CHRIS DANIELS TONI DAVEY JAANA FOWLER JUDITH JONES
QUARTET JGM GALLERY
Toni Davey Chant 1,2,3, 2012 - 18 Ink and gouache on paper Framed together, 115.5 x 103cm
Chris Daniels Lineage IV, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas 61cm x 51cm
QUARTET 31 January - 2 March 2019
CHRIS DANIELS TONI DAVEY JAANA FOWLER JUDITH JONES
JGM GALLERY
Published by JGM Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition Quartet 31 January - 2 March 2019 Exhibition curated by Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi and Alice Wilson Publication designed by Hannah Luxton Exhibition photography by Damian Griffiths and Benjamin Deakin Cover Image: Chris Daniels, Mt. VIII, 2015 Inner leaf image: Judith Jones: Walking in Darkness, 2017 JGM Gallery 24 Howie Street London SW11 4AY info@jgmgallery.com ISBN 978-1-9998458-9-6 Š 2018 JGM Gallery and the artists All rights reserved
Wells Art Contemporary exhibitor, Henry Hagger, depicts the 2018 WAC exhibition venue. Wells Cathedral; West front, 2018. Intaglio Gravure on Handmade Japanese Chine Colle
Introduction By Professor Anita Taylor President, Wells Art Contemporary Executive Dean of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University
The Wells Art Contemporary - or WAC as it is widely known - is an annual open submission exhibition, established in 2012, with a founding principle to bring international contemporary art to the City of Wells, to promote and celebrate artists’ individual practice and development, and to further the exposure and support for the selected artists and their work beyond the WAC exhibition itself. Quartet is a new and significant opportunity to exhibit at JMG Gallery in London and is awarded for the first time. This quartet of artists chosen by Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi - Chris Daniels, Toni Davey, Jaana Fowler, and Judith Jones – could be seen as a distillation of the WAC 2018 exhibition selected by Harry Borden, Tali Lennox, Peter Randall-Page, Donald Smith, Caroline Walker and Julian Wild from an international submission. Quartet includes paintings, works on paper, collage, and sculpture by four artists at differing stages of their careers. Chris Daniels’ abstract paintings are primarily concerned with form and colour; derived from external references and structures that are in turn simplified, and amplified through their repetition and intuitive use of colour and surface, these sequences are playful, lively and visually striking.
Toni Davey has worked primarily with paper throughout her career, seeing the value of drawing as essential to creative enquiry and to exploring and interrupting the nature of illusion through systems, structures, mark making and the generation of forms and surfaces that follow an internal logic or set of rules to firm new equivalents to natural or man-made forms. Jaana Fowler’s subject matter, the still life, is explored through a range of media as she examines the domestic and the everyday through compositional arrangement, and by manipulating and amalgamating imagery or objects to form an integral and unified pictorial or physical equivalent in collage, pastel, print or sculpture. Judith Jones’ photographs document and depict buildings and constructed spaces at twilight. Internally lit vernacular structures suggest a world that is at once inhabited yet deserted, spaces seen and yet hidden, between day and night, dusk and dawn. Ultimately both familiar and unfamiliar, they are full of pathos and yet celebratory as they mark the moment of transition from one state to another. Many congratulations to JGM Gallery on supporting this fantastic opportunity for these artists and many thanks for your support of the Wells Art Contemporary. On behalf of WAC, I would like to thank everyone who supported and contributed to the 2018 exhibition – the selectors, sponsors, prize-givers, organising team, volunteers and patrons and a very special thank you is due to each of the artists and makers who submitted their work. Finally, many congratulations to the successful artists and makers with work included in the exhibition, and to the award winners of WAC 2018! We are looking forward to following your work and seeing what you will all be making for WAC 2019.
Professor Anita Taylor
Chris Daniels Rhomboid XVIII, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas 120cm x 120cm
Chris Daniels Rhomboid XVI, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas 120cm x 120cm
CHRIS DANIELS Chris Daniels makes abstract paintings concerned with the principles of colour and form. The geometric forms are taken from a range of selected elements – signs, shields, mountains, and through drawing, simplification and repetition these forms become ambiguous, reductive, and abstract. Using masking tape to control the painting gesture inside the hard-edged form, Daniels creates a visual tension between the shapes. With his mastered skills as a colour field painter, Daniels selects his colours intuitively, whilst always drawn to advertising as much as art history to deepen his understanding of colour relationships. Often working in series, he uses the same forms in different compositions and colours. The paintings function as an exposure to the effectiveness of the colour choice channelled through a self-restrained structure.
