VISIONARIES May 20 – June 10 2009
Phillippa Clayden is exhibiting in this show called ‘Visionaries’ or ‘working in the margins’; an exhibition of paintings and performance by artists with a prophetic vision:May 20 - June 10 2009
Wallspace, All Hallows on the Wall,
83 London Wall, London EC2M 5ND
Tuesday - Friday 12pm-6pm
Saturday 11am-4pm
VISIONARIES May 20 - June 10 2009
Touring: August 28 - 31 2009
Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham
Visionaries brings together artists working in this honourable and challenging tradition, which includes William Blake, Goya and Samuel Palmer - those who explore with passion the territories of the spiritual, the religious and the human condition. The exhibition will include works by a number of painters, who although they are no longer alive, are still hugely influential: Stanley Spencer, Cecil Collins, Norman Adams, Tony Goble and Albert Herbert. They are joined by contemporary artists: Unity Spencer, Peter Howson, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Paul Martin, Noel White, Brian Whelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Harry Adam, Billy Childish, Phillippa Clayden and Adam Neate. The prophetic tradition, with its history of dramatic enactment, is a rich one. Visionaries will therefore include a performance piece by Kit Poulson and David Shillinglaw will paint ‘live’ during the period of the exhibition.
The exhibition has been curated by Wallspace and will be on show at All Hallows on the Wall in the City of London from 20 May to 10 June. It will then travel to Greenbelt Festival, at Cheltenham Race Course for the August Bank Holiday weekend, from 28 to 31 August.
Artists being approached or work loaned include
Sir Stanley Spencer
Cecil Collins
Norman Adams RA
Albert Herbert
Anthony Goble
Noel White
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Paul Martin
Brian Whelan
Peter Howson
Jake Chapman
and Dinos Chapman
Billy Childish
Adam Neate
Katharina Stover winner of the RASA Premium prize 2009
Katharina has been away working in Germany and Belgium but better late than never we now have images of her prize winning work.
Vicki Reynolds 1946 - 2008, Royal Academy Gallery Café until April 1st. “I can hardly believe I’m real”
This exhibition is a celebration of the life and work of the Artist Vicki Reynolds. Vicki was born in Portsmouth in 1946 and studied at Goldsmiths’ College and the Royal Academy Schools where she was awarded the Richard Ford Travelling Scholarship.
still life
pencil on paper
400 X 454 cm
“In the beginning was the word” says the bible and much of contemporary art practice, but Vicki Reynolds had no time at all for wordy explanations of her sensual experience of the world. 
The Red Fence
oil pastel
20 X 29 cmShe said that “Painting is a way of being alive, not a way of life”. Each new day, presented a new opportunity to get to grips with the impossible, but wonderful task of imaging what her body experienced. Vicki’s art work lacks any kind of pretension and she once said that when making work she felt just the same as she did when drawing at her mother´s kitchen table when she was a little girl.
Brockley Cemetry
oil 600 X 410 cm
Vicki was totally committed to her work and completely dismissive of the passing fashions that she felt plagued contemporary art practice. Her work is ambitious, but her attitude was rather self effacing and unpretentious and she resisted all attempts by her friends to organise a major show of her work during her lifetime.
Unfinished landscape
500 X 501cm
It sounds obvious to say that to understand Vicki’s work you have to look at the image itself, but actually looking at an image is a complicated business and makes considerable demands on the viewer. Unlike much of contemporary work, there is no text, what you see is what you get, but what you see will develop the more you look. In Vicki’s late work, the image was never separated from that that was imaged and there was a constant reference from one to the other.
If you look at her work with as few preconceptions as possible, then you will unlock the love, obsession and experience that is present in all her images.
David Hawkins
A space to exchange ideas about the exhibition is at:
http://reynoldsvicki.blogspot.com/
Charles Saumarez Smith speaker at the annual reunion 2008
The RASA annual reunion on December 4th 08 was very enjoyayable. This year members and their guests were fortunate to listen to Charles Saumarez Smith, the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy. I do not think that it was an exaggeration to say that you could have heard a pin drop once he began his talk. Charles is an interesting and accomplished speaker; he has a great knowledge of the history of the Royal Academy and related present day issues. He spoke about a higher profile for the Schools which will be reflected in exciting, architecural developments taking place within the Royal Academy and the importance of a thriving alumni association.
The picture above shows Charles Saumarez Smith (centre) George Waud and Gloria Steemsonne. Photographer Martin Bowers
Geoffrey Colbourne Retrospective
A celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Colbourne 1936 - 2007
16th, 20th and 23rd November 2008
Open Hours 11am - 6pm
SE1 Gallery
Upper studio
1 Crucifix Lane
London SE1 3JW
www.se1gallery.com
Focus on Hilary Frew
London bank (INGS) recently ran a course introducing sculpture techniques to its employees during their 2 hour lunch break, once a week for eight weeks. The free opportunity was enthusiastically embraced and all lunch breaks each week were oversubscribed with participants. Five sculptors from The Royal British Society of Sculptors, including our Membership Secretary, Hilary Frew, ran the sessions, which seemed to be enjoyed by everyone concerned. In October 2008 an exhibition within the bank on London Wall presented the imaginative sculpture produced.
More of Hilary’s sculpture can be seen in the gallery
A Brush with Words: Study for Still life with Music Chair
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, ‘A Brush with Words’, here is ‘Study for Still life with Music Chair’ by Michael Sangster, which inspired the poem ‘Titleless’ by Charles Johnson.
Titleless (for Study for Still life with Music Chair)
This dish of water
shows the slant of the
chest of drawers it’s on
The tiltedness of our bedroom world
takes a dropped marble direct every time
to the window wall
I see and say water: wine
and water? Blood
and Water? Dirty water?
Water for tame bird
seeming lame bird facing the window
shadow held behind as if a broken wing
Bird that came
to watch us pack/unpack
these lyre-backed chairs full of eyes,
uncrease the curtains,
shake out daisies
Charles Johnson
Our new website!
Welcome to our new website. It’s not quite finished yet but we think it’s already looking good. Over the next month or two we’ll be putting lots of our members work on the site. It’s really exciting to see it all coming together and we hope you like it.
We’re using Flickr to provide our online picture gallery. Any work shown on our site can also be found on our Flickr page (www.flickr.com/photos/rasalumni/). We’re hoping this will draw a lot of attention from the people who visit Flickr every day.
We welcome those who are studying in the Royal Academy Schools at present (including ex graduates who left up to 18 months ago), so if you’d like us to include your work let us know ; you will find information on how to submit up to 3 images on the membership page.
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