We opened our studio doors for the group exhibition Crystallising Worlds, as part of Cockpit Bloomsbury Summer Open Studios
14 – 16 June 2024
ActionSpace studio, Cockpit Bloomsbury, Cockpit Yard, Northington Street, WC1N 2NP
Crystallising Worlds was the new group exhibition showcasing artworks by ActionSpace artists Sharon Adokorach, Evan Bond, Ali Kamalati, Thomas Owen and Amita Ramchandani for the Cockpit Bloomsbury Summer Open Studios. Curated by Isabel Jones and Nicola McEvoy, the exhibition featured work made in the ActionSpace Cockpit Bloomsbury studio. Drawing upon themes of dystopian futures, technicolour abstract fields and pattern, Crystallising Worlds examined the individual practices of the exhibiting artists.
Responding to current social and political happenings, Evan Bond’s drawings imagine dystopian futures. Transformed into experimental animations, Evan narrates wonderous science fiction that are interwoven with the absurdity of day-to-day humdrum. Thomas Owen constructs complex and layered worlds of patterns, figures and jumpers that call attention to often overlooked details. Amita Ramchandani paints with large gestural movements. Implementing recurring motifs, she builds a register of original marks that identify her painting practice. Ali Kamalati’s paintings and drawings express technicolour abstract fields of colour. Faces and figures peek out of these painterly planes, where mixed media material and figuration cross over. Sharon Adokorach creates a catalogue of forms in her paintings. Glyph-like shapes emerge from each work as we are drawn into the patterned constellations Sharon constructs.
Artworks by the selected artists were for sale, along with a collection of works by other ActionSpace artists, our range of limited edition giclee prints and Thompson Hall’s new monograph Colour Is My Signature. All sales support ActionSpace’s work.
Crystallising Worlds Artist Zine
Designed by Isabel Jones and Nicola McEvoy and produced for the exhibition Crystallising Worlds at Cockpit Bloomsbury, this artist’s zine profiles the work of three ActionSpace artists, Evan Bond, Ali Kamalati and Thomas Owen. Browse the full page colour spreads highlighting selected artworks from the exhibition, interspersed with comments on the artists’ practices.
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