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Matt Small charity, by BlackRatPress on Apr 29, 2007 23:38:57 GMT 1, Hope noone minds me starting a new thread but thought this weeks matt small novas event should be highlighted. Hope you can come and support. I didn't write any of this jazz - all to good to have come from me.
Private view: 3rd May 2007, 6- 9pm
Exhibition: 4th May – 1st June 2007
Open: Wed–Sun, 11am- 5pm
The Novas Gallery Camden is pleased to present an Arts Council funded exhibition of the work of two award winning Camden artists, painter Mathew Small and photographer Tim Brown. Both artists have worked independently and together during 2007 on the theme of the ‘under exposed’ - the deprived and marginalised urban environments, which they both currently live and work in. The result is a large scale of work- a series of portraits and cityscapes all vividly depicting urban life.
Novas have provided studio space for the artists and for their youth workshops in Novas owned historic Arlington House, Camden. Currently being redeveloped Small and Brown have used materials found within this 100 year old building to create their vibrant work, thus creating a unique juxtaposition between the past and the present.
Tim Brown’s ripped and collaged photographic work focuses on a distressed urban environment and Matthew Small’s powerful portraits depict the young inhabitants, who appear to have almost ingested their own habitat.
The work delves deep into urban decay and derelict unexplored corners of the diverse urban jungle of London. Underexposed is extremely thick in underground visual culture, graffiti, tags, flyers, posters, focussing on small enclaves across London, where the signs of human activity leave visual and emotive clues, codes and signs, with the detritus of passing human activity manifest in a thick patina of refuse, discarded junk, tags, iconic visuals and scrawls. Among this may have passed feral kids, junkies, crack heads, ravers, alcoholics, thieves, dealers, doing their business and leaving their trails.
The artists have engaged in documenting and in participating in this world that runs parallel to others, one not often noticed, exploring the duality of society, the urban underbelly not acknowledged or recognised. The artists invest a respect and value for these quarters, they seek out this way of working as they have direct contact and an involvement within these environments and communities, both directly as participants and indirectly as observers, with the passion and commitment to both represent and celebrate the diversity and richness of this other side of the urban experience.
Hope noone minds me starting a new thread but thought this weeks matt small novas event should be highlighted. Hope you can come and support. I didn't write any of this jazz - all to good to have come from me.
Private view: 3rd May 2007, 6- 9pm
Exhibition: 4th May – 1st June 2007
Open: Wed–Sun, 11am- 5pm
The Novas Gallery Camden is pleased to present an Arts Council funded exhibition of the work of two award winning Camden artists, painter Mathew Small and photographer Tim Brown. Both artists have worked independently and together during 2007 on the theme of the ‘under exposed’ - the deprived and marginalised urban environments, which they both currently live and work in. The result is a large scale of work- a series of portraits and cityscapes all vividly depicting urban life.
Novas have provided studio space for the artists and for their youth workshops in Novas owned historic Arlington House, Camden. Currently being redeveloped Small and Brown have used materials found within this 100 year old building to create their vibrant work, thus creating a unique juxtaposition between the past and the present.
Tim Brown’s ripped and collaged photographic work focuses on a distressed urban environment and Matthew Small’s powerful portraits depict the young inhabitants, who appear to have almost ingested their own habitat.
The work delves deep into urban decay and derelict unexplored corners of the diverse urban jungle of London. Underexposed is extremely thick in underground visual culture, graffiti, tags, flyers, posters, focussing on small enclaves across London, where the signs of human activity leave visual and emotive clues, codes and signs, with the detritus of passing human activity manifest in a thick patina of refuse, discarded junk, tags, iconic visuals and scrawls. Among this may have passed feral kids, junkies, crack heads, ravers, alcoholics, thieves, dealers, doing their business and leaving their trails.
The artists have engaged in documenting and in participating in this world that runs parallel to others, one not often noticed, exploring the duality of society, the urban underbelly not acknowledged or recognised. The artists invest a respect and value for these quarters, they seek out this way of working as they have direct contact and an involvement within these environments and communities, both directly as participants and indirectly as observers, with the passion and commitment to both represent and celebrate the diversity and richness of this other side of the urban experience.
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