Top left: Lineae II, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm
Top right: Lineae III, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm
Bottom left: Lineae XIV, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm
Bottom right: Lineae VI, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 51cm
CHRIS DANIELS
Mt. XV, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas 100cm x 100cm
Top left: Mt. IX, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
Top right: Mt. XIII, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
Bottom left: Mt. XI, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
Bottom right: Mt. XIV, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
TONI DAVEY The process of ideas for Toni Davey’s sculptural pieces start from drawings on graph paper freehand, to facilitate the speed of recording as one idea leads to another. ‘In my work the underlying structure of the grid is always present. The grid offers the means to retrace ones’ footsteps, to understand the journey, to allow forms to follow a rule or sequence of changes that produce solutions which are pure, logical and visually beautiful: qualities that exist in nature’ – Toni Davey Often working to a tactile or human scale, Davey’s works have the ability to subtly heighten ones awareness of their surrounding environment. The piece ‘Pleasure Dome’ exemplifies her ability to work across different mediums and invite imagination. Created to commemorate 250 years of circus, Davey evokes the feeling of entering into an unknown, exciting and dangerous arena.
Pleasure Dome, 2018 Victorian glass dome, A5 Moleskin sketchbook, glass wedge. 32cm x 32cm
TONI DAVEY
Left: Fall, 2012. Right: Reach, 2015-19 Ink and gouache on paper, 115.5 x 44cm
Left: Spin. Middle: Gyre. Right: Icon, 2012 Ink and gouache on paper, 115.5 x 44cm
TONI DAVEY
Five, 2015 Ink on paper, 70 x 116cm
JAANA FOWLER Janna Fowler’s sculptures conform to the category of still life, however, she is more concerned with the notion of ordering positive and negative space, and establishing a sense of visual rhythm and movement within the works. The assemblages are often cement casts from domestic vessels and found objects, which lose their original identity as participants in more abstract compositions, where the main interest is the way forms relate and respond to each other. Fowler takes inspiration from her love of looking at paintings and sculptures from antiquity to the present day, where domestic and everyday things appear in various arrangements, as well as making observations of her own home paraphernalia and clutter.
Morphing, 2018 Cement and white cement 88 x 72 x 44cm
JAANA FOWLER
Cone Corner, 2018 Ceramic 38 x 38 x 25cm
Upswing, 2018 Ceramic 43 x 40 x 40cm
Ringarose, 2018 Cerment and white cement 30 x 43 x 48cm
In the Night Garden (detail), 2018 Digital baryta photograph, gloss with an archival laminate; black box frame with no glass 92 x 63cm
JUDITH JONES Judith Jones stretches the boundaries of photography through research and experimentation. Her Twilight series examines the dialectic between the outside and inside, and the conflicts of private and public spaces. They explore concepts of exclusion and isolation, fear and uncertainty. Seemingly mundane vernacular spaces can hold a myriad of memories for us all, some of these spaces we may approach with fear or excitement, or simply a sense of familiarity. ‘Documenting this fragile time frame presents a magical, filmic space that at once intrigues and fascinates yet frightens me’ – Judith Jones
Rendezvous (detail), 2016 Digital baryta photograph, gloss with an archival laminate; black box frame with no glass 61 x 41cm
JUDITH JONES
Top: Road to Nowhere, 2016 Bottom: Plot Number 56, 2017 Digital baryta photograph, gloss with an archival laminate; black box frame with no glass 61 x41cm
Top: Night Windows 22, 2014 Bottom: Twilight at The Allotment, 2017 Digital baryta photograph, gloss with an archival laminate; black box frame with no glass 61 x41cm
CHRIS DANIELS
Born in Harrogate, UK. Lives and works in London, UK
