28 09 2023//

85th The London Group Open Exhibition

Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park, 133 Rye Lane, Se15 4ST

Frid 10 Nov 2023 – Sun 26 Nov
11 am – 5 pm daily with late opening on Thursday and Friday until 7pm
Private View: 6pm-9pm

I will be exhibiting new moving image work strange attractors [1,000 years] for the first time, a trailer can be viewed HERE

Download full press release on The London Group website HERE

03 07 2023//

Delighted to be invited by Genetic Moo to select for this year’s Schauerman Digital Art Prize. I was awarded the prize in 2017 with moving image work ‘remote_city (skygardens_towers)’.

This year, the £500 Schauerman Digital Art Prize will be selected by digital artists and London Group members Genetic Moo (Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup) and Sandra Crisp. We want more digital artists to become involved with the Group and hope the prize will encourage this. Nicola’s parents, Marie & John Schauerman, were creative throughout their lives and excited by new technology. This prize is in memory of their enthusiasm and support.

To be eligible for the Schauerman Digital Art Prize you need to enter and be selected for The London Group Open. This is the 85th Open exhibition which has been running throughout the group’s 110+ year history. 

The prize is for Digital Art so we will be looking at works that have involved computing or electronics at some point. The judges will be generous in deciding what is or isn’t digital and will consider all genres including still imagery, photography, video, audio, installation, interactive, generative, games, VR, AR, robotics, AI, NFTs,  etc.  The possibilities are endless. 

As technology changes, art changes and The London Group is engaging with digital art more and more – see these London Group exhibitions: In the Dark and The Mesh

More Information on Genetic Moo’s website

20 11 2022//

I’ll be showing a new moving image work, particle brows_er in this forthcoming exhibition Bankside Gallery, London which will also include the diverse work of 80 The London group Members. Bankside Gallery is next door to Tate Modern on Thames riverside.

‘A considerable strength of The London Group is the diversity of art practices encompassed – painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital work etc. Every medium is given equal weight and importance…’

The London Group at Bankside 24 Nov – 5 Dec 2022 open 11am – 6pm daily, PV: 23 Nov 6-9pm. Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

More info here

particle brows_er can be viewed in the online version of the exhibition HERE

16 11 2022//

PROJECTED TOPOGRAPHIES

A film projection curated by Sandra Crisp for Saturation Point projects (Patrick Morrissey+Hanz Hancock)

Artists: Sandra Crisp, Jockel Liess & Susan Eyre

Saturation Point, Deptford, London: Fri 11 (PV) & Sat 12 Nov 2022 5:30 – 9pm

Projected Topographies presents 3 artists with unique approaches to film incorporating the study of form, surface and location

Sandra Crisp: ‘E_Life’ uses 3D generated animation to present a digital environment populated with intensely textured and dynamic geometry.
Multiple and continually transforming organic forms, each originating from a simple 3D sphere are structured and surface-mapped with eclectic visuals such as emojis, fragmented images borrowed from 24-hour online rolling-news media and others downloaded via a search engine. Particle systems generate repeated, yet varied objects throughout the film which appear to have a life of their own. Overall suggesting the possibility of a simulated future/ nature.

Jockel Liess: ‘Variations on a theme’ is a generative audiovisual system which starts from a point of fascination with the aesthetics of irregular organic patterns.
Visually as well as sonically the aesthetic of natural patterns thrives on their intrinsic imperfection which are never distributed even or orderly, are never replications of themselves. They are rather reoccurring variations that form a recognisable tapestry of familiarity across an otherwise chaotic and unpredictable structure. Prospering from the tension that arises between repetition and asymmetry, and playfully inhabit the border region between order and randomness.

Susan Eyre: ‘Aóratos’ transports the viewer between everyday locations and terrains visually transformed via the use of an endoscope, a microscope, and cameras launched in a high-altitude balloon.
The film takes the precept that wormholes exist in our universe and imagines journeying through hidden landscapes, distorted spacetime and alternative perspectives. Envisaging potential encounters with cosmic strings, space foam, primordial chemistry, radioactive particles and escaping gravity the work conjectures on the enduring allure of traversing a wormhole.

Saturation Point is a curatorial and editorial platform for systems, non-objective and reductive art, mainly in the UK. We commission and publish reviews, interviews and other writing by established artists working in this field.

Susan Eyre

Jockel Liess

12 11 2022//

PROJECTED TOPOGRAPHIES

A film projection exhibition by Sandra Crisp for Saturation Point projects (Patrick Morrissey+Hanz Hancock)

Artists: Sandra Crisp, Jockel Liess & Susan Eyre

Deptford, London: Fri 11 (PV) & Sat 12 Nov 2022 5:30 – 9pm

Projected Topographies presents 3 artists with unique approaches to film incorporating the study of form, surface and location

Sandra Crisp: ‘E_Life’ uses 3D generated animation to present a digital environment populated with intensely textured and dynamic geometry.

Multiple and continually transforming organic forms, each originating from a simple 3D sphere are structured and surface-mapped with eclectic visuals such as emojis, fragmented images borrowed from 24-hour online rolling-news media and others downloaded via a search engine. Particle systems generate repeated, yet varied objects throughout the film which appear to have a life of their own. Overall suggesting the possibility of a simulated future/ nature.

