The Muse at 269

PREVIEW: Graffiti Collective Show 2010 - Tuesday 7th September 2010, 6-9pm

2010-08-31T13:49:00.000-07:00

THE MUSE AT 269 - Group Graffiti Show 2010

The Muse Gallery and Portobello Film Festival are proud to present some of London's finest graffiti artists including:
Code Seize Solo Snug Busk Traffick Wreakage Tizer
and many more.

Opening: Tuesday 7th September 2010, 6-9pm

Exhibition 8th-26th September (Wed-Sun 12-7pm)
(Bar open until midnight)
Entry Free

The Muse at 269 Portobello Rd
London, W11 1LR
020 7792 8588
themuseat269.com
info@themuseat269.com

Space for expression without compromise.

The gallery hosts exhibitions every three weeks from a programme designed to include resident, emerging and established artists.
Selection focuses on content rather than
education or experience.

PREVIEW: Flooded Tunnels by Rosie Leventon, Tues 10th August '10

2010-08-03T07:07:00.001-07:00

flooded tunnels

the muse at 269

Opening: 10 August 6-9pm

269 Portobello Road London W11 (just south of the Westway) Tube: Ladbroke Grove. Bus: 52, 23, 7, 70

Wednesdays to Saturdays 12-10pm or by appointment. Tel: 0207 792 8588 www.themuseat269.com

Show continues until September 5th 2010

drawings by rosie leventon

Best known for her large installations that have been made for museums, sculpture parks and galleries in many countries, Rosie Leventon is now showing her drawings for the first time in London.

“ Leventon’s drawings combine expressive energy with a sculptor’s instinct for ground and depth. Surfaces are tactile, often evoking organic sculptural materials, or referencing the elemental aspects of landscape. Some of the drawings also contain Middle Eastern hand writing and calligraphy” Tom Flynn

Her work has recently been bought by the Henry Moore Institute, and recent shows include: The Workshop of Hereafter, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College,

Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery, Concrete & Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, Prospects & Interiors, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Video interview and four art works on www.channel4.com/bigart

PREVIEW: Richard Taylor, A Solo Show by Artist-in-residence, Tues 20th July, 6-9pm

2010-07-13T06:26:00.000-07:00

The Muse at 269 is pleased to present the Aritst-in-residence Exhibition, A body of work created over the last 7 months by British artist Richard Taylor.

Richard Taylor’s work brings a fresh contemporary twist to an otherwise traditional process of landscape painting. The first departure comes with an initial gestural approach to mark-making, which, through a considered eye, captures the immediacy and urgency of a glance across the hustle and bustle of Portobello’s busy market place. These visual and auditory experiences find their way onto the canvas and make themselves known through splashes of vibrancy and a lyrical, ‘synaestheisiastic’ handling of paint, which results in a finished painting that brings together a myriad of experiences into one, captivating, semi-abstract space.

Richard Taylor’s 7 month residency has been a mixture of great pleasure and intense development. Having a studio on London's famous Portobello Road, free from financial burden has enabled Richard to fully concentrate on his work. With these added benefits he has been free to explore why he has chosen to be an artist. After graduating, Fine art students often find themselves in a strange halfway house; suddenly coming from a comfortable, friendly environment of the campus, to the lonely, sometimes faithless world of being an artist is a hard transition to make. The residency at the Muse 269 has helped soften that blow and given Richard the opportunity to become a better, more understanding artist.

PREVIEW: 'All Square' - The Muse Summer Group Show 2010, Tues 29th June, 6-9pm

2010-06-20T13:41:00.000-07:00

Private View: All Square
The Muse Summer Group Show 2010

PREVIEW: Tuesday 29th June 2010, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION:
Wednesday 30th June - Sunday 18th July 2010
Gallery opening times: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm-6pm and by appointment
Entry Free

THE SUMMER GROUP SHOW

The Summer Group Show at the Muse features a selection of past artists who have shown at the gallery over the last seven years.

There is no theme as such, but each piece must measure 52cm square. The intention behind this, is to allow each artist to fully express their individuality. The format of the square captures the essence of uniformity in the space without compromising the artists chosen subject.

The Muse is proud to exhibit such a diversity of talented emerging artists. If you have become acquainted with these artists through past shows, you will be able to witness their development in their current work. For those who are unfamiliar with these artists, it will be a good opportunity to discover their talents.

Artists to include:
Richard Taylor
Anne Windsor
Cecilia Sandrini
Patricio Bosich
India Ritchie
John Bishop
Code FC
Mat Cahill
Cat James
Evy Jokhova
K Hare
Janie Rayne
Nelly Dimitranova
Heidi Locker
Sheena Russell

Information:
The Muse at 269 Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR
Tel: 0207 792 8588
map
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove
Bus: 52,23,7,70

www.themuseat269.com
info@themuatse269.com

PREVIEW: Quietude, An Exhibition of Photographs by Janie Rayne, Tuesday 8th June 2010

2010-05-27T05:30:00.000-07:00

QUIETUDE
AN EXHIBITION
of Photographs by Janie Rayne in collaboration with Roy Snell.

