THE FPS OPEN EXHIBITION 2015

THE FPS OPEN EXHIBITION 2015 

Featuring the Roy Rasmussen Awards

Private View 1^st December 6-9pm
Exhibition runs from 30^th November – 12^th December

The Menier Gallery | 51 Southwark Street | London SE1 1RU | United Kingdom  www.meniergallery.co.uk

ABOUT THE 2015 FPS OPEN 

The FPS Open is an annual event that brings over 40 FPS members and guest artists together to create an exciting and inclusive exhibition of the UK's best new and established artists.  The event is open to all fine artists and there is no restriction of concept, style or medium.

This year will again feature the coveted Roy Rasmussen Award for best in show and will be in association with Wines Hungary and the Albert Kennedy Trust.

www.freepaintersandsculptors.co.uk 

ABOUT THE FREE PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS

FPS is an artist lead organisation based at the Menier Gallery that supports and promotes artists to develop their work on their own terms. The group builds long-term relationships with artists and promotes the dialogue and exchange of ideas within the visual arts through annual exhibitions and events.

Established in 1952, FPS was originally associated with the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts). Founding members featured many high profile and influential artists, including Roy Rasmussen,  Lyall Watson and Maurice Jadot who feature in the permanent Tate Collection.

FPS played a significant part in the establishment of abstract art in the 1950's and 60's and was the first of a number of post war movements that freed artists from the orthodoxy of rigid and purely technical judgements.  This ethos continues today and we welcome applications from talented artists at all stages of their career.

CONTACT

Lead Curator and Exhibitions Manager
Gabriel Parfitt
info@freepaintersandsculptors.co.uk
www.freepaintersandsculptors.co.uk

Deja vu ‘Brent Artists Resource exhibition 7/11-16/12/2016

Deja vu ‘Brent Artists Resource exhibition 7/11-16/12/2016

INVITE: Déjà Vu Exhibition Private View

A BAR Members Exhibition 2015 7/11-16/12/2016

brentartistsresource.org.uk

‘Brent Artists Resource: Supporting artists since 1984’

Please Join us for the Private View of Déjà Vu. A multi-media exhibition celebrating BAR’s diverse artistic community and its exceptional 30 year history in Brent.

Brent Artists Resource (BAR) is an independent arts organisation that has been supporting local artists, by delivering high quality projects and exhibitions since 1984. BAR has a long history with Brent Council, most significantly by collaboratively running The Gallery in the old Willesden Green Library Centre for over 12 years. The Gallery was nominated one of the top community galleries in London by the BBC in 2011. Déjà Vu exhibition sees the return of BAR and its artistic community to the new library gallery for one very special show.
The exhibition features 32 BAR artists and shows a variety of art media including photography, painting, print and sculptural work.
Taking place at the Private View will be a live session of our Community First funded project We are Willesden. Working with a local photographer, visitors will have the opportunity to have their portrait professionally taken and share their thoughts and stories about Willesden.

FOUR CONCEALED PROCESSIONS.

FOUR CONCEALED PROCESSIONS. 

ARTWORKS by P.Murry at the Queens Park Cafe, Queens Park Pavilion, Harvist Road

London NW6 6SG October 5th to November 2nd 2015.The Queen’s Park café opens at 9am and closes one hour before the park closes every day (except Christmas Day). Call 020 8969 9569 for more information.

It is difficult to tell who is participating in a CONCEALED PROCESSION because it is concealed. Artistic endeavours may enable us to discern something about the nature of some CONCEALED PROCESSIONS

1.     A CONCEALED PROCESSION OF SELF-INFLATED FISH

2.     A CONCEALED PROCESSION OF BROCCOLI

3.     A CONCEALED PROCESSION OF OSTEOPATHS

4.     A CONCEALED PROCESSION OF COELACANTHS

Peter Murry is a relatively untrained painter, sculptor and printmaker who has exhibited with Free Painters & Sculptrs and Brent Artist's Resource., some of his writings are published in an anthology entitled "Son of The Glowing Nightsoil of the Concealed Emu" which is obtainable from him at yrrumuk@googlemail.com. His site for artwork and writings is http://quadraoptica.blogspot.co.uk/, he also works on a video blog for Dodo Modern Poets at  http://dodovidpoets.blogspot.co.uk/. In his spare time he is Secretary of the Green Party Trade Union group and Green Left.

