Friday, 16 November 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
JOSIE COCKRAM: DRAW/FLEX/DRAW - 22 SEPTEMBER - 13 OCTOBER 2012
Private View: Friday 28th September, 6.30 – 8.30pm
(In association with SLAM Fridays)
DRAW/FLEX/DRAW/ examines and reveals all the mechanics of image production which are typically invisible in the final piece. The installation takes over the whole gallery space and is comprised of several parts: two moving image projections, several drawings on acetate, a still on transparent film, and an internal reflection. The installation is self sufficient, providing it’s own light and reconfiguring its own making for the viewer to immerse themselves within.
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Anastasia Shin: Against the Plane
21 June 2012 - 23 July 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW: EXHIBIT B
25 May 2012 - 23 June 2012
Gallery open: Wednesday - Saturday 10am-6pm
EXHIBIT B takes inspiration from anthropologist Michael Taussig’s work on shamanism - interpreting it to look at art and a relationship with material, magic and ritual. Artists evoke a sense of slippage - the wild infiltrating the urban, through the symbols and scenes in their practices: the multi-sensual, the dream, the wild, the relic, the ritual.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Friday 13 April - Saturday 12 May 2012
Gallery open: Wednesday - Saturday 10am-6pm
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ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW is a platform of four exhibitions drawing together some of the most innovative and exciting artistic talent in the UK exclusively throughout 2012. Taking its name from Robert Wise’s classic 1959 Film Noir, ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW is curated by Julia Alvarez and Katherine Hawker who assume the role of detectives. Alvarez and Hawker unveil underground artists and arrange them into artists gangs, by identifying trends and talent for 2012 and tomorrow, compiling a snapshot artists anthology.
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BEARSPACE presents EXHIBIT A, the first installment of the ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW series, introducing artists Rebecca Ackroyd, Thomas Adam, Talar Aghbashian, Dermott Punnet, Jayne A Smith and Gabo Guzzo.
‘I’m just going outside & I may be some time’ were the fateful last words spoken by Captain Lawrence Oates, who perished during the Terra Nova Arctic Expedition to collect Emperor Penguin eggs of 1910–1913. Dubbed the ‘Worst Journey In The World’, the party of six Englishmen were stranded for 21 months as ships could not reach them, and forced them to shelter from the brutal Antarctic winter in a cave dug into the snow.
EXHIBIT A takes this phrase as a jumping point - artists imagine desolate landscapes, isolation, and futuristic visions after the apocalypse through their individual practices.
Dermott Punnet and Jayne A Smith paint lush, neo-modernist scenes which span between the utopic and distopic, while Talar Aghbashian’s sci-fi inspired paintings com found imagery with painterly intimacy spanning optimism and pessimism.
Rebecca Ackroyd and Thomas Adam utilise graphite and traditional drawing skills to enact the suspense and terror of the last living man, and Gabo Guzzo’s sound piece sets a score to the scene: the quiet murmur of an abandoned vista.
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Full artist biographies and statements available at www.bearspace.co.uk
EXHIBIT A is selected and curated by BEARSPACE as part of
the ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW series.
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Friday, 24 February 2012
WANDERLUST: New work by Reginald S. Aloysius & Jane Ward
WANDERLUST: Reginald S Aloysius & Jane Ward
WANDERLUST
New work by
Reginald S. Aloysius & Jane Ward
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Friday 2nd March - 31st March 2012
Private View: Friday 2nd March, 6.30-8.30pm
Gallery open: Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm
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BEARSPACE is pleased to present Wanderlust: the new work of Reginald Aloysius and Jane Ward, after the success of their work in Brave New World at London Art Fair 2012. Aloysius and Ward take us on a journey through vast, imagined landscapes in digital print (Ward) and graphite drawing (Aloysius), combining intricate technical skill in their respective mediums with conceptual and aesthetic inventiveness.
‘You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...’
- Rebecca Solnit
Travel is inherent to the practice of both Aloysius and Ward, to whom traveling provides an infinite resource to be drawn upon in their London studios. Wanderlust[early 20th c. German: a strong desire to travel] showcases travel as creative endeavor in the strikingly different and similarly provocative results of both artists’ far flung fieldwork.
Aloysius’ preoccupation with travel stems from his Tamal routes, notions of transnationality and the loss of tradition in multinational communities. This is enforced through his meticulous graphite pieces, fearlessly etched into. Aloysius completed his MA at Kingston University and has since been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, and continues to exhibit widely internationally.
Ward’s dreamlike pieces are borne of her process of layering digital prints, then carefully removing the top ink to reveal under layers. Ward has amassed a huge image library, juxtaposing places and scenes in her work, enacting processes of remembering and forgetting. Ward completed her MA at the RCA and has since been awarded the Terence Conran Foundation Award and the Tim Mara Prize, and has exhibited widely.
Both Aloysius and Ward live and work in London.
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Friday, 27 January 2012
FORM vs FORM: Abbi Torrance and Paul Ridyard


