family to Tjukurla at the time of the homelands movement in the late 1980’s. Bob’s bold and energetic paintings have put Bob amongst some of the most sought after emerging artists in the contemporary indigenous art world. His unique and powerful style represents country in a wild and imaginative exploration of colour and form. With limited communication with art centres and communities Bob works remotely and drives by in his truck every 2-6 months to drop of artworks and obtain more materials. JGM Gallery worked over several years to obtain works from the artists and were delighted to present his work as part of our first years programming. Solo Exhibitions 2017 JGM Gallery, London 2009 Solo/ Indigenart Gallery Perth Group Exhibitions 2013 The Wild Ones, RAFT Art Space 2013 Desert Mob Exhibtion - Aruluen Arts Centre Alice Spings 2013 Telstra NATSIAA 2013 2013 Seeing Beyond, Marshall Arts 2010 Tjarlirli Group Show, Merenda Gallery Fremantle 2010 Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs 2009 Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery Alice Springs 2009 Tjarlirli Group Show, Tunbridge Gallery Margaret River 2009 Western Desert Mob, Emerging Artists/ Outstation Gallery Darwin Collections Aquired for the Artbank Collection in 2013 via Telstra NATSIAA W & V McGeoch Collection
Patjanta Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 101.5cm 2017
Alastair Gordon
Born in Scotland lives and works in London
Alastair Gordon is a London based artist. Central to his practice is the notion of a painting as a cultural artifact. At first these are paintings about paintings: images that oscillate between artifact and artifice. Certain questions emerge about the replication of the image, craft of the artist and certainty of the viewer. Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of his artistic enquiry. Gordon looks for evidence of the ‘real thing’. Artists materials such as masking tape and paper are rendered in paint to appear as taped or pinned on a wooden surface, a practice that refers to a specific form of illusionism that proliferated in 17th century Northern Europe called quodlibet (what you will). As Jean Baudrillard wrote in The System of Objects: “We are fascinated by what has been created…because the moment of creation cannot be reproduced.” Education 2012 MA Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art 2002 BA Fine Art (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art. Solo Exhibitions 2018 Forthcoming: Rock House, Edinburgh, this September 2017 First Things Gallery, E 21st Street, New York 2017 Souvenirs from the Waste Land, Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, California 2016 New Paintings, Simmons Simmons, London 2015 (AS YOU SEE), Nomas* Projects, Dundee 2014 (AS IT FALLS), Art Lacuna, London 2014 The Feet of Those, Nunnery Gallery, London 2014 (WHAT YOU WILL), Bearspace, London 2013 Danish Departed, Husk Gallery, London 2013 Strike, Carmelite, Nunnery Gallery, London 2012 Art and Artists, Departure, London. 2012 I (Heart) Leith, Leith School of Art,Edinburgh Collections Beth Rudin de Woody, New York Simmons and Simmons, London Ahmanson Collection, Los Angeles Landmark PLC, London Bow Arts Trust, London Royal Bank of Scotland Collection Glasgow School of Art Alumni Collection
Three Paper Darts (Detail) Oil on birch, 40 x 50cm 2018
Oh Boy, Do We Have The Vacation for You Oil on linen 40 x 36cm 2018
I Could Be The Walrus Oil and acrylic on linen 40 x 36cm 2018
Lilly Nungarrayi Hargraves d. 2018
Born, worked and lived in Australia
Nungarrayi was an avid artist and lover of her culture who sadly passed away in May this year. She was driven to record and preserve knowing, fighting against the power of time and the new impeding culture. Nungarrayi loved colour and expression. In her later years her style changed slightly showing more freedom and use of colour, while years of experience with brushes show skilled execution and technique. Nungarrayi produced some truly stunning work in her later years with heavy bold confident brushwork manipulating a broad range of colour. This artist’s depth of character and life experience is reflected in her work. She was also known as Maggie Jurrah/Hargraves. Nungarrayi was one of the old Warlpiri desert walkers, born in the Tanami Desert in her country near Jilla Well. Nungarrayi’s art is held in a number of major collections, and she has been widely exhibited both in Australia and overseas, including France and the USA. In 2009 Nungarrayi was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Group Exhibitions 2012 Touch the Ground, Brits Art, Germany 2012 Galerie Yapa Paris, France 2012 Brave Festival, Wroclaw Poland 2011 Warnayaka Jukurrpa, Merenda Gallery, Perth 2009 Framed Gallery, Darwin 2009 Lajamanu NT, ‘ Milipirri’ 2008 Dawrin Entertainment Centre Holiday Inn 2001 Tandanya, Adelaide 1996 ‘The Meeting Place’ touring exhibition, Australia 