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CCA International is at the center of cultural life in Jersey; bringing an opportunity to view and purchase work by leading International and local artists and offering educational opportunities for the community.
SUMMER EXHIBITION AWARDS
Both received a cash prize to further their artistic pursuit and a future show at the gallery.
The RURAL Country Life prizes, recognising artwork that draws inspiration from aspects of Jersey’s natural environment, went to:
1st prize: Louise Ramsay (@louiseramsaypaintings) for ‘Coast Land, St Mary’
2nd prize: Graham Tovey for ‘Teal Serenity’
3rd prize: Anne Frances Le Moine for ‘Vision’
The Gallery Magazine Graphic Arts Prize award went to Mick Humpage (@mickhumpageart) with his piece ‘Milan’.
We would like to say a big THANK YOU to our judging panel: @tomhammick1, @benjohnsonart, and @suetimney, with special thanks to Ben Johnson who represented the judges at the event.
We would also like to to thank our sponsors once again for their generous support: @rbc @bcrlawllp @hawkgroupjersey @ruraljersey @nationaltrustforjersey and @gallerymagazine.
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Back for its eighth edition, the Jersey Summer Exhibition continues to be the ultimate celebration of artistic inspiration and cultural vibrancy on the island. This exhibition has quickly become a highlight of the Jersey art scene, attracting both locals and visitors with its dynamic showcase of talent. The exhibition features a diverse array of works including ceramics, prints, photography, paintings, and sculptures, attracting collectors and art enthusiasts alike. Modelled after the renowned Royal Academy event in London, the Jersey Summer Exhibition stands out for its rigorous selection process. A panel of professional artists and critics carefully selects the exhibits, ensuring a dynamic and high-quality group selling exhibition. This opportunity not only provides artists with a prestigious platform but also helps to elevate their careers, whether they are emerging talents or professional artists.
This year’s selection panel boasts a remarkable line-up: Tom Hammick, painter and printmaker whose work is held in various public and private collections worldwide, including The British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, British Arts Council and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Ben Johnson, painter recognized for his practice based on architectural space and intricated cityscapes whose work is included in permanent collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Sue Timney, iconic designer best-known for her distinctive use of black and white graphic imagery and currently President of the British Institute of Interior Design.
The gallery would like to make special thanks to the exhibition sponsor and prize giver RBC, to exhibition sponsors Hawk and BCR Law and to the contributors Rural Magazine and their associated RURAL prize givers, National Trust for Jersey and Gallery Magazine for their contribution to the Jersey Summer Exhibition 2024, your support has made a difference, and we are deeply grateful for your generosity. Most importantly CCA Galleries International would like to extend our heartfelt thanks once again to all of the artists who submitted their work for this year’s edition.
The show runs through July 26th at CCA Galleries International, 10 Hill Street, St. Helier, with the gallery open to the public 12.00 - 6.00pm, Mon – Fri.
Tom Hammick's work probes the human condition in pulsating color, pushing the materiality of each medium into a contemplative narrative. There is an undeniable oscillation between the quietude of the subject matter-a lone figure on the beach, three figures tending a garden-and the artist's distinctly exuberant palette. We as viewers are left with an electrified stillness.
Tom Hammick is an artist living and working in London and East Sussex in the UK. He studied art history at the University of Manchester and later Fine Painting at Camberwell College of Art and NSCAD, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. He has an MA in Printmaking, also from Camberwell, and until recently taught at Fine Art Painting and Printmaking for many years at The University of Brighton. Hammick is the proud father of three mostly grown children as well as a lover of music, theater, film, opera and poetry, all of which informs his work in a profound and tangible way. His work is held in various public and private collections worldwide, including The British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT; Deutsche Bank; De Beers; ING Barings; Arthur Anderson; British Arts Council and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Ben Johnson was born in Llandudno, Wales. He studied at the Royal College of Art and lives and works in London.
