'gothic' by kate mccgwire, 2008

'the space between' exhibition
at: the crypt, king's cross, london
from: 5th - 21st june 2009

the space between exhibition will bring together a group of nine international artists:
annie cattrell, amanda couch, richard ducker, jan dunning, joy gerrard, kate mccgwire,
marilene oliver, kate street and esther teichmann whose work ranges from video to
performance and sculpture.

'the show explores the ideas that surround our common experience of 'liminality', of existing
in 'a space between' places, ideas, thoughts and emotions. the venue itself, with its
tombstones and relics of those who have 'crossed over', is perfect for a discussion of
the theme, occupying as it does the middle ground between states, the ephemeral and the
permanent, life and death.

the current zeitgeist dictates that we can be anyone or anything if only we try hard enough,
or are good enough, and so increasingly we find ourselves in a 'space between', somewhere
between 'being' and 'becoming'. it's a place of transformation and possibility, rich with
longing, melancholy and fantasy. only here are we able to stop and contemplate - but never
entirely grasp - the state of flux that characterizes our lives.'


'heave' by kate mccgwire, 2008

kate mccgwire
uses impure materials, most recently pigeon feathers, to create forms that exist somewhere
between myth and reality, deliberately playing with freud's notion of 'the uncanny'
(that sense of something which is both familiar and strange) to unseat our sense of
well-being. she will be showing 'sluice', an effluent-like flood of pigeon feathers
which plays on the material's ability to elicit wonder and repulsion in equal measure.


'host' by kate mccgwire, 2008


untitled from mythologies by esther teichmann, 2009

esther teichmann
uses the medium of photography and video to examine the relationship of the self to the
maternal body and to the body of the lover. desire and fear of loss are subtly and yet
powerfully evoked in these explorations of the visceral and expressive properties of
the human physique and skin. teichmann will show 'to get there', a video work which
invites the viewer to enter into the intimate world of the mother longing to comfort
an adult child.


untitled from mythologies by esther teichmann, 2008


'access' glass by annie cattrell

annie cattrell
describes herself as 'a runner between worlds', between science and art. her work deals with
the fleeting and ephemeral, those things that are normally invisible to the human eye
- a breath inside a human lung or cloud formation on a particular day. she will be showing
'ranges', which captures in glass a whole spectrum of human facial expressions from neutral
indifference to laughter and anger.


'process' glass, by annie cattrell


'dust falling' by amanda couch 2008

amanda couch
has created an alter ego, 'a traveller, somewhere between civilized and savage, woman and
child, space and time'. she has created a new work especially for the space between,
which she will perform at the private view (4 june).


'now say after me' by richard ducker

richard ducker
makes sculptural objects coated in concrete that are at once sombre and impishly humorous.
he combines the found with the made object to suggest private stories embedded in works
which 'evoke nostalgia, myths soaked in dreams, and fairy-tales gone wrong', and will be
exhibiting a new work, 'aqualung'.


untitled by jan dunning, 2008,

jan dunning
works with a pinhole camera, offering an unsettling, enigmatic perspective on the
'natural' world. her work exploits the ambiguous and transformational perspective of
the pinhole photograph to present confrontations between fiction and reality, the possible
and impossible, the natural and unnatural.


untitled by jan dunning, 2008,


'gridded storm 2 by joy gerrard, 2008

joy gerrard
concentrates on space, site, politics and a visual response to the city as a site of
transformation. she looks at the idea of 'the crowd' framed by urban space in an attempt
to address some fundamental questions about the changing political face of the city.
recent work includes large-format drawings of crowds forming to mourn and protest as well
as miniature animation and video works that comment on the politics of congregation and
dispersal in urban spaces.


'bird in the hand II' by kate street, 2007

kate street
uses language and well-known stock phrases as a starting point for her sculptural works
that strike a balance between the theatrical and the absurd, the romantic and the deathly.
she is creating two new works for the show, one of which 'bird in the hand' explores
our need to compare our achievements with others', to dissect and analyse, in the search
for the root of what makes us happy.


'fucking roaches III' by kate street 2009


'family portrait' by marilene oliver, 2003

marilene oliver
works at a crossroads somewhere between new digital technologies, traditional print and
sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. she works with
the body translated into data form in order to understand how it has become 'unfleshed',
in the hope of understanding who or what it has become. to this end she uses various
scanning technologies, such as MRI and PET, to reclaim the interior of the body
- a threshold portraitists don't generally cross - in all its physical beauty.


'exhausted figure, by marilene oliver, 2007

visit the space between website for more information on the show.