A Picture from BABE

(Bristol Artists Book Event)
Last weekend was the first of many book fairs at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol we hope! It went very well. Saw lots of wonderful work and some old friends! This is a picture of my table.
P.S. Happy Birthday Elaine!

Celeste Art Prize public on-line vote

I am in the Celeste Art Prize on-line voting at http://www.celesteartprize.co.uk/2007/publiconlinevote/artist_2.asp
I have a 120cm x 150cm painting called Going Out of Business that is a result of my thinking about Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest and if it is true anymore.
Voting ends 20 May.

BABE (Bristol Artists Book Event)

BABE (Bristol Artists Book Event)
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA

I will have on display, available for handling, books from my Serendipity Press.

Over the weekend more than 50 artist bookmakers, dealers and small presses from Bristol and around the world, will come together at Arnolfini to show and sell their work. The first ever event of its kind in Bristol, BABE has been organised by Arnolfini in conjunction with the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England. BABE provides a great chance to meet and chat to artists about their work and to buy works of art; prices start from just a few pounds.

I make big paintings and little books.

Colour Matters

I will have about 20 large paintings in a 2-person show in East London for the month of May. Some from 2005, one or two from 2006 but most are new ones, some of which I am still working on!
Here is the invitation and press release:

Press Release
(London, April 2007)

Colour and a Breathing Sculpture Converge

A dynamic contrast between the active inflatable sculpture of Rachel James and Julie Caves’ painterly exploration of colour is featured at the Oxford House Gallery in Bethnal Green from May 3-29, 2007.

One is immediately greeted by the visual impact of “Colour Matters” as the gallery space becomes a panorama of colour filled with the painterly and expressive work of Julie Caves that leads you through the high sunlit room and then down to the lower gallery. Of these paintings she says that “Viewers often feel that they are seeing a vast landscape but at a magnified level, like a universe inside a drop of water”.

Julie Caves received her MA from Camberwell College of Art and works in East London where her practice involves an investigation into colour, ways of seeing and the act of painting.

The visitor is ultimately led to the dramatic finale “Col de Alba“, where they are met by the expanse of a living, breathing, imposing sculpture that appears to be alive as it rhythmically inflates and deflates, expanding to fill the space around it. The union the artist felt between the landscape and her yoga practise during time spent in Catalana, Spain, inspires the piece. The breathing effect created in the sculpture echoes the feeling of the expansion of the breath within the body and our own connection with the earth around us.

Rachel James has been exploring the inflatable medium since 1997 and is one of the few artists pushing the boundaries of this medium as an incredibly diverse and exciting form for artistic expression. Incorporating movement into these pieces intrigues her and this quality has individualised her inflatable work.


Venue:
Oxford House
in Bethnal Green
Derbyshire Street
London E2 6HJ
(+44) 020 7739 9001
www.oxfordhouse.org.uk

May 3-29, 2007

9 AM - 10 PM Monday-Friday
10 AM - 6 PM Saturday & Sunday

Private View: Thursday May 3, 6-9