York Mansions West

Seven Dials Artists Group
York Mansions West Flat 2, York Avenue Brighton East Sussex BN3 1PS
email: mcewanclare@hotmail.com	website: www.claremcewan.com

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First Time Opening

Our spacious ground floor flat opens for the first time to show a contemporary collection of art pieces and installations involving painting, textiles, prints, sculpture, light and sound. We are transforming our rooms to create sensory spaces, hosting work of varying scales from hand held ceramics to wall size fabric hangings. Work will be displayed both for exhibition and for purchase.
Please note our opening times are for the first two weeks only.

Featured Artists:
Clare McEwan
Craig Shuttlewood
Nick Blair

Mel Evans
Sally Ford
Siglind Kessler

Detail from Thread Wood Clare McEwan	Book Craig Shuttlewood	Book 2 Craig Shuttlewood	Stone Hole Clare McEwan
Clare McEwan is a textile artist working with a variety of traditional and digital processes. Her work is an exploration of material, surface, shape and layer to build abstract and tactile compositions. The work consists of constructed textile wall pieces and low relief works incorporating lighting. Clare will also be showing mixed media prints and cards. mcewanclare@hotmail.com

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Craig Shuttlewood

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Craig Shuttlewood

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Craig Shuttlewood

Craig Shuttlewood is an Artist and Illustrator based in Brighton, UK.
His work has been exhibited in many galleries from London to New York and purchased by private collectors.
Using photographs and sketches his work recaptures elements of decay, deterioration, time and change within a structural environment. The key is to represent a neglected wall, rusted metal surface or the marks discovered behind wallpaper hung years previously. This series is constructed by building up the surface in layers, then sanding and scraping to expose colour and marks previously made.
Earlier work has a different approach expressing quirky illustrative elements and words based around the idea of a personal diary. By recording the spontaneous beauty of everyday observations, elements are selected which formed both conceptual and wall hung artwork.
More recently the artist has naturally focused on both ideas. "By placing snippets of the things that surround me within abstract stages the work forms a narrative".
As well as paintings on panels or stretched canvases, Craig is interested in creating more tactile pieces such as books.
"A 'sketchbook' might start out as a large canvas but later be cut into pieces, roughly bound and worked into further. I am fascinated by this process of breaking down and creating something completely different that becomes interactive".
Next Exhibition: 'PRAWN TOAST' 2nd May - 30th June. Venue: Red Roaster, 1 St James's Street, Brighton. Part of the Fringe Festival. www.shuttlewood.me

Open Festival weekends: 2/3, 9/10 only 12noon - 6pm

Address: Flat 2, York Avenue, Brighton, East Sussex,
Telephone: 07780 661182