Anima Mundi Mixed Winter Catalogue 2018 / 2019
Illustrated catalogue of the Anima Mundi Mixed Winter Exhibition 2018 / 2019
Illustrated catalogue of the Anima Mundi Mixed Winter Exhibition 2018 / 2019
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ONYA MCCAUSLAND
<strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong> <strong>Mixed</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> Exhibition<br />
<strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong> are delighted to close another exciting and eventful year with our annual <strong>Mixed</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> Exhibition.<br />
The <strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong> <strong>Mixed</strong> <strong>Winter</strong> Exhibition offers visitors an elaborate overview of the idiosyncratic artists who we have the<br />
privilege of working alongside, emphasising the kaleidoscope of themes and issues represented within our programme.<br />
The display will feature a curated selection of works from gallery artists, shown across all three floors of the gallery and<br />
includes works from William Arnold, Simon Averill, Sarah Ball, Samuel Bassett, Harriet Bell, Trevor Bell, Paul Benney, Jim<br />
Carter, Mat Chivers, Phoebe Cummings, Andrew Hardwick, Rebecca Harper, Youki Hirakawa, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Henry<br />
Hussey, Sax Impey, Arthur Lanyon, Andrew Litten, Jamie Mills, Richard Nott, Dr Martin Shaw, Tim Shaw, Roger Thorp, Abbie<br />
Trayler-Smith, David Kim Whittaker and Carlos Zapata.<br />
We look forward to sharing it with you.<br />
Joseph Clarke . Gallery Director<br />
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Sarah Ball<br />
Sarah Ball’s is a British artist born in Yorkshire, England in 1965. She currently lives and works in west Cornwall.<br />
Her practice relies on the gathering of found source material, from newspaper cuttings, archival photographs and historical<br />
documentation. She selects subjects with, and without, known narratives. From these images, Ball paints intricate portraits that<br />
re-establish the imagined life of the often anonymous, unknowing sitter. Physiognomy is a primary concern. This supposedly outdated<br />
practice, whereby character or a persons morality are decided by the geometries of a face, was a common 19th century method, which<br />
dictated that an individual’s appearance was connected to their ethics and character. Sarah Ball’s paintings reflect her intrigue with these<br />
concepts and the history of the people she encounters.<br />
The painted portraits are placed on a neutral background with space around them, allowing for a metaphorical clean slate so that<br />
the viewer can investigate each subject close up in intimate detail with out prejudice. The viewer is compelled to empathise with<br />
the subject and draw their own conclusions and perhaps contemplate how we still continue to judge others based on aesthetics<br />
and assumption.<br />
Sarah Ball studied at Newport Art College in the early 80s, followed by a MFA at Bath Spa University from 2003 - 2005. She has<br />
exhibited widely and Internationally. Her work has been shown at the Threadneedle Prize, The Royal Academy, Somerset House<br />
and The V&A Museum. In 2016 Ball had a solo show at The House of St Barnabas, Soho Square and her work was shown<br />
alongside John Currin, Paul Macarthy, Juan Fontanive and Celia Paul in Dallas, USA as a part of Art for Aids TWO x TWO<br />
charity auction. The Australian National Portrait Gallery published an 11 page feature article this year on my Immigrant series,<br />
with an essay by historian Dr Sarah Engledow. She has held four solo exhibitions at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong>. Works are included in<br />
collections worldwide.<br />
Immigrant (Romanian)<br />
oil on gessoed panel . 18 x 13 cm<br />
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Immigrant (Italian)<br />
oil on gessoed panel . 18 x 13 cm<br />
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Mat Chivers<br />
Mat Chivers is a British artist born in Bristol, England in 1973. He currently works in Devon.<br />
Chivers’ artwork examines how fundamental phenomena that exist below the surface of things informs the way we experience<br />
the world around us. For Chivers, the process of making draws on combinations of analogue and digital technologies in works<br />
that embody a hybridisation of old-world and contemporary envisioning and production processes. Mat Chivers sculpture often<br />
incorporates the use of heavy, solid and dense media such as metal or stone, shifting the context of the raw material to reflect an<br />
ephemeral an indeterminate subject matter from cloud formations, waves data or altering climactic statistics. Through the materiality<br />
of his sensuous sculptures, drawings, prints and performance, he offers the viewer an alternative view of these notions.<br />
Chivers studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and Escula de belles Artes, Barcelona (1993-6). A formative influence<br />
on Chivers’ practice are the years that he spent working and travelling in Southern Europe and Morocco, culminating in a journey<br />
overland to Iran, Pakistan, India & Nepal where he spent time in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, Zanskar and Himalaya. On his<br />
return to the UK he established a studio in Devon where he is now based but travels regularly on international artist residencies. His<br />
placement at the Nirox Residency in South Africa and the Kappatos Residency in Athens both culminated in major solo exhibitions.<br />
He has been involved in numerous cross-disciplinary projects with research scientists at The University of Bristol. His site-specific film<br />
work ‘Purbeck Vanitas’ was shown in 2012 as part of the commissioned project ExLab in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad and<br />
The National Trust at the coastal UNESCO designated World Heritage site in Dorset. In 2014 he completed ‘Axiom’ a major public<br />
commission for the Mathematical Institute in Oxford. His work also features in many other collections internationally notably<br />
including the Berengo Collection, Italy, Crisis UK, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Mochary Collection, USA, Thelma Hulbert<br />
Gallery, Soho House and The Met Office. Chivers has been included in numerous high profile international exhibitions including<br />
‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’ at Somerset House, ‘Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017’ at the RWA, Bristol,<br />
‘A Place In Time’ at Nirox Sculpture Park, South Africa, Premio Fondazione Henraux, Italy, ‘Out Of Our Heads’ in London, ‘The<br />
Knowledge’ at the Gervasuti Foundation, 54th Venice Biennale and ‘Glasstress: White Light/White Heat’, Pallazo Cavalli Franchett<br />
at the 55th Venice Biennale and a solo presentation at the Venice Biennale the same year titled ‘Satyr’ in association with Venice Arts<br />
Factory. Most recently Chivers presented ‘Migrations’, his largest public exhibiton to date at Musée d’art de Joliette, Canada.<br />
(It's Not) Black and White (Brazil) charts the moment of climate change that we are now in. Yearly graphs of ocean wave heights<br />
from a number of randomly selected locations have been robotically milled into slabs of cast sea-salt recycled by desalination plants.<br />
The first year of data marks the moment when accurate measurements began to be transmitted back to earth from scanning orbital<br />
satellites, up until the present day. Ocean swells (waves) are driven by low and high pressure atmospheric events (storm cells) which are<br />
themselves a result of thermal flux in global ocean currents. Wave height data is a key marker for understanding how climate change<br />
may be affecting extreme weather events.<br />
(It's Not) Black and White (Brazil)<br />
cast recycled sea salt panels . 110 x 150 cm<br />
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Phoebe Cummings<br />
Phoebe Cummings is a British artist born in Walsall, England in 1981. She currently resides in Stoke-on-Trent.<br />
Cummings sculptural work builds on an ongoing interest in time and nature and how this has been represented and<br />
stylised through design. She works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and<br />
installations that emphasize materiality, fragility, time, creation and decay. Cummings' impressive interventions are<br />
constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. In her current<br />
work, Cummings' practice has developed to exist beyond the duration of the exhibition. Cummings questions what we<br />
will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient<br />
plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism<br />
Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the<br />
resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology.<br />
Phoebe Cummings studied ceramics at Brighton University in 2002 before completing an MA in ceramics and glass at<br />
the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has undertaken a number of artist residencies in the UK, USA and Greenland,<br />
including a six month residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2010. In 2017 she won first place at the inaugural<br />
Woman’s Hour Craft Prize with work exhibited at the V&A Museum, before touring to venues around the UK. Cummings<br />
was selected as the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011 and awarded a ceramics fellowship at<br />
London’s Camden Arts Centre (2012–13). ‘Supernatural’ was her first solo exhibition at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong>. In addition,<br />
Cummings’ work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including '60|40 Starting Point Series’ at Siobhan<br />
Davies Studios, London, 'Formed Thoughts' at Jerwood Space, London; and 'Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in<br />
Contemporary Art and Design' at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2013, she had a solo show at the<br />
University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu and The exchange in Penzance. In <strong>2018</strong> she was the inaugural winner of<br />
the Woman's Hour Craft Prize and was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Awards..<br />
This works displays the remnants from ‘Antedeluvian Swag’, an ephemeral, unfired clay sculpture made and displayed<br />
at the New Arts Centre.<br />
Antedeluvian Swag - Remnants<br />
framed photograph and fired clay on shelf . frame 60 x 82 cm / shelf 22 x 22 x 82 cm<br />
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Sax Impey<br />
Sax Impey is a British artist born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1969. He currently works from on of the prestigious<br />
Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives.<br />
Sax Impey’s paintings and drawings are often large scale, immersive and elemental incorporating staggering detail<br />
and dexterity and an expressive, behavioural use of medium. Since 2005, Impey has produced works derived almost<br />
exclusively from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster he has sailed many thousands of nautical miles around<br />
the world. These extensive trips have had a profound impact on his life and subsequent development as an artist.<br />
Reconnecting with nature through this powerful element has the almost inescapable effect of calling to question some<br />
of life’s existential questions. This epiphanic moment of realisation, of revelation, is at the core of Impey’s oeuvre.<br />
Reflecting on and capturing personal moments and making them universal, Impey’s work reaffirms the importance of<br />
introspection and confrontation, found specifically when surrounded by the natural world; “A mind can breathe, and<br />
observe, and reflect, away from the shrill desperation of a culture that, having forgotten that it is better to say nothing<br />
than something about nothing, invents ever new ways to fill every single space with less and less.”<br />
After graduating from art college, Impey spent time in East Africa where he participated in film, theatre and performance<br />
projects before returning to Cornwall to paint. In 1995 he was elected a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists<br />
and in 1997 was awarded a 'Kunstbrucke' residency in Berlin. From 2005, he has collaborated with the cross-cultural,<br />
environmental art group Red Earth in the creation of site-specific installations including a multi media performance<br />
at Trafalgar Square, London and Birling Gap in Sussex. In 2007 Impey's work was selected for the ‘Art Now Cornwall’<br />
exhibition at the Tate St Ives where he was placed on the cover of the associated publication. The same year he was<br />
heralded in The Times as one of the ‘New Faces of Cornish Art’. In 2010 Sax was featured in Owen Sheers's BBC4<br />
Documentary ‘Art of the Sea (In Pictures)’ alongside Anish Kapoor, J. M. W. Turner, Martin Parr and Maggi Hambling<br />
among others. His work was selected as a finalist the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and the year before was elected an<br />
Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. Impey has had numerous exhibitions with <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong> securing<br />
a long term, fruitful working relationship. His paintings are in multiple collections including The Arts Council, Warwick<br />
University, the Connaught Hotel and the collections of Roman Abramovich and Lady Victoria Getty alongside other<br />
private collections worldwide.<br />
‘Light Between Squalls’ has taken 6 months of gruelling and intricate work to produce in charcoal on paper, made in<br />
response to the artists voyage in Biscay.<br />
Light Between Squalls<br />
charcoal on paper . 120 x 150 cm<br />
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Youki Hirakawa<br />
Youki Hirakawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota,<br />
Japan and Berlin, Germany.<br />
Through his still and installation-based video artwork, Youki Hirakawa explores a mysterious and immeasurable sense<br />
of time, loss and longing. His monochromatic imagery is imbued with a melancholic quality, reconnecting a fragile<br />
past with a vivid present casting questions over the future. Deftly contrasting static imagery and moving footage, his<br />
work recalls its basis in frames per second, through which Hirakawa questions and in turn plays with our sense of<br />
time. Hirakawa constructs his artworks as if to reveal hidden memories or narratives contained within the subject,<br />
resuscitating sensibilities that may have since been obscured, primarily through progressive human activity. Youki<br />
Hirakawa has exhibited extensively worldwide.<br />
His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong> was held in 2016. In 2017 he was finalist of Sovereign Asian<br />
Art Prize. Works are held in numerous public and private collections.<br />
