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STRATFORD UNITARIAN GALLERY
Chris Thomas
People, Places and Consequences
4th-25th October
Please join us for a private viewing on Thursday 2nd October 6-9pm.
Gallery opening hours:
Wednesdays 5-7pm
Saturdays 2-5pm
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People, Places and Consequences is an exhibition of work with three themes: portraiture, landscape and narrative.
Portraiture has been a recurring theme in my work over the years. All the pieces are from direct observation in the life room and endeavour to utilise the shape, size and format of the paper the head occupies.
The landscapes are depictions of Southern England and have their origins in the tradition of representing and engaging with the pre-historic monuments of the area.
The third theme is narrative and the representation of key events in a story or the epitomising of the prevailing idea in a narrative.
About the artist
Chris was born in South Wales and studied at Cardiff College of Art and Birmingham Polytechnic. After graduating with a degree in fine art (painting) he stayed in Birmingham and continued painting, drawing and exhibiting his work with the financial assistance of West Midlands Arts.
By the end of his twenties he felt the urge to travel and spent most of the next ten years overseas in the Far East, Asia and Latin America. During this time his interest in visual language was transferred from painting to photography.
On his return to Britain his principal interest returned to drawing and painting and observational drawing became the principal focus of his work. Chris lives in East London.
Coming Soon!
Debatable Lands, by Angela Forrester
Agate 1 (neon 2), by Kathy Rooney (detail)
A Scream of Swifts, by Carolyn Murphy (detail)
Whispers of the Unseen, by Natalie Dee (detail)
Unfiltered? (69. RHB) by Phil Dunn
Fankle Art Collective
Intersect
30 October - 21 November
Please join us for a private viewing on Thursday 6 November 6-8pm.
Gallery opening hours:
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm
Meet the artists:
Saturday 8 and 15 November 2-4pm
Intersect brings together ten artists, who work across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, collage, photography, and film and video. ‘To meet and cross at a point’ is to intersect and this is Fankle’s fourth exhibition together, the fourth exploration of interconnecting ideas at a single point in place and time. Diverse ideas jostle within the space of the Unitarian Gallery, connecting and seeking out common ground.
As the Fankle Collective members make, remake, transform and deconstruct, for the brief period of the show, works overlap and interplay. Narratives that explore identity and relationships with nature or home, and notions of belonging and migration intersect with concepts of fragmentation and reconnection. We are reminded that a world of life is woven from strands, overlapping, contrasting, changing and fragile. Intersect celebrates those shared connections.
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Fankle is a multidisciplinary art collective formed in 2023 by emerging artists from the Middlesex University MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking programmes. The name ‘Fankle’, a Scottish word for entanglement, reflects the complex web of ideas they draw together, as well as the varied generational and geographic origins of Fankle members, with threads extending from London to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berlin, Munich, Baghdad, Tehran and Mexico City.
Artists exhibiting in Intersect: Natalie Dee | Phil Dunn | Angela Forrester | Freddy McBride | Carolyn Murphy | Iliana Ortega-Alcázar | Jan Pimblett | Hanan Tawfiq | Kathy Rooney | Luke Anthony Rooney
For more information, check out www.fankle.art and @fankle.art on Instagram.
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