The Head and The Heart

June 27 - July 27, 2019

Group show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Head and The Heart is a meditation on the ways good practice marries aspects of both the head and the heart, and the intellect and the intuitive. Good practice embraces process, experimentation and the mistakes therein, whilst (usually) allowing the ideas behind things to be seen as clearly as possible. Visually direct, acknowledging change and chance and all with great dollops of control - that's the sort of heady mix I believe is visible in this little group show.

Le Lievre and Martin pour, Morison bleeds, Stephenson draws quickly, and Macleod dips and dips again. Here is the mandate of process, of delicate means pushing towards the profound. Gorman, Heaphy, Hartley-Skudder, Swanson and Straka are more controlled. Theirs is a studious patience, a restrained simmering beauty perhaps. Expressions of the figure (portraiture even), sensuality and the grotesque are explored, and still life is pushed into territory both off-putting and wonderfully abstract. There is variety here, thoughtful fun, and hopefully lots of it!
JS

 

 

Selected works

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Julia Morison

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristy Gorman

 

 

 

Kristin Stephenson (Hollis)

 

 

 

Emily Hartley-Skudder
 

 

 

 

Zina Swanson
 

 

 
Melissa Macleod

 

 

 

 

Heather Straka

 

 

 

Chris Heaphy

 

 

Marie Le Lievre

 

 

 

Leigh Martin

 

 

 

 

List of works

Julia Morison
Head[case] working drawing 04, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr   
Head[case] working drawing 73, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr   
Head[case] working drawing 41, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 58, 2019     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 51, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 50, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 01, 2019     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 40, 2016     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    
Head[case] working drawing 78, 2018     ink on rag paper      420 x 325mm fr    

Kristy Gorman
Shadowing 3, 2019     ink on muslin on board     600 x 450mm   

Kristin Stephenson (Hollis)
APW #4, 2019     charcoal, pencil & acrylic on paper     1400 x 850mm    

Emily Hartley-Skudder
Budget Romance Bundle, 2018     oil on linen     153 x 228mm    
Complimentary Fruit on Arrival, 2018     oil on linen     315 x 315 mm    
Winter Warmer Package Deal, 2018     oil on linen     260 x 305mm    
Room Service, 2018     oil on linen     185 x 270mm    

Zina Swanson
Oak (For Vivian), 2019    terracotta, watercolour, metal, glass   1800 x 460 x 380mm
Mandevilla (For Vivian), 2019    terracotta, watercolour, 9 carat gold, embroidery thread, glass    
1800 x 460 x 380mm    

Melissa Macleod
The Fall (#1), 2019     sand (Brighton Beach), nylon, PVA     3150 x 430 x 360mm    

Heather Straka
Time Suspended 4, 2019     oil on canvas     1050 x 850mm fr    

Chris Heaphy
Just Like Heaven, 2018     acrylic on Belgian linen     1300 x 1000mm    

Marie Le Lievre
Seven (Stacked), 2016      oil on canvas     1950 x 1950mm    

Leigh Martin
Untitled, 2007     pigmented resin on canvas     2000 x 1900mm