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ART OPENING: encounters project open day Saturday 22nd February 2014

C. Kha, Ens? I, 2014, water, dimensions variable
C. Kha, Ens? I, 2014, water, dimensions variable

encounters exhibition open day Saturday 22nd Feb: 11am ­ 7pm
Enso drawing at 10.30am and 3pm by Caroline Kha 4pm Meet the artists 73 High Street, High Barnet, EN5 5UR
www.carolinekha.com Twitter: @moki encountersproject.tumblr.com

Caroline Kha is an artist and curator based in Kentish Town. Kha is curating and arts project, ‘encounters’ in a pop­up space in a former Santander bank in High Barnet. She is announcing ‘encounters’ Open Day Sat 22nd February, a one day special event bringing together artists from London. encounters explores contemplative acts, interactions and meeting points between daily life and contemporary art practice.


encounters is an art and curatorial project by Caroline Kha exploring contemplative acts, interactions and meeting points between daily life and contemporary art practice.

Shop 73 was a former Santander Building Society and has now been stripped bare of its shop fittings with only residual traces of the space’s former life. These office cubicles now provide a contrary environment for contemporary artworks to be re­contextualised and experienced by local visitors. Traces, introspection and creating spaces for sustained viewing are the main ideas explored in this project. Works include painting, film and site specific pieces.

As part of encounters project artists have been invited to created site specific and socially interactive works in office cubicles and reception areas as part of a residency programme:
? Reception: Llew Watkins
? Room 1: Caroline Kha ­ Ens? drawing/performance at 10.30am and 3pm on open day
? Room 2: Andy Wicks
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Paintings by Benjamin Bridges, Robin Footitt, Tom Hackney and Michael Mcmanus will form a special part of the exhibition where paintings are presented in a context of contemplation and sustained viewing. Painting for these artists either form the primary foundation of their artist practice or acts as an extension.

Through out the encounters open day, Anne Harild’s animation, ‘Taking Time’, created during her time at the St. Mary’s Hospital residency will be screening. The film takes a profound look at the immaterial qualities of light highlighting, alternating and shifting our perception of space, structures and form.

encountersproject.tumblr.com
encounters exhibition open day 22nd Feb: 11am ­ 7pm

Enso drawing at 10.30am and 3pm by Caroline Kha 4pm Meet the artists 73 High Street, High Barnet, EN5 5UR
www.carolinekha.com Twitter: http://www.twitter/moki
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?About The Artists

Benjamin Bridges
Benjamin Bridges painting practice draws from personal interests and exploration of the unknown, uncharted territories. Bridges paintings reference elements of geometry, brutalist architecture and new wave science fiction.
Ben Bridges completed his studies at Wimbledon College. Recent exhibitions include Pythagoras Adrift, dalla Rosa Gallery (forthcoming 14/03­ 12/04 2014); No/Where, London Art Fair, Art Projects, dalla Rosa Gallery (2014); Someshta’s Garden, Vibe Gallery, Buscuit Factory (2013); Pop Up 13, Vibe Gallery, Buscuit Factory (2013); Atomic, Transition Gallery (2013); Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries (2013); HELP, Hollow Earth London Painters, SIX SPACE (2013); CLUSTER, dalla Rosa Galleries (2013); Look, See and Tell, Kring Space, Amsterdam (2013); Going back to where I used to stand, Stichting IK, Netherlands (2013); We are the World, We are the Bomb, ARTTRA, Amsterdam (solo, 2013).

Robin Footitt
Drawn from surrealist ‘Dream of the Rarebit Fiend’ by Winsor McCay first published in the 1904; Robin Footitt’s pair of ‘exposure monochromes’, This Chair Is Acting (2013) and Air (2013) employ a technique of wipes and layers to construct abstract paintings from figurative actions prescribed underneath. The most recent development is to use a technique of bleeding between layers caused by the reaction of oil paint and permanent marker pen, causing figuration “resurfaces” in unpredictable ways.

Robin Footitt studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art, lives and works in London. He was awarded British Airways Great Britons Travel Bursary (2009) and selected by Matthew Higgs for White Columns Curated Artist Registry, New York (2010). Recent exhibitions include Closed Circuit Saga, Edel Assanti, London (forthcoming 20/03 ­ 03/05/2014); A Town Without Pity, 4 Windmill Street, London (solo, 2013); Mains, COLE, London (solo, 2011); Part of a Collection: Outset / RCA Acquisitions 2009­11, Royal College of Art, London (2012); SUNDAY, Ambika P3, (with Ian Homerston 2011); Radiaal Moderne: Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (with Simon Mathers 2011) and SCREENING, Old Brompton Road, London (curated with Sachin Kaeley, 2010). His work is held in private collections worldwide.

Tom Hackney
????In Tom Hackney’s work painting constitutes a mode, a vessel and a behaviour ­ a point of exchange
between subjective and objective material. His works take an overview of painting as a territory, and are often made out of paint, rather than seeking a conventional engagement with the process of painting.

