Hay Hill Gallery

Events at Hay Hill Gallery

• Giant 'Octopus' Situated by St. Katherine's Dock at Hay Hill Gallery

  Art

  29 Oct 2011 to 29 Apr 2012

  If you find yourself wondering along the Thames around St Catherines Dock and stumble across a large sea monster, you are not dreaming! Hay Hill Gallery has the pleasure to present 6 Thomas Moore Square, situated by St Katherine’s Dock, with an exquisite mosaic sculpture by international artist Marialuisa Tadei. The octopus is the first instalment of art works to be placed on one of Land Securities prestigious London estates. ''Octopus'', featured in Art London this year, has received high recognition by Art critics. Created in 2011, the Octopus spans over 5 metres by 5 metres and reaches 156 cm in height. It is made entirely of hand-cut mosaic glass on a concrete and stainless steel frame, as is Tadei’s signature style. Marialuisa Tadei has an impressive career and is fast becoming a heavy weight in the art world, having already participated in the Venice Biennale this year and in also in 2009. Tadei has also exhibited along side artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn to name a few.

• Stanislav Plutenko: Evolution at Hay Hill Gallery

  Art

  6 Feb 2012 to 3 Mar 2012

  Hay Hill Gallery is pleased to welcome a new exhibition by the Russian artist Stanislav Plutenko. Represented by Hay Hill Gallery since 2002 and exhibited annually until 2010, Plutenko’s latest exhibition is entitled ‘Evolution’ and as the name would suggest, reflects his personal evolution as an artist. The majority of the collection centers on paintings from Plutenko’s early career in the 1990’s. However, the inclusion of a selection of his recent works, which date from 2009 to 2010, enables Plutenko to map his personal progression as an artist. Plutenko’s work may appear to emerge from a mix of the surreal and the real, while reflecting old West Indian paintings along with the work of artists such as Salvador Dali, yet his overriding aim is to take the unusual and to make it more so. Stanislav Plutenko produces vigorous, illustrative works that play on colour contrasts. His original method of painting employs a mixed palette of oil, tempera, acrylic, watercolour, airbrushing and glazing. Plutenko injects his paintings with a sense of sarcasm that is based on reality. While often presented through elements of the grotesque, each painting holds a symbolical underlying theme. Built around a variety of genres the effect of Plutenko’s painting is to reflect representations of the ironic, the sarcastic and the bizarre. A variety of feelings are stimulated in the spectator as each painting is imbued with a small history of life that is replayed through a variety of genre scenes. Stanislav Plutenko was born in Moscow in 1961. He studied at the Moscow University of National Economy, while taking lessons in painting from private masters. Plutenko created his first works in 1984 and from 1985 to 1990 worked in commercial advertising. In 1991 he joined UNESCO’s guild of graphic artists and was rewarded with the Grand Prix of the ‘Golden Brush’ exhibition in 1997. In 2007 Plutenko received a rank at the International Academy of Creative Endeavors. The following year he was awarded with an order of ‘Peter The Great’ for his work towards the development of Russian Culture and Arts. In 2009 Plutenko received a Gold Medal named after N. Sats for his ‘outstanding creative achievements in art development.’ Plutenko’s work has been exhibited internationally in Stockholm, Helsinki, USA, Germany and London along with his native Moscow.

• Sveta Yavorsky: Moon Mages at Hay Hill Gallery

  Art

  6 Feb 2012 to 3 Mar 2012

  Art exhibition of work by Sveta Yavorsky titled Moon Mages.

• Zoe Benbow: Wild Wild Waves at Hay Hill Gallery

  Art

  6 Feb 2012 to 3 Mar 2012

  The show focuses on a series of paintings developed from drawings of the coastal landscape of County Mayo Ireland, made during a residency in Spring 2011. This visually compelling series of work plays with colour and process to engage the audience with an unfamiliar space. The large-scale oils communicate a sense of awe whilst celebrating an enjoyment of the visual world. Zoe Benbow has worked extensively with landscapes, mapping and exploring her surroundings and questioning how we see the world and our relationship to it. Her latest series of paintings take reference from the European landscape genre. Their aim is to subvert our traditional perspective by placing this genre in the context of our current environmental climate. Benbow encourages the observer to examine the established perceptions of our place in the world, shifting and unravelling our position as a detached observer. Benbow’s work adheres to the notion that human activities do not only affect the surrounding landscape but are part of it. This echoes the words of Marcus Chown who observes that we are made of the ‘same stuff as the stars’. Zoe Benbow’s paintings aim to challenge our sense of separateness from our surrounding environment.