The Zeitgeist Open 2013 catalogue

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The Zeitgeist Open Catalogue

“ When I first saw the Zeitgeist Open Exhibition 2013 I immediately felt an overwhelming

sense of curiosity. It's been a pleasure to have been involved with a show of such diverse

and fascinating contemporary work.” Selector Graham Crowley

The Zeitgeist Open 2013 - Curated by Annabel Tilley & Rosalind Davis Selected by Graham Crowley, Susan Collis, Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley

Exhibition Open: 27 September – 5 October

Selected Artists Hermione Allsopp, Jane Archer, Katrina Blannin, Claire Brewster, Jason Brown, Tom Butler,

Emma Caton, Martyn Cross, Helen Donnelly, Nathan Eastwood, Gethin Evans, Gordon

Flemons, Aldobranti Fosco Fornio, Tina Francis, Neill Fuller, Dominique Goodwin, Jonny

Green, Luke Humphries, Mandy Hudson, Catherine Jacobs, Michael James, Evy Jokhova,

Simone Kennedy, Simon Leahy- Clark, Charlotte C Mortensson, Olivia Moullaali, Simon Ogden,

Rebecca Parkin, Edward Parsons Brown, Ana Ruepp, Julia Russell, Wendy Saunders, Sarah

Shaw, Timothy Shepard, Paul Smith, Srinivas Surti, Annie Suganami, Claire Tindale, Jeremy

Turner, Dina Varpahovsky, Eleanor Wemyss, Ben Woodeson and Carol Wyss.

Press Release: Zeitgeist Arts Projects are proud to present the second annual Zeitgeist Open

Exhibition. This year 42 artists were chosen by selectors and fellow- artists Susan Collis,

Graham Crowley, Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley from the 287 entries received. The idea

behind an open exhibition is that it is exactly that: open. Open in all senses: open to all artists,

open to all mediums. The open for us is about giving exposure to talented artists, to create

networks for them and to discover work that positively shines with new ideas, spanning

sculpture, collage, print, photography and painting. Within the selected works there exudes a

quiet confidence in each piece.

We see this buoyancy and self-

assurance in Neil Fuller’s still

life painting: Goin Down to the

Country with its bright cartoon-

like depiction of a comic plastic

tree, whose original cheap

manufacture and long-lost

conception are at odds with the

studied painted version which

is a playful conflation of two

traditional painting genres

(landscape and still-life).

Similarly, and with this same

theme, Still Life by Gordon

Flemons is reminiscent of

consumer products ready for

shipping, the objects here are

obscured and inaccessible

behind a barrier of black

polythene. The black film strips

away detail, colour, and

identity. Branding has gone. Knowledge and access are denied. Only form remains. The eye is

brought to bear on the taut surface of the wrapping only to raise unanswered questions of what

lies beneath.


Gordon Flemons’s Still Life Rebecca Parkin’s Meat Pirate

Again, in Rebecca Parkin’s meat pirate we have to adjust our vision; look closer but still it is not

clear what we are looking at.

Within some of the works there is a feeling of absence, of mourning. This is apparent in the

embossed bones of Carol Wyss’s Bodyprint and the pathos of Jonny Green’s Christmas with its

slumped figure and can also be found in Claire Tindale’s exquisite miniature of a wheelchair

entitled: In Those We Trust and Aldobranti Fosco-Foranti ‘s Free Shadow which might remind us

of Peter Pan’s lost shadow. Tom Butler’s Phic, a concealed, locked-in portrait resonate with

explorations of identity and surrealism. These are themes also present in Martyn Cross’s

Primordial Soup featuring another of his well-known collaged interventions using old seventies

children’s knitting patterns and Simone Kennedy’s Twenty Six Mothers which has women with

large beautiful butterfly heads pushing prams.

Simon Leahy-Clark’s Staircase and the labyrinth Walking Round St George’s Church, Bloomsbury

by Timothy Shepard are collage work of meticulous detail. For both of these artists there is a

fascination with the mediated images, the recycling of the news, to construct other worlds from

the machinations of an everyday world.

Figurative works are fleeting, turned away or locked away from us, in reverie, suspense or hope

such as in Nathan Eastwood’s Fiona in the Bathroom , Wendy Saunders’s Man with Eyes Closed

and Annie Suganami’s Stanley Spencer-esque self-portrait in green stripes painted over an

existing painting entitled: Me Green.

If several works in The Zeitgeist Open make us look again because of their blatant: Look at me

attitude then it is fair to say that this year’s Zeitgeist Open Exhibition is an exhibition in two

halves – a snapshot of now, and a snapshot of now influenced by twentieth century art history.

So that in among the new new we find the new re-imagined with obvious references to: Hans

Arp, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali or mid-twentieth century British painting like in Mandy Hudson’s

exquisite painting: Windmills which references the aesthetic language of the forties and fifties

and work by Ivon Hitchens & Winifred Nicholson.

Mandy Hudson, Windmills Ana Ruepp, To Capture


While in Ana Ruepp’s work: To capture the Unknown Quality of the Instant we are reminded of

Joan Miro.

What does it mean that this next generation of artists, contemporary artists working now, have

become so interested with the art of a hundred years ago and what was then termed Modern

Art? This is surely more than a passing phase. It is a phenomenon that is becoming more

common, and more prevalent in current art practice. Past ideas and painterly languages are re-

imagined and evaluated in a genuine way- not just as post-modern sampling and pastiche.

ends

Selector: Graham Crowley

When I first saw the Zeitgeist Open Exhibition 2013 I immediately felt an overwhelming

sense of curiosity. It's been a pleasure to have been involved with a show of such diverse

and fascinating contemporary work. Work that references the likes of Marsden Hartley,

Prunella Clough, Ralph Goings, Stuart Davis, Gwen John and even the very early work of

Ivon Hitchens. Voices so disparate and so marginal as to be unfashionable. But at a time

when the market is dominant, I can think of no greater compliment. Speaking as a

practitioner, being fashionable isn't an accolade - it's a death sentence.

This show contains work that ranges from the touching reality of a soviet childhood to a

fascination with British 19th century colonialism. The kind of work in which meaning

generates appropriate form. At long last; an exhibition that represents a credible

attempt to reclaim experience as an intelligent and legitimate form of first order

meaning. There's also a long overdue return of skill; demonstrated in exquisite painting,

marquetry and weaving. Precision of means is no longer a stranger.

The ZAP Open has always been a 'celebrity free' zone. The implications of this are

enormous. The results speak for themselves. The entire Zeitgeist selection panel were

practicing artists. Which means the level of discussion was professional and informed -

rather than a fantasy shopping trip.

I'd much rather be judged by one of my professional peers than a half-forgotten

children's TV presenter from the 1970's.

The work ranges from the exquisite to the precarious. This show is a testimony to

thoughtful reflection and attention. To love and skill. The work fascinates and captivates.

Reflection, intimacy and generosity have replaced rhetoric and bombast. This is much

more than mere 'product'.

The selectors of Zeitgeist Open had the breadth of knowledge to identify exhausted

academic conventions.

There's an overwhelming sense that the work in this show was made because it was

worthwhile. This show is a project of reclamation and celebration. In short - a joy.


Graham Crowley, Allotment Susan Collis, You Again

Selector: Susan Collis

I have a fondness for the Open Submission Exhibition as I strongly believe that it was

one of the ways in which I gave my own career an important kick-start after leaving

college. I remember that during the final year of my postgraduate study.. and for a few

years afterwards, I applied for many Opens, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Aspex

Gallery’s Emergency and New Contemporaries. I also remember how great it felt to get a

‘yes’ answer – a seeming affirmation that I was on the right track , as well as the crushing

disappointment when the answer was no…

So I was honoured when Annabel and Rosalind asked me to be on the judging panel for

this year’s Zeitgeist Open, now in its second year and already on the map as a great

showing opportunity for artists of all disciplines. But I was also equally daunted at the

prospect of giving ‘yes’ or ‘no verdicts to the works presented.

Annabel and Rosalind’s criteria of seeing the work ‘blind’ so to speak is an interesting

one, - each work is viewed without accompaniment of the name, statement or CV of the

artist who produced it and I was surprised at how unsettling a prospect I found this.

Their remit though, of encouraging total inclusivity is laudable. However, I found

myself going straight to Google when I got home, to check out the artists that I had felt

particularly strogly about. What was I looking for? Not just affirmation that my ‘art

radar’ was in working order, but a sort of Zeitgeist I suppose. In turn this made me think

about what an evasive concept Zeitgeist actually is –more like a current to be swept

along with than a style to be copied (we saw a surprising amount of works that looked

as if they could have been produced by the same artist).

Since the judging day, I’ve given a lot of thought about the process we went through and

the reasoning’s behind certain works being chosen over others. Leaving aside the

obvious detrimental effects of (sometimes howlingly) bad presentation, I was left

wondering just what it was about some works that caused the 4 people in the room to

shout a simultaneous ‘YES!!’

An unexpected outcome for both Graham and myself was that we found ourselves being

most drawn to works that were as dissimilar our own as was possible to be. Other

criteria that came to bear on my own choices was a sense in the work of

experimentation, of curiosity about the world, of something that even though it might be

referencing previous movements or practitioners, felt like something new and fresh.

These artists shone through.


Annabel Tilley, Rosalind Davis, The Distance Between.

Zebra in the Garden of Eden with a

Rubbing-down House. After George Stubbs

(1724-1806).

Selector: Annabel Tilley

The Selection Process

Any selection process is difficult because when analysed the whole procedure is about

making choices. And even if we don’t realise it at the time - when we gather in London as

selectors for the second Zeitgeist Open in September 2013 (Graham Crowley, Susan

Collis, Rosalind Davis & I) - we are making decisions about what we consider good art

might be.

Of course, personal taste and aesthetics can’t help but enter the fray so having three

other artists to debate your choice with can be both tense and delightful.

However, what is apparent from the process is that some works have something distinct

– an exceptional quality - that occasionally makes all four selectors sit up and shout: Yes!

And it is when this happens that one knows one is in the presence of something singular.

Which, in itself, goes to the heart of being an artist. We strive to make our work, and

however, much we try and kid ourselves we are always trying to make something good.

How do we know it is good? And what does that even mean? Mostly we can only judge

when time has passed and we can see the work objectively - for what it is. However,

because time is of the essence, as an artist, we attempt to create this experience before it

has happened; straight away. We try and catch ourselves unawares, sneak up on the

work – as though it belonged to someone else - and see it obliquely, as if for first time: to

see if it is any good.

The tension that abounds during an open selection process is very similar so that one

goes through this agony, anxiety and ecstasy nearly a thousand times as the work flashes

past and round follows round. We find ourselves scanning the work for that very

something – that unarticulated quality - that allusive otherness which is so rarely

present and yet is so quickly identified when it does come into view.

Artists make good selectors because we are trained to seek the exceptional and the

oblique in the work of others - our peers, our grand masters and our teachers - so that

we might know what it is in our own work. It is that very vision and the ability to see it

in others and create it for ourselves that we strive for everyday in our studios and,

conversely, it’s very lack that creates the loneliness and the feelings of inadequacy that

all artists suffer.


Paradoxically, it is also what keeps us working. What we work towards.

Selector: Rosalind Davis

Being on the selection panel and the experience of choosing artists through a

competition is a tense experience; each piece submitted is weighted with the hope of

being selected and it is a responsible position to be in, and a role in which one has to be

fairly bold and confident in some of the discussions that take place; in knowing your

own opinion but also allowing for an openness in listening to others. I enjoy the debates

between the selectors discussing artworks and practice, the unknowns, the excitement

of seeing something that makes you curious, perplexed, wonder, bewilder!

This is now my fourth year of managing (and two years selecting) an Open Submission

Competition, all of which were carefully designed to create valuable exhibition

opportunities for artists. Each year I wonder if perhaps this will be the last open

submission we run, for it is an incredible amount of very tiring (largely unpaid) work.

But each time, I am enlivened and enriched by working with these wonderful artists and

having the opportunity to exhibit their works, to bring them to other peoples attention,

by the conversations we have with the artists and the visitors who come full of

excitement at the show. It is a great joy to Annabel and I to unravel the stories,

motivation, processes or concepts behind the works, to curate and create dynamic,

quiet, idiosyncratic, logical and illogical conversations with the works in the show. With

each exhibition I expand my own knowledge of artistic practice and motivations.

"Art is not here to provide knowledge in direct ways. It produces deepened perceptions of

experience. If the aim was to be simply understood we would have no need for art. Art

alone makes life possible." Joseph Beuys

With each exhibition I expand my own knowledge of artistic practice and motivations.

I learn and then I teach which is a great joy to me. It is also important to us, at ZAP, that

we continue to create relationships with artists, and that in turn we are able to introduce

the artists we work with to new networks as well as encourage artists to development

these links amongst themselves. Four years on and having worked with hundreds of

artists now I am pleased to say that I am still having conversations with those I exhibited

in the first open I ran in 2010, and many more. After-all, art is a conversation with other

artists.

THE ZEITGEIST OPEN 2013:


Hermione Allsopp

Blockapillar, 2013

Mixed Media, 27 x 30 x 150 cm

Hermione Allsopp studied MA Fine Art at UCA Canterbury 2010-2012, since

graduating she has exhibited work at: Angelika Open, High Wycombe, East Sussex Open,

Towner, Eastbourne, Pneu, Electro Studios Project Space, Hastings, Void Open, London,

Broken Roads and Shrinking Magic, Hastings, and Art in Romney Marsh 2013.

She was selected to be part of the Accident and Emergence ‘Pistols and Pollinators 2’

a collaborative project pairing artists and poets, working together for 3 months,

resulting in an exhibition at The Albert, London.

Recent awards: Winner of the Void Open Exhibition 2013, and was shortlisted for

the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2013.

www.hermioneallsopp.com


Jane Archer

Rosa Reclinata Flore Submultiplici, 2013

Ink and collage on found botanical illustration, 24 x 18.5 cm

Jane Archer graduated with First Class Honours from Chelsea College of Art

in 2007 and was selected for ‘Top 25 London graduates’ by Salon Contemporary,

London. The following year, among other shows she was in a two-person show

with Jeremy Evans and had work in Arty magazine, Transition Gallery Editions.

In 2010 Archer participated in ‘400 Women’ by Tamsyn Challenger, a group

show of 200 artists touring the UK and to Holland.

This year Archer have shown in ‘Modern Beauties’, in Juneau Projects’

‘I am the Warrior’ and the ZAP summer show.

Archer’s work is in private collections in the US and Europe.

www.janearcher.co.uk


Katrina Blannin

Double Hexad - Pale Lines, 2013

Acrylic on linen, 60 x 50 cm

Katrina Blannin trained in Fine Art at Portsmouth and The Royal College of Art.

She has exhibited widely over the past decade nationally and internationally

including: The Fine Line Group Show (2013) in Hong Kong, Discernible in

London (2013), The John Moores Open in Liverpool (2012), Alter Group Show at

Vegas Gallery in London (2012) and the Crash Open (2011) and (2010). Celeeste

Art Prize (2006)

She is a co-director/curator of The Lion & Lamb Gallery and mentor for The

Turps Banana School.

www.katrinablannin.com


Claire Bewster

There is Beauty Here, 2012

Paper, 55 x 65 cm

Claire Brewster's work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the

unwanted, and giving

new life to the obsolete. She uses old maps and atlases to create intricate and

delicate sculptures. Her work has been widely exhibited including Manchester

Art Gallery, London Transport Museum, Gallery S Bensimon, Paris, Posted

Projects London and The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013. And is held

in public and private collections all over the world, including: The London

Transport Museum, Bury Art Gallery, Paintings in Hospitals and Hyatt Hotel,

New Orleans and has been widely published in Vogue, World of Interiors,

Black Dog publishing and London Underground Maps by Clare Dobin.

www.clairebrewster.co.uk


Jason Brown

Dog In A Bin, 2013

Wood, paint, plaster and glue, 90 x 39 x 39 cm

Jason Brown was born in London and is currently based in Bristol. He graduated

with an MA in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 2012. Solo

Exhibitions: 2011 ‘Receiver’, The Island Gallery, Bristol. Group Exhibitions: 2013

‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Spike Island, Bristol & Institute of

Contemporary Arts, London. ‘Holy Souls’, Start Project, Bristol. 2012

‘Motorcade/Flashparade National Open’, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol. ‘Wells

Art Contemporary Open’, Wells & Mendip Museum, Wells, Somerset.

