The Fold, Blyth Gallery / Installation

The Fold, which I have curated at Blyth Gallery London for Saturation Point Projects, runs until 8th July 2016.

Featuring work from Jane Bustin, Ben Cove, Deb Covell, Hanz Hancock, Tara Langford, Patrick Morrissey, Giulia Ricci and myself, The Fold explores the notion of folded space and the relationship between two and three dimensions in the illusionary surface of the art work.

Exhibition News: The Fold

I am curating The Fold at Blyth Gallery, London. The show includes work from Jane Bustin, Ben Cove, Deb Covell, Hanz Hancock, Tara Langford, Patrick Morrissey, Giulia Ricci and myself.

PV 14/06/16 6-8.30pm

The Fold is dedicated to Ben Cove; peer, colleague and/or friend to the artists in the show, who we sadly lost earlier this year.

Exhibition News: Stoke

Opening on 11th March is Stoke, a three-person show in which I will be exhibiting alongside Phil King (who is also curating the show) and Pascal-Michel Dubois.

From the exhibition's press release:
The problem of Art’s possession of a place’s protective spirit is an old quandary, maybe one that contemporary art has generally worked hard to avoid, it's somewhat laughable when someone talks of genius these days. Landscape painters, commissioned by landowners to show off their classically manicured properties, initially worked to enslave the particular genius loci of such feudal land banks… to make it conform to the geometries of the classical state that it was supposed to inspire. And when artists started to wander romantically about, they maintained a desire to hunt such genius down, chasing it into wilder and wilder places, aiming to render its now fugitive nature in watercolour washes, in sketches and oils. Some tried to become it. If each place did once have an enchanting protective spirit, some particular genie security guard, it is one that has long been muzzled and locked, hapless, into art. Now, after years of habitual property speculation, unable to protect anywhere anymore, these pale inhibited spirits have no spirit left, they can no longer even trigger defensive superstitions… except perhaps in fantasy computer games. Art bound genii are regularly regurgitated at auctions, stashed ignored in museums, they gather dust on walls and in attics… coordinated perspectives and prospects lock any unique imagines in, ship them away in golden frames, organise them in iPhoto or worse. Artists squint hard whenever they sense any sign of genii in the vicinity… they sharpen their pencils, focus their cameras, reduce any magic to a mere impression of themselves for god like collectors to collect, keeping warning barks kennelled far away from the lost places of the world. Without genius, everybody and everything becomes a Stoke... unprotected and everywhere … Little, Bradley or Gifford - Bristol and its nibbled green belt has more than its fair share of Stokes. Everything and everybody now has to know its place.

Stoke brings together aspects of the work of three, quite different, post-art artists in one place so as to look at and fuel this problem without being defined by it.

Pascal-Michel Dubois sees his work as an idle observation of life like a doodle… therefore, it is always in the making, constantly re-interpreting the fabric of reality. For his METEOR series he tries to see the seasonal transformation of trees from a different angle, putting us under the tree looking upwards… in an impossible space.

Charley Peters’ investigations are concerned with the spatial potential of the painted surface, explored through the construction of geometric configurations that map the pictorial relationship between two and three dimensions … her paintings use subtle variations in colour, tone and scale to construct illusionary light and structural depth. They often exhibit properties that present as disorientating or other-worldly, but are perhaps also familiar through our experiences of the 3D environments of computer games or digitally-generated terrains.

Gathering new and old paintings local Phil King unpacks and deals them in different sets. Not subject to a given identity they demand a different approach than one based on the identification of an a-priori common sense. For ‘Stoke’ however he has chosen to present an array of landscape paintings - inviting us to wander through manifold implications, past and future.

Exhibition News: Borderlands, A Painting Survey

Borderlands, A Painting Survey continues at Albus 3 Arts, Northampton until 29th January.

