The South Street Gallery
Welcome to our blog. Here you will find regular updates on the latest exhibitions, events and gallery artists with a special focus on exciting new artworks.Bren Head is shortlisted for Portrait Competition
We are pleased to hear that one of our artists, Bren Head has been SHORTLISTED for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition. There were over 500 entries and 170 of them will be exhibited at the Kings Place Gallery in London. The winner will be announced on 14th October.
Good luck Bren.
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Focus on Lindsey Tyson
We have just taken delivery of some beautiful hand-made felt covered glass vases and stunning Nuno felt and silk scarves by local artist Lindsey Tyson. Always in stock are Lindsey’s felt bowls, mounted and ready to frame felt pictures, oil paintings, felted smelly soaps and notecards.
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Focus on Shirley Vauvelle
We are pleased to hear that one of our artists is featured in the high summer edition of the magazine Living North.
Shirley uses white earthenware and under-glazes to make components and small sculptures concentrating on layering colour and texture. These are then assembled together with driftwood, wire, reclaimed maps, vintage magazines and other interesting finds from local beaches. One-off contemporary pieces are made which are either hung or freestanding sculptures. Her inspiration comes from her garden, her love of the coast and the fun of creating objects that are very individual and quirky, with a tale to tell.
Summer Exhibition Review
Until 11th September 2011
Thurs – Sat, noon – 5pm. Sun, noon – 4pm
Sometimes when your head’s full of stressful clutter, you get an urge to walk along the shore and savour the open spaces. Malcolm Ludvigsen, one of the exhibition’s feature artists, captures this feeling in his seascape Bridlington, July 19. On a tide-washed beach under towering skies, a few people are strolling, a man and his dog going in the opposite direction from the others. I like the impression that he’s passed within yards of them with maybe or a nod or a quick ‘hello’ and immediately settled back into his own thoughts. The smudgily painted figures have an impermanence in a setting that’s many millions of years old.
The other feature artist is Kate Kenney. Her design-conscious paintings show the rolling Wolds positively oozing fecundity. The farmer’s labour enhances the beauty of what’s already there. Rapeseed bursts from the soil in sizzling yellow. Tawny crops ripen under the autumn sun. Hockney-esque trees are simple statements rising from a glowing carpet of agriculture. Four of the canvases sold while I was in the gallery.
There’s an Andrew Cheetham I hadn’t seen before, showing the waves roaring past Flamborough, and some beautifully crafted driftwood wall plaques by Shirley Vauvelle. In Jon O’Connor’s ominous study of Redcar beach, the giant blast furnaces stride down to the shore in the distance.
Jon O’Connor
I know the scene well – on a fine sunny day, their industrial bullying bulk feels out of place, but here their blackness is quashed by the magnificent moody darkness of sea and sky.
There are echoes of John Piper in Adam King’s mixed-media studies – five Scarborough landmarks and a Castle Howard temple – which grabbed me the minute I saw them.
A solid architectural awareness shines through the seemingly loose technique. Jaunty black outlines are overlaid with splashy colour, making the structure feel alive.
In Jan Richardson’s ravishing piece of naïve art, the manipulation of perspective and colour gives us a glorious day in Whitby, seen through a child’s eyes.
A tour bus trundles down the hill and a boat chugs along the water, crammed with holidaymakers. The sea is impossibly blue, just as it appears in your memory when you look back fondly to your childhood holidays. The biggest figure in the painting is a seagull, beadily watching from a rooftop. Perhaps he’s there to remind us that birds were on the scene long before we were? No, on reflection I think he’s simply looking out for rich pickings.
I chortled at Sue Atkinson’s tiny quirky painting called Teatime. Four people head determinedly for home, beach swag packed away in enormous bags, sunbathing over for the day, minds totally focused on cups of tea, scones and maybe a nice bit of malt loaf. Wonderful!
By Jenny Drewery
Summer Exhibition
2nd July until 11 September 2011
Feature Artists:
Kate Kenney and Malcolm Ludvigsen
Our summer exhibition includes the work by many local artists. Feature artists Kate Kenney and Malcolm Ludvigsen are two artists who both share a passion for plein-air painting.
Paintings by Kate Kenney
The changing colours and shapes of the east coast, moorland and Yorkshire Wolds are a constant focus in Kate’s vibrant paintings.
Paintings by Malcolm Ludvigsen
Malcolm can often be seen painting in the South Bay, and when he’s not painting he is a professor of mathematics with an international reputation for work on relativity, black holes and cosmology.
Mixed media works by Adam King
Ceramics by Shirley Vauvelle
Donkeys by Carol Shaw
Abstract paintings by Bren Head and Rock study by David Chalmers.
