You
are warmly invited to the launch night. Friday 24th October, 6.30 -
10pm. Mercer Chance, 253 Hoxton Street, London, N1 5LG. No need to RSVP,
open invitation.
http://mercerchance.co.uk
www.facebook.com/mercerchance
http://mercerchance.co.uk
www.facebook.com/mercerchance
'We met whilst on the post-graduate programme at The
Prince's Drawing School in 2012, and have spent the intervening period painting
and printmaking from our live/work space in Hackney Wick. In August this year we
found this exciting space in Hoxton and jumped at the opportunity to create a
large bright space in which to work.
We decided to open the space as a gallery to provide a public platform for our work, and to support our peers; a diverse range of emerging artists whose work is built on a foundation of observation, contemplation and practiced use of their medium . We want to promote a kind of image-making that is personal, poetic, and emerges from an artist's sensual and intellectual reckoning with the world.
We will be showing predominantly oil painting, printmaking and drawing, with occasional forays into the worlds of sculpture, film and installation.
We decided to open the space as a gallery to provide a public platform for our work, and to support our peers; a diverse range of emerging artists whose work is built on a foundation of observation, contemplation and practiced use of their medium . We want to promote a kind of image-making that is personal, poetic, and emerges from an artist's sensual and intellectual reckoning with the world.
We will be showing predominantly oil painting, printmaking and drawing, with occasional forays into the worlds of sculpture, film and installation.
Michael Chance is a painter, printmaker and draughtsman whose work
is poetic and philosophical, fascinated by contemporary environmentalism and
advances in exoplanetary science. Scratched, misted windows and powerful
glimpses of landscape meet the scarred surfaces and topography of far-away alien
worlds and strange accumulations of future ruins.
Chance gained a first class degree in Popular Music
at Liverpool University, followed by a post-graduate diploma in Drawing at The
Prince’s Drawing School, London.
Rachel Mercer is a painter and
draughtsman who seeks ‘moments of being’; those rare occurrences of deep harmony
between self and nature. Sensitively observing the forms and patterns of natural
growth opens a window to the appreciation of true beauty; that which is
yielding, soft and adaptive. Her work breathes, permeated by a quiet meditative
mood, which stands in opposition to the noise, carelessness and bluster of
modern society.
Mercer completed her BA in Fine Art (first class) at
Cardiff School of Art & Design, followed by a post-graduate diploma in
Drawing at The Prince’s Drawing School, London.