2011 ‘Peer Pressure’, Galleri, Bristol. ‘Sixteen’, The Old Bridewell Police Station,

Bristol. 2010 ‘Daylight Robbery’, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol.

www.jasonbrown.org.uk


Tom Butler

Phic”, 2013

Gouache on Victorian cabinet card, 11 x 16.5 cm

Tom Butler (born London, 1979) graduated from the Slade School of Art with an

MFA in Sculpture. His work has been internationally shown at ANTHOLOGY 2012

at CHARLIE SMITH London, THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, 2012/2013, VOX IX at Vox

Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA, The Biennial Exhibition at The Centre for Maine

Contemporary Art, 2012, USA, Extra-Ordinary with Marion Michell and Alyson

Helyer at Core Gallery, 2011, London, as well as ZAP group exhibitions, Collectible

and Discernible. Recent solo shows include Curio at Charlie Dutton Gallery,

London, 2012, and a two person show, Nervous Energy, with Kate Russo at Engine

in Biddeford Maine, USA, 2013.

www.tombutlerstudio.com


Emma Caton

The Soul Can Split The Sky in Two, 2012

Polyester Resin and pigment, 30 x 20 cm

Dark, mad scientist meets light, sensual artist. The result: sculptures, installations

and drawings that crush conventional techniques and materials. Jekyll & Hyde of

the fine art world, Emma expresses her deep compassion and concern for the

human conditions of isolation, love, courage, fragility and loss. Take in her fine

sculptures of painted eggshell and sterling silver cast in polyester resin. You’ll see

plaster, di-bond aluminium and silver-plaited wire alongside insects, animal

foetuses, human blood faeces and semen. As recycled as her installations, Emma

draws beautifully on scrap tables and metal/enamel objects.

www.emmacaton.com


Martyn Cross

Primordial Soup, 2012

Collaged knitting pattern in second-hand frame, 38 x 30 cm

Recent solo exhibitions include Edgelands at Angelika Studios, High

Wycombe in 2013 and Crumbling Into Dust, a site-specific installation for the

Bristol Biennial at the Edwardian Toilets, Bristol in 2012. Selected group

exhibitions include: Like A Monkey With A Miniature Cymbal, Aid & Abet,

Cambridge (2013); Take Me To The Other Side, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2013);

Temporary Residence, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2013); Creekside Open, APT

Gallery, London (2013); Intervention, Intervention, Fishmarket Gallery,

Northampton (2011); The Jerwood Drawing Prize, UK touring show (2009);

Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix (2009); These Living Walls of Jet,

Ceri Hand Gallery (2008). In 2012 Cross was selected by Modern Painters

magazine as one of their ‘100 Artists to Watch’ and also won the inaugural

Angelika Open art prize. He lives and works in Bristol.

www.yateheads.blogspot.co.uk


Helen Donnelly

Untitled, 2013

Acrylic and pen on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

Helen Donnelly is a Painter living and working in Scarborough, North

Yorkshire. Previously a studio holder at Crescent Arts.

Recent exhibitions include Artworks Open 2013 ( Barbican Arts Group

Trust) selected by David Kefford and Reece Jones, Zap open 2012 Selected by

Graham Crowley, David Kefford and Alistair Gentry, Saturation Point,

International survey of reductive Art, London and New work a dual site

exhibition at Queen St Auction rooms and Crescent Arts, Scarborough.

www.helendonnelly04.tumblr.com


Nathan Eastwood

Fiona In Bathroom, 2012

Humbrol Enamel on Board, 33.5 x 40.5cm

Nathan Eastwood born in Barrow-at-Furness in 1972 achieved a 1st class BA

(HONS)

at Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury 2001-5 and Byam Shaw school

of Art at Central Saint Martins 2008-9. Solo show forthcoming: Contemporary

British Painting, Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London 2014.

Group exhibitions include: Threadneedle Prize 2013 Mall Galleries London,

Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, John Moores Painting Prize 2012 Walker Art

Gallery Liverpool, Occupied Realism Portman Gallery London 2012, Platform C’s

Emergent Art show Vyner Street Gallery London 2011, ArtWorks Open 2010

ArtWorks Project space (Barbican Arts Group Trust) London and Dazzleships red

room London 2010. He was shortlisted for the Celeste Art

Prize 2007 T2 old Truman Brewery London and Lyon & Turnbull Galleries

Edinburgh Scotland.


www.neastwood.com

Gethin Evans

Shanghai, Dalston, 2012

Oil on linen, 56 x 61 cm

Gethin Evans studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, Camberwell School of Art and

Crafts and Slade School of Fine Art. Recent exhibitions include ‘Territories’ at

Galerie Windkracht, Den Helder, Holland; ‘Inside the White Cube’ at Trinity Buoy

Wharf; ‘Compass’ at Street Road Gallery, Pennsylvania;, and The Ruth Borchard

Self Portrait Competition at King’s Place Gallery, London. Forthcoming

exhibitions include the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall galleries and the Sunday

Times Watercolour Competiton at the Mall Galleries. Works are held in private

collections in the UK and USA.


