studio1.1 London

08/05/2025

‘After-Image’

with

CAROLINE THOMSON, KEN RATCLIFFE, KATHERINE LUBAR, CATHY LOMAX, HELEN SEAR, ZOE CROSSE, EVA RUDLINGER, DAVID GOLDENBERG, ROB LEECH, PETER ROSEMAN, ZOE GRANGER

8 - 25 May

private view Thursday 8 May 6 - 9 pm

above, PETER ROSEMAN, ‘Fuseli’, acrylic on canvas, 2025



An exhibition of work of artists whose starting point (however far they travel from it), is the photograph. With the invention of photography (and the popularisation of Japanese prints which arguably have a similar influence in disrupting the composition), painters in particular were liberated from old assumptions.

Recording, reproduction were no longer essential. The disrupted frame, the arrested or blurred image became starting points. Photography, like an alchemical Galileo transformed the way we see the world and began stealing its soul. It therefore changed entirely the way artists re-present that world if we can accept that is what they chiefly do.

Whereas the sketch and other (in)formal experiments such as Cozens’ blot landscapes, existed to refine the painters’ practice and sought to expand the painting form, it was ultimately photography that exploded the frame.



for more information and images please go to our website or email [email protected]

26/04/2025

FINAL WEEKEND and FINISSAGE

for

ROSIE WEST

‘Shades of Sweetness’

finissage 27 April 12 - 5 pm

You are cordially invited to the last day of Rosie West’s show, the artist herself will be present from 2 pm.

Childhood or more potently adolescence, the dangerous margin between wild imagining and adult responsibility. Running away to the circus when you’re 10 and running away from home when you’re 5 years older are very different things. This is where Rosie West’s disturbing vision lies (experienced or fabricated, there’s a taint of corruption while still talking in fairy tales). Looking back and finding not all was sweetness and light. Not everything was as it seemed at the time. Pinch punch.

Whereas Paula Rego’s monstrous tales grow from a culture rooted in the fantasmagorical, Rosie West’s more English vision grows from repression always on the point of breaking through the facade. Not always keeping up appearances. Here it’s West’s lightness of touch that pulls us back from the brink, that mostly (though not always) hides the cause for unease. Often (though not always) there’s a tenderness that takes over. The animals are the key: they can be soft and endearing or they can frighten us rigid. Especially when they grow to human dimensions or god-forbid have humans inside and we have no idea what they might be up to. A nightmarish anthropomorphism.

As West herself says ‘Some people feel shame, alienation, and vulnerability when taking fright or disgust from situations that others find normal or even hilarious. From found images, I wanted to depict the anxious child, some of those situations and the juxtaposition of discomfort and delight.’

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St
bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm
or by appointment

24/04/2025

ROSIE WEST

‘Shades of Sweetness’

finissage 27 April 12 - 5 pm

You are cordially invited to the last day of Rosie West’s show, the artist herself will be present from 2 pm.



above ROSIE WEST ‘Self-portrait at Three Years’ Old’, oil on canvas 2018

Childhood or more potently adolescence, the dangerous margin between wild imagining and adult responsibility. Running away to the circus when you’re 10 and running away from home when you’re 5 years older are very different things. This is where Rosie West’s disturbing vision lies (experienced or fabricated, there’s a taint of corruption while still talking in fairy tales). Looking back and finding not all was sweetness and light. Not everything was as it seemed at the time. Pinch punch.

Whereas Paula Rego’s monstrous tales grow from a culture rooted in the fantasmagorical, Rosie West’s more English vision grows from repression always on the point of breaking through the facade. Not always keeping up appearances. Here it’s West’s lightness of touch that pulls us back from the brink, that mostly (though not always) hides the cause for unease. Often (though not always) there’s a tenderness that takes over. The animals are the key: they can be soft and endearing or they can frighten us rigid. Especially when they grow to human dimensions or god-forbid have humans inside and we have no idea what they might be up to. A nightmarish anthropomorphism.