Sue Timney has worked in Britain, Europe and Japan for over thirty years creating interior projects celebrating her own brand of exotic classicism under the TIMNEY FOWLER and SUE_TIMNEY banners. The work ranges from commercial and residential interior architecture to product design for interiors and fashion. She was made a Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2007, holds the Textile Institute’s Design Medal and nominated for the Prince Philip Designer's Prize by the Royal College of Art. From 2012 - 2014 Sue was President of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) and is she is currently a director of BIID. She was presented with the Merit Award from the Institute in 2022 for excellence in interior design practice; a contribution to the development of the Institute and a commitment to the wider field of design education.
The Jersey Summer Exhibition is the biggest open-call art exhibition in the Channel Islands, running June through to the end of July.
Each print has been hand signed by Sir Peter Blake CBE and will be sold to benefit Teenage Cancer Trust. A US version will be available to purchase at a later date to benefit Teen Cancer America. The print measures: 67cm x 68cm'Going Home UK ', has been printed at Coriander Studio London using 410gsm Somerset radiant white satin paper, with each image having 22 colours screen printed with a selected spot high gloss varnish.
On 15 March 2024, Mark Knopfler will release a new, special recording of his anthemic 'Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)', to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and its American equivalent Teen Cancer America.
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And, in a great honour, the track opens with Jeff Beck's final recording.
Roger Daltrey, Teenage Cancer Trust's Honorary Patron and co-founder of Teen Cancer America (with Pete Townshend), added harmonica, and Beatles icon Ringo Starr is on drums along with his son Zak Starkey, their two drum tracks switching from one to the other, revealing an unmistakable family style. Sting completes an extraordinary rhythm section on bass.
With artwork designed by Sir Peter Blake (The Beatles, The Who, Band Aid, Paul Weller etc), this release is a landmark in rock music history.
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Thank you to everyone who came down to the gallery last night for the opening of ‘Imaginary Real: Celebrating 100 years since the first Surrealist Manifesto’.
We were treated to a fantastic performance of ‘Skein’ by Karen Le Roy Harris, Miriam Sedacca & Alys Hughes, which was expertly presented by @karenleroyharris and @tori.orchard.
‘Skein’ is a performance work that explores the boundaries of subjectivity through both the individual and collective experience of the body and the dynamic and physical experiences of these relationships, questioning the idea of skin as a boundary which separates us from the world and from others.
Talking about the piece, one of its creators Karen Le Roy Harris explains: “Making always feels like a natural dialogue between my body and the material. I work with materials that move, that are supple and that have the ability to be physically transformed with my hands - we move together. This way of working reflects my interest in shifting boundaries and fluid forms that resist definition and that are often ‘between’ forms”.
‘Imaginary Real: Celebrating 100 years since the first Surrealist Manifesto’ is a group show featuring work by @karenleroyharris @chairmanwill @rachelara @laurahudsonstudio @lindsay_rutter @joewebbart @luciebennettrules @yulia_makeyeva #ClaudeCahun #MarcelMoore #Julietstjohnnicolle #sirpeterblake and #stormthorgerson.
The exhibition is now open until 17th May, Mon-Fri 12-6pm.
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Bayers®️Marbles, 1993
Some images resurrected from the 1990s currently on show at @ccagalleries_international. They were initially test prints for the larger and more widely shown Clone Series of works that you can see on my website.
Text by curator @laurahudsonstudio
In the 1990’s Rachel Ara was a photographer for the body-building community whilst working for the Terrence Higgins Trust during the height of the AIDS epidemic in London. Ara witnessed the deterioration of her gay friends and colleagues suffering from HIV whilst in a parallel universe she was acutely aware of the physical deterioration of healthy body-builders as a result of the excessive use of pharmaceuticals (steroids produced by Bayer) in an attempt to create an ideal body for competition. At the same time, steroids were widely used in gyms in the newly found culture of euphoric objectification of male beauty which was being devastated by the virus sweeping through the gay community.
In these works, Ara superimposed the oiled muscular male bodies onto figures from the Parthenon Sculptures (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles) the ancient Greek sculptures depicting the lithe bodies of gods and goddesses. Controversially held at the British Museum they exemplify questions about the ownership of cultural artefacts and the return of antiquities to their places of origin. The statuaries in marble might also be considered funereal objects for a stigmatised generation and culture lost to AIDS.#bodybuilding #aids #elginmarbles #gay
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Jersey-based artist @lindsay_rutter has two works in our ‘Imaginary Real’ exhibition, which sees local and renowned international artists delve into the subconscious and bring their imagery to the surface of reality.
