From Surface to Structure at Jean-Luc Baroni, London

Novella Baroni and Flavio Gianassi Present 

From Surface to Structure 

at Jean Luc Baroni Ltd., London

14th June – 5th July 2013

An exhibition of drawings and sculpture by six contemporary European artists:  Matteo Baroni, Adrien-Angelo Bastien, Mark Beatie, Sandra Beccarelli, Dianne Kaufman and Fiona Robinson.

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., 7-8 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street St. James, London SW1Y 6BU

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The Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition

Discords II 

Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 

Graphite Charcoal chalk and wax on Arches HP.  63 x 63 cm.  2012

The Jerwood Space London  September 12th – October 28th October and then goes on tour.  78 works by 73 artists were selected from a submission of over 3000.

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                                                                                          Fourth Quartet

Graphite, charcoal, chalk and wax on paper 2012.  76 x 56 cm

selected for the Millfield Summer Show 2012

Drawn to Nature Exhibition at Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre

Four drawings  from Parallel Lines of Enquiry are on show and available from Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre until the beginning of September.

     

‘The Unfolding’, in Parallel Lines of Enquiry at The Allsop Gallery, Bridport, UK.

The Unfolding

Charcoal, graphite and chalk on paper. 101 x 273 cm. 40 x 108 ins. 2012.

Shown in Parallel Lines of Enquiry, at The Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset, UK  February/ March 2012.  Other images from the exhibition can be seen below and by clicking on the link in the left hand side bar.

Parallel Lines of Enquiry EXHIBITION and now the Jerwood

Discords II

Charcoal, pencil, chalk and wax, on Arches HP.  56 x 56 cm

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Discords II shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012.  The Jerwood Prize Exhibition opens at the Jerwood Space London on 12 September 2012 and later tour in the UK.

Image part of the work for the exhibition at The Allsop Gallery Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset, UK,  24 February to 24 March 2012.

The drawings will be shown parallel to a short story by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet.

The focus of the exhibition will be work arising from the Fellowship which I completed at the Ballinglen Arts Centre, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland, 2010 however I intend to show this work alongside copies of the actual book, highlighting the way in which it runs parallel to my work and processes rather than provoking it. On a loop in the background will be a soundtrack of the text being read against a backdrop of the sounds of sea and gravel at Chesil Beach in Dorset.

De Profundis Nocturnes

Soundscape IV

Charcoal, graphite chalk and wax 2011.  56 x 56 cm

This drawing, part of the De Profundis series of work,  won the Drawing Prize At the 159th Royal West of England Academy Exhibition in Bristol.  The open exhibition consists of 508 works selected from a submission of over 2000 and runs until the 31 December 2011.

De Profundis

First Nocturne

Second Nocturne

Fifth Nocturne

Tenth Nocturne

Ninth Nocturne

This work is related to music both the sound, particularly strings and piano and the physical movement of a bow or hammer and the way in which plucked, bowed or struck strings vibrate. They suggest the regenerative nature of music, both listening to it and playing it, as well as its power as a trigger for memory. Rather than using it as a primary source, music as diverse as John Cage or Steve Reich through to Plainchant functions alongside and parallel to my work and practice.  As in specific texts which resonate with my work I am interested in the way in which  Music is repetitive and I am exploiting parallels between the  repetition in my  drawings in order to make connections between processes across different art forms.

The lines originate from daily drawings of the subtle change in colour delineating the point at which sea and sky meet, horizon lines which gradually developed their own autonomy as they became more and more vertical. I have called this group of works De Profundis: the Nocturnes leading from light into darkness or from darkness into light, connections which are not intended to be despairing but rather hopeful in the way that deeply sonorous powerful music can lift the spirit.

Additions to the RN Sequence of Drawings

RN 29

Graphite charcoal and white chalk on paper 38 x 38 cm, 15 x 15 ins

2011

RN 27

Graphite charcoal and white chalk on paper 38 x 38 cm, 15 x 15 ins

2011

More from this Sequence of Drawings in Drawings 2 in the left hand side bar

Shortlisted for the Sketch National Drawing Prize 2011

Horizons Sketchbook 1 containing 55 double-page spread drawings of the changeable, mesmerising view of the sea in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo has been shortlisted for the Sketch National Drawing Prize at Rabley Drawing Centre and subsequent tour. The selectors were Deanna Petherbridge artist and author of The Primacy of Drawing, Meryl Ainsley, Director of Rabley Drawing Centre and artist, Sandie Sykes. The complete sketchbook can be viewed by clicking on the link in the sidebar.

 

During my Fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in September/October, 2010, my house faced the sea and every day I drew the rapidly changing vista from my window; the light, the weather, and the mountains appearing and disappearing like ghosts.

Currently on show at Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough until 28 May

Unstable Horizon Painting 5

Oil charcoal and graphite on canvas, 80 x 100 cms, 31 x 40 ins.  2011

 Shown in A Field Guide to Getting Lost in May 2011 and currently available from Masters and Pelavin, New York.

Ariadne’s Dream

Ariadne’s Dream

Oil on canvas 2010

75 x 102 cms.

Sea Change – Wild Zephyrs