(Un)Staged

PAPER #53: (Un)Staged
Curated by Simon Woolham & Yasmin Canvin
with Leicester Print Workshop

Sumiko Eadon - Emma Gardner - Ilona Kiss - Rui Matsunaga - George Shaw - Ruby Tingle - Simon Woolham - Hannah Wooll

Exhibition dates: 18 May – 22 June 2019
Private View: Thursday 16 May 2019, 6-9pm
Leicester Print Workshop Exhibition dates: 11 May – 27 July 2019
Private View: Saturday 11 May 2019, 3-5pm

Taking the print process and studio as inspiration, the gallery acts as a kind of stage, a place through which narrative unfolds and characters appear on the scene, interacting and leaving traces. (Un)Staged is a collaboration with Leicester Print Workshop, a conversation between Simon Woolham and Yasmin Canvin. The exhibition features work by six PAPER artists alongside two Leicester Print Workshop members. 
Sumiko Eadon has created a new series of etchings around memories of her childhood home in Kamakura, Japan.  The images are drawn from memory and without looking at the paper, alluding to a place long lost in time. Emma Gardner questions ideas of space, concealment and transition through printmaking and evokes a sense of stillness and silence within ambiguous spaces. Rui Matsunaga draws inspiration from mythology, folklore, and popular culture to reflect an increasingly technologised world, questioning our relationships with nature and other, unseen worlds. Ilona Kiss’ work is strongly influenced by dreams and nightmares, collective memory, and the question of place and belonging. The poetic qualities of uncertain situations influence her work as such and connect with traditional genres like Romanticism. Her work is drawn to ambiguity and she is interested in the tension between the familiar and the weird, and the real and the imaginary. George Shaw paints places that were familiar to him in his youth, places in which he “found [him]self alone and thoughtful... along with “the times and all the thoughts I lack the language to describe”. Ruby Tingle uses a variety of media to create forms that are rooted in natural history and presents an alternate folklore where boundaries between human and animal are obscured.  Simon Woolham's work is concerned with occupied spaces and the narratives that unfold in them.  His drawings of a tree stump or a broken fence are filled with the meanings of the events that go on around and about them. Hannah Wooll explores the domestic space and interior life, using unnatural lighting to create dreamlike and static qualities within melodramatic moments of still and uneasy tension.

George Shaw
Painter on the Road, Summer
one colour lithograph on Fabriano Tiepolo
27.5 x 42 cm
Edition of 50
2017
£350
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Ruby Tingle (with Hannah Wooll) 
Algae Stain
Collage, Brusho & Specialist Paper on Book Cover
19cm x 11cm x 33cm
2019
£350
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Ruby Tingle (with Hannah Wooll) 
Mavortium
Collage, Graphite, Brusho & Specialist Paper on Book Cover
11cm x 18cm x 19cm
2019
£350
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Ruby Tingle (with Hannah Wooll) 
Pelt in Mono
Collage, Graphite & Brusho on Specialist Paper
50cm x 31cm
2019
£400
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Ruby Tingle (with Hannah Wooll) 
Mavortium II
Collage, Graphite & Brusho on Specialist Paper
25.5cm x 11.5cm
2019
£250
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Hannah Wooll
Lean To
Mono Print & Collage
32 x 24cm
2019
£225
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Hannah Wooll
Together
Mono Print & Collage
37 x 27.5cm
2019
£225
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Hannah Wooll
Summit
Mono Print & Collage
29 x 21cm
2019
£225
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Hannah Wooll
Impression Remains
Mono Print & Collage
26.5 x 20cm
2019
£225
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Hannah Wooll
The Blue Hour
Mono Print & Collage
26.5 x 20cm
2019
£225
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Hannah Wooll
Something Between Us
Mono Print & Collage
26.5 x 20cm
2019
£225
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Simon Woolham
Creque Alley
Monoprint
2019
£225
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Simon Woolham
Fallen Monument
Monoprint
2019
£225
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Emma Gardner
Tintern II
Solarplate
Edition of 5
2019
£125
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Emma Gardner
Tintern I
Solarplate
Edition of 5
2019
£125
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Sumiko Eadon
Ultramarine 1
Etching
Edition of 5
2019
£125 (unframed)
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Sumiko Eadon
Ultramarine 2
Etching
Edition of 5
2019
£125 (unframed)
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Ilona Kiss
Some/ Time Revisited
Aquatint Etching
21 x 15cm
Edition of 15
2016
£120 (unframed)
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Rui Matsunaga
Ruin
Drypoint Etching on paper
20 x 29cm
Edition of 5
2017
£180 (unframed)
£220 (framed)
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Rui Matsunaga
Foxfire
Drypoint Etching on paper
20 x 16.9cm
Edition of 15
2015
£150 (unframed)
£190 (framed)
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