In this work a burning candle lies on a piece of paper, liquid wax melts and draws a passage of time spontaneously.<br />
A Candle<br />
single channel video . silent . 30 min loop<br />
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Richard Nott<br />
Richard Nott is a British artist born in 1963 in Cornwall. He currently lives and works in west Cornwall.<br />
Richard Nott’s paintings are unique. There are no oil or acrylic paints in his studio, he works with industrial materials,<br />
bitumen, emulsions and varnishes, building them up layer upon layer, often over intimately drawn or gouged grids, lines<br />
or marks, into a textural palimpsest, before courageously scraping or burning them back to reveal what lies underneath.<br />
Viewing Richard Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted collision of creative and destructive processes. An evolution<br />
of matter, exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously. His paintings become the consequence of years spent<br />
where Nott’s history merges with the history of the elements used. He has little interest in illusionistic ‘texture’, the<br />
work must be its own entity, have its own story and be its own statement.<br />
His objective is to create an organic object that evolves like a living thing with truth and imperfection. His process of<br />
working allows for a contemplation of a cycle of existence to become imbued in to the work. Not a beginning with an<br />
end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis. Something eternal akin to alchemy.<br />
Richard Nott gained his Fine Art degree at Lancashire Polytechnic and his MA in fine art at Reading University. In 1985<br />
he worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. He was gallery assistant<br />
at the Royal Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham Art Gallery from 1991-2. He won the South West Arts Visual Arts and<br />
Photography Award in 1994. He gained a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia. Exhibitions<br />
have been extensive and international notable included numerous solo exhibitions at <strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong> over a long and<br />
fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama, Avenue of the America’s, NYC.<br />
Scrinium<br />
mixed media on panel . 63 x 63 cm<br />
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Paul Benney<br />
Paul Benney is a British artist born in London, England in 1959. He currently lives and works from studios in London<br />
and Suffolk.<br />
Benney rose to international prominence as a member of the Soho and East Village Neo-Expressionist group,<br />
whilst living and working in New York City in the 1980s where he worked and exhibited alongside peers Marylyn<br />
Minter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarovicz among the many other others who made up the exploding 80s<br />
NY art scene. Despite living and working in this extraordinary environment Benney’s painting maintained a uniquely<br />
English sensibility.<br />
Paul Benney is a multi-disciplined artist whose oeuvre moves beyond clear and definitive categorization although his<br />
work could be seen to continue the strong tradition of ‘British Mysticism’ championed by the likes of Samuel Palmer<br />
and William Blake. Clearly, the primary mode of expression is paint, which he handles with profound technical dexterity,<br />
but to add to this he is also a goldsmith (skills learned from his father, the celebrated goldsmith Gerald Benney), a<br />
sculptor, film maker, a musician and also a perfumer, all of which he is able to carry out with notable esoteric ability<br />
and accomplishment. He is a polymath. Marcus Aurelius once stated that: “Nothing has such power to broaden the mind<br />
as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” But the tangibility of<br />
technique is only one face; the artist must also have a passion to use the senses to delve into the unsolved.<br />
For the past thirty years Paul Benney has worked both in the United States and United Kingdom. His paintings are<br />
notably represented in a plethora of public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,<br />
The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery of Australia and The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal<br />
Collection and The Eli Broad Foundation. He has exhibited in eight BP Portrait Award Exhibitions and twice won the<br />
BP Visitors’ Choice Award. Benney’s portrait subjects have included HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Mick Jagger, John Paul<br />
Getty III, 7th Marquess of Bath, The State Portrait for Israel, Lord Rothschild, as well as Ben Barnes for the portrait in<br />
the feature film ‘A Portrait of Dorian Grey’ in 2008. Benney was invited to be resident artist at Somerset House in 2010.<br />
During his five year residency he held the exhibition ‘Night Paintings’ in 2012 which explored themes that deal more<br />
with the subconscious and metaphysical world and drew over 15,000 visitors. In 2017 his epic painting and holosonic<br />
sound installation ‘Speaking in Tongues’ was a prominent feature of the Venice Biennale, located at Chiesa San Gallo,<br />
just off St Marks’s Square. The paintings from ‘Speaking In Tongues’ were subsequently purchased by a significant<br />
US art foundation based in California for permanent exhibition. Paintings are held in multiple collections worldwide.<br />
Conceptus<br />
oil on canvas . 56 x 71 cm<br />
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Roger Thorp<br />
Roger Thorp is a British artist born in Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire in 1955. He currently lives and works<br />
in Cornwall.<br />
Roger Thorp’s artwork consists of still images exhibited alongside complex, multi-media, immersive and participatory<br />
installations. Thorp’s work effectively transmits his enormous sensitivity towards the earth, humanity and spirituality,<br />
becoming a manifestation of deep joy and a proclamation of existence for those who forget where they are going.<br />
After leaving lm school, Roger Thorp started out as a runner in the film industry, moving on to work as Producer and<br />
PM on music videos for U2, The Clash, Iggy Pop and others. Thorp has also directed programmes for NGO’s such as<br />
WWF, ILO and the Red Cross, working in Australia, Mongolia and the USA. He has also made two feature films.<br />
Other work by Roger as a writer/director has been screened in Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen and London. In 2004 he<br />
co-founded the art-house online gallery ‘Littlesong lms’ and in 2015 he founded ‘The Olive Network’ a sophisticated<br />
web platform built to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on the<br />
positive long term contributions of charity, the arts and humanities.<br />
Angel 1517<br />
video in gesso frame (edition of 5) . 30 x 36 cm<br />
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Joy Wolfenden Brown<br />
Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire in 1961. She currently lives in Bude,<br />
North Cornwall.<br />
Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar possessing a raw, emotional, honesty. She captures<br />
fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in<br />
isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an<br />
unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality.<br />
Joy Wolfenden Brown graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at<br />
Hertfordshire College of Art & Design. She worked as an art therapist for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999.<br />
