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/
Jonathan Huxley Thursday 2nd April - Saturday 2nd May 2009
The exhibition entitled ‘Small Change’ at the Crane Kalman Gallery
178, Brompton Road, London, SW3 1HQ
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
RBA annual exhibition 2009
‘Ten thousand currents’ Susan Haire and Stephen Dydo, feb to August 2009
The Walkway at the Maidstone Gateway
Maidstone Borough Council, King Street, Maidstone, ME15 6AW
19 February - 28 August 2009
Open Monday - Friday 8.30 am - 5.00 pm
Private View Friday 20 February at 5pm
Concert, given by Stephen Dydo, of music for the ancient Chinese qin at 7pm
Enquiries: Emily Smith, Arts Development, 01622 602828, emilysmith@maidstone.gov.uk
Ten thousand currents is an installation of paintings and music by Susan Haire and New York composer Stephen Dydo for the magnificent new Walkway Gallery, in Maidstone. Dydo and Haire have developed a progression with the continuum of paintings unfolding its narrative like a gigantic Chinese hand scroll. Dydo’s music, a seven part soundscape, changes as the visitor moves from one painting to the next, walking the length of the gallery, an imposing 30 metres. The works together explore, in a contemporary idiom, the traditional Chinese connection between music and painting. The exhibition will run for six months.
Sponsored by KEF, Maidstone, specialists in loudspeaker engineering and design with an international reputation for audio excellence.
More of Susan’s work can be seen in the gallery.
Timur D’Vatz Recent work 2-19 December 2008
Detail from ‘Golden Light’ Mixed media on canvas 47″ x 49″/120 x 150 cm
Timur’s work can be viewed on the RASA website gallery
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: Cornwall (towards Cudden Point)
Oil on board 18″ x 22″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, ‘A Brush with Words’, here is ‘Cornwall’ by Mark Bennett, which inspired the poem ‘Stitching it Up’ by Amanda Attfield
‘Stitching It Up‘ (for Cornwall)
Who takes the ocean’s chest measurement,
the length of the shore to elbow, shoulder to hill,
and inside leg, so that it fits so neatly
around cliffs, rocks, and the blushing bride sky?
The water tailors have been busy. They have
tidied away the seaweed, neatened all the seams
to better than French. It’s calm now, but they
are dressing for death. Somewhere a mackeral
trawler cuts along to its end, you can hear
their songs - Leave Her Johnny and Billy Riley.
There’s a line of tacking from the horizon.
Wake up the tailors, sack them for their easy
slackness. The business of the day is not yet done.
There’s an unfinished journey towards the sun.
Amanda Attfield
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