Utrophia

July/August, 120 Deptford High Street SE8

Utrophia's maiden exhibition at their new address. The show includes work by Rachel Warriner, Richard Dyer, Ben Meschko and many others.

Utrophia

June, Tanner's Hill SE8

The final exhibition in the old space.

One Thing Leads to Another

June/July, an exhibition of nine artists at Portland House, Church Street, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 2BA

In this exhibition three new installations demonstrate the artist’s continuing concern with the fabrication of environments and objects which articulate the transition between different spaces and states of mind.

One Thousand Feet ascends the stairway, cutting through three floors. Looped between balustrade and handrail is a knotted mesh of over one thousand feet of rope. Penduline macramé-paired spheres populate this steep hammock, resembling a ‘biological abstraction’.

The half-hidden Spring Cleaner alludes to elevation and escape, the propelling spring being fashioned from Edelweiss climbing rope. Claustrophobic, moribund and erotic implications in this ‘jack-in-the-box’ piece are heightened by the confinement of the ten-foot sprung-spring in a tiny cupboard previously used by the cleaner.

Strangle Room is a quasi-geometrically strung boundary condition otherwise referred to as Knot Now I’m Busy. The room is criss-crossed by an intricate tangle of rope, string and thread. The viewer is denied access to the space by the presence of this self-suspended mass of polychrome lines.

Mortars at Dawn

Carter Presents at Leroy House, London

Hobby Life, with Covadonga Valdes and Sarah Baker

Carter, London

Galen Riley deploys strategies of the hobbyist – macramé, knitting and sewing – and their repetitive, time-counting nature, to evoke the physical presence of her father (an horologist) by constructing body-parts with fragments of his clothing and left belongings. Covadonga Valdes' detailed and intense paintings inhabit both calmness and disquiet. Sarah Baker, formerly a Synchronized Swimmer, often uses the reflection of celebrity to deconstruct narratives and weave stories around obsession, greed and lust.

TOUWORKS 2, Laboratory Polymorphic

Tou Scene, Norway

A collaborative process initially curated by Dallas Seitz(CA/UK) and Kenneth Varpe(NO) who were later invited to participate in the exhibition by the artists selected. The other Artists included were Robert Johansson(SE), Priya Mistry(UK), The Miller and McAfee Press(UK) and Galen Riley.

Emerald City

with Rachel Warriner, Heyday Gallery, London

Well Well

Interlined Gallery, Curtain Road, London

Collision

Published in La Journal, 29th February, Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Bunny Bags

Interlined Gallery, Curtain Road, London

Celador

Underground Gallery, Manchester

Charming Rope

The Circle House, Brighton

Everything Must Go

VTO, London

Killing Time

Tou Scene, Norway

An escatological study revolving around a sense of loss and disaster or escape including the artists; Marta Bakst, Semonara Chowdhury, Steven Eastwood, Anna Fasshauer, Annis Joslin, Woodrow Kernohan, John Knecht, Nikki Plews, Galen Riley and Kenneth Varpe.

Little Episodes

Permanent Gallery, Brighton

The Royal Road to the Unconscious

Freud Museum, London

Fuch Luch, For Irma (collected objects from The Interpretation of Dreams)
Dallas Seitz

Sexed Up, War and Peace

Flowers Central, London

Killing Time

Holt, Sherborne

Wood Work

White Cubicle, George and Dragon, London

Killing Time

ZMMA, Underwood Street, London

Telling Stories, Visual Narratives

Barnard House, Bethnal Green, London

Tippi Hedren

VTO, London

With Ben Fitton, Annis Joslin, Kate Grieve, R Nick Evans, Nicole Plews, Dallas Seitz and Mark Hutchinson.

MA Fine Art

Chelsea, London

The House

Chelsea, Bagley's Lane

AHRB Postgraduate Award

Degree of BA in Fine Art with First Class Honours

Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall