4 CAN + 2 =

February 8th to February 12th 2011

A show of collaborating forces, 4 CAN + 2 brings together the individual practises of four artists of the ‘CAN’ Studio Group – founder Marek Tobolewski and artists Billie Ireland, Pauline Woolley and IngeTong - as well as those of two independent artists, Louis Closs and Martin Lewis.
Private View Tuesday 8th February 6.30 - 8.30pm
Open Tuesday 8th - Saturday 12th February

A show of collaborating forces, 4 CAN + 2 brings together the individual practises of four artists of the ‘CAN’ Studio Group – founder Marek Tobolewski and artists Billie Ireland, Pauline Woolley and IngeTong - as well as those of two independent artists, Louis Closs and Martin Lewis. The artists showing from the ‘CAN’ group have been together for a collective time span of 22 years, and Surface now has the honour of exhibiting a new selection of their pieces. 4 CAN + 2 plays with the wider sense of numeracy, embracing calculation, time, pattern, code, repetition and scale.

Private View Tuesday 8th February 6.30 - 8.30pm
Open Tuesday 8th - Saturday 12th February

Release @ Surface Gallery

May 20th - June 1st 2012

Private View: Monday 21st May 8 - 10pm
Release is Nottingham Trent University’s 16th annual Photography Degree Show Festival. 

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P A L O M A R

June 14th - June 27th 2012

Private View: 13th June 6 – 8pm

‘Palomar’ takes it name from the 1983, Italo Calvino novel, Mr. Palomar. Through the eyes of the title character, the reader goes on a journey of mundane but highly individual and profound musings. Mr. Palomar tries to explain and define his own existence by trying to find order and reason in the complex and chaotic world around him, thus highlighting the mind’s need to break the natural world up into neat categories, so enabling us to understand how it is all put together.

This exhibition will be based on ideas of observation and perception, and brings together the work of Kate Brigden, Dylan Shipton and Pippa Gatty.

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