Colourswatch
5-17June 2014
Preview: Thursday 5 June 6-9pm
This exhibition is by South London Women Artists and shows work by 41 artists.
‘Colourswatch’ is a celebration of arguably the most impactful of the formal elements, colour, and is a visual feast.
The idea behind ‘Colourswatch’, developed from an exhibition Pat Keay curated in Nairobi in 2005. It was called ‘True Colours’ and involved a group of street boys picking a colour swatch from a basket. The swatches were allocated in turn to the next artist on an alphabetical list. Artists who used colour as a principle means of expression in their work were invited to participate. No artist had control over which colour was given to them to work with.
As with that exhibition, the process for ‘Colourswatch’ was to allocate, by random selection, an A5 swatch of solid colour to each participating artist to promote a creative reaction. They were invited to respond intellectually, politically, adversely or emotionally to the colour with all its implicit symbolism and association.
Some artists felt challenged by their colour as it was outside their usual studio practice and ‘comfort zone’. Others welcomed the project, for the same reasons. Come and view the results which are exciting, revealing, subtle and clever in their diversity and integrity.
Jackie Brown, Kate Bowe, Pia-Randall Godard, Moira Jarvis, Susan Wood, Yolanta Gawlik, Cath Dupuy, Dijana Bekvalac, Mary Gordon-Smith, Juliet Blake, Marion Jones, Chantal Gillingham, Mary Thomas, Pat Keay, Valerie Taylor, Karen Piddington, Wenchi Lucas, Gill Dove, Christine Landreth, Reema Dreaming, Jennifer Merrell, Anna Arianova, Jana Sedlakova, Polly Bagnall, Jasmine Pradissitto, Paola Minekov, Izzi Ramsay, Joan Kendall, Yoke Matze, Gillian BestPowell, Melissa Budasz, Lisa Brown, Eithne Twomey, Gil Mutch, Louise Jackson, Janet Tod, Beata Kozlowska, Pat Cove, Olivia Urquhart, Illinca Cantacuzino, Valerie Lambert
Curated by SLWA
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Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)
Opening times:
Daily 1-7pm including weekends.
Tuesdays until 5pm.
Closed on Wednesdays.
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