Compound Notions curated by Sarah Sparkes, Frog Morris, and Jo McCormick

An exhibition that features 64 contemporary artists' interpretation of the theme COLLAGE

It opens this Thursday May the 21st at Art Hub Studios CIC's Mornington Centre, an old Victorian school building on Stanley Street, SE8 4BL, in the Apparatus Gallery. It's open from 11am - 6pm on May 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th, with the opening party on May 21st from 6-9pm.

Above Image: Included in the show is 'Always on My Mind' (Parts One and Two) by Harry Pye. Note: The venue is very near New Cross Station (not New Cross Gate). Opposite New Cross station is a health centre and the studios are behind the health centre on Stanley Street. *** Compound Notions is a 4 day art exhibition presenting 64 contemporary artists' interpretations on the theme of COLLAGE. The exhibition explores the definition of the term through experimental and traditional media. Curated by the directors of Collaborative Arts CIC, Jo McCormick, Frog Morris and Sarah Sparkes, for Art Hub Studios CIC in New Cross South East London, UK. Compound Notions includes works rooted in the traditions and conventions of collage - decoupage, cut and paste, assemblage and use of found materials, alongside pieces that push the boundaries of the definition with novel materials, installation, sound and performance. The curators have taken a creative approach to hanging, with the exhibition presenting as a large scale, immersive contemporary collage. In the 2019 exhibition “Cut and Paste: 400 years of Collage” at The National Galleries, Scotland, figures such as Mary Delaney demonstrated that collage was not a twentieth century invention but an earlier, often feminised form of knowledge - making and world - ordering. While common historical narratives place the invention of collage with cubism, Compound Notions draws attention to the genre's roots in textile, mosaic and scrapbooking. *** Artists in the Compound Notions show include Alice Labant, Alica Saga, Daniel Lehan, Harry Pye, Julia Maddison, Lady Lucy, Mandee Gage, Mandy Prowse, Marq Kearey, Mikey B Georgeson, Rebecca Feiner, Sarah Doyle, and The Gut Girls.