Her work ‘Cease from Strife’, a large wall-based sculptural work created from plaster cast body parts mounted on wood panel, was made as a response to the crippling social awkwardness the artist experienced during breastfeeding as a new mother. Sensing the lack of privacy and other people’s insensitivity towards the natural, human act of feeding one’s child, Rutter recalls how the feeling of insecurity was made worse by the double standards that exist in society surrounding male and female nipples.
Found objects feature throughout Rutter’s work. ‘Golden Peg’, another wall-based sculptural piece, this time made from porcelain and 24 carat gold lustre, was created from a mould of an old peg found whilst the artist was on a date in New Brighton.
Rutter says “I love the idea of a very valuable golden everyday object. A found dirty old plastic peg is now a 24 carat gold peg”.
Come and see the works in the flesh at the gallery until 17th May! Open Mon-Fri 12-6pm.
*PLESE NOTE*: The gallery be closed on Monday and Thursday next week (6th & 9th May) due to the bank holidays, but we welcome you Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday to see our current show ‘Imaginary Real’ as it continues at the gallery.
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Another artist featured in our current ‘Imaginary Real’ exhibition is American artist Edy Ferguson, whose piece ‘Valentino Yellow’ combines a vintage photograph of the fashion designer Valentino Garavini with an image of a model wearing a yellow dress of his design.
Ferguson sourced the original image for ‘Valentino Yellow’ in the picture collection of the New York Public Library. With a great appreciation for Valentino’s contribution to fashion, and viewing his clothes as a work of art in themselves, Ferguson was instantly drawn to the 60s photograph of a young Valentino starting in the industry. The artist knew that this black and white, documentary-like photo would work well with the image of the yellow dress; “It’s only when you cut up an image that you start to see these interesting details- fragments of real life frozen in time”.
Ferguson creates silkscreen prints from an original collage, seeing print as a means of “accentuating the energy and the life of the collage” and making the overall image feel more fluid. With an interest in the photographic image and pure abstraction, the artist enjoys combining the different media to echo the juxtapositions of the everyday world; “I combine two different images to tell a third story”.
‘Valentino Yellow’, is a signed, limited edition silkscreen print, created at @corianderstudio and published by @ccagalleries in 2015.
Just a reminder that the gallery will be closed today and Thursday (6th & 9th May) due to the bank holidays, but we welcome you Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday to see our current show ‘Imaginary Real’ as it continues at the gallery.
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*EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT*. ’Art in the age of Artificial Intelligence’ with Will Lakeman: Thursday 16th May, 6-7pm.
Will Lakeman (@chairmanwill), a Jersey-based artist who predominantly works in photography, has four pieces currently showing in the ‘Imaginary Real’ exhibition. Please join us next week where he will be discussing his work with curator Laura Hudson during an evening event at the gallery.
Lakeman began experimenting with machine learning image synthesis - a means of using so-called Artificial Intelligence to create images - a few years ago. AI is now a controversial concept in art as a result of text-to-image synthesis apps, however Lakeman’s images were not made in that way, instead generated somewhat laboriously by training an older kind of AI model on sets of his own selected images.
Talking about his working process, Wakeman said: “I used thousands of very similar images which generated some basic outputs, which I’ve then worked on in Photoshop. The process is a reflection of my habits - I have autism and tend to produce many images of the same subjects.”
Wakeman is always looking for new techniques to manipulate his images, moving them further away from reality and closer to his unreliable and exaggerated memories. He said: “I want them to be strange, impossible, nonsense even. Recently I have tried to include elements of randomness and electronic degradation as a way to explore my reliance on a digital camera and Photoshop.”
If you would like to attend the event on Thursday 16th May, please book via our Eventbrite page. Link in bio.
‘Imaginary Real’ continues at the gallery this week and next. Please note we will be closed this Thursday (9th May) for the bank holiday.
Image 1: ‘A Fire Upon the Deep’, 2022.
