WANDERLUST Arthur Lanyon | Sarah Shaw | Sadie Weis | Tahnee Lonsdale 28 January - 14 February 2015
8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4AP laceycontemporarygallery.co.uk
COVER IMAGE by Sadie Weis
presented by Lacey Contemporary Gallery, is a collection of new works by Lonsdale which marks the first in a series of fascinating group shows Tahnee and artists Arthur Lanyon, Sarah Shaw, Sadie Weis scheduled for the gallery in 2015. Inspired by the word WANDERLUST the four artists explore both physical and spiritual journeys. The collection of paintings, sculptures and installation are an invitation to join them on their visual quest. Wanderlust has captured the imaginations and lives of many, from the groundbreaking female novelist Aphra Behn in the 1600s, to Yuri Gagarin, the astronaut forever known as the man who fell to earth. This desire to embark on a journey whether physical or spiritual is within all of us and the pursuit of the new and unknown can be ignited in an instant and last a lifetime. Gallery Curator Charlotte explains – The journeys we make everyday without acknowledgement, the search for understanding, the losing ourselves in foreign lands; even the journey the pencil takes across the page shapes, enlightens and inspires us. WANDERLUST encases a collection of journeys from four very different artists through exceptional paintings and dynamic installation which embraces this desire. Each artist works in an approach that reveals just enough to ignite questions, almost acting as an open door to their worlds, and the audience is encouraged to step in. From the vibrant abstracts and intuitive marks of Tahnee Lonsdale to the crystalised styrofoam geode structures of Sadie Weis all delight and provoke thought establishing Lacey Contemporary as a continued centre of excellence for British art.
Tahnee Lonsdale TAHNEE LONSDALE is a painter of vibrant abstractions, using colour and intuitive paint application to explore notions of faith and religion, juxtaposed against more philosophical ideas of existence and being. Her compositions are inspired as much by her surrounding as her personal beliefs. Tahnee completed her Foundation and BA at Byam Shaw school of art in 2007. She has been shortlisted for a number of awards, making the final for 100 Painters of Tomorrow and shortlisted for The Dazed and Confused Emerging Artist Award at Whitechapel gallery. In 2013 Tahnee was selected by Saatchi Online Curator Rebecca Wilson, as one of the '12 Artists to Invest in Now'. The paintings I have made for the show ‘Wanderlust’ explore my more curious side. What happens next? Is the grass greener? I want the viewer to be able to step into the painting and explore the ambiguity themselves, navigate their way through it as though lost in a computer game, never sure whats round the next corner. - Tahnee Lonsdale
Tahnee Lonsdale - Amphi I Acrylic on Canvas 170x180cm, 2014 £7450
Tahnee Lonsdale - Amphi II Acrylic on Canvas 170x180cm, 2014 £7450
Tahnee Lonsdale - Aquaduct Acrylic on Canvas 90x120cm, 2014 £4600
Tahnee Lonsdale - Cabinet Acrylic on Canvas 90x120cm, 2014 ÂŁ4600
SARAH SHAW SARAH SHAW graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2001 with a first class honours degree in Fine Art. Sarah has been shortlisted for both the Saatchi and Beers-lambert competitions and was a finalist in the National Open Art Competition. In 2014 her work 'Hearthold' was selected for the prestigious Threadneedle Prize at the Mall galleries, London.Her work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad, and resides in many private collections, most notably Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood. She works from her studio in Brighton. All the paintings I created for ‘Wanderlust’ were initiated by the energetic painting of this symbol. I then allowed myself to be taken on a journey within the painting process, where other evocative imagery, mostly related to the passage of time, began to appear weaving in and out of the infinity symbol. – Sarah Shaw
Sarah Shaw - Wassail Oil on Canvas, 100x70xm, 2014, £2950
Sarah Shaw Bygones Oil on Canvas 80x70cm ÂŁ2850
Sarah Shaw - Bygones II Oil on Canvas 100x70cm, 2014 ÂŁ2950
Sarah Shaw - Red Dancers Oil on Canvas (framed) 29x29cm, 2014 £550
Sarah Shaw - White Dancers Oil on Canvas (framed) 29x29cm, 2014 £550
Sarah Shaw - Reverie Mixed media on ceiling panel (framed) 40x40cm, 2014 ÂŁ950
ARTHUR LANYON Born Leicester, 1985, artist ARTHUR LANYON comes from a well known painting dynasty. His father is eminent artist Matthew Lanyon and Grandfather is the late great Peter Lanyon. He received his BA in Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art and Design and now works from his studio in Cornwall. Arthur’s process is derived from winter travel that fuels his imagination. This is something he has been doing for the past few years to re-ignite ways of looking at the world. It’s no big secret, (travel) it just happens to open my eyes for the simple reason that it’s a contrast; a contrast of culture, temperature, landscape, language… What catches my eye is often informed by my painting experience and therefore a possible use for it; like graffiti etched into giant bamboo plants, scarring the surface but integrating as it heals. Or semi-transparent words of Sinhala, painted quickly onto smooth red metal doors. - Arthur Lanyon
Arthur Lanyon - Fossil Hunter Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 122x92cm, 2014 ÂŁ3000
Arthur Lanyon - Harp Strings Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 183x122cm, 2014 ÂŁ4000
Arthur Lanyon - Dorado Green Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 122x90cm, 2014 ÂŁ3000
Arthur Lanyon - Fish for Fish 122x90cm, 2014 ÂŁ3000
Arthur Lanyon - Cargo 60x80cm, 2014 ÂŁ1850
SADIE WEIS SADIE WEIS is a multimedia artist working in the disciplines of Installation, Sculpture, Painting, Printmaking, and Video with influences of the spiritual, the occult, magic, and science fiction. For Wanderlust, she is turning the lower ground floor of the gallery into a new world, her ideas bridged by the Black Forest in Germany and the discovery of an ancestral line. I create mythical imagery of unknown lands and universes that I have explored mentally. A cinema of the mind, or ‘Kopfkino’ in German. This is done through the appropriation of found relics and visions from these dreams combined with organic and scientific processes and elements of science fiction. The installation I will be creating for Wanderlust is inspired partly by my journeys through the Black Forest to discover its wonder and the origins of my roots but is also a larger metaphor for the magic one finds through adventure. - Sadie Weis
Sadie Weis - Into the Magnetic Abyss Mixed media installation
Sadie Weis - Angst Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen 61cmx91cm ÂŁ2000
Sadie Weis - The Sirens Pushing the Sky Away Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen 76x107cm, 2014 ÂŁ3200
Sadie Weis - Kopfkino Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen 61cmx91cm ÂŁ2000
Sadie Weis - Trophy for the Dispossessed Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, solid paint marker, ballpoint pen. 76cmx107cm ÂŁ4000 (framed)