Alongside our public exhibition programme, we represent emerging to established artists with the aim to nurture meaningful relationships and develop careers.
Ra Tack’s canvases are constellations of marks formed from hours of looking outward across Iceland’s dramatic landscapes and inward to trace the emotional journeys one goes on. Steeped in the atmosphere of the fjords, Ra’s paint seems to rise out of the earth. Stem- like streaks dance on an oversaturated cadmium yellow horizon while punches of optimistic floral reds exhale across the canvas, elsewhere dense mycorrhizal nests fester. Many canvases hold these conflicting states within them, as we all do, making them like characters, Tack avatars, that take on the atmosphere of the room they are in.
Maggie Roberts
is an artist who works across a variety of mediums such as collage, photography, digital image and video. Her work takes an ongoing influence from emergent digital aesthetics, evolutionary fever dreams, science fictions, octopus camouflage language, weird physics, turbulent oceans and toxic lakes, and articulates future possible scenarios impacting on the geopolitical and human present. Maggie is known for works that emerge from an amalgamation of layers, with both two and three-dimensional works configuring at different depths and perspectives to create a sort of multidimensional world.
Plastique Fantastique is the name of the “performance fiction” produced by a London-based collective that has a core group consisting of David Burrows, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page and Simon O’Sullivan. The four artists work with others to produce exhibitions and events that frequently involve projections and music. Increasingly, Plastique Fantastique address the relations of humans, animals and technology and organic and synthetic intelligences. Stephanie Moran, commenting on the group’s recent work, has identified Plastique Fantastique with “eco-sci-fi art” that “explicitly questions the category ‘human’ by depicting possible ecological futures” (Vector: Journal of the British Science-Fiction Association, 2020).
David Burrows is an artist and writer interested in notions and concepts of the new in sacred, mass and avant-garde cultures. His practice is concerned with the production of fiction as a transformative process, as well as notions of impermanence and immanence. David is developing interests explored in earlier work that addressed violence, destruction, crisis and disorientation, as structural elements in sacred, mass media and avant-garde cultures. Black holes populate David’s current practice as entities with a different logic system to that of humans. David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan have recently written the book, Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy published by Edinburgh University Press (2019).