Wolfenden Brown has had a number of sell out solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open<br />
Art Competition, 2012.<br />
She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prizewinner at the Sherborne Open in<br />
2007. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held<br />
in collections worldwide. Wolfenden Brown has exhibited internationally with five solo exhibitions at <strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong><br />
marking a long and fruitful working relationship<br />
Undone<br />
oil on paper . 31 x 20.5 cm<br />
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Quiet Voice<br />
oil on paper . 15 x 16 cm<br />
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Ancient Tree<br />
oil on paper . 16 x 15 cm<br />
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Andrew Hardwick<br />
Andrew Hardwick is a British artist born in Bristol, England in 1961 where he still resides<br />
His often large scale, sedimentary paintings display his captivation with wilderness zones; both natural and<br />
man-made. Playing with and subverting traditional notions of romantic landscape painting and the sublime. The<br />
paintings often depict edge-land zones around big industrial conurbations or ports, such as large-scale car storage<br />
compounds, redundant factories and polluted waste lands. Other works draw inspiration from the more typically idyllic<br />
locations such as Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. However, these landscapes are also filled with reminders of human<br />
interference. Roads cris-cross the moor in deeply scratched lines, a narrow road is etched into an otherwise massive<br />
moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the surface of a painting’s as if decaying and buried by the earth.<br />
His medium of working is also atypical, paintings are heavily layered with different types of paint (often sourced from<br />
recycling centre), plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, roofing felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich<br />
surface relevant artefacts are often added, creating reminders or triggering memories intrinsic to a particular landscape.<br />
The concept of layering in the landscape arrived partly a result of the artist’s childhood, during which his family’s<br />
farm was first sliced in half by the M5 motorway and then again by the Royal Portbury Dock. The land once filled with<br />
sheep has become a pure edge-land wilderness with detritus of the developments now filling the land. Hardwick’s entire<br />
oeuvre makes reference to concepts of change, memory, history and emotion. Ever redolent is the notion that we are<br />
but another layer in time.<br />
Andrew Hardwick achieved an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales. He is an elected Academician at the Royal<br />
West of England Academy. He has featured in four solo exhibitions at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong>. Works have been exhibited<br />
extensively including numerous public shows and have been collected worldwide.<br />
Moor, White Cloud and Road<br />
mixed media on support .<br />
96 x 151 cm<br />
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William Arnold<br />
Living and working in west Cornwall, UK, William Arnold is interested in the layers of history, human and natural, that<br />
comprise the making of the landscape and the role played by the photographic surface both literally and metaphorically<br />
in recording, interrogating and representing these histories.<br />
Arnold is a photographer influenced by the first pioneers of the medium and perhaps of the theory that has pervaded<br />
photography since its birth. Sir William Newton, the academic painter, declared in 1853 that photography could never<br />
capture the ‘atmospheric veil’ which nature throws across the world, and yet Arnold seems to both refute and capture<br />
this aspect by exploiting light and shade to produce artistically driven portraits of the world around him. The work<br />
explores themes of temporality and attributes of photography as both art and source of documentation. Interested in<br />
the politics of representation, the works draw from the subjectivity and objectivity involved in the act of photography<br />
and in how photographs are perceived.<br />
Suburban Herbarium is a collection of William Arnold’s photographs made in odd moments as he escaped from daily<br />
routine. Bounded not by an ecologist’s quadrat but by the length of a regular lunch-break walk – in the outskirts of a<br />
small but rapidly expanding city – this work is an ‘edgelands’ homage to Victorian botany.<br />
A reflection on contemporary notions of wilderness, building the 'Suburban Herbarium' represents both an attempt<br />
to regain personal agency against the often alienating backdrop of the 9-5 and a celebration of the natural history of<br />
these outskirt “landscapes of disappointment”… the building sites, road verge, business parks, wasteland and identikit<br />
housing, where were it not for the necessity of stable employment nearby one would never choose to spend time.<br />
Suburban Herbarium<br />
cameraless, single edition, silver galatin print . 40 x 30 cm<br />
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David Kim Whittaker<br />
David Kim Whittaker is a British contemporary artist born in Cornwall in 1964 where he still resides.<br />
Most of David Kim Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. Whittaker’s<br />
portraits are ambiguous, with the ambitious aim of representing the totality of the human condition, both the universal<br />
alongside the personal. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse<br />
of strength and fragility, the conscious and the subconscious, the masculine and the feminine. These universal states<br />
of conflict clearly identifiable in Whittaker’s works are arguably reinforced by Whittaker’s ‘gender dysphoria’ and the<br />
personal struggle with a condition that he/she has learned to live with through painting and the endeavour of expressing<br />
something bigger than oneself.<br />
David Kim Whittaker artworks consist of mixed media paintings on canvas or panel, painted studies incorporating<br />
collage and occasional assemblage ‘still life / portrait’ sculptures. Whittaker artworks are a harmonized conflict of<br />
delicate figurative and expressive abstract elements.<br />
David Kim Whittaker exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a solo exhibition at the prestigious<br />
Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017 curated by Joseph Clarke. Works are in numerous museum collections, art<br />
foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the<br />
Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition in the UK.<br />
The Molecular Mirror (The Landscape Bacame His Suffering, A Portal of Balance)<br />
oil and acrylic on panel . 90 x 90 cm<br />
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Tim Shaw<br />
Tim Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast in 1964. He currently lives in Cornwall.<br />
Tim Shaw’s sculpture and installation is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human<br />
conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements<br />
to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. Shaw is an artist schooled in the traditions of heavy metal casting<br />
and academic modelling, however his approach to materials and subjects is totally contemporary. He often creates<br />
