Created as a leading national showcase for contemporary art, Three White Walls is now re- inventing itself into a purely photographic gallery. Inspired by the shortage of photography exhibition space in the UK, Three White Walls is dedicated to the promotion of exceptional photography from both national and international artists.
Exhibiting a new collection of work every six weeks, the Three White Walls Gallery always seeks to provide exhibitions that challenge, provoke debate and inspire.
Three White Walls is a joint venture between The Mailbox and one of the UK's foremost commercial galleries, The Artlounge.
Three White Walls Gallery, Level 3, The Mailbox, B1 1XL. Opening times (7 days a week) are 10am to 6pm Monday to Wednesday, 10am to 7pm Thursday to Saturday and 11am to 5pm on Sundays.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
Experiences Experienced
Private View: Thursday 12th November, 6.30- 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 4th January 2010.
Having made a name for himself by producing hand printed, black and white portrait images, Blaize has been taking photographs from the age of 15. The artist has exhibited extensively throughout London and New York, where he lived and worked for four years during which time he captured the life in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Harlem. Other successful and intimate collections portray his perception of the energies in Nigeria and Cuba.
Having made a name for himself by producing hand printed, black and white portrait images, Blaize has been taking photographs from the age of 15. The artist has exhibited extensively throughout London and New York, where he lived and worked for four years during which time he captured the life in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Harlem. Other successful and intimate collections portray his perception of the energies in Nigeria and Cuba.
Ashanti, polaroid image, Blaize Simon
Blaize’s work has adorned the pages of some of the most groundbreaking contemporary fashion, lifestyle and art magazines, such as Dazed and Confused, Arude magazine, Untold and MixMag.
With a portfolio that spans across fashion, music and social documentation, Blaize’s work, while clearly diverse, maintains a distinct sensitivity and depth.
Blaize is an author who drafts stories with his eye and captures each tale with a snap of his Polaroid camera.
When I See Green it Isn't Grass
Private View: Thurday 1st October, 6.30 - 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 9th November 2009.
London- based artist Annette Philo investigates what we see and the way in which we see it through her work in film. By exploring different ways in which a mundane occurrence creates a visual event, the artist aims to drag seeing out of the visual process. With subject matter encountered in the natural environment, the images are worked upon digitally and subsequently transformed through subtle colour alteration.
Philo uses colour to break down the code which identifies objects, beings and entities with the hope of enticing engagement and a visual grasp from the viewer. The films presented in When I See Green it Isn’t Grass, explore the nature of appearances through the clever use of colour and comment on how colour intervenes and often alters our perceptions.
Sound is also used as a means of opening the possibility that events are occurring beyond the image that is offered to our vision and this generates a degree of anticipation on further images yet unseen. It is the environmental nature of her films that allows Philo to work with sound which supports the events occurring and seems to be connected to the footage whether or not the sound originates from it. [Image: An Unknown Hart of the 21st Century ]
The Colour of Time
Private View: Thursday 20th August, 6.30 - 8.30pm. Exhibition runs until 28th September 2009.
The Colour of Time by Barbara Downs is concerned with the notion of a journey, both imaginary and real. It is also about ambiguity and unexpected vision – a process of perception and discovery rather than affirmation of pre-ordained facts.
With images that are sometimes abstract and figurative, Downs enjoys exploring the qualities of moving through and around space in both cities and landscapes. The artist’s camera extends vocabularies, catching the colour-embedded rhythm of landscape and the layered multiplicity of cities.
The Colour of Time explores what the artist has seen and her fascination with repeated train journeys, centering around notions of movement, rhythm, fleeting lines and linear colour. Reduced to the bare essentials, Downs work is effectively a visual notebook that documents her evolving sense of personal history. [Image: The Edge of Silence]
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Photography is Dead....
Three White Walls Gallery in collaboration with Rhubarb-Rhubarb is pleased to present a retrospective photography exhibition of some of the best international works that have been presented at the Rhubarb International Photographic Review over the last 9 years.
