COLOURS FROM LIFE

COLOURS FROM LIFE 17 NOV 2023 - 17 MAR 2024

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THE ART COURT A WE LCO M I N G WAY T O CO L L E C T A R T

The Art Court works in the North of England to promote a welcoming and accessible culture of collecting art. We are passionate about supporting artists and sharing their work to connect people, create communities, and ultimately enhance lives.

We curate a programme consisting of online exhibitions throughout the year, which are accompanied by physical exhibitions held in stunning spaces.

For clients seeking to purchase or commission art for either public or private settings, we offer tailored services that include personal art shopping, curation, project management, and commissioning. We take the time to understand our clients’ tastes, space, budget, logistical considerations and we search our extensive network of artists to find options that will truly resonate with them.

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS

H E L E N D RY D E N M I C H E L L E D U X B U RY A N D Y E D WA R D S H O N DA R T Z A F R A G A J O N AT H A N H O O P E R PHILL HOPKINS LORNA JOHNSON SARAH ROBERTS COURTNEY SPENCER

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COLOURS FROM LIFE NOV 2023 - FEB 2024

The exhibition delves into the world of colour and how artists use it in different ways. Some extract pigment directly from the earth, others use photography to capture it, some use materials to recreate it, whilst others use colour as a response to their environment.

Some artists with a highly sophisticated sense of colour choose to explore a single hue within their work. The artist Phill Hopkins creates paintings and drawings in series. These often use complex palettes responding to the seasons and colours within the landscape. These are interspersed with smaller series that focus on a specific colour. Within these, it is the tonal value that gives detail to his visual language of dots and dashes. An example of this is a recent series he completed in Prussian blue ink whilst in Palma, Mallorca. The colour is an obvious choice when surrounded by the glimmering sea and clear blue sky.

Helen Dryden is a painter who sees through a highly saturated filter as she creates worlds in a bold and often clashing colour palette.

Her paintings initially appear cheerful and upbeat but on closer inspection, these somewhat psychedelic landscapes can conjure up darker themes.

Sometimes an artist arrives at a colour via a less obvious approach. The Spanish artist

Hondartza Fraga produced a series of drawings on yellowed vintage paper. These were scanned and inverted, resulting in an incredibly dark inky blue background of the series of prints called Incognito which are included in the exhibition.

Colour perception is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that varies from person to person. For some, colour can trigger physical responses, while for others, colour can be heavily associated with cultural influences.

Michelle Duxbury often uses pinks and reds in her work. These can be read in many ways with associations of being bold and alarming, whilst referencing the body, passion and possibly connections to gender. Her embroidered pieces command attention thanks to the choice of colour.

The environment also plays a crucial role in shaping our perception of colour.

Natural landscapes such as green fields and blue coastlines, or urban settings like concrete structures and artificial lighting, all contribute to our colour palette.

This is reflected in the work of artist Andy Edwards, who creates mixed media collages using discarded materials found on the street, thus incorporating the colours of the environment directly into his artwork.

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Johnathan Hooper makes paintings of the urban environment and often using a limited colour palette. These colours are selected perhaps for the emotions evoked rather than in reference to the colours before him.

Some of the artists featured in the exhibition delve into the feelings of nostalgia that are often associated with their childhood. The colours and materials they use can evoke memories of a specific time in their lives that may be significant to them, but also resonate with others who experienced similar fashions and trends.

Sarah Roberts often recreates situations from her youth, making direct references to the houses she grew up in. Often she focuses primarily on making single-colour installations and accompanying works on paper. This not only emphasises the formal aspect within the work but also alludes to a sense of cohesive calm that she was seeking in her childhood.

adds to the reading of her work and allows the viewer to consider objects from their own lives and their significance.

Within my own work, I use colour from materials and found objects collected from places where I lived as a child. These carry personal significance but there are other factors at play and bigger issues to consider about the impact humans have on each other and on our environment.

A single colour can hold great historical significance.

This exhibition invites us to consider broader topics beyond the surface. We are encouraged to contribute to the experience via our own interpretations. This is just one of the aspects that makes it so exciting to live with art.

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Lorna Johnson also takes inspiration from her childhood and often incorporates materials that have been passed down in her family. For instance, Scent Placement (2018) is made of fabric taken from cushion covers that belonged to a range of family members before being retired to her grandmother’s spare room. Using materials that come with an existing sense of history

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H E L E N D RY D E N B. 1977 MIDDLESBROUGH, UK

Helen Dryden is a painter whose artistic practice also involves curating, illustration, and photography. She is drawn to things that seem slightly strange and loves to explore how our emotions, experiences, and imagination affect our perception of reality.

