Majik’s art is self taught and spontaneous. She uses collage as an aesthetic of bold colours, symmetry and shapes, patterns and symbols. Her work explores community and identity as a contemporary expression of African art and culture. Her collages form an intersection of spirituality with psychedelia, manifest in queer and punk cultures.
Friends & Demons showcases work Majik has made prolifically over the past two years. It began as a response to her feelings of isolation during the pandemic lock-down. At this time she covered her walls with colourful, cheerful, faces and disembodied mouths that compressed and confronted her demons.
Majik’s work explores an ongoing conversation concerning representations of herself, her community and personal heritage as a queer person of African descent.
Friends & Demons showcases work Majik has made prolifically over the past two years. It began as a response to her feelings of isolation during the pandemic lock-down. At this time she covered her walls with colourful, cheerful, faces and disembodied mouths that compressed and confronted her demons.
Majik’s work explores an ongoing conversation concerning representations of herself, her community and personal heritage as a queer person of African descent.
Recollect brings together a diverse collection of works on glass, textiles and paper by three different artists. Although their approaches are highly distinctive, common themes are clear to see. The accumulation and reconfiguration of found materials - from discarded textiles and window glass to obsolete technology – is prevalent in many pieces. The reuse of unwanted materials reflects a strong connection with the past and a curiosity about how memories may be perceived within objects and distorted or reinvented over time. Landscapes – whether real or imagined – are a recurrent subject; the processes of layering and destruction that form them are often reflected and echoed by the artists in the innovative techniques they use to create their work.
Georgina Griffiths is a glass artist and painter based at the Barbican Arts Group Trust. Having worked for a decade as an actor, Georgina completed postgraduate studies at UAL Central Saint Martins. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings and glasswork widely, most notably in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Houses of Parliament. Georgina’s architectural work includes a large-scale installation of site-specific glass panels in New Bond Street, London - praised as "gem-like" by the City of Westminster Public Art Advisory Panel. Objects in her immediate environment that might go unnoticed or even be considered repellent form a starting point for much of Georgina’s work. Her recent paintings recollect the bizarre shifting landscapes that seemed to emerge from damaged walls and hoardings passed on daily lockdown walks. A new glass installation Hung Up evokes the imagined histories and conflicting emotions prompted by the sight of discarded facemasks, still ubiquitous in the city’s parks and pavements. www.georginagriffiths.com www.instagram.com/georginagriffithsart
Emily Bellhouse creates large-scale sculptural installations and commissioned artworks in glass. Also a graduate of UAL Central Saint Martins, Emily has exhibited with prestigious organisations such as the British Glass Biennale, Henley Festival of Arts and British Library. Emily has always been fascinated by old photographs, letters and objects and the lost narratives held within them. This curiosity is reflected in her current body of work, where she curates memories and recreates them as unique glass keepsakes. Her Glass Box Cameras are created by replacing the mechanics of original cameras with handcrafted cast glass; precious metals (such as silver) are encased within and layered images are melted onto the surface. These pieces capture moments (as once the camera did) and give the onlooker a window into the lives of the people within. For enquiries regarding commissioning a personalised Glass Box Camera, please contact: info@emilybellhouse.com
Tansy Hargan is a Sheffield-based artist whose work is the result of a long-term critical observation of landscapes and ecological processes. Despite her professional background being in architecture and landscape architecture, sketching and textiles have been her principle media for over twenty years. Her mixed media palette is an allusion to the materials and mechanisms of landscape: it is layered and adapted, diverse and inventive. She deconstructs old garments to harvest high-quality fabrics, which she combines with utility textiles and commercial by-products, such as tailors’ waste. Her methods mimic geophysical activity, as she alters reclaimed textiles by staining, bleaching, scraping, scoring, and slashing. Her work develops in stages, with layers added and taken away repeatedly, and traces of past iterations visible through and between subsequent veils and fibres. www.tansyhargan.com www.instagram.com/palimpsestparade
Georgina Griffiths is a glass artist and painter based at the Barbican Arts Group Trust. Having worked for a decade as an actor, Georgina completed postgraduate studies at UAL Central Saint Martins. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings and glasswork widely, most notably in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Houses of Parliament. Georgina’s architectural work includes a large-scale installation of site-specific glass panels in New Bond Street, London - praised as "gem-like" by the City of Westminster Public Art Advisory Panel. Objects in her immediate environment that might go unnoticed or even be considered repellent form a starting point for much of Georgina’s work. Her recent paintings recollect the bizarre shifting landscapes that seemed to emerge from damaged walls and hoardings passed on daily lockdown walks. A new glass installation Hung Up evokes the imagined histories and conflicting emotions prompted by the sight of discarded facemasks, still ubiquitous in the city’s parks and pavements. www.georginagriffiths.com www.instagram.com/georginagriffithsart