Peter mistakenly thought that he was going to have a lot of spare time when he retired from his work as a Lecturer at the College of North West London In 2005. He has always had several intertwined strands to his life and activities. Visual art, specifically drawing and painting has been something that he has done all his life, recently he has experimented with printmaking in various forms, and sculpture using wood, metal and found materials. Possibly his visual art is “modern primitive” influenced by historical and contemporary art from non-industrial cultures, but an exception to this pseudo-nostalgia is his sculptural depiction of cephalopods and fish. Also Darwinism and the interplay of genetics, environment and randomness in shaping the forms and patterns of life, shape and form his various artworks. Shape shifting and menswear are involved as well

I almost kicked the bucket in a well-known high st mini supermarket

I almost kicked the bucket

in a well-known high st mini supermarket

On an unpleasant  rainy evening

I thought that I really was

about to pop my clogs

There was a poster of a woman with

 a well groomed golden Labrador there

She and the dog smiled because

they were allegedly content with

some product or other

She and the dog smiled as

my heart seemed to be surging

up into my mouth

She and the dog smiled as

 produce swam about before my eyes

I gripped the edge of a shelf

Like a limpet in an atlantic gale

I thought this cannot be

I am too important to my self

It is not the appropriate place

For the end of me
           This was not a good day to die

So I fought back against nausea and panic

“err I don’t feel well”,

I croaked to the manager

He brought me a plastic chair

And I sat on it sweating, and panting,

and gasping the air conditioned air

Staring at a tsunami of shoppers

Surging off fetid tubes and buses

Eager to buy dried pasta, tinned toms,

cheap booze and whatever

Stuff was described as food on the packaging

I watched this sharp elbowed scramble

As my heart slowed down

This was not a good day to die

even if poets are traditionally supposed

to suffer from consumption

Because I am a towel.

I don’t howl, or hoot like an owl.

Although you could wear me like a cowl.

Because I am a towel.

I use my textile texture

To absorb and soak up moisture.

I have a floppy posture, not rigid like a nail,

And I hang around on rails,

Sometimes.

I follow body contours,

But I have no dentures

And while carnivorous birds and beasts

Search the night for living feasts,

The bathroom is the place for me

I reside there with toiletries

We live there cheek by jowl,

Because I am a towel.

"The Bride of Chalkhill" (after Julio González)

"The Bride of Chalkhill" (after Julio González)

A nartwork by p.r.murry

 will be displayed at  

 Figure & Portrait Exhibition at BAR Gallery

12 – 25 September
Private View: 11th September 6pm-9pm

Brent Artists Resource · BAR Gallery · Unit 4-5, Queens Parade, Willesden Lane · London, London NW2 5HT · 

DODO MODERN POETS SEPTEMBER SONGS

DODO MODERN POETS

 SEPTEMBER SONGS      

Join us  on Friday 18 September for the opening show of our autumn season at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. Expect stellar performance poetry from new and established voices.  

 LISA KELLY    

 Passion and punch from a much-published performer    

  PR MURRY        

 Wit & wisdom from anarchic artist/poet   

EMILY BEVAN      

 Finely-crafted verse  from superb Dodo debut        

 EMMANUEL SUGOI  

  Welcome debut from another rising poetry star                

Friday 18th September 2015  8pm

The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX

£ 8 &7 concessions

Info: 01303 243868; patric.poet@zen.co.uk

Covent Garden/Leicester Square tube.

