Maria Sams – Shadow PlaySaturday 25th February – Saturday 1st April 2017
The SE9 Container Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by our Artist in Residence Maria Sams. Shadow Play exhibits a series of paper-cuts and animation inspired by the theme of light and shadow. Maria will be screening her latest animation work as well as revealing the process behind her techniques through a collection of photographs, original drawings, sketchbooks and a mechanical animated flip-book.
During her BA in Illustration Maria specialised in making her drawings and paper-cuts move, telling playful narratives with intricate visual details. She has since been awarded Best Animation at the National Student Film Festival and became our Artist in Residence from September 2016.
Animation Screening
Saturday 18th March – 2-3pm – Free Entry
The SE9 Container Gallery is delighted to host a screening of eight short animated films. The event will showcase the work of talented animators and directors in order to inspire and inform visitors about independent animation. The screening will take place in the SE9 Container Gallery on Saturday 18th March from 2-3pm amongst the exhibition Shadow Play. The films will be introduced by Maria Sams, our Artist in Residence and current exhibitor.
This animation screening will feature the work of award-winning animators and exciting emerging talent including Andersen M Studio, David Wilson, Jeffrey Scher, Steph Hope, Maria Sams, Gemma Yin Taylor, Connor Gilhooly, Isabel Garret, Hannah Jacobs and Lara Lee.
Artist’s Talk – Andy Jackson – InsrtSHUTTER (Datum and Insrts)
Saturday 12th November – 2pm – Free Entry
We are excited to announce that the SE9 Container Gallery will be hosting a talk by artist Andy Jackson. In conversation with fellow artist Danny Rolph, Jackson will be discussing his work as well as ideas and influences behind his current exhibition (InsrtSHUTTER).
Andy Jackson – InsrtSHUTTER
Saturday 5th November – Saturday 17th December 2016
This solo exhibition brings together a series of abstract paintings by artist Andy Jackson. ‘InsrtSHUTTER comprises a new series of paintings developed from observations of subtle interruptions within the urban environment. In a process-driven practice, Jackson manipulates his surfaces to ask how painting is constructed, creating an array of abstract marks that function as a trigger for experiences of images that may or may not be familiar.’ – Tim Davies
http://www.andy-jackson.org.uk/
Morgan Tipping – No Fixed Abode
Saturday 17th September – Saturday 22nd October 2016
Featuring film, performance and photographic works Tipping explores the themes of housing, community and a sense of belonging. Inspired by working with residents in a care home, students and people within refugee camps the exhibition displays work made over the past two years as well as a collaboration with STM Year 11 students.
http://www.morgantipping.co.uk/
Nathan Eastwood – Laptop and Chips
Saturday 16th April – Saturday 28th May 2016
The paintings features in Laptop and Chips are mostly small scale works, made on a table in the artist’s kitchen. Eastwood works into the early hours of the morning whilst listening to music or with the TV on. The motifs are painted with an obsessive, brooding intensity with a melancholic atmosphere; he often paints solitarily. Emphasis has been placed on making art within the domestic space, allowing the integration of real life into his paintings.
Emlyn Stevens – Continuous Lines in the Sand
Saturday 27th February – Saturday 19th March 2016
The exhibition consists of a collection of large illustrated silk-screen prints based on collages made from found imagery of the middle east (both figurative and scenic). The conceptual basis of the exhibition is to demonstrate how found imagery has always been put through a number of “filters” or has a certain amount of vested interest attached to it.
Influences –SE9 Container Gallery – One Year On
Saturday 30th January – Saturday 13th February 2016
A group exhibition from the Year 11 students at St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School, celebrating the first anniversary of the opening of The SE9 Container Gallery.
‘An Introduction to Mixed Media Mosaics’ Workshop by Aliyah Gator
Saturday 14th November: 12pm-3pm
The Se9 Container Gallery is hosting a workshop with current exhibitor Illustration and Mosaics Artist, Aliyah Gator. Aliyah will be providing an introduction to her work as well as demonstrations and materials in order to create your own mixed media mosaic.
