The Affordable Art Fair 2010
October 21st -24th, Battersea Park, London

Come and say hello to us at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park (Stand G-1) from October 21st to the 24th. We will be exhibiting a number of artists including some recent additions to Dare to Joust. Email gallery@daretojoust.com if you would like to receive invitations.

 

 

 


Suburban Hysteria, silkscreen, Hugh McCarthy

Sarah Jane Lynagh in Bang Art Magazine

Sarah Jane Lynagh appears in Issue 7 of BangArt, an Italian magazine devoted to art, illustration and design. The four-page interview includes reproductions of Sarah’s work. Click on the link to see the article in full: www.bangart.it


Silence 3, photograph on dibond, 120x90 cm, Sarah Jane Lynagh

Life Drawing

Our weekly Tuesday evening life drawing sessions have proven to be a great success and we have started holding classes on Wednesday evenings also. Classes run from 7.30-9.30pm. We supply paper, charcoal, easels and models. We also provide refreshments. Email gallery@daretojoust.com for more information.

 

 

Untitled, pastel on sugar paper, Will Alexander

For its spring exhibition Dare to Joust is delighted to present Forensic; a group exhibition that brings together the work of several artists whose individual practices analyse and depict everyday events and objects that have become so normal to our lives that they are invisible to us. Through observation, analysis and imagination the artists allow us to re-realise our everyday situations and the objects that surround us as extraordinary and significant parts of our lives. The artists, although sharing a common interest in the everyday have very different approaches and methods to their Art.
Within the show the works of Antonio Julio Lopez Castro (Spain/Ireland) use methods of depiction and composition in keeping with the tradition of object representation of Dutch genre painting but with a contemporary awareness of the found articles being depicted and their value.  Whereas Katerina Botsari (UK) chooses to depict household materials that relate to past events in her life that may at the outset have been ordinary but with time have gained personal significance.
Gemma Hodge`s (Ireland) monochrome suburban landscapes revel in the ordinary, industrial machinery jostles alongside the natural world for recognition creating images distinguished by the attention she lavishes on her source material. Helen Nunan's (Ireland) interest lies in grand classical architectural motifs juxtaposed alongside simple household objects such as a cup and saucer, imbuing the latter with the same dignity and respect accorded the former.
Rather than depicting familiar objects or situations Marianne Keating's (Ireland) screenprinted series "Circa" composes and arranges familiar colours and a simple pattern to stimulate the viewer’s associations with those colours.
Louise Bristow (UK) creates abstract portraits from her own interpretations of her favourite books. She sets herself parameters in terms of medium and scale but each resultant work fulfills its goal of providing an individual identity for the books she has singled out.
Luigi Consolandi (Italy) uses the term “mapping” when describing his work and certainly there is a distinct aura of tracking the motions and mechanics of daily domestic life. Suburban interiors devoid of an explicit human presence save for the suggestion of an uneaten meal or the pile of laundry waiting to be washed.


dare to joust
is pleased to announce its debut show



'Urban Rococo'

November 14th 2009 - 4th January 2010

Opening reception November 14th, 6pm.



Featuring the work of 17 new and emerging artists from the UK and abroad, “Urban Rococo” has been curated on the basis that the participating artists avoid any explicit political or social context. Instead the artists are gathered from those whose work is concerned with being less altruistic and more aesthetic. Painting, sculpture and photography in their purest forms.

Artists featured include Hugh McCarthy and Richard King who’s respective practices are borne from an overwhelming desire to capture the synthetic possibilities of painting, referencing modernism, mass production and the creation/relevance of ‘painting’ in the digital age.

Margo Trushina echoes in 3-d the beliefs of McCarthy and King. Trushina’s aluminium origamied sculptures look like relics from the set of a sci-fi B-movie that make us feel all shiny and new but with a nod to both hard edge minimalism and the Millennium Falcon. 

If Henri Matisee made fireworks they would probably be the best fireworks in the world. As it is Katerina Botsari is here to show how it should be done, every colour in the paintbox explodes onto the canvas creating a rhythm and joie de vivre that would make le grand-papa d’art moderne extremely proud, whilst simultaneously replacing Van Gogh’s iconic chair with a 1970’s comprehensive school version.


The works of Jacqueline Utley, Gemma Hodge, Johanna Laitanen and Abigail Box suggest places and events hovering between the imagined and concrete. Vague still lifes and interiors and vaguer urban landscapes suggest a yearning for the idealised above and beyond the ‘real’. The everyday as never-was or never-will-be.