EXHIBITIONS

MIRANDA DONOVAN | WALLS

Artists: Miranda Donovan
Location: The Outsiders London
Dates: Friday 22nd of March 2013 to Saturday 20th of April 2013

Walls is Miranda Donovan's third exhibition with The Outsiders. It sees the London-based artist's work evolving along the path set by previous shows such as Lost World of Innocence into an impressively cohesive vision.

For this exhibition, Donovan will present over twenty paintings all of which return to her ongoing fascination with walls. This time they are often life-size in scale. Due to the sheer physicality and weightiness of these larger pieces, on initial glance these works may seem to the viewer to be walls literally hacked out from their surroundings and displayed in a gallery – but in fact they are sculptures, where even the bricks are fabricated, reproduced in a super-real style through the prism of Miranda's artistry.

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CONOR HARRINGTON | A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE FOR A LITTLE BIT OF WIN

Artists: Conor Harrington
Location: The Outsiders London
Dates: Friday 1st of February 2013 to Saturday 16th of March 2013

A Whole Lot of Trouble for a Little Bit of Win features Conor Harrington's study paintings. Conor has given his studies the name Morning Glories as he paints them daily, first thing upon arrival at his east London studio.

These particular studies were painted during Conor's work on the painting A Whole Lot of Trouble for a Little Bit of Win itself, originally exhibited at Lazarides Rathbone's Bedlam exhibition in October 2012. The painting and its accompanying works from the same series, Whose World is This? and For Want of a Kingdom, the Battle was Lost, concern the transition of power from the West to new superpowers in the East, specifically China.

The exhibition includes over 20 studies on canvas board and framed, plus larger studies on paper.

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ANTHONY LISTER | UNSLUNG HEROES | LONDON

Artists: Anthony Lister
Location: The Outsiders London
Dates: Friday 16th of November 2012 to Saturday 22nd of December 2012

Australian superstar-in-waiting Anthony Lister takes over both The Outsiders gallery spaces in our monumental final exhibition of the year.

Unslung Heroes features Impressionist portraits of after-party revellers, dominated by a red, black and white colour palette. Hedonistic yet elegant, the canvases exemplify Lister’s poetic treatment of highbrow and lowbrow themes, and old masters-meet-street art painting style.

Lister's work for Unslung Heroes truly represents yet another step forward for the artist, who broke his auction record this year when his 2007 piece Spider Woman sold for AUS $20,000. The exhibition, also containing refined sculptural work, is the first to occupy both Outsiders galleries since David Choe made his UK debut in 2008.

Unslung Heroes opens to the public at both galleries on November 16th 2012.

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DORMICE | PRINCIPLE 54

Artists: Dormice
Location: The Outsiders London
Dates: Friday 5th of October 2012 to Saturday 3rd of November 2012

World renowned artists Dormice are kicking off our busy October art schedule with a superb exhibition titled Principle 54.

Dormice's paintings are heavily influenced by the international style media and often use its high-impact cover pictures for inspiration, contrasting these images' own augmented reality with dreamlike background vistas. In other instances Dormice transpose the sybaritic visual language of 21st century lifestyle photography into their own adaptations of iconic paintings, such as Manet's Olympia and Déjuner sur L'Herbe. The artists' contemporary contrasts are arresting to say the least, retconning the historical shock value of the original paintings.

By glorifying high fashion and the commodification of the female body, or comparing modern pornography to the erotic work of master painters, Dormice provoke the more priggish elements of the metropolitan art scene

Principle 54 will run from 5th October - 3rd November at The Outsiders London. Open Monday - Saturday 11am - 7pm.

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XENZ | THE CHARM OF HUMMINGBIRDS

Artists: Xenz
Location: The Outsiders London
Dates: Friday 7th of September 2012 to Thursday 27th of September 2012

The Outsiders is pleased to welcome Xenz to Greek Street for his first solo show at the London gallery. The Charm of Hummingbirds focuses on paintings of utopian landscapes and wildlife.

These new works are inspired by a trip to Jamaica's Montego Bay Bird Sanctury, Xenz says "Feeding Hummingbirds by hand, I was mesmerised by their iridescent feathers and spectacular flying ability." The works centre around the birds' beautiful colours and passionate nature.

The Charm of Hummingbirds includes large watercolours on paper, three dimensional Perspex pieces, "geometric" tessellating hexagonal and triangular canvases, as well as a large three panel hand painted dressing screen. And if that isn't enough, there will also be several prints created by Xenz at our Wapping print studio.

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