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John Beard: Paintings

20th January- 8th February 2010



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John Beard

Annie Kevans: Ship of Fools

27th November- 23rd December 2009

Kevans takes the allegory ‘Ship of Fools’ as the title for her latest series of paintings which addresses her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement.

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Annie Kevans

LEONARDO DREW

7th - 29th October 2009

FAS proudly announces the first ever UK exhibition of the acclaimed American artist – Leonardo Drew.

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Leonardo Drew

Encomium: 9th-24th September 2009

Mixed show

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Zak Ove: Leap of Faith, 2009

David Denby: As Seen


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David Denby, 2008

Steve Goddard: Only Headhunting

26th June-10th July

It occurs to me that Steve is enjoying a seemingly similar sort of ride. He’s taking elements—spliced sections—of art history, and reinterpreting them. Not in such a ground-breaking way as Picasso, and not as a reaction of outrageous unexpected manœuvering, but rather as a tribute to the memory of the best elements of painting as filtered through Steve’s own life experience. Unlike Picasso he is not reworking individual paintings by individual masters but taking everything he likes about the artists whose work excites him and applying it to his own unique world, which is manifested primarily in gritty family portraiture and hairy Van Goghs. I don’t think it’s conscious... and, in any event, this is just my theory.


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Steve Goddard, 2009

Nina Murdoch: Dark

20th May - 5th June 2009

Strong light, a garden, a parrot, bird food for a thousand sparrows, the studio, a lot of paintings turned to the wall, one is turned out to face me and I see an image full of rush and space, a conversation starts up. Phrases and words seem just like the paintings.


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Nina Murdoch, 2009

Christopher Cook: Areial Jetty

22 April- 8 May 2009

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Christopher Cook

Tony Heywood: Beauty Spot

18th March- 7th April 2009

Beauty Spot, Tony Heywood's latest horticultural-based art installation, suggests that our experience of nature is becoming distant as is it increasingly mediated through television, film and magazines

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Tony Heywood, Dancing Numpties 2009

Emily Young: Teardrop

4th-27th February 2009

Each piece in this show was carved by hand from a block of stone; the forms can be described as falling, like water, from the solidity of the stone; the particles are worked away, and washed away, till the soft lines roll and fall into some familiar shape, a woman's body, a face, a wave of white onyx; the element of water is here in the original creation of the onyxes, formed over millions of years, crystals accreting in caves, on lake floors.

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Emily Young,Teardrop

Emily Young: Angels and Archangels at Salisbury Cathedral

November 2008

750th Anniversary                                    

In 2007, the Reverend Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral asked if I would like to put some angels into the Cathedral as part of the celebrations for its 750th anniversary; in November 2008 we installed four great Archangel heads around William Pye's great font in the nave, with two smaller angels heads in the Trinity chapel and two more in the cloister, one for each century of the churches life. They are carved from Purbeck stone. The four large heads are approximately a ton in weight. They will stay there until February 2009, when seven of them will return to the world; one will remain.

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Emily Young at Salisbury

Graham Rich: HUT

12th December 2008- 9th January 2009

To Graham it was a thrilling discovery. He is fascinated by the found, believing it more powerful than the made, and here was a structure built entirely from found material—some kind of den perhaps? He called out and when there was no answer, apprehensive about what he might find, he lifted the corner of the felt door with a stick and peered inside.

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Down Stream, 2008

Melanie Comber: Day Tripper

24 October- 6 November 2008



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Melanie Comber  Forbearer, 2008

Oliver Marsden: Chromatique

1 - 18 October 2008

Very strong illusion made out of simple means—big square format with two sprayed dots—like joke modern art painting—my daughter used to laugh at modern art and say you go to a museum and there’s a canvas with a dot in the middle—I could see what she meant—but here it was, this arresting visual effect in Oliver’s studio—just shows that an idea can be a simple one, and then it’s all in the carrying out—and like writing or music, you do it, and then you keep at it and it starts to be something—

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Two Point Blue Liquemorph, 2008

Doug Foster: Only Human

10th September -  23rd September


The warm, pulsing glow of a moving image bleeds vibrant life into the dark heart of a large metal box.

A sequence of events unfolds rhythmically inside the structure. The action recycles seamlessly, looping into a spiral narrative that becomes more lucid with each repetition. The compelling beauty and coercive rhythm of the imagery is mesmerizing.

Meanwhile... a swirling, blue planet swings smoothly about its blazing anchor.
A brash spring tide heaves foaming abuse upon a crumbling harbour wall.
A field of giant blooms bend their yellow crowns to the arc of a summer sun.
A thin, grey woman in a starched white bed draws her last shallow breaths from an insistent machine.

The cycles of nature continue about us.
 

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BOB, 2007

 

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Keith Coventry: Heroes & Racists

25th June- 17th July, 2008

The Fine Art Society is proud to present a show by the British artist Keith Coventry. Called Heroes and Racists, the exhibition comprises three classic Coventry works from the early Nineties, two diptychs from The History Paintings, one of which was last exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation show in 1997 and The Racist League which formed part of Coventry's major retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow, in 2006.

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Rob Davies: Year

4 June-19 June 2008

In his artistic practice Robert Davies began by observing those things closest at hand, the most familiar and intimate parts of the body, and fixing them photographically. In his series of body parts he concentrates on the openings and orifices that connect us with the physical world. More recently in his practice his attention has moved further away, to the out of reach, to the stars that are light years away or may already be extinct. It wasn’t the stars themselves, but their traces as the earth spins, that he sought to capture. He also made photographic drawings by recording the tail lights of aeroplanes taking off from Heathrow.
This change in emphasis partly came about through a change of place, a move from the city to the country and the new possibilities created by the proximity of his studio, now in the garden. The artist, who has always had a strong feeling for nature, is now constantly confronted with the natural world of seasons, with the English countryside and with the workings of the land and the animals used to work it. Instead of the diffuseness of the city, a romantic, meditative feeling has taken hold.

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Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings
English Primitive

May 7 - May 24

"A photograph gives a clue to our work. The paintings are about light in dark, and a fuzzy, indistinct property that makes space difficult to place. The photo is taken from Mow Cop in Staffordshire—and all the titles of the paintings relate to spots nearby. There are housing estates down there, populated by former pottery workers from second and third generation immigrant Pakistani families who saw out the last days of the industry that had its heyday in this area in the eighteenth century."

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Jo Broughton: Empty Porn Sets
16 April - 1 May

Jo Broughton’s Empty Porn Sets are a typical example of circumstance and serendipity influencing an artist’s output.
She grew up in Essex “in a semi-detached house, with detached parents and disaffected siblings”. Then, at a young age, she ran away “to live with white witches”, applying through Thurrock College for work experience as a photographer’s assistant. Little did she know it was at a porn studio and the man who ran it was to become her mentor, tutor and—in effect—guardian, providing her with a place to stay, a job, training in photography and the content of this exhibition.

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Jo Broughton 'Pink Chair' 2007

Hugo Dalton: The Chaconne Light Drawings

Hugo Dalton graduated with First Class honors from Goldsmith's College in 2002. The artist is best known for his 'wall drawings', an age-old genre that he is reinventing. His work is firmly rooted in the tradition of drawing from life, using modern materials and techniques to achieve subtle and striking artworks.

Dalton's current commissions include a major new work for Barneys, New York; private residence commissions in the United States and Spain; and a public installation for Tate patrons' Derwent London. The artist has a permanent work in Liberty of London, spreading over three floors of the iconic Tudor building.  Dalton's collectors range from Christian Kim at Dosa, Los Angeles to Sam Parker Bowles, Amanda Eliasch, Mirabaud & Cie, Geneva, Anthony de Rothschild, Kay Saatchi, the Redfern Gallery and the University of the Arts, London. He has exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London (ICA) and the Fine Art Society.

Dalton's latest work 'Chaconne Light Drawing' will be projected above the performance stage of the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music. This 'illuminated drawing' forms a part of a new body of work which will be part of a one-man exhibition at the Fine Art Society 12th March - 27th 2008.

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Hugo Dalton

Jonathan Baldock: H.E
Exhibition 20th February-
2nd March


“I am fascinated by the handmade craft object. I enjoy its associative values as something familiar from my childhood, but also its unwarranted cosy connotations that can become thrilling when subverted and distorted with the suppositious and traditional nature of craft in folklore, fairs and ritual. This connects with my love of the dark, glamorous and uncanny spectacle of theatre. Where the beautiful unmasks the horrific.”

Jonathan Baldock makes darkly humorous, theatrical objects and paintings which are at times sinister and unattractive. He employs a numerous number of techniques from knitting, weaving and home economics, creating ironic tensions between the choice of material and subject matter.

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'Lost for Words' 2007

Tim Simmons - Intervention: Snow
11th January -01 February 2008

The photography of Tim Simmons prompts
us to dream, to contemplate time and
eternity. His works expound the spirit of the
place, from the mundane to the magnificent.
Landscapes from the back yard to the
snowfield are the sets of his eerie, haunting,
enigmatic photographs. Created as seamless,
modest yet elaborately orchestrated tableau.
Meticulous in their poise, composition and
lighting – Simmons is a master technician,
an illusionist.

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Norway Stream 2, 2007

John Beard: Other Faces

A new series of strikingly dark and mysterious “portraits” of animals, humans, landscapes and architectural icons has been painted by John Beard for Other Faces, his first solo exhibition at The Fine Art Society at 148 New Bond Street, London W1 from 28 November to 20 December 2007.

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John Beard: Other Faces
Gandhi, 2007

Unfinished Symphony

The Fine Art Society presents provocative, unfinished and unexpected art projects from artists Jake & Dinos Chapman, Keith Coventry, Tony Heywood, Gavin Turk, Oliver Marsden, Conrad Shawcross and Keith Tyson
10th October – 10th November 2007 
 

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Melanie Comber: Snow globe 14th September- 4th October, 2007
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Monochromed II: White Out

group exhibition

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Stephen Goddard: How to Read a Face
at the FAS 20 June-12 July 2007

How to Read a Face is Steve Goddard’s second show at The Fine Art Society The exhibition will introduce around 30 new works and runs from 20 June to 12 July at The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1. Prices will range
from £1,500-£22,000 

How to Read a Face was the title of a phrenology book from the 1880s, which explored the then fashionable theory that one could understand a person by analysing their physical features...

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Steve Goddard A Million White Painted Crystals
A million white painted crystals
Oil, 52 by 36 1/4

Visual Harmonics By Oliver Marsden
At The Fine Art Society
23 May – 14 June 2007

In his first solo exhibition at The Fine Art Society, Oliver Marsden will present 20 new works, which will be on show from 23 May – 14 June 2007 at 148 New Bond Street, London W1. Prices will range from £2,500 to £14,000.

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Cyan Harmonic I, 2007

'Twelve Luminograms' Rob And Nick Carter
At The Fine Art Society
25 April – 17 May 2007

Rob and Nick Carter are essentially colourists, ‘painting with light’ to create alluring abstracts. For their second solo show at The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1, they will present an installation of 12 unique monochrome paintings. 

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Nina Murdoch: Concrete Fields
At The Fine Art Society
21 March – 12 April 2007

Nina Murdoch’s forthcoming solo exhibition draws inspiration from the city of London, bringing everyday architecture to life by capturing the momentary effects created by light and time. Concrete Fields runs from 21 March to 12 April at The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1. 

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Nina Murdoch
Untitled, 2007

Private – Keep Out Graham Rich
14 February – 8 March 2007

Around 20 works by the artist and sailor Graham Rich will be for sale at The Fine Art  Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1 from 14 February – 8 March 2007. The works, priced from £800 - £10,000, are influenced and inspired by his passion for sailing.ontent of his item

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Blue Jib

Shimmer New Work By Tony Heywood
At Fas 12 - 20 January 2007

A series of giant interlocking jewelled sculptures, originally inspired by plankton, amoeba and pollen grains, will occupy the gallery floor and walls. 

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