Fabrice Cazenave: Blooming Body
Jan
11
to 22 Feb

Fabrice Cazenave: Blooming Body

Fabrice Cazenave’s second solo show with the gallery opens Jan 11th 2025, following an extended research trip to Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex from his home in Paris. Further details to follow.

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Mar
1
to 12 Apr

Jamie Reid: Eternal Ecstasy

John Marchant Gallery is very pleased to present a show of paintings and works on paper by British artist Jamie Reid (1947-2023), focusing principally on a period of work which has largely remained unseen.

Reid trained as a painter at Croydon College in the late 1960’s, alongside his lifelong friend Malcolm McLaren, both of course principal architects of Punk in the mid-1970’s. During the 1980’s Reid was provided with a studio space by Malcolm Garrett at Assorted iMaGes in Shoreditch, giving him the opportunity to return to large scale painting, Reid was well aware of Rudolph Steiner’s colour theories, connecting colour to the soul and for its use in healing and wellbeing. Reid had stated that he wanted his paintings to function as some sort of spiritual elevator, and would have liked to have worked in hospitals, taking his interest in colour theory into new areas. He was always mindful of the potential for improvement in everything - schools, media outlets, healthcare. Like Steiner, Reid removed black from his palette (as being too negative), preferring to use colours to both ground himself and to release his spirit, predominantly using strong yellows and blues, reds and greens. Later, semi-automatic writings - some examples are also included in this presentation - revealed his thoughts on these paintings as well as a host of other subjects which included Universalism, political inertia, colonialism and the Society of The Spectacle. “It may take the future to reveal their translation of time & place & meaning. They are painted & conceived in a trance state of mind…”

The paintings are untitled and unframed, and were not intended to be conventionally stretched. They are here presented simply nailed to the walls of the gallery, alongside framed examples of the aforementioned text works, which Reid worked on relentlessly from the period 2017 to 2023. The archive contains hundreds of examples of both paintings and text works, this presentation being a near random sample. The exhibition also includes one large scale painted hanging from the mid 1990’s that includes screen printed esoteric symbols devised by Reid including his signature OVA glyph, and one collage from the same period to contextualise the direction Reid’s work was taking in his later years.

John Marchant was a close collaborator with Reid, having organised his NYC retrospective show Peace Is Tough in 1997, which travelled internationally. He is also the curator and custodian of the Jamie Reid Archive, which contains work from the late 1960’s through to the artist’s passing in 2023.

Gallery hours are 10am-6pm Thursday and Friday, and 11am-6pm on Saturday. The exhibition is also available to view by appointment.

A free, full colour booklet with an essay by John Marchant is available to visitors.

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ALISON LLoyD:  144 x 30 (2016-2022)
Nov
1
to 14 Nov

ALISON LLoyD: 144 x 30 (2016-2022)

"The land knows you, even when you are lost."  Robin Wall Kimmerer

As part of Photo Fringe 2024, this group exhibition curated by Jane and Jeremy, will bring together the work of artists who explore mankind's physical, emotional, and cultural connection to the land. 

Taking over three spaces within the building at Marine Workshops, this exhibition will feature work by Rhiannon Adam, Alison Lloyd, Kathryn Martin, Véronique Rolland, Eric Hosking, Molly Maltman and Sara Knelman.  Alongside the artworks will be an interactive space with books curated by Photoworks and a bookmaking area.

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ALISON LLoyD: CONTOURING
Oct
26
to 7 Dec

ALISON LLoyD: CONTOURING

We are very pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Alison Lloyd including photography, collage and drawing.

This exhibition of wall-based work is paired with a presentation of the recent film work ‘144 x 30 seconds’ (2016-2022) at Marine Workshops, Newhaven.

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Delaine Le Bas: Rags of evidence
Sept
7
to 13 Oct

Delaine Le Bas: Rags of evidence

Rags Of Evidence revolves around Le Bas’ concerns around identity - how we present ourselves, how we are ‘read’ by others and how these narratives resonate through our culture. Le Bas has always used her own visual identity in her work, presenting with complicity and playing with archetypes and stereotypes as a Roma woman, challenging others who see her identity as fixed, when its very fluidity is what she is calling in to this very dialogue.

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HANS DE WIT: AFTERSIGNS
Apr
27
to 1 Jun

HANS DE WIT: AFTERSIGNS

Our second exhibition with Hans de Wit, Aftersigns present works selected from drawings rendered at differing scales. Often de Wit makes his meticulous and orphic works at a scale measured in metres. For this presentation we offer smaller, more singular drawings.

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MARCO VILLARD: ANGELS
Mar
9
to 20 Apr

MARCO VILLARD: ANGELS

Announcing the forthcoming show ‘Angels’ by Marco Villard (b.1992, lives and works NYC), following solo and group exhibitions in Athens and Los Angeles with Alkinois Gallery and Lobster Club, respectively. This will be Villard’s first exhibition in the UK.

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ALICE O’MALLEY ‘She’s Fire!’
Jan
13
to 24 Feb

ALICE O’MALLEY ‘She’s Fire!’

Alice O’Malley is renowned for her portraits of New York’s most notorious downtown personalities.

This exhibition has been organised with the kind cooperation of the University of Ulster Art Gallery and The 2023 Outburst Festival in Belfast.

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JEFF KEEN: 100 Years Of Dr Gaz
Nov
11
to 23 Dec

JEFF KEEN: 100 Years Of Dr Gaz

The '100 Years of Doctor Gaz' exhibition will feature large format photographs and film stills, painting, intimate drawings and a rolling presentation of film from the renowned career of one of the UK's most exciting and pioneering artists.

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ALICE O’MALLEY: Community of Elsewheres
Oct
23
to 30 Nov

ALICE O’MALLEY: Community of Elsewheres

Alice O’Malley is a New York photographer known for her portraits of New York’s most notorious downtown personalities. Community of Elsewheres is a queer intersectional space; a circle of celestial elders and underground angels that speak across generations.

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LIGHT YEARS AHEAD
Sept
16
to 28 Oct

LIGHT YEARS AHEAD

Artists… Monica Sjöö, Alice O’Malley, Delaine Le Bas, Vivienne Dick, Ptolemy Mann, Fiona Finnegan, Sandra Vasquez de la `Horra, Forouz Zarei, Jessica Mallock, Sarah Staton, Grace Ndiritu, Jennifer Binnie, Helen Melland and Alison McKenna. Light Years Ahead is curated by Alison McKenna

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L'ORéE
Dec
15
to 26 Jan

L'ORéE

L’orée - new work by Fabrice Cazenave opens at Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris on Dec 15th - Jan 26th. Please check for holiday opening dates.

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JAMIE REID: TAKING LIBERTIES!
Sept
26
to 26 Nov

JAMIE REID: TAKING LIBERTIES!

Jamie Reid / Talking Liberties!

Taking Liberties! is a rare opportunity to see some of Jamie Reid’s original works that not only established an entire counter-cultural visual aesthetic for the late 20th Century but also continues to be central to protest movements today.

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