London Art Fair 2015

We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us Andrea Cotton - Susannah Douglas - David Hancock - Phill Hopkins - Paraic Leahy - Sharon Leahy Clark - Simon Leahy Clark - Hayley Lock - Richard Meaghan - James Moore - Conor Rogers - Jenny Steele - Barbara Walker - Ally Wallace - Eleanor Watson - Graham Watson - Lisa Wilkens - Dawn Woolley - Simon Woolham - Rachel Wrigley We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us considers how buildings and their environments, impact on the relationship and experiences we have with them and also how these environment effect our own behaviour. Taking Churchill’s famous quote as the exhibition title and as a point of reference, we unravel the influence this has had on the selected artists and how this has informed their work. We experience and sense the built environment both physically and psychologically, and the impact that this can have on an artists work is varied and complex. This influence can materialise as a physical support, or an atmosphere, an indelible or trace like quality. The influence of our built environment can be felt in many profound ways. From Jenny Steele, Ally Wallace and Simon Woolham’s hints of architectural features, revealing the hidden and complex political and poetic narratives of spaces around and within; to Phill Hopkins’s, Richard Meaghan’s and Hayley Lock’s relationship with surface and vision, between the realms of physical and imagined environments.

Installation Views
Andrea Cotton
Plan
White Ink on Black Paper,
29 x 21cm,
2011
Susannah Douglas
Group (Section 2)
Pencil and ink on paper,
9 x 27cm (framed dimensions 17 x 35cm) 
2014
Birthday Party 7 
Pencil & Ink on Paper,
10x17cm (framed dimensions 21x28cm) 
2014
David Hancock
Advent Children IV
Watercolour on Paper
150 x 110cm
2014
Kira as Lightning
Pencil Crayon on Paper
76 x 56cm
2013
Phill Hopkins
Burning City Gaza
Gloss paint, varnish and emulsion paint on Fabriano 100/100 cotton paper
76 x 57 cm
2014
Bombed Buildings Syria
Gloss paint, varnish and emulsion paint on Fabriano 100/100 cotton paper
76 x 57 cm
2014
Paraic Leahy
Muscular Maiden
Watercolour on Paper
29 x 21cm
2014
Colour before ones eyes
Watercolour on Paper,
36 x 27cm
2014

Sharon Leahy-Clark
The Book of Love: Moon in Scorpio
Watercolour on Parchment Paper
76 x 56cm
2014
The Book of Love: Instructions for Dancing
Watercolour on Paper
84 x 59cm
2014
Simon Leahy-Clark
Arch (after Piranesi) 
Newspaper cuttings on board,
24cmx18cm
2014
Staircase 
newspaper cuttings on canvas
115 x 65cm
2013​​​​​​​
Hayley Lock
Guided hands make me see
Digitally manipulated print on photorag,
29.7 x 21cm (framed size 42.5 x 32cm) 
2014
Girl Guide
digitally manipulated print on photorag,
29.7 21cm (framed size 42.5 x 32cm) 
2014
Richard Meaghan
Evolutionary Man (Puff-Ass-Midas)
Oil on Paper
42 x 29cm
2014
SOLD
King of Kings
Oil on Paper
29 x 21cm
2013
James Moore
Das Ist Kultur
Oil on Paper
30 x 40cm
2015
SOLD
Conor Rogers
Brenda, I'm Awake
Acrylic on Beer Mat
10 x 10cm
2014
Jenny Steele
How It Was
Screenprint, drawing and pencil on Fabriano
54cm x 41cm
2015​​​​​​​
A Fine Time
Screenprint, drawing and pencil on Fabriano
53cm x 41cm
2015​​​​​​​
Barbara Walker
Richard
Graphite on Paper
41 x 53cm
2013
David
Graphite on Paper
41 x 53cm
2013
Ally Wallace
Projection Stand
Gouche on Coloured Paper
42 x 29cm
2013​​​​​​​
Angled Stand
Gouche on Coloured Paper
42 x 29cm
2013
Eleanor Watson
From the Outside
Oil on Paper,
19 x 22cm,
2014

Graham Watson
Femme Cathedrale
Collage
2014
Come into my World
Collage
2014
Lisa Wilkens
You are now in a place where we have buried something from you to protect you I
Chinese ink on paper
21 x 30 cm
2015
Simon Woolham
Nan
Biro on Paper
29 x 42cm
2013
Keith and Colin
Biro on Paper
29 x 42cm
2014
Dawn Woolley
The Substitute (Promenade Plantee)
Lamda Print
28 x 28cm, Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs
2008
The Substitute (Stairwell)
Lamda Print
28 x 28cm, Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs
2008
Rachel Wrigley
Green 'W' Lounge
Folded Magazine
16 x 16 x 2cm
2013
£225
Circular Paving
Folded Magazine
12 x 9 x 1.5cm
2013
£225