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SHADOWexit

Two women artists, each one with her own distinctive work and past; and each one has her unique story to tell. Anna Kolosova and Megan Jentsch, through this collaborative project, are bringing their talents together and aiming at creative exhilaration. Not being able to ignore the global circumstances, the two women experienced separately and diversely what it means to be isolated. The socio-political disarray, affecting them each in a personal and unique way, could not but impact their psychology and work.

Lockdown was (and still can be) an idle captivity of the body and mind for the two artists, creating space for thought unfiltered and for creative explosiveness. Initiating from a creative and emotional stagnation, Jentsch and Kolosova managed to overcome the barrier and each one reach their own personal revelation.

Reflecting on their emotions through their emotions, the two artists will work together on a collaborative piece, in the form of a live action painting, with feelings and techniques intersecting. Deploying primarily already used materials, upcycling found objects and inspired by and utilising the power of music as a means to mediate and accompany their creative execution on the canvas, they will exhibit work that highlights and puts their pain on the spotlight, thus neutralising it.

The exhibition will include artworks created over the period of the first lockdown, alongside the collaborative live action painting, which will be videographed on the 26th of November. With artworks that were waiting to be seen and experienced, Megan Jentsch and Anna Kolosova are now being given the closure of a significant chapter, providing them with the impetus to evolve and exit from the shadows.

The exhibition will be adhering to current social distancing guidelines. Masks will be required for entry. Hand sanitizer will be provided and access to the exhibition space

The space has disabled access.

Exhibition Dates: 3 – 11 December 2020

Exhibition hours: 12 – 5pm, Wednesday to Friday

Location: Unit 3 Projects, 3 Empson Street, Unit 3, London

Graphics: Megan Jentsch 

Photographer: Troy Mariyanayagam 

Curator: Vanessa Giorgo

To RSVP click here.

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Concrete Blue | Between Matter and Space | Bea Acevedo, Karolina Albricht, Clemence Hemard-Hermitant, Justine Hounam, Lee Maelzer, Callum Murphy, Carolyn Whittaker

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Faint Young Suns. John Bunker: New Work.

Bunker’s latest outing, ‘Faint Young Suns’, takes its name from Cosmologist's slang for stars that are still growing- gradually increasing their individual quality of light energy- a light that will carve out the destiny of their evolving solar systems. Bunker sees a parallel with his changing approach to making paintings. The elegant tonal arrangements of found materials for which Bunker is known have taken a back seat. Now, it seems, Bunker is working more with paint and treating colour like a raw and unstable energy. By forcing ever more densely packed fragments of paint together, it's almost as though a kind of visual equivalent to atomic fission is being sought out. Each artwork seems to be a gathering up of contrasting colour forces, cued to engender a chain reaction, and in the process, exuding a new kind of painterly energy. It's no accident though, that the origins of these artworks stand in stark contrast to the intimations of the cosmological. All the materials in play are formed of the detritus of making, of the very haptic machinations of everyday activities of spreading out paint on various surfaces from studio floor, to canvas, to glass panels, to paper stripped from advertising hoardings. Fragments are then chipped, ripped, chiselled and peeled away from their original settings at different points in the drying process. From these initial starting points the acrylic paint reveals itself as a harbourer of a plethora of material diversity, laden as it is, with a physical trace-memory of its original sites of application and any detritus that's been added to the mix. These abstract works do not aspire to represent the un-representable, ruminate on some notion of the sublime or the 'music of the spheres'. They are about the endless internal interactions of physical forces; the more one looks at these works, the more they seem to incite a visual charge. The complex interplay of colour and shape create dynamic pressures across these works that build and build with a self-generating energy much like ‘faint young suns’ themselves. All in all, these are abstractions that seek a slow burning brutal beauty unique to themselves but born of a very earthly myriad of visual relationships and materials.

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Borranco - made by water flow is an art exhibition and interactive clay event by sculptor Silvia Krupinska. Borranco presents a new series of clay prints on paper and drawings made in collaboration with Almerian forest ants. You'll be able to get your hands dirty and make your own clay prints, other small objects and contribute to a large-scale wall piece as well.

