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Ingleby at Masterpiece
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Jonathan OwenUntitled, 202219th Century marble statue with further carving79cm and 74cm highMasterpiece Art Fair
South Grounds
The Royal Hospital
Chelsea Embankment
London
SW3 4LW
30th June - 6th July 2022
For Masterpiece 2022 Ingleby will stage a two-person exhibition of paintings by Kevin Harman (b.1982) and sculpture by Jonathan Owen (b.1973).
Although very different in appearance (one makes highly coloured abstract paintings on glass, the other monochromatic sculpture in white marble) the work of these two Edinburgh based artists shares a methodology in working with discarded, or in some way overlooked, materials.
Neither artist makes work that is explicitly addressing climate or environmental concerns, and yet both are deep-rooted in a practice that seeks to recycle and reclaim their materials in order to make new works which achieve the greatest possible impact with the smallest possible footprint.
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Kevin HarmanPumping Wizards High On Magic, 2021Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame143 x 91 x 6 cm
56 1/4 x 35 7/8 x 2 3/8 inKevin Harman
In Kevin Harman’s case this means using unwanted household paints, mis-tinted or past expiry, sent by the palette load to his studio from paint companies across Scotland, and re-cycled double-glazing window units from local glass companies. The toughened glass panels of the salvaged units are split apart, and paint is poured, dripped and layered onto the inside surfaces, before being resealed. This post- industrial starting point belies the finished form in which luminous and delicate images seem to connect to nature in a fundamental way – either to the microcosm of the natural word in close-up, or the macro of the earth viewed from space. They connect too to places in art history where nature and abstraction collide (especially perhaps to Turner’s seascapes or Monet’s waterlilies) despite their origin is in the urban environment of 21st century Glasgow.
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Jonathan OwenUntitled, 202119th century marble bust with further carving72 x 46 x 28 cm
28 3/8 x 18 1/8 x 11 1/8 inJonathan Owen
Jonathan Owen is best known for his interventions into ‘found’ antique sculptures; 18th and 19th century marble statuary that has become somehow defunct or too easily ignored. In a sense Owen has one foot in the past and one in the present day, rescuing these original sculptures from invisibility by re-carving them into entirely contemporary objects - disjointed, destabilised versions of their former selves. It offers a way of working that seems especially relevant on the present moment, as the conversation around public monuments is so vigorously re-considered and re- phrased to question ideas of permanence and power – attributes so often associated with the original sculptures that are his favoured raw material.
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Kevin Harman
Untitled, 2021 Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame
201 x 401 x 6 cm
79 1/8 x 157 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kevin HarmanDeath, you're beyond me, 2021Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame184 x 123 x 6 cm
72 1/2 x 48 3/8 x 2 3/8 in“It’s odd that the references to nature seem such a part of it, given that I’m working in a city, making abstract paintings from re-cycled, urban materials. When I use blues, greens and jades they have that feeling of being underwater, or the darkest blues of maybe looking up into the night sky” - Kevin Harman
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Jonathan Owen(untitled), 202219th Century marble statue with further carving79cm and 74cm high
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Jonathan Owen(untitled), 202219th Century marble statue with further carving79cm and 74cm high
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Jonathan Owen(untitled), 202219th Century marble statue with further carving79cm and 74cm high
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Jonathan Owen(detail)(untitled), 202219th Century marble statue with further carving79cm and 74cm high
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Kevin HarmanUntitled, 2021Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame117 x 89 x 6 cm
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Kevin Harman
Nature on the bends again, 2021 Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame
201 x 201 x 6 cm
79 1/8 x 79 1/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kevin Harman
Aspirin, 2021 Household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame
189.5 x 75.3 x 5.5 cm
74 5/8 x 29 5/8 x 2 1/8 in -
Jonathan Owen(detail)Untitled, 202119th century marble figure with additional carving225 x 122 x 101 cm
88 5/8 x 48 1/8 x 33 1/2 in“My intervention is an attempt to subvert and puncture a familiar rhetoric, and so to reactivate the object through transformation rather than destruction, to make a new proposition.” - Jonathan Owen
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