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October 2022

Gallery News

Cabinet to Cabinet
Mandy Bonnell Imparaticci
Palazzo Dandolo Parisi, Venice
presented by the Eagle Gallery, London
27 October 2022

Imparaticci is a project by Mandy Bonnell that explores traditions in lace making, first shown in the Eagle Gallery Cabinet Room in 2021. At the invitation of Matilde Dolcetti, Director of the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, a display of Bonnell’s recent work will be presented in the ‘ridotto’ of Palazzo Dandolo Parisi, Venice.

Linden Lea
James Fisher
Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
15 October – 5 November 2022

A second iteration of James Fisher’s new body of paintings, follows his recent solo exhibition at the Eagle Gallery, London. The show features a new, very intricate large-scale canvas that carries motifs of kigurumi figures within a shimmering imaginary landscape.

Unfolding Origins
Carolyn Thompson
Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire
until 30 October 2022

Carolyn Thompson exhibits sound works and drawings from her recent series The Last Walk Home (2020-21) in a group exhibition responding to documents from the North Yorkshire Archive.

Her film This, of course is all speculation (2022) is included in displays at the Head of Steam Darlington Railway Museum until December 2022 and can also be viewed on her website: https://www.carolynthompson.co.uk/thisofcourse

September 2021

Gallery News

James Fisher’s work is included in Notes for a Landscape, a group exhibition curated by Kate Scrivener at the Kingsgate Project Space (18 September – 16 October) @kingsgateprojectspace.

Harriet Mena Hill’s recent paintings and felt works are featured in the inaugural exhibition of Giles Baker Smith’s new gallery in Somerset. GBS Fine Art opens on 17 September at 13 Sadler Sreet, Wells @gbsfineart. She is currently exhibiting in the group exhibition When Here Becomes There / Home is Where the Heart Is at the ASC Gallery, London SE17 (until 17 September) @ascgallery. Her work has been selected for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and is shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

Following his recent exhibition in the Eagle Gallery Cabinet Room Hormazd Narielwalla’s artist’s book Diamond Dolls has been acquired by the Rare Books Collection at Yale Center for British Art and his earlier EMH Arts publication Rock Paper Scissors is now in the Library of the Albers Foundation.

Carolyn Thompson will be exhibiting work she has made as the Unfolding Origins Artist in Residence for Ryedale with Chrysalis Arts and the North Yorkshire Archive in The Last Walk Home at the Pickering Library (7 October – 16 November).

April 2021

Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts Archive
In September 2021 the Eagle Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary and we are delighted that re-opening coincides with the announcement that Tate has recently acquired the Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts Archive. The archive holds the records of over 300 exhibitions, publications and off-site  projects, together with background to Emma Hill’s work as a curator and writer. As an on-going research resource, it traces the development of the gallery and imprint since 1991 and includes many examples of artist’s books and catalogue publications up to the present, with recent editions by Carolyn Thompson Post Moderns (2020) and Hormazd Narielwalla Rock, Paper, ScissorsSupernova (2020) and Diamond Dolls (2021)

Together It Seams: Prick and Stitch Alliance
A collaborative project devised by artists Denise de Cordova and Kate Davies opens at the Standpoint Gallery, on 6 April. www.standpointlondon.co.uk

Printeditions.gallery
Exclusive new print and photo editions by Matt Magee, Terry Smith and Carolyn Thompson are featured on printeditions.gallery – a recently launched online digital publishing platform, supported by funding from Arts Council England.

December 2020

Gallery artists Mandy Bonnell and Carolyn Thompson have been chosen as semi-finalists in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize 2020. You can vote for Mandy or Carolyn in the People’s Book Art Award until 10 January 2021 here:
https://mcbaprize.org/2020-mcba-prize-peoples-book-art-award/

Carolyn Thompson is currently Artist in Residence for Ryedale at the North Yorkshire Archives with Chrysalis Arts, a project which will continue into 2021. 
https://www.chrysalisarts.com/news/update-from-artist-carolyn-thompson

Thompson’s solo exhibition Post Moderns is reviewed this December by Michael Hampton in issue 95 of The Penguin Collector. 
https://www.penguincollectorssociety.org/shop.php

Recent sculpture by Denise de Cordova is featured in Rapt Beauty Wrapped, a group exhibition at Jaggedart, London (5 – 24 December). An illustrated catalogue 2020 of De Cordova’s carvings can be found on her Artist’s page on www.emmahilleagle.com

May 2020

Over the past few weeks I have been inspired by a number of the artists that the Eagle Gallery represents who work in jobs that involve vulnerable children, or students who are struggling to finish degrees online. It takes creativity and sensitivity to re-think how to deliver workshops for children in tower blocks who do not have computers, or reassure young people who are making major readjustments at such a critical moment in their lives, and I am enormously impressed by how hard people are working to try to alleviate the situation for others.

Harriet Mena Hill has been working with #2Inspireyouth, funded by Notting Hill Genesis, to offer a young people’s art club on the Aylesbury Estate at the Elephant and Castle and has recently secured funding from the Notting Hill Wellbeing Fund to develop a series of remote workshops to bring together elderly residents and children on the Aylesbury. These will record memories of being housed there in the 1960s when the estate offered the most advanced kind of social housing and what it is like to be removed from the community in the current day, as the area undergoes massive private re-development. Hill’s work on the Aylesbury over the past two years has led her to make a series of ‘soft concrete’ works using felting techniques, which transform details of the brutalist architecture into images of surprising beauty. A series of her Perpetual Drawings (2020), has recently been selected for the Derwent Art Prize.

Artists have responded with invention and generosity in different ways, with many posting works for under £200 on Instagram’s #artistsupportpledge. By pledging to buy another artist’s work if sales reach £1000, the scheme enables artists to support each other financially. Eagle Gallery artists whose work you can see on #artistsupportpledge include: @mandy.bonnell, @jmsfsher, @_danroach_, @_carolynthompson_.

Denise de Cordova has turned her mind to a literary quiz based on her re-reading of novels. If you can name the authors of the book titles painted in two of her watercolours you can win them @denisedecordova1. De Cordova’s work is featured in a delightful short film Congregation by Jonas Grimas, which was shot during the opening of her solo exhibition at Jesus College, Cambridge in 2013. The film can be viewed by visiting: https://vimeo.com/405892833

Hormazd Narielwalla’s recent series of mixed media collages Rock, Paper, Scissors, is a tribute to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Using the pages of a vintage pattern manual, Narielwalla plays with notions of two and three dimensional space in a subtle colour palette that brings to mind stone, marble and sky. The gallery will be launching a limited edition artist’s book based on the project and you can see the work at: http://www.narielwalla.com/Hormazd-Narielwalla-Rock-Paper-Scissors.pdf

The Gallery’s work on behalf of artists is critical during this time and I am delighted to announce that we have recently placed significant work by Jane Joseph and Natalie Dower in the collections of the British Museum, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art and TATE.

The Prints and Drawings Department of the British Museum has acquired Joseph’s etching suite

If This is a Man, commissioned in 1999 by the Folio Society for their reprinting of Primo Levi’s seminal book about the holocaust.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art has selected three works by Dower to join their permanent collection of Systems and Constructivist art in Norwich. Chosen from across her 50-year career Dower will be represented by an early wall relief, a sculpture from the 1980s and a recent Square Root Spirals canvas from 2015

TATE has recently acquired an early painting by Dower of the artist Patrick George. The two were great friends and sat for reciprocal portraits in the late 1950s. Dower’s work will join George’s in a hang at TATE Britain.

Emma Hill Director, Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts