This month there are two exhibitions showing at the Mary Ward Centre, Wild Horses & Other Creatures and Out & About. See below for Wild Horses & Other Creatures and click here for Out & About
Wild Horses & Other Creatures
Start Time:
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 10:00am
End Time:
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:00pm
Location:
Mary Ward Centre Cafe 42 Queen Square London WC1N 3AQ
Description
Kostas Georgiou's first solo show, an exhibition of new abstract paintings entitled Wild Horses & Other Creatures. The starting point for these paintings was Richter's coloured squares which have been reworked and expanded. The song 'Wild Horses' by the Rolling Stones (incidentally covered by Susan Boyle) was rampaging in the mind of the artist like mustangs across the plains. All memory is constructed by the subject and is subject in turn to interpretation, acceptance, or disavowal. The time for ethical action has passed and we now live on with regret.
"Dumb? Since When? Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time. It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?"
(Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot)
The current exhibition at the Mary Ward Centre is by students from the “Out & About Course” which runs on Friday afternoons. Out & About was a new course in September 2009, so the work on show represents the first term. Each week we visit a different venue & work primarily in sketchbooks, though students are encouraged to be ambitious in the scale of their work, and in the media and approaches they use. Venues are chosen for the opportunities they offer to encourage new & varied ways of thinking and working, as well as for the intrinsic qualities of the places we visit. The first term included St Pancras Station, Starbucks, the Saatchi Gallery & Spitalfields Market; and on the agenda for term two are the Elephant & Castle, The John Soane Museum
& The Olympic Park, amongst other venues.
Teaching takes place on a one to one basis, with a clear aim & theme for each lesson, which builds on what has already been covered. The group is an excellent mixed ability forum where students have forged very good relationships with each other, and a lot of peer group discussion, exchange of ideas & learning goes on alongside the formal course structure. Students have found the course to be a good source of underpinning knowledge & experience for other classes or activities they pursue.
