At The Muse Gallery MARGARET ASHMAN Higher Groud 31.10 - 17.11.2019 In November 2019 The Muse is proud to present Margaret Ashman, at her first solo show at the gallery. Featured in this new body of work are two distinctive threads; The Ogamu Series –a collection emulating physicality and a sense of movement, and The Mori Series – work encompassing a more reflective and calmer aesthetic. Margaret has previously focused on figurative imagery, movement and the human form being the foundaion of her narratives. Her recent introduction of forest landscapes creates a new dynamic and allows the artist to explore the interplay of light and space, human form and the geometry and tones of nature. Margaret’s Ogamu Serieswas inspired by video footage of the US dancer Tashara Gavin-Moorehead, as she performed workshops to the Witney Houston song ‘I love the Lord’. Margaret corresponded with Tashara, who lives and works in California, and was granted permission to use the video footage to make the work. Margaret uses a low resolution filter to create a painterly style, blending several colours of ink on the etching plates to achieve an ethereal effect – one she feels projects a sense of movement and flow within each piece.
The notion of the polite conversation has passed. Humans shift away from a natural equanimity with nature, migrating in ever-increasing numbers to urban developments where they see their cosmetic , technological existence as the norm. Yet without industrial succour from nature’s resources, this urban existence is unsustainable. Urban Intercession Contemporary designers and planners harbour conceptual futuristic ideas of spacial evaluation, manipulation and implementation directly linked to governance and control with complacent scientific thinking that inexplicably fails to consider the great futuristic urban developments of yesteryear, whose skeletal remains today serve as platforms for tourists. This series of short experimental films aims to shine a light on the social-political discourse in the urbane urbanite image, culminating with the essay film How Do You Sleep At Night, which asks the viewer to think, to reflect, to dream…
MARK NORFOLK Urban Internecine Intercession 12-22.12 2019 www.marknorfolk.co.uk
