ARTISTS
Luci Eyers & Timothy Hyman: Overlapping Circuits / Divided Selves
Luci Eyers鈥� watercolour images have featured in several previous exhibitions at Transition Gallery; for this new show she has invited the painter Timothy Hyman to join her, following Transition Two鈥檚 manifesto to exhibit 鈥榯wo artists in dialogue, collaboration or opposition鈥�. They plan to give one wall to a collaborative drawing, improvised together over late August. Both artists are interested in creating complex microcosms, looking to medieval manuscripts and wall-paintings for an imagery of compartments and margins. Eyers sees other affinities: 鈥榓 personal narrative, compression of space, an encyclopaedic cramming, peripheral vision鈥︹�� But the divergences - of scale and handling and figure-types - are also glaring. Both are in some degree Painters of the everyday, of 鈥楳odern Life鈥�, yet Timothy Hyman鈥檚 imagery partly comes out of street-drawing, while Eyers tends to avoid the directly observational. Both have made small folding books of emblems, which will be shown alongside the larger works, but whose mood and implicit meaning is utterly different. As it happens, they鈥檝e each lived for decades in adjacent North London squares, and that location will provide some of the material for their wall-drawing.
Luci Eyers鈥� watercolour images have featured in several previous exhibitions at Transition Gallery; for this new show she has invited the painter Timothy Hyman to join her, following Transition Two鈥檚 manifesto to exhibit 鈥榯wo artists in dialogue, collaboration or opposition鈥�. They plan to give one wall to a collaborative drawing, improvised together over late August. Both artists are interested in creating complex microcosms, looking to medieval manuscripts and wall-paintings for an imagery of compartments and margins. Eyers sees other affinities: 鈥榓 personal narrative, compression of space, an encyclopaedic cramming, peripheral vision鈥︹�� But the divergences - of scale and handling and figure-types - are also glaring. Both are in some degree Painters of the everyday, of 鈥楳odern Life鈥�, yet Timothy Hyman鈥檚 imagery partly comes out of street-drawing, while Eyers tends to avoid the directly observational. Both have made small folding books of emblems, which will be shown alongside the larger works, but whose mood and implicit meaning is utterly different. As it happens, they鈥檝e each lived for decades in adjacent North London squares, and that location will provide some of the material for their wall-drawing.
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