A GROUP SHOW, open to all artists and makers in Park Royal. A chance to come together and show the work of our area, to meet each other, collaborate, and celebrate —
EXHIBITION — Thu 28 April - Thu 26 May 2022
OPENING NIGHT — Thu 28 April 2022, 6 - 9pm
LOCATION — Excelsior Studios
Opening
—Night
The parkroyalgallery is a nomadic, floating gallery concept. A gallery with no gallerists, and with no permanent home. With the single aim of creating and celebrating art — whether you’re an artist with a studio, working in the joinery next door, or on the factory floor — everyone should be able to create, enjoy, and access art. The parkroyalgallery uses all spaces available to them, the side of a building, a street corner, or the common parts of the studio buildings in the area. For this OPEN01 we set up the show at Excelsior Studios, with drinks from our in-house brewery The Roundwood Project.
A great evening, the first OPEN group show. With many more to follow.
Images by jagsstudio
Artists on
— show
BLAST STUDIO
THE HIVE
2022
£2600
3d printed used coffee cups and mycelium
150 x 100 cm
Blast Studio was founded in 2018 by Paola Garnousset, Martin Detoeuf and Pierre de Pingon. The design studio aims to explore how nature and technology can be put in dialogue in order to transform cities’ discarded material into artefact and architecture. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Urban Stomach: 3d printed artefacts from waste and living organisms’, part of London Design Festival, United Kingdom and in 2020 they were awarded Prix d’encouragement en Architecture by L’Académie des Beaux Arts Paris, France.
KHASHAYAR NAIMANAN
REGAL
2022
£2200
Spray paint on found canvas and frame
159 x 108.5 cm
Khashayar Naimanan was born in West London, grew up vandalising London Underground. Using his repetitive behaviour of writing his name over and over he studied product design at Central Saint Martins followed by an MA in Design Products at Royal College of Art. Working with the transgressive quality of Khashayar’s background and how this attitude towards artistic vandalism informs his practice today, using and altering found objects and subverting familiar narratives as well as his own biographical material. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, The Venice Biennale, the London Design Museum and V1 Gallery in Copenhagen amongst others. Khashayar has been working with brands such as Adidas and Maharishi along with commissions for Roger Waters and Jean Paul Gaultier. He has collaborated extensively with designers Kram/Weisshaar on large scale multimedia projects for global brands. He is currently teaching at the Royal College of Art.
TARA
[after Shaikh Zain ud-Din]
2022
Not for sale
Ink and watercolour
A3
This is a copy of a painting by the eighteenth century Indian master, Zain ud-Din. I copied this to explore the detailed mark making, intensity of colour and beauty of the original composition. The original is the exquisite meeting of Mughal painting tradition with scientific, botanical art. The process of copying was of value in and of itself as I connected with an artist from a different time and continent and had the pleasure of immersing myself in the detail of this master’s work. The process also inspired my own experiments with watercolour and ink.
PIE HERRING
THE SELF
2022
£3000
Oil on canvas paper, framed.
A3 triptych
Predominantly working in oils, Pie’s paintings depict tender portrayals of human and societal issues. Interested in the deconstruction and removal of paint, Pie strips background information to place emphasis on interrelationship and emotion. Each piece begins with a dynamic landscape of paint, large brushstrokes move widespread across the canvas, and puddles of turps dry to form unpredictable meandering marks. The figural composition is then considered in relation to this field of paint. Her practice continues to explore the synergy of gestural mark-making and more detailed brushwork.
FELIX CHESHER
BREAK
2022
£1795
Oil on canvas
42 x 59.4 cm
I trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2019 and had a short spell of working as a freelance scenic painter in the West End until everything came to a stop caused by COVID-19. I started painting portraits in lockdown and have continued to do so ever since.
ALLISYN JAMES
SERIES #1 DRY & SUCCULENT
1 Cadiz Cactus
2 Malta Palm
3 Valetta Prickly Pear
Prints – 1/25, 50cm x50cm (Unframed)
£135 each or £350 for the set
I am the designer / founder behind Cobie designs. Cobie was my dog. He was the love of my life, and he is my inspiration for my surface design and textiles business. My motto was always ‘Cobie comes with’ and so it is again. Welcome to Cobiedesigns - Inspired by a life of colour, pattern and texture that I have seen, and still see everywhere I go. It’s important to me that the designs start by hand, and the resulting design has a scratchy dynamism that will make you look again and again into the resulting image.
• I want my designs to dance for you
• I want my designs to make you smile
• I want my designs to brighten your day.