Both Torrance and Ridyard show new work: large scale figurative drawings inspired by synchronised swimming formations by Torrance on graph paper, and deeply intricate knarled tree roots and natural phenomenon drawn and mounted by Ridyard.
FORM vs FORM triumphs drawing as a revelatory and relatable medium, exposing the tension between the organic and the highly controlled aspects of contemporary society. Torrance and Ridyard create a paired down and clean aesthetic, instigating a rebirth for drawing in an image and media heavy world.
Drawing is used to tackle questions of heterogeneity and connectivity in a diverse world where plants and even people can be ‘reduced to a pattern’ (Torrance). Deleuze and Guattari write in A Thousand Platteaus, ‘Make a map, not a tracing...what distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real’ (D&G, 1987). It is in this way that both artists engage with their subjects, not through mimicry but by constructing specific viewing experiences of real situations and phenomenon.
Torrance’s work examines how society puts ideologies into action which influence and determine the independence of individuals. Torrance uses the way that large corporations see individuals as data and demographics to transform groups of people into choreographed formations, highlighting the current social landscape. Torrance is a previous prize winner of the Teddy Smith National Art Competition, has been featured by Dazed and Confused, has been exhibited in Hung, Drawn and Altered curated by Baylors & Diamond and has been awarded the Commissions East Grant for intervention projects.
Ridyard’s practice explores what constitutes the natural and the manmade, creating drawings which challenge our existing encounters with landscapes. Ridyard seeks out specific sights such as exposed roots and work from photographs constructing pieces which simultaneously allow and obscure the viewers’s perception, demonstrating an inability to fully comprehend our surroundings. Ridyard has shown work in a number of group exhibitions in London, at The London Art Fair and Affordable Art Fair, and has undertaken several research trips throughout Europe and America.
Both artists recently completed their MA at Wimbledon College of Art and live and work in London.
BEARSPACE is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
PRINT & DESIGN NOW! 2011

