Tyra Tingleff Tyra Tingleff’s paintings twist and squeeze the abstract language of the medium. Her works alight, but never settle, upon a range of reference points, her surfaces and semi-tangible forms remaining ever restless locked in an infinite loop. Nebulous forms appear from nowhere, breaking through areas of raw untouched canvas. Remnants of the alchemic interplay between oil, turps, pigment are immaculately preserved leaving hallucinatory aerial landscapes, lines weaving through these surfaces as if attempting to give some definition to the formless. Built up through these varying layers of application, a cross section of traditions are acknowledged within the canvas yet ultimately refuted as she strives for an absence of language within the work.
Tyra Tingleff (B. 1984 Norway) Lives and works in Oslo and Berlin. She graduated from Royal College of Art, MA London in 2013 and The National Academy of the Arts Bergen in 2008. Selected solo exhibitions include
Will always be the opposite, The Sunday Painter, London, 2018;
Tyra Tingleff & Rosa Iliou, Chert, Berlin, 2016;
Grinding your teeth to keep out the wind, The Sunday Painter, London, 2016;
Closer Scrub, SALTS, Basel, 2015. Selected group shows include
Et Kollektivt Kaosmos, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, 2020;
Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2019;
To Make the Stone Stony, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, 2019;
Juni-utstillingen, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2018;
Fickle Food Upon A Shifting Plate, Studio Leigh, London, 2017;
In space no one can hear you laugh, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Rome, 2016;
Anderland, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, 2015. Upcoming solo exhibitions at The Sunday Painter, London (2021) and Kunstnerfubundet, Oslo (2022).
Kate Newby
Generally of a modest, intimate scale, Newby’s work has been known to occupy entire spaces through architectural interventions. In doing so her delicate works advocate a heightened perceptual awareness and encourages consideration to the relationship between people and the environment where sculpture takes place. Deliberately situating her practice in the historical framework of Land Art, Newby takes an urban, domestic, feminist perspective on it. She offers an incisive rebuttal of this male-dominated artistic field with her preoccupation to create and underline a much more fluid, fleeting relationship with sites and materials.
Kate Newby (B. 1979 New Zealand) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2012 she was awarded the renowned Walter’s Prize. Newby graduated with a Doctor of Fine Arts (2015) from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. Selected solo exhibitions include Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2019, A puzzling light and moving. (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR (2019), Bring Everyone, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney (2019), Nothing in my life feels big enough, Cooper Cole, Toronto (2019); Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, (2018), A puzzling light and moving. (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR, (2018), All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London (2018), I can’t nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018) Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, Michael Lett, Auckland (2018); Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, Artpace, San Antonio (2017); Two aspirins a vitamin C tablet and some baking soda, Laurel Doody, Los Angeles (2015); I feel like a truck on a wet highway, Lulu, Mexico City (2014). Selected group exhibitions include 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); Scrap Metal, Toronto (2017); Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2017); Sculpture Center, New York (2017); Casa del Lago, Mexico City (2015); Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (2015); and Arnolfini, Bristol (2014).