2022
Dates:
20th April – 24 April 2022
Find Us:
Stand 11
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
Islington, London
N1 0QH
At the London Art Fair 2022, Rabley Gallery is excited to announce a presentation of brand new works on paper, original Fine Art prints and ceramics from our exciting selection of artists, including:
Emma Stibbon RA
Sarah Gillespie
Lucy Farley
Rebecca Salter PRA
Sara Lee
Jo Taylor
Eileen Cooper RA
Ian Chamberlain
Katherine Jones
Natasha Michaels
Tim Copsey
All works are available before the fair.
Enquire: [email protected]
Featured Works and Booth Highlights:
Eileen Cooper RA
Following a return to drawing from life in 2018 inspired by friends and students from her time at the Royal Academy Schools, these recent portraits include the symbolic use of objects, they strike an empathetic tone with the relaxed and intimate distance created between artist and model, their body language at ease with love and contemplation. The figure is central to Cooper’s imagery, her compositions underpinned by the complex question of human relationships. Cooper’s strong drawing with fluid simplified lines and colourful compositions make her work immediately recognisable.
Born in the Peak District in 1953, Cooper has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is held in many public and private collections and has recently been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her work is also included in the Arts Council Collection; The British Museum; The Royal Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Walpole Library, Yale University.
‘Boy Holding a Pomegranate’, Pastel + Charcoal, 76 x 56 cm, Unique Hand Drawing, 2021
Natasha Michaels
The origins of Natasha Michaels recent monoprints lie in historical portraits from the renaissance to the 19th century. Exploring challenging and at times up-ending traditional conventions and genres, Michaels’ work is an investigation of her own ambivalence towards the originals. The subjects often appear uncomfortable or perplexed as Michaels plays with ideas of power , gender and artifice. directing the viewer to consider their status.
Part old masters part cartoons the works hint at contemporary notions of importance and beauty such as celebrity, social media filters and cosmetic procedures and create painterly composites against flat indeterminate backgrounds. The sitters appear, to themselves as well as the viewer uncertain of their identity and context.
Unsettlingly recognisable yet unfamiliar , they hover between high art and pop culture. Michaels makes multiple versions of each print constantly experimenting and adapting her approach as if engaged in a conversation with the original sitters and the emerging versions of themselves.
‘Infanta EV1/2’, Monoprint, 52.50 x 38.00 cm, Edition Variable: 1/2, 2021
Sarah Gillespie
Sarah Gillespie has recently been immersed in mezzotint printmaking process, an old, slow and painstaking method that produces unique velvet blacks and soft tones.
Sarah Gillespie’s mezzotints are imbued with richness and sense of place; they encapsulate all living things in their environments. Her work encourages us to refocus our gaze toward the everyday and the overlooked; moths, blackbirds and winter-suns.
Night in the Tiltyard evokes the area local to Sarah Gillespie’s studio in Devon at the moment of descending nightfall. The intensity of mezzotint breathes life and light into these images, becoming at once beguiling and inviting.
‘Night in the Tiltyard’, Mezzotint Engraving on Arches Moulin du gué paper, 50.00 x 50.00 cm, Edition 40, 2021
Ian Chamberlain
Exploring the intersection of architecture and technology, Ian Chamberlain’s drawings and etchings combine monumental structures with ephemerality.
Nothing Beside Remains I and the larger ‘Shelter’ series, references a body of drawings completed over 2021. The artist challenges our preconception of comfortable places and home, with graphic intensity.
‘Nothing Beside Remains I’, Pencil + Graphite, 52.5 x 66.5 cm, Unique Hand Drawing, 2021
Katherine Jones
Katherine Jones, ‘Folding Inside Outside and her new portfolio of print ‘The Iron in the Earth’ explore temporary structures and nature as a metaphor for human vulnerability in a fragile world. They often depict quiet moments of natural beauty, emulating the wonders of looking closely at, and finding strength within it. There is an intimacy and closeness with the earth on which we stand.
Jones works with collagraph and block print, combining the inking of the intaglio and relief surface of the plate, and subtlety blending inks and revealing textures. ‘Folding Inside Outside’ demonstrates how using humble materials combined with earthy tones can create luminous expressions of nature.
‘Folding Inside Outside’, Collagraph and Block Print on Paper, 91 x 76 cm, Edition 25, 2020
From 20–24 April 2022 the London Art Fair welcomes returning and new friends of the Fair to reconnect, discover and buy the very best Modern and Contemporary Art. Celebrate the Fair’s return to the Business Design Centre, Islington and launch your new art year with over 100 leading galleries, discover guest curated spaces and engage with artists and curators.
View Works in Rabley Gallery’s Online Shop:
Medium: Monoprint Size: 52.5 x 40.5 cms (20.67 x 15.94 ins) Edition Variable: 1/3 Published 2021 Delivery incl. in listed price: £75 (for all UK mainland.)
Medium: Monoprint Size: 52.5 x 40.5 cms (20.67 x 15.94 ins) Edition: 1/1 Published 2021 Framed Price Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Monoprint Size: 52.50 x 38 cms (20.67 x 14.96 ins) Edition Variable: 1/2 Published 2021 Delivery £75 incl. in listed price.
Medium: Pastel and charcoal Size: 76 x 56 cms (29.92 x 22.05 ins) Unique work Published 2021 Framed Price Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Pastel and charcoal Size: 100 x 76 cms (39.37 x 29.92 ins) Unique work Published 2021 Framed Price Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Pastel and charcoal Size: 76 x 56 cms (29.92 x 22.05 ins) Unique work Published 2021 Framed Only Framed Price Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: 50.5 x 50.5 cms (19.88 x 19.88 ins)
Edition of 40
Published 2021
Medium: Mezzotint. 'Sempiternal' is printed deckle edge to edge, on a hand made roundel. Size: 39.5 x 39.5 cms (15.55 x 15.55 ins) Edition of 20 Published 2021
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: 61 x 91.50 cms (24.02 x 36.02 ins)
Edition of 20
Published 2021
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: 50.5 x 50.5 cms (19.88 x 19.88 ins)
Edition of 30
Published 2021
Medium: Japanese Woodbolock
Size: Paper 33 x 28cm
Edition of 6
Published 2019
Folio Set of 8 prints (Individual pricing £475)
Image size 22 x 16cm
Edition 25
Somerset 300gsm paper
Published 2021
Medium: Collagraph and Block print
Size: Paper and block 91 x 76cm
Edition of 25
Published 2020
Medium: Pencil, Graphite Size: 52.5 x 66.5 cms (20.67 x 26.18 ins) Unique Hand Drawing Published 2021 Framed Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Pencil, Graphite Size: 52.5 x 66.5 cms (20.67 x 26.18 ins) Unique Hand Drawing Published 2021 Framed Price of work does not include shipping, though we are available to provide quotes for delivery to all UK Mainland. Collection from Rabley Gallery, SN8 2LW is an alternatively preferred.
Medium: Pencil, Graphite
Size: 35.00 x 38 cms (13.78 x 14.96 ins)
Unique Hand Drawing
Published 2021
Medium: Japanese Woodblock
Size: Paper 33 x 38 cm
Edition of 10
Published 2015
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 42.5 x 75 cms (16.73 x 29.53 ins)
Edition of 35
Published 2021
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