Education 2005 – 2008 Royal Academy Schools, London 2001 – 2004 Loughborough University Solo and Two Person Exhibitions 2013 Julian Brown & Chris Daniels, Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, london, UK 2008 Light Pollution: Chris Daniels and James Ryan, Rod Barton, London, UK Selected group exhibitions 2018 Wells Art Contempory, BIshop’s Palace, Wells, UK 2017 Approximated Sunlight, Tannery Projects Space, London, UK 2017 Precision Of Thought, SE9 Container Gallery, London, UK 2016 Imperfect Reverse, Camberwell Art Space, London, UK & Ruskin College of Art, Cambridge, UK 2016 Marmite Painting Prize, London, UK and Drogheda, Ireland 2016 Summer Mix, Turps Gallery, London, UK 2015 London Painting Survey, Blackhorse Lane Project Space, London, UK 2014 A Union Of Voices, Horatio Jr, London, UK 2012 National Open, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol, UK 2012 Artworks Open, Artworks Project Space, London, UK 2011 Creekside Open, selected by Phyllida Barlow & Dexter Dalwood, APT Gallery, London UK 2010 Blood Orange, Art Daegu, South Korea 2009 Paperview, John Jones Project Space, London, UK 2008 On/Off, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London, UK 2007 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London. British Institute Award 2006 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London. 2006 Mercury Music Art Prize, Hospital Gallery, London, UK Press 2016 Interview with Saturation Point Collections The Howden Collection (Hyperion Insurance) Guerrini-Maraldi Collecition
Lives and works in Somerset, UK
TONI DAVEY Education BA Fine Art, Hornsey College of Art 1966 - 1969 MA Sculpture at Chelsea College , London 1970 - 1971 Selected Solo Shows
Taking Control: Retrospective of 40 years of drawing, The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset 2015 Between the Lines, The Beardsmore Gallery, London 2015 Transition, The Beardsmore Gallery, London 2012 Out of Line, The Institute of Physics, London 2011 Lineage, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, Devon 2011 Measured, The Institute of Physics, London 2010 14 Drawings, The Royal College of Pathologists, London 2010 Selected Group Show Wells Art Contemporary, Bishops Palace Wells, Somerset 2018 Sequins and Sawdust, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2018 The RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2011 - 2017 The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012/2014 Significant Others 11, Advanced Graphics, London 2015 Drawn, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2017, 2015, 2013 The Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2018, 2012 Related, Illminster Arts Centre, Somerset 2011 Commissions A nine metre long drawing etched onto glass for architects Stanton Williams Illustrations for new editions of Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner, Shakespeare’s The Tempest and H G Wells The Time Machine.
JAANA FOWLER
Born in Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works in London, UK
Education 1979 BA Fine Art (sculpture) St Martin’s School of Art 1982-2013 Freelance assistant (model maker) for Sir Anthony Caro 1996-1999 Leading Visual Literacy workshops (Media Arts) Royal Holloway College Selected Exhibitions 2018 Wells Art Contemporary, Bishops Palace, Wells, UK 2017 Composition, Litchfield Festival, UK 2017 Royal West Academy Open, Bristol, UK 2017 Wells Art Contemporary, Bishops Palace, Wells, UK 2016 Pastel Society Open, Mall Galleries, London 2016 Ashurst Art Prize Exhibition, London 2016 Royal West Academy Open, Bristol, UK 2016 Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2015 Pastel Society Open, Mall Galleries, London 2015 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2015 Anthology, Charlie Smith, London 2015 Royal West Academy Open, Bristol, UK 2014 Pastel Society Open, Mall Galleries, London 2014 Royal West Academy Open, Bristol, UK 2014 Threadneedle Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2013 Two Artist show at Peggy Jay Gallery Burgh House, Hampstead, London 2012 Open West Exhibition Newark Park NT and Wilsons Gallery, Cheltenham, UK 2012 Threadneedle Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2011 Artist of the Day Flowers Cork Street (solo), London 2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2009 Barn Galleries Summer Show ,Henley, UK 2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2008 Ludlow Summer Show, UK 2007 Two Artists Koukan Gallery Muswell Hill, London 2007 Battersea Art Fair with Barn Galleries, London, 2006 Langham Fine Arts Summer Show, Bury St Edmunds, UK 2006 Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries, London. 2006 Battersea Art Fair, London. 2005 Four Artists at Kingsgate Gallery, London 2004 Henley Festival, Henley on Thames, UK 2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Collections Private collections in the UK, USA, Finland, Germany and Italy Uppark House National Trust Arnos Vale Cemetery restoration project Bristol Leicester Education Department
Born in Yorkshire. Lives and works in Bournemouth, UK
