Heaven Is A Place,
A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens

Harry Scoging Beer, Lucy Joyce, Elizabeth Graham, Grace Schofield and Lewis Mcguffie

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing ever happens
- Heaven, David Byrne.

Bertolt Brecht longed for utopia, describing this longing as a sensation that ‘something is missing’. As in Thomas More’s Utopia there is an undefined distance between our world and this fictional haven: a gap, an area of nothingness.

Harry Scoging Beer, Lucy Joyce, Elizabeth Graham, Grace Schofield and Lewis Mcguffie are five recent fine art graduates from Chelsea College of Art and Design and in this exhibition they present new works created since their graduation in June 2009. Whilst differing in medium and stylistic approach, their art works complement each other, centered on abstract notions of repetition, infinity, observation, fractals and interminability.

In a series of distinctive approaches to the subject of 'Repetition' and 'Nothingness' these artists re-interpret, edit, and reference fictional and virtual spaces, and combine this with a meditation on the ‘everyday’ and the overlooked.

As graduates of Chelsea College of Art and Design these artists have a strong sense that they must ground their artworks through research and informed critical debate and, to this end, Peter Simpson, a fellow Chelsea fine art graduate, has written an essay on the works in this exhibition and their satellite influences and concerns.

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