Gordon Flemons

Still Life III, 2012

Polythene, wooden shelf, found objects, 61 x 15 x 26 cm

Gordon Flemons is a visual artist based in Essex. His work has been exhibited

at firstsite, Colchester, and The Old Vic Tunnels, London. This year he has collaborated

with the musician Katie English for the UN-Hyphen project curated by Jonathan Kipps

and Stuart Bowditch, and exhibited in both parts of the 2013 Creekside Open selected

and curated respectively by Paul Nobel and Ceri Hand. He is currently working

on a research residency in collaboration with Elaine Tribley at TAP. Flemons

graduated in Fine Art from The Norwich School of Art.

www.gordonflemons.com


Aldobranti Fosco Fornio

Free Shadow @ 157, 2013

Photographic print, 100 x 100 cm

Aldobranti Fosco Fornio worked as a mathematician in Swiss and Wall Street banks before taking up a

newcareer in the arts, and is currently an MA student at Winchester School of Art, University of

Southampton

Solo shows include: Lessons in Geography, Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield Museum,

Peterfields.Group shows include: Open Doors at Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, Portugal; Twenty

Squared, Gallery TS1, Middlesborough; Fresh at Jacksons Art. Future exhibitions include: Art at NESTA

(opening November 2013) Fosco Fornio has published a photo-book in the Kindle format and his work

has been exhibited in this country and abroad. He recently featured in LandEscape International Art

Review, August issue


Tina Francis

A Woman’s Weave, 2013

Tapestry needlepoint, 100 x 70cm

Working with stitch gives you a different perspective on time Tapestry

Needlepoint artist Tina Francis measures her days in inches rather than

hours. Tina started needlepoint stitching

after buying a box of embroidery transfers on opening the box she found that

it contained a map of a woman's life in knitting and needlepoint patterns

everything that she had stitched and made for her family, a box of love. By

only using second hand wool Tinas work continues the story started by

previous stitchers, unable to blend colours like a painter she relies on colour

resonance to bring depth to her work. She explored the subject of resonance

in her small exhibition at JAG Gallery Brighton for Artists Open Houses May

2013 and has also exhibited at ZAP Summer Show. Tina completed a

Foundation in Textiles at Morley College, London.

www.tinafrancis.co.uk


Neil Fuller

Goin’ Down to the Country, 2013

Oil on linen, 60 x 50 cm

Neill Fuller is a painter who lives and works in Somerset. He was born in Essex in

1970 and studied Fine Art in Bath 1991- 93. Recent exhibitions in 2013 include

‘The Hot-One-Hundred’, Schwartz Gallery, London; ‘Now Wakes The Sea’, Kinsale,

Co. Cork, and a solo show at the Parlour Showrooms, Bristol. He was awarded The

2013 Blackswan

Arts Prize, Frome, and had work commended at the 2013 Worcester

Contemporary Open.

www.neillfullerpaintings.com


Dominique Goodwin

River

Mixed media maquette, 43 x 5 cm

Dominique Goodwin is a visual artist who lives and works in Surrey. Born in France,

Dominique graduated in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts last year. Recent

exhibitions include Wells Art Contemporary in 2012, Cities All Dimensions at Tokarska Gallery

London in 2013 and a collaborative exhibition For Walls Contemporary In Basingstoke. One of

her prints was selected for the Lessedra International Mini Print Annual in Sofia 2013.

www.dom-art.com


Jonny Green

Christmas, 2013

Oil on canvas on board, 90 x 75 cm

Jonny Green is a painter who lives and works in London. He graduated from Norwich school of

art and the Royal College of Art. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, recent

shows include 'Beastly Hall' in Hall place museum in Kent, 'in bloom' in Brussels, Belgium. Last

year he had a solo show at Carter Presents in London. Prizes include the FIAR international art

prize, a Delphina studios residency and the Richard Ford Travel Award. His work is in several

public and private collections including Deutshe Bank, and the Hull City Art Gallery.

www.jonathangreen.net/home.html


Mandy Hudson

Windmills, 2013

Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Mandy Hudson lives and works in London. She Studied at Maidstone

College of Art, Kent Institute, graduating in 1989. She has exhibited in

several group exhibitions in the UK and internationally. These include MK Calling at the

Milton Keynes Gallery 2013, ‘New Foragers’ Collyer Bristow 2012, Creekside Open 2011

,‘Souvenirs’ Fieldgate at Angus Hughes, ArtSway Open 2010 and ‘One day’ Gallery

Corridor Reykjavik. She was included in ART Futures, Contemporary Art Society in 2007.

www.mandyhudson.co.uk


Luke Humphries

L (Learn Your Lermurian Alphabet), 2013

Wood, spray paint, chipboard, acrylic, 25cm x 25 cm x 4cm

Luke Humphries is an artist and musician working in Sydenham, London.

Luke was born in West Bromwich in 1990 and gained a BA Hons in Fine Art

from Kingston University in 2012.

Recent shows include: Zap Open - Zeitgeist Projects 2013, HOT-ONE-HUNDRED

- Schwartz Gallery 2013 and the Creekside Open 2013 Selected by

Paul Noble - APT Gallery. Luke also works alongside Dogshit magazine/collective.

Shows and events include; FUN SHOW 3 – Grey Horse 2012 Kingston, FUN SHOW 1&2

Bookable Space Kingston 2012 and PROEXSOL - Gallery 51, Kingston 2011. He also plays

guitar for Germolean.

www.lukehumphries.com


Catherine Jacobs

In Her Caravan, 2013

Lambda C-Type print mounted on DI-Bond

Catherine Jacobs is an artist living and working in London.

Informed by her parallel career as a Research Psychologist, she makes images

that are abstract and ambiguous to invite viewers’ to consider their subjective

responses to the works. In Her Caravan is the first image from ‘Egdelands’ a

new and ongoing series of photographic landscapes with viewpoints that are

transient and liminal in nature.

Catherine has exhibited widely and has shown with Flower’s Gallery,

Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Los Angeles Photo Fair, Midlands Art Centre,

London Art Fair and the Herefordshire Photography Festival and her work

is held in many private collections.

www.catherinejacobs.co.uk


Michael James

Donkey, 2010

Oil on canvas on panel, 40 x 30 cm

Michael Stewart James lives and works in Hampshire. He studied an MA at

Central Saint Martins 2010. Has exhibited nationally in several group exhibition,

the 2012 National Open competition, at the Minerva theatre in Chichester and the

Prince’s Gallery, Hoxton; Shortlisted for the 1stround of the Jerwood painting

fellowship in 2011, Group show at the Bargehouse, OXO tower, London winning

the Mishcon de Reya art prize.

www.michaelstewartjames.com


Evy Jokhova

Proposition No.5, 2013

Pencil and gouache on lithograph, 65 x 50 cm

Evy Jokhova graduated from The Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martin’s

and is a multi-disciplinary artist and bookmaker. Drawing on an interest in sociology,

Jokhova investigates how our needs dictate the worlds we create, how individuals

are formed by the environment that they live in. She works with notions of space and

the form it takes for individuals – the space within architecture, the concept of home

and the construction of dwellings and worlds both real and fictional. Jokhova has

previously been an artist in residence at the Florence Trust, London and exhibited

at the Barbican Gallery, Cafe Gallery Projects, Collier Bristow, Pump House Gallery,

Royal Academy of Arts and WW Gallery. Her artist books and print works are held

in the Royal College of Art and the Royal Shakespeare Company collections.

www.evyjokhova.co.uk


Simone Kennedy

Twenty Six Mothers No.1, 2011

Collage Giclee print, 24 X 33 cm

Simone Kennedy is a British, artist who currently resides in Australia. In 1981 she

studied at the South Australian School of Art, graduating with a degree in Design.

Since 1998 she worked full time as an artist exhibiting regularly, painting and

developing soft sculptures. In 2005 she completed a Masters by Research degree

in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia where she became particularly

interested in the developing psychology of attachment surrounding the

mother/infant relationship. This set the foundation of her current PhD by studio

where she is investigating Attachment Theory founded by British psychoanalyst

John Bowlby.

www.simonekennedy.com


Simon Leahy Clark

Staircase, 2013

Collage (Newspaper cuttings on canvas), 115 x 65 cm

Simon Leahy-Clark (b. 1973, Cardiff) studied Fine Art at Middlesex University

(1996-1999). Selected exhibition include ArtWorks Open, Barbican Art Trust

(2013, 2011, 2010); NeoArt Prize, Bolton (2013); Photo/Print Open, Charlie

Dutton Gallery (2013); Creekside Open (2013, 2007); Collectible, ZAP, London

(2012); Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011, 2008); RA Summer Exhibition (2011);

Crash, Charlie Dutton Gallery (2010); Core Open, London (2010); So What's

Different Today, Globe Gallery, Newcastle (2010); The National Open Art

Competition, Chichester (2009); 40 Artist 40 Drawing, The Drawing Gallery,

Shropshire (2009); Re:Drawing, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown (2008); 13th

Yoshihara Memorial Exhibition, Osaka Contemporary Arts Centre, winner Gutai

Group Prize (2005), Aftershock, 1a Space, Hong Kong (2004); Faith, Transition

Gallery, London (2004); Oriel Mostyn 12, Llandudno (2002). Solo exhibitions

include Library, Westminster Reference Library (2012); From the Lagado

Academy, CAS Gallery, Osaka, (2005), supported by the British Council. He lives

and works in London

www.theleahyclarks.com/simon.html


Charlotte C Mortensson

Nancy, 2012

Archival giclee print mounted on aluminum, 75 x 100 cm

I exhibit in the UK and Switzerland. My video, Five Jamaican Intuitive Artists was

screened at Kunsthaeuschen Herrliberg, Zurich in 2012/2013. The same gallery

had solo shows of my paintings in 2006 and 2011.

My Mouth is Soft, a series of 6 photographs from Kingston, Jamaica, was

exhibited at CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment), Manchester,

2011/12 and at East West Gallery, London, 2012.

Group shows include this year’s ArtWorks Open at the Barbican Arts Trust

Group; Discerning Eye; Emergency 4 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Originals 09

at the Mall Galleries; Creekside Open, Deptford, 2009.

I was elected into The London Group, 2011 and exhibit regularly with them and

also curate for a Swiss gallery.

www.charlottecmortensson.com


Olivia Moullaali

Safe Keeping, 2012

Oil on board, 90 x 70 cm

Olivia Moullaali born in Middlesbrough in 1991 lives and works in London. She

studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art, graduating with a First

Class Honours in 2013. Recent group exhibitions include 'Curate North', The

Rowan Arts Project London and 'FloatArt', Tower Bridge London. In 2012 she

was awarded the Berriman Painting Prize, WImbledon College of Art.

www.oliviamoullaali.co.uk


Simon Ogden

Paradise, 2006

Found linoleum, wallpaper and wood on board, 80 x 80 cm

Simon Ogden was born in Bradford in 1956. He was educated at Carlisle

College of Art and Design (1974-75); Birmingham Polytechnic (1975-78) and he

has a MARCA from the Royal College of Art, London (1979-82). In 1982 he was

awarded the Abbey Travelling Scholarship at the RCA and was also the Leeds

University Artist in Labrador Canada where he worked with the Smithsonian

Institute on the excavation of a Pre-Dorset house site.

Simon was invited two years later to be the Artist on another excavation being

run by Auckland University New Zealand, and in 1994-95 he held the residency

at the Dunmoochin Foundation in Melbourne Australia. Since then Simon has

lived and worked in Christchurch New Zealand where he is currently a Reader

in Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury NZ. Presently Simon is working and

travelling in the UK and Europe collecting and collating material for a series of

new shows in New Zealand. Simon has exhibited regularly since 1984 and his

work is held in many public and private collections.

www.bowengalleries.co.nz/artists/ogden.php


Rebecca Parkin

Meat Pirate, 2013

Acrylic and oil on board, 31 x 45cm

Rebecca Parkin is a practising artist in North East London since graduating

from the Royal College of Art in 2009. She was also nominated by the Royal

College of Art for The Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation Scholarship Award in 2007

and subsequently selected as the winner by a panel of previous awardees.

