No.5

Ditto : Imprint : Impression : Influence : Wield

Anna Salamon discusses her recent work and research

20 February 2014

Tissue: greetings, 2014, relief ink on tissue on mdf base and wall. Each unit 75cm by 50cm, dimensions of the base site-responsive. A total supply of three exhibit-able sets.

Anna Salamon graduated from Royal Academy Schools in 2012. She previously studied at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and read Cultural Studies at University of Warsaw. Her work was recently included in Alignment, Backlit, Nottingham (2013) and Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery (2013).

She works in the expanded field of painting, focusing on (non)object-hood and colour as places where image/support, body/text, language/experience dialectics can be most efficiently collapsed. Employing painting, drawing, printmaking and site-sensitive wall installations, her work seeks to register subtle mechanisms of embodiment, translation and forgetting.

Her current re-search project (Idiosyncratic) Dictionary of (Ubiquitous) Forms of Delivery and Encounter was set up to index spatial and linguistic articulations of private dwelling, and as a framework to question exhibiting activity in relation to studio activity as well as other ways of encountering things, objects, people and ephemera. One of the outputs is an online index of minor architecture: magentabuff.tumblr.com.

www.annasalamon.net

Location: Bermondsey Project 

Ground floor screening space

46 Willow Walk 

London SE1 5SF 

http://bermondseyproject.com

No.4

A talk by the artist Peter Ashton Jones

 The Eye of The Blackbird and Some More Recent Paintings, and Possibly Some Older Ones

March 18th 6.30pm

Peter Ashton Jones talks about the ideas that lie behind the paintings from his last solo show, The Eye of The Blackbird, which was inspired by a poem by the great American poet Wallace Stevens. It is likely that this talk could extend into a range of related issues to do with contemporary painting and its relation to history. Either way, this talk will be, fundamentally, about painting in the twenty-first century and questions are welcome.

Like many painters Jones has had to support his practise with part-time work: Jones was the curator of The Nunnery Gallery from 2000-2004, Arts Director of Limehouse Arts Foundation from 2004 to 2006, and in 2007 he co-founded the painting magazine Turps Banana with Marcus Harvey. In 2012 he established and is currently a co-director of the Lion and Lamb Gallery. Alongside the above, Jones has curated numerous exhibitions in commercial and ‘project’ galleries in the UK and in Europe.  

Location: Bermondsey Project 

Ground floor screening space

46 Willow Walk 

London SE1 5SF 

http://bermondseyproject.com

no.3

Cedar Lewisohn and Nevermeter 

(Ian Allison and Kieron Livingstone) in Conversation with Iphgenia Baal

25th February 2014

The Nervemeter is an autonomous, non-profit magazine which is sold on the streets by the homeless. Founded by writer/editor Ian Allison and designer Kieron Livingstone, The Nervemeter has no advertising resulting in the magazine having a unique visual style and critical content.  Each issue addresses a prescient social theme; past issues have dealt with wealth, madness and 'alternative' employment.

                          

Cedar Lewisohn is an artist and curator based in London. He has recently been working on The Canals Project, a series of public art works for the canals of East London. In 2013 organised The Hecklers, a group exhibition for The New Art Gallery Walsall. Between 2005 and 2011 he worked as a curator for Tate. Lewisohn is the author of two books published by Tate and Merrell and has edited and published many publications over the last ten years.

The talk was a great opportunity to hear voices from a truly diverse audience, to get to grips with content, distribution strategies and the difficulties in maintaining an independent publication. 


http://www.nervemeter.co.uk