4 - Bournemouth Contemporaries - Studio1.1, Year of the Unknown

Year of the Unknown

4 May - 8 May 2011
First Thursday: Thursday 5 May 2011, 6pm - 9pm
Private view: Saturday 7 May 2011, 6pm [WINDOWS-1252?]– 9pm

Featuring artists:
Olivia Dixon, Charles E J Downman, Issi Nash, Laurie Ramsell and Minami Wrigley.

Studio 1.1 proudly opens it's doors for 'Year of the Unknown', an eclectic exhibition exploring the insignificant, forgotten and obscure. Drawn together through mutual interests In landscape, each artists work show their personal response to the 'unknown event', both undiscovered and little known, misunderstood or unremarkable.

Olivia Dixon's work deals with the unconscious and impulsive mind. Travelling to unplanned destinations she records the surfacing of the unconscious thought and serendipitous movement. Creating marks and objects from 'mistakes', individual elements appear chaotic but when brought together, form equilibrium.

Paintings of Charles E J Downman compose for us an imaginative representation of unachievable dreams. Romantic extra-terrestrial landscapes which echo tales of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic spheres, and the shrouded lives and deaths of the cold war cosmonauts.

Issi Nash evokes philosophies of the sublime. Investigating the building blocks of our being, the unseen reactions of both the micro and macro-verse.

Our fragile existence is so often over shadowed by humanities arrogance. Laurie Ramsell's work rekindles an appreciation for the delicate balance we as a species are disturbing with our actions, but never realise.

Perceptions of the individual are the cornerstone of Minami [WINDOWS-1252?]Wrigley’s projects, which involve personal journeys to new territories. Memory is not always true to reality, but its interpretation is a subjective process creating a personality.

Studio 1.1
57a Redchurch Street
Shoreditich
London E2 7DJ