The ships are always there
19 - 28 August 2017
crate project space
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Laura Fitzgerald
Phil Illingworth
Jay Rechsteiner
Kyung Hwa Shon
curated by Chiara Williams
CRATE PROJECT SPACE 1 Bilton Square, Margate, CT9 1EE
Sat 19th – Monday 28th August, open 11am - 5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday (and Bank Holiday Monday 28th August)
Preview: Fri 18th August 6pm onwards
New works by four international artists are brought together in an exhibition that allows for a contemplative convergence of perspectives; trajectories and courses overlap, brief encounters are made, vanishing points are vague, horizons are hazy, but, the ships are always there...
Chiara Williams is pleased to curate her second exhibition in Margate, at Crate Project Space. Chiara has worked for some years with each of the four artists in this exhibition, and was keen to draw their disparate practices together under a common theme whilst uncompromisingly showcasing their newest works.
The title of the show arose from an exclamation made on a daily dog walk along Margate’s beaches, ‘the ships are always there!?’, an incredulous response to the seemingly static horizon line of ships, day in, day out; an observation that gave pause for reflection on ideas of quiet permanence versus irrefutable transience, of constancy versus change. The works in this exhibition invite us to consider the common anchor points in our lives, who are those people, places or objects that unite us, where do our perspectives converge, our trajectories overlap, and to what extend do we take comfort in repeating, meditating upon or ritualising those blips on our radar.
Laura Fitzgerald is an artist working in drawing, video and installation. Her film ‘P45’ examines a series of walks undertaken in the rural area where she lives in Inch, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The artist enters and reimagines scenarios within roadways, abandoned houses and famine cottages. Together with interactions with animals and the natural world, she projects new improvised narratives within a lens of art and art production. The title of the piece refers to the standard document when leaving employment, alluding to an antagonistic proposition to "leave" art.
Fitzgerald graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2013 and was recipient of the 2013 SOLO Award. She has exhibited widely, most recently at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, and has undertaken 2 residencies at The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. She is currently on the Lucian Freud Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland and lives in both Inch, Co. Kerry and London.
Phil Illingworth's work is about painting - yet it is everything but paint on canvas. Rejecting the idea of a single image plane, Illingworth begins with notions of painting in 3-D, and then starts to explore. Illingworth enjoys toying with, and questioning the idea of what a painting is or can be. An important part of his methodology involves following the
seed of an idea as closely as possible, aiming to encapsulate the spontaneity of that ‘vital spark’. His latest work, ‘Dear Prudence’ arose from a conversation about ownership, authorship, DNA and appropriation with Jay Rechsteiner (also in this exhibition).
Illingworth has exhibited in the UK, the USA, and at the 53rd Venice Biennale. His works have been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, the Marmite Prize IV, The Jerwood Drawing Prize and is currently included in the touring exhibition ‘Contemporary Masters from Britain’, at four major Chinese art museums throughout 2017. He lives and works in England and France.
Jay Rechsteiner is a story-teller, whose process-based work sits at the intersection of different practices. Varied objects, found materials, detritus, video & audio footage, are all painstakingly collected and catalogued during his research and travels. These in turn are woven into stories, stories that are often so deeply embedded in the materials themselves so as to be invisible.
Rechsteiner has shown his work internationally (Japan, USA, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, France) in galleries and museums such as the Fukuoka Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Liverpool, the London Art Fair & the 53rd and 54th Venice Biennales. He was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1971, he lives and works in Margate, UK.
Kyung Hwa Shon’s work explores the reciprocal relationship between a city and the imagination. The three elements exhibited here under the title ‘in between; there is, there is not’ imply the opening of the urban landscape to a distinct poetics of the city in which mythology, sign, symbol, voice, text, and trace occurs.
Shon received the 2015 SOLO Award and has shown her work internationally in the UK, Korea, USA and Portugal. Recent exhibitions include ‘A Space of the ‘In-Between’: Word, Time, Image’, Kumbo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea,; The Solo Award: The City of Fragments, WW Contemporary Art, London Art Fair 2016, London, UK; ‘UK/RAINE’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2015. Kyung Hwa Shon (born 1983) lives and works in London and Seoul. She is currently studying for a PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art.
CRATE PROJECT SPACE 1 Bilton Square, Margate, CT9 1EE
Sat 19th – Monday 28th August, open 11am - 5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday (and Bank Holiday Monday 28th August)
Preview: Fri 18th August 6pm onwards
New works by four international artists are brought together in an exhibition that allows for a contemplative convergence of perspectives; trajectories and courses overlap, brief encounters are made, vanishing points are vague, horizons are hazy, but, the ships are always there...
Chiara Williams is pleased to curate her second exhibition in Margate, at Crate Project Space. Chiara has worked for some years with each of the four artists in this exhibition, and was keen to draw their disparate practices together under a common theme whilst uncompromisingly showcasing their newest works.
The title of the show arose from an exclamation made on a daily dog walk along Margate’s beaches, ‘the ships are always there!?’, an incredulous response to the seemingly static horizon line of ships, day in, day out; an observation that gave pause for reflection on ideas of quiet permanence versus irrefutable transience, of constancy versus change. The works in this exhibition invite us to consider the common anchor points in our lives, who are those people, places or objects that unite us, where do our perspectives converge, our trajectories overlap, and to what extend do we take comfort in repeating, meditating upon or ritualising those blips on our radar.
Laura Fitzgerald is an artist working in drawing, video and installation. Her film ‘P45’ examines a series of walks undertaken in the rural area where she lives in Inch, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The artist enters and reimagines scenarios within roadways, abandoned houses and famine cottages. Together with interactions with animals and the natural world, she projects new improvised narratives within a lens of art and art production. The title of the piece refers to the standard document when leaving employment, alluding to an antagonistic proposition to "leave" art.
Fitzgerald graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2013 and was recipient of the 2013 SOLO Award. She has exhibited widely, most recently at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, and has undertaken 2 residencies at The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York. She is currently on the Lucian Freud Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland and lives in both Inch, Co. Kerry and London.
Phil Illingworth's work is about painting - yet it is everything but paint on canvas. Rejecting the idea of a single image plane, Illingworth begins with notions of painting in 3-D, and then starts to explore. Illingworth enjoys toying with, and questioning the idea of what a painting is or can be. An important part of his methodology involves following the
seed of an idea as closely as possible, aiming to encapsulate the spontaneity of that ‘vital spark’. His latest work, ‘Dear Prudence’ arose from a conversation about ownership, authorship, DNA and appropriation with Jay Rechsteiner (also in this exhibition).
Illingworth has exhibited in the UK, the USA, and at the 53rd Venice Biennale. His works have been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, the Marmite Prize IV, The Jerwood Drawing Prize and is currently included in the touring exhibition ‘Contemporary Masters from Britain’, at four major Chinese art museums throughout 2017. He lives and works in England and France.
Jay Rechsteiner is a story-teller, whose process-based work sits at the intersection of different practices. Varied objects, found materials, detritus, video & audio footage, are all painstakingly collected and catalogued during his research and travels. These in turn are woven into stories, stories that are often so deeply embedded in the materials themselves so as to be invisible.
Rechsteiner has shown his work internationally (Japan, USA, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, France) in galleries and museums such as the Fukuoka Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Liverpool, the London Art Fair & the 53rd and 54th Venice Biennales. He was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1971, he lives and works in Margate, UK.
Kyung Hwa Shon’s work explores the reciprocal relationship between a city and the imagination. The three elements exhibited here under the title ‘in between; there is, there is not’ imply the opening of the urban landscape to a distinct poetics of the city in which mythology, sign, symbol, voice, text, and trace occurs.
Shon received the 2015 SOLO Award and has shown her work internationally in the UK, Korea, USA and Portugal. Recent exhibitions include ‘A Space of the ‘In-Between’: Word, Time, Image’, Kumbo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea,; The Solo Award: The City of Fragments, WW Contemporary Art, London Art Fair 2016, London, UK; ‘UK/RAINE’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2015. Kyung Hwa Shon (born 1983) lives and works in London and Seoul. She is currently studying for a PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art.
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CRATE is an artist-led organisation based in East Kent supporting contemporary visual artists’ research and practice. CRATE promotes critical debate and the exchange of ideas without prescribed outcomes.
Based in an old print works near the sea front in Margate, CRATE’s building has been bought and refurbished with major support from Arts Council England South East, East Kent Partnership and Thanet District Council. The building opened in July 2006. CRATE is currently programmed by a group of artists, some of whom are also studio holders. |
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