Between Two Worlds
3 - 13 July 2025
Private View : Thursday 3rd July 2025, 6 - 8pm
Alice Peillon, Michele Fletcher, Johanna Melvin, Linda Lencovic and Patrick Lears work across painting, sculpture, ceramics and collage. Though not a collective they have been exhibiting together since 2018.
The title of this exhibition Between Two Worlds refers to the liminal space where their practices are situated. Between abstraction and representation, between gesture and commitment, between idea and actualisation and between the terrestrial and the spiritual.
This is an exhibition about how these five artists navigate material processes, surrender to intuitive navigations and evolve work that is on the threshold - between two worlds.
Between Two Worlds
Alice Peillon, Michele Fletcher, Johanna Melvin, Linda Lencovic and Patrick Lears work across painting, sculpture, ceramics and collage. Though not a collective they have been exhibiting together since 2018.
The title of this exhibition Between Two Worlds refers to the liminal space where their practices are situated. Between abstraction and representation, between gesture and commitment, between idea and actualisation and between the terrestrial and the spiritual.
This is an exhibition about how these five artists navigate material processes, surrender to intuitive navigations and evolve work that is on the threshold - between two worlds.
Exhibiting Artists
Alice Peillon - “I find that collage is like thinking aloud and is endlessly fluid. I enjoy its flexibility, the ability to move pieces around until my eye is caught by some unusual juxtaposition, and the composition gradually clicks into place. Whilst creating collages, I feel free from preconceived ideas of taste or beauty, and I’m open to spontaneity.
My source material comes from everywhere. I love browsing second hand shops for old magazines and paper ephemera. I will also use my old drawings, monoprints, and paintings; pieces that haven’t quite worked in and of themselves. They may lack a cohesiveness but they have interesting elements, textures and marks. These will be cut or torn apart and re-incorporated into new collage works, and given new life and energy.”
Michele Fletcher - ‘Michele’s paintings are informed by the natural world. Relying on visual memory, they are more sensation than place: a process-led abstracted rumination on light, colour and form in a garden. Her paintings are a rhythmic, gestural and intuitive response to her immediate surroundings. The making of a garden, like a painting involves an intervention with material - pulling, pushing, manipulating and composing. A reimagining of our relationship with the natural world, the work occupies a liminal space rooted in both the tradition of landscape painting and the language of abstraction.’
Johanna Melvin - ‘Johanna is a London-based abstract painter whose work is inspired by urban landscape, architecture, and in recent work, the grid as a hard-edged planar device used in her paintings to further explore and contrast the space between controlled structure and painterly gesture.
Colour and its ability to summon past memory, experience and sense of place also plays a part, as do music and story-telling; some paintings could be described as process-led non-linear visual diary entries in response to a given mood or state of mind.
Artwork titles are arrived at intuitively, evolving from snatches of conversation, prose or song lyrics, or from past recollections and preoccupations that become imbued within the work.’
Linda Lencovic - ‘Linda’s work delves into the complexities of identity, race, and belonging – focusing on fleeting moments where boundaries blur and understanding shifts. The daughter of multi-ethnic immigrants, she draws from experiences of feeling both connected and detached from the world around her, exploring the relationship between self and society and inviting viewers to reflect on their own sense of reality and belonging in an increasingly complex world.’
Patrick Lears – “My work has at its core an expansive sense of play and experimentation. I am looking for the moment when something coheres but then opens and sets me off - away from the usual decisions and descriptors.
Using material resources - clay, wood, glass, photographs, paper and paint - to conjure new forms. I am seeking some sort of visual harmony that feels to be just there, ready to speak.
This process helps me to evolve new meanings, new conversations, new combinations and unions. It feels (comically) like it takes courage to do this and face my studio practice - to carry on that never-finished conversation between what is and what could be.”
Jody DeSchutter is an artist working across sculpture, performance, installation and painting. Jody will perform at the Private View on the 3rd July in a work that she has been developing titled Eurydice.
“My work traverses the endless feedback loops comprised of observation, perception, experience, and environment, and how they shape (and are shaped by) our personal and collective reality.
I have been particularly enamored by the quantum mechanical and the religious: their looping orbits sustain epiphany, confusion, void, and back again. Each representing vastly different and simultaneously similar approaches to the unknown. Each proposing ways of making the invisible visible; they are embodiments of the unknown.”
Events
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