Subversives@StISA

'Sam'
from the 'Burnt Out' series,
mixed media - doll, burnt matches
10cm x 10cm x 5cm Daniel Barnard 2009
Daniel says "can't think of anything to say"

'Children of the Prawn'
mixed media - lobster pot, dolls, star fish
18cm x 25cm x 25cm, Daniel Barnard, 2007

A cake Stall will be a 'feature' at the Preview party

'The Louvin Bros’
40x50 cm, oil-on-paper monotype
Ian Dunlop contact for Art, Music & Films, Ian Dunlop
www.iandunlopart.com

'Wot Kitty Got'
Acrylic and oil on canvas 46 x 50cm, Morwenna Morrison

'Le Camelia Rouge'
Oil on canvas 46 x 50cm, Morwenna Morrison

'Image 1 from a series called Sequence'
How do we get from A to B I wonder?

Using the head? The legs? The gut?
What does mapping the territory mean?
Choice?
Findings?
Being lost?
What happens to those who go and make their uncertain way against the forces?
What happens to those who stay?
Karen Lorenz

'Image 2 from a series called Sequence'
Oil, pencil on paper
21 x 29 cm Karen lorenz

'The crucifiction of Ganesh'

clay and mixed media, 62 x 62cm Lisa Stewart

'Sing'
pen & ink, 20 by 25 cm 2009 Sara Jenkins

'Full moon frenzy'
graphite ink on paper, A3 2009 Lisa Stewart

'Adrift alone'
mixed media sculpture, 2008 Sue Dove

'Face'
Ragrugged 13"x11", 2009 Sue Dove

'Frozen Flight'
acrylic and resin on canvas, 91cm x 153cm 2009 Penny MacBeth

'Earthly Affections'
Objet Trouve 3, 2009 Linda styles

'Angel'
Toys on Wood 2009, 185cm x 110 X 75cm approx Robert Bradford

'Earthly Affections'
Objet Trouve 2, 2009 Linda styles

‘Red Shoes’
oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2009 Una d'Aragona

'House of Subversives'
( detail ), mixed media and found objects
66cm x 30cm x 68cm
2009 Penny MacBeth

'Earthly Affections'
Objet Trouve 1, 2009 Linda styles

‘I looked but no-one was there’
oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2009 Una d'Aragona

'Mother's Little Helper'
acrylic on canvas, 46 x 50cm 2009
Morwenna Morrison

Does society know what it wants from us?

We are told we can have it all: a career, a relationship, children, a home, while all the time staying slim and in control. The guilt if we don’t. Not all women can be everything. Life, we find, is a constant struggle, full of compromise. Every minutia of our lives have been analysed by professed experts and then paraded across the media to further fuel our feelings of inadequacy. We have the ability to control almost everything from fertility to fat intake.

How do we cope?

Who, what, why are we?
There are no definitive answers.

In these series of paintings I pick over women’s lives, offering up my own observations of what it is to be a woman today.

'Toy Soldier'
toys on wood, 200cm x 1.3 cm x 100 cm approx
2008 Robert Bradford

‘SUBVERSIVE FIGURES’
29th April – 2nd June
Gallery opening hours 10.30am – 5.30pm, Mon – Sat
Preview party , Saturday 2nd May 6pm – 9pm

An exhibition of figurative painting and sculpture which explores the strange territory and occasional overlap between the beautiful and the ugly.

01736 795582
www.stisa.co.uk
subversivefigures.blogspot.com