EXHIBITION TEXT

 ANNA CARLSON & RICHARD GRAVILLE

5 - 18 October 2019

NOHAWKERS is an unstructured art-space curated by Phillip Hawker. It is situated in a typical one-bedroom flat in Waterloo Street, Hove. The everyday domesticity of the space enables a more intimate focus on the art, reducing the traditional distance between the viewer and the work. 

The two artists chosen for the initial show share a focus upon subjects, which might be seen to be ‘hiding in plain sight’. 

For Anna Carlson, her work explores the layout of the sports court (tennis, basketball etc) twisting and morphing the rigid authority of the lines with mischievous and unrecognized game lines, playing a game herself.

Richard Graville’s paintings reposition the human real-world imagery of the warning/hazard symbols and markings which surround our workaday lives, rechanneling the codifications and perspectives employed within the animal kingdom to reveal, conceal or outwit the vision of the observer.