a little patch of yellow wall … curated by Jane Bustin at Lion and Lamb 25 April

 

PETER ABRAHAMS | BOYLEANDSHAW | FRAN BURDEN | JOHN CARTER | MARIA CHEVSKA | ROSE DAVEY | TESS JARAY | NATASHA KIDD | EDWINA LEAPMAN | MARY MATHIESON | AVIS NEWMAN | BERNARDO ORTIZ | PAUL ROSENBLOOM | MARTIN RICHMAN | YUKO SHIRAISHI | SUSAN SLUGLETT | JEFFREY STEELE & JANE BUSTIN | JO VOLLEY | WALLACE & SEYMOUR | CATHY WARD | IAN WITTLESEA

a little patch of yellow wall…..like some priceless specimen of Chinese art, of beauty that was sufficient in itself  (MARCEL PROUST)

curated by Jane Bustin

26 April – 17 May 2014

Opening: Friday 25 April 6.30pm

Talk: Saturday 17 May at 5pm Chaired by Peter Ashton Jones and Juan Bolivar

Bergotte stands before Vermeer’s View of Delft: 

At last he came to the Vermeer which he remembered as more striking, more different from anything else that he knew, but in which, thanks to the critic’s article, he remarked for the first time on some small figures in blue, that the ground was pink, and finally the precious substance of the tiny patch of yellow wall. His giddiness increased; he fixed his eyes, like a child upon a yellow butterfly which it is trying to catch, upon the precious little patch of wall. “That is how I ought to have written,” he said. “My last books are too dry, I ought to have gone over them with several coats of paint, made my language exquisite in itself, like this little patch of yellow wall.” Meanwhile he was not unconscious of the gravity of his condition. In a celestial balance there appeared to him, upon one of its scales, his own life, while the other contained the little patch of wall so beautifully painted in yellow. He felt he had rashly surrendered the former for the latter…. He repeated to himself: “little patch of yellow wall, with a sloping roof, little patch of yellow wall” while doing so he sank down upon a circular divan ………. he was dead. 

Each artist was asked to make a small yellow painting in response to this extract from REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST – THE CAPTIVE. The project will be developed and expanded by writers, their thoughts about the exhibition written on yellow post-it notes. Writers confirmed include: Kaethe Cherney, Tracy Chevalier, Naomi Gryn, Sophie Herxheimer, Martin Holman, Sue Hubbard, Emily King, Sophie Radice, Anthony Rudolf, Xander Smith.

Lion and Lamb, 46 Fanshaw Street, Hoxton, London N1 6LG

Open: Mon 1-11, Tues-Sat 12-11, Sun 3-10

Contact: lionandlambgallery@gmail.com  

Directors: Peter Ashton Jones, Juan Bolivar, Caterina Lewis, Katrina Blannin: Tel. 07866946631

www.lionandlambgallery.com 

The Lion and Lamb is a unique opportunity for painters to curate painting shows: visual essays or a kind of platform where artists can examine current practices in painting, take works from their usual contexts and experiment with new juxtapositions.

Jane Bustin janebustin@hotmail.com +442083740488 www.janebustin.com

Sue Hubbard THE IDEA OF ISLANDS – book launch 30 June

Idea of Islands by Sue Hubbard

Sue Hubbard: THE IDEA OF ISLANDS

Book launch and poetry reading

on Weds 30 June from 7-9pm

at The Eagle Gallery (above The Eagle pub)

A new limited edition of 15 poems written on the west coast of Ireland with drawings by the Irish artist Donald Teskey.

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CALLIGRAMS 24 June – 24 July 2010
Jane Bustin, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee, Estelle Thompson

The Eagle Gallery

159 Farringdon Road

London EC1R 3AL

open Weds-Fri 11am-6pm and Sat 11am -4pm

0207 833 2674

www.emmahilleagle.com

emmahilleagle@aol.com

Idea of Islands

Set in a wild, remote landscape, on the west coast of Ireland, Cill Rialaig is a pre-ramine village that clings to at steep slope 300 feet above the sea on the old road that leads to Bólus Head. The restored stone cottages of the village, which now support residencies for visiting artists, are about as far west as you can go in Europe without falling off. From this rugged coast the island rock of Skellig Michael is visible, some eight miles out into the Atlantic, where pre-Augustinian monks once built their beehive huts. This is a landscape permeated with history and memories. It was here that the poet Sue Hubbard and the painter Donald Teskey met and initiated a collaboration that resulted in this book.

