ENSEMB7E Presents: ‘Hidden Layers’

‘Hidden Layers’ - An exhibition staged by MA by Project Artists
Jewellery | Ceramics | Sculpture | Painting | Installation

Hidden Layers serves as a metaphor for the outcomes encountered on the path of the search. 
The ‘deep learning’ uncovers hither-to protected or concealed layers within an individual’s practice. 

Diverse research areas and fine art practices combine to form this multi-disciplinary group – building an individually stronger practice.  Through our research, lost, yet to be discovered, or the newly imagined are encountered.

Installations and memory objects subvert conventional notions of home as a safe haven | Evocative landscapes allude to a distant past and an unknown future |  Nature’s life-giving decay is  interpreted through shapes, textures, and colours |  Surrealist ideologies and sensory forms explore skin damage and tangible objects that disrupt urges | The possible future understanding of womankind is sculpted with reference through the recent past to current times | Objects informed by the Tao and the power of water reveal balance in nature | Large-scale symbolic paintings, seduce with colour and texture.

You are invited to share in our exploratory journey.

Chris Christodoulou
What is home? Chris’ work is a search of 'home' informed by memory, loss and boundaries. Conventional notions of home as a safe haven are subverted in installations and memory objects. His work alludes to what home can be beneath the veneer.

Esther Fidlin
Esther's work uses materials to explore the damage wrought by skin disorders, creating tangible objects recreating the feeling of the intangible urge. The work explores skin and surface using sensory forms that evoke discomfort.

Siobhan Harkin
Siobhan takes ephemeral imagery as her source and creates large-scale symbolic paintings, seducing the viewer with colour and texture; hidden layers emerge and dynamic figures appear. www.harkin.xyz

Gareth Jones
Gareth paints evocative landscapes alluding to a distant past and an unknown future. Colour and form build ambiguous motifs where marks guide, enabling the viewer to compose their own understanding.          
www.gjonesart.com

Nora Loh
Nora examines the many layers of Tao, a way of life or path aimed at achieving balance, to remind us of the importance of nature and the significance of water.

Loveness Li
Loveness' works are about the colours, shapes and textures of nature - creating a series of jewellery using organic and man-made materials. The overarching concept behind her work is that new life thrives on decay, giving decaying objects new purpose.

Sophie O’Neill
Sophie's work questions 'femaleness' through practise based research, exploring the recent past through to current times and considering the possible future understanding of womankind.
www.sophieoneill.com

Dates: 10 – 14 November 2016
Open: Monday – Thursday, 11am – 6pm
Admission: Free
Venue: The Strand Gallery London 32 John Adam St, London WC2N 6BP