The Manchester Contemporary 2021

The Manchester Contemporary
Stand 105
19-21 November 2021
Louise Bristow / Louisa Chambers / Tim Ellis / Sarah Hardacre / Jill Randall /
Launch Night: Friday 19th November 5-9pm
Opening Times: 
Saturday 20th 10am -6pm
Sunday 21st: 10am - 4pm
Venue:
Manchester Central, Windmill Street, Manchester M2 3GX​​​​​​​
For The Manchester Contemporary 2021, PAPER will present the work of 5 artists: Louise Bristow, Louisa Chambers, Tim Ellis, Sarah Hardacre, and Jill Randall. Each artist attempts to use architectural forms or reference specific buildings with their work. 
For Louise Bristow, one of the pleasures of making is the juxtaposition of objects that in reality would not be found in the same time or space. She accentuates the mismatch of scale and a collision of visual languages in the set-ups: she will place a realistic three-dimensional architectural model next to a flat image of a landscape, an abstract geometric form, and a scrap of coloured paper. To her everything is simply ‘material’ and there is a democracy to how she treats everything. Louisa Chambers’ recent work responds to the idiosyncrasies in architecture (ornamentation, pattern, shape, surface, and structure). Appropriated patterns from walls, fences, floors are translated onto architectural paper and transfigured into a temporary three-dimensional structure. These forms are recorded from observation becoming an abstracted still life. She is interested in the patterned tessellations that are on the surface of these forms and when manipulated create other spaces, angles, and areas of illusion. Tim Ellis investigates ideas of cycles, faith, and society; through the exploration of totemic objects and relics created by different cultures. These reoccurring themes are made visible through his attempts to make sense of and recognise different traces of life within the representations of these monuments or buildings. Through their modification, they appear to have been created by a new or alternative society, let they remain unspecific, leaving the viewer to determine their origin. Sarah Hardacre’s new collage works are a development of the artist’s ongoing interest in contrasting sexual and architectural hopes and dreams, this time utilising the format of the postcard. Her new pieces offer a cheeky yet plaintively nostalgic consideration of both the provincial city postcard and the female magazine nude. Jill Randall makes site-specific sculptures and installations that explore issues relating to place, landscape, industrial heritage, and the environment. Her ‘sheds’ are faithful recreations of real structures that she’s encountered in various locations across the UK and Europe. Each model is a tiny piece of place removed and represented for our scrutiny. She is interested in drawing connections between apparently disparate objects and places, ‘charged’ objects (like saint relics), and the continued relevance and significance of objects in a digital age.
Louise Bristow

Sketch for Creation Ritual
gouache on paper,
50 x 25 cm
2016
£700 (framed)
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Sketch for Energy Ritual
gouache on paper,
25 x 50cm
2016
£700 (framed)
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Theatre
Gouache on board
35 x 55.8cm
2015
£600
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Louisa Chambers

Join
Gouache on card
16 x 22 cm
2020
£200
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Split
Gouache on card
22 x 16 cm
2020
£200
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Flip I
Gouache on paper
18 x 26 cm
2020
£200
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Repeat
Gouache on paper
16 x 22 cm
2020
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Tim Ellis

City Limits 
Handmade paper, laser cut cartridge paper, card, ink, oak, plastic and enamel 
24.5cm x 13cm x 14cm 
2019
£2000
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These Days
Handmade paper, laser cut cartridge paper, card, ink, oak, plastic and enamel 
20cm x 24cm x 4cm 
2019
£2000
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New Town Velocity 
Handmade paper, laser cut cartridge paper, card, ink, oak, plastic and enamel 
19cm x 19cm x 8cm 
2019
£2000
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Jill Randall

Sheds of Rochdale. Shed on Stilts
Mixed media
13cm x 10cm x 12cm
2013
£800
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Photography: David Bennett.

Sheds of Rochdale. Caravan shop 
Mixed media
13 cm x 13 cm x 9 cm
2013
£750
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Photography: David Bennett

Sheds of Bocholt : Baumwagen
Mixed media
20cm x 10cm x 9cm
2013
£650
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Photography: David Bennett

Cricket Shed
Mixed Media
24 x 19 x 14.5 cm
2020
£800
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Collapsing Shed
Mixed Media
28 x 21 x 30cm
2021
£700
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Sheds of The Grand Canal #1
Mixed Media
13 x 8 x 14cm
2019
£600
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Sheep Shelter
Mixed Media
24.5 x 13 x 9.5cm
2021
£600
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House on the Wall
Mixed Media
14 x 7.5 x 10cm
2021
£400
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Sarah Hardacre

She’s no bird in a golden cage
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
£675 (framed)
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But that Welsh miner keeps coming back
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5x42cm
2021
£600
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While working her way through strawberries and cream with the calmness and deliberation of a feeding lioness
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
£600
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The smell of the material triggered the whole scene
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
£600
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Vacillating between Mozart and Ellington according to my mood
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5x42cm
2021
£600
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Born of wealthy socialite parents a stones through from Hyde Park
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
£600
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With currencies devaluating everywhere, there’s no question of Marie Ekorre’s bottom dropping out
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
£600
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Qualification enough for a Somerset girl fit to model pipe-dreams in the sun
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
26.5x41cm
2021
£600
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Ginny Luton on the other hand prefers the privacy of her flat
Giclée print of a vintage postcard and magazine cutting
29.5 x 42cm
2021
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