The exhibition drew to a close with artists’ talks and a record 700 + visitors on Sunday 26th November 2023!
The London Group 85th Open exhibition presented artworks from the Group’s members as well as non-members – selected from over 1,900 entries. In total, 158 artworks were on show, including painting, drawing, digital art, installation, mixed media, photography, print, sculpture, sound and video. The result was a display featuring established and emerging artists, all working at the forefront of contemporary practice.
The London Group Open: 10 – 26 Nov 2023 at Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham SE15 4ST
The London Group Open 2023 CatalogueSandra Crisp: ‘strange attractors […1,000 years] (Photo credit: Faye Sinden)Sandra Crisp: ‘strange attractors […1,000 years]
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
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‘E_Life’ video at The New Accelerator exhibition‘perpetual browse_r_2’ video at The New Accelerator exhibitionNew Accelerator catalogue [1]New Accelerator catalogue [2]Catalogue essay The Machine Age by Benet Spencer(Cont.d) Catalogue essay The Machine Age by Benet Spencer
Really pleased to be participating in THE NEW ACCELERATORgroup exhibition showing videos, E_Lifeand perpetual browse_r_2. The exhibiton is part of the Cambridge Festival
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The New Accelerator, a short story by H.G. Wells from 1901, addresses technological development, introducing a new perception of reality through a tonic which has the effect of slowing the world’s rotation. Taking the same name, The New Accelerator exhibition, aims to establish a dialogue between a range of artists who have reflected advances in technology through reductive, minimal, architectonic or geometric approaches. This story chimes with the editing process and focus through which abstract artists construct their images, using processes based on limitation, a single element, or through repetition or extension. Working with various partner organisations and individuals, the project identifies an interaction between art, science, science fiction and systems. Through presenting 27 contrasting artist’s practices, the exhibition, along with symposium and catalogue essays, will address points of connection and departure within these key areas….
Exhibiting Artists: Katrina Blannin, Eric Butcher, Sandra Crisp, Natalie Dower, Tim Ellis, Julia Farrer, Árpád Forgo, Hanz Hancock + Patrick Morrissey, Stephen Jaques, Hans Kotter, Caroline List, George Meyrick, Ian Monroe, Jeremy Morgan, Laurence Noga, Milly Peck, playpaint, Carol Robertson, Sarah Sparkes, Benet Spencer, Trevor Sutton, Trisant (Julian Hughes Watts), Kate Terry, April Virgoe, Adia Wahid, Mary Yacoob
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
S.Crisp: ‘E-Life’ HD video [5 mins 30 secs] looped. PROJECTED TOPOGRAPHIES. Saturation Point, Deptford, London
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.
A film projection exhibitionby 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
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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.
A film projection exhibitionby 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.
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
