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Past Exhibitions

NIK INGHAM & PHIL MORSMAN : Paintings
24 January - 20 March 2004

Nik Ingham and Phil Morsman are both abstract painters,
one based in Lancaster and one in north Cumbria.

Nik Ingham works at Luneside Studios in Lancaster and is one of the most respected artists in the area. He studied at Lancaster College of Art when it was in the Storey Institute. His work has been shown and purchased widely throughout the North West.
Most of Ingham’s work has some connection with his immediate urban locality and the way change occurs within it. These interests are reflected in his application and choice of materials which are mostly household and industrial paints and fillers.

Nik Ingham : Spray No.1 (detail) 2003 Cellulose paint & collage on paper

Phil Morsman lives and paints in an old church in Appleby. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and is included in many public, private and corporate collections both here and abroad.
Morsman says, “(My paintings) are mainly about mood and emotion, though they frequently allude to landscape, geology, sex, archaeology, jazz, the weather, dreams, memories, etc...”
His work has been described as “vibrantly sensuous”.

Phil Morsman : Seeking Venus (desert) 2001 Acrylic on canvas 60x72ins

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Segsbury Project
Simon Callery

6 September - 15 November

Segsbury Project included sculpture and photographs made as a result of Simon Callery’s direct experience of archaeological excavations of a Bronze Age ditch and an Iron Age hill fort on The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire.

This major exhibition was displayed at only two venues in the UK, Dover Castle and the Storey Gallery. Simon Callery is based in London. His paintings are in the Saatchi Collection and the Tate Collection. The work exhibited at Storey Gallery operates at the point where the disciplines of art and archaeology meet. It throws as much light on the concerns of contemporary art, photography and archaeology as it does on the Segsbury settlement of 2000 years ago.

Segsbury Project began in 1996 with the photographic documentation of an archaeological site at Segsbury Camp, an Iron Age hill fort on the Ridgeway near Wantage. Over a period of 48 hours, Callery, in association with photographer Andrew Watson, photographed a 40 x 20 metre excavation trench at Segsbury in 1.5 metre square sections. The resulting photographic work, called The Segsbury Project, documents the entire 800 square metre site at a scale of 2:1 and takes the form of an archive contained in seven specially constructed plan chests. This overview could be examined in sections - drawer by drawer - or pieced together as a whole.

Trench 10, the largest work in the exhibition, was made during the summer of 2000. Plaster was poured directly onto the surface of a 20 x 2 metre excavation of a Bronze Age ditch at Alfred's Castle near Swindon. Rather than simply taking the negative form of this excavation the plaster captured and held the jagged, powdery chalk surface of the actual trench. This monumental piece dominated the main gallery space.

Segsbury Project was completed in Callery’s studio where he produced large-scale austere paintings made specifically for the show. Two of these large paintings are shown in an additional room which was made available especially for this exhibition.

A collection of ancillary material documenting the plans and research of the excavation was included in the exhibition.

Segbury Project was a collaboration between The Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, English Heritage and The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, presented in association with the Storey Gallery.

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DAVID HANCOCK : The Beautiful People
20 June - 16 August 2003

David Hancock's paintings are portraits of young people in their own personal spaces. The sitters are surrounded by their possessions and symbols of their culture, in a space to which only a select few would normally have access.

Throughout this series, David has attempted to recreate the intensity of the visual information he faces on entering each sitter's personal space. The paintings are in vivid colours of fluorescent and vibrant hues, which counter the dark undertones of the subject matter.
The canvases are split into sections to give a panoramic view of the space represented. These sections are hung across or around corners of the gallery creating a three-dimensional environment so that the viewer is able to step inside the space of the painting. Some works are made in collaboration with the young artists who are portrayed. Hancock incorporates the spontaneity of their artwork within the structure of the portrait.

David is also showing his latest series of works, entitled 'Jane Says…' These paintings are made in collaboration with the writer Janie Doll, and are drawn from autobiographical stories. They present an intimate insight into the experiences of a teenage girl, focusing upon factual events that have directly affected her.

David Hancock is a young Manchester-based artist who has already received wide acclaim. His work was included in the 1999 John Moores contemporary painting exhibition and in both the 2000 and 2001 BP Portrait Award exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery. He was artist in residence at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool in 2000, and was profiled in Art Review in 2001. In 2002 he was short-listed for the BOC Emerging Artist Award, and he was artist in residence at the DDM Warehouse in Shanghai in 2003.

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ALBERT IRVIN : PAINTINGS AND PRINTS
20 January - 22 March

This exhibition of paintings and prints by Albert Irvin was shown jointly at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster City Centre, and at the Peter Scott Gallery on Lancaster University Campus.

Irvin is one of Britain's most established and respected abstract artists. He has exhibited widely across the globe and was elected a Royal Academician in 1998. His huge, brightly coloured and joyous paintings and prints are an exuberant celebration of life.

Albert Irvin is one of the older generation of British painters, including Gillian Ayres, John Hoyland and Basil Beattie, whose work has both continued and expanded the legacy of abstract expressionism. His work is in the Tate Gallery and many other public and private collections throughout the UK and in other parts of the world.

Albert Irvin was born in London in 1922, and studied at Northampton School of Art after being evacuated from the capital at the onset of World War II. He was conscripted in 1941 and served as a navigator in the RAF. After the war, he studied at Goldsmiths College, where he later taught between 1962 and 1983. His first solo exhibition was held at 37 Gallery in Edinburgh in 1960. Irvin's 80th birthday in 2000 was marked by a special exhibition of recent screenprints at Advanced Graphics London.

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