BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Upfront - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://up-front.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Upfront REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210928T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211114T235959 DTSTAMP:20260503T093737 CREATED:20210922T221930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211114T100826Z UID:3206-1632787200-1636934399@up-front.com SUMMARY:Andrew & Gwen Adair : Colour & Surface DESCRIPTION:A joint exhibition by husband and wife artists\, Andy and Gwen Adair. The exhibition will include ceramics and 2D work by Andy and paintings by Gwen. \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist’s Statement – ANDREW ADAIR \n\n\n\nI have been a practicing ceramic artist for over thirty years and have always tried to maintain a playful approach to clay\, allowing the material to be evident through torn edges\, cracks\, texture and surface\, enjoying the random\, organic quality this brings. I greatly admire potters such as Voulkos\, Pearson\, Maltby and Peascod (who I was privileged to be taught by at Glasgow School of Art) for their affinity with their medium and the real integrity their work has. \n\n\n\nMy work must have similar integrity at its core and the material itself must be clearly manifest in the finished pieces. I enjoy “the potness of the pot”; something to be handled and appreciated in a tactile sense\, not just through an aesthetic eye. I remain fascinated by the same themes\, the interplay between positive and negative space\, the layering and distressing of surface\, the unpredictable and the accidental. These are constants in my work. \n\n\n\nI use a subtle and limited palette using different clays as a base. This involves stretching\, layering and folding the clay\, then imprinting the surface; printmaking with clay and glaze instead of paper and ink. My ideas in terms of content are suggested by topical discussions\, news stories\, quotes\, the music playing while I work\, whatever catches my mind and eye. \n\n\n\nAs well as continuing to work with clay\, I have\, over the last few years\, diversified into 2D\, repurposing old metal shelves\, wooden pallets\, and anything with an interesting surface that can be modified and developed. Here I am still exploring many of the same themes as I do in clay\, but on a larger scale. Using spray paint\, stencils\, a blow torch and a lot of elbow grease I am attacking the surface in a much more direct and aggressive manner. Techniques used in my ceramics\, have themselves been repurposed and reused in the 2D works and then reworked back into 3D. The sense of play remains and continues to guide my process. The outcome is not gentle or pretty\, but hopefully quite challenging to the viewer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist’s Statement – GWEN ADAIR \n\n\n\nMy work explores various themes\, but people often predominate in figure compositions and in portraits. I am fascinated by the way the disposition of figures can create a story in the mind of the viewer\, which possibly comes from my training as an illustrator at Glasgow School of Art. I am drawn to the idea of otherness\, as in folk and fairy tales\, or in performers adopting other personas and creating different worlds and alternative realities. \n\n\n\nBirds began to appear alongside the performers\, and have now become a subject in themselves\, as their colours\, shapes and textures are lovely to paint. There is also something knowing about birds. \n\n\n\nMy new-found love of landscape painting is allowing me to develop my language of  expressive and gestural mark-making. Generally my themes are quite traditional\, and I tend to work quickly in an “alla prima” fashion\, using oil paint with square brushes and a palette knife. Hopefully this gives a certain spontaneity to the work. I strongly believe that the paint should be part of the painting\, and that the marks themselves should add to the image. URL:https://up-front.com/event/andrew-gwen-adair-colour-surface/ CATEGORIES:Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://up-front.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_20210815_143807-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220108T163000 DTSTAMP:20260503T093737 CREATED:20211119T081110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T173512Z UID:3328-1637056800-1641659400@up-front.com SUMMARY:"PRESENCE" - Winter Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:in association with “Proseed” and coordinated by Daniel Ibbotson \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAn eclectic exhibition allowing over 50 artists to exhibit in the gallery\, some for the first time. The exhibition is part of “Proceed” who began opening pop-up exhibitions during Lockdown to give artists a platform to sell their work and to have a presence. 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