SOUND AND ECHO
Harriet Mena Hill | Terry Smith
4 April - 2 May 2008

Sound and Echo brings together two of the Eagle Gallery's represented artists in an exhibition of drawings and a sound work. The show explores themes of measurement and fragmentation, contrasting the artists' distinctive approaches when working within the simple parameters of oil or graphite on paper.

Harriet Mena Hill has consistently used an imagined architectural landscape as the source for her enigmatic images. The writer Mel Gooding describes her work as 'forms and spaces that derive from memories, reveries and dreams … prospects and vistas are compressed, elevations left incomplete, objects truncated … These are aspects of a created world strangely displaced, its components enigmatic, seen from angles that distort.'
Hill's recent sequence of large-scale drawings 'Mapping the Grid' move further towards abstracting their architectural forms. The effect is to place the viewer within a strata of labyrinths and mazes, where scale is ambiguous and viewpoints vertiginous.

Terry Smith's 'Bar Staff' drawings are sequential works that use the structure of modern sheet music to develop imagery through a process of addition and repetition.
The drawings were begun in 2007 as part of the research for Smith's Broken Voices project - a three screen film installation that originated from a reconstruction of Monteverdi's 'Duo Seraphin a 3 Voci'. Various manifestations of Broken Voices were shown during 2007 including live performances at the Venice Biennale and the Riverside Studios and an exhibition at the De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill.
The works on paper are shown in conjunction with a sound piece: 'Pond' which combines found sounds with recordings made with the singer Linda Hirst and the composer Ian Dearden.
A text work by Smith: 'Manifesto' is featured in the April issue of Art Review.

EAGLE GALLERY @ THE LONDON ORIGINAL PRINT FAIR
Royal Academy of Arts
23 - 27 April 2008

The Eagle Gallery will be showing new print publications by Peter Abrahams, Basil Beattie, Julia Farrer, James Fisher, Tom Hammick, Zara Matthews and Giulia Zaniol at the 23rd London Original Print Fair.

EXCHANGE
London / Dublin The Eagle Gallery @ The Paul Kane Gallery
Basil Beattie RA, Jane Bustin, James Fisher, Zara Matthews, Peter Rasmussen

30 March - 19 April
6 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland

For further information or images please contact Emma Hill or Bridget Symonds at the Eagle Gallery on 020 7833 2674 or email : emmahilleagle@aol.com