WANDERLUSTArthur Lanyon | Sarah Shaw | Sadie Weis | Tahnee Lonsdale

28 January - 14 February 2015

COVER IMAGE by Sadie Weis

8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4APlaceycontemporarygallery.co.uk

presented by Lacey Contemporary Gallery, is a collection of new works by

artists Arthur Lanyon, Sarah Shaw, Sadie Weis and Tahnee Lonsdale which marks the first in a series of fascinating group shows

scheduled for the gallery in 2015.

Inspired by the word WANDERLUST the four artists explore both physical and spiritual journeys. The collection of paintings,

sculptures and installation are an invitation to join them on their visual quest.

Wanderlust has captured the imaginations and lives of many, from the groundbreaking female novelist Aphra Behn in the

1600s, to Yuri Gagarin, the astronaut forever known as the man who fell to earth. This desire to embark on a journey whether

physical or spiritual is within all of us and the pursuit of the new and unknown can be ignited in an instant and last a lifetime.

Gallery Curator Charlotte explains – The journeys we make everyday without acknowledgement, the search for understanding,

the losing ourselves in foreign lands; even the journey the pencil takes across the page shapes, enlightens and inspires us.

WANDERLUST encases a collection of journeys from four very different artists through exceptional paintings and dynamic in-

stallation which embraces this desire.

Each artist works in an approach that reveals just enough to ignite questions, almost acting as an open door to their worlds,

and the audience is encouraged to step in. From the vibrant abstracts and intuitive marks of Tahnee Lonsdale to the crystalised

styrofoam geode structures of Sadie Weis all delight and provoke thought establishing Lacey Contemporary as a continued

centre of excellence for British art.

Tahnee Lonsdale

TAHNEE LONSDALE is a painter of vibrant abstractions, using colour and intuitive paint application to

explore notions of faith and religion, juxtaposed against more philosophical ideas of existence and being.

Her compositions are inspired as much by her surrounding as her personal beliefs.

Tahnee completed her Foundation and BA at Byam Shaw school of art in 2007. She has been shortlisted

for a number of awards, making the final for 100 Painters of Tomorrow and shortlisted for The Dazed

and Confused Emerging Artist Award at Whitechapel gallery. In 2013 Tahnee was selected by Saatchi

Online Curator Rebecca Wilson, as one of the '12 Artists to Invest in Now'.

The paintings I have made for the show ‘Wanderlust’ explore my more curious side. What happens

next? Is the grass greener? I want the viewer to be able to step into the painting and explore the am-

biguity themselves, navigate their way through it as though lost in a computer game, never sure whats

round the next corner.

- Tahnee Lonsdale

Tahnee Lonsdale - Amphi I

Acrylic on Canvas

170x180cm, 2014

£7450

Tahnee Lonsdale - Amphi II

Acrylic on Canvas

170x180cm, 2014

£7450

Tahnee Lonsdale - Aquaduct

Acrylic on Canvas

90x120cm, 2014

£4600

Tahnee Lonsdale - Cabinet

Acrylic on Canvas

90x120cm, 2014

£4600

SARAH SHAW graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2001 with a first class honours degree in Fine

Art. Sarah has been shortlisted for both the Saatchi and Beers-lambert competitions and was a finalist in

the National Open Art Competition. In 2014 her work 'Hearthold' was selected for the prestigious Thread-

needle Prize at the Mall galleries, London.Her work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK

and abroad, and resides in many private collections, most notably Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood. She works

from her studio in Brighton.

All the paintings I created for ‘Wanderlust’ were initiated by the energetic painting of this symbol. I

then allowed myself to be taken on a journey within the painting process, where other evocative

imagery, mostly related to the passage of time, began to appear weaving in and out of the infinity

symbol.

– Sarah Shaw

SARAH SHAW

Sarah Shaw - Wassail

Oil on Canvas, 100x70xm, 2014, £2950

Sarah Shaw

Bygones

Oil on Canvas

80x70cm

£2850

Sarah Shaw - Bygones II

Oil on Canvas

100x70cm, 2014

£2950

Sarah Shaw - Red Dancers

Oil on Canvas (framed)

29x29cm, 2014

£550

Sarah Shaw - White Dancers

Oil on Canvas (framed)

29x29cm, 2014

£550

Sarah Shaw - Reverie

Mixed media on ceiling panel

(framed)

40x40cm, 2014

£950

ARTHUR LANYON

Born Leicester, 1985, artist ARTHUR LANYON comes from a well known painting dynasty. His father is

eminent artist Matthew Lanyon and Grandfather is the late great Peter Lanyon. He received his BA in

Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art and Design and now works from his studio in Cornwall.

Arthur’s process is derived from winter travel that fuels his imagination. This is something he has been

doing for the past few years to re-ignite ways of looking at the world.

It’s no big secret, (travel) it just happens to open my eyes for the simple reason that it’s a contrast; a

contrast of culture, temperature, landscape, language… What catches my eye is often informed by my

painting experience and therefore a possible use for it; like graffiti etched into giant bamboo plants,

scarring the surface but integrating as it heals. Or semi-transparent words of Sinhala, painted quickly

onto smooth red metal doors.

- Arthur Lanyon

Arthur Lanyon - Fossil Hunter

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

122x92cm, 2014

£3000

Arthur Lanyon - Harp Strings

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

183x122cm, 2014

£4000

Arthur Lanyon - Dorado Green

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

122x90cm, 2014

£3000

Arthur Lanyon - Fish for Fish

122x90cm, 2014

£3000

Arthur Lanyon - Cargo

60x80cm, 2014

£1850

SADIE WEIS

SADIE WEIS is a multi media artist working in the disciplines of Installation, Sculpture, Painting, Printmak-

ing, and Video with influences of the spiritual, the occult, magic, and science fiction. For Wanderlust, she

is turning the lower ground floor of the gallery into a new world, her ideas bridged by the Black Forest in

Germany and the discovery of an ancestral line.

I create mythical imagery of unknown lands and universes that I have explored mentally. A cinema of

the mind, or ‘Kopfkino’ in German. This is done through the appropriation of found relics and visions

from these dreams combined with organic and scientific processes and elements of science fiction. The

installation I will be creating for Wanderlust is inspired partly by my journeys through the Black Forest

to discover its wonder and the origins of my roots but is also a larger metaphor for the magic one finds

through adventure.

- Sadie Weis

Sadie Weis - Into the Magnetic Abyss

Mixed media installation

Sadie Weis - Angst

Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen

61cmx91cm

£2000

Sadie Weis - The Sirens Pushing the Sky Away

Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen

76x107cm, 2014

£3200

Sadie Weis - Kopfkino

Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar, ballpoint pen

61cmx91cm

£2000

Sadie Weis - Trophy for the Dispossessed

Polymonotype Acrylic Silkscreen on Mylar,

solid paint marker, ballpoint pen.

76cmx107cm

£4000 (framed)