JUDITH JONES Education
MA. (Distinction): The Arts University College Bournemouth 2009 BA. (Hons). Arts Institute Bournemouth 2008 Selected Exhibitions South West Academy Open, Exeter Castle, Exeter, Devon 2018 Black Swan Arts Open, Frome, Somerset 2018 Annual Open Exhibition, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2011 - 2018 Wells Art Contemporary Awards, Wells, Somerset 2015 - 2018 Drawing Distinctions, University of Wisconsin, Menomonie, U.S.A 2018 The London Group at St Ives, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 2018 Evolver Art Prize, ACE Arts Gallery, Somerton, Somerset 2018 The RA Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London 2014 - 2017 Millfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Street, Somerset 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, Exhibition Square, York 2017 Shoreham Sculpture Trail, Shoreham, Kent 2017 Personal Relations - Int. Miniature Portrait Exhibition, The Mirror Gallery, Vicenza, Italy & Pulchri Studio, The Hague. Holland 2017 The Deaf Canvas Listens The London Group, Kensington, London 2016 Contemporary Photography, GX Gallery, London 2016 Passion for Freedom, Mall Galleries, London 2015 Dorset Independent Photographers, Group Exhibition: Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset 2015 Works on Paper Art Fair, Science Museum; London 2015 National Open Art Competition; Minerva Theatre, Chichester & Somerset House, London 2011 & 2014 Guest Exhibitor; I Am Not Superstitious; Marina Di Pisa, Italy 2014 Runner up; Toronto Urban Photography Festival, 918 Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2014 Beauty from Chaos (solo), Art INN the square, West Coker, Somerset 2014 Wings. The Cave, Greenwich, London 2013 A Loose Traverse. Linear House, Greenwich, London 2013 4th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK 2013 Dorset Art Fair; Kingston Maurward House, Dorset 2013 Lateral Toronto; Toronto Urban Photography Festival; Oz Studios, Toronto, Canada 2013 London Independent Photography; 24th Annual Exhibition; Strand Gallery. 2012 Royal Society of Painter Printmakers – RE Open show; Bankside Gallery; London 2012 Memorial. Linear House, Greenwich 2012 7 Deadly Sins; Villa Bondi, Marina Di Pisa, Italy 2012 Galerie Huit Open Salon, Arles, France 2012 London Independent Photography; 23rd Annual Exhibition; Strand Gallery, London 2011 Elephant in a Room. Linear House gallery; Greenwich: London 2011 Papers Urban Photo Festival Seminar: ‘Twilight – Towards an Urban Sublime’, Goldsmiths College, London 2013 ‘An evaluation of an established and new urban environment through the utilisation of photography and Lefebvre’s concept of spatial theory’. University of Arts, London 2011
JUDITH JONES Awards 2018 South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts – The Alan Fynn award for outstanding work 2018 Black Swan Open – Highly Commended 2018 Wells Art Contemporary - DAC Beachcroft Award 2018 Wells Art Contemporary - JGM Gallery Exhibition Prize 2018 Longlisted for The Solo Award 2017 Shortlisted for The Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 The GX Gallery Prize awarded by The London Group 2015 Commended Artist, Premio Combat Prize 2012 2nd Prize Winner-7 Deadly Sins: Marina Di Pisa, Italy 2011 The Bird and Davis student prize awarded by The London Group. 2011 Honourable mention Julia Margaret Cameron award, UK 2010 Px3 Paris Photo Prize, 2nd Prize; People’s Choice 2009 London Photographic Association; ‘let’s Face It 5’, Highly Commended Finalist 2008 Academic Bursary to study Masters Degree, Arts University College Bournemouth, 2006 First prize winner, Street life Category; Travel Photographer of The Year Publications and Press 2017 Future Now, 100 Contemporary Artists, 2017 2016 The 7th Premio Combat Prize Catalogue 2015 Work included in the book: British Artists’ Book Makers 2015 The 6th Premio Combat Prize Catalogue 2015 Book - Dorset County Hospital; 175 Years of Rural Healthcare 1840 - 2015 2014 FLIP29 – London Independent Photography quarterly magazine 29 - Conflict 2014 Uncertain States Broadsheet Issue 20 2011 Goldsmiths College University of London Journal Street Signs. Article entitled Vacant Properties. 2010 London Independent Photography 22nd Annual exhibition. 2010 Crossing Lines catalogue. 2006 Foto&Video Magazine, Moscow, Russia. 2006 Book: Travel Photographer of the Year; Journey Two: A Collection of Images from Travel Photographer of the year. 2005 Dorset and Somerset Life magazines.
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