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Mary Ramsden and Philip Ewe - 'Spare Room': 16th July - 4 August

Preview: 15th July 6 - 8pm

We are pleased to invite you back to the Moving Gallery. Our programme continues with 'Spare Room' an exhibition of work by London based artists Mary Ramsden and Philip Ewe.

Philip Ewe studied at Camberwell College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art & Design. Recent selected Exhibitions include "Bilateria", 500 Dollars Gallery, London (2009) and "The Devils Necktie", Woodmill, London (2010) .

Mary Ramsden graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a First Class Honors degree in 2008. She is now based in London and continuing to develop her practice. Recent exhibitions include Bilateria at Five Hundred Dollars, Vyner St,Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, Future Phase, The Arches, London Bridge and New Contemporaries at The Royal Scottish Academy. She has won the Royal Scottish Academy ‘Sir William Gillies Bequest memorial prize,’ the George Jackson Hutchison Memorial Prize and the Andrew Grant Bequest Award. .

Ewe presents new work; vases sculpted and arranged with card, watercolours, flowers and paint water. .

Ramsden utilises painting as a site of fantasy, working on small self-contained canvases that are of human proportions. Her work is about the act of painting as a private performance that strives to override anything decorative or sentimental. Snaking lines of paint interrupt spatial arrangements and flat planes of colour. Shapes emerge and then destroy each other in a constant flux that never fully resolves itself. The paintings should allow for the viewer to sidetrack a habitual perception and to give up ones longing for compositional harmonies so as to see an internal dynamism flourish. .