Image: Duet – Emmanuel Boos
A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger
Chiswick gallery proprietor Joanna Bird has curated a brand new trendy ceramics and glass present which opens on the Pitzhanger Manor Gallery in Ealing on Wednesday 8 May.
She has chosen work by ten established artists from 4 continents, whose work she thinks might need amused Sir John Soane, whose home it was. The present, ‘A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger’, runs from Wednesday 8 May to Sunday 4 August.
“Soane was fascinated with materials and contemporary innovations” Joanna advised The Chiswick Calendar.
“One of his gifts was the element of surprise: this will be the theme running through A Fine Line.”
Images above: Another Blue, Undo IV, Hanne Heuch
Sir John Soane was considered one of Britain’s most influential architects. He constructed Pitzhanger Manor between 1800 and 1804 as his dream nation retreat, to point out off his expertise as an architect and home his eclectic assortment of artwork and antiquities, which included Hogarth’s sequence of work titled A Rake’s Progress and 4 work by Canaletto.
Soane used the manor to entertain associates and used to go fishing within the native streams, however he solely lived there a short time as his plans for it to be a household home fell aside. The Manor has just lately been refurbished and the trustees frequently present trendy artwork all through the home and within the Gallery.
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Images: Green Remembrance, Nicholas Rena; The British Museum, William Empson, Prue Cooper
The artists featured within the new exhibtion are: Emmanuel Boos, Prue Cooper, Steffen Dam, Joseph Harrington, Hanne Heuch, Tom Perkins, William Plumptre, Nicholas Rena, Judith Rowe, Matthew Warner and Gregory Warren Wilson.
Click on their names to learn extra about them and see extra of their work on Joanna’s web site.
Matthew Warner’s vases will probably be on show within the Breakfast Room of the Manor.
“Soane loved vases” says Joanna … “his prize possession being the Cawdor Vase. On his travels to Sicily andRome he would have seen a great many Greek and Roman vases.”
Images: Vases by Matthew Warner
Matthew has just lately researched conventional types from Greece, China and Korea offered to rich collectors within the seventeenth and 18th-century.
On both facet of the fireside are two vases by William Plumptre, adorned in a standard Japanese fashion with rope inlay, learnt from Tatsuzo Shimaoka.
Images: Vases by William Plumtre
“I very much hope that you take pleasure in the moments we have endeavoured to capture in this exhibition for Sir John Soane, were he alive today” says Joanna.
“Soane owned Pitzhanger for only ten years, but transformed the entrance, house and grounds in that time. He used the rooms and gardens – which were the site of fictitious Roman ruins, a great talking point for his visitors –as examples of what he could do. His distinguished and unique contributions to architecture and design remain an inspiration for us to this day.”
The launch occasion In Conversation with Joanna Bird, will probably be on Thursday 16 May at 5pm.
Tickets: In Conversation with Joanna Bird
Images: Pacific Mist, Joseph Harrington; Complex Glass Panel, Steffen Dam
Image: Small vases, Judith Rowe
Images: Omega: Variations on the letter ‘O’; Holding Light, Tom Perkins
Images: The Chameleon’s Dreaming, Watching Clouds with Monsieur Braque, Gregory Warren Wilson, Gregory Warren Wilson
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