Introducing Contemporary Collective x Bankside Hotel's Spring Artist Residency ft. Kelly Jenkins
Artists in Residence: 9th April - 14th May 2022 Bankside Hotel, Makers Studio, London SE1 9JU
About Kelly's practice:
Kelly Jenkins is a contemporary painter and textile artist based in Hampshire. Starting from an interest in contemporary visual media, such as the internet. Her meticulously embroidered paintings reflect graphically the complex world we now live in. Her current series explores stitched data visualisations, where she reveals to us another way of understanding our reality and takes a critical view on human experience and existence. Combining paint and thread on canvas to create abstract embroidery paintings that are both atmospheric and evocative, Jenkins’ playful and organic ‘scapes’, are stitched into with highly detailed and dynamic embroidery compositions. Her process and aesthetic are marked by constant change and contradiction; Through the spontaneity and impulse in painting to the precision and texture of her embroidery, Kelly finds harmony in coalescing opposites, achieving dissonance and flow, unifying colours, shapes and textures through the relationship of paint and stitch on canvas. By juxtaposing the familiar sensibilities of the atmospheric Impressionist landscape and abstract expressionism with the aesthetics of the information age, creating abstracted landscapes of places within the cosmos of the internet, Jenkins references high modernism in the context of high tech; using data to visualise the online collective and personal experiences, memories and emotions of individuals and society.
View the full collection of Kelly's artwork
Residency events:
21st April, 18:00 - 20:00: Embroidery Technique Workshop
23rd April, 12:30 - 14:30: Plein Air Sketching & Painting Workshop
12th May, 6:00 - 8:00 pm: End of Residency Drinks & Exhibition
Residency Partners:
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact Jenna Sachs: Jenna@artellite.co.uk / 020 3701 7412 / www.DegreeArt.com