environments which include sound, light and FX. The tension between tradition and the new, nowness and the ancient,<br />
between solidity and breakdown, is an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at the atrocities of Abu<br />
Ghraib or the transgression or enlightenment of primitive ritual.<br />
He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of<br />
Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows<br />
throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and<br />
‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong>, ‘Mother the Air is Blue, The<br />
Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac<br />
Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at<br />
War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including<br />
‘The Rites of Dionysus’ for The Eden Project, ‘The Minotaur’ for The Royal Opera House and ‘The Drummer’ for<br />
Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the<br />
issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. ‘Tank on Fire’ was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize<br />
in 2008 and the installation ‘Casting a Dark Democracy’ was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial<br />
Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported<br />
by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina<br />
Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the<br />
Kate Hamburger Centre for Advance Study in the Humanities of ‘Law and Culture’ In Bonn, Germany where he began<br />
work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI. This work<br />
alongside 5 other major installations are exhibited in Shaw's largest public exhibition to date, 'Beyond Reason' which is<br />
currently on show at San Diego Museum of Art, USA.<br />
Eric<br />
old clothes, fabric and steel . 65 x 180 x 50 cm<br />
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Rebecca Harper<br />
Rebecca Harper was born in London in 1989 where she still currently lives and works.<br />
Her often large-scale paintings, underpinned by intense drawing, demonstrate a mode of reconstructing visual appearances;<br />
events, beliefs, dreams, memory and mediated imagery, whereby seamless, sometimes fictional fragmentations are<br />
rearranged and presented as plausible happenings.<br />
Looking heavily towards the observation of the theatre of life, a triangle of conflicts; between how ones mind<br />
internalizes, body language are presented, and others perceive. She looks behind the scenes at the psychology of<br />
characters, social dynamics, and human behaviours within the space that is occupied. Her observations, drawn from life,<br />
are often intimate, thus allowing her specific access to her subject; she seizes moments with insight and records from<br />
her memory.<br />
The diasporic condition presents itself in her paintings as an unfolding allegoric commentary on its life-source. The works<br />
are a contemplation of transience, a theatre in which human instinct compassionately addresses ideas of settlement, (the<br />
fixed image) a reaction to one’s transient restlessness and displacement and a complex dispersion of un-at-homeness<br />
and groundlessness. Her often large scale works allow for ‘paintings’ potential to play voyeur, allowing distance enough<br />
to play the narrator without a need for the images to be fixed, settled or stable. The motives of her works are intended<br />
to be contradictory, at once both particular and general, restrained and ornate, whole and fragmented, detectable and<br />
imperceptible, relatable and distant, reflecting the complex duality of the human condition.<br />
Harper studied at UWE Bristol 2008-2011, The Royal Drawing School 2012-2014 and Turps Art School 2016-<strong>2018</strong>, since<br />
2014 having taught through the Royal Drawing School at various institutions; The Saatchi Gallery, The V&A Museum<br />
of Childhood, Cass Arts, Drawing School Central / Selfridges, The Southbank centre, The National Gallery; She was<br />
awarded The Michael Moritz residency Tuscany and The Modi Institute of Fine Art, India 2014.<br />
Harper is represented in both public and private collections and has exhibited in numerous group shows including<br />
Christies London and New York and most recently been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries <strong>2018</strong>. She has also<br />
exhibited at ‘Artist of the Day’ at Flowers Gallery <strong>2018</strong>, Supersimetrica Art Fair, The PieFactory/Turner Contemporary<br />
- Turner show in Margate and The Turps Gallery London. She is currently Artist in Residence for the Ryder Project at<br />
A.P.T in Deptford <strong>2018</strong>-1 and recently won the ACS (Artists Collecting Society) Studio Prize <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dreaming of Another World<br />
acrylic on canvas . 180 x 220 cm<br />
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Henry Hussey<br />
Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides.<br />
His artworks are emotionally raw, created mainly through the paradoxically laboured and intricate medium of textiles.<br />
Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embroidered lines of text extracted<br />
from performative situations, he explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and<br />
events. Recent experimentations with other materials including glass and bronze reveal a deeper concern with control<br />
and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.<br />
Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal Academy. His work<br />
is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions and collections including Textiel Biennale 2017 at<br />
Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a Solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries<br />
2014, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and Volta NY, New York. His inaugural solo exhibition at <strong>Anima</strong>-<br />
<strong>Mundi</strong> was held in 2017. His work is already held in collections worldwide.<br />
The Sickness<br />
antique linen naval flag, screen print . 145 x 120 cm<br />
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Abbie Trayler-Smith<br />
Abbie Trayler-Smith is Welsh contemporary artist born in 1978. She currently lives and works in London.<br />
Trayler-Smith is a self-taught documentary and portrait photographer whose intimate reportage reveals a deep-rooted,<br />
emotional engagement to her subjects. Trayler-Smith’s multi award-winning photographs often capture the anguish,<br />
humility and extraordinary courage of her subjects. At the heart of each image lies the deeply human story, one fought<br />
out against a turbulent backdrop of social degradation or the aftermath of conflict. Trayler-Smith reveals an intense,<br />
personal connection to each and every subject, sensitively captured through her lens. Extensive travels as a documentary<br />
photographer have exposed Trayler-Smith to some of the world’s most troubled and turbulent places, where lives are<br />
turned upside down and ravaged by war and famine.<br />
Closer to home, her award-winning collection of portraits ‘The Big O’ presents a study of the young people behind the<br />
troubling obesity statistics, revealing the damaging psychological effects of a society obsessed with ‘perfection’.<br />
Abbie Trayler-Smith spent eight years as a photographer with The Daily Telegraph, covering significant world events<br />
such as the Darfur Conflict, the Iraq War and the Asian tsunami, before pursuing a freelance career in 2007. Commissions<br />
