04.11.06 — 10.12.06 ‘I will not leave you comfortless’, Rachael Matthews
- Ryan Ras, 'A Country History' £275
- Ryan Ras, 'Sorry' £275
- Ben Long, 'The Great Travelling Art poster' £20
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things', 8 Postcards £10
- Larissa Nowicki, 'Meaning Obscured', Edition of 15 £800
- Larissa Nowicki, 'What You Don't See at First (behind the surface)', Edition of 25 £600
- Larissa Nowicki, 'What You Don't See at First (on the surface)', Edition of 25 £600
- Clem Crosby, 'Kunstkick', CD £9
- Duncan Wooldridge, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Augusta Wood, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Jacob Melchi, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Arthur Ou, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Katie Lewis, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Nicholas Grider, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Marie Jager, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- David Raymond Conroy, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Becky Beasley, 'MATERIAL', Issue one, Limited editions £250
- Anticipation, 'Kay Saatchi: Aunty to the student art scene', Times Online, 2008
- Blitzkrieg Bop, 'Is painting back on the scene?' Guardian Blog, 2008
- 'Solo Project Strikes Out on Its Own', ArtInfo, 2008
- Ben Long, 'Stag Do', Grafik Magazine, June 2008
- Ben Long, 'Stag Scaffolding Sculpture', The Times, The Knowledge, Image of the Week
- Esther Teichmann, 'Lautlose Bildstucke ', BNN Karsruhe, Germany, May 2008
- Ben Long, 'Join the Land of the Free', Metro, April 2008
- Esther Teichmann, 'BLIMEY!: New Photography in Britain ', Art Review, May 2008
- Brighid Lowe, Art World, April 2008
- Esther Teichmann, 'Esther Teichmann', Bedeutung, Spring 2008
- 'The master builder: BEN LONG', Dazed & Confused, April 2008
- 'Walls Have Ears', Exhibition of the week, Spoonfed
- Ben Long, Grafik Magazine, Special Report Art, February 2008
- Kim Schoen, 'The Region of Unlikeness', X-TRA, Winter 2008
- Ryan Ras, 'Mea Culpa', Guardian Guide, Pick of the week
- 'Paper-thin worlds', Blueprint, December 2007
- 'Be long a part' by Helga Steppan at Man&Eve Gallery, 'Grafik Magazine', December 2007
- 'Paper-thin worlds', Flavorpill
- Esther Teichmann, 'Phantasie Fotostudio', 032c, Winter 2007/08
- 'Halfway House', Editor Art Review, BBC Collective
- Frieze, Zoo, Year_07 and Bridge Art Fair 2007, Ivar Hagendoorn
- Preview Year_07 Art Projects, Undo.net
- Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored', Mother of invention, British Journal Photography
- Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored', Dazed & Confused
- Exhibition of the week, Esther Teichmann 'Silently Mirrored', TimeOut London
- Helga Steppan 'Be long a part', Creative Review, SEEN Reviews, Pick of the Month, August 2007
- 'Whistle Stop', Sebastian Mary catches the bus to Kymaerica
- Eames Demetrios, ‘Welcome to Kymaerica’, UPstreet LONDON, 2007
- 'You Know Who You Are', review of 'Replicas' by Nada Serafimovski, David Gleeson
- Esther Teichmann, 'Viscosity', Photographie – Hyères, April 2006
21.07.08
Kim Schoen in 'Is/Not: LOVE in the USA' an exhibition of artists from LA at the Louise Blouin Institute, opening 24.07.08.07.07.08
Helga Steppan in 'Consume Peckham' as part of 'I love Peckham' Summer Festival30.06.08
Eames Demetrios at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival15.06.08
Sam Messenger in 'You Silently (Two): Image-Object-Text' at The Courtauld Institute of Art, curated by Dawn Ades and Marina Warner01.06.08
Michael Whittle at Gallery NV in Seoul, Korea30.05.08
Esther Teichmann nominated for Sovereign European Art Prize16.05.08
Helga Steppan receives and Honorable Mention in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award 200809.05.08
Esther Teichmann included in ANTICIPATION at Selfridges, London, 26th June - 3rd August08.05.08
Man&Eve at The Solo Project, Basel, 2-8th June 200807.05.08
Sarah Bridgland in Summer exhibition at Knoedler Project Space, New York, June 19th - August 1st06.05.08
Ben Long - Stag Scaffolding Sculpture at the Elephant & Castle06.05.08
Esther Teichmann selected for New Contemporaries 200823.04.08
Man&Eve screening at Brixton Ritzy as part of Picturehouse Artspace series16.04.08
Man&Eve at NEXT art fair, Chicago15.04.08
Esther Teichmann solo exhibition at Galerie Karlheinz Meyer in Karlsruhe, Germany31.03.08
Esther Teichmann included in ‘In Our World. New Photography in Britain’ exhibition at Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy18.03.08
Michael Whittle at the Sferra Building in Kyoto, Japan16.03.08
Sam Messenger in 'Blink, Cut + Repeat' at The Courtauld Institute of Art18.02.08
Helga Steppan 'See Through: All my things' at The Royal London Hospital02.02.08
Helga Steppan included in group exhibition at James Harris Gallery, Seattle10.11.07
Helga Steppan: Residency at the Nordic Artists’ Centre, Norway11.10.07
Ben Long in 'Drawn Apart East', a group show by Day+Gluckman Curatorial Partnership10.10.07
Eames Demetrios new film 'A Gathering of Elephants'09.10.07
Man&Eve at Year_07 art projects09.10.07
Man&Eve at Aqua Wynwood Miami 200707.10.07
ArtFacts Preview of Year_0706.10.07
Helga Steppan awarded The Magenta Foundation Prize04.09.07
Daring Stuff15.08.07
'Phantasie Fotostudio: The Esthacus Teichwynd Photos' at Gallery Giti Nourbakhsch01.08.07
'The Region of Unlikeness' at Bank Gallery, Los Angeles
The artist-knitter Rachael Matthews creates work in response to rites of passage and storytelling. She previously organised the Completely Knitted Wedding, with the Cast Off Knitting Club at Battersea Pump House Gallery, as part of an exhibition called Ceremony.
In this new exhibition, her knitting patterns become a form of diary in which decisions are cast and then unravelled in response to events in her life. As Rachael weaves her own story together with archetypal narratives, beliefs and superstitions, fantastic worlds are crocheted and coutured into being.
A knitted stork makes its home in a nest of needles and fails to deliver a child. Invading American crayfish are clothed in miniature jumpers with traditional British patterns; their claws flailing, it is uncertain whether they represent comfort or destruction. Crocheted caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies but cannot fly away. The jumper that Rachael knits for the sailor she loves symbolises much more than the offer of comfort on a remote river bank.
Each object contains a story which has been knitted together with humour and honesty and leaves you hoping for a happy ending.