The work is typically generated in response to specific historical material encountered in the process of making, researching and reflecting, and is in itself a contemplative space of hand, eye and mind.

Tom Hackney is an artist and writer living in London. Since completing his MFA at Goldsmiths College in 2008, recent exhibitions include Tremors, BREESE LITTLE, (solo, 2013); Essence of Things, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich (2013); Eye to the Ground, ROOM, (2012); PLURAL, BREESE LITTLE at WW Gallery, London (2013); Motion Capture, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny and Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2013/12); Double Vision, Lion + Lamb Gallery, London (2012); Curator’s Egg Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2012); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2012); Point. Line. Plane., Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2011); The Knight Turns its Head and Laughs, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (2011).

Anne Harild
Anne Harild’s works are concerned with place, perception, interpretation and reinterpretation of space as well as the exploration of different processes and materials. Her work comes together through investigating space and architecture. She explores how reinterpretation and translation can make visible qualities of the space and responds by exposing and making visible certain qualities of that place, sometimes existing on the edge of representation form.
Anne Harild is a Danish artist based in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2008 she has exhibited both in London and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Atelier a Habiter at z.33, House of Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium (2013); Project Visible, Tate Modern Learning Galleries (2012); The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2012); Shadow Lines, Tin Type Gallery (2011). She has been involved in a number of collaborative projects with musicians and other visual artists including The Map­Making On Site project at The Barbican Exhibition Halls (2010). She was artist in residence at St. Mary’s Hospital supported by paintings in Hospitals (2012) and at Joya Arte y ecologia in Andaluzia, Spain (2013).
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?Caroline Kha
Caroline Kha’s recent works for ‘encounters’ are enquiries into contemplative gestures and deconstructions of painting practice and traditions. Kha’s process uses traditional media including painting and collage, found assemblages and online projects to explore potentials for narratives, interactions and dialogue with audiences. Her pieces are forms of meditations, drawing on archetypal imagery, symbols and connections to culture, nature and identity.
Caroline Kha was born in Sydney and graduated with a BFA from National Art School and B.Sc. from University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. She currently lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include: Glue: Contemporary collage & Photomontage, Chart Gallery (2014); 3 Painters, dalla Rosa Gallery (2014); No/Where, London Art Fair, Art Projects ­ dalla Rosa Gallery (2014); Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries (2013); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2013); The Tourist, dalla Rosa Gallery (solo, 2013); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2012); The Fare to get There, London Art Fair, Art Projects ­ dalla Rosa Gallery (2012); London Art Fair, Art Projects ­ Florence Trust (2011); A Spot of Time, dalla rosa Gallery (solo, 2010). Kha’s work has been exhibited in Sydney, Tokyo, New York and London.

Andy Wicks
Andy Wicks’ work questions the sculptural potentials of objects. Through his multi­disciplinary approach he explores the balance, form and patina of the things which fill our lives, albeit, often out of our gaze. Recent installation and sculptural pieces have examined the physicality of the spaces they inhabit, defining paths or building barriers to confront or aid the audiences movements.

Andy Wicks studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Middlesex University, London (2004­6). Recent exhibition includes The Doldrums, Occupy My Time Gallery, Enclave (solo, 2013); Beached (Commissioned site­specific public work), WW Gallery Patio Projects (2012); The Structure of Things, dalla Rosa Gallery (2013); Atomic, Transition Gallery, Off­site Project, Hammersmith (2013); The Bethlehem Boys Club, Building F, Stoke Newington (2013); Discernible, Zeitgeist Project Space (2013); Prophetic Diagrams, George and Jorgen (2012); Petite Envelope Urbaine, Banner Repeater (2012); Painting Versus Object, Standpoint Gallery, London (2012).
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Michael Mcmanus
Michael Mcmanus paintings investigates the presences of absence alluded to through abandoned sculpture and architectural forms. His paintings reference spaces and moments where forms begin to disclose their construction. Weather and decaying processes reveal construction of forms and provides evidences of previous use or abandonment.
Michael Mcmanus lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include 4/12 Exhibition, UAL Showroom space, (forthcoming 13/01 ­ 21/03 2014); Lifeboat Residency Exhibition (2014); Futuremap Award (2013); He has been shortlisted for Futuremap (2013); and is the recipient of the Prunella Clugh Painting Award, First place (2011) and Lifeboat Residency (2014).

Llew Watkins
Llew Watkins is a multi­disciplinary artist and writer currently based in London who works in installation, lectures, scripts and performance. His practice is a continuing enquiry into the transient and playful nature of mind and reality.
Llew Watkins studied BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton. (2004­2007). Recent exhibitions include: Portal, Anatum’s Abode (2013); Latter Day Paddling Pools, 299 Rotherhithe New Road, (2013); Possible Worlds Part Two, Copenhagen Place Gallery and Studios (2011); Possible Worlds Part One, Copenhagen Place Gallery and Studios (2011); The Magnificent Story Meal in collaboration with Spences Rouse, Booths Brooks, Hay­on­Wye. (2010).

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