Herrick Gallery Mayfair (London) is proud to present an exhibition celebrating painting on paper, on canvas, on objects and in virtual reality: “LUDIC: Aly Helyer, Iain Nicholls & Joel Tomlin“, featuring “VEIL: Iain Nicholls & Tom Szirtes“.
Aly Helyer interrogates representations of the self. Her paintings excavate the performance of character, the ruptures, tension and violence at stake in our image and the apparent conflict of our desire for a singular depiction of identity.
Iain Nicholls’ paintings are inspired by landscapes, cycle routes and journeys near his home. He works from photographs taken on these journeys, which purposefully contain sparse information, allowing more space for the imagination once back in the studio, where memory and familiarity also come into play.
Joel Tomlin works sculpturally chiefly with wood and bronze, often with painted or patinated surfaces, influenced by Arte Povera and Informel. Attracted to a sense of nature, the edges of ‘civilisation’: the edges of towns, abandoned meadows and ragged fields that appear in the writings of Virgil.
VEIL is an innovative site-specific art installation that uses virtual reality technologies to explore the concepts of recursion, alternate realities and space referencing the works of Diego Velazquez, Casper David Fredrick, Hans Holbein and early pioneers of film. It is a collaboration between the artist Iain Nicholls and creative technologist Tom Szirtes.
LUDIC: Aly Helyer, Iain Nicholls & Joel Tomlin
featuring VEIL: Iain Nicholls & Tom Szirtes
08.10.2015 – 21.11.2015
Aly Helyer & Joel Tomlin, installation view. Image courtesy of Herrick Gallery, London
Aly Helyer, Pilot, 2015. Image courtesy of Aly Helyer
Iain Nicholls, Canal Anomalies, 2015. Image courtesy of Iain Nicholls
Joel Tomlin, Tumblers, 2013. Image courtesy of Joel Tomlin & Belmacz
Iain Nicholls, Darfield to Elsecar I, 2015. Image courtesy of Iain Nicholls
Aly Helyer, Pin Striped Head, 2015. Image courtesy of Aly Helyer
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