Following the recent closure of the gallery due to flooding we are very pleased to announce
that we are re-opening on the 14th March with our planned exhibition -
GATHERING
An exhibition of paintings by Jocelyn Clarke
14th March - 13th April
'You are before the field, although it seldom happens that your attention is drawn to the field before you have noticed an event within it'
In his essay 'Field', John Berger describes his experience of an unremarkable countryside space regularly encountered on his drive home from town, observed briefly, but with quiet intensity as he waited for a few moments at a rail crossing. He goes on to describe the range of low-key events — a voice calling, a horse grazing, etc — that subtly drew his attention to the field itself. Although he doesn't mention it, he implies that this encounter is something like how we might experience a painting.
Jocelyn Clarke's paintings offer their own ‘events’: a flow of inky paint, a dragged line of pastel, a finger of thick oil like a bookmark tab, tremulous cascades of motes and strands, filigrees and threads. As subtly as the incidents in Berger’s field, they acknowledge the boundaries of their space, and leave us feeling that what's found there, distinct but mysterious, belongs in that painting and can exist nowhere else.
Gallery open Thursday / Friday 11 - 5pm, Saturday 11 - 4pm
and by appointment
About the artist:
Jocelyn Clarke was born in Birmingham in 1958. She studied Fine Art at the Slade (working primarily with film) and trained in education. She lives and works as an artist in London. She has also worked as a lecturer at the Wallace Collection, National Gallery, Tate and other public art venues in London. Her solo exhibitions have included ‘Small Moon’ at Long and Ryle Gallery, London, 2015, ‘Jerwood Artists Platform’, London, 2003 and Adam Gallery, London, 1994 . She has exhibited in ‘The Discerning Eye’, Mall Galleries, London, 2019, 2016 ans 2005; ‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009 and ‘East International’, Norwich Gallery and Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich, 1994. In 1992 she was Artist-in-Residence at Camden Art Centre, London.
2020
Leap Rob Kesseler & Agalis Manessi
Taster Paul Ashurst, Maria Chevska, Stephen Nelson, Liz Rideal
Slice Rob Kesseler
Decadence of Rebelegance Earl of Bedlam
Seasonal Fruit Rob Kesseler
2021
Fieldwork 1 Alice McCabe
Sliver Hope Optimism Linings Paul Ashurst
Easter Parade Agalis Manessi
Resistance is Fertile Justin Knopp – Typoretum
Liminal Landscapes Ken Taylor
Flood Rob Kesseler & Agalis Manessi
Polytunnel Marco Kesseler
Observe - Obverse. Jacqueline Duncan
2022
Northern Light Cecilia Bortoluzzi - Brocklin
Slice Rob Kesseler
The Surrogate Jefford Horrigan
Little Wretches Stephen Nelson
I'm all ears.... Maria Chevska
Being Colour Rosemary Phelps
2023
The Small Stuff Garth Lewis
Catalogue of Time Maiko Tsutsumi
Signifying Nothing. Robert Dawson
Oracle Antoni Malinowski.
That Playful Place Deborah Duffin
Mixed Marvels Group exhibition
2024
Gathering Jocelyn Clarke