The Archive: January 2010

TAGFrom 3 to 36: New London Painting

January 7 - February 6, 2010

Angus Sanders-Dunnachie Hoping to be proved wrong

PRESS RELEASE

EXHIBITIONS:

Tag Images

Artist List (In order within the three threads. Underlined names are the initial three artists who were asked to contribute by Brown)
Gabriel Hartley Mali Morris Alex Scarfe Stewart Cliff Tom Livesey Tom Bull David Northedge Andy Wicks Alex Carmichael Lyle Perkins Geraldine Swayne Howard Dyke Clare Price Stephanie Moran Marcus Cope Luke Rudolf Annie Hemond Hotte Gorka Mohamed Robin Kirsten Jill Mason Tim Ellis Jack Newling Angus Sanders-Dunnachie Yohei Yashi Yo Okada Miho Sato Juan Bolivar Karen David Lee Maelzer Dale Adcock	Rannva Kunoy Alexis Marguerite Teplin Sophie von Hellerman Cullinan + Richards Milena Dragicevic * David R. Fenwick
* Cullinan + Richards asked David R. Fenwick to participate, in addition to Milena Dragicevic

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For Immediate ReleaseExhibition Dates: January 7 – February 6, 2010
Opening Reception: January 7 from 6-8PM

Tag: From 3 to 36.
New London Painting.

For the exhibition – Tag – Three London-based painters have each been asked to invite
one other London-based painter they like or admire, who will then invite another, and so
on. This has resulted in 36 artists being invited to participate, each with their own unique
style of painting.
Tag was a way to allow each artist to ‘curate’ or organize the next step in the exhibition,
in a similar way to exquisite corpse, where each person asked to contribute is aware of
the person who precedes and follows, but is unaware of what is being contributed.
Similarities appear between artists within each tagged thread, often marking a close
understanding of the invited painter’s work. Viewers may examine each work, and
decipher influences or contrasting differences.
Tag also perhaps gives a better survey of current London-based painting than a single
organizer could give – as abstract and figurative painters, recent graduates and more
established artists, and a variety of mediums and sizes are shown here side by side.
The rules each artist received when asked to participate were the same:

Each participating artist must be a painter who resides in Greater London
Each person must contribute one painting, smaller than 90 x 90 cm
Each artist will ask one other artist to participate, until 15 artists are included

As there was a given time frame, many artists were quick to respond and participate.
However, as any exhibition with rules would likely discover, the rules can also break
down. In one thread, an artist was unresponsive after agreeing to participate, leaving
a short space of time to try and finish the chain. Therefore, another artist was asked
in their place, who then asked two artists in order to try and create separate branches
and a longer thread. Although this thread is still the shortest of the three, this directional
shift adds greatly to the basic idea of Tag – that surprises and turns in an exhibition,
or an artist’s work, trump any rules.

Artist List
(In order within the three threads. Underlined names are the initial three artists who were
asked to contribute by Brown)

Gabriel Hartley
Mali Morris
Alex Scarfe
Stewart Cliff
Tom Livesey
Tom Bull
David Northedge
Andy Wicks
Alex Carmichael
Lyle Perkins
Geraldine Swayne
Howard Dyke
Clare Price
Stephanie Moran
Marcus Cope
Luke Rudolf
Annie Hemond Hotte
Gorka Mohamed
Robin Kirsten
Jill Mason
Tim Ellis
Jack Newling
Angus Sanders-Dunnachie
Yohei Yashi
Yo Okada
Miho Sato
Juan Bolivar
Karen David
Lee Maelzer
Dale Adcock

Rannva Kunoy
Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Sophie von Hellerman
Cullinan + Richards
Milena Dragicevic
* David R. Fenwick

* Cullinan + Richards asked David R. Fenwick to participate, in addition to Milena Dragicevic