include: Time, The Sunday Times, The Independent Review, Marie-Claire, Tatler, Monocle, Vice, Oxfam, Save The<br />
Children, IRC, UNICEF, Sony and BBC worldwide. Trayler-Smith joined Panos Pictures in 2008 and the following year<br />
she presented her first major solo exhibition, ‘Still Human Still Here’, at HOST Gallery in London. Trayler-Smith’s<br />
portrait of Chelsea from the childhood obesity project, ‘The Big O’, won 4th prize in The National Portrait Gallery’s<br />
2010 Taylor Wessing Prize. In 2014, Trayler-Smith received the World Press Photo Award (Staged Portraits) for the<br />
image of Shannon from ‘The Big O’ and won the Ideastap Magnum Photographic Award. In 2017 Trayler-Smith was<br />
awarded the Peoples Prize in the Taylor Wessing Prize for her portrait ‘Fleeing Mosul’. Fleeing Mosul was also included<br />
in ‘After Darkness’, her inaugural solo exhibition at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong>.<br />
New Life & Love You, August 2017<br />
c-type print, edtion of 7 . 30.5 x 37.5 cm<br />
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Carlos Zapata<br />
Carlos Zapata is a Colmbian artist born in 1963. He currently lives near Falmouth, Cornwall.<br />
Carlos Zapata makes idiosyncratic carved and painted sculpture and installation, primarily from wood. His work deals<br />
with many challenging and potent themes from poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet paradoxically, the overriding<br />
characteristics of the work are of empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from Folk<br />
and Tribal Arts from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populous and the trade<br />
routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience<br />
of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people.<br />
Zapata has exhibited International with works held in numerous private collections and museums around the world.<br />
Son, You Still Alive!<br />
wood, acrylic, oil . 30 cm high<br />
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Andrew Litten<br />
Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in<br />
Fowey, Cornwall.<br />
His dynamic and gestural figurative paintings express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence.<br />
Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and<br />
perceived identity normality or disturbance. Paintings are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many<br />
expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the<br />
extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender,<br />
passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.<br />
Litten is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method<br />
of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including<br />
envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art<br />
as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting. Early success came when his work was<br />
included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where<br />
his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions<br />
each of which included publications at Goldifsh Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included<br />
‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and<br />
emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall,<br />
London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a<br />
guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike<br />
Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones was conceived with support from The<br />
Arts Council, UK and will be exhibited at <strong>Anima</strong> <strong>Mundi</strong> in <strong>2018</strong>. Works have been included in numerous international<br />
curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th<br />
Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature<br />
in numerous international private and public collections.<br />
Thinking of Flight<br />
oil on canvas . 140 x 120 cm<br />
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Simon Averill<br />
Simon Averill is a British artist born in Brighton, England in 1961. He currently lives and works near Marazion in<br />
west Cornwall<br />
Simon Averill’s paintings are informed and motivated by his response to light and a compulsion to record the fleeting<br />
and transitory effects of light on his immediate surroundings. The experience of being in a certain place will mark itself<br />
indelibly on Averill’s conscious – resulting in a methodical and repetitive series of motifs, which describe the intangible<br />
effects of light in varying degrees of diffraction, reflection and distortion.<br />
Averill studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and graduated with Honours. In 1986 he established a Printmaking<br />
Workshop near Penzance, Cornwall, which he ran until 1990. Since 1989 he has lectured at Falmouth University, where<br />
he is now a senior lecturer, specialising in painting and drawing. He has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists<br />
since the late 1980s.<br />
Averill has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer<br />
Show, The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, Sherborne<br />
House, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth Arts Centre, Truro Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery and the<br />
Festival Hall in Chicago, USA.<br />
Entanglements<br />
acrylic on panel . 40 x 40 cm<br />
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Harriet Bell<br />
Harriet Bell is a British artist born in Turkey in 1905, she currently lives and works in West Cornwall.<br />
Her work is multifaceted ranging from sculptural components, to installation, to drawing. Her works are made in private<br />
and very rarely shown.<br />
There is no specific narrative to the work but Bell often ‘borrows’ words and often rearranges those words, which are<br />
then cast like seeds. The images that she works from are stored in the details and intuitions of her life, her inner culture.<br />
Running from one to another, becoming clarified and whittled down of extraneous material, being forced – in the end –<br />
to express the essence of themselves. Her objective is to make work that is completely integrated; each piece to contain<br />
it’s meaning within but emanating that meaning as a presence around it. This spirit continues with numerous exquisite<br />
works made with pencil or collage on tracing paper, there is a sense of a narrative that once again exists beyond words.<br />
Clearly, Harriet Bell is an artist who remains suspicious of artist’s statements. Feeling that there is a sense that translating<br />
the meaning of the work in to the written word distracts from the language that the work itself contains. So her works<br />
must be experienced and the results of doing so are profoundly moving and personal. The only words present in the<br />
exhibition catalogue for her most recent solo exhibition catalogue were “We all have to leave”, this simple ‘summing<br />
up’ leaves little doubt that Bell is an artist who is able to just say it, without having to say much at all, it also gives clear<br />
insight in to the preoccupation of her artistic and existential questioning. Her sculpture and installations utilise materials<br />
that she finds in hedgerows or pound shops or anywhere for that matter. Harriet Bell is hoarder or collector, which is<br />
evident from the specimens she gathers and arranges. Materials such as stones, dried roots held inside milkbottles, empty<br />
