TRIO

Exhibition dates: 2 October - 3 December.

Open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 2pm - 5pm & Saturday, Sunday 12pm - 5pm. Free admission.

Gina Cross Projects is pleased to present ‘Trio’ - a curated show of 3 London based artists whose work spans abstract photography, collage, photo etched reclaimed copper sheet, painting and print.

“One thing leads to another, and during the process you’ll stumble upon something that just happens, and that in a way gives you the feeling of what you were looking for in the beginning.” Vaughan Oliver

Taking place at Curious Kudu in Peckham from 4 October - 3 December, the show will feature the work of abstract photographer Christine Wilkinson, paper collagist and painter Sonia Stanyard and abstract digital artist Gina Cross who develops her work on to metals. What links each of the artists is the intuitive nature of their practices - allowing the materials and their processes to lead them rather than striving for the outcome.

During the show there will be a number of opportunities to meet the artists and view more of their collections by appointment.

Christine Wilkinson recently was awarded the Thomas Burberry prize for print during the Royal Academy Summer Show. Her colourful abstract explorations of colour and light have gained her a loyal following over the past few years. Christine Wilkinson’s work blurs the boundaries between photography and painting. Light becomes form. Form without substance, existing only as an instance of colour and light. She states ‘It begins with a photograph or a fragment of a photograph - car headlights maybe or sunlight streaming through a window. It’s a starting point, a process, reducing the image simply to random pixels to be used as raw material. Then it’s about finding the subject matter through the process, evoking a sensation rather than pinning down an image.’

Sonia Stanyard’s works on paper begin with a single colour which is hand screen printed on to large sheets of paper. This material then forms the basis for all her subsequent works, setting limits with the material and the colour which enables her to discover different ways to work with this chosen material. The outcomes have ranged from explosively ripped large sheets to patiently reordering the chaotic scraps of debris on the studio floor into controlled delicate lines. The concepts

of reduction, repetition and setting boundaries are ideas that also run through Stanyard’s painted works, where she seeks to stretch an idea and exaggerate an action over and over, often repeating a layer or line or a poured blob to a point where the individual part is no longer evident and we are left with an image that could be a murmuration or a macro detail of a flower.

Sonia states ‘Both endeavours seem to presently be preoccupied with an initial restriction which then gives way to a sense of freedom.’

Gina Cross is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose work investigates the relationships between shapes, colour and light. Within her own art practice she is working with metals, fabrics, paper and wood - often reclaimed. She creates her imagery using photography, digital tools, paint and collage with a range of materials and has been experimenting with printing on to different substrates to show the works.

The foundation for the collections are based on her interpretation of places she visits, and her physical responses to each place with different colours, shapes, line and form.

Recently, Gina has been exploring working with reclaimed copper and aluminium panels, including painting, etching and printing directly on to the metals, using both analogue and digital processes. She is also developing a series of 3D metal sculptural works to show in 2024.

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