Between Presence & Possibility

New work on paper from

Carol Drofiak, and Daniel Iles

Thursday 10 March to Sunday 3 April, at Sutton House, 2 & 4 Homerton High Street, Hackney, London E9 6JQ.

Sutton House is an historic National Trust Property dating from 1535 in the reign of Henry VIII. The gallery is open Thursdays to Sundays from 12 to 4.30 pm, but please check the Sutton House website at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-suttonhouse for opening times and access details.
The nearest overground ‘tube’ station is Homerton (10-15 mins. walk) – see the tfl Tube Map.

Daniel Iles, Untitled (2010), watercolour on handmade cotton rag paper from Richard de Bas, Ambert, France, 33.4 x 25.5 cm

http://www.richarddebas.fr/papier.html

Gesture, glimpse and memory are integral themes in Carol Drofiak’s work. In the gap between figuration and abstraction, she finds a way in to the process of transformation. Her drawings, like her paintings, allude to an uncertain reality, creating tensions, which are both seductive and enigmatic. Carol lives and works in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

In Daniel’s work the material qualities of marks made by paint on paper evoke possible images. Like silent haiku they engage the viewer in an open conversation about their significance. The paintings shown here are part of a practice which includes oil paintings and installations. While they draw on forms and colours re-assembled from the artist’s everyday experience and navigate a space between the actuality and the facticity of that world, they do not seek to re-present anything; rather they reveal their own reality as fragile images hovering between the ideal and the real. Daniel lives and works near Wargrave in the UK.

Both artists are graduates of Buckinghamshire New University. They have shown at various venues throughout the UK, and will both be participating in the group show Smaller than a Lemon curated by Danny Rolph at Angelika Studios in April. In October last year they collaborated with the poet Sarah Jackson in the production of Tang (ISBN 978-0-9566743-0-2), copies of which will be on sale at the exhibition or direct from the publisher Penny Green Press.

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