Recently Helen has adopted an intuitive approach to painting, allowing the images to emerge spontaneously after periods of drawing and reflective thinking. She finds joy in the unknown, in not knowing what the final outcome will be.

Helen draws inspiration from everyday life and is influenced by science fiction, folk, horror, environmental concerns, a love of nature, pop culture, and dreams.

Her latest body of work delves into

the concept of humans exploring new landscapes. At first glance, these vibrant landscapes appear cheerful and optimistic, but there is also a sense of unease that lurks beneath the surface.

“As a painter, I’ve learned to trust my instincts and let my inner self come to the surface. I have my own ideas about what is happening in the painting, and usually, it’s quite an involved story, but I don’t like to explain it as a fixed idea. I give clues with the titles, but I want the viewer to decide for themselves. I aim to create the impression of something wonderful yet unsettling happening.”

Helen Dryden

It started like any other recreational activity, I guess 2022 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm | 31.5 x 39.5 in £1,600

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The Official Commemorative Presidential Portrait with the first guys to piss on this dirt 2023 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 80 x 100 cm 31.5 x 39.5 in £1,600

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Summer Camp 2023 Acrylic on canvas 51 x 41 cm | 20 x 16 in £700 Golden Acre Palm 2023 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 40 x 60 cm | 15.75 x 23.5 in £800 Step nearer the bushes, Joanne 2016 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 cm | 12 x 15.75 in £600

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M I C H E L L E D U X B U RY B. 1973 LEEDS, UK

Michelle Duxbury works across a range of media to explore how we exist in our bodies, spaces and places.

Drawing on her experience as a disabled, neurodivergent woman from a working class background, she offers a glimpse into her complex relationship with an outside world.

Her work considers an intrinsic link between landscape, body and identity, in individual and collective connection to landscape, and how this impacts on feelings of belonging/not belonging.

OPPOSITE PAGE Detail of Untitled red thread I, 2022

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Her practice is informed by process based research and experimentation.

She is developing a more sustainable approach to creating artworks that contribute to more diverse and inclusive narratives around disability.

“I love embroidery, it has such a rich, and often subversive, feminist history.”

Michelle Duxbury

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Untitled red thread I 2022 Cotton thread on Japanese paper 42 x 42cm | 16.5 x 16.5in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

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Untitled red thread II 2022 Cotton thread on Japanese paper 42 x 42cm | 16.5 x 16.5in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

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Untitled red thread III 2022 Cotton thread on handmade paper 42 x 42cm | 16.5 x 16.5in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

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A N D Y E D WA R D S B. 1962 MIDDLESEX, UK

Andy Edwards is an artist, graphic designer and until recently, was also a university lecturer. All aspects of his practice inform the other.

As a graphic designer he works with cultural organisations, public bodies and architects. Meanwhile, as an artist, he often uses materials that others have designed, produced, used, and discarded to create mixed media collages.

By elevating detritus and ephemera into artwork in this way, he challenges traditional hierarchies of materials and production values. He enjoys reimagining found material, and waste to find accidental juxtapositions that create new meaning within his work.

Pinko 2021 Mixed media collage 43 x 53 cm | 20.9 x 16.9 (incl. frame) £300 (framed)

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Andy makes collages in series and often works to a self-imposed brief. Whilst on a work trip to New York he made daily collages from discarded materials found on the streets. Emballage is a series where he worked with materials connected to a local cafe. He made playful works using delivery boxes and bits of pre-coloured packaging that reference the global supply chain.

“Collage has always been something I’ve made since I saw work by Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Hoch and Bob Rauschenburg in my teens. There’s a symbiosis between my art and graphic design, one informing the other. Order and accident, utility and futility, the found, the imperfect, re-used and reformed.”

Andy Edwards

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Thick Red Line 2022 Mixed media collage 43 x 53 cm | 16.9 x 20.9 in (incl. frame) £300 (framed)

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Hazard Family 2022 Mixed media collage 46 x 46 cm | 18 x 18 in (incl. frame) £300 (framed)

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Alpha 2022 Mixed media collage 43 x 53 cm | 16.9 x 20.9 in (incl. frame) £300 (framed)

Piscina Major 2022 Mixed media collage 46 x 21 cm | 18.1 x 8.2 in (incl. frame) £250 (framed)

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H O N DA R T Z A F R AG A B. 1982 A CORUÑA, SPAIN

Hondartza Fraga is a Spanish artist who works across a range of mediums including drawing, photography video and animation. Her work often reinterprets scientific imagery to explore alternative ways of meaning making.

