Edition XIII June 2021 Editors Damian Rayne Gosia Malawska
Whats on
3...................................................Yole Quintero 4.............................................................. Louisa Crispin 5............................................................... Louisa Crispin 6.............................................................Residency 2022 7.............................................................Yuichiro Kikuma 8...................................................................Mary Romer 9................................................................Claudia Boese 10..............................................................Jane Frederick 11.................................................Gosia Lapsa-Malawska 12.............................................................Michael Henley
13-16............................................................................Ian Robinson 17.......................................................................... Loretta Campbell 18.....................................................................................Paul Smith 19..............................................The Galleries Association
20.........................................................Portobello Dance 21..........................................Piers, what’s on your mind? 22..................................................................Martin Gale 23-24.....................................................Tavistock Festival
About... In our online version, we focus on partner organisations, guest artists and residents to bring you a preview of ‘what is’, and ‘what’s to be expected’. We also have links to a wealth of online content this month, including: sound art files for music producers, virtual tours and interviews with our partner organisation (The Galleries Association) and a cross section of counter-culture to be found in West London. The Muse was established in 2003 as an artist-led organisation, supporting both gallery and studio elements. Our gallery is situated in the heart of North Kensington, amongst the Georgian houses of Portobello Market. We host an annual residency programme with subsidised studio space and further show opportunities for recent graduates. Throughout the year we open our doors to artists, curating the space to present a balance of emerging and established professionals.In 2020 we are proud to support three new residents and a diverse list of national and international artists. We hope you enjoy a collection of work in this periodical; hopefully collectable images, whether online or printed — accessible art for our readership.
2021 continued... ENTRY POLICY Private views have been adapted to meet social distancing regulations. We are inviting visitors to book timed slots. These will comprise a fifteen-minute tour of the gallery, supervised by an associate, and with light refreshment available. Exhibiting artists are invited to attend where possible and at their discretion. Booking details for the private view will be published as part of the marketing campaign for each show, three weeks in advance of the opening date. During regular opening times, visitors may enter the gallery in couples, with a limit of up six people at a time. The best way to keep up to date is to subscribe to our mailing list here: www.themuseat269.com/subscribe OFFICIAL ACCESS TO THE MUSE IN June/July Opening hours in June: Thursday/Friday / Saturday/Sunday 12-6pm Please check our website for up to date information
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Yole Quintero - Isolate. Gestate. Fixate, 28x38cm, Hand printed - Chromogenic print ‘Until further notice’ is a series handmade digital // analogue prints produced in the darkroom using a unique and innovative process of digital projection onto photographic paper. The source of the image is a “Glitched” image produced initially digitally to then be transferred to photographic paper producing a chromogenic print.
Louisa Crispin
Flight Path vii, Graphite, 22x22cm, January 28, 2018
Flight Path xxvi, Graphite, 22x22cm,
Residency 2022 - selected artists
Camilla Hanney
José García Oliva
Catriona Robertson
Naira Mushtaq
Mary Romer
Red Dust Cloud II, poured pigment on canvas, framed, 105x105cm,
Claudia Boese
There was Earth in them, oil on panel, 30x30cm, framed, (2011)
Jane Frederick
Study I The waters will run clear, pastel on paper, framed, 42x60cm, 2020
Encounters 10-27 June Claudia Boese, Jane Frederick, Gosia Łapsa-Malawska, Mary Romer The Muse Gallery presents Encounters, the combined voices of four women painters; portraying their visual concerns with nature, identity and the environment. A shared fascination with the aqueous forms of our planet is manifest in these new works by Claudia Boese, Jane Frederick, Gosia Lapsa-Malawska and Mary Romer. Water gushes from elaborate Baroque fountains, surges across the skies in tumultuous cloud formations, or lies in still pools reflecting trees, branches and vegetation. Shadowy figures appear in mysterious landscapes, conjuring up emotions that fill and colour the distance between artist and viewer, portraying a sense of our ephemera on earth. The fluidity of painted surfaces has been drawn from diverse cultural influences. Informed by the simplicity and subtlety at the core of Japanese aesthetics in the case of Gosia Lapsa-Malawska. Jane Frederick draws on multiple disciplines, dissolving digitised images into the liquid materiality of paint. Mary Romer has used the Covid isolation to experiment. The fusion of pigment and waterpooling on the surface has created veils and skeins of tinted colour, expressing sensations of light, vapour and mist, in the cloud-skies above. Claudia Boese’s visceral works are shaped through the manipulation of painting materials themselves. Claudia Boese’s visceral works are shaped through the manipulation of painting materialsthemselves.
