Artists and Architecture
A selection of artists who respond to architecture, urban design and the built environment in their practice share a selection of their work, together with their personal responses to the university environs.
Open: Monday 16th August – Friday 8th October 2010
Weekdays: 10.00am – 5.00pm and London Open City Weekend: Saturday 18th September and Sunday 19th September: 11.00am – 4.00pm
Please join us for the evening viewing on September 30th / Oct 7th 6.00 – 8.00pm
Barbaresi and Round, Robert Currie, Nathalie Guinamard, James Winnett, Mary Yacoob
Pieces from the University Collection of Artworks by Alan Bennett and Sydney Klugman will also be on display.
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Barbaresi and Round
Barbaresi & Round make work that relates to architecture, town planning, and painting.
Their work is characterised by intricate painting together with process based constructions. They love working with quirky elements in the gallery space and incorporating things like shadows, imperfections on walls, or electric sockets into installations. The work cherishes fragments and fragility, and suggests dramatic differences of scale.
Connecting with the theme of planning, Barbaresi & Round are exhibiting a piece which is a response to the surroundings of Brunel University, exploring the layout through an ariel image. This has been remade through a combination of projection, everyday objects and painting.
Barbaresi & Round have been collaborating since 2005. Recent exhibitions include Oxford / Paris Correspondence which consisted of two simultaneous solo shows at Ovada in Oxford and Lagalerie in Paris, based on discoveries at the edges of these two popular tourist destinations. In 2006 they were shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize.
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Robert Currie
Robert Currie creates intricate three dimensional works from a range of unusual materials such as nylon monofilament and unspooled videotape, using exacting techniques that are both painstakingly precise and intrinsically random. Thousand of holes are drilled into perspex cases and nylon is precisely layered into three-dimensional forms that oscillate as the viewer moves around the works.
Layering and intersecting nylon lines, each with tonal variations of black acrylic makes the image apparent from one specific viewpoint only. These works subtly direct the movement of the viewer, who is required to position themselves in a very specific relationship with the work, in order for the image to be revealed.
Although much of his work is abstract, Currie’s practice might be most easily understood by exploring its relationship to architecture. The precise and structured placement of materials and his fascination with line and form, produce works that describe solid and imposing architectural forms, yet have an ephemeral and illusive quality to them.
Robert Currie is based in London and completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in 2000. His work is in many collections including Lady De Rothschild, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Defauwes Collection and Simmons & Simmons. He has been commissioned for public sculptures in Frankfurt, London and Brussels.
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Nathalie Guinamard
Through both collage and installation Nathalie Guinamard explores the relationship between interior and exterior space by a process of disrupting scale and architecture. Working with images collected from newspapers, magazines and old interior design books. She is interested in how unaltered images can fit together to form something unique, and how their juxtaposition provokes new connotations. Her most recent work moves away from the domestic interior, Round II and Interior 4 were created in response to the architecture of Brunel University incorporating images of concrete and strong colourful lines into abstracted compositions.
Guinamard graduated from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford in 2007and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007. In 2008 she was included in ARTfutures and the Red Mansion Art Prize exhibition, following a residency in Beijing.
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James Winnett
For this exhibition James Winnett has developed new works which respond to the shifting architectural, social and historical make-up of the Brunel campus.
Winnett often works site specifically in public and gallery contexts, creating interventions which interrogate notions of place, borders and identities. Working with an investigative process, he often draws on current issues surrounding globalisation, migration and the environment to examine the interplay between the local and the global. Using the medium most suited to each context, Winnett has recently worked in sculpture, installation, collage and performance.
James Winnett graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2006 and has exhibited in London, Oxford, The Netherlands and Albania. Residencies include Stop.Rewind.Skip.Play. at HotelMaria Kapel, 9 Piece Puzzle at Longhouse and Interrogation Walsall at New Art Gallery Walsall.
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Mary Yacoob
Mary Yacoob is exhibiting a series of drawings that explore and re-imagine architecture and city planning, creating proposals for alternative realities. Her works are systemic in nature, using rotation, repetition, line and geometry as triggers for ideas.
In this series of works, Yacoob takes a photograph of a building and finds within it an internal logic from which she can extend through the use of a visual language, for example, architectural elevation plans, electrical circuit diagrams, light refraction, and the development of architectural styles of churches from gothic to modernism.
The drawings are about seeing our familiar surroundings in a new light; questioning what is possible to imagine, or imagining different possibilities and ways of expressing these ideas and visions. She has produced a new work for this exhibition which uses these methods to respond to the Brunel campus.
Yacoub has studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and London Metropolitan and has exhibited in London, Hamburg and Milan. Solo exhibitions include the Centre for Recent Drawing, the Anzac Centre and Seven Seven Gallery.
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Pieces from the University Collection of Artworks by Alan Bennett and Sydney Klugman which respond to the campus are also on display.
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Alan Bennett
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Sydney Klugman
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