Keith Talent Presents

Limited Edition Prints

August 19th- August 30th 2008

Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson
David Humphrey
Vanessa Jackson
David Smith
Melanie Stidolph

Keith Talent presents new limited edition prints by a selection of the gallery’s artists. In this not for profit venture, all revenue from the sales of the prints will fund a monograph of each featured artist and the publication supporters will be thanked individually in the publications for their contributions.

Doyle & Mallinson marry humour and history through playfully confronting social, political, and historical discourse surrounding notions of faith. Their work nods at philosophy of religious iconography and ever evolving conflict between religion and evolution.

Created in conjunction with his snowmen series, Humphrey creates a tranquil, dream like image synthesizing the recognizable with the surreal. Humphrey keeps the nature of the image purposefully ambiguous as Humphrey echoes representations of the winter season.

Jackson presents a series of woodcuts exploring the hardness of line and simplicity of colour through this fundamental technique of printing. Jackson’s reduced geometric shapes explore the organic yet paradoxical relationships of form and color.

Smith recently created Ta Da Ca in a short three day print workshop. Smith juxtaposes macro and micro elements with gestural movements to manufacture a layered image. Smith’s fluid and apparent marks form a manically constructed print.

Stidolph abstracts a recognizable subject from nature to create an iconic image. Stidolph discovers something familiar and allows it to become exotically striking. Working with a medium format camera, Stidolph composes a densely detailed and representational photograph.

Special thanks to Lock&Davies and Tesco Metro, Bethnal Green for their sponsorship.