Door To The River

Preview Thursday 12th May 2005 6-9pm

Clare Goodwin / Daniel Robert Hunziker
Paul Jones / Cathie Pilkington /
David Spero

Open Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm
14th May - 5th June

PRESS RELEASE
Door To The River
Clare Goodwin / Daniel Robert Hunziker / Paul Jones / Cathie Pilkington / David Spero
Open Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm 14th May - 5th June

Door to the River borrows its title from William de Kooning’s work. The exhibition explores how five artists construct their own fictional realities, referencing interiors and other environments.

Clare Goodwin’s drawings and paintings explore a manipulated depiction of domestic spaces and kitchen dominant features. Reconstructing the sanitised ‘ideal home’ of eras past, a stylised hard-edged world unfolds. Traced directly from staged interior design magazine images, the tracing process becomes the starting point for the larger life size works, almost 1:1. Inflated forms and function allow a geometric toughness and de-functionalisation, giving the works a reductive and unnatural state of living? The works comment on the relationship between knowledge and perception.

Paul Jones is concerned with the intense nature of materials- how they behave, their surface qualities and potential form. The work grows intuitively where the making process is inseparable from the finished product, revealing an unknown world where all materials become polymorphic and where time, space, distance, scale stretch and shrink out of shape.

A mix of sculptural convention and literalness, Cathie Pilkington’s work explores the popular and sentimental construct of the tableau. Her work probes the gap between the real gallery space and the virtual space of frozen drama, re-investing everyday subjects with comedic or unsettling effect. Carefully rendered polychromatic realism is mixed with found objects and furniture creating a vivid and theatrical presence that is both absorbing and estranging.

David Spero’s ball constellations are placed into existing and often transitory or semi-permanent spaces. The placement of these constellations creates subtle forms and planes which touch and at moments envelope the space with their presence. These planes and spaces disrupt and transform the process of viewing. They create new patterns and connections between the objects within the image.

Daniel Robert Hunziker is as much of a Lonesome Cowboy as his work suggests. He’s installations are metaphors for the attempt and failure of communication. Using ‘common’ materials of the everyday, Hunziker constructs minimal landscapes/enviroments,

Curated by Clare Goodwin

Untitled 2005
Clare Goodwin, paint on cardboard

Hard To Play 2005
Daniel Robert Hunziker