EDGE GROUNDS AND NEXT FUTURES

NIGEL ELLIS AND WILLIAM HARROP PRESENT: EDGE GROUNDS AND NEXT FUTURES

NIGEL ELLIS | EDGE GROUNDS | PAINTINGS

These little collisions of nature and nurture are almost unseen and seemingly beneath notice. To me they stand for something to look for and believe in. They happen at the base of trees, along railway station embankments, at the edges of paths, parks … anywhere. Intense with accident, they might aspire to abstraction, but are informing, creaturely and particular. Too small to be ‘Edgeland’ landscapes, they are models of modesty but as limitless in variety as the skies. I call them Edge Grounds.

Nigel Ellis was born at the border of Country, Old Town and New Town in a place north of London known locally as Stig.

He attended St Albans, Canterbury, and Chelsea schools of art.

He has work in private and public collections in England, Europe and the United States.

“Nigel Ellis’s works are well rooted in the ancient tradition, yet are like flowers that have opened this morning.” George Mackay Brown

SELECTED WORKS

STARRY
Oil on Wood Panel
Nigel Ellis
HAUNT
Oil on Wood Panel
Nigel Ellis
VERT
Oil on Wood Panel
Nigel Ellis

WILLIAM HARROP | NEXT FUTURES | COLLAGES

Yesterday's papers may be a long-standing byword for the discarded, but in collage inventive ways have often been found to recycle this throwaway material. Newspaper imagery is mostly concerned with storytelling, but if the images are fragmented, re-orientated, and recombined in an altered context with the story leached out, other unforeseen spaces may be revealed. This is the process followed in
these collages.

Next future is a literal translation of the Spanish proximo futuro, usually translated as near future. If it implies a short-term revival of the ephemeral, i.e. old newspaper becoming collage, next future also hints at
how provisional the sense of any future has become.

William Harrop was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1953, the grandson of the artist Frederick Harrop.

His growing up was marked by his parents’ peripatetic lifestyle, which took him from Cyprus to Egypt, Libya and Nepal.

He attended Maidstone, Central, and Saint Martin’s Schools of Art.