That Which Appears: James Fisher

That Which Appears at Sid Motion Gallery, co-curated by James Fisher and Olivia Bax, is a cross generational exhibition that explores the window as a site of perception, memory and meditation. Bringing together works by contemporary artists including Lucy Gunning, Charles Hewlings, Milly Peck and Mike de Silva with historical figures James Gowan, John Hejduk, Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe, the exhibition considers the window as both a literal and psychological threshold: between interior and exterior, self and world, presence and reflection.

Ends 31 October 2026
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Small Wonders: Denise de Cordova

Denise de Cordova is showing recent ceramic works in the group exhibition Small Wonders at South Quay Gallery, curated by John Crossley. The exhibition features the work of 22 contemporary artists and includes paintings by Graham Crowley, Sharon Hall, Mali Morris and Carol Robertson, sculptures by Kathy McCarthy and reliefs by Lawrence Noga.

17 October – 13 November 2026
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Collateral Drawing: A Living Archive – Mandy Bonnell

Mandy Bonnell is among 17 artists featured in the group exhibition Collateral Drawing: A Living Archive, curated by Beaston Projects at APT Gallery, London. The project, now in its sixth iteration, places ‘collateral’ material from the artists’ studios, alongside their finished works to reveal the sources, decisions, revisions, intuitions and accidents through which an art work comes into being.

22 October – 01 November 2026
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Circle II

On Saturday 21 September at 3pm, Emma Hill is chairing an artists’ talk for the Pollen Collective at Kindred Studios: 14 Market Lane, London W12 8EZ, to discuss their exhibition Circle II. 

Circle II is multi disciplinary show by 17 artists that presents a related chain of unique art works prompted by an initial AI image that was created using the word prompts: fire, flower, time, sun, balloon and games. Working spontaneously over two-week periods, each artist responded to the previous artist’s work, without context or explanation. The subtle and intuitive connections between the responses offer a fascinating insight into how the human imagination ranges in unexpected ways. 

‘Artificial intelligence will affect almost every aspect of human life. It is already integrated into many elements of our daily existence, and it is quite clear that as yet we have very little understanding of how it can be mediated. As the scientist Gary Marcus (who in May 2023 was called to give evidence to the US Senate judiciary subcommittee meeting on AI oversight) describes it is a “dual-use” technology, that holds tremendous promise but also has ‘the potential to cause tremendous harm – from tsunamis of misinformation to enabling the proliferation of new bioweapons’. The highly disturbing events of the last weeks in the UK have provided a chilling example of just how effectively bad actors can manipulate the technologies through which we are communicating.

The Pollen Collective’s decision to base their project on an image generated by an AI programme was born, in part, out of a sense that while technological systems have greatly aided artists to expose and disseminate their work over recent years, there has been a marked change in how some people now interact with art (and by extension other forms of communication), moving away from the material and tangible, towards a solely screen-based experience. This, coupled with ongoing debates about how AI might encroach upon an individual’s creativity, seemed fertile territory to explore.’

(Extract from Emma Hill’s text for Circle II. Gary Marcus quoted from an article in the Guardian,

3 August 2024) www.pollen-collective.co.uk

Julia Farrer: A Throw of the Dice

Art Space Gallery, London is hosting a solo exhibition of Julia Farrer’s recent paintings from 6 September – 18 October. A 40 page catalogue with text by Brendan Prendeville has been published for the occasion. www.artspacegallery.co.uk

Fragile Stories: Mandy Bonnell and Déirdre Kelly

We are delighted that the Fragile Stories has been very well received, with the most recent international review citing Bonnell’s unique artist’s book, Imparaticci, as:

‘A work with a conceptual matrix in which the memory of the creative act is always poised between emergence and disappearance.’ (Manuela de Leonardis: Alias / ‘il manifesto’, Saturday 3 August 2024).

The exhibition continues until 8 January 2025

Museo del Merletto, Burano, Piazza Galuppi, 187, 30142 Venezia (VE) Italy www.museomerletto.visitmuve.it 10.00 – 16.00 Closed Monday

The Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts is moving on from our original premises. After 32 years based in Farringdon Road it is the end of an era and we will be sad to leave but the gallery has a very exciting programme up ahead with exhibitions in association with Turps Gallery, Vivienne Roberts Projects and Standpoint Gallery, together with a new series of artist / writer collaborations coming out under the EMH Arts imprint.

In May we are mounting Peter Ole Rasmussen’s solo exhibition Stile in collaboration with Turps Gallery, as the first in an on-going series of curated shows. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to exhibit Rasmussen’s work in the context of a space dedicated to contemporary painting and the installation highlights an interesting development in his practice with a move into three-dimensional painted sculpture. A catalogue with text by Sean Rainbird will be launched for the exhibition. (Stile: Peter Ole Rasmussen, 10 May–14 June).

The Garden of Unearthly Delights A collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and James Fisher, developed from his painting series Linden Lea, will be premiered on 3 May as part of the Folkestone New Music Days performance programme. Fisher’s recent work will be on show in After-Image, a two person exhibition with Phil Goss mounted by Vivienne Roberts Projects, co-curated by Emma Hill. 

(After-Image: James Fisher / Phil Goss, 26 June–07 August).

We are delighted to announce that Fragile Stories by Mandy Bonnell and Déirdre Kelly opens at the Museo del Merletto, Venice, on 14 June. Almost six years in development the exhibition features works made in response to artefacts in the outstanding lace collection held at the museum. The project explores the historical practice of domestic lace making and celebrates the extraordinary skills of its anonymous, female practitioners. Stepney Rose, a new edition of etchings by Bonnell will be launched for the exhibition. (Fragile Stories: Mandy Bonnell / Déirdre Kelly, 14 June–08 January 2025).

For further information, or if you would like to view work by any of the Eagle Gallery’s represented artists please DM or email: emmahilleagle@aol.com to arrange an appointment.

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

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).