Exhibition Dates: 4 November – 17 December, 2011
Preview: Friday, 25 November, 6.30-8.30 pm in assos. With SLAM Fridays
Open: Wed-Sat, 10-6 pm
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Link to catalogue site:
http://www.bearspace.co.uk/index.php?orderby=product_name&DescOrderBy=ASC&Itemid=7&option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=23&manufacturer_id=0&keyword=&keyword1=&keyword2=&limit=1000&limitstart=0
Following a fantastic exhibition at the SW1 Gallery in August, BEARSPACE is pleased to present PRINT & DESIGN NOW! 2011, a pioneering open- submission exhibition set to feature over 150 works by emerging artists and designers who specialise in the mediums of print and design.
Artworks have been selected by a panel of arts professionals ensuring the very best quality of work on show. These include, Julia Alvarez, Director of BEARSPACE, Owen Ward, SW1 Gallery Manager and Mary-Alice Stack, Director of the Own Art Scheme at Arts Council England.
This exhibition showcases the very best in contemporary art and design at prices that are affordable to the younger collector and great examples of limited edition print and design objects by up and coming artists from all over the country. Take this opportunity to invest in artists of the future as selected by some of the UK’s most distinguished authorities on art and design.
Prices range from £25 - £1000 for editioned prints and one off works.
"Printmaking is a fascinating and versatile medium,” says Mary-Alice Stack, Director of the Own Art Scheme" and provides an excellent way for people who are developing an interest in collecting contemporary art to acquire works by both well established and emerging artists."
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Land Securities and the Arts Council England's Own Art scheme, which provides interest free loans of up to £2,000 for buyers of contemporary art.
PRINT & DESIGN NOW, initially showed at the SW1 Gallery, and will then go on to tour at venues in London and the UK, including BEARSPACE and Art Fairs in 2011.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
WHO DOES NOT WORK, DOES NOT LOVE // Matthew Mc Guinness
Matthew Mc Guinness 'Take My Rest'. 2010
30 Sept-22 Oct, 2011
Preview: 6.30-8 pm (with canapés provided by the artist)
In association with SLAM last Fridays
Followed by Special Dinner Event GOURMANDIZING:
8-10.30 pm (booking essential online via the gallery website)
BEARSPACE presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of Matthew Mc Guinness, featuring works constructed during his day job as a cook. Mc Guinness will be filling the gallery with art works created from the ephemera taken from the kitchens in which he works. These include detailed sketches and thoughts on T-towels from some of London’s top restaurants. Amongst cooking stains they inscribed with song lyrics from the grateful dead, details of orders and strange doodles all created in between service. He connects these works to the rebellious world of writing on things, graffiti lettering created swiftly and instinctually. Other sculptures and collage works on show are created from found food packaging.
((((Brain Castles)))) Vincent Troia curated by Darren Barrowcliff
Vincent Troia 'aye, aye, a scratch, a scratch', 2011
Dates: Sat 3 - Sat 24 Sept, 2011
Preview: Sat 3 Sept // 6.30-8.30pm
BEARSPACE is pleased to present the first UK exhibition of new works by American artist Vincent Troia curated by Darren Barrowcliff.
Troia has lived and worked in both Detroit and South Korea. In this exhibition, collage and sculpture merge to create works that are at once both 3- and 2- dimensional. Troia utilizes found images of aerial landscapes and people, folding them into various polyhedral shapes. He incorporates found damaged paper materials, dirtied textile scraps, discarded packaging and occasionally featuring other small street sourced findings.
American curator Darren Barrowcliff met Troia in Detroit, attracted to Troia’s skill in achieving a decisive abstraction, connected to the strong yet subtle choice of imagery, supporting the unique appeal of the Troia’s works. Barrowcliff describes the artist’s ability to “fit a feeling of contemporary finish with historical references, alongside tongue in cheek and trompe l’oeil. The work speaks of youthful angst yet is full of profound wisdoms.”
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Seung Pyo Hong-The Monitor Lizard

21 May -18 June // Wed-Sat // 10 am – 6 pm
Private View 27 May // 6.30-8.30pm
In association with South London LAST Fridays
BEARSPACE presents a new series of works by artist Seung Pyo Hong. Hong employs a unique style of editioned metal plate acid etchings, hand coloured in oil paint, based on the functionality of humans, animals and machines. BEARSPACE first presented this artist’s work in 2010 soon after the artist’s graduation from Goldsmiths College. The exhibition at BEARSPACE ‘Mecha’ received rave reviews and Hong has been working on a new series of large steel plate etchings and print editions during 2010-2011.
Hong’s works depict fictional inventions in a very graphic style, through which he explores the relationship between human evolution and the development of technology. These bright works, directly etched and coloured onto steel plate, focus on the potential fusion of organic matter and machine. This is a futuristic sentiment, used as a motif in scifi throughout the 20th Century. Referencing this, Hong uses retro machinery and characters from the 60’s and 70’s highlighting aspirations from the time fused with scientific development of more recent years. In his odd but fascinating scenes, the viewer is almost left as a detective, working out what a piece of machinery is for, what the characters are playing out and where the scene is set. One is reminded of scenes from ‘Prisoner’ due to the works retro, colourful and mystical feel.
Friday, 1 April 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Isabel Rock - Bird Bath

