Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Join us for the opening of Gutter Habit, a two person exhibition of work by painters Emma Roche & Alexis Harding.
The exhibition is open to view from 3pm, the informal gallery talk taking place from 3.20pm, where the artists will be in conversation with The White Pube’s Gabrielle de la Puente.
This talk will be (ISL )Irish Sign Language Interpreted.
Tea, Coffee & Prosecco will be served.
This is a standing event with seating offered to those with any additional needs.
About
Emma Roche is a painter (Born 1983, Dublin, Ireland). Her paintings are driven by everyday disruptions such as waged work and parenting responsibilities. The knitted-paint paintings are made by making long lines of acrylic paint extruded through a syringe and laid out to dry. Once the paint has dried it is used as if it is wool or thread and the strands are knitted together (with knitting needles) to make the painting. Preliminary drawings on graph paper are used as patterns/craft charts to work from – each square represents a stitch to build the image. The layered process corresponds to a humdrum of daily repetitiveness and physically records and stores time.
Since the mid 1990’s Alexis Harding has subjected painting to a singular physical strain. His work emerged as an antagonistic and unruly take on abstract painting in the 90’s and has developed into a wider practice that explores and celebrates the intersections between abstraction and representation. In its use of painterly time-based material and the reinvention and appropriation of various organising principles, it has sought out new areas for painting. One of the most innovative and driven makers of his generation, Harding’s practice over the last 20 years has aimed to reinvigorate the possibilities of abstract painting.
The White Pube is a progressive identity of writers Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They have been described as “one of the first truly new voices in British art criticism in the twenty-first century”.
The pair met in 2013 on the BA Fine Art Course at Central St Martins and out of frustration with “white people, white walls and white wine”, began to publish reviews, essays and social media posts to challenge the art world’s lack of representation and accessibility and to redefine what is deemed worthy of aesthetic attention. Their subjective and personal approach to art writing has been labelled “embodied criticism” and incorporates emotional responses and overtly political analysis of artworks in an informal yet stylistically innovative style.
