SALON EVENTS
WHITTYGORDON PROJECTS PRESENTS SALON @ UNIT 1, 74 BACK CHURCH LANE, LONDON E1 1LX - JUNE 28TH 2024
WhittyGordon Projects are putting on a pop up salon exhibition at The Woolhouse, 74 Backchurch Lane, London E1 1LX on Fri 28th June 2024. We are going to be showing painting, drawing, photography, mixed media and film from a range of artists who are currently based and working in London. The private view is on Fri 28th June and the exhibition runs through until Sat 5th July by appointment only.
If you would like to know any further information about the show please email whittygordonprojects@gmail.com
MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS INVOLVED
Amaaia Allende
Amaia Allende is a London-based artist who works primarily in sculpture. Using groups of found objects with similar characteristics, from dry fish and broken toys to shells and stones Amaia’s work explores the subject of belonging. Some of the work has been doctored with locks of hair, feet or arms suggesting individual personalities.
Using upholstered boxes Sometimes they are presented like groups of families in theatrical cosy surroundings giving them their own comfortable existence. Other times as lonely creatures within a world of their own. Amaia has deliberately made all the participants of the subject individuals, but placed them in the same environment thus making them compelled to belong. We are all products of our own personal experiences. We can belong by accident i.e. being part of a family, a nation, perhaps by falling in love or we can belong by choice through a sense of shared expectations and achievements.
Daniel Baker
Daniel Baker is an artist whose work examines the role of artistic practice in the enactment of social agency via the reconfiguration of aspects of Gypsy visuality, elements of which are manifest within his artworks through material and performative means. His practice comprises making, curating and writing resultung in an eclectic methodology that was developed during his PhD research into Roma aesthetics at the Royal College of Art in London. Baker’s work is exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide. Lives and works in London.
www.danielbaker.net
https://www.instagram.com/danielbakerarts?igsh=bjBvb3FhNW16Z3Nn
Jenny Gordon
Gordon’s work examines concepts of identity, isolation and alienation through the media of collage, film and installation. Her practice asks questions about how we inhabit the world both physically and emotionally, by drawing upon her experiences as a woman of mixed race origin. This forms the foundation of her enquiry into the dislocations of personal identity and physical belonging.
Gordon’s multi-sited approach to making art combines imagery and materials that reflect her concerns of how she sees the world.. She has developed a complex visual vocabulary which comes together to present an array of elements to symbolise the continual oscillation between concealment and revelation.
http://www.jennygordonartwork.com/ Instagram: @jennygordonart
Andy Hui
Andy Hui is an award winning London based film-maker and producer. Having graduated from the London film academy ( after winning the Smirnoff reel talent award.) he began making music videos for various artist such as Amy Macdonald, The Cribs, The Noisettes, Dog is Dead as well as viral videos for Justin Bieber and Calvin Harris.
Alongside this Andy has been making my own shot films such as RinGtone, which was BAFTA long-listed as well as DOP the experimental BBC online drama “ The Last Hours Of Laura K” which went on to be BAFTA nominated.
He helped create the Barbican Sessions shooting over 30 artists in different spaces in and around the Barbican. Recently he has been directing and producing the web series “Right Now” winner at the NYC web-fest, Rio web-fest, UK web fest and Melbourne web-fest.
Lindsay Mapes
Lindsay’s work explores themes of truth. The truth about painting. The truth about surface. The truth about making and the process that evolves around that. Mistakes are made and left on view. The rawness of the material is just as active as the paint floating or sinking on/into the surface. The expanding of a surface is extremely important…. ‘painting outside the lines’ per say.
Lindsay is intrigued with the notion of play. Most, if not all the materials used reference autobiographically. Colour is the focus point of my work, understanding how these combinations melt together or scream in separation. Creating space and openness in the work lets each object be itself. There is evidence of traces by previous mark-marking, revealing the changes made during the painting process. In this way, I examine how a thought process can be realised in form and paint.
In her newest series ‘In stitches’, she is especially interested in the idea of craft as ‘fine art’. Keeping the truthfulness to the material itself as well as the history of embroidery whilst also using the material in a way which I see a painting being formed.
Beverlie Manson
Beverlie Manson is a London based artist working primarily on Children’s books and drawings for exhibition.