eggshells, wiry stalks and folded cloth, are all examples from her collections. Like the remains from an archeological<br />
dig, works often feels archaic, like a museum archive, of drawers that are brimming with specimens all held under a<br />
single pin in categorical lines. Bell’s works on paper, like the forensic trace of plant or animal life, incorporating collage<br />
with exquisite drawing offer alternative evolutions, of life beyond. Rather like a botanist uses specimens for scientific<br />
experiments, Bell then selectively displays her findings and drawings taking us beyond the realms of science and our<br />
present understanding of life and what lies beyond. The ever-changing cycle of life. Absence, presence, death and decay,<br />
growth and metamorphosis.<br />
Despite her reclusive nature Harriet Bell’s works have been exhibited internationally, with major works acquired for<br />
private and public collections.<br />
Untitled<br />
pencil and book cutting collage on paper . 70 x 100 cm<br />
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Trevor Bell<br />
Trevor Bell was a British artist, born in Leeds, England in 1930. He passed away in 2017 at his home in west Cornwall.<br />
Bell’s creative interest focussed primarily, on painting’s power to evoke sensation, which for him superseded any<br />
illusionistic properties that it might have. Ambitious in scale and dynamic in form, the range of work is diverse,<br />
Bell’s oeuvre is a celebration of mutable energy, elemental forces and a quest for contemplative stillness. He achieved<br />
significant critical acclaim and recognition for his direct, abstract forms which emphatically represent the conflicting or<br />
harmonious physicality found in the natural world to the spiritual concerns which connect all that surrounds us.<br />
In 2007 Tate St Ives presented a ‘Beyond Materiality’ a solo exhibition from Trevor Bell. Chris Stephens (then head of<br />
displays at Tate Britain) said “Bell’s art is, in the loosest sense, spiritual. It evokes, or reflects, an idea of some abstract<br />
force that exceeds material reality... The dangers and losses of the modern world would be compensated through the<br />
rediscovery of natural order and process, and a renewed sense of individual identity would be established through the<br />
exploration of forces larger than ourselves. Bell’s work, one might say, has always derived in one way or another from<br />
this new sublime.”<br />
In 1955 he was encouraged by Terry Frost, to travel to St Ives where he would find a place that he could focus on his<br />
painting amongst the town’s expanding artistic community. There he joined Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Barbara<br />
Hepworth and Patrick Heron amongst others. Patrick Heron described Bell as “The best non-figurative painter under<br />
30”. The following year Bell was awarded the honour of the prize for painting at the Paris Biennale. During this year Bell<br />
visited the ‘Museum of the Man’ which was to have a profound affect on him. Bells says of this encounter “To see the<br />
power of the masks and the actual presence of things, it made me realise that I wanted the work to have an equivalent<br />
that would be ‘it’ rather than the ‘illusion of it’, to be the ‘God’ rather than an ‘illusion of a God’”. Bell also described<br />
an early meeting with Zen monk and teacher Snhunryu Suzuki at the house of Bernard Leach as particularly pivotal.<br />
Bell credits Suzuki with describing what he was “feeling” he had to do in painting, these lessons remained with him<br />
all his life. John Elderfield (head curator of MOMA New York) said "Bell was making paintings whose interior shapes<br />
referred to landscape - but to the forces as much as to the forms of landscape; and it was this concern for what is best<br />
described as dynamics which led him naturally into an investigation of the mechanisms of painting itself.” Bell would<br />
sum up his ability to encapsulate and distil natures physical and metaphysical complexity with a graceful rawness and<br />
often profound simplicity with typical humility by stating that “He was just in the middle”.<br />
14 works were acquired by The Tate in 2014 and an acquisition was made in 2015 by the Perez Art Museum in Florida<br />
the most recent major acquisitions in a roster that includes a multitude of important public collections here and abroad.<br />
Gust<br />
mixed media on canvas . 153 x 153 cm<br />
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Samuel Bassett<br />
Samuel Bassett is a British artist born Cornwall in 1982. He currently works from the prestigious Porthmeor Studio<br />
complex in St. Ives.<br />
His artworks display a boundless zeal, sharp humour and honest pathos made with creative, experimental, freedom. His<br />
language of mark-making varies from raw sweeping gestures to draughtsman-like drawn or sgraffitto schematics. His<br />
dexterity enables him to effortlessly capture scattered images of his inner monologue - often erratic, often pinpoint.<br />
The ups and downs. The highs and lows. His paintings could be described as a form of ‘psychological cubism’, where<br />
the inner and the outer self reveal themselves and coalesce. His autobiographical work maps a fast paced and over-active<br />
mind searching for the personal and universal meaning and in turn reflect both positive and negative concerns about<br />
21st century society and the wider human condition.<br />
His most recent works imbue a deep rooted connection to place, the sea and landscape, as well as community and<br />
heritage. The localised placement of these cautionary tales become allegorical for broader more universal hopes and<br />
wider loss, fear and disconnection.<br />
St Ives has been his family’s home since 1695. The artistic traditions of the town had an undoubted influence over his<br />
development, but his Grandfather, a fisherman by trade was also a keen amateur painter, as was his other Grandfather<br />
in Newlyn. The young Bassett was supported early on with encouragement and painting materials. Bassett ’s studio<br />
space is part of a complex that coincidently sits above his Grandfather’s former net loft. He studied in Bournemouth,<br />
England and then lived in London but the pull of the sea brought him home. In addition to his own practice Bassett<br />
founded LETH projects, a curatorial platform for emergent artists. Bassett has already exhibited internationally with a<br />
quickly growing CV including three solo exhibitions at <strong>Anima</strong>-<strong>Mundi</strong> and a solo presentation at START at the Saatchi<br />
Gallery in London. Works are held in an increasing number of collections worldwide including the acquisition of<br />
the work ‘Lost Karensa’ by Tremenheere Sculpture Park which is permanently exhibited alongside James Turrell,<br />
Kishio Suga, Richard Long and David Nash among others. Bassett has been featured in numerous articles included<br />
Christies magazine and The New York post which is indicative of a notable and rapid increase in the artists popularity<br />
and ambition.<br />
'Coffin Path' is an Cornish name for a path which links together a series of farmsteads. Tradition has it that preachers<br />
encouraged these straight tracks to their churches in order to attract both the living and the dead. The work embues a<br />
metaphoric sense of modernity cutting a path through ancient fields.<br />
On the Coffin Path<br />
acrylic and ink on canvas . 200 x 180 cm<br />
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Jamie Mills<br />
