Beyond the Mask
Drawings and Performance exploring the Mask at IKLECTIK
25 November 2017
Madonna Vagina
Pranic Attack
Isn'tses
Flange Zoo
with drawings from Lisa McKendrick
Drawings and Performance exploring the Mask at IKLECTIK
25 November 2017
Madonna Vagina
Pranic Attack
Isn'tses
Flange Zoo
with drawings from Lisa McKendrick
Obsolete Desire
11 Market Way,
15-28 December 2016
Clare Mitten
Jon Purnell
Lisa McKendrick
Zoe Anspach
Graham Dunning
Mandy Hudson
Tim Drage
11 Market Way,
15-28 December 2016
Clare Mitten
Jon Purnell
Lisa McKendrick
Zoe Anspach
Graham Dunning
Mandy Hudson
Tim Drage
Sound piece by Graham Dunning here: https://grahamdunning.com/portfolio/aggregate/
Candy Mountains
Arbeit, London, 2011
Alice Peillon
Lisa McKendrick
Ruth Solomons
Charlie Day
Bruce Lovelock
Five painters went on vacation to the Candy Mountains, each came back with a sketchbook of drawings, rubbings and memoirs. They returned to their studios to make a series of paintings relating to their vacation away from the limitations of the ordinary world enlarging their observations in five very different ways.
For Alice, the fluidity of time was sought out and close attention was paid to shadows and shapes which are often missed among everyday distractions. Lisa found a new sense of gravity in her mixed up images from the present, past and future, and became convinced that she could function outside the laws of science. Ruth discovered tiny details for colourful abstractions and let the paint drip and drag her motifs down the surface of the canvas. Bruce reconstructed decapitated teddy bears by sewing them back together inside-out in order to paint their defluffyfied portraits. Charlie took mundane objects and ordinary situations and transformed them into glorified carnivalesque compositions.
Arbeit is a re-created gallery and these paintings re-create the artists' sketchbook findings through each of their different processes of discovery. Presented together the show demonstrates the range of their responses to what was seen at the Candy Mountains, during their vacation away.
For Alice, the fluidity of time was sought out and close attention was paid to shadows and shapes which are often missed among everyday distractions. Lisa found a new sense of gravity in her mixed up images from the present, past and future, and became convinced that she could function outside the laws of science. Ruth discovered tiny details for colourful abstractions and let the paint drip and drag her motifs down the surface of the canvas. Bruce reconstructed decapitated teddy bears by sewing them back together inside-out in order to paint their defluffyfied portraits. Charlie took mundane objects and ordinary situations and transformed them into glorified carnivalesque compositions.
Arbeit is a re-created gallery and these paintings re-create the artists' sketchbook findings through each of their different processes of discovery. Presented together the show demonstrates the range of their responses to what was seen at the Candy Mountains, during their vacation away.
In An Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly
Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 2011
Ben Walker
Lisa McKendrick
Constantine Michaelides
Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 2011
Ben Walker
Lisa McKendrick
Constantine Michaelides
In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly….a quote taken from Five Ways to Kill a Man a poem by Edwin Brock about the absurdity of killing in the 20th century. But this exhibition is not so much about the ways it has become easier to kill a man or about the possibility of flying, although there may be images of helicopters, but rather it is a game play with death as two painters explore it through its possibilities rather than its endings.
A Point Between Two Destinations, Seven Seven Gallery, 2003
Site Specific installation and drawings by:
Dijana Rakovic
Lisa McKendrick
Site Specific installation and drawings by:
Dijana Rakovic
Lisa McKendrick
