

Selected group exhibitions include Casting the Runes, 108 Fleet Street (London, 2021), Winter Wonderland, Fan Fiction International (Hyde Park, 2021), The Correspondence, Residence Gallery (London, 2020), Flow my Tears, Acud Galerie (Berlin, 2020), In the tame beasts eyes, Zarinbal Khoshbakht (Cologne, 2020) and Breathless: London Art Now, Ca’ Pesaro (Venice, 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Going Light, Zarinbal Khoshbakht (Cologne, 2021). The wings call to mind the underside of old school desks, scratched into with a compass and filled in with biro. They are guided by a principle of negation in this searching excavation, where revision is a means of staying in dialogue with the work. The carved reliefs emerge from scratching away at an array of surfaces.

1996 in Derbyshire, UK, lives and works in London) metabolises over time single sheets of birch plywood with chisels, pens, a router and an angle grinder. Recent exhibitions and publications include FIELDNOTES Inaugural issue (2021), Odds, Royal Shopping Centre (Southend, 2019), Keratin, Charlton Gallery (London, 2019), Direct Input, Muddy Yard (London, 2018) and Exquisite Corpse, 126 Gallery, (Galway, 2018). Moments such as when his camera is running in his pocket, leaving an abstracted image which calls to mind phosphenes, the lights one can see when ones eyes are closed. The initial imagery is from moments that are collected incidentally on his camera over time. The work presented here is the result of an altered state of consciousness during and after a seizure. 1992, lives and works in London) uses a tactile printing technique to produce images on zinc (hydrographic printing). Selected recent group shows include Dialogues No.01, Centre for Recent Drawing (London, 2021), Last Minute, hArts Lane (London, 2021) and Works on Paper, Blue Shop Cottage (London, 2020). Recent solo exhibitions include Condo Complex 2020, The Sunday Painter & Lulu (London, 2020). Given motifs recur within Armitage’s work (building facades, houses or aeroplanes) and allows for the varying applications of paint and colour to create a range of atmospheres. Some doorways lead to recognisable urban environments, others appear to lead to imagined places. 1986 in Dewsbury, UK, lives and works in London) presents paintings from a recent body of work depicting open doors. What sort of ‘thing’ is this that faces the storm that seems to sometimes silence that song? Hope - expectation - anticipation - How do we look forward? Does this involve seeing? This group exhibition explores what it means to look forward, while reflecting on the past and the present.