1994 Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne 1994 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne 1992 Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs 1991 High Court Canberra 1991 TAFE Darwin 1991 Australian Embassy, Washington USA 1991 Ecole Des Beaux Arts Grenoble France 1990 TAFE Darwin 1990 National Gallery of Victoria 1989 Dreamtime Gallery Perth 1987 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi Melbourne 1987 Hogarth Gallery Sydney Collections: Aamu - Museum Of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Holland Collection Roemer, Germany Museum & Art Gallery Of Northern Territory, Nt Australia National Gallery Of Victoria Melbourne Vic, Australia United Nations, Darwin Nt Australia Peter Boehm Collection, Sydney Nsw Australia
Duck Pond Dreaming Acrylic on Canvas 120 x 150cm
Turkey Dreaming Acrylic on Canvas 200 x 300cm
Stephen Jaques
Born in Derby lives and works in London
Stephen Jaques’ work is a constant cycle of reinvention and discovery. From sacred geometry to anthropomorphic form, colour binding together disparate elements. The process is akin to alchemical transformation – a perpetual unfolding. Driven by instinct, disorder harnessed in pursuit of the idea. His sources range from ancient art and symbolism to contemporary design and architecture, and these together create the pop mechanics of the paintings. Education 1976-1977 Derby College of Art 1977-1980 Canterbury College of Art Selected Exhibitions 2006 - Thread, APT Gallery, London (curated by David Webb and Hideatsu Shiba) 2007 - Creekside Open x 2, APT Gallery, London (selected by Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings) 2009 - South East, APT Gallery, London (selected by Clyde Hopkins & Stephen Lewis) 2010 - Mix, APT Gallery, London, (curated by Chris Marshall & Mali Morris) 2011 - Invaluable, APT Gallery, London (curated by Victoria Rance & Sheila Vollmer) 2012 - Beyond The Shadow, with David J. Batchelor and Tricia Gillman ( curated by John Crossley and Laurence Noga ). APT Gallery, London. 2012 - Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London. 2012 - Delineation, (curated by Heather Burrell, Tim Cousins and Margaret Higginson). APT Gallery 2013 - Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London. 2014 - Switch, Pulchri Studios, The Hague, Netherlands 2014 - Invention, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk 2015 - 8 Connected, Linden Hall Gallery, Deal, Kent 2015 - Construction Industry - curated by Geoff Rigden, APT Gallery, London 2015 - Twentieth - curated by Heather Burrell, Dexter Dymoke, & Rachel Russell, APT Gallery, London 2016 – A Threshold – curated by Chris Alton, Svenja Buhl, Finlay Forbes Gower and Jack Otway, APT Gallery, London 2016 – Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Gallery, Deal, Kent. 2017 – Touchstone – curated by David Bloor, Lulu Cottell & Katya Lewis – APT Gallery, London 2017 – Creekside Eleven – curated by Mali Morris RA – Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire 2018 – The Before Will be Transformed by the After – with Tom Wilmott – Moor House, London 2018 – Shapes – with Fiona Grady, in association with Art Moor House Projects – Cannon Place, London 2018 – Summer Show – JGM Gallery, Howie Street, London Curatorial Exhibition Manager – Construction Industry, APT Gallery, London Collections Work in private and corporate collections in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Shaman(Yellow) acrylic on canvas 40×30 cm 2018
Totem(Phoenix) Mixed media 168×28×28 cm 2018
Totem(Siren) Mixed media 176×28×28 cm 2018
Kittey Malarvie
Born, lives and works in Australia
“I was born at the gold mine - Brockman near Halls Creek. I grew up at the Ord River Station between Mistake Creek and Spring Creek. I travelled to Kununurra with my family in the early 1970s where I first learnt boab carving and artefact making with my mother and father. We used to sell to tourists to make money. My dad was teaching us and we were selling in the street in Kununurra and then through the first Waringarri. We would go out on weekends looking for boab nuts to carve and sell. It was a hard time but a good time. These days I prefer to paint and make prints. Recently focusing on painting practice, Kittey reveals layers of meaning and story in rich ochre paintings that connect to her traditional desert country south west of Kununurra. Layers of circle motifs interpet the transition of the seasons and a land that is flooded and dry by turns leaving behind the patterned ground of “luga” cracked mud.” Marlarvie’s recent Milkwater series depicts a meditation on the multifaceted play of wind and light across a remarkable place of black soil and water the colour of milk. Painting primarily in ochres of pinks, black, greys and milky whites, the artist translates the language of her country into the gestures and utterances of international abstraction.