‘See not aloneness as the absence of others but as the presence of self’

Private View 8th June 2010, 6PM-9PM

Wednesday 9th -Sunday 27th JUNE 2010

www.themuseat269.com www.janierayne.com www.roysnell.com

The Exhibition can be viewed on line at www.janierayne.com from 8th.June 2010

…………”you don’t have to go far away from the crowd, the party or your friends to find a quiet and beautiful place. You can lie on your back in a park or garden and just look up to see the beauty of the sky; sit on a bench and throw back your head to look up through the branches of a tree; sit on your window sill and watch the clouds drift across the moon.
Every one of these pictures I saw when I left the crowd, the gang of friends, the party just for a short while and stood alone very still and looked. And there they were. I just took the photograph”

Extract from Artist’s Statement, Janie Rayne 2010

Open daily Wednesday to Sunday 12noon - 6pm or by appointment

‘The Muse’ at 269 Portobello Rd
London W11 1LR
For more information email info@themuseat269.com

PREVIEW: By Nature, Paintings by Katkin Pringle, 18th May 2010, 6-9pm

2010-05-11T05:22:00.000-07:00

Private View: By Nature
Paintings by Katkin Pringle
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 18th May 2010, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION

Wednesday 19th May - Sunday 6th June 2010
Gallery opening times: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm-6pm and by appointment
Entry Free

KATKIN PRINGLE

By Nature’ refers not to the subject matter of the works, but to the manner in which they are made. The encouragement of chance means the results are undetermined; the paint inevitably acquires independence and travels by the course of nature. As gravity pulls the fluids across the surface, evaporation, chemical reactions, temperature, paint viscosity, volume and order of play, unite to form a composition that is reminiscent of the natural world and it’s landscapes – a nebula, a volcanic explosion, a crashing wave…The energy of the process, causality and the diverse results, suggest themes of flux, endlessness and organic decay.

"I like thinking with materials; you move, it moves, towards a destination you haven't envisaged. The most rewarding thing is to come to a brand new form - what the Greeks call 'poesis' you get to a point where no one has been before."

(Quote by the sculptor Tony Cragg that amounts Katkin’s thoughts)

Katkin’s interests lie in the disposition of causality, the effect that possibilities can have on human experience, and the limits and potential of human knowledge. This show, ‘By Nature’ illustrates a combination of physical presence with abstract language; a mystical world in which one searches for recognition.

www.katkinpringle.com

A dynamic place where collaborations with the community, private corporations and artists flourish, The Muse at 269 continues to pursue its goal to be the local artistic hub of West London.

Information:
The Muse at 269 Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR
Tel: 0207 792 8588
map
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove
Bus: 52,23,7,70

www.themuseat269.com
info@themuatse269.com

PREVIEW: At Home by India Ritchie, Tues 27th April 2010, 6-9pm

2010-04-20T05:43:00.000-07:00

India Ritchie
At Home

The Muse at 269 Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by the British artist India Ritchie. Having exhibited in group shows in the UK, USA and Pakistan, Ritchie presents a collection of old and new work at Muse, consisting of printmaking, painting and photography.

Ritchie’s work investigates the overlapping of private and public space in the home and the effect, both emotional and behavioural, of habitation on the inhabitant.

Installation piece Behaviour Patterns, 2009 and the accompanying series of prints entitled Interior I and Interior II, 2009, focus specifically on the presence of public space in the home, and the trend in interior design for the idealistic representation of domestic living, achieved through the ordering of objects and ritualistic cleaning.

This ordering of objects in the home is apparent in Ritchie’s latest series of prints entitled Period Living, 2010. These new prints incorporate domestic compositions reminiscent of those found in museums; the television set placed at the heart of the space. These scenes appear to not only examine the role of television in the home, but also seem to question the validity of period representations of domestic interiors.

The general absence of figures in Ritchie’s work gives the viewer a sense that she examines the prevalent themes in her work objectively. However, from discussion with the artist, it becomes apparent that many of the elements in her work are a deliberate, if somewhat secretive, reference to her own experience of home life. This playful interweaving of memory with an extensive body of theoretical research is characteristic of Ritchie’s work.

Previous group shows include New Prints/Autumn’09 at IPCNY, New York; Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia; Spinning Tongues at Vibe Bar Gallery, London; This Is England at The Spiral Staircase, Lancashire then traveling to Lahore, Pakistan; Presenting The Top 100 at Jealous Gallery, London, London Group Open at Menier Gallery, London; The 7th Annual British Mini Print Exhibition at The London Print Studio, London and 11 other UK venues.

PREVIEW: Make Your Mark, Tuesday 6th April '10

2010-04-05T11:51:00.000-07:00

PREVIEW: Make Your Mark, Tuesday 6th April '10

Make Your Mark, Spring 2010.

Please come and feel free to unleash your creativity on our walls in multiple medias supplied by us.

Preview: Tuesday 6th April 2010, 6 -9pm
To run from Wednesday 7th April - Sunday 16th May '10

PREVIEW: Divers by Alexander Massouras, Tues March 16th, 6-9pm

2010-03-15T00:52:00.000-07:00

The Muse at 269 presents:

ALEXANDER MASSOURAS
DIVERS
Private View 6.00 – 9.00 pm, Tuesday March 16th
Exhibition March 17th – 4th April 2010

269 Portobello Road
London
W11 1LR
Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm – 6pm
and by appointment

For further information see
www.themuseat269.com
www.massouras.co.uk

Muse at 269 is delighted to present Divers, a body of work created from images of spring-board divers in freefall. The series of paintings, drawings and etchings negotiates between formal paradigms, combining abstraction with mimetic representation, and denying the figure either a context or a void. Through the ambivalence of falling, the series occupies a space between optimism and pessimism. Divers are also rich in formal resonances, from images of crucifixion to Barnett Newman’s zips.

Alexander Massouras is a painter and printmaker. He currently holds a Leverhulme scholarship at Tate, where he is part of “Art School Educated,” a project investigating the post-war histories of London’s art schools. He has exhibited his work with galleries in the UK and the US, including: 7Eleven Gallery, New York; American Standard Gallery, Miami; and the Royal Academy, London. A selection of his work was also shown at the 2009 Northern Print Biennale at the Laing Museum in Newcastle. He was shortlisted for the 2010 Gilchrist Fisher award. Divers is his first solo show.

PREVIEW: Time by Justin Piperger, 23rd February, 6-9pm

2010-02-16T06:05:00.000-08:00

TIME

An exhibition of new work by Justin Piperger

The Muse at 269
269 Portobello Road
London W11 1LR

Drinks at the Preview on Tuesday 23rd February 2010

The exhibition will run from Wednesday 24th February- Sunday 14th March 2010.
Gallery opening times wed - sunday 12pm to 6pm and by appointment.

Following on from his successful show at Muse last year and the sell out show at Lauderdale House,
Justin Piperger will be exhibiting a new body of work.
Subject matter for this exhibition include Sex Paintings made in Mysore last winter and Heath paintings.
Justin will also be showing some more functional pieces, placing useful objects in his pictures.

Justin will be painting in the gallery most wednesdays and fridays and loves visits.

Justinpip@yahoo.com
www.justinpiperger.com
www.themuseat269.com

Justin Piperger 07976 747 901

PREVIEW:Unseen Beauty, Photography by Hannah Palmer, Tues 2nd Feb '09, 6-9pm

2010-02-02T08:01:00.000-08:00

Private View: Unseen Beauty
Photography by Hannah Palmer
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION

Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 21st February 2010
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-5pm, with bar open until 12am

Entry Free

UNSEEN BEAUTY

After reading History at Newcastle University Hannah Palmer changed disciplines and took up photography, studying at the London College of Communications from where she graduated in June 2009. Since then she has been part of several exhibitions. Hannah enjoys using traditional film photography and darkroom methods to create her images.

Her debut solo exhibition is a collection of bold, B&W film prints that aim to capture unseen beauty in our everyday surroundings; moments that most people pass by without noticing. Hannah's landscapes use the frames of natural and human architecture to create images that aim to be instantly eye catching whilst also being full of detail and interest. Hannah would like to carry on her work as an artistic photographer whilst also expanding her work as a freelance photographer.

PREVIEW: Henry Bruce, Experimentalist or Artist? Tuesday 24th November, 6-9pm

2009-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:00

Henry Bruce.
Experimentist or Artist?

It is not that Henry Bruce does this because he sees himself as an 'Artist' of any particular sect, but that his natural curiosity and his attempts to deconstruct and re-design everything around him, in order to find more understanding for himself, makes him so.
He has a deep animalistic affiliation with nature, recognising its grandness, its imperfect perfection; and its antidote - the machine, technology and all its elements. His materials - metal and plastic jiving against wood and bone - describe the harsh and imposing feelings these represent, playing on their similarly natural origins and birthplace. Resurrecting bones, bought to life in sculpture, he questions the balance between life & death, love & hate, organic & manmade, growth & destruction. Henry Bruce is reaching to fathom such extremes of the spectrum to gain a deeper understanding of his own mortality and fantasy. His fetish to peep inside the workings of lust and evolution, nurture and damage, culminates in this body of heartfelt work.
His daily walk between the two beasts, nature and technology, impregnating one with the other, examining the destruction of nature to make it more aesthetically pleasing, more humanly palatable, is what Bruce kicks against. Once known as "the boy of few words", and not without his own inner battles, this work pinpoints just a few of the places his argumentative imagination has lead him.

Show to run: Wednesday 24th November - Sunday 13th December '09

PREVIEW: Solo show of Sculpture by Daniel Sodhi-Miles,

2009-10-20T05:05:00.000-07:00

A Solo show of Sculpture by Daniel Sodhi-Miles

Preview: Tuesday 3rd November '09, 6-9pm
Show lasts: Wednesday 4th November - Sunday 22nd November '09

Is a self taught carpenter and sculptor.

Daniels work is ever evolving, often beginning with simple primary forms and numbers and shifting gradually. His work is primarily concerned with love and the interconnections within his life to others. Many of the objects he creates appear calm and aesthetically pleasing, yet the processes used in their creation are often incredibly noisy, dusty and aggressive. Most of these pieces are born quite violently and very rapidly as the act of working upon them is an acute focus of intent upon the material gradually relenting to the final caress of finishing touches.
His work seems able to cross some of the supposed boundaries between art and craft as he tends to use many traditional and some may say obsolete skills and tools alongside computer aided design and manufacturing processes to create contemporary interventions and objects.

He lives and works in Cornwall.

www.danielsodhi-miles.co.uk

PREVIEW: Recent Works by Rhonda Whitehead, Tues 13th October, 7-9pm

2009-09-29T06:04:00.000-07:00

Recent Works by Rhonda Whitehead

Exhibition : Tuesday 13th October until Sunday 1st November 2009

Rhonda Whitehead is returning to London for her solo exhibition at the Muse at 269. She last exhibitited in London at the art fair in Islington in 2007.

All works included in the exhibition are from the last ten years, She now lives and works on the Norfolk, Suffolk borders. Since leaving London she has been professionally active having 6 solo exhibitions. Two at the Grapevine Gallery, Norwich reviewed enthusiastically by the critics Christopher Smith and Mary Rudd. Two at the AWD gallery Halesworth, Suffolk and two in Cambridge. One at Clare Hall Gallery and one at Kings Arts Centre. Her painting Venice Ochre won first prize at the
Byard Open exhibition in 2006 in Cambridge. She has also taken part in various mixed shows and open studios exhibitions.

Her preoccupation with colour and structure remain constant in recent works in oil on paper and oil on canvas, drawing a link between the forces in nature and the patterns of weathering and erosion on structures and buildings. In 'Italian city buildings', colours appear flattened onto the canvas revealing what is there ---- peeling surfaces, spidery scratchy writings in the paint ---- all executed with a generous freedom.

Open daily Wednesday to Sunday 12 noon -- 6pm or by appointment
‘The Muse’ at 269 Portobello Rd LondonW11 1LR
For more information email info@themuseat269.com
www. rhondawhitehead.com

Human Nature by Susan Eyre, Tues 22nd Sept - 10th Oct '09

2009-09-13T05:21:00.000-07:00

Susan Eyre

‘Human Nature’

Private view: Tues 22nd September '09

Show runs: Wednesday 23rd September - 10th October 2009

Susan Eyre completed a BA in Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2007. She lives and works in London and from the Ochre Print Studio, Guildford.

In her practice Eyre is interested in the search for the sublime within the man made environment.

Working with textiles, silk-screen print, digital print and a technique of cutting and heat fusing materials she creates both two and three dimensional pieces which combine and contrast natural and synthetic fabrics to echo themes within her work.

Eyre invites the viewer to look beyond the un-romanticised reality of urban life to discover an illusory world that is inauthentic yet familiar. Reflecting on personal and shared cultural influences she engages with fantasies of secret gardens, archetypal romantic scenes and ideas of paradise to construct her landscapes. Images absorbed from advertising media, film and fiction are regurgitated into her work exposing the collective vision of a perfect natural world as illusion. Ambiguously desirable these false landscapes acknowledge an urge to create a space that is a haven of beauty and harmony. Inspired by a prevalent nostalgia for a utopian idyll amid the fragmented and synthetic experience of nature, her work explores the gap where reality falls short of aspiration.

Portobello Film Festival, Group Graffiti Show, Tues 8th Sept, 6-9pm

2009-09-07T07:04:00.000-07:00

The Muse at 269 is very pleased to be collaborating with the Portobello Film Festival for the fifth consecutive year. This year we will be exhibiting the work of skilled and talented graffiti artists SEIZE, CODEFC, SNUG and SOLO alongside the MUTOID creations of JOE RUSH.

This show will run from 9th September to 20th September 2009 with a launch event on the evening of 8th September from 6pm to 9pm (bar open till 12pm)

PREVIEW: 'Ephemeral Shoals' by Farrah Fortnam, 18th August, 6-9pm

2009-08-04T07:36:00.000-07:00

Ephemeral Shoals by Farrah A. Fortnam

Farrah is intrigued and inspired by the movement of nature, particularly the sea; the vivid beauty of reefs and the dancing motion of their shoaling fish.

Her recent trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef made a lasting impression on her. Along with seeing the life, beauty and fragility of the reef islands, came the acknowledgment that, with warming and high sea levels, this ephemeral underworld may disappear in our lifetime. She wants to capture this transient beauty, just for a moment, in her paintings. For her, it will last forever.

Farrah’s Persian ethnicity has also had influence on her work, from rich, bright colours and intricate patterns in fabrics to Islamic calligraphic art. She also have a fascination with henna art (mehndi), a natural plant based dye that is used to decorate women’s hands and feet, mainly for wedding occasions.

PREVIEW: No average contents, Photographs by Andrew Brooke, Tuesday 28th July '09, 6.30-9.30pm

2009-07-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

“No average contents” Photographs by Andrew Brooke.

An accidental collection of matchboxes that built itself. As objects that had passed through my life they evoke memories of experiences, some good and some bad, some happy and some sad. Each one is related to a person, a time and a place in my life, however brief or protracted, significant or insignificant. Behind each one there is a story. As certain as a match being struck burns, something happened.

When I started to photograph these matchboxes they took on a new sense to me. They opened doors in the imagination, no longer did they just evoke stories that depended on having been there; as memory blurred fact and fiction they became keys to stories for everyone to imagine or remember. Stories of no average contents. Did I really ever have dinner with Quentin Crisp?

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Andrew started his working life as a runner in TV commercials production, at first working with advertising photographer and commercials director Barney Edwards, a job that required technical proficiency and adept production skills. Via a long trip to Africa, short sprees in various jobs within TV commercials and a stint in New York, he found work at RSA Films in London as a Production Manager, where he met David Bailey. After two years Andrew moved to work independently of RSA Films as David Bailey’s producer for nearly five years before leaving to pursue his own course.

This decision led him eventually to film school in Paris, to explore a more creative path, breaking from production to work with both film and photography, as a cameraman, director and photographer.

He has traveled extensively and worked on documentaries, short films, feature films and commercials. He has taught at the International Film School in Paris and guest lectured at France’s premiere film and photography university, Louis Lumiere. In recent years his photographs have been sold through galleries, bought for private and corporate collections. He combines his personal photography with commissioned work, and filmmaking.

This is his first exhibition and more of his work can be seen at www.andrewbrooke.com

Show runs from Wednesday 29th July until August 16th '09.
The gallery is open daily Wednesday to Sunday 12noon to 6pm or by appointment

PRIVATE VIEW: Artists in Residence - Cecilia Sandrini, Tuesday 30th June '09, 6-9pm

2009-06-12T12:50:00.000-07:00

CECILIA SANDRINI INTERVIEW

Dan Richards: Last time I was here you were drawing in pencil. You had a whole line of books and you were drawing the spines and focusing in upon all the details - you were excited about that and said that people didn’t always see the graft in your art and that you worried about that sometimes so here you were, grafting with the minutiae of book spines in pencil - traditional media - because, somehow, to yourself or other people, wanted to prove a point.
Cecilia Magdelena Sandrini: Yeah.
DR: So how are the paintings of the big streamers on the roof going?
(We both laugh like drains for several minutes)
How’s that working out for you? I see that you’ve still got the linear lines, the verticals going on...
CMS: Well, that’s for - I’ve split the space into three areas:
At the beginning its quite traditional; lots of drawings, cityscapes. Pretty much - if I could draw it from the roof then its been drawn. I like the roof. Text and image in the corridor and then, at the back, I’ve got all the stuff to do with the ribbons, some projection and then that (gestures to the painted, beach hut-like lines of the streamers) is running across one of the walls - as an installation piece rather than an actual piece of work.
DR: What’s the distinction between ‘installation piece rather than an actual piece of work’?
CMS: In as much as I don’t think it exists on its own.
DR: Without the show?
CMS: Yes. It completes the show though I’m not sure I have strong opinions about the piece itself.
DR: Like a transient title or a brand - something to draw people in.
CMS: Yeah - although it will be at the back so no-one will see it unless they’re already in.
DR: Right.
(laughter - ho ho)
So. Streamers on the roof.
CMS: Well, they’re ribbons.
DR: Yes, well, you can call them what you like.
CMS: When I ordered them, I ordered ribbons.
DR: Could you have ordered streamers?
CMS: Not on the website I bought from but there were other websites.
DR: So... ribbons. Where did the idea for that come from?
(As I ask, the coloured strips rear up and wave like an octopus startled by a fan heater)
CMS: Sitting diagonally from Clive Anderson on a train.
DR: Right. Was he wearing a deck-chair suit?
CS: He was working and he made me feel like I should be working too so I got out my notebook and I started making notes and eventually, by the end of the journey, I had this. In my head... and in my notebook.
DR: So it was a case of - ‘Clive’s working! Do something! Draw lines, Jesus! Colour the bastards in! Anything! Dear God!!’ - and that’s how it happened?
CMS: No. I liked the freeform nature of the idea, the ambiguity.
DR: Its ambiguous, its colourful, quite jolly and joyous - it has certain connotations with the seaside and circus... some people might mistake the ribbons for streamers...
CMS: Yes! That is a possibility - it could happen! Its nice experimenting. Its good to hang it out on a Saturday - over the street - see the reaction of the people below.

…

DR: All the work in the show was made in the last six months, is that right?
CMS: Yes. I started on January the 6th. Although there is some old work downstairs in the studio, it was in the last show, and it won’t be in this show. Everything happened in the last six months... mostly in the last three (clearly sensing chastisement in my quizzical look) I was experimenting! I experiment a lot... I had some wire and some paper... it was like Blue Peter down there.
DR: ‘Something I made earlier’ – that’s the title.
CMS: That is a really good name! (Wistfully) I could have made badges, Ahhh.
DR: How has living in the Big Smoke affected the work you’ve made? How has it changed and progressed since the Norwich Judge Me stuff?
CMS: The three themes of the show are the same as I’ve always worked with - I’ve always been interested in architectural work although perhaps that has evolved in a more illustrative direction whilst here; text and image - less computers this time, mainly been bashed out on a typewriter and with a pen... I like typewriters. I like the way that every time you write something it looks slightly different... seven different attempts and copies that get so far and then falter because I’ve put a 6 where an O should be. Although frustrating at the time, it is quite nice not having a delete button.
DR: Have you kept all those mis-spelt copies?
CMS: Yeah. Really, in regards to my hoarding, that’s the kind of stuff I should throw away but its being kept for the moment; the problem is, if its flat, its very easy to keep hold of. If it’s box-shaped, easier to throw - you can’t just stick it in a folder.
DR: What’s your work ethic like?
CMS: Get up. Have a coffee and a cigarette - start work.
DR: Are you goal orientated or more trenchant than that?
CMS: For small projects such as drawing, the plan will be to be done by the end of the day. If its a bigger thing lie the pencil work then, well, the limit I gave myself for that was seven days. For this ribbon wall painting the limit is five days.
Also, with the ribbons, I’ve had to wait for a sunny, windy day - which is...
DR: A wait.
CMS: Yeah. I’ve had sunny days... I’ve had windy days
DR: I’ve had days...
CMS: But a lot of them have been useless. Every time I work or do something outside I always say ‘Never again’ then end up doing something else outside - always weather-dependent...
DR: Never work with children or animals outside... or streamers.
CMS: I quite like being outside. That’s probably it; and I work a lot. Not all of it is successful but it’s the process - the learning curve.
DR: I wanted to talk to you about this idea of progression.
CMS: There are definitely themes running through my work - from and since art school:
Play - installations, interventions, performance, breaking down the third wall and moving outside. Also, apart from Judge Me, my work is usually quite colourful. Judge Me was daylight white but the reflections leant it different colours. Architecture and Text & Image. That’s the show, really - they’re the things I keep getting drawn back to.
DR: How do you define architecture? Is it the linear lines again, the structure?
CMS: The thing with architecture - now its drawings but it used to be photographs - interesting angles, mixtures and juxtapositions, noting styles and details that I’m not used to seeing on a daily basis. For this exhibition I’ve been drawing.
DR: From the roof?
CMS: They’re all from the roof.
DR: Did you see that as a way of tying the work in to the location and geography of your residency?
CMS: Partly, but also the convenience of being able to draw - to be able to go to the toilet without having to pack everything up, to be able to have a cup of coffee…

PREVIEW: Alice Hall, Artist in Residence - Solo Show, Tues 9th '09, 6.30pm to 10pm

2009-05-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

ALICE HALL
Paintings
Artist in Residence - Solo Show
10th - 28th June 2009
Wednesday to Sunday
12 noon - 10pm

PRIVATE VIEW
Tues 9th June
6.30pm to 10pm

London has been Alice's main inspiration during the past two years, and particularly during the period at The Muse. Through working in situ she aims to optimise the atmospheric outcome, aspiring to capture the fleeting light and seasonal change of the distinctive London scenes.

Her enthusiasm for painting in oils, and their buttery qualities, mean she is not afraid to exploit the contrasting lean and impasto qualities of paint.

In her drawings from which she derives much enjoyment and satisfaction, she aims to reduce her quotidian surroundings to a spare and selective commentary

PREVIEW and LIVE EVENT: RECYCLED, 2nd June '09, 6-9pm, SPLODGE ELECTRONICA (LIVE MUSIC), 7th June '09, 11am-11pm

2009-05-15T05:49:00.000-07:00

RECYCLED
The Muse is pleased to present a show of images and sound opening on the 2nd June as part of a collaboration between Damian Rayne (visuals) and Martin A. Smith (sound/projection). For the week of the 2nd we will present a projection installation with sound in the studio leading to a full day of music on Sunday the 7th.

The rest....

'The Muse at 269 & Drawing room events'
present....

SPLODGE ELECTRONICA
Experimental and Ambient
Live music at The Muse
On Sunday June 7th
(free session) 11am-6pm

Picture this....it's a dreary Sunday morning and echoes of Saturday night are seeping from every pore. All you want is a comfy sofa, a decent fry up and a box set of The Wire. Instead, we offer a decent fry up, a comfy cushion and a set of boxed wires producing the latest in ambient and soothing sound frequencies.

Please join us at any stage of the day to relax, surrounded by three projections of cosmic imagery provided by 'Recycled', whilst sipping a bloody mary or freshly squeezed orange juice...whatever your state of mind requires.

Performing experimental and ambient live music will be:

Tim Hooper

Kailas Elmer

Bridge Fazio

Martin A. Smith

Then...

'LOOSHE LOUNGE SOCIETY'
presents:
Supper jazz party from 7:30 - live music with supper included. £12 on the door

The Drawing Room offers Sunday lunch for £9 including a glass of wine. Marvellous cocktails and standard brunch a la carte served all day.

Jin Han Lee, Tues 12th May, 6-9pm

2009-05-08T07:27:00.001-07:00

Private View: Jin Han Lee
Beyond and Within
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 12th May 2009, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION:

13th May to Sunday 31st May 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-5pm, with restaurant open until 11pm

Entry Free

Jin Han Lee
The broad explanation of Jin Han Lee’s practice is awkward and strange relationship between layers by using masking tape. Tension and spontaneity are repeated between sharp images and layers. By using “masking,” Lee is making something, which is not a picture in a picture. The method is to paint over masking tape, then, remove the tape so the masking is a drawing. The act of painting is not just putting the colour on, but the taking off of the masking, to cut through that colour.

Also, Lee made viewers not be able to assume the order of each layers, and this leads unexpected tension/ spontaneity. By doing so, her painting is deliberately confusing. Her painting spans from past to present. This is ‘a’ past, ‘a’ past representing ‘the’ past. Viewers are able to see the subject and each element of painting is emerged to each other but recognizable individually. This is ‘ a’ painting representing ‘the paintings.

Jin Han Lee’s private activity beyond the surface of the painting is open to public view by leaving traces from repeated accumulating layers. Full exposure of her intimate activities to public view dramatically reinforced intimacy. It is back to front, beyond to within.

PREVIEW: Fragment by Jane Grisewood, Tues 28th April, 6-9pm

2009-04-22T11:48:00.000-07:00

Private View: Fragment by Jane Grisewood
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 28th April 2009, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION:

Wednesday 29th April to Sunday13th May 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free

JANE GRISEWOOD

Jane Grisewood is a New Zealand-born artist and part-time lecturer based in London. She worked for many years in book publishing before returning to university to study fine art. After graduating with first class honours, she then gained her Masters in 2002 at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD exploring the line and the process of drawing at UAL where she also teaches experimental drawing, alongside running workshops in East Anglia and London.

Jane has been short-listed for The Observer Student Artist Competition and received several awards, including two from the Arts Council. Among a wide range of exhibitions is Edge at the Jerwood Space, Aftermath at Ensign Gallery in London, Marking Time at Firstsite in Colchester and a collaborative live performance drawing, Line Dialogue, at the 2008 Liverpool Biennial. Residencies include the Artist Space at Firstsite and The Centre for Drawing in Wimbledon.

Grisewood’s work explores themes of time and transience, place and memory through works on paper and canvas, photography, performance and writing. Overlaps and drifts between these different media and the use of repetitive processes form a link between the act of making, retracing memory and recording movement. Drawing is the key activity in her work, and the ‘line’ is a consistent subject throughout her practice, providing a way of marking a temporal presence, while also tracing its passing. For her the line is a fluid and multi-layered means of recording – a journey – a process of moving ‘between’.

Recent work marks time and presence through live performance drawing, exploring notions of movement and repetition, mark-making and temporality.

The ‘Marking Time’ series…beyond the process-driven undertaking, these works offer a beautiful abstract landscape of sorts, a geological mapping of a moment.

… she investigates the in-between spaces, recording through drawings, notes or photographs interventions that capture a moment in time whilst simultaneously tracing its passing.

Katharine Stout
Curator Tate Britain and Associate Director of The Drawing Room, London.

www.janegrisewood.com

PRIVATE VIEW: Holly Pereira,'Same, Same but Different', Tuesday 7th April, 6-9pm

2009-04-06T12:54:00.000-07:00

Holly Pereira’s work investigates how we create, perceive and maintain identities; cultural, racial and familial. Pereira explores her Singaporean heritage through the lens of half- ang mo (or white Westerner) while investigating notions of female stereotypes, roles and characters, and in particular that of the Asian woman.

She is fascinated by the weird, the unusual, and the bizarre. Taking references from German fairy tales, Kung Fu films and the popular press, she creates images that are both disarming and slightly disturbing.

This current collection of work is the result of a three month residency in the Post-Museum in Singapore. The title “Same Same but Different” refers to a South-East Asian maxim of how cultural differences and divides do exist, but essentially we are all humans; we are all the same.

PRIVATE VIEW: URBAN SCRAWL, Tuesday 24th March 2009, 7.30pm

2009-03-20T03:15:00.000-07:00

PREVIEW:

Tuesday 24th March 2009, 7.30pm

EXHIBITION:

Wednesday 25th March to Sunday 5th April 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free

URBAN SCRAWL

From the promoters of Upfest, we present Urban Scrawl, a diverse mix of urban artists from across the UK, displaying new bodies of work in Portobello's one and only Muse Gallery at 269.
Featuring:

Agent Provocateur
Andy Council
Avian Security
Dan Kitchener
FarkFk
Nik Ill
Myne
Spqr and the long awaited new print releases from Levi C and Snik.

Upfest was born not to long ago at the beginning of the summer following the Cans Festival in London and inspired bythe SuperCans event in Southampton. It began in Bristol, which has always been intrinsically linked with the Urban Art Scene, being the home of Graffiti’s leading proponent, Banksy.

Opening night includes live street painting and music from London's notorious DJ Benedict Smith. Come along with an open mind - this is going to be one of this year's shows that you won't want to miss.

PRIVATE VIEW: STILL HERE, Artists in Residence Retrospective 2009, Tues 10th March '09, 6.30-9pm

2009-03-03T05:25:00.000-08:00

PRIVATE VIEW:
STILL HERE, Artists in Residence Retrospective 2009, Group Show, Tuesday 10th March '09, 6.30-9pm

DATE:Tuesday 10th March 2009, 6.30-9pm

EXHIBITION: Wednesday 11th March to Sunday 22nd March 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

The Muse at 269 are pleased to welcome back those artists who have exhibited with us over the last few years. We look forward to meeting up with them again and seeing how their work has developed since we last saw them. Here is also another chance to have a look at the work of our current artists in residence.

Artists who will be showing include:

Evy Jokhova, Masaki Yada, Corinne Charton, Cinnamon Heathcote Drury, Rose O'Gallivan, Cecilia Sandrini, Alice Hall, Anne Windsor, Patricio Bosich

PRIVATE VIEW: PRIVATE VIEW: Vivian Zarvis, 24th February '09, 6-9pm

2009-02-23T13:05:00.001-08:00

Vivian Zarvis
"Carousel" - Paintings & prints

PRIVATE VIEW: Tuesday 24th February, 2009. 6.00 - 9.00pm

Wednesday 25 February - Sunday 8th March, 2009.
Open 12.00pm – 6.00pm Wednesdays to Saturdays.
Entry Free.

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

Vivian Zarvis is an American in London, whose advance figrative work is motivated first by color. Color and Vivian's strong visual sense of her own personal history to the present, is well represented in this mixed exhibition of painting and prints .

Vivian works and lives in Portobello and has found inspiration within the small urban artist village of Portobello, breathing life into the sprawling great city of London, personalities is an everyday event. The Friday Market is particularly fun, teeming with inspirational and individual people and life.

Vivian believes science and art must go hand in hand for balance in ones life.

Note to Editors:
A dynamic place where collaborations with the community, private corporations and artists flourish, The Muse at 269 continues to pursue its goal to be the local artistic hub of West London

PREVIEW: Djinnesque by Tony Ellwood, Tuesday 3rd Feb 2008. 6.00 - 9.00pm

2009-01-31T21:20:00.000-08:00

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Djinnesque – Tony Ellwood

Tuesday 3rd February, 2009. 6.00 - 9.00pm

Wednesday 4th February - Sunday 22nd February, 2009
Open 12.00pm – 6.00pm Wednesdays to Saturdays.
Entry Free.

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

Djinnesque is a reference to the Genie or Djinn, a fiery supernatural creature of several mythologies both western and Arabic. These creatures have many interpretations from protective forces to demonic ones seeking to encourage the human to dabble in their dark side or make wishes- generally based on ego driven desires that once granted, prove to be less than desirable. Leading to the phrase" Be careful what you wish for you just might get it" Genies tricked humans by giving very literal and sometimes randomly placed fulfillment of their wishes. Such as granting someone power and leadership, only to find they have been made a powerful leader who is loathed and dies badly and alone. Not so desirable. Or being granted life eternal, only to realize the burden of time, that real eternity can be. The genies could shape change and be beautiful women who would lead you astray, while seeming to be everything you ever wanted. Prompting the allusion to the dangers of a beautiful woman.

As protective forces genies were created by the gods to handle the day to day woes of humanity, thus freeing the gods for bigger challenges. So a genie could shape change, reside in small spaces and turn into something that could assist its master to handle battle or negative opposing forces of any kind; thus protecting the master from having to go it all alone.

In these images Anthony Ellwood wanted to explore the multi-faceted aspect of the feminine and show many of her faces and guises, both appealing and confusing; at times extreme and perhaps even otherworldly. By leaving the viewer unsure of the intentions of these creatures, that Djinnesque quality is assured. Here anything could happen!

Note to Editors:
A dynamic place where collaborations with the community, private corporations and artists flourish, The Muse at 269 continues to pursue its goal to be the local artistic hub of West London

Information:

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Tel: 0207 792 8588
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Katie Heller: katie@themuseat269.com
Anne Windsor: anne@annewindsor.co.uk
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PRIVATE VIEW: Artists in Residence - Alice Hall and Cecilia Sandrini, Tuesday 13th January '09, 6-9pm

2009-01-05T05:51:00.000-08:00

Artists in Residence -
Alice Hall and Cecilia Sandrini

Tuesday 13th January, 2009. 6.00 - 9.00pm

Wednesday 14th January - Sunday 1st February, 2008
Open 12.00pm – 6.00pm Wednesdays to Saturdays.
Entry Free.

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

The Muse are pleased to invite you view the work of their new artists in residence. We look forward to watching their styles develop over the next eight months and welcome you to the gallery to come and see the changes yourself.
Cecilia Sandrini is a reactionary artist, focusing her attentions on communicating her worried message. Trained in sculpture, influenced by advertising and graphic design, interested in politics and protest art, her work currently has two distinct modes of production. Some works have been sophisticated commercial fabrications that display and allow prolonged thought over text (Judge Me 2008) whilst others are simply written in paint or pen directly and instantaneously onto a surface (Leave your weapons 2008). Sandrini considers that the work is not meant to be viewed as a conclusion, just a starting point for debate, for conversation.
Sandrini presents work and documentation created predominately during the last half of 2008 before she begins the first half of 2009 and her residency at Muse at 269 Portobello Road.

PREVIEW: The Hours Of Folly by Quadratura - Tuesday 2nd Dec, 2008. 6.00 - 9.00pm

2008-11-21T05:57:00.000-08:00

The Hours Of Folly

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.” William Blake

An exhibition created by Alex May and Martin A. Smith for Quadratura reflecting on the invisible forces that power and govern our everyday existence. The walls of the gallery are peeled away to reveal the hidden workings that enable our lives.

In reaction to this, and for the night of the private view only, the outside of the gallery will become a canvas, hiding the structure beneath a projection of colour.

Quadratura is a highly innovative and creative video projection and sound design company that utilises a wide range of technologies and techniques to create unique, and often interactive, interior and exterior environments.
www.quadratura.info

Private View:

Exhibition:

Gallery:

Tuesday 2nd December, 2008. 6-9pm

Wednesday 3rd December - Sunday 7th December 2008
Open 12.00am – 5.00pm Wednesday to Sunday.
Entry Free.

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

Department Six - Limited Edition Doctor Who

2008-11-21T05:48:00.000-08:00

Tuesday 18th November, 2008. 6.00 - 9.00pm

Wednesday 19th November - Sunday 30th November, 2008
Open 12.00pm – 6.00pm Wednesdays to Saturdays.
Entry Free.

The Muse at 269, 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Bus: 52,23,7,70

The Muse in conjunction with Department Six are delighted to invite you to a private viewing of the original pre-production artwork inspired by BBC's successful drama series, Doctor Who on the 18th of November at 6pm . This unique and exciting exhibition 'The Designs of Doctor Who' gives an insight into the production process behind the magic, and includes 32 limited edition giclee prints of the concept art created for the show by the award winning Art Department, along with their Production Designer Edward Thomas who will be available on this special night to answer questions.

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