Artwork Seen is delighted to current the solo exhibition Nature is aware of solely colors by the British artist Amy Stephens. The opening of the exhibition is on Friday, 12 November 2021 and might be attended by the artist.
“It’s the very best signal of a color when no one who sees it is aware of what to name it.”
John Ruskin, 1859
For her second solo exhibition on the gallery, Amy Stephens invitations the viewer to contemplate how nature gives us a visible language and shapes the colors we see. Minerals and rocks from Cyprus are plentiful all through the exhibition. Pitted with pores and striated, their conflicting geological textures all of a sudden take naturally to one another as they’re pressured to undertake a brand new habitat. On this second of transformation, a unique power and a brand new object emerges.
The abundance of any materials generally is a supply of invisibility and due to this fact nature is usually largely missed. These on a regular basis artefacts are re-contextualised as objects of intrinsic price towards backdrops of vivid color. An enormous celadonite inhabits each a bodily and psychological house. Set upon its fashionable pedestal, it evokes admiration for the rock itself but additionally suggests a bond between the pure and the constructed.
Multifarious from place to house, from type to symbolism, one entity is rarely a singular factor and objectivity turns subjective. From a collection of suspended ephemeral photographic prints to summary collages that seize Cypriot heritage websites, the artist is targeted on new and altering narratives connected to notions of color. By exploring the concepts of transferability and the significance of recognition, nature is aware of solely colors for these terrestrial wonders.
*We want to thank Valentinos Charalambous for his variety help. The artist at the moment makes use of these explicit rocks for glazing his ceramic artworks and kindly supplied just a few of them to be a part of Amy Stephens’ sculptures; Spyros Anastasiou for his unbelievable assist; additionally, Ruth Keshishian for her continued help, analysis, and offering us with a number of books and geological maps.
In regards to the artist
Amy Stephens (b.1981 London)
MA Nice Artwork, Chelsea School of Artwork and Design, London, UK (2008) | BA (Hons) Nice Artwork, College of Studying, UK (2005).
Current solo exhibitions embrace: Land | Reland [Portland], Upfor Gallery, Portland. Oregon, US (2018); fig-futures, The Grundy Artwork Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2018); Retain, Reframe, Artwork Seen, Nicosia, Cyprus (2017); rock, paper, mountain, UV Estudios, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); fig2 35/50, ICA London (2015).
Current group exhibitions embrace: Psychotropics, New Artwork Centre, Roche Court docket, curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE (2020); Highlight on Sculpture, Grundy Artwork Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2020); Synergia, Museo Federico Silva, Mexico (2019); Skulturenpark, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria (2019); The Annotated Reader, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P Watts (2019); non-binary, ksRoom, bei, Riegersburg, Austria, curated by Victoria Dejaco (2019); Parallel Strains: Sculpture and Drawing, Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora Home, London, UK (2019).
Chosen awards embrace fig-futures, Grundy Artwork Gallery, Blackpool, UK with Artwork Fund, Arts Council England and Outset Modern Artwork Fund (2018); Artists’ Worldwide Growth Award, Arts Council England and the British Council (2016); Villa Lena Artists’ Residency, Tuscany, Italy (2015); Triangle Community Award to Muscat, Oman with Gasworks Gallery, London, UK (2013); Irish Museum of Fashionable Artwork Artists’ Residency, Dublin, Eire (2011); The Banff Centre, Artists’ Residency, Banff, Canada (2010).
Public Collections: Canary Wharf Group Assortment, London; David Ross Basis, London; Groucho Membership Assortment, London; Grundy Artwork Gallery Assortment, Blackpool; Fashionable Types Assortment, London; Museo Federico Silva Assortment, Mexico; Irish Workplace of Public Works State Assortment, Dublin; Rothschild Assortment, London, Soho Home Group Assortment, London; Mumbai Unilever Assortment, London; Villa Lena Basis, Tuscany; Zabludowicz Assortment, London.
Amy Stephens | Nature is aware of solely colors
Curator: Maria Stathi
Length: 12.11.2021 > 17.12.2021
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 16:00 – 19:30 or some other day by appointment
Location 66B Makarios Avenue Cronos Court docket 1077 Nicosia
For extra data, please contact Maria Stathi at +357 22006624
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* As a result of Covid-19 restrictions solely a restricted variety of folks could be current at any time contained in the gallery house.
**Guests ought to have a legitimate secure cross and should put on secure masks throughout the gallery always.