She is fascinated by our relationship to extreme environments, from deep sea to deep space which are recurring themes she explores throughout her work.

Her work often explores the relationship between artistic and scientific processes and how scientific discoveries are represented and communicated via imagery that aids in attributing meaning.

She is currently completing a practiceled PhD at the University of Leeds.

Her research centres around making a new body of work using the archive of raw images from the space-research

OPPOSITE PAGE Installation view Incognito prints with drawings on gallery wall.

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Cassini mission to explore the similarities and differences between drawing and new technologies.

Her work is held in private and public collections in the UK and Europe.

Her work is represented by Espacio Alexandra (Spain) and The Art Court (UK). She was featured in the book Vitamin D3: Today’s Best Contemporary Drawing published by Phaidon in 2022.

“Black dominates much of my work though sometimes a colour is used for a specific reason. The blue in the Incognito prints originates from digitally inverting the yellowing vintage paper I used for the drawings. The deep blues evoke traditional photographic techniques such as cyanotypes.”

Hondartza Fraga

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Incognito 1 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

Incognito 2 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

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Incognito 3 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + AP + 1 exhibition copy

Incognito 4 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition Edition of 3 + 1 a/p + 1 exhibition copy

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

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Incognito 5 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

Incognito 6 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

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Incognito 7 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

Incognito 8 2019 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 3 + 1 AP + 1 exhibition copy

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

42 x 59.4cm | 16.5 x 23.5in £350 (unframed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

60 x 80 cm | 23.6 x 31.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

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J O N AT H A N H O O P E R B. 1963 LONDON, UK

Jonathan Hooper is a painter who depicts the residential architecture of suburban Leeds, specifically the north-west areas including Headingley, Hyde Park, Burley, Kirkstall and Meanwood.

His work captures everyday scenes, highlighting the beauty and individuality of the built landscapes in his immediate surroundings.

surfaces reveal their histories and inner lives; and the way their layout is rooted deeply in our memory.

He uses limited colour palettes for each series, which are chosen to create an emotional atmosphere that mirrors the character of the subject rather than imitating its visual appearance.

He specifically focuses on houses because of their connection to the human: partly through the emotional associations of “home” and also the human scale of the buildings including their arrangement corresponds to a human face or body; how their outside

OPPOSITE PAGE Installation view of Shops in Headingley (Letting Agent; Fast Food), 2023 on gallery wall.

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“The main function of colour in painting for me is to create atmosphere and emotion. I take colour from my memory of the subject, my imagination, and through improvising.”

Jonathan Hooper

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Malaysian Café (3) 2023 Watercolour on 300gsm Arches Aquarelle hot pressed paper 51 x 76 cm | 20 x 30 in £450 (unframed)

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Backs of shops in Headingley (Empty Unit; Restaurant; Charity Shop) 2023 Oil on cradled board 64 x 95 cm | 25 x 37 in (incl. frame) £1,200 (framed)

Shops in Headingley (Charity Shop; Restaurant; Empty Unit) 2023 Oil on cradled board 64 x 95 cm | 25 x 37 in (incl. frame) £1,200 (framed)

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Shops in Headingley (Letting agent; Fast food) 2023 Oil on cradled board 44 x 54 cm | 17 x 21 in (incl. frame) £700 (framed) Shops in Headingley (Barbers; Letting agent) 2023 Oil on cradled board 44 x 54 cm | 17 x 21 in (incl. frame) £700 (framed)

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Malaysian Café (1) 2023 Watercolour on 300gsm Arches Aquarelle hot pressed paper 38 x 57 cm | 15 x 22 in £300 (unframed)

Malaysian Café (2) 2023 Watercolour on 300gsm Arches Aquarelle hot pressed paper 38 x 57 cm | 15 x 22 in £300 (unframed)

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PHILL HOPKINS B . 1 9 6 1 B R I S TO L , U K

Phill Hopkins is a British contemporary artist with a versatile practice that is diverse, yet firmly rooted within a coherent artistic strategy.

He is predominantly a painter, who makes drawings, photographs and sculptures.

He works with a range of media, from the traditional to the unconventional.

