'Undecided on Love' exhibition leaflet.

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Bsorrows; catalyst of temporary - and sometimes ringer of unequaled joys and unfathomable

lasting - Madness. Trigger for strange behaviours of every kind; Love penetrates the furthest reaches of our experience and tears us in every direction, from invincible ecstasy to numbing mediocrity, right down to utter despair and back again, changed.

or this show we have expanded on the traditional Valentine’s theme, presenting ‘the ‘L’ word’ as the vast and variable subject that it is. In bringing together this eclectic collection of artworks and artefacts, we hope to examine, celebrate and lament the ubiquitous monster that is Love....

The Undecided Art Collective was formed in 2012 and now

ABOUT

comprises more than 50 artists, poets and musicians from all over the world. This is the 8th Exhibition curated by the Collective, a peace-loving, experimental bunch who work together to expand their skills, further their practice and bring their work to a larger audience. We also produce a high end Art magazine called ‘UNDECIDED’ (www.facebook.com/undecidedartzine) and help to facilitate creative ventures, workshops and initiatives in the community here on the Isle of Wight.

Fri 6th of Feb

Sat 7th of Feb

Sun 8th of Feb

10am-11pm : Exhibition open. Bar, 10am-11pm : Exhibition open. Bar, 10am-4pm : Exhibition open. Bar, coffee shop, record store. coffee shop, record store. coffee shop, record store.

FREE ENTRY. FREE ENTRY. FREE ENTRY. 8pm : Preview and Celebration with music from Laura Reid and Matt Hitt of The Ventnor Darlings and our Undecided playlist of infinite love..

8pm : The Chorderize Variety Show. An evening of poetry and music featuring “an eclectic bunch of lovelorn attention seekers, poets, musicians, rappists and spoken-worders all put together by the multi-vocal dismalities of John Armstrong as a kind of antidote to the general cheeriness.”

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Julie Barnes I’d say I’m really into textiles and embroidery, maths, Japanese anything and psychedelic posters. What I do with all these is make my own patterns to create ornate characters, very precisely. I also teach sewing to all levels and in groups.

ivys.table@gmail.com

Rachael Berry I’ve been working as a portrait Artist between London and the Isle of Wight for the past 8 years. I fall in love on average five times a day: with feelings, places, ideas, insects and all kinds of people. There are some people I fall in love with five times a day, most of whom are members of the Undecided Art Collective.

My work is largely concerned with the sensation of familiarity so, for the Undecided on Love show, I have tried to isolate and articulate some feelings that, although very personal, may be familiar to others in one way or another.

rachaelberry@hotmail.co.uk | rachaelberry.wordpress.com

Stephen Butterfield I am a painter who doesn’t have a set style. At the moment I am concentrating on colour in acrylic paint and will probably move on to something else soon. I also paint in oil but again, I have no set subject or style. For this exhibition I have concentrated on the darker side of love stories.

stephenbutterfield2@hotmail.com | FB: Stephen Butterfield / Stormlantern Art

Holly Cade Holly Cade is a 23 year old freelance photographer currently based in Newport. Over the past few years she has worked on an ongoing series “Little People” in which she follows miniature figures on their adventures around the Island and beyond, however, her main body of work focuses on people (portrait, fashion, street, events etc). Holly has also built an impressive portfolio as a wedding photographer and is currently taking bookings.

07800 921114 | www.HollyCade.co.uk | FB: hollycadephotography

Mark Dickson I paint portraits, landscapes, moonscapes and bitter-sweet voids, usually imagined, though sometimes to parody places I know and exaggerate any overtones of oddities within their character. Often splicing in elements of a world invented from a microcosmic void that certain places seem to be afflicted by, but only at certain times of the year.

Inspired largely by dreams and all the numerous subtleties of their atmospheres, and a slight but reoccurring realisation that somehow, matter is no more solid than music. ahsweetmystery@hotmail.com | FB: markdicksonillustration

Dixcey ‘I have drawn for as long as I can remember.. I find it is both an escape and a full immersion into and out of life.

Everything inspires me in some way. How can it not?’

“Dixcey is the founder of the Undecided Art Collective.

Her work is virvatious, honest and expressive of things that are deeply felt and difficult to articulate; things that she pinpoints with an incisive, approachable eloquence that welcomes even the most lost of souls back into the imperfect, beautiful world. She’s also inordinately humble and would never have agreed to me printing this.”

Rachael Berry taniadixcey@hotmail.co.uk | FB: DixceyArt

Luke Ellison My mind is constantly spinning; always analyzing the world around us, not sure why – probably its just me. I have an unusual, maybe unnatural, ability for focus on the unseen detail around us.