Image 2 (from top): ‘A Fire Upon the Deep’, 2022, ‘Wave Interceptor’, 2022, ‘Bishop and Magma’, 2022. All by Will Lakeman. -
Local artist Yulia Makeyeva’s full time art practice began only a few years ago and coincided with the covid lockdowns.
Makeyeva (@yulia_makeyeva) recalls: “There was a lot of ‘stay-at-home’ time away from the studio, which made my home an experimental ground in response to getting used to a new house and coping with growing pandemic fears.”
“Through experiments with photography and sculpture, I preserved the memory of that time. I resisted futility, domesticity and gender roles, lack of privacy and access to art materials and studio space by finding strange and unfamiliar qualities and functions of household objects, traditional domestic activities and crafts.”
Makeyeva’s Philology and Art History background as well as her interest in history are firmly rooted in her art practice. Exploring memory, heritage and time, language, boundaries and borders, she draws inspiration from personal experiences and public and private archives.
Makeyeva has five pieces of work included in our current ‘Imaginary Real’ exhibition: ‘Exceptional Hearing’ and ‘Untitled I, II and III’ - all photographic prints - and a hand-knitted sculptural piece titled ‘Kiss The Ring’.
‘Imaginary Real’ runs until Friday 17th May.
(Please note we are closed tomorrow, Thurs 9th May for the bank holiday).
📷 1 and 2 by @yulia_makeyeva
📷 3, 4 and 5 by @nataliemayerphoto
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Today we’re focussing on the work of Laura Hudson (@laurahudsonstudio) curator of ‘Imaginary Real’ also with works in the show.
The two paintings ‘Eat Me’ and ‘Drink Me’ are, as the titles suggest, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s famous novel. His story generates a real dream’s characteristic mixture of vagueness and vividness, where nothing remains the same for long and even words start to blur into each other.
Reflecting on Caroll’s story, Hudson writes: “Alice’s sudden physical changes comically reflect on an inevitable fact of life, real children grow up. In the world of grown-ups water and cake contain toxic substances such as Flouride or Sugar. These uncharacteristically simple canvases put the focus on the object of desire, the food and the drink. Drink Me is paired back, a crooked bottle with grey contents, the idea of water being pure and good to drink has been upended in recent times by the failures of commercial enterprises dumping toxic waste into our water courses and by now the overwhelming evidence points to the damage sugar can have on the human body.”
The large-scale painting ‘Nail Houses in the Red Studio after Matisse: from The Studio Building, West London, overlooking Grenfell Tower’ was painted during a month-long residency in the artist studios of Windsor & Newton laboratory which looks out onto the burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower, covered in plastic sheeting as if to hide the shame of societal neglect.
Hudson said: “While the painting is a direct homage to Matisse’s Red Studio I chose to have the outside world encroach on the sanctity of the artist’s interior world - this ivory tower in this case turned red as the eyes adjusted from outdoors surrounded by green to an interior white space where the brain registers red as it inverses the green. The political dimensions outside the window are brought into the room and cannot be ignored.”
‘Imaginary Real’ continues at the gallery until 17th May. Please note we are closed today for the bank holiday but will be open tomorrow.
Gallery photos by @nataliemayerphoto
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*EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT*
Our next Life Drawing event with Michelle Le Cornu will take place on Sat 18th May.
Join us at the gallery for an exciting and interactive life drawing session, 11am-1pm.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, this dynamic session will provide a unique opportunity to enhance your drawing skills. The workshop has been devised to make use of our spectacular light-filled space over three levels.
Participants will rotate from easel to portable boards, moving between poses and models to find interesting views from above and below. If you are interested in pushing your life drawing skills this will be a perfect session with plenty of scope to draw bodies in motion and from aerial vantage points above the models.
Book your place via our Eventbrite page, link in bio.
Places are limited so reserve yours now and get ready to unleash your creativity!
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Jersey was home to two of the most prominent female artists of the Surrealist Movement. Both born in France Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were stepsisters, brought together by marriage at the ages of 15 and 17. They later fell in love and became creative partners for the rest of their lives.
Associated and exhibiting with the Surrealists during the 1920s and 30s, Cahun and Moore relocated to Jersey in 1937 before both the start of WWII and the occupation of Jersey in 1940.
