Sextant was the product of a two-month email correspondence between Ed Compson and Jesse Rivers about future facing paintings and paintings as diagrams, graphs and schematics. The conversation evolved into how we navigate between ideas of past and contemporary futures, between content and structure within paintings and how things become visible through the movement between bodies, ideas and artwork. The resulting exhibition presented current works from the artists as a way of moving forward.
(1) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(2) Ed Compson, 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Event), 2019
(3) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(4) Jesse Rivers, A Completed Oeuvre Directed By A Set of Works that Act as Signifiers/ Guides, 2019
(5) Ed Compson, Celestial Kubernetes, 2019
(6) Ed Compson, Celestial Kubernetes, Detail, 2019
(7) Jesse Rivers, The Growth of A Singular Experience Being Slowly Understood, 2019
(8) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(9) Jesse Rivers, The Growing Sense of Potential Brought By The Visualisation of Possible Future Works, 2019
Ed Compson (b. 1991, London) is an British Cypriot artist that lives and works in the UK. He is a graduate of MA Painting at The Royal College of Art (2020), having completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh (2016) in Fine Art and History of Art. Recent exhibitions include Sympathetic Magic 2, Ginny on Frederick, London (2024); Control Group In a Prism-like Sight, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing (2023); Seeking Roots, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus (2021); London Grads Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London (2020); 50/50, Fold Gallery, London (2020); Beacon, Josh Lilley, London (2020); Sympathetic Magic, ZONA MISTA, London (2019) and Sextant, Middlesex Presents, London (2019). Since 2021 he has also worked collaboratively with Arieh Frosh on socially engaged, technologically-driven artworks, workshops and research experiments that question how we think about machines and ecology, and how these ways of thinking affect imagination. They have worked with Norwich University of the Arts, ArtsDepot, Cypher BILLBOARD, Cyprus College of Art, and the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS).
Jesse Rivers is a London-based artist. He has an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art and a BA from Edinburgh College of Art's Intermedia Department. Selected group exhibitions include Slide A Glance, 2023, at ASC Gallery; Sextant, 2019, with Ed Compson at Middlesex Presents and Touch My Ego Please, 2016, at Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh. Rivers participated in Laumulistasamsteypan Residency, Iceland, and self-published the Laumu Zine in 2019. His work is held in the The Roberts Institute of Art Collection.
Sextant was the product of a two-month email correspondence between Ed Compson and Jesse Rivers about future facing paintings and paintings as diagrams, graphs and schematics. The conversation evolved into how we navigate between ideas of past and contemporary futures, between content and structure within paintings and how things become visible through the movement between bodies, ideas and artwork. The resulting exhibition presented current works from the artists as a way of moving forward.
(1) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(2) Ed Compson, 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Event), 2019
(3) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(4) Jesse Rivers, A Completed Oeuvre Directed By A Set of Works that Act as Signifiers/ Guides, 2019
(5) Ed Compson, Celestial Kubernetes, 2019
(6) Ed Compson, Celestial Kubernetes, Detail, 2019
(7) Jesse Rivers, The Growth of A Singular Experience Being Slowly Understood, 2019
(8) Sextant, Exhibition View, 2019
(9) Jesse Rivers, The Growing Sense of Potential Brought By The Visualisation of Possible Future Works, 2019
Ed Compson (b. 1991, London) is an British Cypriot artist that lives and works in the UK. He is a graduate of MA Painting at The Royal College of Art (2020), having completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh (2016) in Fine Art and History of Art. Recent exhibitions include Sympathetic Magic 2, Ginny on Frederick, London (2024); Control Group In a Prism-like Sight, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing (2023); Seeking Roots, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus (2021); London Grads Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London (2020); 50/50, Fold Gallery, London (2020); Beacon, Josh Lilley, London (2020); Sympathetic Magic, ZONA MISTA, London (2019) and Sextant, Middlesex Presents, London (2019). Since 2021 he has also worked collaboratively with Arieh Frosh on socially engaged, technologically-driven artworks, workshops and research experiments that question how we think about machines and ecology, and how these ways of thinking affect imagination. They have worked with Norwich University of the Arts, ArtsDepot, Cypher BILLBOARD, Cyprus College of Art, and the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS).
Jesse Rivers is a London-based artist. He has an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art and a BA from Edinburgh College of Art's Intermedia Department. Selected group exhibitions include Slide A Glance, 2023, at ASC Gallery; Sextant, 2019, with Ed Compson at Middlesex Presents and Touch My Ego Please, 2016, at Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh. Rivers participated in Laumulistasamsteypan Residency, Iceland, and self-published the Laumu Zine in 2019. His work is held in the The Roberts Institute of Art Collection.
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