On Edges meaning On the Topic of Edges, in that these artworks all involve edges of one sort or another (and the boundaries where edges meet) treated in ways that are unsettled or tense, so they're on edge in that sense also, like structures balanced, if not literally balancing on edge then top heavy at least, or precarious in some other way, and ontologically unstable on top of that (i.e art, or a preliminary sketch? sculpture or maquette?) \\ and the Franken-figures, stylistically mismatched, anatomically incoherent, listing in a storm of cheap synthetic greens from emerald to sap to acid, or elsewhere Dan's detuned carny-mirror phantoms, haunting their own picnic in a landscape where space (and time, always time) folds into itself, planar, like a flexing flexible screen, because a sharp corner also makes an edge; Nuclear Family Crisis or Nuclear Apocalypse, make a connection, but it's forever incomplete, an unfinished painting of an unfinished conversation, in this case an edge clearly defined: where fleshed-out illusionism cuts short, exposing the sketch-skeleton underneath, what will we be doing when the edge of the crisis finds us?
Text by Matt Lipiatt
(1) On Edges, Exhibition View, 2018
(2) Eleanor Bedlow, Box, bamboo and concrete, 2017
(3) Dan Coombs, The Old Crown, oil on canvas, 2018
(4) On Edges, Exhibition view, 2018
(5) Nicole Price, Untitled, oil on canvas, 2018
(6) Matt Lippiatt, Multiple Figures, System 3 acrylic and tap water on canvas, 2018
(7) On Edges, Exhibition view, 2018
Artist Eleanor Bedlow spent her formative years in Japan before moving to London. She studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art before completing the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2008. More recently in 2018 she attended the Turps Art School’s Studio Painting Programme. Bedlow's solo exhibitions include Settling, Galleri Hi10, Skien, Norway (2022); Upside, Pictorem Gallery, London (2020); Gaff Space, London (2019), and Remote Cities, The Stone Space, London (2012).
Dan Coombs is an internationally exhibited painter who lives and works in London. Solo shows include Unfolding Man, Aleph Contemporary, 2020, Nudes, New Art Projects (2014), Heaven and Earth at The Fine Art Society (2011), The Dreamers at Fred Gallery (2009), The Garden at Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2005), The Cornerhouse, Manchester (2002), and The Approach Gallery, London (in 2005, 2001, 1999 and 1997). He is currently senior tutor in painting at the University of East London and director of the Advanced Painting course at The Essential School of Painting, Wood Green, London. He is one of the founders of The Turps Banana Painting Programme, an independent art school located in Camberwell, South London.
Matthew Lippiatt is a British artist.
Nicole Price studied at Leeds University, Heatherley’s, and Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) for her MFA and more recently on the Turps Banana Studio Painting Programme. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the RWA, the SWA, the Lynn Painter–Stainers and the ING Discerning Eye. She was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Ingram Prize. She has work in private and public collections including the Whittington Health NHS Trust. Nicole lives and works in London.
On Edges meaning On the Topic of Edges, in that these artworks all involve edges of one sort or another (and the boundaries where edges meet) treated in ways that are unsettled or tense, so they're on edge in that sense also, like structures balanced, if not literally balancing on edge then top heavy at least, or precarious in some other way, and ontologically unstable on top of that (i.e art, or a preliminary sketch? sculpture or maquette?) \\ and the Franken-figures, stylistically mismatched, anatomically incoherent, listing in a storm of cheap synthetic greens from emerald to sap to acid, or elsewhere Dan's detuned carny-mirror phantoms, haunting their own picnic in a landscape where space (and time, always time) folds into itself, planar, like a flexing flexible screen, because a sharp corner also makes an edge; Nuclear Family Crisis or Nuclear Apocalypse, make a connection, but it's forever incomplete, an unfinished painting of an unfinished conversation, in this case an edge clearly defined: where fleshed-out illusionism cuts short, exposing the sketch-skeleton underneath, what will we be doing when the edge of the crisis finds us?
Text by Matt Lipiatt
(1) On Edges, Exhibition View, 2018
(2) Eleanor Bedlow, Box, bamboo and concrete, 2017
(3) Dan Coombs, The Old Crown, oil on canvas, 2018
(4) On Edges, Exhibition view, 2018
(5) Nicole Price, Untitled, oil on canvas, 2018
(6) Matt Lippiatt, Multiple Figures, System 3 acrylic and tap water on canvas, 2018
(7) On Edges, Exhibition view, 2018
Artist Eleanor Bedlow spent her formative years in Japan before moving to London. She studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art before completing the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2008. More recently in 2018 she attended the Turps Art School’s Studio Painting Programme. Bedlow's solo exhibitions include Settling, Galleri Hi10, Skien, Norway (2022); Upside, Pictorem Gallery, London (2020); Gaff Space, London (2019), and Remote Cities, The Stone Space, London (2012).
Dan Coombs is an internationally exhibited painter who lives and works in London. Solo shows include Unfolding Man, Aleph Contemporary, 2020, Nudes, New Art Projects (2014), Heaven and Earth at The Fine Art Society (2011), The Dreamers at Fred Gallery (2009), The Garden at Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2005), The Cornerhouse, Manchester (2002), and The Approach Gallery, London (in 2005, 2001, 1999 and 1997). He is currently senior tutor in painting at the University of East London and director of the Advanced Painting course at The Essential School of Painting, Wood Green, London. He is one of the founders of The Turps Banana Painting Programme, an independent art school located in Camberwell, South London.
Matthew Lippiatt is a British artist.
Nicole Price studied at Leeds University, Heatherley’s, and Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) for her MFA and more recently on the Turps Banana Studio Painting Programme. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the RWA, the SWA, the Lynn Painter–Stainers and the ING Discerning Eye. She was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Ingram Prize. She has work in private and public collections including the Whittington Health NHS Trust. Nicole lives and works in London.
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