About the Exhibition

The Jennifer Lauren Gallery proudly presented ‘Monochromatic Minds: Lines of Revelation’ at Candid Arts Centre in London that featured black and white work from Madge Gill, Donald Mitchell and more. Monochromatic Minds was the largest ever exhibition of disabled, self-taught and outsider artists from around the world, featuring black and white art through a variety of mediums including drawing, ceramics and textiles.

Featuring many previously unseen works from 61 artists, this exhibition brought together emerging artists alongside established outsider artists – artists who create work outside the artistic mainstream field, often by force of internal promptings and with culture not affecting their work. Several featured artists were working out of supported studios showing their work to a wider, more varied audience for the first time. This was an amazing opportunity to see unique work from international supported studios and artists isolated in the community that is rarely shown in the UK, with many of the pieces for sale.

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About the Exhibition

The Jennifer Lauren Gallery made its debut at the Drawing Now Art Fair at Carreau du Temple and was delighted to introduce two self-taught artists – Kate Bradbury (b.1961) from the UK and Shinya Fujii (b.1969) from Northern Japan. The Gallery was featured in the Insight section - a new platform for discovery which allows visitors to discover new artists – French or international – who are less known and presented in a solo or duo show by emerging or more established galleries.

Bradbury has been creating works in London since 2003. She is a prolific creator of a diverse range of artworks. From detailed ink scribblings over a metre in length to sculptural twirling dervishes made from found objects, her style of work is ever changing. Intuitively working day and night, Bradbury creates her pieces losing all sense of time, getting lost in the details of her drawings or sculptures.

Fujii drew as a child and only returned to drawing when his father passed away in 2007. Whilst listening to music, Fujii creates his works on brown Kraft paper with fine line ink from a narrow-nib pen. The patterns he creates weave together to make robots, insects, plants and figures. He draws for a maximum of an hour a day, with each drawing often taking several months to complete.

About the Exhibition

The Jennifer Lauren Gallery presented From starlings to earth things and all the fish that cannot swim, featuring intricate black ink drawings on Chinese scroll paper and sculptures made from items found on the streets of London.

In its third show to date, the Jennifer Lauren Gallery presented the diverse work of self-taught artist Kate Bradbury (b.1961), from detailed ink scribblings on Chinese scroll paper to sculptural whirling dervishes made from found objects. With much of her work based around the objects she finds, the centrepiece of the exhibition was a new sculpture titled ‘Arkeology’, featuring a large boat and its passengers, which Kate hopes inspired others to utilise found objects in their work.

Working from her kitchen or bedroom since 2003, Bradbury is inspired by her environment, music, literature and architecture. With no formal art training, both her ink drawings and sculptural pieces evolve unexpectedly during their making as a result of much experimentation.

Of her working practice Kate Bradbury says: “I get a picture of something in my head and then need to make it, to offload it and then I can think about something else. I get obsessed with an idea and try to see it through.”

Jennifer Gilbert said: “I was first introduced to Kate Bradbury’s work in 2011 by the artist Sue Kreitzman, and have been blown away by her works ever since. This will be the third solo show of Kate’s work I have been involved with. Kate’s work never fails to make me smile and her ink drawings always amaze me when I see things in them that I didn’t see the first time.”

Vivienne Roberts, freelance Curator and previous Curator at the Julian Hartnoll Gallery said: “Kate Bradbury is part craftsman, part alchemist, and she uses her artistic genius to transform objects she finds into stunning creative forces. Her art is unique and with every new exhibition comes the excitement of seeing the unexpected and knowing that it will be a profoundly memorable experience.”

Kate Bradbury was selected as one of six Outside In award winners in 2012. She has exhibited in Pallant House Gallery, CGP London, the Julian Hartnoll Gallery and the Outsider Art Fair in Paris.