MIRACULOUS URGENCY | Exhibition Images

MIRACULOUS URGENCY | 04.07.15

Here are images of some of the artworks included in Miraculous Urgency at Now and Again Gallery, July 2015. 

Jayne Eagle, Blank, 2006, wool, foam, cotton and nylon. 

Left to right, Nick Carrick, Passage,2015, oil on canvas.

Ginette Rimmington Jones, Endings, gliceé print, 8 x 10''

Susan Plover, 'In the Midst of Time', mixed media, on card.

Libby Goddard,'A Moment in Time', journal. 

Detail from Libby Goddard's journal Closed Like A Book.

Anthony Stevens, 'Thinking of You', mixed textiles and hand stitching/embroidery. 32 x 29 cm 

Right of door:

Lydia Meehan,Book Series: collage on paper, 15 x 21 cm 

Jonathan Alibone, Untitled (Beauty and Loss Are One), oil on canvas,  20.5 x 12.5 cm 

Thanks to all of the artists who took part in the exhibition. There will be more images to come soon. This is possibly the slowest post ever to be put together. Apologies. 

MIRACULOUS URGENCY 4 JULY 2015 18:00 - 21:00

JONATHAN ALIBONE, MICHAEL BARTLETT, POLLY BLAKE, SEAN BURN, NICK CARRICK, LOU CLEMENT, ELLEN CROSS, NIKKI DAVIDSON-BOWMAN, HANNAH DENNISON, JAYNE EAGLE, LIBBY GODDARD, SHARON JAQUE, LYDIA MEEHAN, JENNY MILARSKI, STEVE MURISON, SUSAN PLOVER, LUCY RICHARDS, GINETTE RIMMINGTON-JONES, LUCIANA ROSADO, KATIE SOLLOHUB, ANTHONY STEVENS, CHRIS STEVENS, MIKE STOAKES AND JOSHUA UVIEGHARA

EXHIBITION OPEN 4th July (6 – 9pm opening event)


Fridays and Saturdays: 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th July (1 – 5pm) 


or by appointment


Most writings on catharsis – historical and philosophical – speak of catharsis as a process that affects those experiencing or viewing a work of art or a play (most notably Aristotle’s writings on catharsis which focus mainly on the act of catharsis taking place for observers of tragedies). This exhibition will stray from Aristotle’s path slightly, and will look predominantly at the aesthetic result of a cathartic act.

The dictionary definition of cathartic is ‘providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions.’ It is the purging, or evacuation, of feelings and emotions. Work created as a form of catharsis by artists might differ from their general artistic practice. It might be the work that is created for more personal reasons; the sort of work that is created regardless of whether anyone is ever going to see it.

 Artists' works might more usually be classified by existing in a ‘Brechtian’ state of unresolved or subverted catharsis, whereby there is no resolution or rebalancing through the work itself; like Brecht's audiences who left the theatre ready to riot, an artists general practice one might desire that the viewer exits the work with unresolved thoughts akin to Brecht’s ‘activated’ audiences. However this exhibition focuses on work created for a different purpose, that of catharsis, purging personal trauma or exploring the transformative power of art. 

Contact: 

Kate Davey
Website: www.katedavey.weebly.com
Twitter: @kd_outsiderart

Email: kdoutsiderart@yahoo.com

Daniella Norton 

Tel: 07425177516

Email: daniellacnorton@gmail.com
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Now and Again Gallery 

17B Beaconsfield Villas 

Brighton 

BN1 6HA

Co-organised by Now and Again and Kate Davey (http://kdoutsiderart.com)

14.06 to 21.06

Thank you to all who came to the opening last night of An American in Paris. Thanks also to the writers and artists who were there and for the readings which were really great. 

Please come see it if you haven't already and take a free zine which includes fiction from Alexis Somerville, Brian Bell, Jay Clifton, Mark Sheerin, Simon Kirkham and Tara Gould. 

Can be viewed Wed to Fri by appointment 07425 177 516/ daniellacnorton@gmail.com

Or Saturday 21.06.2014 10.00 - 13.30

An American in Paris: An exhibition of drawing and writing Opens 13.06.2014

An American in Paris: An exhibition of drawing and writing 

 

NOW And AGAIN Gallery, Brighton

Friday 13 June 2014

7 - 9pm

Now and Again presents an exhibition of drawing and flash fiction. To break out an art historical term, our premise has been ‘au premier coup’, at first attempt, in one go. As a technique, it has been around since the invention of oils. But as an attitude, it connects then with now.

It evokes the moment of freedom and free expression; a day in the nineteenth century studio of émigré painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Find him setting aside his earnest portrait commission, picking up his brush, free from constraint, completing the painting at first attempt. Au premier coup.

The gallery has asked artists and writers to respond to this term ‘premier coup’ in their own way, in two specific mediums - drawing is the embodiment of first impression. Short short fiction may take several revisions but the readerly hit is instant. 

Collaboratively brought to you by Mark Sheerin and NOW And AGAIN. 

 

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