Jamie Mills is a British musician and visual artist, born in 1983, currently residing and working in West Cornwall.<br />
His interdisciplinary practice is underpinned by investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between<br />
materiality and environments. These concerns are made manifest through the renderings of sounds or materials, often<br />
sourced or retrieved via immersion into landscapes and with particular reference to his aural works, articulated and<br />
manipulated through unorthodox instrumental preparations. Universally inherent within these processes, there is a<br />
conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or “essence”) and on the other, control, (or the relinquishing<br />
of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies an almost liminal status. In this sense Mills’<br />
“intuitively composed” sound works, and his images become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed<br />
by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.<br />
Since graduating in Fine Art from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 2006, his interdisciplinary concerns have instigated<br />
collaborations internationally between other artists and across various platforms, including contemporary dance, film,<br />
and television, with work held in public and private collections throughout the UK and Europe. Alongside his interest<br />
in a wider relevance and utilisation of sound and improvisation, combined with wider influences from practices, such as<br />
those taught by the Deep Listening Institute, (founded by American composer, Pauline Oliveros), Mills has also studied<br />
sound within a therapeutic context via the National College of Sound Healing, UK.<br />
Fugitive Devices<br />
mixed media . size variable<br />
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Jim Carter<br />
Jim Carter creates powerful, profound renditions of the animal world and the mythic psyche. He is a story teller, telling<br />
animal stories through words and sculpture. More often than not, the works are about local wildlife and a sense of its<br />
power and vulnerability in relation to humankind. Often uneasy or tragic, irrational or obscure, his stories are linked to a<br />
real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means of advocacy, atonement<br />
or commemoration; shifting to the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and<br />
dream. He strives to be honest in negotiating the complex experiences that arise in relation to land and animal life: there<br />
is anger, fear, sorrow, death, but also fertility, transformation and renewal, with the central theme being the intimate<br />
relationship between land and the human psyche.<br />
Jim Carter received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University, he is member of the<br />
Newlyn Society of Artists and his work has appeared in About Place Journal, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.<br />
Euny<br />
Bird, sheep and fox bone, wood, dirt, ashes, remains, leaves, fox fur, jackdaw feathers . 80 x 30 x 25 cm<br />
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Dr Martin Shaw<br />
Dr Martin Shaw is a painter, author, philosopher, storyteller and wilderness teacher in the ancient and primitive<br />
tradition. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting teachers of the mythic imagination. Shaw believes and exhalts<br />
that myth has something vital to say about the condition of both our lives and the earth. In the troubles times that<br />
we are living through, Shaw maintains that the stories that we need right now arrived, perfectly on time, about five<br />
thousand years ago. Central to this is the notion that culture and wildness have experienced an artificial separation, and<br />
that both initiation and myth can create what Shaw calls a 'Culture of Wildness', a culture that must raise up to heal our<br />
contemporary disconnect.<br />
Shaw is the author of the award winning A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower, and Scatterlings: Getting<br />
Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (2016). He is also director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK, Shaw also<br />
devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University. Principal teacher at the Great Mother conference in<br />
the US, recent collaborations have included Old Gods with Mark Rylance and Paul Kingsnorth at the Edinburgh Book<br />
festival. His translations of Gaelic poetry and folklore (with Tony Hoagland) have been published in Orion Magazine,<br />
Poetry International, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, and Mississippi Review. Current work includes The Nightingale<br />
and the Lion (a poetic rumination on the ecstasies, secret traditions and love myths of the west), and Courting the<br />
Dawn: Poems of Lorca.<br />
Owl Wife<br />
oil on canvas . 60 x 60 cm<br />
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Arthur Lanyon<br />
Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near<br />
Penzance, Cornwall.<br />
Arthur Lanyon paintings are multi-scale and energetic combining intuitive figurative motifs with a painterly, gestural,<br />
abstracted language. These saturated assimilations where the humdrum rubs shoulders with the exotic, harness joy and<br />
a distinct freedom within their schematics. The colourful spectrums of form, line and content, without the intention of<br />
doing so, could be seen to hold within them that which an artist seeks to re-acquire with the wisdom and understanding<br />
of full creative maturity. In some way, the achievement of the works from this exhibition, is to connect or re-connect<br />
varying and disparate states of mind, separated by decades and carry forward, reconfigure and coalesce these perceptions<br />
in pursuit of a greater knowing.<br />
The dual persona Lanyon gathers in a painting, is, he says; “like having two reciprocal minds. You direct but also take<br />
direction back and forth”. A combination of logical reasoning and emotive intuition. Lanyon’s approach is to hunt with<br />
focus but also fumble and find what he is looking for through doing, widening the imaginative range of possibilities<br />
through a process of layering. This association opens up one’s ‘self ’ immeasurably. Works become something no longer<br />
just observed, they are etched, felt and known. The process creates a sort of material geology, but also a psychological<br />
one. Geology is the study of time and pressure and as such this method of painting serves as an index, encompassing<br />
wide-ranging phenomena and timescales. In his essay ‘To Draw The Flow Of Time’ written in 1957, Henri Michaux<br />
wrote; “Instead of the one vision to the exclusion of others, I wanted to draw the moments that end to end make life,<br />
to show their inner phrase, the wordless phrase, the sinuous strand that unwinds indefinitely and is intimately present<br />
in each inner and outer event.”<br />
Lanyon was born in to an artistic family. His father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the influential<br />
modernist painter Peter Lanyon. Lanyon gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon<br />
graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the longlist for the<br />
Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. Lanyon has already exhibited widely with<br />
work collected internationally.<br />
Arcade Laundry<br />
oil and acrylic on canvas . 190 x 170 cm<br />
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