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Signature in Wood: Singular, career-defining works in wood.

Past exhibition
24 September - 13 November 2021
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Christopher Kurtz, Ascender, 2019
Christopher Kurtz, Ascender, 2019

Location : Sarah Myerscough Gallery  The Old Boathouse 1 White Hart Lane SW13 0PX London

Opening times: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 10am - 4pm

 

 

Art has many different branches, but what holds them together - what all art has in common - are two elements that must always be present: poetry - there has to be some kind of poetry - and a healthy dose of construction. Without the two, there is no art.

 

This musing, by twentieth-century sculptor Eduardo Chillida, perfectly befits an exhibition that celebrates twelve acclaimed international artist-designer-makers working in wood today. They each have a proximity to construction, to knowing the inside-out of their work's finished form, which inevitably leads to a poetic enthralment with their chosen material. The singular, career-defining pieces of sculptural furniture and objects represented in Signature in Wood push timber to its conceptual and practical limits; in doing so, the artists endeavour to communicate emotionally through making and material. 

 

At the foundation of each artist's practice is an acutely temporal and spatial relationship to wood. Labour-intensive processes - turning, carving, and sanding - later give way to surface treatments such as polishing, burnishing, dying and liming. Rich and compelling patinas carry subtle aromas and engage us in an instinctually sensory understanding of the work. These deft languages of making are underpinned by complex artistic concerns.

 

Herein lies Chillida's poetry; in the right hands, a material that is raw, powerful, malleable and mercurial leads to a correspondingly captivating work. The psychological journey taken by the maker during this sculpting process is often brutal, yet within the same stroke beautiful, delicate and restrained. The final expression enfolds this experience within its fibres, so that the indelible signatures of artist and timber are intertwined and ever-present.

 

Featured artists include : Nic Webb, Gareth Neal, Eleanor Lakelin, Julian Watts, Michael Peterson, Ernst Gamperl, Christopher Kurtz, Wycliffe Stutchbury, Egeværk, Katrien Doms, Max Bainbridge / Forest + Found, Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley.

Works
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Christopher Kurtz, Ascender, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wycliffe Stutchbury, The Hill 9, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Rocking Chair, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Anvil, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egeværk, ICE Bench, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Julian Watts, Untitled, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Michael Peterson, Coastal Stack XVII, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ernst Gamperl, 47/2020//190, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ernst Gamperl, 29/2020//180, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ernst Gamperl, 8/2021//180, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katrien Doms, Ukiyo 002, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katrien Doms, Ukiyo 027, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Gareth Neal, Block III (concave), 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Gareth Neal, Block III (convex), 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found, Deadstanding IV, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nic Webb, Form within Li, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Eleanor Lakelin, Homage Bowl, 2021
  • Christopher Kurtz, Ascender, 2019
  • Wycliffe Stutchbury, The Hill 9, 2020
  • Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Rocking Chair, 2021
  • Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley, Anvil, 2021
  • Egeværk, ICE Bench, 2021
  • Julian Watts, Untitled, 2021
  • Michael Peterson, Coastal Stack XVII, 2021
  • Ernst Gamperl, 47/2020//190, 2020
  • Ernst Gamperl, 29/2020//180, 2021
  • Ernst Gamperl, 8/2021//180, 2021
  • Katrien Doms, Ukiyo 002, 2019
  • Katrien Doms, Ukiyo 027, 2021
  • Gareth Neal, Block III (concave), 2019
  • Gareth Neal, Block III (convex), 2019
  • Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found, Deadstanding IV, 2021
  • Nic Webb, Form within Li, 2021
  • Eleanor Lakelin, Homage Bowl, 2021
Christopher Kurtz, Ascender, 2019
Video

Related artists

  • Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found

    Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found

  • Ernst Gamperl

    Ernst Gamperl

  • Christopher Kurtz

    Christopher Kurtz

  • Eleanor Lakelin

    Eleanor Lakelin

  • Gareth Neal

    Gareth Neal

  • Wycliffe Stutchbury

    Wycliffe Stutchbury

  • Nic Webb

    Nic Webb

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