'Present Perfect Continuous' in London by Art Number 23

Present Perfect Continuous Exhibition Catalogue

Matt Smart www.MattSmart.org matt.smart@mail.com

Matt Smart is a sculptor and installation artist. He works in bioresin, Jesmonite, fibreglass, molehills and clothes. The works reflect the earth as a layered record and influence on our existences, and the continuum between facts and history, truth and beauty.

We have choices, resist nonsense, there are no right angles on anything, most things are metaphors, never be bored. Why buy flat art that needs £framing? Get out of that wooden box. Push through the walls.

Matt exhibits in public spaces and festivals. He traded gold aged 10. He installed a crashed plane in a churchyard. He is published in psychiatry. He was in an archaeology team that found saints in Russia.

We leave emotional and physical legacy, from which we continue to grow and create. People have painted on walls for 50,000 years. Care, play, and enjoy. The sculptures celebrate the earth and us.

“Kiss Me Quick, Smother Me Slow”

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Alice Karveli www.alice-karveli.co.uk blackarrowsinspace@outlook.com

The Cosmic Egg, is an experimental performance film, tracing the cycles and phases of (self) creation, be it conscious or otherwise: inward and outward, nurture and conflict, transformation, symbolic death and finally rebirth/regeneration.

Exploring and observing the fragmentation of the self, in oder to create cohesion.

“The Cosmic Egg�

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Kaye Wilson www.kaye-wilson.co.uk blackleyyork@gmail.com

Kaye’s work emerges from the intersection of science and art. Her creative practice is very experimental and investigative, a legacy of her past scientific practice. Her personal marks are produced through repeated experimentation, initially intuitively to generate new notations, that are then clarified and added to her visual vocabulary.

Her predominantly abstract images evolve, using as she responds to both the complexity and simplicity of nature at a microscopic and macro level. She aims to orchestrate an image which conveys not only the visual stimuli, but also the cacophony of sounds, tastes and emotions of the natural environment. An individual piece of work mutates through a variety of stages, manipulated and transformed with each new layer of work until they reach their own resting point.

‘River Side’ is the artist’s personal sensory depiction of sitting by running water with sunlight glinting through foliage, sounds of insects buzzing about their lives and summer sounds on the warm air.

“River Side (Milldale, Derbyshire)”

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Angela Daley aanglesley@aol.co.uk www.satchiart.com/angeladaley

Ink drawing mounted on cut and torn paper collage, inspired by a pre-war photograph of my mother holding up her nephew on the beach at Broadstairs. It’s a take on Botticelli’s Venus, after she’s fished out Eros from the sea.

“Broadstairs Venus “

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Pippa El-kadhi Brown pippaelkadhibrown.portfoliobox.net pippael.kadhi@gmail.com

As one figure is smeared across the length of the painting, the other sits curled up in an armchair facing the viewer directly, almost as if to be staring in to the screening of a horror movie.

The calendar opposes the title of ‘April’ suggesting this calendar is out of date, neglected along with the overgrown plants. The figures are blissfully planted amongst the vegetation unaware of the open door and the surrounding outside space.

Space has the capacity through distortion to become psychological; as the viewer steps into the painting the dense paint reaches out to the viewer. These spaces are not physical but emotional, manifested through depth and sensation by merely domesticated beings.

“April”

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Heidi Hodkinson www.heidihodkinson.com heidihodkinson07@gmail.com

To glimpse into the voids, the underlying structures, the edges, the alternate realities…

An abstract acrylic painting inspired by an outcrop of grey rock on a beach on a rainy grey day in Tokavaig, the Isle of Skye and that’s it, the Isle of Skye…there’s something so magical about this island that as I stare at the grey rock, it cracks into soft hues, the lichen almost fluoresces and reality breaks into shards of muted colours in the quiet whooshing of the tide coming in. Am I really on this beach after all or have I merged into the boundaries of the multiverse?