Exhibition News: London Painting Survey

Exhibition News: Griffin Gallery Open

Charley Peters, Configuration #33 (2015), Acrylic on Plywood, 50cm x 40cm x 5cm

Selected by artist Ian Davenport, Saatchi Gallery Director Nigel Hurst, and Griffin Gallery Director Becca Pelly-Fry, the Griffin Gallery open aims to reward innovation, skill and commitment to practice.

The exhibition will run 23rd July - 21st August, with an opening reception and prize giving on Wednesday 22nd July 6.30-9.30pm.

More information here:
https://griffingallery.co.uk/exhibitions/griffin-gallery-open

Installation Photographs / Generator: Systems, Logic and the Analogue Art of Programming

More photographs of Generator: Systems, Logic and the Analogue Art of Programming, Kaleidoscope Gallery, can be seen here: http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/generator.html

A review of the show by Andy Parkinson can be read here:
https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/generator-systems-logic-and-the-analogue-art-of-programming/

Exhibition News: Autocatalytic Future Games

Charley Peters, Configuration #34 (2015), Acrylic on Plywood Panel, 18cm x 24cm x 5 cm

Autocatalytic Future Games

On a trajectory from Lascaux via aerosols, our bioaesthetic inheritance is cultivated beneath the inflated sun. An accretion of stenciled hands in the darkness, then a trillion painted surfaces.

A group exhibition. A variation of structured gestures and analogue procedures. A compilation of paintings in 2015.

Paintings selected by each artist. Exhibition created and organised by playpaint

no format gallery: Second Floor Studios & Arts, Harrington Way (off Warspite Road), Woolwich, London, SE18 5NR.
Preview / Wednesday, June 10 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Exhibition Continues / 11th - 14th & 17th - 21st June 1.00 - 6.00 pm

Exhibition News: From Centre

There are now installation photographs of From Centre on the Slate Projects website. To see them and read more about the show click here.

Exhibition News: Tutti Frutti, Turps Gallery

Exhibition News: From Centre

Charley Peters, Plexus RGB (2015), Acrylic on Plywood Panel, 30 x 40 x 5cm

I am showing work in From Centre, curated by Saturation Point Projects and Slate Projects, which opens on 11th April at The Loud & Western Building, 65 Broughton Road, SW6 2LE. From Centre is a group exhibition which surveys contemporary approaches to reductive geometric painting, drawing and sculpture. Spanning several generations of artists, born in every decade from the 1930s to the 1980s, From Centre makes the case for the growing relevance of abstract art in the UK today. The exhibition is especially marked by the legacy of the Systems Group and European Constructivism, as well as a number of direct pedagogic connections from Tess Jaray’s tenure at the Slade and Peter Lowe’s at Goldsmiths. Making use of all three floors in a converted laundry factory, the works exhibited expand on the notions of architecture, space and surface, and span the spectrum between systematic and intuitive approaches.

An illustrated catalogue with essays by Nathan Cohen, Laura Davidson and Alex Meurice will accompany the exhibition.

More information here.

Exhibition News: Other Rooms

Charley Peters, still from 99 Drawings #2(RGB)≤(∆ ̇3), (2015), 99 animated pixel drawings 

Other Rooms, curated by Saturation Point Projects (saturationpoint.org.uk) opens at Basement Arts Project, Leeds tonight. I'll be showing two animations, 99 Drawings and 99 Drawings #2(RGB)≤(∆ ̇3).

For more information about the exhibition click here.

Exhibition News: Demimonde

Charley Peters (2014) Interface CMYK, Acrylic on Plywood

I am taking part in Demimonde, a large group exhibition in historic Amberwood House, South Kensington. Located opposite the Victoria & Albert Museum, and scheduled for renovation at the end of January, Amberwood House is a unique exhibition setting, with dozens of rooms on three floors. Demimonde invites an exploration of the house through a sequence of curated rooms and site-specific installations in a variety of media, from painting and sculpture to video and photography. Demimonde is organised by Slate Projects in collaboration with Matt Mottahedan (Mottahedan Projects).

