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We celebrate art and winter, and small works by 60 (ish) artists who have garnered the respect of TondoCosmic over the years through producing great work under tough conditions. We celebrate dedication, perseverance, enormous talent and friendship by bringing in winter with exceptional style in a salon hung, show lit my candle and fairy lights (especially viewed between 3 and 5 pm).
Open Thirs-Sat 12-5pm until 21st December
John Stark, David Kefford, Laura Green, Kate Street, Graham Crowley, Eleanor Moreton, Benjamin Deakin, Anna lytridou, Nikolai Ishchuk, Emilio de la Morena, Sang-Mi Rha, Reed Wilson, George Georgiou, Michael Szpakowski, Marta Bakst, Stacie McCormick, Jess Power, Hannah Maybank, Tom Hammick, Mindy Lee, Thomas Falstad, Mils Bridgewater, Fion Gunn, Dorothea Magonet, Sam Jackson, Nicky Hirst, Alex Sarginson, Lucienne Cole, Sarah Jane Hender, Emma Coop, Chris Coombes, Fiona Carabine, Casper Scarth, Nahem Shoa, Jo Chate, Tamsin Morse, Sol Golden Sato, Stephen Snoddy, Justine Otto, Sue Cohen, Kim L Pace, Claude Vergez, Russell Herron, Annie Cattrell, Melissa Kime, Flo Brooks, Ori Gersht, Keran James, John Strutton, Nogah Engler, Emily Stevens, Thomas Hylander, Dominic Kennedy, Yukako Shibata, Scott McCracken, Duncan Swann, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Zakee Shariff, James Connelly, Garry Hunter, Layla Curtis, Leyla Gediz, Iain Andrews, Nicholas Pace, Zoe Hodgson
Undone
Jo Chate
Grant Foster
Dominic Kennedy
Scott McCracken
OpeningSaturday 26th October 3 - 7pm
Until 24 November 2024




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 : 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: 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.
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."