Exhibitions
Divided Line 6th-26th September
Art 18/21 is delighted to present the gallery’s first curated exhibition entitled Divided Line. This eagerly anticipated show features the work of four emerging artists, Will Teather, Isabel Rock, Garry Hobbs and Lucy Orchard, who together present a visual extravaganza exploring themes of surreal narratives and visual paradoxes. Curated by the gallery owner, art historian and experienced art dealer Laura Williams, these four very different but very compatible artists offer a diverse but coherent display of artworks, engaging the viewer to consider the complexities and ambiguities of visual and intelligible realities.
The rationale of Divided Line seeks to challenge and provoke the way we see and understand reality, both our own and others. As such, the strange and unworldly are juxtaposed with the familiar and safe, yet there are clear correspondences and adjacencies in operation. Divided Line promises to be the first of many vibrant, stimulating and pioneering exhibitions curated by Art 18/21.
For an invitation to the special Preview Evening on 5th September please contact the gallery on 01603 763345 or e-mail laura@art1821.com.
October - Black History Month
Featuring the works of Peter Sek and Helen L'ami Skinner, these two vibrant artists explore issues of past and identity.
More information coming soon...
AURORA 2008
12th - 16th November
Art 18/21 are pleased to be a venue for AURORA 2008.
AURORA is an annual festival in Norwich, UK which focuses on the manipulated moving image. A uniquely multidisciplinary, progressive event, it fuses artist retrospectives and thematic film programmes with discussion events, live performance and installations, alongside the very best new work from across the world for space and screen.
For more information ...http://www.aurora.org.uk/
India Art Summit 2008
22nd - 24th August
Art 18/21 is delighted to present Roots/Routes at the first International platform for modern and contemporary art to be held in India; the India Art Summit 2008.
In line with the Summit’s art forum which will initiate a discourse to interrogate the identity of art production and consumption, Art 18/21 will present the work of three artists who through different mediums also ask the viewer to engage with issues of identity, self and transition. Upon the first encounter, the works of all three artists are bold and aesthetically enticing, however, once engaged the viewer is asked to consider the underlying narratives.
Sathi Guin
A graduate from the Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, Giun produces large, bold works that both question and display herself as protagonist, as a real woman, in a series of blurred and quasi-surreal surroundings.
Isabel Rock
A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Rock’s bright and bold graphic images are centred on the vices of greed and lust. Jocular phallic images are used to redress the balance of sexual politics, through the use of the grotesque and the carnivalesque.
Helen L’ami Skinner (image above from weighed,measured and found wanting series)
Having graduated in Fine Art (painting) from the Norwich School of Art and Design, Skinner switched to photography as a more confrontational medium to parallel her critical engagement with discourses on identity, gender and self.
For more information please visit the India Art Summit website at
http://www.indiaartsummit.com/