past exhibition | Summer Breakdown | 20 July - 4 September 2022
Bobinska Brownlee are delighted to present a summer show featuring Louise Ashcroft, Oliver Bancroft, Luke Burton, Jake Clark, Rae Hicks, Lucinda Oestreicher, Chris Thompson, Paul Westcombe, Mary Yacoob.
Louise Ashcroft’s socially engaged practice spans art and comedy, performance, film, community projects, writing and sculpture. She is a graduate of Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and Birkbeck College, and is co-founder of AltMFA. Solo exhibitions include UPLANDS: Utopia I.O.U. at Bobinska Brownlee.
Oliver Bancroft is a painter and filmmaker. His most recent solo exhibition at Goldmark Gallery in 2021 was a near sell-out. He is a graduate of De Montfort University.
Luke Burton has an ongoing interest in how symbolism operates across decorative visual culture, questioning the relationship between craft, ornament and fine art in relation to taste, objecthood and materiality within painting. He is a graduate of Royal College of Art (Sculpture).
Jake Clark’s works depict suburban European seaside architecture and people, using unexpected viewpoints and lighting, different textures and speeds of painting, as well as a palette which evokes the faded and sunbleached colours of years past. He is a graduate of Royal College of Art (Painting).
Rae Hicks takes the forms that most often appear in ornamental pictures, as well as those canonised by the historically established categories of ‘still life’ and ‘landscape’. Familiar objects and iconography frequently become prosaic, and colour, subject and composition are reconfigured to suggest something or somewhere else where new psychological circumstances unfold. The work questions our relationship to signifiers and the suggestiveness of forms in the paintings. Hicks is a graduate of Royal College of Art (Painting) and Goldsmiths College. He is the first recipient of the Waverton Art Prize 2022. Solo exhibitions include Anomaly at Bobinska Brownlee.
Lucinda Oestreicher is a graduate of Slade School of Art. Her paintings are concerned with a balance between visual experience and the language of painting. Recent works relate to the experience of repeatedly walking local footpaths in East Sussex, where she lives and works.
Chris Thompson makes art that appropriates, reconfigures and antagonises a diverse case of materials, object and references to build speculative anthropological inquiries into cultural memory and the contradictions embedded within contemporary existence. Solo exhibitions include Old Bones at Bobinska Brownlee. Thompson is a graduate of Camberwell School of Art and is currently completing an MFA at Goldsmiths.
Paul Westcombe started drawing on whatever material came to hand - London Underground tickets, shop receipts, paper coffee cups. His practice also encompasses large scale murals and scenic painting. He is a graduate of Royal College of Art.
Mary Yacoob’s practice encompasses drawing, printmaking and large-scale vinyl works. She redeploys the visual languages of scientific diagrams, architectural plans, cartography, alphabetical systems and musical notation. By taking the source materials out of their original context, she creates intricate and speculative thought forms, transforming them into mysterious cyphers for the imagination. Yacoob is a graduate of Central St Martins, and has a forthcoming solo at Bobinska Brownlee (2023).
Private view: Wednesday 20 July 5-9pm
Gallery open: Thurs-Sat 21-23 July 2-6pm; Thurs-Sat 28-30 July 2-6pm; Thurs-Sat 4-6 August 2-6pm
thereafter by appointment; closing view Sunday 4 September 2-6pm
Installation photos: Charlotte Hart