[Curatorial Project] Responding to White

Responding to White shows how two artists appreciate white working with different media while they are fascinated by a structure, texture and precise in details.

Established mixed-media artist Buffy Kimm‘s paper sculptures create imaginary multi-circular spaces including her latest work Paper Oyster in the show. She is also well known by her astonish etching, photography.

A young porcelain jeweller Shih-Dea Deborah, Tseng was born in Taiwan, currently based in London. She find herself calm when she works with this particular colour. Emotional porcelain necklaces presented in the Responding to White is that she has fabricated for her series of Don’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover 2013.

Buffy Kimm

I am fascinated by space, texture and detail, and love to experiment with light and shadow. I was a set designer by trade, and always used model making in the design process. I now use these skills to create my recent pieces.

I enjoy working with photographs as a starting point, abstracting shapes and playing with texture and scale until I have created a completely new piece of artwork. My main medium is paper, which I use in a sculptural style as well as in an etched and embossed form.

I love the circle image and have enjoyed playing with the formal and the informal. I have started with very controlled stylised imagery and am now experimenting with more abstract, organic forms.

www.buffykimm.co.uk

Shih-Dea Deborah, Tseng

I aim to create a neutral area - peaceful but slightly odd, fragile but strong and smooth but rough.

I explore juxtaposing textures, which are desirable to touch, and so evoke emotions. This textural conflict generates irregular three dimensional patterns which share the same visual impact as they are all white.

For me white is a symbol of hiding, when white covers contrasting textures and compositions people are not at first able to distinguish between different tactile qualities – it creates a vague and abstract impression in the perceptions of touch and vision.

http://deborahtseng.wix.com/jewellery

The exhibition opens to 17th May 2015 at The Petit Corée

http://www.thepetitecoree.com/