During 2009 she was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries at The

Corner House in Manchester and The Rochelle School in London. Her work

has been exhibited in various group shows around London and is also in

several private collections and has been discussed in articles in The Financial

times by Richard Cork in ‘Degrees of difficulty’ and The Guardian in ‘The fine

art of investing’ by Miles Brignal.

www.rebeccaparkin.co.uk


Edward Parsons Brown

Deptford, 2012

Etching, 14 x 10 cm

Edward Parsons Brown is a visual artist living and working in London. He

studied Painting at Camberwell College of Arts 2005 – 8. His final project at

Camberwell was an informal on-site painting residency at the Barbican. In 2010

he exhibited paintings of a flood plain in Oxford in two solo shows in that city,

and was then selected to be part of ‘Bright Young Things’ in 2010 – a group show

in Oxford Town Hall showing work by artists from the region. Since then he has

exhibited in various group and solo shows in London and Oxford.

www.edwardparsonsbrown.com


Ana Ruepp is from Lisbon. She is a graduated architect from Instituto Superior

Técnico (2003), has a Master in Modern and Contemporary Architectural

Culture from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

(2009) and a Master in Fine Arts from Byam Shaw School of Art (2010). She

worked for five years as an architect in Lisbon and as an assistant lecturer at

Instituto Superior Técnico. Since 2005 she shows regularly as an artist in solo

and group exhibitions in London, Lisbon and Berlin. She currently lives in

London and is preparing her second solo show in October, in Centro Nacional de

Cultura (Lisbon).

www.anaruepp.com


Julia Russell

View of Paulhan from Campagnan

oil on paper, 50.5x19.5cm

Julia Russell attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She

subsequently worked in photography and printmaking in Chicago, and then

worked in graphic design on her return to London. Her paintings are a direct

confrontation of a visual experience depicting an image that is constantly in the

process of changing. She strives to recreate a pictorial space with the intrinsic

rhythms of mountains, sky, light and dark that are found in a landscape. Julia

lives and works in South East London.

www.juliarussellarts.co.uk


Wendy Saunders

Man with Eyes Closed

oil on linen, 30x30cms, 2013

Wendy Saunders developed an interest in art through her drawing

experiences as part of her garden design practice in 2005. This

eventually led her to CityLit short courses and then a

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. She began painting (in oil)

mid2010. From the outset her interest was always in human faces and in

particular the intuitive response to expression. She has exhibited in

several groups shows in London including Look Up, Crouch End Festival,

Schwartz Gallery, A.L.A.S. Exhibition as part of residency at Matt

Roberts Arts and was selected for inclusion in the Threadneedle Prize

2013.

www.wendymsaunders.co.uk


Sarah Shaw

'Monolith I',

Oil on canvas, 59x80cm, 2012

Sarah Shaw graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2000 with a first

class degree in painting, and has exhibited widely nationally, mainly in

selected group shows: she was recently included in the well received '32

Painters' exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Bright

on, and has recently had her first solo show at the Artist Residence gallery,

also in Brighton. She has been selected/shortlisted for many prestigious

competitions including the Threadneedle Prize/ Saatchi

competitions/Aesthetica Art Prize and the National Open Competition, the

latter in which she will be showing work again this year. She is represented

by Ink_d Gallery in Brighton.

www.sarahshaw.co.uk


Paul Smith

Vanishing Point

oil on canvas, 61x51, 2013

Paul Smith was educated at West Surrey College of Art and Design,

Farnham. Selected group exhibitions include LCB Takeover, LCB Depot,

Fresh Meat Gallery, Crash Open Salon(2012), Open cueB, Gallery cueB

(2012) Charlie Dutton Gallery, Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts (2010).

He has a forthcoming Solo Exhibition in 2013 with Duckett & Jeffreys,

North Yorkshire.

www.paulsmithart.blogspot.co.uk


Timothy Shepard

Walking Around St George's Church, Bloomsbury, 2013

Archive print on Hahnemuhle Paper mounted on linen in glazed wood box, 38.5x50cm.

Timothy Shepard is an American artist living and working in London and the Montagne

Noire in SW France. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Washington DC. Recent

group shows include: Zeitgeist Arts Projects' Discernible, Photo & Print at the Charlie

Dutton Gallery, London Art Fair in Islington and 20/21 British Art Fair in Kensington

(2013). His Observation Works were the subject of a special six month exhibition at the

National Centre For Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado (2012-13) and in 2013

he had a five month solo show of 24 works at Grosvenor Street Art Space, London. In

2008 he was commissioned by Paul Weller to create a Landscape Collage which was

used for the cover of his #1 Album 22 Dreams, and concert backkdrop, having created a

piece for the cover of the critically acclaimed album by Kevin Ayers, The

Unfairground,(2007) which Shepard also produced.

www.timshepard.co.uk.


Annie Morgan Suganami

me green

oil on canvas, 60x75cm, 2013

Annie Morgan Suganami studied flute at the Royal Academy of

Music, London. She is a musician, singer-songwriter, composer and

performer.She has lived in N.S.W and North Queensland, Australia,

Labrador and Yukon, Canada, Kuwait and Vienna and toured extensively

in Britain, North America and Norway with her group Cusan Tan.

She is currently living in Aberystwyth and is in her third year BA Honours

Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art and Design. She has exhibited in

Aberyswyth and Cardiff and will hold two solo exhibitions in 2014 in

Aberystwyth at Oriel Nwy/Gas Gallery and the Morlan Centre.