He grew up in a working-class family in Bristol where he found school difficult but he excelled at art. Though he didn’t experience the world of art beyond the classroom until he accidentally visited The Arnolfini Gallery when he was fifteen.

He went on to study at Goldsmiths College of Art in London where he developed his own visual language of

mark-making that can be seen in his work across the decades.

He has represented Britain at the Nanjing International Art Festival, China. He has exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, Kettles Yard, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Whitworth, Leeds Art Gallery and The Henry Moore Institute amongst many others.

His work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA, China and Australia, and in public collections, including many of the institutions mentioned above.

“I get caught up and engrossed in the delicious markmaking, in a particular moment and nothing else matters.”

Phill Hopkins

Figure Beyond the Mud and Fallen Branches (Walking Ahead) 2022 Acrylic on canvas 180 x 130 cm | 70.8 x 51.1 in £9,000

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Figure with a Wildflower Bouquet, St Ishmael (Walking Ahead) 2023 Acrylic on canvas 174 x 128 cm 68.5 x 50.4 in £8,500

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Bottle Green Coat Ascending Steps At Scarborough (Walking Ahead) 2021 Ink on paper 59 x 41.5 cm | 23.2 x 16.3 in (incl. frame) £1,800 (framed)

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Oak Coat Under an Oak Tree (Walking Ahead) 2021 Ink on paper 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in Signed on verso £500 each (framed)

Bottle Green Fleece Walking Towards the River Wharfe (Walking Ahead) 2021 Ink on paper 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in Signed on verso £500 each (framed)

Oak Coat Under Bough Next to the River Aire (Walking Ahead) 2021 Ink on paper 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in Signed on verso £500 each (framed)

Additional unframed works on paper from the Walking Ahead Series are available at £400.

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Cala Xinxell I 2023 Ink on paper (signed on verso) 21 x 29.7 cm | 8.25 x 11.75 in £550 (unframed) Cala Xinxell II 2023 Ink on paper (signed on verso) 21 x 29.7 cm | 8.25 x 11.75 in £550 (unframed) Cala Xinxell III 2023 Ink on paper (signed on verso) 21 x 29.7 cm | 8.25 x 11.75 in £550 (unframed)

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THE KNARESBOROUGH SERIES

The Knaresborough Series is a suite of paintings and limited edition prints made exclusively for the Art Court by Phill Hopkins.

The series captures some of the most iconic views of the market town of Knaresborough, along with some less obvious scenes. All expressed in bold colours, confident brushstrokes and an array of dots and dashes that give a lively depiction of this stunning setting by the River Nidd.

Archival pigment print on 315gsm cotton rag 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in Signed edition of 10 (+ 2AP) £120 (unframed)

Springtime Viaduct Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

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Viaduct at Sunset Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

St John’s from the River Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

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Boaters with Parasol Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

Blue Boat on the River Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

Autumnal Viaduct Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

Bend in the River Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

Walking from Mother Shipton’s Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

Reflections in the River Ink on paper (signed on reverse) 14.85 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.3 in £400 (unframed)

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LORNA JOHNSON B. 1982 LONDON, UK

Lorna Johnson is a visual artist who makes sculptural objects, installations, assemblages, collages and photography to explore aspects of heritage including her own lived experience and broader facets of heritage.

She has worked with the National Trust, The Churches Conservation and with private owners of heritage sites. She has been commissioned to make work in response to museum collections and to share the history of historic spaces.

She is particularly interested in working with objects and materials that could be perceived as non-precious and uses these to explore associations with value.

She has exhibited in the UK, Europe and America. Her work is represented by The Art Court.

These themes are central to the research she is currently doing towards a practiceled PhD at the University of Leeds which focuses on four archaeological hoards found in Yorkshire. Her work for the PhD has recently been included in exhibitions at Leeds City Museum and Leeds Art Gallery.

“I definitely see the materials as ingredients that I bring together to make the piece - all are needed and all bring their own individuality.”

Lorna Johnson

OPPOSITE PAGE Installation view of Grotto 3 and Grotto 4 on a wall.

