October 14 - November 12, 2017
Edward Kinsella III
St Louis, Missouri
Edward Kinsella III was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1983. He graduated with honors from Ringling School of Art and Design in 2006, and his work has since been commissioned by a variety of prestigious magazines and publishers. He has also shown his fine art and illustration in a number of gallery exhibitions. His accolades include gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators, and a Gold Award from Spectrum.
Title: Creeps
Creeps represents Edward Kinsella’s journey deeper into paranormal themes. Drawing on multiple visual and literary sources, Edward creates pieces that mix a peculiar visual hodgepodge with a lifelong fascination with the paranormal. Creeps celebrates the strange, the unusual, and the things that go bump in the night.
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Stewart Easton
London, United Kingdom
Breaking the traditional boundaries of craft, Stewart Francis Easton’s work fuses together hand embroidery, sonic art and music. Drawing upon and using folk song, story and social history as a starting point Easton works with the space and weight of story to create large scale wall based pieces which emphasise the passage of time within a single panel. These pieces vary in size and medium and can be drawn with hand embroidery, direct wall drawing or paint. Whichever medium is used Easton emphasises the need to create using the hand as it is in this process that a connection is made with the story allowing a slowing down and immersion in the moment. Most recently Easton has been removing the ‘storyline’ of a visual narrative by creating geometric/ graphic forms in stitch. This reassembling of his work ethic in a chance layout enables the viewer to be free of their preconceptions of story. Using a process of abstract minimal stitch he is enabling himself to create a visual reference to an ever changing pathway and reaching for a utopian form. Easton’s stitch work blurs the lines between craft, illustration and fine art making his work dynamic and progressive and a must see. Stewart Francis Easton is a visual storyteller based in London who works in thread, ink, paint and digital media.
Title: The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game is Easton's exploration into the fictional Castalian order of mind, spirit and the artistic life.
Drawing upon the major elements and characters from Hesse's great work Easton has fused together and created a depiction of a fantastical world of spirit and art.
Using a contemplative approach in the creation of each of the works he has allowed a space to develop within the journey of their creation. This space gives the viewer a glimpse into the artistic life and the possibilities available to us when we not only look at a work, but meditate upon it.
