September 30th – October 22nd, 2017
Opening Evening, September 30th, 6 – 8pm
Mandy Payne, Everything of value has been removed, Two stone lithograph with multiple block prints on Fabriano paper, Variable, Edition 3/10, 69cm X 78cm, £750
Mandy Payne, Liminal zone III, Stone lithograph and monoprint on Somerset Newsprint paper, A/P Edition of 8, 64cm x 59cm, £400
Mandy Payne, Stripped bare, Stone lithograph and monoprint on Japanese Kozo paper. Collaged on concrete and protected with archival UVA resistant varnish, Edition 3/10, 22cm x 22cm, £550
Mandy Payne, Faded Glory II, Stone lithograph on Japanese Kozo paper. Collaged on concrete and protected with archival UVA resistant varnish, Edition 3/10, £450
Mandy Payne, This is tomorrow today, Hand coloured stone lithograph with multiple block prints and collage on Japanese paper collaged onto concrete, protected with archival UVA resistant varnish, 32cm x 32cm, Variable Edition A/P, £950
Anna Reading & Soraya Smithson, 4 minute 30 second stop animation Film, Edition of 10, £500
Nina Oskarsdottir, Lapina, Mokulito, £450
Nina Oskarsdottir, Babe you got this, Stone Lithograph, £250
Nina Oskarsdottir, No babies club, Stone Lithograph, £250
Serena Smith, Notebook for a Lexicon, stone lithograph, letterpress, watercolour, graphite, crayon 54 x 39, Edition copy 9/15, £1500
Serena Smith. Lexicon page 14 (drift), stone lithograph, watercolour, Sheet size 42 x 33cm, Unique AP, Framed, £600
Serena Smith, Lexicon page 22 (stasis) RHS on wall stone lithograph, watercolour, 42 x 33cm, Unique AP, Framed, £600
Serena Smith. Guanlan 6, stone lithograph, watercolour, crayon, 39 x 78cm, Edition copy 8/15, Framed, £500
Serena Smith. Guanlan 5
Serena Smith, Guanlan 4, stone lithograph, watercolour, crayon, 39 x 78cm, Edition copy 7/12. Framed, £500
Serena Smith. Guanlan 3
Serena Smith. Guanlan 2
Serena Smith. Guanlan 1
kathryn Desforges, Relic, Plywood lithograph, Unframed, Framing available on request, varied edition of 6, £1,300
Kathryn Desforges, Untitled 1, Plywood lithograph Framed, one off prints, £185
Kathryn Desforges, Untitled 2, Plywood lithograph Framed, one off prints, £185
Kathryn Desforges, Untitled 3, Plywood lithograph Framed, one off prints, £185
Kathryn Desforges, Untitled 4, Plywood lithograph Framed, one off prints, £185
Kathryn Desforges, Untitled 5, Plywood lithograph Framed, one off prints, £185
Kathryn Desforges, Relics, Plate lithograph, Framed, Edition of 20, £230
Exhibition Statement
Tarpey Gallery is excited to present ‘A Study in Stone’, an exhibition of Stone Lithography in collaboration with Leicester Print Workshop that will take place between September 30th – October 22nd, 2017. The exhibition will be showing work from five artists including Serena Smith who is the leader of the Lithography Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop which is the inspiration for this exhibition. The four artists and graduates of the fellowship who will be exhibiting alongside Serena are Mandy Payne, Soraya Smithson, Kathryn Desforges and Nina Oskarsdottir and although they all approach this extraordinarily technical and time consuming process with very different aesthetic sensibilities and subject matters their work is united through their passion and dedication to this time honoured medium.
Having trained as a studio lithographer, Serena continues to work with drawing and printmaking as her primary field of practice. For the exhibition Serena will be displaying work from her extensive catalogue including recent un-shown stone lithographs, these works frequently bring together digital imaging with hand drawn stone lithography to create both a methodology, and a graphic syntax. The objects that emerge from this visual language, shaped as they are by serendipity and systematic limitations, knowingly play with the potential for lyrical ambiguity inherent within the structures of pictorial communication.
Mandy Payne is an artist who’s main interest lies in marginal spaces, places that are often maligned or thought to be devoid of traditional aesthetic beauty. For the past five years she has been exploring Park Hill in Sheffield, the Grade II listed council estate and one of Britain’s largest examples of Brutalist architecture. These works have gained notable success including being shortlisted for the prestigious John Moores painting prize in 2016. Mandy has continued to explore the same subject in stone lithography, frequently collaging the lithographs made on to squares of cast concrete as a metaphor for the estate.
Soraya Smithson’s work focuses on the representation of women and the female form within society. Women’s roles, aspirations and expressions of self are contained and prescribed by an overbearing masculine formula of what it means to be female. For this exhibition Soraya will examine these issues through the joint mediums of print and film to signify the intricate balance of personal space, body awareness, objectification and boundaries. Artist Anna Reading will be collaborating on the project to produce the moving image element of the work.
The work that Kathryn Desforges will be exhibiting centres around being mindful and present in the moment – looking, experiencing, and noticing the ordinary, the everyday, and the overlooked. Corners, unoccupied spaces, lights dancing on walls, shadows, solitary objects and little moments of stillness serve as constant sources of inspiration. Katherine uses drawing, print, collage, photography and film as mediums to form, distill, and abstract ideas and imagery, keeping experimentation and the physical act of making at the core of her practice.
Nína Óskarsdóttir, born in Reykjavík, Iceland and currently based in the UK employs a joyful experimentation of the printed medium which is key to her practise as a visual artist. The works that have been selected for the exhibition are expressive and show a range of different topics that all have common ground within the medium of the print. The subjects vary from expression of the self to dissection of modern food culture and personal religion.
“The Lithography Fellowship is a project that has grown out of my own journey through the process and practices of fine art lithography. By it’s nature this is a printmaking medium that is technically complex and demands a high level of commitment from those who wish to learn.”
Serena Smith