'Mutitasking' group exhibition to open at The Lido Stores Margate
Featuring artists Eleanor Bedlow, Julie Caves, Geoffrey Chambers and Rebecca Elves
Image credit: Julie Caves
New group exhibition entitled 'Multitasking’ opens at The Lido Stores in Margate this week.
Featuring artists Eleanor Bedlow, Julie Caves, Geoffrey Chambers and Rebecca Elves, the exhibition is primarily about the interdisciplinary relationship of two and three dimensional practices.
But each artist, in their continual oscillation between surface and object, opens up the possibilities into an exploration beyond the limits of dimension.
About the artists
Eleanor Bedlow completed two years on the Turps Banana Studio Programme (2016-18), she attended the Royal Drawing School (2008) and has a BA in Fine Art (Falmouth College of Art, 2002-2005). She has exhibited extensively in London, the UK and internationally including Japan, Berlin and Norway.
Eleanor’s fragile and tactile sculptures sit alongside delicate drawings and paintings. While her 2D work often presents the appearance of objects in defiance of gravity, the sculptures almost teeter on it. These create precarious, sometimes awkward, sometimes touching relationships with space, imagined possibilities and reality.
Julie Caves is a Margate based artist. She completed two years on the Turps Banana Studio Programme (2019) and has an MA from Camberwell College of Art and has a certificate in Independent Curating from Central St Martins. Julie has curated three exhibitions at the Lido Stores gallery in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Recent exhibitions include solo shows: ‘Lost in the Woods’ (The Stone Space Gallery, London, 2021) and ‘Shimmy’ (The Lido Stores, Margate, 2022). Julie has exhibited in many group exhibitions in London and Margate and in ‘A Generous Space’ at Hastings Contemporary in 2022.
Julie Caves is preliminarily a painter, whose interest is in the observation of light and colour. There’s a temporal quality to her paintings that seem to fix a brief moment, a side-glance into a room or on an object. Her newer ceramic pieces look to bring these together in flowing forms whose glazed surfaces seem to pick out the passage or play of changing light.
Georffey Chambers is a Margate based artist. He studied painting at MAM in Salvador, Brazil (2013), and Drawing and Mark making at the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii, USA (2014). His background encompasses roles as a studio draughts person, finished artist, designer and art director. Geoffrey actively engages with the local community holding weekly drawing classes and is a trustee at the People Dem Collective, a Black-led organisation which uses art as a means of social cohesion and connection.
Georffrey Chambers incorporates multiple disciplines into his practice which explores the dynamics of culture, assumed identities and belonging. Each of his ceramics is a vessel capable of a particular pitch and sound, each has a mouth-like opening. In his portraits, characters are displayed mid-song. Both the ceramic and drawn mouths are sounding “O”, the opening syllable of the mantram Ohm, so that sculptures and paintings alike are united in chorus.
Rebecca Elves is a Margate based artist. She has a PhD from the School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church (2023), an MA in Visual Communication (Royal College of Art, 2016) and a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Animation (Kingston School of Art, 2012). Rebecca has exhibited frequently in Margate and the South East, as well as throughout the UK.
While Eleanor’s work speaks of an outward relationship of teetering balance, Rebecca Elves is interested in the unknown interiors of things. Working intuitively between two- and three-dimensional forms, her visceral ceramics are on the brink of precarious collapse, as she allows chance and accident to intervene in her process, while her paintings seem more like maps that lead from the liminal borderlands of physical space (shorelines, cliffs) into interior living dreamscapes.
WHERE: The Lido Stores, Margate
WHEN: Thursday 21st March - Sunday 7th April
