Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
8th March - 19th April 2020
Pause is an exhibition of moving-image portraits that elicit face-to-face conversations without words between diverse participants engaging deeply but silently with each other.
Notes on saint's hair... Maria Chevska
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
19th January - 1st March 2020
"The paintings ‘Notes on saint’s hair...’ exhibited across m2 gallery are all recent, from 2018 and 2019. I began working on these small canvases, 31cm x 26cm, after moving last year from a very large studio to a considerably smaller space – which produced the sensation that everything I was working on was being seen too close, because any inner pictorial space contracted – and they became more intimate works compared to my larger (composite) paintings. These current works foreground painterly gestural marks, and a very close-up viewpoint. They also freely embrace a satirical element, a playfulness within their making, and intentions.”
Impostors - Paula García Stone
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
14th November 2019 - 12th January 2020
“We are in an age when our view of ‘the figure’ in art is being expanded and reshaped by science and technology. My Lightbox images [...] composed using medical photography, X-rays, ESEM (Environmental Scanning Electron Micrograph) images and macro photographs, [...] are a view into the unseen inner structure of the visceral body, metaphorically aligned with organic forms. They could be the body in the landscape.”
Threshold, curated by Iain Hales
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
21st September - 6th November 2019
Threshold brings together the work of four artists, each of whom can be said to be working at the threshold of image and object, exploring the liminal space between painting and sculpture - each artist sharing an interest in the physicality of colour, manifesting itself in their work in differing ways.
Julia Manhiem - grove reconfigured
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
31st July - 13th September 2019
”The grove residency gave me the opportunity to explore a strand of my practice which has been there all along, but has only surfaced intermittently in the form of actual pieces of work. I used the time to walk different routes in and around Bury St. Edmunds, collecting and documenting any interesting small discarded objects I spotted on the way. The resulting work in progress was shown to the public at the end of the residency and has been reconfigured to respond to the m2 gallery spaces.”
Ruth Philo - The Colour in Anything
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
23rd May - 4th July 2019
Ruth Philo shows work including paintings from recent years, that bring the hues of the everyday, alongside the film The River Runs Through Us and two one-minute films If Blue Could Be Happiness and The Sea Today, all of which are being shown concurrently in Alive in the Universe curated by Caroline Wiseman at Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice as part of the collateral events at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Maiko Tsutsumi - Hidden Variables
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
24th March - 12th May 2019
Hidden Variables introduces an overview of Maiko Tsutsumi’s recent work produced since her return to studio practice in 2017. The body of work forms part of her long-term research into the relationships between qualities of aesthetic experience and material properties of objects and environments: a subject she has been exploring through academic research and curatorial practice for the past 10 years.
Ken Taylor - The Place of Numbers
Exhibition - m2 Gallery, Peckham
20th January - 17th March 2019
For this sixth collection of yearly postcard booklets and photographic prints, my attention has been drawn to numbers presented as diptychs. The Place of Numbers; Photographic Conversations will be showing in our new 4 x m2 Gallery Pavilion on the driveway and in the studio at the opening.