SHEILA MOYLAN
THE SONG OF AMERGIN
2022
Unmounted prints available
£95
Pencil and graphite on paper
594 x 841 mm
Smaller prints available on request
Sheila Moylan is a Fine Art Sculpture graduate from UEL. Her main area of interest is the human form in sculpture or 2D. Her current work is a project based around her fascination with folk tales and Irish mythology. She is particularly obsessed by the Boyne Valley Complex (a Unesco world heritage site) where myths of swans and Godesses destroyed by rivers and 5000 year old passage tombs decorated with spirals and lozenges combine in the imagination. She brings the silent stones to life and combines story and figure with megalithic art using digital techniques as well as pencil and ink. She teaches drawing to adults and children and those with learning disabilities. She has exhibited sculptures as part of Hammersmith Arts Festival 2018.
VICTORIA NOAKES
LES FLEURS DE VENU
2022
Prints in a limited edition of 5
£500
A1 (841x594mm)
The price is £500 unframed and £550 for frame & delivery (UK only, international prices may vary)
Created digitally, this playful collage is made from found and drawn images. In addition to the vibrant background colour, the flowers, sourced from vintage illustrations and botanical archives, remind us of the joys of spring all year around. The more time you spend looking at this image, the more details you will discover...
Rooted in the intersection of performance, theory and art, Victoria’s work is energetic, eclectic, and often gravitates towards non-conformity. With a background in architecture, Victoria often finds inspiration in the contrasts lying between artificial and natural objects or landscapes. Having recently graduated from Central Saint Martins, Victoria is currently pursuing the themes explored in her thesis project (Water, Bodies & Cities) through various mediums, including collage, sound-pieces and painting.
TANIKA SWABY
TIME TRAVELING
2022
£350 inc VAT
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 60cm
‘In 2020 art reclaimed me.’
Tanika is a London based abstract artist who returned to her practice during lockdown. As the world was fighting the pandemic, Tanika was fighting cancer. Painting became both her solace and her medicine, allowing her to reconnect with a part of herself she had forgotten existed. Inspired by the complexity of the human mind and personality, Tanika’s work focuses on the relationship and methods the mind creates in order to process languages and experiences, specifically through symbolism and archetypes. Encapsulating her own experiences to create a sensory composition, Tanika uses vivid colours and exaggerated shapes as a visual articulation of the reproductive patterns and complexities formed in mind and thought.
JULIET E P GIBBS
CONCRETE
2022
£950
Oil and acrylic on cotton canvas
62 x 65 x 4 cm
Juliet E P Gibb (b. 1996, Somerset) is an artist currently living and working in North West London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2018.
Gibbs’ work focusses mainly on the contrast between the organic and the man-made. The work seeks to look at the direct impact humanity poses in relation to the world we live in, and how nature inevitably fights back. This age-old conflict creates an interesting ‘push-and- pull’ that we can all observe in the places we live, work and visit.
MATTHEW CORBIN BISHOP
UKRAINE NATIONAL REPUBLIC
(BESIDE THE DNIEPER) 1920
Price on application; funds will go to the UNICEF Ukraine Appeal.
Oil ink, oil and gesso on canvas
20.5 x 26cm
Matthew Corbin Bishop’s (Southampton, 1984) practice explores history; the shifting boundaries of political geography - particularly within the colonial era - and the effects these have on the world today. He graduated with a first from Bath Spa University and was accepted to the Goldsmiths Fine Art MFA programme. He lives and works in London.
NOMISS
GIRL WITH A RED DRESS
2022
£1450
Acrylic and enamel on wooden panel
120 x 91.5 cm
Nomiss is a contemporary painter based in London. Coming from a career of illustration and art direction, their ‘girl’ character has developed over time to become a signature.
ARIANE AZZELLA
LANI BRACELET BAG
2022
£295
Vintage Baluchi white metal anklet and lamb nappa
25 x 30 cm
Ariane Azzella is an independent ethical and sustainable designer, lovingly collecting and creating vintage tribal treasures to create strikingly individual, hand-made bags. Inspiration sparks from travels through the deserts of Northern India, where the vivid colour pop of saris and turbans splashed like paint against the vast horizons, contrast joyfully with the earthy tones of the landscape and limitless deep blue sky. This unique piece emerges from an exploration of the bold shapes and textures of heritage tribal jewels, evolving to reveal a new function and identity, creating an aesthetic that blends tradition with today.
JEMIMA MURPHY
MAYTIME
2022
£1450
Oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
Jemima is a painter from London. Inspired by Fauvism, she creates and reimagines nature and memory in vivid scenes with bright colours and dynamic compositions. Her recent solo show ‘Into Euphoria’ was a huge success and her work has since been in many private collections. Currently, her work is displayed at Home House, London and is exhibiting with Janet Rady Fine Art on Artsy.
PHIL WEBB
UPLIFTING FLOWER
2022
£600 commission only (original not for sale)
Steel lifting shackles
140 x 62.5 cm at base
Weight 18kgs approx.
Phil Webb is a creative engineer, welder, fabricator and maker of stuff out of things.
DERRICK SANTINI
KYLE
2019
£16,000 + VAT
Lightbox
152.5 x 106.7 cm
As an artist I feel the medium of Lenticulars to have an imbued relevance at this incredible juncture of the human condition; like us, they are caught between two worlds, two realities. Looking in the mirror and staring into the void. Like the lines that split the lenticular lens into opposing realities, or fused dreams, what appears as something is suddenly something else; cause and effect, modernity, now. The in-between, the changeling, a world within a world ... are constant themes that motivate and propel my work, the lenticular medium encapsulates these elements and virtues, beautifully.
HELENA ELSTON
Shadow box, leather, mycelium, hessian, size 37 shoe. 36 x 28 cm
Helena Elston is a material researcher and textile developer who intersects biomaterials, fashion, textiles and sustainability. Her current focus is creating regenerative mycelial garments made to decompose in various stages. She uses waste materials, designs textiles and hand sews garments to be combined with a unique mycelial growth process. Helena’s aim is to create wearable mycelial garments that can be safely returned to Earth.
DAVID SAMUEL
NEVER ENDS
2022
£1100
Enamel on wood
80 x 80 cm
An obsession with colour and finding haphazard abstracts, David came across this direction from the stool he uses as a brush palette whilst producing his work.
TOM HERTZ
ESMERELDA 2022
£2500
H:33cm L: 68cm
Sidetable, a realisation through an intuitive process carving and cutting AAC-blocks by hand with a saw. Covered by a plastered lime finish built up over several layers and then compressed and polished to achieve a smooth to touch and visual depth in the surface.
Tom Hertz is an artist and designer of unique one-off pieces and functional objects.
NATHAN EIGHTY
UNTITLED
2022
£170
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 66 cm
Nathan Eighty is a graffiti artist and painter based in London since 2002. Past exhibitions include group shows in San Francisco and a recent solo show in New York.
TERENCE SENFORD
OBJECT #5
2021
£1200
Discarded wood, stretcher bar and metal, sotton string, acryic, beeswax, PVA
71 x 56 cm
My process evolves through the dialogue within the journey of making. I am drawn to the rediscovery and imperfection of craft and serendipity.
I use discarded or non-traditional materials, such as DIY or textiles, as well as acrylic or other mediums. Deconstructing the traditional components of a painting i.e canvas, stretcher bars etc, I isolate these materials, aiming to give credence or equal voice so that the work can be viewed as total.
It is about placing value to that which we either take for granted - or as a means to an end, and dispose of - to making it of use.
DAVID PEREIRA
ENDURANCE SERIES #4
2021
£3000
C Print
61 x 51 x 5 cm
David Pereira is a Portuguese/British artist living in London where he studied in the MA Photography at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design. In his practice he researches the fundamentals of image creation in the analogue darkroom by using chance as the key compositional principle, light as the medium and colour the subject of his work.
MARIUS DAVID
ISOLATION
2022
£3500
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm.
Marius David is a London-based contemporary artist. Originally from a small, multicultural area in Romania, Marius graduated in Sociology, and moved to London in 2011 where he developed his career in Interior Design. These two fields influenced his creative approach to art. His sensitive observation and acknowledgment of the astonishing cultural and social diversity of his newly found home on the one hand, and respectively his love for the perfect line, enabled a keen eye for proportions and volumes on the other hand.
GILBERT WEDAM
THE FOLK - ORIGIN LOOPS
2022
Secondary market - offers start at 0.25 ETH
NFT Series on digital screen
45 x 29 cm
Each FOLK starts with a single mark, drawn randomly. Then doodling away. Until, when, then, a stroke finds its story, a shape turns into character. Finding something. By not looking for it.
This edition of the FOLKs is rendered as ‘Origin Loops’, an animated view of the full process - from the first randomly drawn mark, to its serendipitous exploration, to then finding its final shape.
Each minted as an NFT in an Edition of 1 - contract on Foundation, artwork hosted on IPFS.
DAN MAUZ
ONE TEAR TOO MANY
2022
POA
Cotton fabric, acrylic paint, framed
127 x 98 x 6 cm.
