Art in the Attic at Brockley Art House is a community event that allows art lovers to discover a changing gallery of contemporary artists alongside a selection of unique vintage art in a private artist’s studio home.
It requires local knowledge but is usually held on the first Sunday of the month 12-7pm and is a pop-up venue for displaying contemporary artists work alongside a unique selection of 19th and 20th century artwork sourced from auctions, fairs and markets. Prices range from £35 up to £1200, the ethos being there is something for everyone to suit their pocket and their home.
The pop-up Attic Tearoom run by Catherine from www.kitchensinkcatering.co.uk provides amazing Cordon Bleu cakes, home made scones and selection of specialist teas including mint grown on our roof terrace.
This Sunday and on 6th November I’m delighted to bring together two distinguished women artists with a rich history of exhibiting, working from studios in south-east London.
ALYSON HUNTER who is showing her photopolymer gravure printmaking of Bohemian Soho haunts and CAROLINE WRIGHT who is showing her mixed media gestural abstracts based on antique textiles in the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection.
Alyson Hunter attended Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art. Her photo-etchings are in the V&A and the British Council collections. After travelling through Spain Alyson opened the lslington Graphics Gallery to promote photography in printmaking. In 1979 she travelled throughout America with Adrian Frost, then moved to Sydney, Australia, where she exhibited at the Robin Gibson Gallery. Moving back to New York she became Master Printer
Alyson Hunter
in Robert Blackwood’s Printmaking Workshop, and then travelled back to California as Visiting Professor in Drawing, teaching with Roland Peterson and Wayne Thiebaud in 1981 and 1983. In 1986 Alyson moved back to London where she made Photo-etchings of Camden and Soho.
She has now discovered photopolymer gravure, a safer printmaking technique, selling out of her editions at the Royal Academy.
“I first visited Soho when I was taken there by a painter from the Royal Academy School in 1969. I thought it exciting and bohemian in comparison to the leafy blandness of Kensington where I was living. After being a habitué of Soho for years I started making prints of the area in 1992. These were sold and exhibited in Soho and a few still hang there in Gerry’s Club and the Coach and Horses public house. I am continuing with the project on Soho hoping to preserve something of an area I love, which is under threat of development.”
Caroline Wright
Caroline Wright studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art in 1976-79, with tutors, Maggie Hambling, Prunella Clough, Colin Cina and Mike Ginsbourg. Since then she has continually shown work in both group and solo shows in London. Caroline works in organic series of painting. This series of work is in response partly to exhibiting with textile artist Louise Baldwin in 2012 and 2013 and viewing exhibitions and collections of textiles from the V&A, particularly the reverse side of antique embroidery and modern tapestry.
“I found the freedom and random quality of the reverse of these textiles liberating, incorporating ‘found’ image and nonsensical, the hidden side of a harmoniously patterned, or descriptive front. It led me back into gestural mark making and the use of mixed media. I work in series, each painting series having an organic feel; a build up, a peak and an end. All these works are mixed media, acrylic, crayon and gouache on paper.”
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ART IN THE ATTIC: is an innovative Pop-Up gallery with intriguing zoned areas, where you can enjoy looking at art within this unusual building, relax, take your time, stand back and enjoy purchasing artwork that you feel comfortable with at prices that suit you.
