COLUMBIA ROAD EXHIBITION

16-19 SEPTEMBER 2021 | 10:00-18:00

Among the Pines will be exhibiting a mixed curation of fine and applied art in September at Flora and Fauna Studios, Columbia Road, London.

Flora and Fauna Studios
134 Columbia Road, London, E27RG

If there is any work in particular you’d like to view, please email in advance so I include it when preparing the show.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Sophie Wood
T. 020 7491 7322
M. 07799 260461
sophie@amongthepines.gallery

Alma Berrow

Alma Berrow (b. 1992, London, England) is a ceramicist based in London. She originally studied Art and Textiles at Falmouth University before going on to study Youth Work. She only recently turned her hand to ceramics with the Covid-19 lockdown the unlikely catalyst.

During lockdown, Alma spent a few months back home in Dorset, in her mother’s (Miranda Berrow) ceramic studio, exploring with clay. From the get-go her work was a hit gathering an instant worldwide following and success selling off Instagram. Alma’s work was has been much in demand since, and exhibited with Yvon Lambert, Liberty London, Sothebys and Timothy Taylor.

Alma endeavours to create humorous and playful pieces whether they be ceramic gold teeth, her 70’s cookbook style platters, or ashtrays littered with severed fingers and nuts.  Each hand-built and painted piece is elegant and cleverly crafted, whilst oozing mischief and fun. Her creations hark back to a more frivolous and carefree time, reflecting the aftermath of a boozy and extravagant affair of champagne and oysters.

Mary Norden

Mary Norden paints with fabrics using an eclectic mix of vintage materials sourced from different centuries and continents, functions and histories, all faded by time and use. Inspired by nature and simple domestic objects, the starting point for a new piece of work can be a crudely darned piece of linen cloth with a torn edge, or a fragment of an exquisitely printed 18th century bedcover. She builds up shapes by overlapping layers of fabric, sometimes adding lines of visible stitching all of which gives the pictures a three dimensional quality. They convey stillness, a quiet moment and a sense of time passing.

With each picture Mary supplies a brief narrative of all the fabrics included - where they were found and what they were initially used for. Mary Norden trained and worked in textiles for many years where she became renowned for her unique use of colour and pattern whilst also becoming established as a writer and art director.

Ptolemy Mann

Since 1997, Ptolemy Mann has been running her own studio practice which she established after graduation from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. Her unique approach to hand-dyeing and weaving wall-based art works has become the basis for a modern-day Bauhaus philosophy of art making, underpinned with intelligent colour theory. The term ‘Chromatic Minalism’ has been applied to her work and she is heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism and architecture.

Mann’s time consuming and unique approach to creating her art work has evolved over a 25 year period. Her dynamic sweeps of colour display an innate skill at placing colour combinations boldly and gratifyingly within a composition. 

She has exhibited at distinguished venues across the UK including Chatsworth, Roche Court, the Saatchi Gallery, and Contemporary Applied Arts in London, and with galleries in Munich, Milan and Geneva. She has also created many site-specific works, including a commission for Tate Modern, London. Mann lectures throughout the UK and abroad, and also writes for Selvedge magazine.