PARKLAND a solo exhibition by Claire Scully
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EXHIBITION OPENING
We are excited to announce the opening of PARKLAND by London based artist Claire Scully.
The exhibition runs from 26 July – 17 September 2021.
RECEPTION SATURDAY 21 August 5-7pm,
join us to celebrate and toast Claire’s immense attention to detail in pen and ink.
Contact frances@melhopgallery.com to make an appointment, or keep an eye on our website homepage, Instagram or Facebook for open days.
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Parkland is the soft edges of a hard city structure. A place where system and uniform meets freeform and disorder. Parkland is the space in-between, filling the gaps, perpetually opportunistic and persistent with unwavering determination. The slowness of inanimate presence, overlooked and underfoot.
Claire Scully is a multi-disciplinary professional Illustrator / author / educator specializing in drawing. With a focus on pattern and line and how images are constructed through details and the importance of the minutia within visual language.
The exhibition contains large scale digital single edition prints produced specifically for this exhibition, screen prints made by hand, and original drawings.
Claire's work explores a variety of themes including the relationship between humans and the environment, the ‘silent struggle’ between Nature and Humanity. Her work explores ideas of personal / collective identity through visual language. She has a keen interest in traditional drawing methods and classical techniques and its place within modern contemporary illustration / image generation.
See more of Claire's work on the EXHIBITION PAGE
Queens Wood Original drawing, pen and ink (500mm x 1400mm) 19.69" x 55.12" Fabriano Cartridge Paper, 2018
Crunch (750 x 1870mm) 165gsm, 29.53" x 73.62" Easylam Paper. Unique edition, custom made for "Parkland" at Melhop Gallery º7077
ARTIST NEWS
ARTIST FAMILY ON THE ROAD
Julia Schwadron Marianelli and her partner, Josh Marianelli, took their family across the United States on a road trip adventure on the way to the Interlude residency in New York. A very unusual residency program that encourages and allows artists with children to stay and work there. Hyperallergic wrote a great piece on this new residency including interviews with Julia and the other artists staying there.
Incredibly talented fiber artist, Karen Hampton, has been quietly working away on this giant 5 foot x 6 foot needle felted wool piece titled “Pollination”
Karen's work with cloth and fiber celebrates and tells narrative tales of her ancestors.
Pollination 5' x 6' needle felted wool, 2021
Aside from being a brand new and rather exhausted father, Italian photographer, Giampiero Assumma is participating in several exhibitions, one being dedicated to photographs of actors and actresses in Italian cinema, and another defined by photographs behind the scenes or on set while movies are filmed.
Frances Melhop has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Incahoots printmaking residency 1-7 August n Petaluma, California. She is extremely excited to be able to focus on printmaking for a couple of upcoming shows she is working towards, that will be held in LA and Nevada.
Eunkang Koh arrived back from her show in Seoul, Korea with a bandaged foot after an operation the day before she left…(cutting it fine) …and is happily walking again! During her 2 week quarantine in Seoul she worked on these drawings made with pen and ink and gouache.
Eunkang is participating in an international printmaking exhibition World on Paper which will be up at the McNamara gallery at University of Nevada, Reno from August 1 until December 31.
She will also have work in the Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series
Wonders of Nevada: Nature as the Artist's Muse
August 5- September 22, 2021
1017 S. First Street, Unit 190
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Exhibition Discussion by Zoom: September 2, 2021, 6pm
Jean Brennan heads to an artist’s residency at Subcircle in Biddeford Maine from August 1 - 9th, and will be collaborating with Rachel Zollinger (@javelinalife) in their Plant One on Me community engagement project. Earlier this summer, she risograph printed 200 zines which have been distributed in the community ahead of their arrival by the tireless, Scott McPheeters (@tamarackbotanicals).
The piece is interactive and asks participants to respond to various prompts about their relationship with a specific plant within their environment. They are collecting these now for a public exhibition in August at Engine’s gallery (@enginebiddeford). While at the residency Jean will be experimenting with ethnobotanical uses of so-called invasive plants, as Rachel and she explore the theme of plants, place and belonging.
Miya Hannan has returned from her residency in Montana, Open Air Residency, with more soot drawings completed and in progress. The residency at the Homestead made her think of layered stories embedded within the landscape; satires of indigenous people, settlers, and rail road workers/immigrants. In an area that historically had internment camps, Hannan notices first hand, that when somebody gains something, it is often at the cost of somebody else’s loss.
Untitled soot drawing, 2021
FROM THE FLATFILES
fb selfie, 1/5 edition, 24” x 24”
Galen Brown
Digital print on Canson etching rag cotton
$900
contact frances@melhopgallery.com to purchase
Thank you to everyone who has been supporting and visiting the gallery and we look forward to seeing you at the reception on 21 August!
Happy Summer!
Frances
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The gallery will continue to operate by appointment, with some open hours on Fridays. We are very happy to open for individual or group visits.
Please let us know if you would like to schedule a gallery visit on a weekday or a weekend.
Email: frances@melhopgallery.com
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