Nunnsyard

27/11/2019

I don't think he lost his cool ?? rather told her to stop being a s**t..

29/08/2019

This weekend at Nunnsyard..

22/05/2019

28/03/2019

Paint Collective INTERFACES exhibition open 12 till 4 until Sunday .. PV on Saturday all welcome ..

07/03/2019

Paint Collective - INTERFACES Nunnsyard March 26th - 31st 12pm - 4pm PV Sat 30th 12pm - 4pm

26/02/2019

Becoming Thing

This exhibition has come about after a year or so of reciprocal studio visits between the three of us. We all live either end of a long, narrow lane named The Moor in the Norfolk town of Reepham. The Moor is a word that derives from the Old Dutch word ‘mere’, a lake or pond; a boggy wet area. It evokes thoughts of primordial times, when things crawled out of a wetland. Those strange half-fish half-mammal creatures, incubated for thousands of years in the mud, eventually flopping onto the dry land to begin existence as a new creature.

This made us think of Lee’s sculptures, presenting themselves as strange genderless hybrids, afflicted but defiant. We talked about them as characters just moving through, caught mid stride, lugging themselves along, working themselves out as they go. A snap shot on their evolutionary journey, still becoming a thing.

This idea of a body in flux is carried into Laura’s paintings and sculptures where she dismantles the body as a way to think about an expansive psychic reality. Laura’s paintings and sculptures are cut up, reconfigured, stuck together again and over-painted using pigment and glue. Constructing an image or form like this lets her present the body in fragments, in a process of metamorphosis.

For Alex it is less about the becoming and more about the entities around us. His more recent paintings are concerned with the naming of things, as if beginning again. Recording what is around him, a personal mythology of animals, cars, plants and people. A dictionary of day-to-day subjects as account of his surroundings. He sees his practice as a form of prosaic psychedelia where his everyday experiences are filtered through the medium of painting.

We are all interested in beginnings, stumbling evolutions, the provisional and the transformative process of making.

This exhibition is the first instalment of several potential shows making concrete studio conversations between the three of us.


Lee, Laura and Alex,
Reepham, 2019.