STAND P21
'Beyond Borders'
Aleph Contemporary is pleased to participate for the third time in London Art Fair, presenting three artists: Barbara Nicholls, Andrew Hewish, Rebecca Meanley, whose works on paper represent a variety of approaches to making, which range across material experimentation, process, chance, and action. Each acts quite differently on the viewer, producing scattered perspectival fragments as visual spectacle, colour fields of experience and embodiment and as paradigms of living within and aside nature.
Particle Studies, watercolour by Barbara Nicholls
In the Particle Studies series 2020- 21, I worked on a small scale, 30cm x 21cm, which produced a feeling of control. It was, at the time, a way to look at the minutae as if observed through a microscope whilst thinking about the larger world......
When the watercolour pigment grains disperse on my horizontal paper ‘micro landscapes’, they are affected by wind, gravity and temperature contrived within my studio. My sun is a heater, my wind a fan, the gravity, an area of undulating un-stretched watercolour paper.
Scatterworks, collage, by Andrew Hewish
Made with a single impression of the hand, pressing gluey paper onto paper cuttings thereby introducing a chance process...
The fragmentary elements combine perspectival cues with an explosive graphic grouping which recall the experiments in lyrical form of El Lissitzky, Kandinsky and Klee. Here is the material detritus of our culture, of images, architecture, stories and print, disrupted by this process to form a world reconfigured as energetic and lively.
A big mixed media painting together with mono-prints by Rebecca Meanley
In all my work there is the fascination with the continuous line or the emergence of gesture as an on-going and absolutely intrinsic rhythm. This line is directly related to Paul Klee’s ‘unfolding line’ and his ‘talking a walk with a line’ through which most of his work manifested and of which he wrote a great deal. Both Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Henri Bergson borrowed Klee’s ‘autogenic line’ in their philosophy and there are many interpretations of this idea. Unquestionably Klee believed in the power of nature, the natural forces of the earth and the cosmos, and of colour, light and abstraction.

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