TondoCosmic is now in residence at Making Space, 48 Aberfledy Street, London E14
Welcome to TondoCosmic. We present holistic art projects and events in lesser used premises and unusual sites to maximise the potential of the artists and bring them to new audiences. We focus on artists who have shown dedication to their practice that has resulted in developed works in both skill and concept. Please get in touch: email tondocosmic@gmail.com
Undone
Jo Chate
Grant Foster
Dominic Kennedy
Scott McCracken
OpeningSaturday 26th October 3 - 7pm
Until 24 November 2024
Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 5pm
TondoCosmic at Making Space48 Aberfeldy StreetLondon E14 ONU
This exhibition brings together four artists, Jo Chate, Grant Foster, Dominic Kennedy and Scott McCracken, who through their contrasting approaches to painting, explore ideas of fragmentation, ambiguity, incompleteness and materiality.In some works, the support or untouched bare ground becomes an intrinsic element of the image, questioning notions of what is considered to be ‘finished’. Other works transcend the conventional parameters of painting and are reconfigured as painting as object, to be viewed from multiple positions.Figuration reveals itself through an emergence of painterly forms that often resist immediate recognition and interpretation. Through their hybrid nature and divorced from any specific context, they provide clues to a more personal, surreal mythology or narrative.
FEATURED ARTIST : Scott McCracken
In Scott McCracken’s paintings, suns are a frequent motif. Or maybe they’re circles? Some of the circles act like bullseyes. Others appear to spin, like pinwheels, or rotate, like gears in a machine. To look at these paintings is to see the painter’s consciousness at work. It is a grammar of forms, the emphasis placed, changed, and reiterated. Parentheses become crescent moons; an aside made solid. Exclamations become soundwaves become tides. A thought bubble contains a wordless quote, underlined until the lines themselves become the statement. Traces of earlier permutations of the painting are revealed, remnants of past decisions, like long dead stars whose light is still reaching us. Toggling between construction and alchemy, McCracken uses elemental shapes as building blocks. He combines depth with flatness, light with shadow, lava with water. He establishes the ground, then reconsiders, and chooses the ether. He zeroes in on the smoking residue after the “POW!”. It is the ghost of an experience, seeping from an envelope. Scattered, turned, and repeated until ashes are all that’s left, a puddle after the flood. Your position is marked: YOU ARE HERE. But this is no map, only a collection of Xs. You have arrived at your starting point. You have reached your destination. Rachel Jeffers, 2024 Tamsin studied at the Slade and Chelsea and has a far reaching national an international exhibition history. Her work is founf in both public and private collections. For more information please follow the link to her website www.tamsinmorse@gmail.com
FEATURED ARTIST: DOMINIC KENNEDY
FEATURED ARTIST: GRANT FOSTER
Grant Foster
"These St Francis paintings are part of an ongoing series, where I have used Donatello's St Francis of Assisi, as a way to hallucinate my own forms (and emotions) onto an icon of kindness. St Francis of Assisi spoke to animals -- and I think we should do so too."
FEATURED ARTIST: JO CHATE
Jo Chate studied at the Royal College of Art receiving an MA in Painting. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group shows internationally.She transforms moments and phenomena from everyday life to create complex, enigmatic paintings. The way of working is exploratory; embracing dualities that result in connections and complexities that are not easily definable. The paintings ultimately become the site of transformation, refracting and colliding memories with future recollections.
PAST EVENTS:
OUTLIERS
15th June - 6th July
Please email tondocosmic@gmail.com
OUTLIERS is the first presentation by Tondo Cosmic
Jo Chate and Tamsin Morse paintings visualise a protest against simplification of complex issues in modern society. Their work demonstrates an extensive language of both paint and narrative, reflecting their call for a more holistic approach to understanding cultural judgment.