| PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS AT RABLEY |
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| 2010 |
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| MASTERS AND MISTRESSES OF DRAWING |
| Jan - Feb 2010 |
Drawings by twenty two of the most exciting artists drawing today. They reflect fresh definitions and a resurgence of interest in drawing placing it centre stage of the contemporary fine art arena.
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Craigie AITCHISON
Lucy AUSTIN
Helen BARFF
Alan BOND
Martyn BREWSTER
Mikey CUDDIHY
Anka DABROWSKA
Paul FIELDSEND-DANKS
Tim HARRISSON
Claude HEATH
John HODDER
Estaban IGARTUA
Roger KELLY
Samuel KELLY
Emma OLDRIDGE
Kerry PHIPPEN
Susan PRESTON
James RIELLY
Dawn SHORTEN
Emma STIBBON
Sandy SYKES
Sadie TIERNEY |
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| above top: 'Gneis' Tim Harrisson |
| above: 'Devil's Throat' Emma Stibbon |
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| 2009 |
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| THE SNOW QUEEN AND HER GOLDEN PURSE |
| ARTMAS FAIR |
| 1- 6 December 2009 |
A festive odyssey of art treasures including drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics and jewellery by Lucy Austin, Kerry Phippen, Emma Stibbon.
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ICE and glass sculpture by Joseph Harrington, Jewellery by Gay Crichton-Miller and Syann Van Niftrik, Silks and gems from India, Storytelling and a childrens' drawing workshop. |
Left: Conversing With Crow |
Kerry Phippen, Snow Queen Series |
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| MARTYN BREWSTER |
| New Work |
| 11 October – 7 November 2009 |
| New paintings, drawings and prints by this internationally respected abstract colourist. Includes new work inspired during his residency at Rabley Drawing Centre in the summer. |
Left: Martyn Brewster |
'Rabley Sunlight' 2009 |
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| 9 - 31 July 2009 |
| Lucy Strachan RCA |
| Drawings and Sculpture |
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| CRAIGIE AITCHISON RA |
NEW Prints and Artist proofs |
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| ELEMENTS TRILOGY |
| Sculpture in the landscape by: |
TIM HARRISSON HELEN BARFF & LUCY STRACHAN
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| ‘FARM Structures, Forms and Surfaces’ |
| Susan Preston |
| From 25 March – 25 April 2009 |
As Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre’s first ‘Artist in Residence 2008’ Preston drew inspiration from a collection of unusually charged icons of late C20 agricultural architecture - redundant farm buildings originally designed as an intensive pig-rearing unit in the 1960’s.
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| 2008 |
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| ‘Bring on the Dancing Bears’ |
| Kerry Phippen |
| 9 November - 13 December 2008 |
Dark memories of childhood in bizarre, beautiful and emotive images inspired by the circus
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| ‘Kindly Light’ |
| Paul Fieldsend-Danks |
| 14 Sept - 24 Oct |
| Kindly Light brings together a body of paintings, drawings, photographs and digital prints made in response to sites along the North Cornish coast. |
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| ‘MIRROR TO NATURE’ |
| Meryl Ainslie and Lucy Strachen |
| 11 July - 20 August |
| Meryl Ainslie's Monumental drawings of life size trees and hedges, including a 45 square metre Apple Tree were installed in the gallery blurring our interior and exterior experience of nature. Outside, a large black spherical sculpture hovers on the horizon. 'Landscape Eclipsed' (right) by Lucy Strachen cuts a 'black hole' in the sky. |
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| 'MONOCHROME' |
| Martyn Brewster, Richard Forster, Martyn Grimmer, James Ireland, Mariele Neudecker, Andrew Mania, Ged Quinn, Peter Reddick, Emma Stibbon, Daphne Wright, John Wood & Paul Harrison |
| 25 May - 29 June 2008 |
| Twelve artists disclose their relationship with drawing and printmaking revealing diverse graphic sensibilities in 'monochrome' imagery |
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| JAMES RIELLY |
| NEW WORKS ON PAPER |
| 16 March – 26 April 2008 |
| In Rielly’s watercolours humour teeters on the edge of darkness in images of boys in cowboy dress and masks, rabbits drinking beer and a grey haired woman filling jam jars with blood. |