Jockel Liess: ‘Variations on a theme’ is a generative audiovisual system which starts from a point of fascination with the aesthetics of irregular organic patterns.

Visually as well as sonically the aesthetic of natural patterns thrives on their intrinsic imperfection which are never distributed even or orderly, are never replications of themselves. They are rather reoccurring variations that form a recognisable tapestry of familiarity across an otherwise chaotic and unpredictable structure. Prospering from the tension that arises between repetition and asymmetry, and playfully inhabit the border region between order and randomness.

Susan Eyre: ‘Aóratos’ transports the viewer between everyday locations and terrains visually transformed via the use of an endoscope, a microscope, and cameras launched in a high-altitude balloon.

The film takes the precept that wormholes exist in our universe and imagines journeying through hidden landscapes, distorted spacetime and alternative perspectives. Envisaging potential encounters with cosmic strings, space foam, primordial chemistry, radioactive particles and escaping gravity the work conjectures on the enduring allure of traversing a wormhole.

Saturation Point is a curatorial and editorial platform for systems, non-objective and reductive art, mainly in the UK. We commission and publish reviews, interviews and other writing by established artists working in this field.

Susan Eyre

Jockel Liess

22 07 2022//

Below are photos of my new video, ‘E_Life’ projected in the basement of the beautifully refurbished Morley gallery as part of The London Group’s CATCH YOUR BREATH group exhibition, London. Thanks to Morley for use of their super projector which provided the launch for this new work. Exhibition continues until Thursday 28 July 2022.

Also exhibiting the the basement space are artists Carol Wyss (illuminated sculpture), Eric fong (photography on lightbox) and Jockel Liess (code-based audiovisual)

Morley Gallery
61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT
Weds 20 July – Thurs 28 July
Open: Mon – Fri 12 – 5pm , Sat 1pm-5pm
Artist’s Talks: Sat 23 Jul, 3 – 4pm
Nearest tube: Lambeth North or Waterloo

01 07 2022//

I’m really looking forward to taking part in upcoming The London Group exhibition CATCH YOUR BREATH where I’ll be showing a new video entitled ‘E_Life’ which will be projected in recently reburbished Morley gallery, London, UK 20-28 July. The exhibition will be across 2 venues, 3-30 July 2022: Morley gallery with 27 artists and St John’s Churchyard, 23 artists.

CATCH YOUR BREATH: The London Group and Invited Artists

St John’s Churchyard & Morley Gallery

Overall dates: 3^rd – 30^th July 2022

Catching one’s breath can happen if surprised, impressed or even shocked by something, such as an extraordinary object or image stumbled upon that instantaneously changes a familiar viewpoint. It can also be a time to pause or reflect and take stock.

Life in 2022 continues to appear full of uncertainties – After a tumultuous few years with a global pandemic and other crises including the war in Ukraine, and events such as climate change. However, in others ways perhaps we have reached a point of emergence; a tipping point where the potential for possibilities seems real once again.

In St Johns churchyard, Waterloo The London Group and invited artists whose work fits the discipline of sculpture and installation are responding to the theme, whilst Morley Gallery will host a member’s only exhibition.

Work in the newly refurbished Morley Gallery will include a diverse range of media such as painting; drawing; mixed media; photography on lightbox; small-scale sculpture; code-based audiovisual; video; archival digital and woodcut print techniques. Whilst artists respond in the historic Churchyard gardens using wood; steel & wire; site-specific installation; found objects; bamboo canes & plastic foil; tarpaulin; soil, water, clay, straw, sand, and cement; papier mache and paint, and much more.

Themes across both exhibitions are equally diverse: a work that incorporates dust collected from the Saharan desert; a minimalist blue sphere evokes oxygen(breath); reference to the futility and consequences of all wars; NASA images as an ephemeral reminder of our impact on nature; painting about the joy of the moment; 225 bright red pin wheels mounted on red canes, rising and falling over a grass mound; a work that catches the breath of visitors to the exhibition and a piece inspired by a book that starts with the words ‘Breathing In’ and ends with ‘Breathing Out’.

Morley Gallery
61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT
Weds 20 July – Thurs 28 July
Open: Mon – Fri 12 – 5pm , Sat 1pm-5pm
Artist’s Talks: Sat 23 Jul, 3 – 4pm
Nearest tube: Lambeth North or Waterloo

For full list of artists: CLICK HERE (The London Group website)

For private view details please drop me an email from the Contact page

09 04 2022//

Venue: BOOKARTBOOKSHOP

Address: 17, Pitfield Street, Hoxton, LONDON, N1 6HB, UK

Date: 8-22 April Wed – Sat 12-6pm

This exhibition, conceived in 2020 during lockdown when we were all separated from each other, explores the power of the postcard and contemplates the effects of the global pandemic through the medium of video stills, sound recordings, sculptures, found objects, photos, prints, drawings, poetry & paintings. Curated by Sumi Perera LG and includes postcards by 39 members of The London Group
More information included in this article HERE
The exhibition can be viewed online HERE

My postcard is a still image from short video loop, ‘City Rooftop Garden Retreat‘ (below): ‘A virtual and imaginary space to be in current times, changed by the pandemic.’