20th January – 10th February
Please join us for a Private View: Thursday 19th January 2012, 6:30pm
Gallery open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 12pm to 6pm and by appointment.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Featuring 13 artists from around the globe, ranging from the newly graduated to the more firmly established; Studio 106 Art Gallery is delighted to announce an Open Entry Exhibition; U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N? You Tell Us!
The artists all explored the theme of the Unforeseen, the resulting show displays their differing interpretations of the hidden, secretive nature of people, things in nature and the physical world that we do not see, and what is neither obvious nor planned. The exhibition features sculpture, paintings with oil, acrylic, resin and gloss, photography, video installation, digital prints and ink.

• Pato Bosich
• Luke Beachey
• Susan Eyre
• Scott Sharp
• Eeva-Mari Haikala
• Madeleine Burt
• Sophie Morgan
• Davide Maione
• Joanne Brennan
• Ruth Geldard
• Madi Acharya-Baskerville
• David McLeavy
• Mirjana Marsenic

Studio 106 Art Gallery is a Not-for-profit organisation that provides a platform to explore, create and present contemporary art and new forms of expression. Focusing on researching and developing collaborative processes intrinsic to art-making, generating dialogues across: generations, cultures, and the bond between art and the audience, Studio 106 Art Gallery programmes Live Art, exhibitions, screenings, forums, artists’ talks and workshops.

U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N? You Tell Us! Is part of Pivotal Shifts, a project supported by The Arts Council England, London.

Artist Information

Pato Bosich was born in Chile, but left for Europe in 1997. He has lived and worked in Germany, parts of central and Eastern Europe, before settling in London in 2000. He has served as the artist in Residence in The Muse Gallery, London and The Museum of Modern Art, Chiloe, Chile. He exhibits his work globally. His paintings resist easy readings, instead convey mystery and tension, as the viewer is denied the whole story and can only see a snapshot of psychological drama without the proper context.

Luke Beachey was born in Cardiff and recently graduated from Brighton University. He has participated in several group shows in Brighton and Lewes. His work is concerned with disembodied erotic entropy and the removal of social conventions and a person’s regression to a primitive being.

Sophie Morgan began to use art as both a form of expression and as a cathartic process after a car accident left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair. She works in London primarily as an artist, portraitist and product designer, as well as freelance writer, spokesperson, TV presenter, model & campaigner, Sophie has exhibited across the UK. She was named a cultural figure by The Tate Modern in 2010 and Cosmopolitan’s Woman of the Year 2004. Sophie’s work using blind drawing centres on her experiences as a disabled person as well as a young woman.

Susan Eyre explores idealistic fantasies in an urban reality, through her work with screen printing and digital technologies in various media, both 2D and 3D. She focuses on the human desire for perfect and the illusions we create. She graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA in Textiles in 2007 and has displayed her work all over London and the UK.

Scott Sharp is fascinated by blockbuster, big-budget cinema and sensationalised tabloid journalism, his work investigates how harsh the reality of violent human experience becomes entertainment for the masses. Sharp has exhibited in Britain and in Europe. He has recently been awarded a Summerfield Trust Fine Art Travel Award to study at the British School at Rome.

Eeva-Mari Haikala is based in both London and Helsinki. Her works have been widely displayed internationally; she had a solo exhibition of her work at the SPACEX gallery, London, in 2007. Her works are owned by collectors and museums. She works mainly with Performance, Video and Photography and is intrigued by the question of the painterly in lens-based and performance pieces. She is currently researching her PhD in Theatre, Drama and Performance from Roehampton University.

Madeleine Burt lives and works in Nottingham, she regularly exhibits nationally and internationally, her most recent shows have been in Berlin and London. She is artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University. Her work explores themes of separation, loss and preservation. In her latest series of work, she comments on these areas by looking at traditional lace production and moth specimens, an insect associated with the destruction of fabric.

Mirjana Marsenic is a Montenegrin artist, currently living and studying for her MA in Pont-Aven, France. Amongst other awards, she was received the ZAMTES institute of International Relations and Corporation Best Student Award in 2009. Her paintings are intended to stop modern man for a moment, separating him from his everyday obligations and pressures and allow him to see what goes unseen.

Davide Maione was born in Milan, but lives and works in London. His work is exhibited internationally, and held within private collections in the UK, Italy and the US. His photographic work links photography and performance, he plays with the idea of being seen and unseen, inhibition and obsession and how we are defined by the gaze of others.

Joanne Brennan’s work is an exploration into the ways materials can capture and embody the previously hidden qualities of light. She projects light through material and takes an image of the resulting projection which is then digitally reproduced; she calls this ‘drawing with light’.

Ruth Geldard had exhibited figurative oil and watercolour paintings and written about artistic techniques for many years before recommencing an interrupted formal art education in 2008, she has since completed her MA in Fine Art and Sculpture from UCA Canterbury. Her current works are a mix of sculpture and assemblage. Her work contrasts delicate traditionally female crafts with more male techniques.

Madi Acharya-Baskerville has worked and exhibited in France, Kenya and all over the UK; she is currently based in Oxford. Her works address feelings of marginalisation and alienation combined with the positivity of living amongst the unfamiliar. Madi collects objects as a way of exploring a person’s identity, embracing the philosophy, ‘you are what you keep’.

David McLeavy lives and works in Sheffield, he has displayed his work at many locations in Sheffield and the surrounding area. His work examines the possibilities of sculptures and the factors that determine its physicality, or lack thereof, when seen in different environments. David juxtaposes rough, robust, industrial materials, with highly finished components.