Emily Bellhouse creates large-scale sculptural installations and commissioned artworks in glass. Also a graduate of UAL Central Saint Martins, Emily has exhibited with prestigious organisations such as the British Glass Biennale, Henley Festival of Arts and British Library. Emily has always been fascinated by old photographs, letters and objects and the lost narratives held within them. This curiosity is reflected in her current body of work, where she curates memories and recreates them as unique glass keepsakes. Her Glass Box Cameras are created by replacing the mechanics of original cameras with handcrafted cast glass; precious metals (such as silver) are encased within and layered images are melted onto the surface. These pieces capture moments (as once the camera did) and give the onlooker a window into the lives of the people within. For enquiries regarding commissioning a personalised Glass Box Camera, please contact: info@emilybellhouse.com
Tansy Hargan is a Sheffield-based artist whose work is the result of a long-term critical observation of landscapes and ecological processes. Despite her professional background being in architecture and landscape architecture, sketching and textiles have been her principle media for over twenty years. Her mixed media palette is an allusion to the materials and mechanisms of landscape: it is layered and adapted, diverse and inventive. She deconstructs old garments to harvest high-quality fabrics, which she combines with utility textiles and commercial by-products, such as tailors’ waste. Her methods mimic geophysical activity, as she alters reclaimed textiles by staining, bleaching, scraping, scoring, and slashing. Her work develops in stages, with layers added and taken away repeatedly, and traces of past iterations visible through and between subsequent veils and fibres. www.tansyhargan.com www.instagram.com/palimpsestparade
Bad Language
As written language can be reduced to letters and punctuation, these works strip down everything bar the essential. The processes usedare laid bare and to an extent dictate the visual proposition of the works. The apparent directness at first glance suggests clear, perhaps even logical meanings but this logic often loops back on itself. Repetition, masking and the artists hand result in chanceand the incidental. These very human instances create a deep ambiguity. As if a sentence is begun and veers off into a quite different one.
Katrina Blannin- Caterina Lewis- Neil Zakiewicz
Katrina Blannin was born in London where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester where research centred around ideas about systems and painting with a focus on the British Constructionists working in the latter part of the twentieth century. She teaches at UAL Camberwell and UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring program for Turps Banana, London.
Neil Zakiewicz is a graduate of Goldsmiths College MFA and Cardiff Institute of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work widely, regularly published texts in Art Monthly and AN and has curated numerous exhibitions. Recent group exhibitions include Skewed Logic, Coleman Project Space (2021) and Mass, Saatchi Gallery (2021) and he has a current solo exhibition Come Alive at Domobaal (25.02.22-
02.04.22), London. He is represented by Domobaal.
Caterina Lewis lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Central Saint Martins in 2008 she has shown work in the UK and abroad and co-directed artist run spaces. Recent shows include, Flirting with the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery (2021) and The Collector's Room (Houdini), JGM (2020). Caterina has been artist in residence at Hickster Projects (2019) and was a recipient of a Norwegian Research Council scholarship and artist in residence at National Academy of the Arts in Oslo in 2003.
Atrium Space, 32A Hertford Rd N1 5SH
https://www.barbicanartsgrouptrust.co.uk
As written language can be reduced to letters and punctuation, these works strip down everything bar the essential. The processes usedare laid bare and to an extent dictate the visual proposition of the works. The apparent directness at first glance suggests clear, perhaps even logical meanings but this logic often loops back on itself. Repetition, masking and the artists hand result in chanceand the incidental. These very human instances create a deep ambiguity. As if a sentence is begun and veers off into a quite different one.
Katrina Blannin- Caterina Lewis- Neil Zakiewicz
Katrina Blannin was born in London where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester where research centred around ideas about systems and painting with a focus on the British Constructionists working in the latter part of the twentieth century. She teaches at UAL Camberwell and UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring program for Turps Banana, London.
Neil Zakiewicz is a graduate of Goldsmiths College MFA and Cardiff Institute of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work widely, regularly published texts in Art Monthly and AN and has curated numerous exhibitions. Recent group exhibitions include Skewed Logic, Coleman Project Space (2021) and Mass, Saatchi Gallery (2021) and he has a current solo exhibition Come Alive at Domobaal (25.02.22-
02.04.22), London. He is represented by Domobaal.
Caterina Lewis lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Central Saint Martins in 2008 she has shown work in the UK and abroad and co-directed artist run spaces. Recent shows include, Flirting with the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery (2021) and The Collector's Room (Houdini), JGM (2020). Caterina has been artist in residence at Hickster Projects (2019) and was a recipient of a Norwegian Research Council scholarship and artist in residence at National Academy of the Arts in Oslo in 2003.
Atrium Space, 32A Hertford Rd N1 5SH
https://www.barbicanartsgrouptrust.co.uk