InSite / An exhibition by Martin Davidson, Julie Held & Jon Bird
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Opening Times
Mon 28th Sept - Sat 3rd Oct 10.00am - 6.00pm
Martin Davidson - Born in Cornwall, the sea has always been a major inspiration for Martin Davidson. After formal education he joined the merchant Navy and sailed the Pacific and Atlantic. During this time, he applied to the Slade School of Fine Art with drawings from his voyages and was accepted. He specialised in Printmaking and went onto a postgraduate course at the Central School of Art where he started teaching Lithography. Davidson’s recent paintings are still lives and landscapes based on observation. Observing the subject, he aims to capture the essence without preconceptions. Sustained looking and drawing with paint is the most wonderful adventure. Once you apply brushwork with colour of right intensity, value and hue and it locks into the rest of the painting, the result is magical, creating space and giving the painting a life of its own.
Julie Held - Julie’s work is in several public collections including Nuffield College, Oxford University, Edward Murray Hall, Cambridge University, The Ben Uri Museum, Baker McKenzie and Thomas Choir School, Leipzig. Julie often returns to explorations of our humanity and our relationship to the environment we inhabit. As such, a wide range of subjects are featured in her work: people, love, sex, war, our relationships to our inner desires and that which exists within these spaces. The works she presents in this exhibition are about London – the movement of people here and the pleasures of belonging against the fragility of not being able to belong. Acceptance, tolerance and their converse. Life in a time of war and strife in the broadest sense.
Jon Bird - Jon Bird is an artist, writer and curator. His art practice combines drawing, painting, photography, collage and object-making. Subject matter currently segues between architectural and spatial references, and the forms, colours, patterns and textures of the natural and mineral world: landscape, clouds, mountains, trees and water. This extends to notions of ‘deep time’ embedded in geological formations and terrestrial and extra-terrestrial objects: rocks, meteors and asteroids. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer exhibition; Daniel Arnaud gallery, London and Venice; the Drawing Room Drawing Biennial; The Drawing Works, London Art Fair and Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York.