In Parallel

ActionSpace is a London based visual arts organisation. We support and create innovative projects for artists with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts.Our work with high profile cultural organisations such as the Royal Academy, Camden Arts Centre, the Museum of Everything, Outside In/Pallant House Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery has helped to establish a place for artists with learning disabilities in the contemporary arts sector.We aim to make a professional career in the arts a realistic option for artists with learning disabilities who have the talent and ambition to pursue this.

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Robin Smith and Jerome present 'In Parallel', a live mixed media painting event amongst the new exhibition 'Abundance' at V.O Curations.

V.O Curations - 56 Conduit Street

In ParallelSaturday 2 March, 12 – 4pmLive painting: 12 - 3pmInformal artist conversation: 3 - 4pmV.O Curations, first floor, 56 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YZ In Parallel is both an artist response to the exhibition and an activation of the space, developed through a series of studio visits between the artists to explore figuration, drawing and mixed media processes. Robin and Jerome invite visitors to view their creative processes and experimentation live as they work alongside each other in the gallery. The artists will create new work, whilst sharing concepts that stretch across both their distinct practices through original processes. Join the artists as their paintings unfold across the day, concluding with an informal artist conversation about the artworks produced.This event is free and open to all. Jerome utilises malleable plasticine through a process of layering and cross hatching, combined with an ‘Action Black’ floorboard painting peeling process to explore figuration.Robin will develop a mixed media painting, layering inks, soft pastel, pen and acrylic to explore a new composition with abstract shape formations. About Robin SmithRobin creates abstract, reimagined painted portraits of figures and birds in single and multiple figure compositions. Through interlocking geometric and organic forms Robin uses shape and colour to blur the boarders between the subject and background. Robin combines acrylic, emulsion, and ink with soft pastels to build intense, richly coloured layers. Recent exhibitions include Open House, Studio Voltaire (2023), Paint Live, Battersea Arts centre (2023) Watch This…, Cockpit Winter Open Studios (2022), Parallel, live painting event, Studio Voltaire (2022).<a href="https://actionspace.org/artists/robin-smith/" title="https://actionspace.org/artists/robin-smith/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://actionspace.org/artists/robin-smith/</a> About JeromeJerome’s practice uses play to explore conversations around the ambiguity of our layered identities. His work uses Painting, Drawing, Installation, Performance and Sculpture, often working on several projects simultaneously that can connect, overlap and disconnect at multiple points. The sense of play comes through the intuitive use of when and where to combine the use of mediums, and the interconnected layered exploration of the material acts as a metaphor for the multifaceted realities of our individuality and wider human experience.Recent exhibitions include ‘Life is More Important than Art’, Whitechapel Gallery (2023) and ‘Cornershop’, Niru Ratnam Gallery (2023). Upcoming exhibitions include ‘Man Like’, Harlesden High Street, ‘Beyond Boundaries’, Guts Gallery (2024) and solo shows at Filet Space (2024) and Niru Ratnam Gallery (2024).<a href="https://www.jerome.org.uk/" title="https://www.jerome.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.jerome.org.uk/</a> Sign up to the ActionSpace mailing list here: <a href="https://bit.ly/47SpdCG" title="https://bit.ly/47SpdCG" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/47SpdCG</a>

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