Borranco, inspired by Spanish word 'barranco' (ravine in English), is a geographical term describing a very deep, narrow valley with steep sides which were produced by flashes of water during flash-floods. 'Barrancos' have been a huge inspiration for Silvia during her summer art residency at Joya AiR set in an alpine desert of Almeria. Come and learn more about her experience of this environmental art residency in an informal setting of the Unit 3 Projects gallery.

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A Geography of Interiors brings together a group of artists that as part of their practice look at interior space as shaper of human experience. They are interested in how the encounter with other humans and objects, the habits associated with these spaces become an imprint, a map of perception and memory, an experience of the self. Departing form personal history, documentation, research or imagination and in every case, with empathy as driving force, these artists form a landscape of mediums that talk about search and journey as much as they do about a longing for home.

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Testing: 2019

“Unit 3's Testing show ups the ante this year. The chosen artists select three others to show with them in Poplar's rough diamond of a gallery space. Thanks for the huge generosity of spirit of all the participants! 

Unit 3 is a project space available to artists working at ASC's Empson Street studios and it is a rare beast indeed. To have affordable exhibition space as part of studio rent within striking distance of central London is so important. But to be unencumbered by the bureaucracy of 'proposals', 'selection processes', 'committees', and 'prize giving' is rarer still. 

This is the third year in which I have the opportunity to share Unit 3 with a wider community of artists from London, the north of England and Europe. Some artists have returned for another go at choosing and some who were chosen by an artist last year take up the chance to select new artists of their choice this year. As before, all participants are primarily working with painting, collage and sculpture in general and aspects of abstraction specifically. The curatorial challenge for me is intensified this year by a greater number of participants and the unknown quantities that are the selections that they will make. What excites me about Testing: 2019 is that I get to test my critical and curatorial responses to the decisions of the chosen artists in a more immediate and dynamic way. Ultimately, the artists here are testing me, each other and themselves in the transactions they make.” 

- John Bunker

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Moil Edem | Bea Acevedo

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PV Friday 22 March 6-9pm

(then an ‘afterparty’ in a local pub) 

Sat 23 March 2-5pm

Sun 24 March 2-5pm

cont’d until Sat 30 March by appt only 07595 637 673 or albrichtkarolina@gmaail.com

Artists: Karolina Albricht @karolinaalbrichtAngela Brandys @angela_brandysNathan Cash Davidson #nathancashdavidsonSara Dare @sarawaldrondareGabriela Giroletti @gabrielagirollettiFreya Guest @freyaguestVincent Hawkins @vincent_hawkins_Matt Lippiatt @matt_lippiattBryan Reedy @bryanreedy

Curated by Karolina Albricht and Matt Lippiatt

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ZINOMORPH Issue 4 (Performance // Installation) returns with Issue 4 Sat 19th Jan 2018 Part 1 Unit 3 ASC Studios  E3 3LT 18:30 - 21:00>Miss HerNia (Lolly Adams) >Scrabulous Anomaly in the Re-Write Department (Alexis Milne) >The Emperors New Instagram (Richart Shields) Part 2 Beehive Pub E3 3LT (Down the road from Unit 3)21:00 - 23:30DIAMAT The HEAVY BREATH Co. The living, breathing, mutant zine—ZINOMORPH—a sprawling exoplasmatic mass of DIY detritus and print-publishing compounds emitting bioluminescent inks and infectious clouds of phosphorus spores. Since it's last excursion to Chaos Magic in Nottingham, the ZINOMORPH has been regenerating in a cocoon-like state, and now returns from the spawning pool fully rejuvenated with a night like no other. ( See link below for documentation) https://www.chaosmagic.space/zinomorph For immersive biomorphic performances, join SCRABULOUS ANOMALY IN THE REWRITE DEPARTMENT, taste the discharge sandwich of MISS HERNIA and scroll THE EMPERORS NEW INSTAGRAM ad infinitum at Unit 3 from 18:00, before oozing on over to the Beehive where DIAMAT and the HEAVY BREATH CO will hum swe҉èt l̨o̕v͝íǹ'҉ ̢me̸l̢od̛iȩs deep into the night from 21:00. Links to Artists and Bands >> Miss HerNia (Lolly Adams) https://www.instagram.com/misshernia/?hl=en >> Scrabulous Anomaly in the Re-Write Department (Alexis Milne) http://alexismilne.com >>The Emperors New Instagram (Richart Shields) http://richardshieldsartworks.org/ >>The HEAVY BREATH Co. https://heavybreathco.bandcamp.com/ >>DIAMAT https://www.facebook.com/DiamatBandUK/ https://diamat.bandcamp.com/ Browse through previous issues of Zinomorph here... https://zinomorph.tumblr.com/

