Changing Spaces

Antonia Phillips is currently showing her collection of prints at 75 Regent Street. She says about her work:

“The pieces are drawn from line; this study is developed from undergrowth photographs being continually reinterpreted. The work emphasises negative space, the freedom and movement of the line is implied by space and space is created by line.”

All photographs © Lou Dellow

Ned Lidster-Browne is currently showing his work at 38 Regent Street.

His work “reflects a state of decay, representing the cycle of the construction and gradual desintegration of architechture.”

“These art works are made by pouring plaster directly onto a card collage, design to capture the layered detail. To make the series, the process has been repeated on the same piece of card so that it is apparent how the detail diminishes each time a new relief is made.”

Ned is currently on his 2nd year of the MFA Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin Univerity.

All photographs © Lou Dellow

Amin Tejani’s colourful work can be seen in 75 Regent Street.

‘In these paintings, the artist is using a non-representational colour palette in addition to distortion to express the emotive qualities that exude from his subjects as seen through the artist’s eyes. They are all painted from life. Although all these paintings were created while being engrossed within their subject matter from which they came about, the interest here for the artist does not lie in capturing a likeness or realness of the representational world around us, but rather in representing the emotive qualities that here, are attempting to exude through the pieces. Movement, gesture and the use of colour are paramount.’

Amin is currently in his 2nd year at the Cambridge School of Art completing his Master in Fine art.

All photographs © Lou Dellow

In 38 Regent Street Fine Art MFA Student Manolis Manarakis is showing his mixed media installation Chaos and Peace spreading over two large windows and the shop entrance, raising the questions:

‘Is Chaos Peaceful?
Is Peace Chaotic?
Is Chaos Chaotic?
Is Peace Peaceful?‘

Trevor Porter is currently showing his fantastic hybrid painting-sculptures in our very temporary location 30 Sidney Street. He says: ‘The parameters and boundaries defining painting and sculpture, object and image, are there to be challenged or blurred. This amalgamation of specific art practices, along with the immediate collocation of every day objects and recognizable imagery, is used as a formula to produce a “hybrid” that brings in to question the acceptance of the familiar, and emphasizes the implications we place in objects.’

All photographs © Lou Dellow

Cambridge raised Chloe Stein is currently showing her amazing sculptural installation in the former stamp shop on Hobson Street and its rear window facing Sussex street.
Chloe grew up in Cambridge and is currently studying for her BA in sculpture at Camberwell College London. Chloe says about this work:
‘It sees the beauty in the everyday object. The inspiration comes from the city streets from around the country, giving each sculpture its own unique identity. I work with found objects that reflect the areas that I am working in.’

Chloe’s exhibition is most likely that last exhibition Changing Spaces has set up in this beautiflu location as it has found a new tenant to use it as a retail unit. It has been a great spot for a number of very interesting and high profile exhibitions by over 20 different artists.

All photographs © Lou Dellow

Ben Owers installation ‘Within the fall’ combining imagery and sculpture can be seen in 75 Regent Street.

He says: ‘This collection of work focuses on standard forms using heavy textures to build up a form and are intended to show the construction of a shape or image. The subject matter becomes almost obsolete and the connection and construction of forms take precedence over the aesthetics.’

Ben is in his final year of a Fine Art BA (Hons.) degree at Cambridge School of Art.

all photographs © Lou Dellow

Gomito Productions have created a vibrant and colourful installation in 38 Regent Street

Gomito are a local theatre company producing new visual theatre for anyone who enjoys original stories. The company is a collaboration of performers, artist and musicians devising exciting touring theatre. Fantastical, physical, adventurous and uplifting this is theatre which celebrates life and takes you along for the ride.

2011 is Gomito’s tenth year together and to celebrate the company have teamed up with Liquid Photo to present a travelling exhibition of production photographs from the past ten years of shows.

In 2011, after two years based at the Junction, Gomito became Associate Artists of Greenwich Theatre and now split their time between London and Cambridge. Their next production for children Woodland will premier at Greenwich Theatre this Christmas and their show for an older audience The Alchemystorium will tour to Cambridge in 2012.

all photographs © Lou Dellow

Annie Strachan installed her sculptural work in the former Sweet shop, 10 Hobson Street.

She says about her work: ‘My scuptures deal with notions of semiotics in classical Hollywood cinema and post-war European Design. Each piece is an assemblage of varying motifs that utilizes imagery from the popular culture of these periods, in so doing questioning ideas fo representation, form, and reality.’

Annie gained her BA (Hons.) in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design.

all photographs © Lou Dellow