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Impasse – an immersive exhibition by artists Jenny Timmer & Marley Treloar

Back Room Gallery, Holdron’s Arcade, 135A Rye Lane, London SE15 5ST

Sept 11th- 13th  2017 inclusive. Opening times tbc

If you know Peckham, then you probably know the Bussey Building and other Copeland Park venues such as Holdron’s arcade?  It’s a quirky little passage running off the high street just a hundred metres from Peckham Rye station. The units are rented out to small indie creative enterprises; a local radio station, vintage clothing store, an incredibly cool barber and the Back-Room Gallery. This is a pocket-sized venue aimed at emerging artists who like an idiosyncratic vibe. It’s as far from the daunting White Cube shrine as it’s possible to go without catching a lift to another art universe.  

Enter two artists who love working with the unpredictability of materials and challenging you to rethink substance, space and boundaries, especially psychological ones. Uncertainly is at the core of both their practices, and they previously exhibited together at  Life In A Shoebox in Spring 2017.

Impasse will be a presentation which invites the visitor into a disorientating space filled with light and reflections whilst a sound tape plays which connects this world to an imagined one. Viewers will be engaged with the piece and the space it inhabits. Prepare to be disorientated, possibly discomfited but also surprised and amazed to cross the threshold into a new space of experiencing.

 

Marley Treloar was awarded the ARTIQ Graduate Art Prize in 2016, and most recently exhibited in Static at the Stanley Picker Gallery. She makes sculptural interactive installations which may repel the viewer, or make them unsure what to do. They are confronted with an uneasy choice, to look and take part; to accept their instinctive, curious, response even though they are apprehensive.

 

Jenny Timmer combines materials to leave interpretation open; exploring odd substances, placing banal ones in unusual juxtapositions and contexts. Doing this can bring to the whole a primordial sense, an eerie mood, an uncanny secrecy. Her 2017 solo exhibition was a Cabinet of Curiosities; Animal, Vegetable, Mineral at UAL library, Wimbledon, and she took part in 17m2 at Space 272 in High Holborn.  

Guest artists and educators, Jessica Voorsanger and Charlotte Warne Thomas are leading contextual events. These will discuss aspects of making this show and similar work entailing transformation, immersion, storytelling and uncertainty.

 

Events:

12/9/17 11am - 12.30pm. Critique run by Charlotte Warne Thomas

13/9/17 1 2.30pm. Talk, artist Q & A led by Jessie Voorsanger

 

www.marleytreloar.com

jennytimmer33.wixsite.com/artefacts

 

www.jessicavoorsanger.co.uk

www.charlottewarnethomas.com

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