Go with the Flow: New exhibition
An intriguing new exhibition exploring the ways in which artists use physical materials will open at Tonbridge School’s Old Big School Gallery later this month.
Flow features work by several well-known artists and includes sculpture, painting, photography, film and ceramics. The exhibition examines ways in which matter oozes, pours, tears, sags, cracks or hangs in the balance, influencing form and scale.
Artworks include the film Singularity, by Solveig Settemsdal, which won the prestigious Jerwood Drawing prize. Also featured is work by ground-breaking artist Jonathan Keep, who programmes 3D printers with an element of chance to create innovative ceramics.
Alexis Harding, winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, will be showing work that challenges the way paint normally behaves and functions.
Harriet Hill will be making a piece specifically for the gallery that uses the experience of being in the space. Clare Price’s paintings explore the tension between the accuracy and precision of geometric forms and more expressive use of paint, allowing for chance and accident.
Emily Glass is Curator of the Old Big School Gallery and an Art Teacher at Tonbridge School. She says: “All artists use chance and intuition to some extent. With the works in this show, control and contingency create a visual tension that is central to the processes and meaning within each piece.”
Emily’s own sculptures will also be on display. Her creations sag and bulge, appear soft but are solid, evoke the animal and human, and lead us to question our own assumptions and experience of inhabiting our fallible selves.
Flow can be viewed in the Old Big School Gallery each weekend between 12pm and 4pm from Saturday 27 January, or between Monday and Friday for booked groups. it is free to attend and all are welcome. The exhibition runs until Sunday 4 March.
For more information:
www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/obsg