Sculpture, painting, performance... realistic, pop, minimalist, surreal, abstract... It is the artistic goal, the concept to tell me at every and each time what to be and forms to assume, not to define myself as an artist rather for my mind to find her best voice (material/approach wise) to express herself and concretise an idea at best into physical terms. I like perceiving myself as a tool, a filter, a channel for creation to take place through, drawing from all the visual infos and materials that history has provided us with, infos and materials that belong to us and therefore constitute us in time. It comes easier for me to identify myself as an ‘installation artist’ since this practice to be comprehensive of a broader, perhaps endless perspective of techniques, feeling freer than other approaches and ultimately better representative of human dynamic, ever-changing nature and it’s expressive possibilities.
CHINO RIDGE
LIFE ERASERS
2022
£1600
Erasers, acrylic paint
4 pieces, each 43 x 33 x 7 cm
After the traumatic event of my mother’s cancer, I reflect on how our modern lifestyle impacts our wellbeing. This series showcases junk foods: high in calories from sugar and fat, and highly processed. I have also included healthy-looking products and livestock that are often disguised as nutritious, yet hiding nasty ingredients and methods. The characters are all actual erasers displayed upon 4 major base food colourings.
Chino Ridge creates conceptual sculptures, framed works and installations. Her primary themes are history, value and wellbeing. Coming from the peculiar monocultural background of Japan, she has a strong interest in cultural pluralism, the complexity of human beings and their ability to adapt and evolve. Chino studies history to decipher the present, and ponder the future, which informs important conceptual aspects of her works. Her exploration of value comes from her contrasting experiences of commercial design and traditional craft, and she explores it through the use of materials from both disciplines.
ZIN V
HUMAN FLOWER
2022
£700
Mixed media on canvas
105 x 85 x 4 cm
Zin V. is a contemporary artist and musician from Lithuania. His influences arise from the people around and his own life experiences. Artworks are the result of his unconscious mind followed by various symbols that are presented in a cubist style which gives room for people’s own interpretation. Artwork depicts different elements of living life in a city like London.
NICK AJAGBE
THE GREAT RESIGNATION
2022
Not for sale
Acrylic on wood panel
100 x 100 cm
Design went from a distraction I used to paper all the days I wasn’t allowed out, which turned into an obsession into ‘how’ & ‘why’. Somewhere in flux between art + science, I find a way to give my commentary on the world as it stands and where it could potentially be heading...
FOROOGH ANSARI
TAILS OF PEACOCK
2022
£799
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 120 x 4 cm
Inspired by the beauty of peacocks, combined with the calligraphy of the first letter of the Persian word “love”.
JOSHUA SAMUEL-GAITENS
A PICTURE I TOOK IN SCOTLAND AND A PICTURE I TOOK IN ITALY
£25 each
Framed
Each 44 x 31.5 cm
‘I like to take pictures’
BROOKE FITZSIMONS
MASK 2022
£850
Oil on linen
70 x 55 cm
Collecting printed images and her own photographs as references, Brooke starts with a tonal under painting, building up the colour and forms with transparent glazes. Sometimes the tiniest part of an image can be the starting point for a painting: the human figure reduced to a silhouette, linear architectural forms, irregular natural shapes and luminous colours are all borrowed from and used to represent the beauty of the physical world. Her practice is influenced by a former career as a graphic designer in magazine production, knowledge of printing and photographic processes, yet made by hand with the most traditional of mediums - oil paint on linen.
REGAN BOYCE
SKEW 2022
POA
Wall mounted, painted steel
28 x 63 x 52 cm
Based in North-West London, Regan Boyce is a multi- disciplinary artist who creates vibrant, monochromatic, structural sculptures and installations. Borrowing from, and incorporating natural formations into his work through man-made & industrial materials and methods, he seeks to play with the notion of controlling and forcing nature to conform.
BY ALICE
LADY VALENTINE
2022
£795
Handmade lacquered table. Designed by Alice, hand-made and hand lacquered in the UK
Width 57cm, depth 45cm, height 72.5cm
Alice has always been drawn to unusual home accessories and furniture, from quirky handblown glass tumblers to antique carved dresser. By Alice was born as a way to bring together unique pieces and homewares from across the world, under the ethos that well designed, quality pieces have longevity and should be loved, restored and enjoyed across the years.
By Alice sources a combination of vintage and new pieces, working alongside skilled artisans to design bespoke pieces in sustainable and fair working environments. Alice’s signature style is a bright lacquered finish, bringing new life to vintage or new furniture.
The Lady Valentine hand lacquered table, designed by Alice, was inspired by a mahogany Edwardian heart shaped table, and handmade and hand lacquered by British craftspeople, it is available in Wine Red and Sunshine Yellow colourways.