West Country trained artist James Reilly’s latest watercolours on show for the first time at Rabley Barn. Having originally trained at Cheltenham College of Arts, Reilly was included in the infamous “Sensation” exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. “Sensation” also
featured works by Damien Hurst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers. |
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| SANDY SYKES |
| ‘MANUSCRIPTS & MARGINS’ |
| 31 January - 7 February 2008 |
| ‘Manuscript’ is a new series of 17 unique works on paper combining drawing and printmaking and collage. Sykes' marks, words and images breach and are submerged by the surface revealing glimpses of text from Cormack Mc Carthy's novel "Child of God". They refer obliquely to the margins of territory, both moral and physical in our fragile, inhabited world. Sykes creates edgy compositions that evoke wilderness and unfolding time. |
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| 2007 |
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| ARTICULATED FORMS |
| Basil Beattie, Philip Guston, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, Jonathan Lasker, Sean Scully, Graham Sutherland and Glyn Uzzell |
| 16 Sept – 20 Oct 2007 |
The joining of parts, both related and unrelated, articulates a dialogue between form, ideas and feelings that has excited artists from modern abstraction to the present day. |
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| CRAIGIE AITCHISON |
| PRINTS |
| 2 June - 20 July 2007 |
| Craigie Aitchison’s etchings and screen prints exude his vibrant palette with familiar motifs of terriers, crucifix and his beloved Montecastelli. Includes rare artist proofs and prints, many from the artist’s collection. |
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| SADIE TIERNEY |
| DRAWINGS |
| 24 March - 17 May 2007 |
| A flotilla of boats washes a tide of colour from the sea to the Wiltshire countryside at RABLEY CONTEMPORARY DRAWING CENTRE |
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| 100 PROMISES - Jill Carter |
| FILM SCREENING & EXHIBITION |
| 23 & 24 JANUARY 2007 |
| Jill Carter embarked on a journey through Rajasthan, India through the eyes of 100 promises made by friends and family to realise dreams and ideas, notions of ancestors and idols. A narrative unfolds in words and images exchanging ideas and impressions, realising the possibilities and potential of humanity across continents. |
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| 2006 |
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| ANTARCTICA |
| Nov/Dec 2006 |
| Emma Stibbon - Antarctica Drawings and Joseph Harrington - Lost ice sculptures |
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| MATISSE |
| Sept 2006 |
| In his drawings for 'Florilege des Amours de Ronsard', Matisse celebrates his best loved subjects of birds, fauna and frolicking satires. Printed in lively sanguine line, this suite of original lithographs were Inspired by the love poetry of Ronsard and published in 1948. |
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| PARALLEL NARRATIVES |
| Apr - Jul 2006 |
| Artists Mikey Cuddihy, Elaine Kowalsky, Neal Layton, Sally Manning, Kerry Phippen and Sandy Sykes create visual dialogues through drawings, prints, animation and artists' books that shadow other stories and experiences from telephone doodles to the darker side of humanity. |
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| 2005 |
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| NOCTURNE |
| Nov / Dec 2005 |
| Winter days are enveloped by night and half-light. Twelve contemporary artists have ventured beyond night-fall to absorb the atmospheric, temporal and sensual qualities of nocturnal activity. |
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| SKETCH |
| June - Oct
2005 |
| National
Open Drawing Prize and Arboreta Student Sketchbook
Award. |
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| REFLECTED MARKS |
| May
2005 |
| An exhibition of contemporary
artists exploring the relationship between
drawing and printmaking |
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| DRAWING WITH LIGHT |
| April 2005 |
| Contemporary Artists
whose work explores the relationship between
drawing and photo-graphy |
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| 2004 |
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| DEFYING DEFINITION |
| Nov 04 - Jan 05 |
| Paul Danks, Emma Stibbon,
Meryl Ainslie, Sue Preston & Alan bond |
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| BIRDS AND BEASTS |
| 2004 |
| Richard Cowdy, Bryan Hanlon
& Stephen Porwol. |
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