Srinivas Surti

Fantasmatic

Assemblage with found and made components, 41x17x8, 2013,

Srinivas Surti completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002.

He also studied at Birkbeck College (2005), Bretton Hall College (1994-95) and

Canterbury Christ Church University (1989-92). Forthcoming shows include a

solo show at The Blyth Gallery, London in June 2004. Recent group shows

include: The Zeitgeist Open 2013, Bond House Gallery, London, The London

Group Centenary Open, Cello Factory, London (2013), Ground Control, Elements

Art Space, Bath (2012), Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix (2011),

Space Cadets, Blyth Gallery, London (2011), Jerwood Drawing Prize (2010) and

Little and Often, 242 space (2010). He was also selected for the Time Networks

Project, Brighton (2008/09) and Labculture PVA media Lab residency at

ArtSway (2004). In 2001 he was a recipient of the Rootstein Hopkins

Postgraduate Award. Srinivas Surti is also a part-time lecturer on the BA and

MA Fine Art courses at UCA Farnham, Surrey.

www.srinivassurti.net


Claire Tindale

In Those we Trust

plastic, wood, paint, rubber, 15 x 15 x 15 (display case), 2013,

Claire Tindale is an artist based in Manchester and graduated from

Manchester Metropolitan University in 1997. She was a Jury Prize

winner in the Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize in 2009 and a copy of the

limited edition artist book is held in the Tate Special Collection.

Solo shows include Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool, Exhibit Gallery,

Sheffield and most recently, Bank Street Arts Gallery in Sheffield. Her

work has featured in shows at Schwartz Gallery, London, the

Dostoyevsky Museum, St Petersburg and Surface Gallery, Nottingham

as well as being in an online curated selection, Axisweb, 2013

www.Claire-Tindale.com


Jeremy Turner

St. Sebastian

Tin, pine, string. 30x9x20cm, 2010

Jeremy Turner graduated from the BA (Hons.) Fine Art programme at

Manchester Polytechnic in 1992 and the MA course at Bretton Hall College in

1995.

Between 1996 and 1997 he was Sculpture Research Fellow at Cheltenham &

Gloucester College of H. E., and in 2001 completed a practice based PhD at the

University of Leeds. He has exhibited widely, and is an associate member of the

Royal Society of British Sculptors. He has held lecturing posts at the University

of Lincoln, University of Leeds and Bretton Hall College. He is currently Fine Art

Programme Leader at the University of Chester.

www.jeremyturner.com


Dina Varpahovsky

'Swing Memories: Swing IV '

Oil on board, 15x20cm, 2013

Dina Varpahovsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and lives

and works in London since 1999. She graduated from Central Saint

Martins College of Art and Design in 2012. Since graduation Dina has

exhibited in several group shows, including Islington Arts Factory,

Dirty Linen, The London Group Centenary Open and, most recently,

Worcester Open 2013 and in solo shows at Canary Wharf Window

Gallery and the Zetter Hotel. Dina’s work has been selected for Clyde

& Co Community Art Project, CavalieroFinn Contemporary Art &

Design Show and the upcoming group exhibition Psychotropic House

at Yinka Shonibare’s guest project space.

www.varpahovsky.org


Eleanor Wemyss

'A Geometrical city'

Pen on board, 9cmx17x4.2cm, 2013

Eleanor Wemyss graduated From Byam Shaw School of Art (Central

Saint Martins) in 2011 since then she has built her curatorial practice

by putting on exhibitions such as RE-READ and is now co-

coordinating the visual arts program for Big Noise. In 2011 she

exhibited on numerous occasions with The Dinning Room Drawing

Club and has since exhibited her work in shows such as IN-SITU and

‘Open for Business’, a Solo show for Latimer Project Space in 2012.

Interactive exhibitions are another part of her practice, along with

collaborations into other industries; Eleanor therefore took part in

Discover Bristol to align with her participation workshops, by

creating an interactive installation.

www.eleanorwemyss.com


Ben Woodeson

Made in America, 2013

Surplus drifts and ratchet clamp, 40x15cm, 2013

Ben Woodeson makes ephemeral sculptures that deliberately set out

to confront both viewer and exhibiting institution. The works are

frequently fragile, unstable and kinetic. Born and living in London

Woodeson studied at Glasgow School of Art.

He has exhibited extensively in Europe and America and was recently

The Theodore Randall International Chair in Sculpture at Alfred

University, New York. In October he is included in a substantial group

show “The World Turned Upside Down – Buster Keaton, Sculpture and

the Absurd” curated for The Mead Gallery by Simon Faithful and Ben

Roberts.

www.woodeson.co.uk


Carol Wyss

Bodyprint 2013

blind embossed etching, 85 x85cm,

Born in Switzerland, Carol lives and works in London and Liechtenstein. She

studied art in London and completed an MFA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art

in 1998. She has exhibited in England, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and

Liechtenstein.

Carol has been awarded the John Ruskin Prize 2012. In the same year she was

shortlisted for the ’Creative Fellowship’ at Trinity College Cambridge. Recently she

has been showing at the ’Force of Nature’ exhibition, Millenium Gallery Sheffield

and the ’Carte Blanche’ exhibition, London Print Studio. Currently her work can be

seen at Northern Print in Newcastle.

www.carolwyss.net


With thanks from

Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley

to

All the artists who were selected and all the artists

who entered the Zeitgeist Open Exhibitions , past

and present.

Holly Simpson, our tireless and lovely project

assistant

ASC for space and support

Sam Brereton for technical support ( eg tackling the

hardest walls known to man)

All those who tweeted, retweeted, emailed and

promoted the Open to their networks.

All those who visited

All those who started conversations.

You for reading this.

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