P murry 3 photos in In Focus Photographic Exhibition

P murry 3 photos in  In Focus Photographic Exhibition

Private View: Friday 14th August

Exhibition Dates: 15th August – 28th August

We are excited to announce the first photography only exhibition to be held at our gallery on Queens parade! Taking place throughout August, the exhibition is open to a broad range of photographic styles, providing a platform for local and national artists to exhibit.

BAR gallery warmly invites you to join us at our private view for the exhibition on Friday 14th August where there will be drink and nibbles available while you are surrounded by art.

Brent Artists Resource · BAR Gallery · Unit 4-5, Queens Parade, Willesden Lane · London, London NW2 5HT · United Kingdom 

DODO MODERN POETS

 SEPTEMBER SONGS      

Join us  on Friday 18 September for the opening show of our autumn season at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. Expect stellar performance poetry from new and established voices.  

LISA KELLY    

 Passion and punch from a much-published performer   

PR MURRY        

 Wit & wisdom from anarchic artist/poet   

EMILY BEVAN      

 Finely-crafted verse  from superb Dodo debut       

EMMANUEL SUGOI  

  Welcome debut from another rising poetry star                

Friday 18th September 2015  8pm

The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX

£ 8 &7 concessions

Info: 01303 243868; patric.poet@zen.co.uk

Covent Garden/Leicester Square tube.

https://dodomodernpoets. wordpress.com

dodo modern poets letting fly with words

MAN RUNS FOR TRAIN

I make no claim to powers of prophecy, I wasn't the only one to see it, but I wrote this in about 2001, how tragic and shameful that nothing has changed.except for the added risk of drowning in the 'English' Channel.

MAN RUNS FOR TRAIN

There's someone running for a train.
As the train moves off down the track,
Someone doesn't stop,
Because he's come so far,
He's gotta catch the train,
There's no turning back.

And inside, the passengers sit back,
As the train gathers speed, rolling right on track,
Now they know they're safe on the train,
It should be in on time.
In comfortable seats they start to relax.

Someone makes a jump,
A desperate dive,
He might not get inside,
But, at least he'll get on board,
If he can hang on,
As it rolls down the track.

If he can find a handle.
Or something to grip,
With hands or feet or arms,
And fight off the cramp,
Then the train will take him too,
Then the train will take him far,
Then the train will make him safe,
Then the train will make him rich,
Or stop him being poor.

If he doesn't fall away,
As the train rolls away,
So that he rolls away as he falls onto the track.
And if he doesn't die right there,
As the passengers relax.
If he falls off the train,
And he doesn't break his back,
He'll get back up again,
Run for another train

Unless he changes the plan,
And adopts a different strategy,
In regard to the logistics
Of being a refugee.

He could float on a tyre
Or stowaway on a ship,
He could slip past a perimeter,
And get into the airport,
Or pretend to be cargo,
In the back of a van.

He could even buy permits, if he could find some money,
And sit back in the train,
As it rolls down the track,
Whilst someone else does the running,
Because they'll always be someone,
Running for the train,
Towards a dream before them,
With a nightmare at their back.

SASQUASHTRAY NUMBERS 1, 9 AND 10

SASQUASHTRAY NUMBERS 1, 9 AND 10
artwork by p.murry in
FREE PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2015

22 - 27 June 2015

pv 23rd June 6-9pm

Menier Gallery
51 Southwark Street
London SE1 1RU

T: 0207 407 3222
F: 0207 403 7721
E: mail@meniergallery.co.uk
Opening Hours During Exhibitions
Monday - Thursday 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
Friday 11.00 am - 8.00 pm
Saturday 11.00 am - 6.00 pm*

Steve Lobb and Carol Kenna at Greenwich Open studios

PRESTER JOHN'S COLLECTION OF NOMADIC SNAILS

PRESTER JOHN'S COLLECTION OF NOMADIC SNAILS

an artwork by pr murry in

Pure Painting: at BAR gallery

An exhibition dedicated to contemporary painting. Pure Painting is open to all forms of painting styles, techniques and mediums, examining the varied approaches used and its place within contemporary art practice.