The Idea of Islands comprises a suite of fifteen emotionally incisive poems by Sue Hubbard and eleven powerfully atmospheric drawings by Donald Teskey RHA.

Responding to her experiences of Cill Rialaig, Sue Hubbard explores in her work both the dark and the light within human experience. She evokes the perceived and the actual world through a careful attention to the detail of things – be it nature, the incidental or the everyday – and attempts to give voice to our deepest emotions and our sense of inchoate spiritual longing. Her subjects are those of love, loss and memory. She writes of our vulnerabilities, so often concealed, and through their disclosure suggests the possibility of renewal. Donald Teskey’s large-scale drawings of the Cill Rialaig terrain are no landscape idylls. This body ot work, complementary to the poems, powerfully evokes a vivid sense of that remote and harshly beautiful place, confronting us with the raw forces of nature at the inhospitable edge of the world: the bruised and weathered architecture of the coastline; the ocean, foaming and restless; the cliffs, dark, ancient and enduring; depictions of a dynamic landscape at its most elemental.

http://www.suehubbard.com/the-idea-of-islands.html

http://www.occasionalpress.net/ideaislands/publicationsiofi.htm

Jane Bustin's les dernieres fleurs in Calligrams

Jane Bustin in Calligrams at the Eagle Gallery, London – ends 24 July

les dernieres fleurs by Jane Bustin

CALLIGRAMS 24 June – 24 July 2010
Jane Bustin, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee, Estelle Thompson

The Eagle Gallery

159 Farringdon Road

London EC1R 3AL

open Weds-Fri 11am-6pm and Sat 11am -4pm

0207 833 2674

www.emmahilleagle.com

emmahilleagle@aol.com

detail of les dernieres fleurs by Jane Bustin

CALLIGRAMS 24 June – 24 July 2010
Jane Bustin, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee, Estelle Thompson

Calligrams features four artists whose work explores contemporary paths of minimalist abstraction. The exhibition brings together UK-based painters Jane Bustin and Estelle Thompson with American artists Matt Magee and Kevin Finklea.

Calligrams poses questions about the challenge involved in reinventing non-representational genres. The artists work within traditional parameters of colour, form and support, yet each in individual ways extends them.

Echoes of Suprematism and Colour Field abstraction are evident in the work of Kevin Finklea and Estelle Thompson, in the use of geometric forms and the manipulation of ranges of complex, high-keyed colours.

Finklea’s recent paintings arise from memories of place and time and have moved off the two-dimensional picture plane into three-dimensional reliefs. The range and vocabulary of Finklea’s colour, whether the exclamatory blush of two contrasting pinks or the meditative quality of a light blue are focused and projected into space through these sculptural forms
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The intense colours and re-worked surfaces of Estelle Thompson’s oils on panel bring to mind a range of associations from past traditions in painting, from the shimmering light of Renaissance frescos to the distressed surface of Jasper Johns ‘Flag’. Thompson’s nuanced surfaces act in counterpoint to her plays with geometric form, in which a simple division of a rectangle can offer myriad visual possibilities.

Matt Magee’s more emblematic paintings employ simple pictograms such as punctuation marks or numbers, as a way of incorporating language into the work under his own abstract terms. Formally satisfying simply as shapes, these signs are also weighted with exclamatory meaning and are held within surfaces of painterly marks.

Jane Bustin’s investigations into the potential for the abstract image to allude to emotional states or metaphorical ideas are closest perhaps to traditions of the sublime in abstraction. Exploring sources in literature, her recent series of works are made in response to Mallarmé’s volume of poems ‘’Pour Anatole un tombeau’. Employing a range of materials and supports the work has moved into the territory of installation where related paintings and text are sited in three-dimensional arrangements.

Jane Bustin is represented by the Eagle Gallery. Her most recent solo exhibition Unseen – A collaboration, took place at the British Library, London.

Kevin Finklea’s recent solo exhibition Memories are Uncertain Friends was held at Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York.

Matt Magee’s forthcoming solo show takes place at the Knoedler Gallery, New York.

Estelle Thompson is represented by the Purdy Hicks Gallery, where she had a solo show In 2009.

detail of les dernieres fleurs by Jane Bustin

Contact: Jane Bustin

janebustin@hotmail.com

http://www.janebustin.com/

https://davidgryn.wordpress.com/

www.artprojx.com

detail of les dernieres fleurs by Jane Bustin