ken    artspace





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


          

 Two Figures. Oil on board, 2023

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.


PRESS RELEASE





Ken artspace is a small new art space in the heart of Kennington.

 Run by artists and founders Rob Kesseler and Agalis Manessi  is

dedicated to a mix of occasional exhibitions, window installations

and pop-up events.




ARCHIVE


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               




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