CHARLIE DUTTON GALLERY
1a Princeton Street, London, WC1R 4AX
www.charlieduttongallery.com
PRESS RELEASE
HAZARD PERCEPTION part two
20th May - 18th June 2010
Press reception open 4pm 19th May 2010
Private View 19th May 6 - 8.30
Hazard Perception is the first group show to be exhibited
at the new gallery and brings 15 artists together. A
networked dialogue exists between the artist's expressive
and
conceptual
work.
The
combination
of
human
and
philosophical
construction
is
examined and
reflected
between the works. Order and human control is understood
through a variety of thoughts and visual messages in an
anxious hazardous modern world.
ARTISTS IN PART TWO
FREA BUCKLER
DEREK CURTIS
RUTH HARRISON
TESSA HUNKIN
STUART MAYES
GEORGINA MCNAMARA
CLARE PRICE
Through out the summer Charlie Dutton Gallery are also
pleased to present two very deferent solo shows by two very
deferent painters. Howard Dyke and Derek Curtis, The
expressive mark making of Dyke and the graphic slickness of
Curtis are both exciting artists who have exhibited and
been collected internationally.
HOWARD DYKE
‘SENSE MANIAC '
23rd June - 14th July 2010
Private View 22nd June 6.00 – 8.30pm
Press Reception 4pm
Howard Dyke's gestural, painterly brushwork is expressive,
emotive, evocative, but his gestures tend towards the
figure, and it’s clothing - in the case of the veil, robe
or burka. As his brush strokes form folds, lines drips of
colour, they relate back to drapery, dress and costume. The
drapery is suggestive, allowing for multiple readings or
projections, a conflation of apparel of paint, covering and
protecting but also displaying the fabric, or providing a
reason or support for bright colours and bold flowing
patterns.
A fold maybe just a fold, but it also satisfyingly
sculptural and, in Dyke's work, a formalised element on the
verge of abstraction - it enables the paint to swathe,
cloak, array and adorn the canvas. but then in a willful
destruction or of destructive curiosity, like a child
taking apart a machine to see how it works, he dismantles
his own gesture, cutting it up to be remade, re-formalised,
reconstituted as layering and juxtaposition, the subject
fragmented, meaning disrupted.
Dyke destroys gesture and collapses the figure/ground
dialectic. He takes apart his open expressionist gesture in
order to examine it from a new view-point, rearranging,
turning it around to see how it works, or to continue it.
The folds become cut, the seams proliferate; the working
method is still quick, loose and impulsive, but scissors
have, for now, replaced the paintbrush; the scissors of a
Tailor, a Collagist, a Montagist, creating new forms,
mantles and relationships; assembling splinters into whole
things again, finding spontaneous conjunctions from the
pieces.
Biographical Details:
Howard Dyke Born: 11/04/71 Lives and works in London
Completed his (MA Fine Art Goldsmiths College (BA Fine Art)
Central St martins.
Various groups shows in 2009/10 include Tag 3-45 London
Painting - Brown gallery. Plus 100 - 122 Webber st. With Or
Without God – L13 Aquarium ,
Hilo – Keith Talent gallery, Drawings with Dolphins –
Crimestown.
Dyke was also awarded 2008 Jessica Wilkes award – Acme
Studio bursary 1 year in 2008
DEREK CURTIS ‘THE HUNT’
29th July - 21st August 2010
Private View Thursday 29th July 6.00 - 8.30 pm
Press Reception 4pm
Derek Curtis is an artist who explores the way nature and
the natural world is represented in today’s society. The
ideas for his paintings and sculptures evolve from the use
of everyday materials in conjunction with cultural,
political and art historical references. This is emphasised
through a playfulness, that approaches the seriousness of
the subject matter with a gentle humour which under pins
his work.
In the exhibition “ The Hunt “ at Charlie Dutton Gallery,
Curtis produces a series of new works which play and
respond
to
the
traditional
sport
of
hunting.
The
interpretations and observations the artist makes of the
protagonists in these events unfold like picture stories,
with
the
characters
and
there
surroundings
forming
contemporary narratives rendered in glorious Technicolor.
Biographical Details:
Derek Curtis was born in Slough, England in 1967. He
completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at the Surrey Institute of
Art and Design in 2000. Curtis then spent 2 years as a
guest student at Kunstakademie Munster in Germany. In 2002
he was awarded a Woo Foundation Graduate Bursary.
Curtis exhibits regularly internationally. With recent solo
exhibitions at Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Dusseldorf (2009) and
Kunst Raum, Essen, Germany (2009). With group shows
including Royal Academy of Art, London (2007), Jill George
Gallery, London (2009) and Nave Gallery, Turin, Italy
(2009).
This is Derek Curtis’s first solo show in London.
THE GALLERY
Charlie Dutton Gallery is an exciting new space located in
the heart London run by artist Charlie Dutton and Dr Kate
Saffin. We opened on the 14th April with a two part group
show, ‘Hazard Perception’. Forthcoming exhibitions this
year will include solo shows from painter Howard Dyke.
Derek Curtis in July and an exiting new project from Emma
Biggs
&
Matthew
Collings in
October.
Furthermore
a
photographic group show in November and at the end of the
year an open salon show “The Mid-Town Open”. We are also
excited
to
start
next
year
with
a
solo
show
of
painter Clare Price.
Over the year we will run events, artist talks, and invite
guest curators to use the space. The gallery will host a
talk over the University of Arts London Season this Summer.
Forthcoming Shows
Howard Dyke ‘SENSE MANIAC Solo Show 23rd June- 14th July
Derek Curtis 'The Hunt' Solo Show 29th July - 21st August
Group Show 8th Sep – 1st Oct
(to be confirmed)
Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings 6th Oct – 22nd Oct (to
be confirmed)
Group Show 27th Oct – 19th Nov (to be confirmed)
'The Mid-Town Contemporary' Open Salon Show 24th Nov – 22nd
Dec
Also in the new-year we are pleased to present new work
from Clare Price's.
Editors Notes
Charlie Dutton, Kate Saffin and the artists are
available for interviews by appointment at the gallery
and can be reached on the contact details
above. Alternatively, contact Charlie on 07930 869839.
Graphics of the interior and the art-work are also
available on request.