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Grotto 1 2014 Photograph printed on metallic photographic paper Limited edition of 5 60.5 x 60.5 cm | 24 x 24 in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

Grotto 2 2014 Photograph printed on metallic photographic paper Limited edition of 5 60.5 x 60.5 cm | 24 x 24 in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

28.4 x 40.7 cm | 11.25 x 16 in £450 (unframed)

28.4 x 40.7 cm | 11.25 x 16 in £450 (unframed)

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Grotto 3 2014 Photograph printed on metallic photographic paper Limited edition of 5 60.5 x 60.5 cm | 24 x 24 in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

Grotto 4 2014 Photograph printed on metallic photographic paper Limited edition of 5 60.5 x 60.5 cm | 24 x 24 in (incl. frame) £600 (framed)

28.4 x 40.7 cm | 11.25 x 16 in £450 (unframed)

28.4 x 40.7 cm | 11.25 x 16 in £450 (unframed)

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Scent Placement 2018 40 x 30 cm | 15.75 x 11.8 in Found object, glass beads, thread, stone, clay and paint £800 Portable Grotto (1) 2013 23 x 18 cm | 9 x 7.1 in Found object, clay, ribbon, paper and plastic beads £400

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SARAH ROBERTS B . 1 9 8 0 T Y W Y N , WA L E S

Sarah Roberts is a Welsh artist based in Leeds. She is interested in our capacity for momentary encounters with the world, primarily with visible surfaces of architecture, landscape and the body.

Moments in which these surfaces are seen as collisions of form and colour that reverberate and invite us to reencounter an object and the power of visually driven connections to take us back to the past.

Sarah creates collage, written works and immersive installations using sculpture, large format print, found objects, textiles, sound, moving image, fragrance and whatever else she associates with the place or emotion she’s exploring.

She takes a tactile approach as she researches the place of provenance, this can include meticulously collecting the scent, the sensation and the hue of a suburban concrete driveway, a casino carpet or a cliff edge.

Alongside her practice, Sarah is an associate lecturer in fine art and the founder and curator at Hyde Park Art Club and SHELF. “I use colour to create environments and objects that offer a still place for looking in a fast-paced material world.”

Sarah Roberts

Baggage - a love letter to all the houses I have lived in and all those that have been died in 2023 Mixed media collage and drawing on paper 60 x 85 cm | 23.6 x 33.5 in (incl. frame) £800 (framed) A2 print with hand drawn and collaged elements Signed edition of 45 + 1 AP £100 (unframed)

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No. 40 Sandilands Road 2023 Mixed media collage and drawing on paper 60 x 85 cm 23.6 x 33.5 in (incl. frame) £800 (framed) A2 print with hand drawn and collaged elements Signed edition of 45 + 1 AP £100 (unframed)

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Everything’s STILL Mustard 2022 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag Signed edition of 45 + 1 AP 17.3 cm x 22 cm | 6.8 x 8.7 in £40 (unframed)

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COURTNEY SPENCER B. 1980 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Courtney Spencer is an Australian artist, curator and collaborator who has been based in Yorkshire since 2005. Her artistic practice explores aspects of her own identity. She is particularly interested in her primary school years when the family moved frequently across rural settings of Western Australia for her father’s job with the Bureau of Meteorology.

She often works with materials such as rocks, sand, dirt, and found objects sourced from locations from her childhood. Her work responds to the place and her associated feelings with the sense of place or the corresponding time from her childhood.

OPPOSITE PAGE Installation view of Dirt Rubbings series with samples from across Western Australia.

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Her work takes an array of forms that can include sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and film.

She was the director of an arts venue in Leeds for five years, began the annual Leeds Summer Group Show in 2015, works as an independent curator and writes a monthly column for The State Of The Arts called Snooping Through Studios where she interviews artists in their studios.

“I find colour highly emotive so prefer to keep colour combinations very simple in my work.”

Courtney Spencer

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Dirt Rubbing: Wilgie Mia Red Landscape (I) 2023 Natural pigment on Fabriano watercolur paper 77 cm x 57 cm | 30.25 x 22.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

Additional works on paper from the Dirt Rubbing Series are available at £350 (unframed).

Some of the pigments used in this series have been sourced from Wilgie Mia (Western Australia) with permission from Traditional Landowners. Wilgie Mia is the worlds oldest ochre mine and is expected to have been in use for the past 30,000 years

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Dirt Rubbing: Yellow Landscape (I) 2023 Natural pigment on Fabriano watercolur paper 77 cm x 57 cm | 30.25 x 22.5 in (incl. frame) £500 (framed)

Dirt Rubbing: 20cm Yellow Square (I) 2023 Natural pigment on Fabriano watercolur paper 45 cm x 33 cm | 17.7 x 13 in (incl. frame) £200 (framed)

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