Participating artists include:
Painting
Andrew Cheetham
Bren Head
Kate Van Suddese
John Thornton
Sue Atkinson
Howard Carr
Julia Burns
Adam King
Jon O’ Connor
Jan Richardson
Carol Shaw
Photography
Angela Chalmers
David Chalmers
Printmaking
David Morris
Lynne Roebuck
Textiles
Angela Knipe
Lindsey Tyson
Jan Tyson
Lucy Antwis
Ceramics
Shirley Vauvelle
Karen Thompson
Digital Art
Ian Mitchell
Sculpture
Rodney Wilson
Gallery opening hours
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 12 – 5pm Sunday 12 – 4pm
THE SOUTH STREET GALLERY
South Street
South Cliff
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 2BP
Tel: 01723 506010
E-mail: enquiries@ southstreetgallery.co.uk
Mosaic Art
Sue Kershaw is currently spending time in the gallery during the North Yorkshire Open Studios. She is a mosaic artist who seeks to capture the flow and consequence of emotions throughout her abstract works. Passion, love, joy, confusion, empathy and karma are all explored.
Each design features 100’s to 1000’s of intricate hand-cut pieces known as tesserae including shards of teacups made from Ganges clay collected in Varanasi, India to seashore glass from Palermo, Sicily. Gold leaf Italian smalti, sicis glass and French porcelain are also strongly present.
Sue facilitates school and adult workshops and community art projects; and works to commission from her studio based in Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Sue has exhibited widely including: Leeds City Gallery; The Ferens (Hull City Gallery); The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle; York Hospital; and, York University.
North Yorkshire Open Studios Day One
The first weekend of the North Yorkshire Open Studios kicked off to a great start with many visitors. During the event, one of our artists David Chalmers demonstrated how he made carbon pigment paper. This is only a small part of the carbon printing process that he is currently using to produce his work.
David is currently working on a series of work that is part of a ‘Celebrating Place’ project. He is photographing the trees of North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
Next Saturday 18th June at The South Street Gallery, he will be developing a carbon print at 3.30pm.
This is a great opportunity to witness a live demonstration of a Victorian process and also see one of his finished prints on display
North Yorkshire Open Studios
NORTH YORKSHIRE OPEN STUDIOS 2011
Coming soon is an exhibition of work by five participating artists from the North Yorkshire Open Studios and is available to view and buy from 10 June until 19 June.
During the weekends of 10/11/12 & 18/19 June, you will be able to meet and chat with photographer David Chalmers, felt jewellery maker Angela Knipe, painter Andrew Cheetham, figurative Angela Chalmers and mosaic artist Sue Kershaw.
Exclusive to South Street
Artist Ian Mitchell is no stranger at the South Street Gallery. We always carry a large stock of his limited edition prints and cards.
Exclusively for us, he has recently produced two special designs, which will only be sold through South Street Gallery. The format is square and are ready framed at £150. Lots more designs are on offer too, please come and see.
Reviewer’s Choice
Spring Show
Feature Artist: Angela Chalmers
South Street Gallery,
Scarborough
Until 5 June
Thurs – Sat 12-5pm, Sun 12-4pm
Featured artist is the gallery’s curator Angela Chalmers, whose outstandingly sensitive work is both quiet and monumental. Her nudes are the closest thing you’ll get to bronze statues made from ink.
For me, her finest pieces are those created on Indian rag paper against a dark background. Faces turned away, the figures exist in awesome isolation, frozen in time like the dignified, petrified remains of the Pompeiians. I felt a hushed sense of history.
Sensitive Ground depicts a woman’s crouching form, her Rubenesque curves filling the canvas as if she has tucked herself into a private corner of the world where there’s space only for herself and her thoughts.
In handling her ink the artist allows it to run as it will, tilting the paper in a way that coaxes rather than controls, achieving results that connect deeply with her subconscious intention. The light and shade effects in Shadowed throw an almost eerie gleam onto what we can see of the man’s face. An opera demon, I thought, lit by the footlights. In Splint, a male figure resembles a statue that has been split by a lightning bolt, the running ink suggesting a primeval mountainous backdrop.
In a departure from the artist’s usual medium, there’s a huge canvas done in acrylics. Entitled After Glow, it shows a woman basking, her body warm and rosy. She is alone – as are all of Angela’s figures – but not lonely.
The artist is also making her name as a photographer with a signature technique. Her images of Scarborough landmarks are taken from above and the focus is gently and respectfully managed, to blur and highlight. The Spa bandstand is a graceful curve, elegant and peaceful. The tide is out, so there’s no sea to compete with the architecture. The dragon boats of Peasholm Park acquire a shining stateliness against the hazily blurred trees on the island.
There are no people in the photographs. If there were, they’d probably look like giants because, as many people have commented, Angela’s photographic subjects look like miniatures, and certainly her take on the harbour looks like something you’d see in a model village, perfect to the last detail and the last delicate yacht.
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