- Venue
- asylum studios gallery
- Starts
- Friday, September 20, 2019
- Ends
- Sunday, September 29, 2019
- Address
- Asylum Studios, E2, Building 118, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk. IP12 2TZ
- Location
- East England
- Organiser
- asylum studios gallery
Launch Party: Sunday 22nd September, 3pm – 6pm
Exhibition Dates:Friday 20th September – Sunday 29th September 2019
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 11am – 4pm or by appointment
“There’s just one more thing,” said the famous TV detective Lieutenant Columbo.
This phrase or some variant of this catchphrase was often the prerequisite to the most important question that Columbo needed to ask. This pivotal question told the suspect that all the clues had been pasted together.
The artists in this show demonstrate a commitment to their own creative interrogation and to some unfinished business.
The exhibiting artists are: Joanna Whittle, Claudia Boese, Karen Densham, Hannah Wright, Hayley Field and Amanda Ansell.
Joanna Whittle investigates complex, miniature worlds which nevertheless refuse to reveal their secrets under this forensic scrutiny. Different times seem to exist concurrently and elude capture- moss, lichens and brambles often take over structures whilst lights are lit and evidence of recent activity is revealed. There is a sense of foreboding or evidence of an unsettling event. Subterfuge and misinformation are concealed in plain sight and whilst each element is exposed- ultimately, they sink back in to water or mud and the scene remains unsolvable.
joannawhittle.com
instagram: @jowhittleart
Claudia Boese states, “Most of my paintings are framed within a painting. This happens because framing draws attention to the inside and outside, a metaphor for our human condition. Columbo walked into the frame of ‘Wings of Desire’ in 1987. He said ‘it was the craziest thing that he’s ever been offered’. I was gobsmacked seeing the ‘Peter Falk I know’. In his role as a former angel he framed the complexity and reality of this German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders.
Not to mention that the Berlin wall came down two years later.”
claudiaboese.info
instagram: @boeseclaudia
To quote another great detective – Sherlock Holmes, “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”. Karen Densham takes inspiration from familiar household objects such as ceramic ornaments, furniture, etc and remodels them in clay into something that appears both allusive and accessible.
karendensham.com
instagram: @karendensham
A statement from Hannah Wright, “I thought to myself ‘motive?’. Then, ‘why in this particular way?’. I’m thinking to myself, it had to be a person with a great deal of patience. This act was not spontaneous, it was very carefully planned. The victim died in increments, sustained over a lengthy period. What type of person has this kind of persistence? Then something struck me. My wife had just come back from her appointment at the Hair Salon. She’s very particular about her hair. She goes to the same Salon every six weeks. She sees the same stylist each time because she likes the way this guy does her hair. Anyway, the stylist tells my wife that a woman would do just about anything to hide the fact that she was losing her hair. Do you see where I’m going?”
What a perfect format, to reveal the answer and then let the process of deduction unravel before us. To know and to not know. Like our famous detective we are both immersed in an intuitive process and bring our life’s experience and learning with us. Hayley Field’s new body of work draws from a recent collaboration, where different materials brought new ways of exploring the extended process she pursues, these working sketches both inform and build upon her paintings.
hayleyfield.com
instagram: @hayleyfeldstein
Amanda Ansell asks ‘What is a painting compared to the activity of painting and the process which leads up to the formation of a painting? Her line drawings reveal a connection between the act of drawing and the endeavour of making a painting. In fact, Amanda reveals that these drawings have until now always been for her eyes only, and many have been discarded as part of the process.
amandaansell.co.uk
instagram: @aansellstudio
For further information, please contact Hayley Field on [email protected]
For ‘by appointment’ weekly visits, please call Emma Withers on 07984 376346
About Asylum Studios Gallery
Asylum Studios was set up in 2000 as a co-operative to provide affordable studio spaces to professional artists based in the Woodbridge area of Suffolk, and to create a sustainable focus for professional arts activity in this area. Located at the old ‘Special Investigations’ building on Bentwaters, Asylum hold exhibitions, seminars and residencies each year.
Instagram: @asylumstudiosuk
facebook: asylum studios
