The Manchester Contemporary 2019

At Our Still Lives Posed
For The Manchester Contemporary 2019, PAPER will present the work of 5 Manchester-based artists: Lisa Denyer, Caitlin Griffiths, David Hancock, Ruby Tingle, and Hannah Wooll. Each artist attempts to disrupt the notion of still life. Lisa Denyer creates mixed-media paintings that toy with the idea of their function as object, shifting between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, they are neither wholly painting or sculpture. David Hancock's paintings fluctuate between the subject and object. Painting meticulously from a still life set up, the objects within the still life contain their own narrative, and as characters they enact the greek tragedies whilst simultaneously referencing historical works of art. Caitlin Griffiths explores the relationship between reality and individual identity, drawing on photography's means to observe and document place, people and performance. Still Life Art Schrödinger is a series of still lives pairing an unopened box and with an open box. Referencing Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment, reality is only summoned into existence through the act of observing it. Hannah Wooll employs found images from books and objects found in charity shops. She repurposes these items with her cast of lost girls. Ruby Tingle's recent works blur the line between object and image; the imagined textures of her paper cutouts inform a new three dimensional situation in which the collages now exist-  their landscapes flitting between pictorial space and fragments of mythical skin. 
Lisa Denyer

Trove
acrylic and collage on panel
15x10cm
2018
SOLD

Sugar Snap
acrylic, collage and filler on panel,
24 x 18cm
2018
SOLD

Cloud Cover
acrylic, collage on panel,
24 x 18cm
2017

Sands
acrylic on panel,
24 x 18cm
2017

K
acrylic, clay, collage, filler, gouache, chalkboard paint and panel,
19x12x9cm
2018

Catapult
acrylic, filler, collage and clay
21x13x11cm
2018

Wrench
acrylic, collage and filler on plywood
41x33cm
2018

Stück
acrylic, collage and filler on panel,
18x24cm
2018

Reset
Acrylic, collage, tile, filler, emulsion and chalkboard paint on found plywood
2019

Caitlin Griffiths

Alter/Altar (Envy) Black
Digital Photograph. Colour print on Pinnacle Satin paper,
94cm x 64cm
Edition of 5
2018
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Still Life After Schrodinger (Box)
Digital Photograph. Colour print on Pinnacle Satin paper,
40cm x 40cm
Edition of 5
2019
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Still Life After Schrodinger (Cuckoo)
Digital Photograph. Colour print on Pinnacle Satin paper,
40cm x 40cm
Edition of 5
2019
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David Hancock

Echo and Narcissus
Watercolour & Gouache on Paper
56 x 76cm
2019

Ruby Tingle

Gold Slough
Collage, brusho and specialist paper on leather
22 x 21cm 
2019
£300 (framed)
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Swamp Shard
Collage on leather
19 x 9cm 
2019
£250 (framed)
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Tail
Paper, graphite and plastic collage
8 x 16 x 13.5cm 
2019
£250
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Lizard Hands
Paper, leather and plastic collage
10 x 4.5cm 
2019
£150
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Nuptial Pad
Paper, leather and metal collage
17 x 15 x 14cm 
2019
£300
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Coil
Paper, graphite and plastic collage
15.5 x 11.5 x 11.5cm 
2019
£250
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Mangrove
Paper, leather and plastic collage
16 x 14 x 14cm 
2019
£300
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Peach Pelt I
Collage, brusho and graphite on specialist paper
34 x 25cm 
2019​​​​​​​
£250
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Peach Pelt II
Collage, brusho and graphite on specialist paper
34 x 25cm 
2019
£300 (framed)
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Hannah Wooll

Interior Life
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
28 x 17cm
2019
£300
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Variegated
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
25 x 20cm
2019
£300
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Frosty Morning
acrylic ink, ceramic paint, paper based clay on found ceramic
2019
£300
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Louche
acrylic ink, ceramic paint, paper based clay on found ceramic
2019
£300
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Hot House
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
23 x 16.5cm
2019
£250
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Island
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
23 x 17cm
2019
£250
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Ornament
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
23 x 17cm
2019
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Polkadot
Acrylic and acrylic ink on found image
24.5x17.5cm
2019
£250
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Fuck This
paper based clay, found ceramic, ceramic paint, acrylic ink
2018
£300
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Among My Swan
paper based clay, found ceramic, ceramic paint, acrylic ink
2018
£300
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About Lisa Denyer

Lisa Denyer graduated from Coventry University in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. In 2010 she received second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Award, held at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London. In 2015 she received first prize in the PS Mirabel Open. Solo presentations include Geode at South Square Gallery, Bradford 2014, Paintings as Objects at PS Mirabel, Manchester 2016, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin 2017, and A Piece of Magic at Volume Gallery, Berlin 2018. Other exhibitions include About Painting at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 2014, Contemporary British Abstraction at SE9 Container Gallery, London 2015, Sobre fragmentos y materia (two person show) at Kir Royal, Madrid 2017, Contemporary Masters from Britain at Yantai Art Museum, China 2017, and PaintLounge at Kühlhaus, Berlin. In 2018, Lisa was nominated for the Kleinwort Hambros Prize.