Solo Exhibitions 2017 Milkwater and Luga, JGM Gallery, London 2015 Ngaba, Kittey Malarvie, Raft Art Space, Alice Springs NT 2013 Kittey Malarvie, Mossenson Galleries Melbourne VIC Recent Group Exhibitions 2015 Sydney Contemporary 2015, Mossenson Galleries Booth, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW 2015 2015 City of Albany Art Prize, Albany Town Hall, Albany WA 2015 Salon15, Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin NT 2015 Cossack Art Awards 2015, City of Karratha, Karratha WA 2015 Art Stage Singapore, Mossenson Galleries, Marina Bay Convention Centre 2014 Informing, Kittey Malarvie and Mary Tailor, Suzanne OConnell Gallery, Brisbane QLD 2014 Gerloong, Kittey Malarive, Judy Mengil and Agnes Armstrong, Mossenson Galleries Perth 2014 Wood and Water, New Prints from Waringarri Arts, Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Themes Traditional Country - Sturt Creek
Collections Zhongfu Group Collection Nevada Museum of art, reno, nevada, usa National Gallery of Australia collection (boab 100) 2014 Wesfarmers collection (boab 100) 2014 Department of housing, government of western australia
Luga Natural Ochre on Canvas 120 x 90cm
Milkwater Acrylic on Canvas 185 x 285cm 2015
Andrea Medjesi-Jones
Lives and works in London
Andrea Medjesi-Jones’s practice considers painting as an ideological tool for political mobilty and communication. This is negotiated in relationship to material and performative acts of making and is communicated through means of formal abstraction and specific historical and cultural references that are formative of painterly Avant-Garde. The work re-examines the notion of abstraction as a construct that simulates productive, bio-technological systems of the body. Through production of material and formal variables whose explicit references are situated within painterly language and history, the work resembles automated and coded machines, whose repetitive and restrictive, laborious and rigid gestures comment on disciplinarian and enclosed strategies of labour. Propped against it are wooden poles and structures wrapped in remnants of unpicked canvas, proxy to the production of the paintings. The paradox arises when the system begins to show its vulnerability, revealed through sensuous layers of pigment and colour. The two models (the paintings and the objects) aim to mobilize our relationship to body, that sits in tension between its sensuality and automation. This is done both physically and conceptually, forging a link with the methods of labour that are not always alienating but provide a potential for invention and interconnectedness of its singularities.
Education and Awards Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School in Rome January – March 2014 PhD Studentship in Contemporary Painting Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2009-2012 MA Fine Art Goldsmiths College London, 2002-2004 BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory Goldsmiths College London, 1995-1998 Warden’s Purchase Award, Goldsmith College, 2004 Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects 2017 Factory Floor, Painting Installation, Warton House, ACME Studios, London 2015 The Making of Ned Ludd, Bank Gallery, CASS, London 2013 Ventriloquist, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London What will the community think? CASS Gallery and BSAD Gallery, Bath Who is afraid of the invisible hand?, Bäckerstrasse4 Gallery, Vienna 2009 Exiled Lines, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge 2005 Artist of the Day, Flowers Central, London Collections Simmons and Simmons Collection BBC Your Painting, Uncovering the Nation’s Art Collection, Public Catalogue Foundation (www.bbc. uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/unearthed-224636) David Roberts Collection Graph 1 Louis Serpa Foundation Pigment and Acrylic on Canvas 65 x 55cm 2018
Compression I (Detail) Pigment and Acrylic on Canvas 160 x 160cm 2018
Donald Moko
Born, lives and works in Australia
Donald Moko is a senior law man from the Mindi Mindi clan of the Yulparija. He was born at Kalajadu near Wangkatjungka, west of Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert. He grew up travelling all around his traditional country with his parents. He went through law and trained as a traditional Maparn (medicine man). This took him travelling all around. He came to Bidyadanga in the late 1960’s with his wife Mary Meribida and their children. Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Luminescences: The Colour of Bidyadanga, Harvey Art Projects, Idaho, USA 2011 Australian Aboriginal Art: Painting from the Deserts, ININTI in collaboration with IDAIA, Madrid, Spain 2011 ‘Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Fair 2011’, Sydney, NSW 2011 ‘Summer Haze’, JGM Galleries, London, UK 2011 ‘Pearls, Paint & Ilma’, Aratong Galleries, Australian High Commission, Singapore 2011 ‘Bidyadanga Recent Paintings’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT 2010 Yiwarra Kuju, Canning Stock Route exhibition, National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT 2010 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building. - Short St Gallery & William Mora Galleries present the Yulparija artists 2009 Short on Size, Short St Gallery, Broome WA 2009 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, MAGNT, Darwin 2008 From Desert to Saltwater, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston Texas, USA 2008 Bidyadanga Artists 2008, AP Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA 2007 Winpa, Raft Art Space, Darwin, NT 2007 Desert Heart, Nevill Keating Gallery, London, England 2007 From the Bungalow I: Yulparija Artists, Johnston Gallery, Perth, WA 2006 Northern Journey, The Priory at Bingie, Bingie, NSW 2005 The return of our land, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT 2005 Weaver Jack, Donald Moko, Spider Kalbybidi: Recent Works from Bidyadnaga, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, VIC 2004 Desert Ocean, Short st. Gallery @ Kidogo Gallery, Fremantle, WA 2004 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT 2004 Bidyadanga Artists, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, VIC 2004 Bidyadanga Art, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2004 2004 Australian Visual Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, NSW 2004 National Telstra Art Awards, Northern Territory Art Gallery, Darwin 2004 Kirriwirri, Raft Art Space, Darwin, NT 2004 Saltwater to Desert Images, Short st. Gallery @ Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2004 Colour Power, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC 2003 Manyiljara, Short st. Gallery, Broome, WA
Collections
National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Laverty Collection University of Notre Dame RACV Collection Myer Collection Dadon Collection Sam Barry Collection Art Gallery of Western Australia Artbank
Kardal Acrylic on Canvas 112 x 168cm
Mali Morris
Born in Wales Lives and works in London
Mali Morris explores in her abstract paintings how colour can construct luminosity, building complex layers of rhythmic pictorial space; she investigates the language of painting, its ever-changing expressive possibilities, and how it could relate to our experience in the world. Born in 1945 in north Wales, she graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Fine Art BA) in 1968, and the University of Reading (MFA) in 1970. Her first major exhibitions were at the Serpentine Summer Show 3, London, 1977 and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1979. Since then she has held over 35 solo shows worldwide, and has been included in numerous group shows, in London at the Barbican, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Whitworth Gallery Manchester, Museum of Wales Cardiff, as well as a number overseas. She has received awards from the Arts Council, British Council, DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Elephant Trust, GLAA, the Lorne Award and the Sunny Dupree Award. Her work is held in many private and public collections, including Arts Council, British Council, Contemporary Arts Society, Royal Collection, and Museum of Wales, Cardiff. She was Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, USA in September 2017, and her most recent solo show was at Fold Gallery, London, in October 2017. Mali Morris has been a Visiting Lecturer at departments of Fine Art across the UK, and from 19912005 was Senior Lecturer in Painting at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London. She is a founder member of the artist-led charity A.P.T, based at Creekside, south London, where she has her studio, and is a Trustee of the charity Poetry London. In 2010 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where she exhibits annually. Solo and Two person shows since 2010: 2010 Small Works, Royal Academy, London 2011 Small Works, The Cut Gallery, Halesworth. 2012 Small Works, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno 2012 Back to Front, Eagle Gallery, London 2012 Pressure Drop and Hoopla (with Stephen Lewis) at Berwick Watchtower, Berwick upon Tweed 2014 Odelay and Wishpool (with Stephen Lewis) at Kapil Jariwala, London 2017 PIER (with Stephen Lewis) at Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent 2017 Pearled and Pasted, and other new paintings. FOLD, London 2018 Two Abstract Painters, with John McLean, Clifford Chance, London
Line Dance/Bright Acrylic on paper 60 x 76cm (82 x 98cm) 2016
Line Dance/Tangerine Acrylic on paper 60 x 76cm (82 x 98cm) 2016
Alice Nampitjinpa
Born, lives and works in Australia
Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near to Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching girls dancing and the traditions of the desert. Alice started painting on the “Minyama Tjukurrpa” - the Kintore Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active “dancing woman” who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and “Women’s Law” meetings. Solo Exhibitions 2013 Tali Tali - Sandhills, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney, (with Eunice Napanangka Jack) “Eunice & Alice” 2009 ArtMob, Hobart, “Alices Wonderland” 2008 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (with Eunice Napanangka) 2006 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi , Melbourne 2005 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (with Euince Napanangka Jack), Melbourne 2005 Boutwell Draper (with Katungka Napanangka), Sydney 2000 Tjilkamata & Watuya (with Eunice Napanangka Jack), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (with Narputta Nangala), Melbourne Collections Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands Art Gallery Of New South Wales Arts D’australie Stephane Jacob, Paris Gabrielle Pizzi Collection Harold Mitchell Foundation Heide Museum Of Modern Art, Melbourne Myer Baillieu Collection National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra National Gallery Of Victoria Parlament House Collection, Canberra Private Collections Red Dot Gallery Supreme Court, Nt University Of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane Takupalangu Acrylic on Linen 120 x 80cm
Kitty Napangka Simon
Born, lives and works in Australia
Napanangka works with a variety of traditional and contemporary mediums, both body painting in natural ochre as well as acrylic on linen and canvas. She is a very traditional woman who understands the complexities and history of her culture. Kitty was born in Yuendumu and arrived in Lajamanu at 10 years of age from Lake Mackay, where most of her family are from. Kitty’s early experiences during a traditional desert walking life combined with her present life in Lajamanu as well as her depth of knowledge of Walpiri culture is the magic combination that defines her style and her masterly use of colour today. Kitty uses a mixture of line work, coming from body art and ceremony, and intricate dot work. Born in Yuendumu in 1948, Kitty painted her first works in the late 1980s. However in the desert, as in the city, life takes over and Kitty devoted all her time and energy to bringing up her children. Picking up the brush with renewed vigor in 2008, Kitty experimented with various styles before adopting a different, looser, more immediate, approach at the beginning of 2013. This new style has proved an immediate triumph.