“Fracture”

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Barrie J Davies www.barriejdavies.info barriejohndavies@googlemail.com

Barrie J Davies is an artist born in Wales and is currently based in Brighton. Barrie has been a practicing artist for over seventeen years and has had up to eighteen solo exhibitions, as well as over hundred & fifty group exhibitions worldwide. His artwork is owned by well known comedian Noel Fielding and Norman cook aka Fatboy slimand has also featured in the second series of Channel 4 Comedy “Raised by Wolves” written by Caitlin Moran. In paint he uses a provocative, colourful psychedelic and humourous approach to expose the human condition: notions of success, money, glamour, love, death, sex, gender & religion are picked at with dry comedic use of tragedy meshed with absurdity.

“Peace Frog”

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Jazmine S. Quigley www.jazminequigley.com jazminequigley@yahoo.co.uk

“Bathing Chicks” is an outcome of personal exploration within the differences between how I viewed life as a young, naïve child to how I’ve come to view the world of today. Working from the Studio Ghibli film “Spirited Away”, the film I associate most with my childhood. I wanted to transform the innocence I associate with my childhood into something more toxic and harsher, bringing it into a more realistic ideal of how I have come to view the real world. Manipulating images through the use of materials, colour and inverted sectioning is the way I continue with my practice. The use of spray paint is an important factor in my work as it’s natural toxicity directly correlates with the intentions behind my work.

“Bathing Chicks”

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Deborah Sfez deborah.sfez46@gmail.com www.deborah-s-artist.com

“SFEZMATOZOIDE”

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Emma Angold www.emmaangold.com emma.angold@gmail.com

Dedicated to the objet trouvé, I find meaning within the discarded and ignored. Removed from their homes and stripped of their lives, I find these objects. I see their traces.

Traces of emotion, stories of past owners, histories – these are details that breathe life into the objects. Traces that are there one second, gone the next. I capture this ephemerality. I give them significance.

The shadow is a trace of an object. A simple outline, a silhouette. In this case, the shadow completes the object. It turns a half into whole. Or is it just a reminder of what was, and can no longer be?

I reminisce of objects that are no longer. They cannot be retrieved. The only thing I have left are traces. Negatives and paper prints hold the last of my objects. These are the only things left that revive the life that was.

“Shadow (Chair)”

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Gemma Lock gemmalock@hotmail.com

My latest fascination with female sexuality and genital vulval variability was sparked by training in Psychosexual Therapy, 2016. See inside the Yoniverse for more details!

I view creativity as a political, spiritual and healing act.

Creating beauty with Fimo is my main spiritual healing practice. I believe that in healing ourselves we heal the world, and it does badly need it!

As someone who has suffered difficult mental health for decades, I find that creativity helps me soothe my inner child so that it is less likely to kick off and derail me into anxiety and depression.

Creativity is the most healing thing I can do for myself. I love to share this with others, to help us all to heal and connect to our divinity.

My journey from biology, to therapy, spirituality and working with groups using connection and creativity as healing tools has interconnectedness, sacred sexuality and sexuality, with a reverence of nature, at its core. “Yoniverse�

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Sarah Victoria Spence sarahvictoriaspenceart.com sspence12.ss@gmail.com

The angel came and conquered and left the woman to her penance. She rose and threw him out. The woman then became the sinner. This is the Gospel according to what really happened...

The story behind the artwork retells the age old narrative of seduction and abandonment. The ambiguity of the faceless figures reflects millennia of duplication of the same scenario that we find throughout history, in mythology and legend, from biblical times to the present day. The tones and brush strokes draw the eye and the viewer can enjoy a blast to the visual sense, then once caught is compelled to unravel the voices within the painting. Sarah deals with socially, culturally and politically charged subject matter often including anthropological, biblical and mythological references in her work. She enjoys the duality of medium and message and the potential for communication and miscommunication that ensues from the stories she creates.

“The Angel Came and Conquered�

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‘Present Perfect Continuous’

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V.23 The Old Biscuit Factory 100 Clements road Block F SE16 4DG November 2018