Exhibition News: Merge Visible

I am curating a group show, Merge Visible, for Contemporary British Painting. Merge Visible brings together a group of British painters who layer multiple visual elements or processes, enabling the experience of seeing numerous fragments of information simultaneously in one assimilated painted image. The artists in Merge Visible each bring traditional painterly tropes into dialogue with experiences of reading space, material and subject in the digital world. The paintings are non-representational, removing distinctions of background and foreground in favour of an abstract flattening of space, a negotiation of complex planar relationships and contrasting materials. Their working processes are characterised by bringing together numerous elements in each painting; texture and flatness, gesture and control, logic and intuition, to create a unique painterly vocabulary.

The artists in Merge Visible are: Lisa Denyer, Ian Goncharov, Phil Illingworth, Sarah Longworth-West, Laurence Noga, Lee Marshall, Playpaint and Clare Price.

This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 London

Charley Peters, _MG_2442 (2013), Pigment Print, 30.5 x 40.6cm 

_MG_2442 has been selected for This Year's Model by Stephanie Moran, co-founder of the Marmite Prize and Clare Price, recipient of the Acme Jessica Wilkes Award. The exhibition takes place 3-26 January 2014 at Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DJ. The Preview is 3 January 6-9pm, the gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday 12noon - 6pm or by appointment. More information here: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk