FACE TO FACE

A big THANK YOU to everyone who made it to the opening of Face to Face. Here are a few photos from the exhibition Entrance with Sue Williams A'Court (Lady Di)  Sasha Bowles (Crate/Gallery) Mark Jackson (mercry(shroaded), living twice, Solhund) Corinna Spencer (Heart Face) Wendy Saunders (Untitled Double Painting, Head of a Woman) Sue Williams A'Court (Lady Hamilton, Lady in Blue, Asher Brown) Corinna Spencer (Mad by Mistake) Wendy Saunders (Untitled Head in 4 colours)  Sue Williams A'Court (Audrey) Sasha Bowles (Crate/Gallery) Exhibition continues until 2nd March Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery 26 Lower Clapton Road E5 0PD www.lubomirov-angus-hughes.com

MARK JACKSON www.mrkjcksn.com Can you describe your practice in a few words? It's like a container for an expansive array of thoughts, conceptual and material experiments, conversations, speculations. What is your earliest memory of art? I have various memories from childhood making pictures for friends, but my earliest memory of art was different. I was 12 and we were staying with some family friends with older kids. One of them showed me a book on Francis Bacon and I was transfixed. I thnk that is where it all started for me. Have you shown your work in a non-white cube space before? Yes, I've shown in a rundown empty apartment in Manila in the Philippines, stripped of all its furnishings. It was called the Living Room Gallery. At the time I was collaborating and we made lamps from coloured bits of paper. The whole scene was very different to a white cube. There it was softly lit, it had a bowed wooden floor, scuffed walls, windows looking out onto the grey

LUBOMIROV/ANGUS-HUGHES GALLERY 27TH JANUARY TO 2ND MARCH 2018 MARK JACKSON / SUE WILLIAMS A'COURT / SASHA BOWLES / WENDY SAUNDERS / CORINNA SPENCER  ‘’I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould…….. I know faces, because I look through the fabric of my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.’’   Kahlil Gibran All of the artists in this exhibition are concerned with identity and perception through the emerging representations of the face, however none of them would refer to themselves as portrait painters. The paintings of Mark Jackson walk a tightrope between abstraction and figuration, his figures emerging from a tangle of ideas, processes and material transformations, that result in autonomous figures who remain mysteriously mute and totemic. When looking at an image of a face, real or not, we are psychologically influenced to experience emotions in response to their expressi