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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS AT RABLEY

2011

17 September - 30 October 2011

EMMA STIBBON

ROMA

New Woodcut and Drawings

ROMA explores the layers of historical traces in Rome; the architectural constructs of Mussolini with ruins from the Roman Empire. The woodcut and drawings in chalk and ink reflect it’s fragility, instability and beauty. Emma Stibbon was Derek Hill Scholar at the British School in Rome in 2010

RICHARD JACKSON

Observing Eternity

Glass Sculpture

Richard Jacksonʼs glass sculpture has the absolute clarity of cast optical glass; honed and polished surfaces, textured with deep carving made with a diamond cutter. New sculptures reflect balanced and cantilevered architectural forms.

EXHIBITION 11 June – 22 July 2011

SEAN SCULLY

Etchings & Works on Paper

Filtering the Northern European light, lapping and overlapping the edges of his familiar abstract blocks, Scully offers subtle plays of colour and tone. This exhibition was one of the first opportunities to see his etching series ‘Liliane’

“the rural scenery has changed forever the urban texture of his art”
Laurence Topham, The Guardian.

KERRY PHIPPEN

'Give It To Me' New Drawings

Calling on the emotional and physical landscape of childhood these new drawings mark a psychological engagement with ‘alter ego’s’ and the intimate distance of childhood relationships. Working on the found surfaces of postcards and from old photographs her work addresses timeless tensions with an unsettling contemporary candor.

SKETCH 2011

April - May 2011

The SKETCH Drawing Prize at Rabley is the UK’s only award for artist sketchbooks. The SKETCH exhibition reveals the thoughts and images of contemporary artists, investigates the role of the sketchbook in creative art practice and the relationship between drawing and other media.

2010

TEMPLATE

JACK SHIREFF

11 September - 17 October

The artist’s journey from template to print in an exhibition celebrating 30 years of printmaking with Jack Shirreff

RABLEY SCULPTURE GARDEN

June - July 2010

fred baier
melissa cole
sally fawkes
patrick haines
richard jackson
johnny hawkes
tim harrisson
lucy strachan
julieann worrell hood

ESTEBAN IGARTUA

LAND DRAWINGS

June - July 2010

Esteban Igartua’s drawings are about the organic aspect of human life. His invented characters form a community in which this life exists. They are immersed in a natural world of growth, disease, decay and regeneration. There is cooperation and solidarity, conflict and abuse of power. The collection of drawings themselves turn into some form of expanding organism, like a constantly growing jigsaw.

SANDY SYKES

AMBUSH

May - June 2010

New drawings and prints.

Sandy Sykes bring cowboys and soldiers together in a field of playful imaginings. They are a serious comment on the futility of war handled with Sandy’s original combination of wit and skill.

CHALK HORSES & TIN SHEDS

ALAN BOND

March 2010

New Drawings and Sculpture

Left: Fattoria Yellow

Bottom left: Chalk Horse

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.

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

above top: 'Gneis' Tim Harrisson

above: 'Devil's Throat' Emma Stibbon

2009

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.

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

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

Lucy Strachan RCA

Drawings and Sculpture

9 - 31 July 2009

CRAIGIE AITCHISON RA

NEW Prints and Artist proofs

ELEMENTS TRILOGY

Sculpture in the landscape by:

TIM HARRISSON HELEN BARFF & LUCY STRACHAN

‘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.

2008

‘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

Bring on the Dancing Bears - Kerry Phippen

‘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.

‘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.

'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

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.

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.

2007

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.

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.

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

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.

2006

ANTARCTICA

Nov/Dec 2006

Emma Stibbon - Antarctica Drawings and Joseph Harrington - Lost ice sculptures

KATE RAGGETT

Sept 2006

Free-form drawings on walls ceramics and fields are inspired by and have origins from the landscape, they develop in response to its forms and energy.

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.

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.

2005

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.