What’s On
Dreaming In Colour
The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in the ability to produce miracles – Mark Rothko
Hotel Elephant Gallery is pleased to present their first show exclusively dedicated to the paintings of the artist Marcia Scott, graduate of St Martin’s, who has recently shown in New York at Berry Campbell and who lives and works in Southwark.
In her abstract paintings Scott explores the versatility of gloss enamel paint, to create vibrant and dynamic works that have been likened to musical scores in their interplay between pigment and texture. The saturated backgrounds are prepared with pure colour and then worked on in a process-based technique of pouring and dripping to create flowing shapes reflective of her tutelage under her step-father Frank Bowling. Scott declares her subject to be creativity itself; being alive, connecting with the spiritual, and thereby embarks on action painting; volatile, intense and libidinous.
For Scott, her paintings are like prayers; a show of faith in the sacred, in which she anoints her paintings with materials as diverse as olive oil and whisky. She feels her paintings can bring change in the world; building an order based on creativity, community and love. Scott champions abstraction as a medium of liberation; releasing the individual from external controls.
Having recently had shows in New York and Louisiana, the exhibition includes three paintings from the University of Louisiana’s solo show ‘We Are All Related’. The exhibition also includes canvases of varying sizes, the largest being ‘Blue Dragon,’ an unseen painting at 14 foot wide. Each individual piece demonstrates the artist’s distinctive visual approach, in which the viewer is invited to explore the build up of glossy, sensuous surfaces.
Cutting Corners
For one night only!
An exhibition of work created on site by 2nd Year BA Drawing Students from Camberwell College of Art. The exhibition will include a mixture of Drawing, Sculpture, Painting and Installation based works.
An Evening with Calvin & Steph
Join us on the 15 April, for the first in a series of events that intends to dig deep into a collective body of work created by Calvin Laing, Stephanie Mann and Polly Wright.
Join us for a drinks from 6.30pm and stay for a number of videos and performances that will start from 7.45pm.
Calvin Laing
Calvin Laing currently lives and works in London. Selected group shows include: Alone with Other People, Chisenhale, London 2016; Pitcairn Hall, London, 2015; House Project | Sculptural Object, London, 2015 and Linking, Linking Arms, The Pig Rock Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2015. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011, working with video and performance, Laing has work in public collections including the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art.
Stephanie Mann
Stephanie Mann lives and works in Edinburgh. Working with video, print and performance, selected group shows include: Alone with Other People, Chisenhale, London 2016, The transparent tortoise shell and the un-ripe umbrella, curated by Louise Briggs, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016; Pitcairn Hall, London 2015, SIMSTIM, Glasgow Open House, Glasgow 2015 and Linking, Linking Arms, The Pig Rock Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2015.
Polly Wright
Polly Wright lives and works in London. Independent curatorial projects include Pitcairn Hall, London, 2015; Global Internet Talks, London, 2014 and Smash Lab, London, 2014.