Slippery Slope

1 - 24 February 2007

Dafni Barbageorgopoulou
Sarah Douglas
Katherine Kicinski
Ursula Lewellyn
Mimei Thompson

The Eagle Gallery is delighted to be hosting a show curated by Sarah Douglas and Mimei Thompson featuring recent works by four painters and a sculptor who are all recent graduates from the Royal College of Art, London.

Slippery Slope is about the mysterious process of investing materials with energy. Visions are conjured. Spaces, imagery and objects converse between themselves.
For the artists involved imagery and form are generated from within and the individual sensibilities of the works come together to create a charged atmosphere within the gallery space.

The ideas for Dafni Barbageorgopoulou's sculptural works often come through dreaming and are made as diverse forms and objects. Her work combines references to ancient craft skills with a more futuristic sensibility. She was selected for New Contemporaries in 2006.

Sarah Douglas's raw and powerful paintings hover between figuration and abstraction. Douglas was listed in Art Review's 2005 selection of top 25 graduates and she has been exhibiting her work regularly in the UK, Europe and the USA over the last two years.

Katherine Kicinski's abstract paintings layer imagery, overlaying paint with collaged elements exploring the way in which time can be suggested within the space of a 2 dimensional surface. Kicinski was selected for New Contemporaries in 2006.

Ursula Llewellyn's dense narrative paintings present a personal mythology and reference science fiction, drawing together wide ranging references from art history to news footage.
She has been selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Exhibition in 2007.

Mimei Thompson's work describes psychological and visionary spaces, where forms erupt out of the sticky materiality of paint. Thompson recently curated 'Baroque my World' at the Transition Gallery, London.