Private view: Thursday 9th July, 6.30pm- 8.30pm
Rhubarb invited 12 international and national reviewers to nominate one photographer and one image. Each reviewer was then asked to write a piece about the chosen work and why they think it has stood above the rest, subsequently incorporating ideas as to why they think photography is dead....or not as the case may be!
Private view: Thursday 9th July, 6.30pm- 8.30pm
Rhubarb invited 12 international and national reviewers to nominate one photographer and one image. Each reviewer was then asked to write a piece about the chosen work and why they think it has stood above the rest, subsequently incorporating ideas as to why they think photography is dead....or not as the case may be!
Creating an almost topographical exhibition of photography highlighting the last ten years, Photography is Dead... represents diverse practices and a combination of contrasting and evocative styles. Bringing together a cross section of images that have been promoted over the years at Rhubarb, the exhibition effectively engages its audience and questions the current technical revolution that many have embodied even while others still find it binding in a generation of practitioners who know of nothing else. [Image: Han Sung Pil, My Sea]
Exhibition runs until August 18th 2009
Separation
Three White Walls Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by British artist, Clive Sheridan. The exhibition launches with a private viewing on Thursday 28th May, running for 6 weeks until July 7th, 2009.Sheridan’s upcoming solo show Separation is a remarkable amalgamation of some of his more provoking pieces where the meaning is contained within the brevity and the precise encasement of words and organic materials. Recent collage works will be presented along with other large scale pieces worked from natural resources.
One of the most fascinating pieces is Pleroma a concealment of the Bible. Two 1600 page volumes are spliced into a 7 mile length and coiled, with a result that is both beautiful and meticulous. With a gentle coaxing of the raw materials and almost as much time as it would take to read the Bible, a perfect single and complete journey is constructed, with no visible knowledge of its content.
While it is evident that the work in Separation originates from the deeply personal journey of the artist, it is also clear that Sheridan is inviting the viewer to make their own journey and to ask their own questions about what is seen and what is repressed and ultimately whose right it is to choose.
Don't miss the opportunity to meet the artist who will be working in residence at Three White Walls Gallery every Thursday 10- 7pm and Sunday 11- 5pm for the duration of the exhibition. [Image: Silencing, 2007]
Only A Stranger Can Bring Good Luck, Only A Known Man Can Hang
With only two weeks left, don't miss the amazing photography of Faye Claridge, on show at Three White Walls until 26th May 2009.
This series by Claridge depicts Morris dancers from Bedfordshire in a ‘paradise’, painted and assembled by the artist herself. Claridge worked with the group over a number of months, learning about their relationships to the past and their motivations for dancing.
Exploring relations between living tableaux and photography Only A Stranger challenges the images capacity for authenticity by making portraits which both reveal and obscure, document and create. The artist's style combines Old Master paintings with theatrical staging and is influenced by portraiture of the 18th century, in both composition and the intensity of the sitters’ stare. An exploration of subjectivity and social self- expression, these images allow us to study these men for clues to their current and past alliances. There is much to explore here ethically and conceptually and Claridge’s work often provokes contrary responses of empathy, fear and intrigue.
In this series, the men’s poses are at once defiant, threatening and calm surrounded by an air of unresolved tension. Contrasting markers of time, mortality and preservation are present in the images; with the posers’ passing youth, the artificial plants and the history they aim to emulate. The additions of ‘hooded’ portraits, and the series title, refer to the need for disguise when men were prosecuted and hung for performing ‘the Devil’s dance’. [Image: Stranger, 2009]
In this series, the men’s poses are at once defiant, threatening and calm surrounded by an air of unresolved tension. Contrasting markers of time, mortality and preservation are present in the images; with the posers’ passing youth, the artificial plants and the history they aim to emulate. The additions of ‘hooded’ portraits, and the series title, refer to the need for disguise when men were prosecuted and hung for performing ‘the Devil’s dance’. [Image: Stranger, 2009]
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