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Slam-Dunk New collages by John Bunker

Slam-Dunk. John Bunker New Collages.

"Collage allows me to constantly test the limits of what an abstract painting can be. I hope to find something like a new hybrid visual grammar in these clashes of matter and forms. By using the most basic materials to hand, gleaned from my city streets, I'm destroying and rebuilding paintings as I go. I enjoy forcing the history of abstraction into new and dynamic relationships with life lived." John Bunker 2015.  Many objects and painterly techniques coexist in Bunker's uncanny collagic realm. Slam-Dunk overtly combines print media, defunct advertising remnants and other detritus found in urban hinterlands with more traditional mediums to produce exquisite yet disquieting wall based assemblages. They are built up of internal relations of incongruous shaped parts to create a new whole without use of a stretcher or traditional support or surface. Working with extreme changes in scale and materials, Bunker's free reining abstractions channel both a brutal materiality and elegant formal relations creating illusive yet potent images.  Bunker was born in Norwich UK in 1968 and studied 'Art and Social Context' at Dartington College of Arts in Devon where he graduated in 1991. He moved to live and work in London in 1997. Since then he has developed a complex body of work focusing on the protean and contrary nature of collage and its divergent histories.  Bunker is a fiercely independent artist, curator and writer co-founding the art writing site instantloveland.com with Matt Dennis in 2018. Bunker’s collages have entered private collections alongside work by artists including Gillian Ayres, Georges Braque, Alan Davie, Robyn Denny, John McLean & John Hoyland. 

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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

PV Friday 7th Sep 6-9pm 

Sat 8th 2-5pm

Sun 9th 2-5pm

Unit 3 Projects, ASC Studios, Empson St, E3 3LT

 Beatriz Acevedo

Cecilia Charlton

Florence Mytum

Jo Hummel-Newell

Karolina Albricht

Sara Dare

Pop up show of 6 female artists investigating the idea of fun and having fun with the idea of fun. Playing with it, challenging it, experiencing it, re-inventing it and creating it. Each artist interprets fun in their own medium, on their own terms, coming from their individual experience and sensibility. The exhibition’s title is borrowed from Cindy Lauper hit from 1983. She changed the lyrics of Robert Hazard’s 1979 song and made it into a feminist anthem, a symbol of female solidarity. While carrying an important message of equality, this song is also an apotheosis of fun seen from all angles: artist’s, woman’s and human’s. The show’s aim is to recreate this broad perspective of fun.

 I come home in the morning light

My mother says when you gonna live your life right

Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones

And girls they wanna have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night

My father yells what you gonna do with your life

Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one

But girls they wanna have fun

Oh girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Oh girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just wanna have fun (girls and boys wanna have fun, girls wanna have)

Some boys take a beautiful girl

And hide her away from the rest of the world

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

Oh girls they wanna have fun

Oh girls just wanna have

That's all they really want

Some fun…

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Maximum Memory Minimal Means

New work by Jillian Knipe at Unit 3 Projects, ASC Studios

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Antenna is Broken Corner Swollen

Work by: Beñat Olaberria, Nick Paton, and Tracy Whitehead

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Testing 1>2 2018 

Saturday 5th May 2-6pm at Unit 3 London, E3 3LT.

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Transparency | Juggernauts group exhibition 

8 - 10 Dec 2017