Social Space @ Fort Gallery

SOCIAL SPACE

Robert Rush David Cyrus Smith David Treloar David Ben White

Curated by Emma Jamieson

11/11/11 - 23/12/11


“Social space is not a thing among other things, nor a product among other products: rather, it subsumes things produced and encompasses their interrelationships in their coexistence and simultaneity—their (relative) order and/or (relative) disorder”

Here within the ‘social space’ of the gallery, staircase and roof terrace, we give the room to four artists whose works run along a similar thread, in that they each deal with and draw from architecture, space, line and colour. The works are a product of playing and conversing with one another. The idea is that they have the gallery space as the seed to produce work from, and through their similarities and differences they here produce a scene, an outcome of their interaction with such social space unique to the FORT gallery.

“Every social space is the outcome of a process with any aspects and many contributing currents, signifying and non-signifying, perceived and directly experienced, practical and theoretical. In short, every social space has a history, one invariably grounded in nature, in natural conditions that are at once primordial and unique in the sense that they are always and everywhere endowed with specific characteristics (site, climate, etc)”

Exhibition curated by Emma Jamieson, Director, Marksman Gallery

Robert Rush (b Guildford, 1978) graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2006. Since then he has been included in Bloomburg New Contemporaries, The Jerwood Contemporary Painters and The John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, along with a number of other self-initiated group shows and collaborations. He currently lives and works in London.

David Smith (b.1972) graduated from The Royal Academy Schools in 1999. Recent solos exhibitions include S.T.O.R.A.G.E- The Agency Gallery, London. and Diamonds on my windscreen- Keith Talent Gallery, London. He recently completed the Abbey Fellowship in painting at The British School at Rome. http://davidcyrussmith.blogspot.com/

David Treloar (b. London 1976) graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Fold, pop up show, London and Jafre, pop up show, London. http://davidtreloar.blogspot.com//

David Ben White (b London in1965) graduated from his MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London in September 2011. He is currently showing in Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Recent solo shows include Painting Pavilion, (And/Or Gallery), London and The Atom Age Parts 1 & 2, Studio 1.1, London. http://www.davidbenwhite.com/