As West herself says ‘Some people feel shame, alienation, and vulnerability when taking fright or disgust from situations that others find normal or even hilarious. From found images, I wanted to depict the anxious child, some of those situations and the juxtaposition of discomfort and delight.’

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St
bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm
or by appointment

24/04/2025

Rosie West
‘Shades of Sweetness’
runs until April 27th

Images

‘In the Pink of an Eye’, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 60cm

‘Apparition’, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70cm

‘Eye-Spy I’, oil on canvas, 25 x 30cm

‘Cuddle Bunny’, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 60cm

‘Eye-Spy II’, oil on canvas, 25 x 30cm

for more information and images please go to our website or email us at [email protected]

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm

24/04/2025

Rosie West ‘Shades of Sweetness’
runs until April 27th

Drawings and Sketches

for more information and images please go to our website or email us at [email protected]

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm

20/04/2025

‘Shades of Sweetness’ Last week of this tender/unsettling show

20/04/2025

The last week for this tender/unsettling show ‘Shades of Sweetness’

20/04/2025

‘After-Image’

with

CAROLINE THOMSON, KEN RATCLIFFE, KATHERINE LUBAR, CATHY LOMAX, HELEN SEAR, ZOE CROSSE, EVA RUDLINGER, DAVID GOLDENBERG, ROB LEECH, PETER ROSEMAN, ZOE GRANGER

8 - 25 May

private view Thursday 8 May 6 - 9 pm

above, PETER ROSEMAN, ‘Fuseli’, acrylic on canvas, 2025



An exhibition of work of artists whose starting point (however far they travel from it), is the photograph. With the invention of photography (and the popularisation of Japanese prints which arguably have a similar influence in disrupting the composition), painters in particular were liberated from old assumptions.

Recording, reproduction were no longer essential. The disrupted frame, the arrested or blurred image became starting points. Photography, like an alchemical Galileo transformed the way we see the world and began stealing its soul. It therefore changed entirely the way artists re-present that world if we can accept that is what they chiefly do.

Whereas the sketch and other (in)formal experiments such as Cozens’ blot landscapes, existed to refine the painters’ practice and sought to expand the painting form, it was ultimately photography that exploded the frame.



For more information and images please go to our website or email [email protected]

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St
bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm
or by appointment

19/04/2025

Rosie West ‘Shades of Sweetness’
runs until April 27th

Images
That Pinking Feeling, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 76cm

Afraid of the Dark II, oil on board, 23 x 33cm

Good as Gold, oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm

He’s Behind You! oil on canvas, 60 x 46cm

for more information and images please go to our website or email us at [email protected]

studio1.1
57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ
tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388
email: [email protected]
tel: 07952 986696
web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
open: Thursday to Sunday 12-5 pm

19/04/2025

08/04/2025

repost • Rosie West’s works on canvas and paper inhabit that mercurial hinterland where memory shifts shape-tender, comic and quietly unnerving. Saccharine finds no firm footholds here, merely flicked at in candy chromatics: sweetness needs its sour notes to come through. Childhood into adolescence is rendered not as a single truth but a shifting tableau: part fairytale, part forensic re-enactment. Her work hums with the contradiction of looking back-where delight and discomfort coexist, and the margins between what was felt, feared and later understood lose exist only to lose their definition.
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There’s an Englishness to the proceedings, but not the bucolic kind-it’s the domestic uncanny of drawing rooms loaded with inherited curios and damp lawns. If Rego dreams in allegory and monsters, West deals in suggestion and slippage: Alice-esque scenes where the façade strains and the real story flickers beneath suggestions of formality. Her virtuosity lies in a linearity that is anything but fixed -expressive, elastic and sharply observant.
Drawing becomes a means of psychological excavation, recollection both a portal and a mirror-what we see depends on how we choose to look.
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Shades of Sweetness runs until 27 April .1_london
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