Minamina Dreaming Acrylic on canvas 120 x 150cm 2015
Colin Smith
Lives and works in London and Belgium
Colin Smith is a British Artist who has work in the permanent collections of many museums and important private collections around the world. In June 2018 he exhibited ‘Investigations of a Dog’ a retrospective of his career to date at Alfred East Gallery, part of Kettering Museum. He also writes about Art and has been a Harkness fellow to Yale University. Collections
Tate Gallery Sharjah Museum and Art Gallery, Sharjah, UAE Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Museum of Modern Art,Tel Aviv. (Herrmann’s Bequest) Prudential plc . London J.R.Sainsbury plc London Peter and Mimi Haas, San Francisco Hutchinson Mainprice, London British Council, Buenos Aries NatWest Group, London Scottish Equitable, Edinburgh Royal Palm Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona Virgin Communications,London Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Berlin BML Corporate Management, Frankfurt
Arthur Anderson, Newcastle Amerivox Scandanavia, Stockholm The Duke and Duchess of Westminster Coopers Lybrand, London Hunting Group Plc British Airports Authority Kettering Art Gallery and Museum, Kettering Arthur Andersen, London EMI Worldwide, London British Standards Institute, London Pearl Development, London Contemporary Art Society, London Pepsi Cola, London Prudential Holborn, London Arts Council of Great Britain Unilever, London
Selected Bibliography Richard Wollheim, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue ,Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso,Texas. 1999 Sacha Craddock, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue,Six Chapel Row,Bath.1998 Adrian Searle, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Arte x Arte ,Buenos Aries, 1996 Ralph Hermanns, Art after Thatcher, Dagans Industri, Stockholm, 5 March, 1996 Juliet Ash, The Aesthetics of Absence, Jim Dine and Colin Smith, National Conference of Art Historians, Victoria and Albert Museum, April, 1995 Donald Kuspit, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, y for Solo Gallery Three Zero, New York, 1993 Marina Vaizey, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria di Serpenti, Rome, 1992 Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Anderson O`Day, March, 1991 Andrew Brighton, Essay for Solo Exhibition Catalogue, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, 1989 Antonio Del Guerico, Arte Dela Thatcher, Aventi Magazine, Rome, 1990 Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton, Colin Smith, Flash Art No. 134, May, 1987 Waldemar Januszczak, Colin Smith, The Guardian, December, 1984 Terence Mullaly, Spirit of New York: Colin Smith’s New Paintings, The Daily Telegraph, 11th Dec 1984 Marina Vaizey, Colin Smith, The Sunday Times, 9 December, 1984 Emmanuel Cooper, Colin Smith’s Paintings from New York, Time Out, London, November, 1984 Antonio Del Guerico, Essay for Exhibition Catalogue, Art Itinera, Rome, 1983 Michael Shepherd, Human Being: Alex Katz & Colin Smith, The Sunday Telegraph, 11th Dec 1982 Waldemar Januszczak, Colin Smith, The Guardian, 20 January, 1982
Ghent Wardrobe I Oil on Canvas 122 x 210cm 2018
Ghent Wardrobe II Oil on Canvas 122 x 210cm 2018
JGM GALLERY
Summer Show 2018 Thank you to all the artists