Oxmarket are looking forward to an exhibition by Consuelo Simpson, Dawn Langley and Janet McWilliam who have come together to share their latest work and their experimental approach to their fine art practices. Each artist embraces investigational contemporary methods as they explore the human experience.
Through an exploration of colour, line, texture, layering, geometry and repetition each artist produces works that push the boundaries and expectations of their chosen media. The exhibition is multidisciplinary, incorporating works on paper, textile sculptures, book forms, paintings, photographs and prints. Abstract 2D and 3D elements will sit alongside each other. All three artists explore the notion of making as a dialogue between artists and materials.
The exhibition aims to highlight our shared life experiences, encouraging the viewer to pause and consider what might be a curious juxtaposition or an unusual viewpoint.
Consuelo Simpson is a forager and finder of orphaned objects. Her practice honours lost histories of knowledge and craft as the artist reweaves the story of the networks that bind us together through time and place.
Dawn Langley’s practice uses different approaches to exploring the traces of our lives, her images are based on the notion of disruptive combinations in the form of unusual still lives and work that incorporates collaboration with machines.
In Janet McWilliam’s work, colour is applied in a way that could be said to echo processes used within a household during its lifetime, reminiscent of a repeated activity by those who have inhabited the space. She shares the making with her materials.
The artists are all interested in the notion of creativity where the artworks draw in the viewer and evoke a physical response in a collaborative interaction. We would like our audience to spend time, to dwell and enjoy a process of slow and deep looking. The works draw on shared contemporary themes but also evoke a sense of play and exploration, something we hope the viewers will share.
