EXHIBITIONS
No. O-6










Installation Views


Installation view. Artwork © the artists.
Installation view. Artwork © the artists.





Works Exhibited







Venue


Studio 127
Thames-Side Studios (Unit 7)
Harrington Way, Warspite Road
London SE18 5NR

View Map

Reception
Thursday, February 16th – 18.00 – 21.00

Exhibition Hours
Monday – Saturday by appointment

To book your viewing appointment, please contact Włodzimierz (Vladimir) Umaniec at 10016058@network.rca.ac.uk.





About


Works on Paper brings together artists from the Royal College of Art’s MA Painting programme, in dialogue through their wildly diverse practices. It offers distinct glimpses into each artist’s attitude, revealing unique detours or details behind or beyond the craft of more traditional painting.

This exhibition was created outside of the normal parameters of curation: direct selection of works by the artists themselves makes the show a celebration of artistic freedom, with the only rule that the work should be on paper and of a smaller scale. The artists explore form and material with reckless abandon. Black ink lines or charcoal touches trace across starched paper, suggesting bodily contours or organic forms emerging. Crosswords are submerged into splashes of watercolour, coloured pencil marks vibrate across pages or smudge into a cloudy haze, while smeared daubs of acrylic, oil, and pastel dance in unison. Other artists push into unusual materiality, using magnetite, latex, embroidery, and even invoking the readymade, communicating the open potential for expression in the medium.

The intimacy of works on paper, through the smaller scale and portability of the object, opens a gate into the inner world of the artist, while creating space to play with the dream forming at our fingertips.

Text by Ian Douglass




Mark
Copyright © the artists and Heteronymous Painters. All rights reserved.