Hoodies

The sight of an obese older man

With a hoodie on

Can cause raised eyebrows at least

Or even derision

Fashion fascists would pigeonhole the old

Carpet slippers and cardies are prescribed

We’d be getting them on the NHS

If it wasn’t being privatised.

Hoodies are for disaffected youths

Who shake crash barriers and shout slogans

Or for historical re-enactors

Who want to live in the middle ages

But medieval squalor could be all our fate

When they take apart the welfare state

So with hoodies on, we’ll barrage the police

With walking sticks, zimmer frames and false teeth.

the five year blues

It’s the day after the election

And I’m trying not to cry,

But above me, the housemartins

Are slicing patterns

In a cloudless sky

It’s the day after the election

The weather’s cleared after rain,

Now Swifts have returned

And scream on the wing

Like I want to scream in pain

I wonder if they’d have come back

If they’d known before they flew

That they were migrants to an island

That has got the five year blues

STEVE LOBB new solo exhibition of paintings and constructions at the Pie Factory Margate.

Hello Everyone

I am delighted to invite you to my new solo exhibition of paintings and constructions at the Pie Factory  Margate.
It is in the Old Town quite close to the Turner Gallery and even closer to the "Lifeboat" pub and "Greedy Cow" cafe,and runs to the 19th from 10 till six each day.

The private view is on Saturday the 9th May 6- 9 pm. I hope you can make it

For a preview of a few of the works go to www.stephenlobb.co.uk
The gallery website is www.piefactorymargate.co.uk
Steve

THE KRAKEN RE-AWAKES

THE KRAKEN RE-AWAKES

THE BIG SQUID

AND

THE FETISHISTIC WICKET OF DOREEN PIBLOKTO

AND

THE SCRAWLING OF GYRONWY

ARTWORKS BY P,MURRY IN

London can be a frantic, hectic town;

London can be a frantic, hectic town;

With people rushing left and right

Hurrying up, scurrying down

Endlessly, relentlessly, seemingly unceasingly.

But please remember, wherever you go,

That we can’t all keep pace

With the human torrent’s flow,

Some have prams, young children,

Bulky luggage, heavy shopping

And some may not know

Where to go

Some have wheelchairs or crutches

And some may just be slow.

You may have to keep a schedule,

You may have to make a date,

To get back home safe again

Or to go out with your mates,

But please some respect, some politeness and some love,

If you’re in a hurry, please don’t push, barge or shove.

And there’s one further point

That I’d bring to the table

Please vacate disabled seats

If you’re not disabled.

The scrawling of Gyronwy monoprint and The senior woodlouse cult emblem Hand coloured print

The scrawling of Gyronwy

(monoprint)

and

The senior woodlouse cult emblem

(Hand coloured print)

artworks by p.murry 

are in the  FPS UNFIXED Show @ Espacio 

druids and trots

The Green Party is a Looney Tunes alliance of druids and trots (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/green-party/11453910/The-Green-Party-is-a-Looney-Tunes-alliance-of-druids-and-trots.html)

out from dark and ancient forests,

and from the depths of inner cities

and even from the leafy suburbs

the druids and trots are coming

you thought that history had buried us

or that you’d bribed us to make us obey

but our ideas are still living

we have not gone away

the druids and trots are coming

send your drones out killing

send your spooks to spy

but we're no longer listening

to the hacks you pay to lie

the druids and trots are coming

strengthen your defences

reinforce your gates

hire guards for your buildings

hire soldiers for your state

the druids and trots are coming

one person passes a message

and ten more the pass it to more

the cause is gaining momentum

like an avalanche on a slope

the druids and trots are coming

the Levellers want their playing fields back

and the chartists want their demands

we’ve come to get our land back

from the clutch of your greedy hands

the druids and trots are coming

you’re plundering our planet

polluting the skies and seas

but we will not let you continue

to rape our world for your greed

the druids and trots are coming

so this is the whirlwind you’re reaping

grown from the seeds that you’ve shown

when you looted the common treasury

and kept the wealth for your own

the druids and trots are coming