Isabel Rock
9th April- 14 May
10 am – 6pm // Wed-Sat
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Preview Evening
29th April // 6.30-8.30pm
BEARSPACE features a new collection of original large-scale works on paper by artist Isabel Rock, exploring matriarchal themes aesthetically informed by time spent in India. These intricate works display figures engaged in complex chains and circles. Flocks of birds sweep through and consume these drawings; Rock describes these birds as both decorative and threatening in their numbers and their voracious appetite.
Saturday, 12 March 2011

FLARE
Marq Kearey
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5 March - 2 April 2011
Open: Wed – Sat /10 am- 6 pm
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25 March late night opening 6.30-8.30 pm
in association with South London LAST Fridays
To celebrate the lunch of the South London Art Map BEARSPACE is delighted to showcase works by local artist Marq Kearey. Inspired by walking around South London, Kearey presents a series of works on wood with surfaces featuring meticulously painted reproductions of imagery taken from advertising with a direct reference to fly posting.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Jane Ward Solo Show

Jan 29-Feb 26 2011
Wed-Sat 10am-6pm
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28 Jan
Gallery open until 8.30 pm
In association with Deptford last Fridays
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Closing Party 26 Feb 6.30-8.30pmBEARSPACE features new digital canvas works by Jane Ward. Ward's meticulously constructed works are composed of layer upon layer of digital imagery collaged together then broken down and collaged many times over to present an unseen landscape. The images are printed onto canvas from which the ink is dissolved and manipulated by hand. The residue that remains after the ink is removed leaves behind its trace, which carries within it a sense of loss and the evidence that something was there. The combination of that which is present with that which is not creates a reordering that leads us to question the layering of memory within landscape. The work often depicts fragments of the idealised miniature environment of a model village with images taken of the natural world. The subsequent confusion of scale and fragmentation of imagery plus this partial erasure of the image leads to many questions regarding our perception of the world. For example what constitutes reality and what the imaginary, can it be fixed or is it a state of flux, what is utopian and what dystopian?
Jane Ward graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA Printmaking course in 2007. Her work has featured in Artfutures (2002), Celeste Art Prize (2007) Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2008) and she has been awarded the Terrence Conran Foundation Award and the Tim Mara Prize.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
BEARSPACE presents FEUDAL @ The London Art Fair Art Projects


An exhibition of two emerging artists work Jasmina Cibic and Suzanne Moxhay , dealing with the concept of systems within mediaeval living, Iconic images of birds, trees, nature, and habitation all come into play alongside bright neon colours and filmic settings.
Slovenian photographer Jasmina Cibic, creates open landscapes, working with striking and unusual animals and sculpture to juxtapose the natural with the architectural and constructed. The series on show ‘Falco’ sees the artist working with live falcons and classic sculptures either sourced or reconstructed by the artist. These dark, alluring works are sexy, sinister and regal depicting perfectly the upper echelons of feudal existence. The falcon was a form of medieval hunting, a delight for the nobles, which became a sport. Cibic captures these regal creatures pictured against sculptural forms from the modernist era, taste, style and poise perfectly communicated.
Suzanne Moxhay’s work from the series ‘Feralis’ focuses on land and habitation. Ancient ruins and overlaid with overgrown lush landscapes. Simple habitations are found amongst vast lakes. It is as thought the viewer stumbles across a feudal scene, overgrown and outdated, but still with the magic and allure of the peasant that once worked there and claimed the land as their own. Moxhay’s unique style include model making in her studio, where glass and photographs are used to construct these medieval scenes, lost to the world but captured through her prints.
Friday, 19 November 2010
GIFTED: a weekend of art and design in Deptford
A weekend of art and design in Deptford
3-5 December
In association with the Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios
Are you looking for something different, cultural and local for your Christmas presents this year? Perhaps you would like to discover designers and artists in the most talked about art destination, Deptford. You can do all this from 3rd -5th December as part of GIFTED, a weekend of art and design in Deptford.
Time Out have called Deptford as ‘fuelled by a can-do approach to capture the moment!’ The Guardian labeled Deptford ‘London’s newest art scene.’ Discover this for yourself; meet designers and artists in and around Deptford, whilst fuelling yourself on hot cider and a mince pie or two.
Over 15 venues will be open in Deptford over this weekend from the excellent Cockpit Arts designer maker studios to exhibitions, cultural shops and artists studios.
Most galleries in Deptford will also be open during this weekend.
For more details and itineraries of the entire weekend have a look here on the deptford art map! See you there x
Thursday, 18 November 2010
ASSEMBLY GROUP SCULPTURE SHOW

4 DEC 2010 – 15 JAN 2011
Wed – Sat 10-6pm
Closed: 23 Dec - 4 Jan 2011
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Preview: Sat 4 Dec 2010
2-4pm (in association with Deptford Gifted weekend)
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BEARSPACE will host a room of wonderful objects on plinths displaying multiples to singular pieces, assemblage to porcelain. This exhibition forms a snapshot of current trends in new types of sculpture, bringing together small works by emerging artists concerned with assemblage and sculpture. Artists have been selected from several art colleges in 2010, as well as a range of artists familiar to BEARSPACE these include; Blue Curry, Jonathan Trayte, Ellie Doney, Luke Twigger, Krister Klassman, Jasmina Cibic and Wayne Lucas. Each piece resembles a particle of the artist’s full practice. Some artists work only through the medium of sculpture for others sculpture forms only a part of their process.
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
BEARSPACE PRESENTS SUZANNE MOXHAY'S SOLO SHOW - FERALIS

Private View: Friday 29th October 2010, 6.30-8.30pm
Exhibition Open: 23rd October - 27th November 2010
BEARSPACE is pleased to present “Feralis” the debut solo exhibition by digital artist Suzanne Moxhay.
Moxhay will present a new series of work based on a feral and ery scene, typically playing with the overlaying of her own photographs, film imagery and found landscapes to create new worlds, created in the artists mind and projected onto paper through print.
With the rise of new modes of special effects and ways in which realities are being explored within film, Moxhay uses the language and technical facilities of filmmakers and special effects to create artwork that engages with new media and ideas of utopian landscapes and deathly scenes.
“Feralis” refers to something that is feral, and dangerous.
Suzanne Moxhay (b. 1976, Essex) lives and works in London. After completing a BA Hons in Painting at Chelsea College of Art she went on to The Royal Academy Schools where she graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2007.
Recent exhibitions include ‘GSK Contemporary: Earth Art of a Changing World’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, and ‘The Wild as Will and Mediation’, Wiebke Morgan, London. Her animation work has been shown as part of the programme ‘Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?’ on BBC public screens in cities across the UK.
She is currently a Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools.
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
MULTIPLIED: Contemporary Editions Fair 15-18 October 2010
MULTIPLIED aims to showcase and promote emerging artistic talent from artists working and showing in London, as well as providing a platform for the cities most pioneering independent galleries and publishers.
Expect to see the best of as yet unknown artists alongside the creme de la creme of established artists working today (Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst will be showing), providing a unique opportunity for artistic discovery for 'the next big thing' or a lucrative investment.
BEARSPACE will be showing work from:
Zander Olsen
Seung Pyo Hong
Isabel Rock
Jasmina Cibic
Jenny Wiener
Luke Twigger
Krister Caster
Jane Ward
Phil Ashcroft
Steven Dickie
Looking forward to seeing lots of inspiring work and hearing inspired chatter, come and experience this unique collection of contemporary art editions in all its manifestations, from prints and photographs, to artist’s books and 3-D multiples.
Dates and Opening Hours:
Friday 15-Monday 18 October
Friday
09.00-17.00
Saturday & Sunday
11.00-17.00
Monday
09.00-19.30
Event Info:
Christie's South Kensington
85 Old Brompton Road
London SW7 3LD
Admission Free
more information on MULTIPLIED can be found on the official website here