Their remarkable story is that they fought the occupation on Surrealist terms by creating a fictional conspiracy of rebellion within the German army by producing ‘paper bullets’; handwritten or typed notes that were slipped into soldiers’ pockets and onto car windshields calling for insurrection. As middle-aged women they functioned undetected until they were arrested and even then magistrates could not believe that these two Jewish lesbains were capable of masterminding the devastating impact the ‘paper bullets’ had on military morale.
Cohan and Moore have three works in ‘Imaginary Real’, which runs until Friday 17th May.
Image 1: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore hanging at ‘Imaginary Real’. Photo by @nataliemayerphoto
Image 2: Claude Cahun ‘Self-Portrait, Kneeling, Naked with a Mask’ (Courtesy of Jersey Heritage), Monochrome print
Image 3: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore ‘Je Tends les Bras (I stretch these arms)’, Monochrome print
Image 4: Claude Cahun ‘Self-Portrait (with Nazi badge between her teeth)’, Monochrome print
Images Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections.
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British graphic designer and artist Storm Thorgerson has created some of the most iconic album cover artwork ever made, including the globally recognised Pink Floyd album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’.
Over the years, Thorgerson has designed the album artwork of major bands such as The Alan Parsons Project, Biffy Clyro, Black Sabbath, The Cranberries, Genesis, Muse, The Offspring, Phish and 10CC, as well as those of rock artists such as Ian Drury, Led Zeppelin, and the Mars Volta.
Heavily influenced by the paintings of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte, as well as Man Ray, Picasso, Kandinsky, Juan Gris, and Ansel Adams, Thorgerson himself came to be recognised as a key figure in the modern Surrealism movement. His technically-demanding set ups anticipated computer design software such as Photoshop; the artist instead used photography, paint and sculpture to place objects out of their traditional context, and set them in vast spaces to give them a playfully disjointed but thought-provoking new appearance and meaning.
CCA Galleries has worked with Thorgerson publishing his signed limited editions for a number of years right up until his death in 2013. We have six works by the artist in ‘Imaginary Real’: Division Bell: Stone Heads’, ‘Bury The Hatchet’, ‘Opposites (Biffy Tree)’, ‘Mr Lovepants’, ‘Outback Catalogue’ and ’Scrutiny’.
Gallery photos by @nataliemayerphoto.
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Rachel Ara (@rachelara) is a conceptual and data artist with a background in computer programming and carpentry whose practice spans photography, digital arts, film, sculpture, and agitprop as she explores the relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power.
Ara has three works in the current ‘Imaginary Real’ exhibition. ‘Cocksure’ is a c-type print o aluminium that sees the artist use her background in programming and knowledge of neon-making to construct an image in CAD. Modelled down to the minutiae of screws, rests, cables and neon tubes and completely created on a computer, ‘Cocksure’ is an untruth that appears to exist in the real world.
The phrase stated in neon - “Bullshit said with Confidence Becomes the Truth” - paired with the image of a sculpture by the artist Carl Andre sitting in the shadows in the foreground is perhaps a reference to the fact that Andre enjoyed lifelong support from the global art establishment throughout his career, despite likely pushing his wife and fellow artist Ana Mendieta - whose career was just taking off - from their 34th-floor NY apartment window to her death in 1985.
The two black and white photographs ‘Bayers Marbles No.1’ and ‘Bayers Marbles No.9’ were taken by Ara during the 1990s when she was a photographer for the body-building community whilst working for the Terrence Higgins Trust during the height of the AIDS epidemic in London.
While witnessing the deterioration of her gay friends and colleagues suffering from HIV, she was also acutely aware of the physical deterioration of healthy body-builders as a result of the excessive use of pharmaceuticals (steroids produced by Bayer) in an attempt to create an ideal body for competition. In these works, Ara superimposed the oiled muscular male bodies onto figures from the Parthenon Sculptures (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles) the ancient Greek sculptures depicting the lithe bodies of gods and goddesses.
‘Imaginary Real’ runs this week at the gallery until Friday. Open daily 12-6pm.
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