FB: mysteriouslyhidden

Howard Hardiman Art communicates both the subtle and sublime in ways that fascinates me. Whether it’s the poetry of mathematics or the gentle colour shifts in paint, there’s a power that speaks to me. My research branches into pure mathematics, colour theory, architecture and Bronze Age shamanism. My work uses drawing (both physical and digital) and painting in oil to explore movement through line and colour and to reach for a sense of beauty and majesty. www.howardhardiman.com | 07973 235015 | hhardiman@gmail.com | Studio 5, Jubilee Stores, Newport PO302ED

Adam Harvey Isle of Wight based Artist Adam Harvey produces delicate pencil works from life and from his nightmares.

He also makes large pieces in oil and acrylic depicting dystopian scenes based on the dirty failings of capitalism and rooted in a life-long fascination with propaganda.

Two of his drawings were recently shortlisted for the inaugural Derwent Drawing Prize and exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London.

AdamHarveyArtist.wordpress.com

Jo Hummel-Newell Collecting is an important part of my creative process, I gather things, scraps, shopping lists, tickets I have found at a train station, pockets, all of a particular appearance—discoloured, loved, lost, stained, beautiful and damaged. The visual quality of the work references the aged appearance of my collections.

Since graduating from the royal college of art, joanne has exhibited with WW Gallery at the 53rd Venice Biennale, was shortlisted for the jerwood drawing prize and RWS contemporary watercolour prize. She was also selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014. www.joannehummelnewell.com | info@joannehummelnewell.com | www.joannehummelnewell.com

JO JOHNSON Jo Johnson creates contemporary embroideries that are both quirky and playful using ephemera, text and childrens’ drawings. Subtle interventions of scale and form are employed giving new permanence to found imagery and emerging narratives.

07788 455341 | pipandrosie@hotmail.co.uk | FB: Jo Johnson Art

Mhairi Macaulay My work is characterised by a fascination with ‘The Social’: the way individuals interact with each other may it be in reference to their dwelling, cultural grounding or political spheres.

I am sustained by a fascination with the psychology behind human ritualistic events. From a monument of peace being created in the streets of London during riots or a rural traditional event being constantly modernised to stay alive. When an individual joins a crowd they move as one entity like a murmuration of starlings or a shoal of fish that has automatic action, this is just one of the many things that bug me from time to time. www.mhairimacaulay.co.uk

HOLLY MASLEN Holly Maslen works exclusively in black and white, concentrating on the balance between occupied spaces and those in-between. In the forthcoming Love exhibition Holly has incorporated her written work and produced a couple of handmade books, one of which was released last year, the second book hasn’t been available until now!

Both books are influenced by her love of Japanese culture and the simplicity behind telling a story with meaning but using few words.

There will also be a limited edition range of Love matchboxes available, created especially for the exhibition. www.hollyvmaslen.com | hollyvmaslen@yahooo.com | FB: Holly V Maslen Design & Illustration | T: @HollyMaslen

Jake Packham Jake Packham has been knitting on and around the South coast of England for years and is now based in Germany. He takes what work he can to learn more about wool because he reckons there must be more to life than BFL 4-ply. Recently he has started to take knitting, if not himself, seriously. This piece is made of favours Jake and his lovely fiance Anna have been knitting for their Wedding this coming April. jakepackham@yahoo.co.uk

STEVEN SALES My practice is stimulated by queries and investigations. For this work I wanted to discover and explore which common element was present in all the people I had ever loved. What did I do for the people I cared for?

The piece depicts portraits of loved ones permanently brought together on a sharing platter, the centre piece of the dinner party. The work is a commemoration of everyone I have ever cooked for and how each person has, at some stage, eaten their way into a man’s heart.

StevenSales.co.uk

KERRIE JANE STRITTON Kerrie Jane  Stritton trained as an illustrator at the royal college of art, while practising as an illustrator her clients included Random house, corgi and the guardian. After a career in education at UCCA teaching degree level Kerrie now is embarking on a new practice of ceramics specialising in very fine works in paper clay inspired by the natural word.

07871 372935 | kerriestritton@hotmail.com | FB: Kerrie-Jane-Stritton

XHEMICAL GDNS. My artery is an innate curiosity for the unseen and the impetus to capture such things.

As an artist, my intention is to present these ideas subtly within photographs, illustrations, mixed media and words - to attempt to weave within these works a gentle manifestation and close lucidity.

My work is often buried in dreams, memories of slight things, views upon the cusp; things I would wish to forget, and other things I cannot seem to remember.

christopher.gdns@gmail.com | FB: Chemical.Gdns | 07763 240154

Maya Malfatti Maya Malfatti is a graphic designer and sculptor.

Her stone and plaster works emphasize the architectural within the figurative. With other materials, sensuality and physicality are drawn to a point of abstraction. Her more absurd compositions challenge common perception and viewing habits provocatively, daring to question the concept of art.

Thus, a refreshing degree of irony and distance towards her own work is expressed. Her latest pieces stem from her work in typography, focusing on the transformation of words, in this case poetry, into two and three-dimensional physical objects. maya@design-partners.org | design-partners.org