Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Solo Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

Long Hot Summer

Belleville

Works on Paper

Group Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

02-19 March 2016

Winter Salon

Group Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

09 December  2015 – 16 January 2016

Summon the Pinks and Cellular Grid

 Sailing to Byzantium

Group Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

21 October 2015 – 31 October 2015

Electrum

“…But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;..”

Yeats

 

Works on Paper

Group Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

“James Melloy joined Leyden Gallery in 2014 with his brilliant first solo show artHive. He graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA in Fine Art; his graduation collection was bought for the Goldsmiths Art Collection. Subsequent work has been bought for the Nuffield Trust and Royal Bank of Canada collections as well as by private collectors. He joins Leyden Gallery once again to showcase his new works on paper in this group show

Works on Paper will be a collaboration of artistic medium, it will showcase each artist for the unique individual they are, and will aim to show the great diversity of work that can be produced using a paper surface. In a world today, where surfaces upon which to create appear endless, sometimes we must appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of paper and what its surface enables”.

All Things Bright And Beautiful

Group Show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

December 2014.

“For our Winter Exhibition we have invited a select group of artists who have shown with us during our first year as a gallery to participate in a celebratory show.

Our first Winter Salon Exhibition will gather (as in the words of the hymn) a cornucopia of all things bright and beautiful and all creatures great and small.  This show will give us an unrivalled opportunity to revisit the work of several brilliant artists who have previously exhibited at Leyden Gallery and to show new work by them, whilst exploring the fresh talent of new artists – bringing them together in a seasonal show of splendour.

Exhibiting Artists include: Chris Kettle; Claire Jackson; James Melloy; Hazel Mountford; Hilary Ellis; Perdita Sinclair … amongst others”

 

ARTHive

Solo show Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London EC1

September – October 2014

read a review by Constanza Nunez-Melgar here

 

 

 

Bite at The Air

Group Show 2014

ARTHOUSE1 : 45 GRANGE ROAD, BERMONDSEY, SE1 3BH

“Presenting the work of three recent graduates, each is concerned with the issue of space; how we interact with space and how it can be represented. These are the kind of issues we experience in the spaces we inhabit, but so often don’t notice. We invite you to think of your own interaction with space as you encounter these works.

James Melloy uses gloss paint on aluminium to achieve an industrial hi-finish. Combining this industrial finish James creates a simple physical gesture, using a single brushstroke to complete his paintings. The simplicity of gesture and the simple circular form invites viewers to engage in aesthetic considerations of colour and form. His paintings also have autobiographical content, translating an experience or emotion within the investigation of space and colour. The minimal form of the circle presents a reductive element in which to isolate and focus aspects of expression. His background in conceptualism and performance art informs this approach.

Nancy Milner constructs paintings using colour and form to investigate light and space in painting. She is interested in the ways that our day-to-day lives are ordered and the influence this has on the painting process: a dialogue between her and the painting opens up a space where decisions are challenged and pushed. The finished paintings are an accumulation of the time taken to make them, a manifestation of thinking, memory and experience in the space of painting.

Hiroe Komai’s geometric-construction works occupy an ambivalent space between 2D and 3D. Seemingly simple straight lines underpin these relief-like wall based sculptures and flat planes. However, they also present a notion of depth, as different shapes appear and align through the spectator’s own movement. In doing so, Komai emphasizes the relationship between the sculpture and the viewer’s interaction. Through her use of ‘raw materials’ rather than paint, Komai’s work beckons the spectator to explore the structural details, playfully inviting exploration of the layers of observation within the work, and the external references to colour and texture, and Modernism and architecture, which inform these constructions”.

Summon The Pinks

83 cm x 3 mm each

GUILD at Deptford X 2013

Deep Bass

 

Bite at The Air 2014

 Bite at the Air Group Show 2014

EXHIBITION OPENS 6th – 28th JUNE 2014

ARTHOUSE1 : 45 GRANGE ROAD, BERMONDSEY, SE1 3BH

Presenting the work of three recent graduates, each is concerned with the issue of space; how we interact with space and how it can be represented. These are the kind of issues we experience in the spaces we inhabit, but so often don’t notice. We invite you to think of your own interaction with space as you encounter these works.