Aliyah Gator – The Organic World
Saturday 7th November – Saturday 19th December 2015
‘The Organic World’ is an exhibition of mixed-media mosaics inspired by the nature reserves and parks of South East London. Aliyah has lived in Greenwich for the past 6 years, and has family connections with the area stretching back several hundred years. She has a clear passion for natural beauty of Greenwich and has expressed her admiration for the parks, heaths and open spaces, as well as the animals and plant life that inhabit it. The art of mosaic making is one that is rarely exposed to its full potential within a gallery environment. Don’t miss this opportunity to view Aliyah’s skilful and heartfelt response to the organic world in South East London.
“I try to use material wherever possible from a sustainable source: this means recycled glass tiles, broken tiles which have been donated or given to me by tile companies, unwanted tiles from commercial projects, and pebbles and gravel supplied by green companies. Dotted throughout the pieces you will also see mudlarked tiles… these are random pieces of china which I have picked up off the shores of the River Thames. These range in colour from blue delft tiles, to multi-coloured modern ceramic ware, to the greys, greens and browns of 19th century salt glaze pottery from Lambeth. The shores of the River Thames are a never ending source of interesting ceramic finds.”
The Brentwood Stations of the Cross
Saturday 12th September – Saturday 24th October 2015
Artists Include: David Ainley, Freya Purdu, Linda Ingham, Gideon Pain, Andrew Crane, Matthew Krishanu, Pen Dalton, Susie Hamilton, David Sullivan, Ruth Philo, Robert Priseman, Marguerite Horner, Susan Gunn, Alex Hanna, Simon Carter.
This unique exhibition was first shown at Brentwood Cathedral from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday 2015. A group show featuring 15 talented British painters; artists who are critically respected and have exhibited pieces in both major public and private collections.
Each artist was given the title of a different Station together with an identical blank twelve inch square aluminium panel. The artists were completely free to respond to their allocated subject in whatever way they chose.
The artists who created the ‘Stations of the Cross’ artworks have approached this challenge with the same creative openness and intellectual rigour which they would have applied to any other subject; and this project has shown not only that art and faith can find creative ways to talk to one another, but that they have a real moral imperative to do so.
Year 11 Summer Show
Saturday 1st June – Saturday 11th July 2015
An exciting group exhibition featuring all 37 of the talented Year 11 Art students we have here at St Thomas More Catholic School the Year 11 Summer Show showcases and celebrates their many talents. The show features the highlights from the two year art GCSE course.
Throughout the course students have studied different artists, artistic movements and cultural themes. They have practised different techniques in a whole range of media. For the exhibition students have selected their favourite pieces and you will see a wide variety of work. For the students this will be their first exhibition and the first time St Thomas More are opening the art exhibition up for the public to see.
Natalie Ryde – ‘The Way’
Saturday the 18th of April – Saturday 23rd May 2015
Overseas (detail) 2015 Archival pen drawing on Fabriano acid free 200gsm
paper. 230x150cm
Natalie Ryde presents a collection of drawings inspired by the route most traveled, an intended direction at the SE9 Container Gallery. It alludes to working methods and ritual, our repeated circuits and circadian rhythms.
We are often shown the way or plot a course before we set out on a journey, looking for reference points to keep ourselves right: landmarks, maps and the tracks of others. Where a map could be seen as an approximation of a larger geography, these drawings each explore a different course of my thinking. Drawings stretch out to the edge of the paper suggesting that what is visible is only a fragment of the whole, while others float over an indeterminate surface, fully formed but open to interpretation.
These works take the form of undulating meshed surfaces, rendered in archival pen, paint and ink, which expand and contract as they develop. The repetition and intensity of working freehand has a meditative effect; these are thinking drawings that untangle and resolve. The patterns in the drawings echo the act of following a familiar course, they explore subtle fluctuations within a repetitive sequence of movements. The physical process of creating the drawings is not dissimilar to that of writing and as I build up lines of markings a complex surface emerges. Without anchorage in language, the compositions act as subliminal stimuli, inviting fresh associations.
