Forthcoming Small House Exhibitions

May 2024 – Mary Crenshaw: Couched

In May we have tufted textiles for the Small Houses’ exteriors, from Virginia-born, London-educated, Milan-based mixed-media artist Mary Crenshaw.

Crenshaw explores diverse techniques, inventing objects that combine painting with varied media.

“I work across disciplines in painting, drawing and sculpture. Immediacy features in all of my work and is rooted in Eastern philosophical notions of force and energy, as opposed to the way of thinking about strength in Western culture. Sinologist François Jullien declares that the Chinese have no concept of soul, but that of a vital, distinctive life-force. Jullien describes how instead of Western ideas of suffering and endurance, Eastern convictions include flexibility and awareness. This is the kind of energy I aspire to convey to the viewer.”

Recent solo exhibitions include: Etched in Light, PigPrints, Milan, Shipwreck, Prince Street Gallery, New York, Desirable Residence, Polar Union Arts Centre, London, and Tanti Saluti at The CICA Museum in Seoul, South Korea, and collective museum exhibitions include: Claybash, The Hunterdon Art Museum, curated by Jennifer Martin, Kladogram at The Katonah Museum of Art, curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui, and The Figurative Anecdote, curated by Anne Chenoweth, at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Her paintings, prints, and ceramic sculptures are in numerous private and public collections: The CICA Museum, Seoul, Brunel University, London, The Istituto di Tumori, Milan, St.Catherine’s School, Richmond, The School of Visual Arts Library, New York, Agenzia Agricola Bellaria, Avellino and she has participated in residencies at: The Vermont Studio Center, merit scholarship, Johnson, Vermont, The League at Vyt, Sparkill, New York, Centre D’Art Marnay, Marnay -Sur-Seine, and PasseggiAtina, Atina, Italy. Her work is represented by The Painting Center, an artist-run gallery in New York.

www.marycrenshaw.com

June 2024 – Sarah Pager: promoting.bounded.minerals – vegetable aspirations

Pager’s work stems from an interest in the body. The current series draws on the theory that humans are created by water as a device to transport it from one place to another. These sculptural works are artefacts from this standpoint and focus on the co-dependancy of a relationship with matter. Based in the UK, Pager has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe, as well as showing in Moscow and the US. London galleries which have featured her work include Edel Assanti and Beers whilst locally her work was chosen for the Towner Sussex Open in 2017.
Recently Pager has had solo installation at Newhaven Art Projects, shown at OHSH South and has had work selected for the Discerning Eye.

http://www.sarahpager.co.uk

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July – August 2024 – Jude Cowan Montague

We will have a house-wide 3d ‘graphic novel’ style installation by the multi-talented, multimedia & multidisciplinary artist Jude Cowan Montague…

[Image and further info to follow]

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