Giles Eldridge: Gold
November 11 - December 8, 2011
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Isolation
Room/Gallery Kit is pleased to announce an exhibition with London based artist
Giles Eldridge. GOLD, 2011, is a series of works pulled from Eldridge’s
personal archive. This particular grouping was created and specifically chosen
by the artist for Isolation Room to be held in stasis as a probable narrative.
Eldridge culls his imagery from a variety of sources with varied references
from politics, pop culture, art and architecture. Within his body of work or
“archive”, Eldridge utilizes different techniques to render these subjects.
Each work is individual ranging from detailed graphite drawings to relaxed
watercolor sketches, varying from photo-realist to impressionistic to
completely abstract. The deliberate inconsistency is Eldrige’s way of
articulating the differences and offering autonomy to each of his paintings and
drawings from his always expanding archive.
Giles Eldridge
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Undead. Awkward. The unfolding library of Giles
Eldridge convulses like the black square of a cut image. Commentary lurches
towards this. Fragments align in voiceless agitation. This is a moment.
Suspended in separation everything is lay. Unfettered. Laid bare as umbilical,
an impression of a thing, images like mirrors oppose images, without romance
there is no apology, a reminder that imprinted on the retina images bleed. To
this Eldridge’s images are mastered not returned. Devolved of origin their
departure ceases to be a moment or a place rather an intersection of encounter.
An action of nature befitting of a microscope. Gazed upon. Looked out from.
Walls set within walls become as lines and marks set
within cut boundaries of paper. Abridged. Unfussy. Incomplete truth lies.
Eldridge splices form from content demanding that one become restless while the
other ceases function. The latter a contrivance of ambition. His position is of
infidelity. A disapathetic politic that neither makes apology for the rampage
of fiction nor ascribes it devotion. For Eldridge what is present. Seen. Is
itinerant to what is left behind. Unfolding undead. An empty image masquerading
in emptiness. Unbroken.
Charles Danby, 2011
Giles Eldridge received his
BA in Painting from Sheffield City Polytechnic,
UK. His solo exhibitions include: Black : Gimpel
Fils Gallery, London, February 2011; Above the lunar surface : Nordisk Kunst
Plattform, Brusand, Norway, 2010; Scratch against silence slow : S.T.O.R.A.G.E.
The Agency, London, November 2009; Including doing nothing : Gimpel Fils, Gallery
2, London, 2008; Non-Isotropic Drawings : Bloc Space Sheffield, 2006 ; Atelier
Gilles : Hat on Wall Gallery, London, 2003; Don't paint that gun at me : Tablet
Gallery, London, 2001. His group exhibitions include: Photo-media
: Charlie Dutton gallery, London, July, 2011; The library of Babel : 176
Gallery, Zabludowicz Collection, London 2010; Downstairs - Review : Gimpel
Fils, London, 2010; Faydun Bites : The Agency, London, 22nd May 2009; Drawing
with Dolphins : Crimes Town Gallery, London, February 2009; Contemporary Art
Society, Art Futures : Bloomberg Space, London, 2008; The Golden Record :
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008; Peer Esteem : Five Years, London, 2007;
Giles Eldridge, Manfred Michl - Ausstellung : Werketage Berlin, 2006 ; SVO4 :
Studio Voltaire : London, 2004; Vim and Vigour : A1 Gallery, Sheffield, 2000;
Cast by inertia and the dorsal fin : W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, 2000. Eldridge
lives and works in London.
Work courtesy the artist.
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