From Nature
From Nature opening February 18th will present a selection of works by seven contemporary artists from around the world who use materials as central contributors to how the works find meaning and do so with respect for the material themselves.
Artists include Forest and Found, Rain Wu, Jamie North, Nienke Hoogvliet, Peter Matthews, Jesper Eriksson and Harriet Hellman.
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Informality, 11 Market Place, Henley on Thames, RG9 2AA, UK.
Please note the gallery is currently closed during the national lockdown. This exhibition will run online and will be open to the public once restrictions ease.
e: info@informality.co
t: +44(0) 1491 577 115
Informality is excited to present its upcoming exhibition ‘From Nature’. The exhibition shows a selection of works by seven contemporary artists’ from around the world who use materials as central contributors to how the works find meaning and do so with respect for the material themselves.
Artists include Forest and Found, Rain Wu, Jamie North, Nienke Hoogvliet, Peter Matthews, Jesper Eriksson and Harriet Hellman.
As the world’s countries are forced to recalculate its focus on support within their own economies and trade, this exhibition educates the viewer visually from the artists’ Interest in the significance of raw resource from a country for its properties before mining, farming or construction for fuel, in the exhibition, materials among the artists’ practice include coal, wood, root and bone pigment, slag, clay and even the ocean.
The world’s leading myrmecologist, E.O. Wilson, has put that and us into perspective as follows: ‘If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.’ Just now the former scenario seems all too probable, but if Jamie Norths, 'Forward Projection’ is a warning, perhaps we can take the actions needed to avert the endgame which North evokes. The artists of ‘From Nature’ provide a double contribution towards those actions: not only do they point to some of the ways in which we might start, they do so by channelling the aesthetic and conceptual richness which reminds us why - instinctive self-interest aside – humanity is worth preserving.
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021
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From Nature, Installation view 2021
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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From Nature, Installation view 2021, Image by Scarlet Page
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The Curtain’s Drawn, 2020Madder lake, cotton charcoal, bone black, linseed oil, beeswax, madder dye, silk, burnt cotton, cotton velvet, mixed cottons, paper, thread180 x 155 x 3.5 cm
70 7/8 x 61 1/8 x 1 3/8 in -
In Dreams Dormir, 2020Bone white, burnt cotton, beeswax, linseed oil, mixed cottons, thread205 x 165 x 3.5 cm
80 3/4 x 65 x 1 3/8 in -
In Dreams Dust, 2020Red oxide, bone white, burnt cotton, wood tannin, photograph print, beeswax, linseed oil, mixed cottons, thread130 x 130 x 3.5 cm
51 1/8 x 51 1/8 x 1 3/8 in -
Land Jar, 2020Burnished sycamore36 x 37 cm
14 1/8 x 14 5/8 in -
Land Jar, 2020Burnt ash45 x 45 cm
17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in -
Land Jar, 2020Burnished ash42 x 48 cm
16 1/2 x 18 7/8 in -
Emerge, 2020Oil, acrylic, enamel, sand, stones, a grass reed, flower petals, cuttlefish bone, found objects and thread on canvases from the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England190 x 180 cm
74 3/4 x 70 7/8 in -
From the Atlantic coast of Maine (right) and the Pacific coast of California (left), 2019Oil paint and earth matter on canvas on plywood75.4 x 38.6 cm
29 3/4 x 15 1/4 in -
From the Atlantic coast of Maine (right) and the Pacific coast of Oregon (left), 2019Oil paint, oil bar and earth matter on canvas on plywood66.3 x 34.6 cm
26 1/8 x 13 5/8 in -
Forward Projection, 2019Concrete, blast furnace slag, steel, epoxy and British ferns and ivy300 (diameter) x 160 cm
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The Sea Rises and Totally Still III. 1, 2020Salt, coloured pencil on cotton24 x 18 cm
9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in -
The Sea Rises and Totally Still III. 13, 2021Salt, coloured pencil on cotton90 x 60 cm
35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in -
Carbon Offset 001, 2020Anthracite Coal, Steel Rod29 x 36 x 102 cm
11 3/8 x 14 1/8 x 40 1/8 in -
Carbon Offset 002, 2020Anthracite Coal, Steel Rod34 x 38 x 80 cm
13 3/8 x 15 x 31 1/2 in -
Carbon Offset 003, 2020Anthracite Coal, Steel Rod32 x 35 x 72 cm
12 5/8 x 13 3/4 x 28 3/8 in -
Shape Shifting , 2020Stoneware20 x 18 x 9 cm
7 7/8 x 7 1/8 x 3 1/2 in -
Kaumera Kimono, 2018Wool, silk, Kaumera, Vivianite and Annamox dye from wastewater,140 x 120 cm
55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in -
Waterschatten bowls, 2020Used toilet paper, natural glue and Vivianite paint16 x Dimensions variable