Sunshine streaming through the gallery windows has naturally put a spotlight on the bright and colourful. We're drawn to highlight some wonderful new work that will truly illuminate a space or its wearer.
Porter + Trundle's new City of London Bench pops in the vibrant primary shades of the London Tube Map, while Helen Slater Stokes' glass sculptures evoke memories in dusky watercolour shades. Jennifer Shellard's intricate reversible woven textiles compose colourful spectrums in contrasting arrangements on either side. Dress your mantlepiece with Tessa Eastman's fantastical hand built ceramic sculptures, with their iridescent tactile surfaces. Or adorn Alison White's beautifully lightweight geometric silk scarves in blue and chartreuse for a modern graphic statement.
New work from featured makers is available at our Marylebone Gallery and online at caagallery.org.uk.
Porter + Trundle's Colour Reel Hooks, are hand turned using oak off-cuts from larger products and hand painted according to their unique form. Black, lacquered ash offsets the bright, glossy hooks allowing the idiosyncratic characteristics of the natural grain to be celebrated.
Correlated Journey’s: A City of London Bench was originally designed for the London Festival of Architecture 2019 to enhance the public realm and visitor experience within the historic Cheapside district. It celebrates a truly quintessential part of London that enables journeys throughout the City of London, the London Tube Map.
Helen Slater Stokes combines notions of visual spatial perception with the resonance of memory-based landscapes and issues around distancing, and proximity. Her work considers our perception of space and the space between, as we coexist. Landscapes reflect the emotive personal associations we bring to the places we encounter throughout our lives, whilst geometric forms analyse the mathematical quantifiable nature of space, devoid of emotion, as these virtual, at times almost holographic, time-based spaces draw the viewer in to new fabricated glass worlds.
Jennifer Shellard’s woven textiles centre on her response to colour, light and tonal gradation. Her practice has evolved through various mediums, structures and formats using predominantly silk and silk blends to create fashion accessories: scarves, bags, wrist warmers and neckpieces. Her work is informed by research into light and colour perception; using weaving as a vehicle for exploring simultaneous contrast and optical mixing.
Tessa Eastman's hand-built, multiple glazed ceramic sculptures address the often overlooked details of micro-organic structures, which are observed to develop sculptures of a curious ambiguity. She aims to fix ungraspable states such as fleeting cloud formations, representing the ideal and the perishable, doom and fantasy. The strange otherworldliness of natural phenomena transports her away from the mundane and she becomes excited when fixed ceramic form seems alive, evoking awareness of life’s transience. Tessa is fascinated by the disruptive dynamism created when repetitive growth patterns in living systems mutate through flow and digression.
Alison White's work has always been inspired by the use of clean, simple, yet functional design. Her design process begins with sketching, and ideas progress through drawing and collage. After being scaled to the correct size her designs are digitally printed onto pure silk, precisely hemmed and finished.