Demimonde opens on Saturday 10th January 10-6pm until Sunday 18th January, open daily 11-6pm at Amberwood House, 17A Thurloe Place, London SW7 2SA

Exhibition News: This Year's Model, Studio 1.1

I will be showing work in This Year's Model at Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DJ. The full list of exhibiting artists is:

Esmond Bingham, Rosie West, Peter Sylveire, Stephen Buckeridge, David Sullivan, Etienne de Villiers, Domingo Arjonilla, Robert Cervera, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould, Evan Thomas, Graham Carrick, Ruth Philo, Sue Kennington, Charley Peters, Aindreas Scholtz, Geraldine Swayne, Silvia Lerin, Amanda Benson, David Turner, Lorraine Robbins, Helen Ashton, Sacha Meaden, Ben Deakin, playpaint, William Wright, Rebecca Fortnum, Jules Clarke, Anne Parfitt, Gasper Gemec

The exhibition runs 8th January-1 February 2015. 

Exhibition News: Other Rooms at BasementArtsProjects

Ben Woodeson (2014), Neon Lighting and Glass)

I will be taking part in Other Rooms, an exhibition also featuring Hanz Hancock, Patrick Morrissey, Giulia Ricci, Sarah Sparkes, Andy Wicks, Ben Woodeson, and John Workman at BasementArtsProjects in January 2015. 

Other Rooms gathers eight artists whose practice encapsulates a wide diversity of approaches, from performance and painting to film, sculpture and installation. Each artist will react to the physical characteristics of BasementArtsProject’s gallery environment and reconsider the life of the art object when it is contextualised outside of the ideological space of the 'white cube'. BasementArtsProject’s Other Rooms acts as a fulcrum where artworks expand into a notional consideration of space beyond the modern tradition of the art gallery. This analysis of alternative spaces suggests a reflection on the vocabulary of territories, institutions, boundaries, and their related systems of inclusion and exclusion, representation and de-presentation. For the duration of the exhibition the gallery space will be unlit, with all artworks providing their own light source.

Preview: Friday 16th January 2015 | 7.30pm – 9.30pm

For more information click here

Drawing - Punti di Vista / Viewpoints

Exhibition News: ArtLacuna Prize

Charley Peters, Continuum (2013), Pencil on Computer Listing Paper

I am delighted to have been shortlisted for the ArtLacuna Prize. Works were selected by a panel including Julia Alvarez, Sonia Boyce and Jamie Shovlin and will be exhibited at ArtLacuna | SPACE between 4th-20th October.

The Preview is Friday 10th October, 7-9pm at ArtLacuna | SPACE, 48 Falcon Road, London SW11 2LR

Exhibition News: Reduction

Charley Peters, Reduction (2013), Public House Projects, London

Reduction is now closed but there is an archive of the exhibition on the website of Pubic House Projects: publichouseprojects.org and my website: charleypeters.com

Big thanks to all who visited the show.

Reduction at Public House Projects

My solo show Reduction opened at Public House Projects SE15 last night, featuring new works made with intensely worked graphite on paper. The show continues until 23rd August.

For more information: www.publichouseprojects.org

Shelf Life: Leytonstone Arts Trail

Charley Peters, Continuum (2013), Graphite on Computer Listing Paper, inspired by the book
The Revolution will be Digitised: Despatches from the Information War by Heather Brooke

Members of xvi Artist Collective have taken over the octagonal cabinet at the centre of Leytonstone Library as part of Leytonstone Arts Trail, each generating a piece of artwork in response to a book from the collection. Choosing works that have a notable significance to each artist, there will be a small publication available to the public, with information about the books that inspired the artists.

Artists: Hannah Futers, Caro Halford, Kirsty Harris, Julia Miranda, Moorland Productions, Laurie Nouchka, Jane Oldfield, Charley Peters, Paul Stanley, Susanna Thornton, Ventiko, Jemma Watts and Sarah West.

The Preview is Thursday 4 July, 6.30-8.30pm.

The show runs 6-14 July, Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday 12-4pm.

Leytonstone Library, 6 Church lane, London E11 1HG