MADDER 139 No.1 Vyner Street, Hackney
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On Saturday 14th November I went to visit two exhibitions at Madder139 and Siobhan Davies Studios. I found both these exhibits on the website ART RABBIT, in areas where I would otherwise not have travelled to in order to look for galleries.
Madder139 was in Hackney, and is a small gallery in what I mistook for an office block. With its windows boarded up the only thing that led me to notice it was the gallery I was looking for was the small red lettering above 5 black bins. The inside is just one large room that held 10 or so paintings and charcoal drawings by Nessie Stonebridge. The reason I chose to come see this artists works was because although abstract, I thought they related to the idea of wrapped material in the twists and spirals of paint. And of course for the obvious reason that the images of the works were beautiful and I wanted to see them for myself (they did not disappoint!)
Siobhan Davies Studios was actually a dance studio where the exhibit I was looking for was at the end of the hall below the main staircase. This was surprising to me as I expected that the installation I had come to see would be surrounded by other works of art. Nonetheless it related well to my project, and Giosca's idea of hair extensions and hair accessories decorating printed paper turbans on sticks was a bizarre and fun piece to discover and visit. Ludovica Gioscia's installation couldn't have been more different to Nessie Stonebridge's abstract pieces though, which was interesting because I'd chosen them both based on the same theme.
Super - now relate this / these ideas back to your own work / practice. JM
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