exhibition

Mondays in the sun

Artists Jemma Cave, Jon Fieldhouse, Grant Foster, Adam Hennessey, Maya Hewitt, Katy Schnetler

21.Sep.05 - 02.Oct.05
Wed-Sun 12-6 or by appt

Contemporary Art Projects
20 Rivington St
London EC2A 3DU
020 7739 1743
info@caprojects.com
www.caprojects.com
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Fosterart presents new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by six artists that have formed a collective; studying, working and living together. This unique relationship has meant that works and processes have grown from one another. Inspiration and ideas are flung from painting to sculpture to drawing, occasionally meandering off on obscure tangents, sometimes rejecting and sometimes regurgitating.

In May last year the group were awarded a bursary from the Royal Academy of the West of England to pursue their artistic endeavours. As the culmination of a year-long project which included three months in Spain, this show brings together work that has diversity in style and attitude yet coherence in circumstance and taste.

The works are simultaneously seductive and repulsive, humorous and serious, awkward and accommodating, dark and sinister, yet carefree and innocent.

Confused in their form, Jemma Cave’s sculptures seem to be at once imploding and exploding. They are constructed from materials from everyday surroundings; collected matter transformed, gutted and stretched to become a skin, a surface spilling in and out of itself.

Creature like/ hermaphrodite objects seem caught between an alluring desirability and a repulsive grotesque.

Jon Fieldhouse exhibits an installation of paintings, photographs and drawings, on canvas, paper and walls.

Referencing traditional painting as well as employing defacement and utilizing more contemporary imagery, Fieldhouse deals with themes of sentimentality, nostalgia, bittersweetness and profane personal ideology.

Grant Foster arrives at a series of loose interlinking narratives whereby notions of gender, desire and power are questioned.

Colour woven into the pattern of oversized dresses, unbalanced proportions, fingers, feet and thumbs; hint at a dark seductive innocence where the territory between represented signs and raw sensation is opened up.

Adam Hennessey’s obsessed diagrammatic lines break free from their textbook roles, fusing and colonising surfaces and spaces.

A mix of concave growing bulges and knots stitch paths through skins. Compounds are formed that sprout out residues of representation, only to be diluted by the order of pattern.

Maya Hewitt’s fantastical world of colour and fantasy, not only physically expand across vast canvases but spreads itself throughout our imaginations, much like a great animation, we are left with a dazzled view of our surroundings.

The extrapolations from everyday life are playfully manipulated and weaved into a fiction.

Katy Schnetler paints a post apocalyptic, post humanity, post existence as we know it, abandoned landscape.

Morphing out of the leftovers, new organic species are proliferating, hybrid monsters transforming the topography into the rich fields of a new and abstract paradigm.

The artists participate in the Fosterart Collection, an artist-owned body of work that is lent by Fosterart to public and private sector organisations with the aim of increasing access to high-quality contemporary art.

This exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of Royal Academy of the West of England.