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The consulting rooms are hung with works lent by members and pieces from our own collection; the Centre's collection of Freud Museum prints is on permanent display in the corridor.
The public spaces of the building house about four shows a year, with an exhibition of work by members held biennially. Works vary in content from figurative to conceptual, in a range of media including drawings, murals, photographs and paintings, small installations and sculptures. Each new exhibition opens with a private view. The works are usually for sale.
Artists interested in exhibiting should apply to the Art Committee at the Centre's address, providing images of work, which will be returned, and some personal details.
Current exhibition Liz Mathewslight wells
An exhibition of work in clay,
handmade paper and Thames driftwood.
Exhibition from 23rd April to 7th September
light wells: perspective, perception and imagination
The group of works brought together in light wells examines the relationship between the inner life and its outward expression, the light contained within the dark vessel, showing through the delicate, complex structure of the physical, like sunlight through the leaves. Sometimes the light is the natural light of the sun, moon or stars flooding the landscape, sometimes the glancing illumination of perception and insight, sometimes the visionary half-light of dreams. I share with the painter Winifred Nicholson the conviction that 'there is always some kind of light contained within the dark'.
As a lettering artist, I work in clay, handmade paper and driftwood from the Thames, but my primary structural medium is words. I see my work as a way of fishing the letters up from 'the deep o' the pule', mapping their celestial dance, dredging them from the well, finding them in the driftwood's grain - a way of bringing together thought, word and physical form. In this collection I have worked with texts about perception - how the light falls on the mind's eye; about perspective - how we individually interpret what we all see; and about imagination - the light within.
Each text inspires a different form, or physical means of expression: sometimes the words will suggest to me the containment of the vessel, the earthy embodiment of clay, the cosmic transformation of the fire, the circling flow of the throwing process. Other texts suggest the light-bearing transparencies of paper, or the spiralling sequence of the pages of an artist's book, or the dual-natured transitional form of water-carved driftwood, holding the letters within the grain, waiting to be revealed.
Liz Mathews, Potters' Yard, Tufnell Park, London 2012
long light: midsummer open afternoon On Saturday 23 June (1-4pm) the LCP will be hosting an informal open afternoon with the artist; she'll be talking about mudlarking, making artist's books, and the poetry that inspires her.
Liz Mathews set up her first studio in West Hampstead in 1986 with her partner, the writer Frances Bingham. Twenty years and two potteries later (The Wisbech Pottery 1989-1996 and Whitechapel Pottery 1996-2006) they moved to Potters' Yard in Tufnell Park. She has exhibited widely and her work is in public collections including the British Library, the Poetry Library, and the National Library of Scotland. Her monumental artist's book Thames to Dunkirk (a freestanding paper sculpture 17m long x 1m high) is a key piece in the British Library's major summer exhibition for 2012, Writing Britain. (www.bl.uk/writingbritain )
For more information about Liz Mathews' work visit www.pottersyard.co.uk
or LM's gallery blog on http://daughtersofearth.wordpress.com/light-wells
or contact studio@pottersyard.co.uk
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