Mark and Memory

New work by
Henry Gundry-White and Jon Whitbread

Painting , Sculpture, Performance

21 June – 7 July

PV: 20 June, 6 – 9pm
Performance: 6 July, 6pm

Open
Thursday: 1 – 7pm
Friday to Sunday: 12 – 6pm

Jon Whitbread’s new body of work represents a continuation of his interest in exploring form, process and material but with canvas instead of stone, using brush instead of chisel and machine. He uses iron filings, grated carbon, iron oxide, powdered pigments, varnishes and cement for their difficulty to control or predict as they are activated by the brush and merge with air, water, varnish and each other directly on the horizontal canvas.

Henry Gundry-White’s new work explores the alchemy of remembering: how we form and store memories and interact with them. A memento mori of a time, place and people. He has taken rubble from the ruins of the legendary Tea Rooms Des Artistes (Wandsworth Road, 1982-2006), and prepared with wax pigment and gold leaf some 50 works, each one to be titled with a memory of a past habitué. Culminating in a performance on the final Saturday.