She has illustrated many books for Doubleday in NY and most of the Uk publishers.
Her work is often used for licences products eg, greeting cards , gift wrap , textiles, wallpaper and ceramics. Beverlie’s work is done 100% by hand using watercolour buildup. She creates magical scenes that have delighted children and then passed on to their children
Bev’s work aims to capture magical worlds that have influenced many viewers imagination.
www.beverliemanson.com Or Beverlie Manson on Instagram
Maria Alejandra Huicho
Maria-Alejandra Huicho is a Peruvian photographer, educator and organiser of Quechua ancestry whose work investigates the relationship between groups of people and the territories they inhabit. She seeks to achieve a dynamic relationship between photography as a ritual of memory and collaboration to create multi- dimensional evocations of worlds where the past and imagined futures meet through portraiture, landscape, still life and archival images.
Exhibitions include: ‘Salud’, Kiosko Gallery, Bolivia(2020) & Nuit de l’année-Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles(2018), Offprint, Tate Modern (2016). She was shortlisted for the Deutsche Bank Awards -Fotógrafos Residentes(2014), Joan Wakelin Bursary -Nortes(2016) and longlisted for Jerwood/Photoworks award' (2018). Her work has been published in ‘Fronteras’ Centre of Photography Studies, Argentina (2024), AND-A Collection of Documentary & Portrait Photographers, UK (2019) and participated in Agency for Agency’s Residency at Raven Row(2018).
As an educator, she has explored collaborative experimentation with members of the community in schools (Bow Arts), The National Gallery, Wellcome Collection, RIBA Education. She is interested in indigenous Andean knowledge systems such as collaborative practices (ayni), myth making as a means to create alternative futures from recovered stories and collective storytelling through photographic archives.
www.malejandrahuicho.com
FILMS
HAIR by She Takes Films (Cleo Samoles-Little and Janina Samoles)
This is the premiere screening of HAIR. HAIR is a colourful, playful and forthright look at the modern woman’s relationship with their HAIR. Society seems obsessed with it and this zingy short explores what women really think, from bald to bush and everything in between.
Cleo’s first short was featured on Short of The Week which quickly led to views of over 170,000. The short premiered at the 60th BFI London Film Festival 2016, was nominated for ‘Best Female Director’ at the London Short Film Festival 2017, was longlisted for BAFTA and has screened at festivals around the world. Janina is an artist and film maker. She has also worked as a Creative Producer on several short films and has been nominated for several awards for writing and producing. She is currently developing a feature length script with her daughter Cleo.
@cleosamoleslittle & @janinasam - @shetakesfilms www.vimeo.com/cleos
The Separation by Fraser Watson
A young professional with a first-class honours degree and two steady jobs finds herself at the mercy of disparate aspects of her psyche. Will she survive their viscousness and find her reality?
Film won best actor at Liverpool Underground Film Festival.Fraser Watson is a Scottish Director, DP and Colourist working across Europe and based in London. He studied BA(hons) Sculpture at Camberwell college of the arts in London and graduated in 2010.
Mainly working in documentaries but occasionally branching out into music videos and short films and is currently in pre-production on his first feature film “Nourish” scheduled for completion at the tail end of 2021.
www.fraserwatson.foliagefilms.com
WhittyGordon Projects
This film follows the Dickensian world of the Rotten Hill Gang. They are a collective of creatives based in Notting Hill who cleverly fuse rap with rock, funk and reggae into an exciting mix of classic tunes, each with a modern and diverse twist.
In 2013 Rotten Hill Gang has been selected for New York Lift-Off Film Festival 2024, was awarded Winner Breakout Storyteller Award at The California Music Video & Film Awards 2023, Semi-Finalist for Austin International Art Festival, shown as part of music documentary streaming service on Taste TV California and nominated for Best Documentary Short in Sound on Screen Music Festival Cape Town.WhittyGordon Projects are visual artists and filmmakers, Fiona Whitty and Jenny Gordon. WhittyGordon Projects was registered as a social enterprise in 2014. They met at Chelsea College of Art in 2009 and set up WhittyGordon Projects in 2011. Fiona is Irish and Jenny is British/Jamaican. They are women from different backgrounds yet share common values and ethos. They are especially interested in working in underdeveloped areas and cities.
www.whittygordon.com Instagram @whittygordonprojects