James Melloy uses gloss paint on aluminium to achieve an industrial hi-finish. Combining this industrial finish James creates a simple physical gesture, using a single brushstroke to complete his paintings. The simplicity of gesture and the simple circular form invites viewers to engage in aesthetic considerations of colour and form. His paintings also have autobiographical content, translating an experience or emotion within the investigation of space and colour. The minimal form of the circle presents a reductive element in which to isolate and focus aspects of expression. His background in conceptualism and performance art informs this approach.

Nancy Milner constructs paintings using colour and form to investigate light and space in painting. She is interested in the ways that our day-to-day lives are ordered and the influence this has on the painting process: a dialogue between her and the painting opens up a space where decisions are challenged and pushed. The finished paintings are an accumulation of the time taken to make them, a manifestation of thinking, memory and experience in the space of painting.

Hiroe Komai’s geometric-construction works occupy an ambivalent space between 2D and 3D. Seemingly simple straight lines underpin these relief-like wall based sculptures and flat planes. However, they also present a notion of depth, as different shapes appear and align through the spectator’s own movement. In doing so, Komai emphasizes the relationship between the sculpture and the viewer’s interaction. Through her use of ‘raw materials’ rather than paint, Komai’s work beckons the spectator to explore the structural details, playfully inviting exploration of the layers of observation within the work, and the external references to colour and texture, and Modernism and architecture, which inform these constructions.

Summon The Pinks

83 cm x 3 mm each

Palm Springs Sinatra

148 cm x 3 mm

Memphis Quartet

 13 cm x 3 mm each

Cellular Grid

13 cm x 3 mm each

Deptford X 2013

Deep Bass

Blue

Emulsion on Aluminium

All things bright and beautiful

Chinoiserie

Triptych

Rosetta

Two Brushstrokes

Memphis

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Leyden Gallery

Group Show

10 December 2014-17 January 2015

Towels

Maesta Grid

Maesta Grid

Hampstead Baptist Church

artHive Solo Exhibition at Leyden Gallery, London E1 from 19 September- 11 October

Triptych purchased by Goldsmiths Art Collection now in Library at Goldsmiths

Shimmer

COLAB Immersion Residency

Immersion 0.2

Hampstead Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, NW3 1DN

Immersion 0.2 Hampstead Baptist Church

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Arthouse1- Bite At The Air

 Summon The Pinks

83 cm x 3 mm each

 Palm Springs Sinatra

148 cm x 3 mm

 Cellular Grid

13 cm x 3 mm each

 

ARTHOUSE1

EXHIBITION OPENS 6th – 28th JUNE

ARTHOUSE1 : 45 GRANGE ROAD, BERMONDSEY, SE1 3BH

OPEN HOURS:  WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY 1 – 6PM, OR BY APPT.

Presenting the work of three recent graduates, each is concerned with the issue of space; how we interact with space and how it can be represented. These are the kind of issues we experience in the spaces we inhabit, but so often don’t notice. We invite you to think of your own interaction with space as you encounter these works.

James Melloy uses gloss paint on aluminium to achieve an industrial hi-finish. Combining this industrial finish James creates a simple physical gesture, using a single brushstroke to complete his paintings. The simplicity of gesture and the simple circular form invites viewers to engage in aesthetic considerations of colour and form. His paintings also have autobiographical content, translating an experience or emotion within the investigation of space and colour. The minimal form of the circle presents a reductive element in which to isolate and focus aspects of expression. His background in conceptualism and performance art informs this approach.

Nancy Milner constructs paintings using colour and form to investigate light and space in painting. She is interested in the ways that our day-to-day lives are ordered and the influence this has on the painting process: a dialogue between her and the painting opens up a space where decisions are challenged and pushed. The finished paintings are an accumulation of the time taken to make them, a manifestation of thinking, memory and experience in the space of painting.

Hiroe Komai’s geometric-construction works occupy an ambivalent space between 2D and 3D. Seemingly simple straight lines underpin these relief-like wall based sculptures and flat planes. However, they also present a notion of depth, as different shapes appear and align through the spectator’s own movement. In doing so, Komai emphasizes the relationship between the sculpture and the viewer’s interaction. Through her use of ‘raw materials’ rather than paint, Komai’s work beckons the spectator to explore the structural details, playfully inviting exploration of the layers of observation within the work, and the external references to colour and texture, and Modernism and architecture, which inform these constructions.

ARTHOUSE1.  

Grid Shimmer

COLAB Immersion Residency

Immersion 0.1

Hampstead Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, NW3 1DN