Salon locale press release

Salon Locale at Gallery Space,Finsbury park,London

9 August - 2 September 2007

A group show featuring 20 artists living and working in the Finsbury Park area, representing the diversity of talents, interests and artistic expressions around Finsbury Park. Salon Locale artists are predominantly dealing with various notions of the human condition in the urban environment, its breakdown, and the possibility of real or fantastic escape.

Katharine Codd and Christina Mitrentse look at the attempts to contain and control this natural world through topography and biology, creating quasi scientific images of maps, minerals and specimen plates but using traditional methods of drawing and painting.Noa Lidor and Beate Frommelt explore the emotional landscape of dreams, fantasies and the barriers for communication using the delicate techniques of sawing, line drawings and print.More familiar, yet almost unrecognisable, territories are represented in the works of Jono Kenyon and Judith Burrows who manipulate images of London landmarks and in John Crossley's 'pixelated' canvases of popular icons while Marianne Morild explores the surreal possibilities offered by the names given to local council estates.
gallery:space is a public art space running a programme of changing exhibition, educational projects and art events. gallery:space supports local artists and provides work experience and internships opportunities.
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