Making art is a very lonely business and so we invite you to join us in our latest incarnation as ConsumeCreate. This show tries to document young contemporary London based artwork. All the artists in this show are studying or have studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL).

ConsumeCreate was started by Oliver Cloke. He has found collaborative artwork the perfect medium for the kind of research that he wishes to investigate. It has enabled him to explore the notion of the finished artwork. As an art teacher he has studied the idea of achievement and the criteria for success in
creative fields. When creating his own sculptures and paintings he found that the major factors for success was finding an appropriate space to exhibit, finding the best artwork to surround it with and the discussion the ensues.

His experimentation with collaborative practice started while at the Slade School of Fine Art organising groups of students in the production of a limited edition hand printed fanzine, which lead onto curating shows in London, New York and in Malta. His practice has evolved into enhancing other’s art, involving planning many hours of discussion and co-operation. This show ConsumeCreate is a culmination of conversations with different artists.

The Participating Artists:

Tom Yeomans
Tom Yeomans tells narratives through pictures, whilst not denying the inherent fraud that is in the activity of making pictures.

Susan Stainman
Susan’s love of everyday objects is the driving force behind her work. Reinterpreting their function and context, her sculptures attempt to add mystery and playfulness to life.

Chloe Le Tissier
London based artist Chloe Le Tissier combines a confident and delicate approach to painting, using specifically obscure subject matter to construct a dialogue between and within her works. Le Tissier’s paintings feel theatrical and suggest a film still quality. They transcend the barriers separating abstract from realist, surreal from ordinary. The paintings operate on different levels, questioning the process of painting as well as traditional narrative.

Sam Hacking
Brought up in Cambridgeshire Sam has a wonderful relationship with the landscape. This is evident in the qualities that she brings out in her artwork. The depth passion and detail is evident in every brushstroke.

Eemyun Kang
Paints dreamy isolated worlds, spheres of unique appearance and attribute, populated by the rarest of flora and the strangest of beings. Kang evokes a pure land of myth, an untouched zone, located far in the antipodes of the human imagination.

Nick Spears
Nick Spears’ work is an amalgam of his passions, Music and Art. He produces bold powerful paintings that describe his personal journey through the music that he listens to. He deals with the duality of hedonism/ responsibilty and the line between inner and outer lives. He is currently studying at The Slade.

Sonke Faltien
A photographer but also a philosopher his artworks consider the relationship between the idea of the sublime and the utopian dream of the atomic age. Born in Hanover he has exhibited extensively in London, Liverpool, Bremen, Hildeshiem (Ger) and Brno (Czech Rep).

Candida Powell-Williams
Candida’s work explores the thematic relationship between the body and space, the internal and the external. The objects perform independently through the use of motors or natural elements such as the wind, but in some cases the body is called on to animate the kinetic elements. The particularity of the materials for each individual object is fundamental to the way that sculpture behaves. The objects exist somewhere between the functional and the dysfunctional and invite the viewer to experience the space between reality and imagination.

Andrea Greenwood
Andrea Greenwood’s work stems from a primary interest in the object and¬†its materiality. Often what the object is or what it represents may be directly challenged by the material it is made in and thus behaves contrary to the viewers’¬†expectations. More recently the process by which a work is made has become more important within her works, in particular the act of making as a¬†performance¬†or spectacle combined and how this might become implicit to a finished sculptural work.

The Programme of Events:

Sunday 12
Quentin Blake’s BIG DRAW, the gallery will be taken over by the young budding artist of Henley-on-Thames. All welcome refreshments provided.

Monday 13
The gallery will be open to the public

Tuesday 14
From 6pm until 8pm, there will be drawing lessons, it is free to come along and participate. (Bring a pencil)

Wednesday 15
The gallery will be open to the public

Thursday 16
There will be a live artists performance in the market place from 12am until 2pm.

Friday 17
Private view evening. From 6 -9pm come to see the work and meet the artists with refreshments, all welcome.

Saturday 18
The gallery will be open untill the early afternoon.