Gosia Łapsa-Malawska
Just the way you want me to be, oil on canvas, 50x40cm, 2019
Michael Henley
Michael Henley - solo show - December 2021 Originating with a developing visual language and newly initiated research (during the lockdown) I have created an idea for a series of works and installations focusing around drawing, light along with visitor interaction while touching on the themes of extinction and a general exploration into human-kinds relationship with the earth. Beginning with the SDG’s (sustainable development goals) as set out by the U.N. I have been exploring my relationship with nature, and how humankind’s choices have lead to the destruction of wild lands and extinction of thousands of animal species across the globe. This has been amalgamated into my own, ongoing narrative within my practice, which uses the imagery of endangered/extinct species (mostly in a state of death, or decomposing) as an undercurrent beyond the visual elements of each piece.
Ian Robinson
10 Favourites work in progress - Ian Robinson
10 Favourites work in progress - Ian Robinson I had recently done a different painting called 7 Favourites that is currently included in the New-light Painting prize. On 10 Favourites I looked at dance music. This oil painting on linen was started with a line drawing, using that drawing in photoshop I worked out the records I thought worked then it was redrawn onto the linen. I had to mask off the exterior and at time whole areas of the painting while I focussed on one record at a time. All of the record were close at hand and been great about this painting is that I could capture all the scuffs and wear and tear directly. #bombthebass -don’t make me wait 1.Family foundation- #expressyourself 12” 2. liquid -#sweetharmony 12” @xlrecordings 3.#Shadesofrhythm 4.#theprodigy -fat of the land 5.#kraftwerk - computer world 6. #Leftfield -Leftism 7. #daftpunk homework 8. #fatboyslim -between the gutter and the stars 9.#808state -newbuild 10..#thechemicalbrothers- exit planet dust
Loretta Campbell - local artist
Paul Smith
Paul Smith Are You Leaving For the Country?: New paintings 1-18 July 2021 Paul Smith’s latest paintings are edgeland landscapes dripping with the uncanny. They are landscapes of waiting, instantly recognisable to us all after a year of dwelling within such things. And while we do not see our human protagonists in these ‘empty’ spaces, there is a human presence. It lingers outside the frame, seen in their ruins: graffiti, or a gate left askew, or the eerie remains of a picnicking group. Their subject is the invisible point at which human and non-human intersect: The way things are, these paintings say, is not the way things have always been.
THE GALLERIES ASSOCIATION
www.thegalleriesassociation.co.uk
coming back in 2022... Galleries on the Tour David Hill Gallery 345 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 6HA davidhillgallery.net Design Museum 224-238 Kensington High St London W8 6AG designmuseum.org Elephant West 62 Wood Lane London W12 7RH elephantwest.art/ Frestonian Gallery 2 Olaf Street W11 4BE London frestoniangallery.com Graffik Gallery 284 Portobello Road W10 5TE London graffikgallery.co.uk
Japan House 101-111 Kensington High St London W8 5SA japanhouselondon.uk The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road W11 1LR London themuseat269.com Serena Morton Gallery 343 Ladbroke Grove London W10 6HA serenamorton.com Unit One Gallery|Workshop 1 Bard Rd, London W10 6TP unit1gallery-workshop.com Whitewall Galleries Central 100 Westbourne Grove London W2 5RU whitewallgalleries.com
PORTOBELLO DANCE
www.portobellodance.org.uk Portobello Dance is a community initiative on the international stage. Through dance education and events, our established organisation runs and participates in a variety of activities – locally, nationally and beyond. Based in North Kensington’s diverse Notting Hill, Portobello Dance School is a popular weekend destination offering children from 3yrs to adults training in Classical Ballet, Tap and Street. With our open doors policy, over 150 budding dancers pass through for classes each week. The school’s high achievers often move onto further training, or auditioning for the commercial dance world.Our professional dance trainers and visiting tutors encourage appropriate exams, such as the British Ballet Organisation’s (BBO) curriculum – for which the pass record is exceptional. Annual school performances allow families, the local community, sponsors and patrons to experience our work, whilst a variety of local and national events showcase the school through its Student Performance Group. Widening our mission, the school Outreach programme takes our training and mission to other schools around the Boroughs of London. We encourage students to visit inspiring dance events including ‘Classically British’ (part of Black History Season) which highlights the overwhelming talent of the UK’s multicultural choreographers and dancers, often featuring upcoming talent from the school. Our vision is to provide access to excellence, so whether you’re interested in our school or how we promote dance beyond it, simply step in! Summer School Mon, Jun 7, 2021 9:30 AM Thu, Sep 30, 2021 6:00 PM Join us for our annual summer school Classically British 2021 Friday, October 1, 2021 7:00 PM 10:00 PM Classically British 2021 is a unique and intimate virtual performance featuring a dynamic range of contemporary and classical dance.
PIERS, what’s on your mind?
So Piers, what’s on your mind? We are talking the day after the 4th anniversary of Grenfell and also the day after Boris put us all into the delay on the opening up…uh both of which are discombobulating. I mean… I suppose I might talk about the covid thing. This morning seems to be full of emails and phone calls about things being postponed… things being put back. Uhm, Because of course we had all been getting set. We were about to work with the thrilla at maxilla and the rotten hill gang at an event next weekend at the Maxilla. One of Dj’s has obviously lost his forty something disco at the maxilla. Portobello Live and indeed the Tavistock Festival (now on the 25th July - no tickets required; www.thetavistockfestival. london) all look like they’re all going to have to be postponed. so that’s a lot of running around uhh, with people having to change their plans. People running venues desperately trying to fit people in right now. So that’s been a disappointment. Does appear however that Kensington and Chelsea Art Week will going ahead as planned next week. A lot of that of course is outside with the public art trails. And then yesterday which was a backing hot humid day. We had the whole neighbourhood preparing for the Grenfell 4th anniversary. That was discombobulating… we went on a silent walk which we haven’t done for fifteen months, although actually a few of us went out unofficially on a walk this time last year. A lot of people found the walk even more moving than usual… oddly enough I found I was slightly out of practice for the walk although the silence was welcome its… I find it very difficult the walking around slowly, because its not in my nature so… uhhm and its an interesting time in the neighbourhood in Latimer….uh anniversary day. because there’s an element of the… being a village en fate. The whole neighbourhood comes together, you know you see people dressed in green walking past the house from an early, quite early hour on the day of the anniversary the market goes quiet. But at the end of the day its all about a tragedy… atrocity, in which 72 people died and one interesting thing is that the… since last March we have moved into the second phase of the enquiry and there was more anger expressed from the platform than is usually expressed at the silent walk because the silent walk is supposed to be commemorating those that lost their lives. And the other thirty days of the month are there to campaign for justice and the fact that the cladding hasn’t been removed from… is it a million peoples homes? Yep. So its… the fourteen of June is quite a big day in the neighbourhood and here we are on the fifteenth reflecting back.
COMMUNITY
www.portobelloradio.com Live, hosted by Isis Amlak, Greg Wier and Piers Thompson, is a vibrant 120 minutes of current affairs, community banter and local music. This Youtube live stream boasts a symposium of human rights, philosophy and chaos; all supporting human rights, the planet and of course an abundance of local talent, representing a counter-culture of north Kensington – the birth place of some of the best of British culture and armchair revolutionaries. Watch every Friday between 16:00 – 18:00 at: https://bit. ly/37TmmML or check socials at www.portobelloradio.com for live links, playlists and trivia.
Martin Gale - local artist
Pyrgos, Santorini. 2018
Instagram @thegainsayer
Music . Dance . Word . Film
from 12-9:30 pm 25th July on Portobello Road W11 1LR