Photographs taken by Natalie Ryde.
Contemporary British Abstraction – Group show
Saturday 28th February 2015 – Saturday 11th April 2015
Artists include:
David Ainley, Ralph Anderson, Chris Baker, Dominic Beattie, Andrew Bick, Katrina Blannin, Claudia Boese, Julian Brown, EC, Ben Cove, Clem Crosby, Pen Dalton, Lisa Denyer, Andrew Graves, Terry Greene, Susan Gunn, Alexis Harding, Sue Kennington, Sarah R Key, Phoebe Mitchell, Matthew Macaulay, Ellie MacGarry, Katrin Mäurich, Sarah McNulty, Mali Morris, Andrew Parkinson, Aimee Parrott, Marion Piper, Clare Price, Geoffrey Rigden, Gwennan Thomas, Trevor Sutton, David Webb, Mary Webb, Gary Wragg,
‘Contemporary British Abstraction’ is a group show including thirty-five artists all working in the United Kingdom. Selected by artists Matthew Macaulay and Terry Greene, this exhibition has been brought together to highlight how active and vibrant abstraction is today with multiple lines of enquiry being opened and explored.
New contemporary artists move in and out of abstraction easily, unlike the mid-20th century artists who were forced to take sides between abstraction and representation. The new generation of artists seem increasingly motivated to create work that sustains and creates new dialogue over the non-representational.
The show brings together artists who have been creating abstract work in the United Kingdom over the last two years. This exhibition includes many important works that have been created by painters with different levels of experience ranging from those who are new to the medium to those who are well-seasoned lifers. The exhibition moves radically between innovative use of geometry, intuition, hard-edge and the painterly.
This exhibition is only a glimpse of the current abstract scene and the range of painters who are working in the United Kingdom at this point in time. By hanging these painters it will be interesting to see the structure that holds their difference together and whether it offers the viewer a coherent offering.’
Outlaws – Robert Priseman
Tuesday 6th January 2015 – Saturday 14th February 2015
The SE9 Container Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2015 will be Outlaws, a brand new body of work from esteemed artist Robert Priseman.
Outlaws is a series of finely drawn portraits of women. It is not until you read their stories that you realise these women have been executed for murder. Between 1900 and 2005, fifty women were executed in the USA, some as young as 17. Outlaws reveals to us the story of 36 of them.
A British born artist, Robert Priseman has paintings in many international art collections such as the V&A in London, Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Honolulu Museum of Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. A recent interview with the artist was included in Michael Peppiatt’s book ‘Interviews with Artists 1966 – 2012′ alongside artists such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Henry Cartier -Bresson, Sonia Delaunay, Frank Auerbach, Balthus and Giacometti.
Between 2012 and 2014 Robert formed the Priseman-Seabrook Collection of 21stCentury British Painting which opens for the first time at Huddersfield Art Gallery on the 1st November, 2014.
http://www.robert-priseman.com/
The book to accompany the exhibition is now available. Click on the link below to purchase it from Amazon.
Terri Hawkins – 50 (Artist in Residence)
Wednesday 26th September 2014 – Wednesday 17th December 2014
As part of her residency, Hawkins has researched and archived the school’s 50 year history which is currently being celebrated though her exhibition 50. Many images have been chosen from the school’s rich history and covers all eras. The main focus of the exhibition are three cut-outs of group photos which have been reliving their glory days in a journey around the school. This journey has been documented on film with the cut-outs going through the motions and the pace of a school day. The installations are constructed and displayed in a playful manner, oscillating between two-dimensional and three-dimensional modes.
Cut-outs are often present in Hawkins’ installations. By highlighting particular objects and characters in this way, the focal point is shifted to a form that can visually make something stand alone from the rest. The prop like stance of the cut-outs helps push the performative nature of Hawkins’ practice. The artist’s presence in the film allows the audience to see the connection that every decision made is through the act of experimentation and the relationship to the materials chosen to play a part in the work.
