Pending: Guest Edit by Louise Chignac, Co-founder of Canopy Collections
Pending Window Display, San Mei Gallery, 2020
We're delighted to present the third guest edit of our winter fundraiser Pending by Louise Chignac, Co-founder of Canopy Collections @canopycollections.
Canopy Collections selects and sells artworks by international living artists through four seasonal collections a year, curated in the form of domestic displays. Their mission is to offer a new approach to discovering and buying contemporary art.
Louise has selected 5 of her favourite works from the 60+ works we have available.
All sales help us fundraise towards the costs of our 2021-22 exhibitions and the education projects with our local Lambeth communities that run alongside them. Profits are split 50/50 between the artists and this fundraising initiative. All purchases will support emerging artists, new projects and community outreach.
Pending continues online and on display in our windows until 31 December.
Guardian Tassle
2020
Small:
Glazed ceramic and horsehair
13 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm
Large:
Ceramic, gold leaf and horsehair
16 x 7 x 7 cm
”The ‘Guardian Tassel’ is inspired by different symbols and objects that are placed around the home for protection that can be found within many cultures across the globe. The guardian faces that look outwards from the tassel are there to protect the wellbeing of people around it”
Camilla Bliss is currently studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Much of her work is made up from a personal language of symbols that often holds a narrative which can be entered from many angles. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally across many platforms.
Shipping
UK Shipping is £10. All orders will be processed the next working day and sent via courier.
For international orders we will contact you after purchase to arrange shipping costs.
For a limited time only anyone who collects their order directly from the gallery will receive a free San Mei t-shirt!
For guaranteed shipping before Christmas please order by Sunday 20 December for UK orders. International shipping times will vary. Orders completed after Sunday 20 December will be fulfilled from 4 January, as the gallery remains closed for the Christmas and New Year period.
“Made with horsehair and glazed ceramic, this series of Guardian Tassels by Camilla Bliss feels truly precious. There’s something fascinating about the idea that objects, and even artworks, can protect us within our homes.”
Neckplate (Lighter with yellow rope, Large), 2018
Glazed stoneware
15 x 20 cm
Neckplate (Darker with beige rope, Large), 2018
Glazed stoneware
21 x 20 cm
Neckplate (Dark with orange striped rope, Small), 2018
Glazed stoneware
15 x 15 cm
”Neckplate is a cross between a plate and a necklace made to use at “Square Meal” a special breakfast in collaboration with Art Licks at Rochester Square”
Francesca Anfossi (b. 1980, Italy) lives and works in London, making objects that blur the boundaries between art and craft, creativity and functionality. Her interdisciplinary practice takes inspiration from the very nature of clay. Francesca is also the director of Rochester Square and the winner of the Whitegold International Ceramic Prize, St Austell, UK.
Shipping
UK Shipping is £10. All orders will be processed the next working day and sent via courier.
For international orders we will contact you after purchase to arrange shipping costs.
For a limited time only anyone who collects their order directly from the gallery will receive a free San Mei t-shirt!
For guaranteed shipping before Christmas please order by Sunday 20 December for UK orders. International shipping times will vary. Orders completed after Sunday 20 December will be fulfilled from 4 January, as the gallery remains closed for the Christmas and New Year period.
“I love Francesca Anfossi’s playful approach to art making and the way she subverts traditional ideas relating to domesticity and the home. A plate that can be used as a necklace, it’s simply genius.”
Spoon Me, 2020
Sycamore foraged in Poplar, wire
3 x 4 x 22 cm
”Care to share?
Spoon me is a meditation on the doting activity of feeding. The double ended utensil disrupts the idea of care as a one-sided relationship, posing questions about power structures at home. A symmetrical eating device can be seen as a manifest for interdependence and equality in our most intimate settings and pursuits”
Edit is a feminist design collective, focusing on the enduring biases and hierarchies in the built environment. Its approach uses design as a tool to support more equal interactions, both during the design process and as an outcome of the finished project. Edit’s current research project, ‘Honey I’m Home’, focuses on domestic design and how the layout and contents of our homes have the power to influence and maintain established gender and family roles.
Shipping
UK Shipping is £10. All orders will be processed the next working day and sent via courier.
For international orders we will contact you after purchase to arrange shipping costs.
For a limited time only anyone who collects their order directly from the gallery will receive a free San Mei t-shirt!
For guaranteed shipping before Christmas please order by Sunday 20 December for UK orders. International shipping times will vary. Orders completed after Sunday 20 December will be fulfilled from 4 January, as the gallery remains closed for the Christmas and New Year period.
“Spoon Me by Edit Collective straightaway reminded me of spoon feeding my sons when they were babies. There is something very touching about this object, which speaks of caring and sharing.”
Kiln Devil (remake remodel), 2020
glazed terracotta
15 x 14 x 15cm
“A handheld clay sculpture, made by hand, revealing finger indentations in a formless mass, with two silver glazed hands emerging from it as if modelling the form. A kind of Ouroboros, where the hands follow each other across the surface in an infinite loop.”
Central to William Cobbing's practice is the use of clay, from absurd and visceral videos of people blindly modelling clay on their heads, to ceramic objects highlighting the haptic imprint of fingers or roughly gouged text. In 2021 he will be included in the group exhibition 'Human Conditions of Clay' at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, and will complete a major public art commission 'Written in Water' for Peabody Housing on Fish Island, London.
Shipping
UK Shipping is £10. All orders will be processed the next working day and sent via courier.
For international orders we will contact you after purchase to arrange shipping costs.
For a limited time only anyone who collects their order directly from the gallery will receive a free San Mei t-shirt!
For guaranteed shipping before Christmas please order by Sunday 20 December for UK orders. International shipping times will vary. Orders completed after Sunday 20 December will be fulfilled from 4 January, as the gallery remains closed for the Christmas and New Year period.
“I’ve always admired the way William Cobbing uses raw clay to produce works that speak of our visceral and absurd condition as human beings. This miniature version of Remake Remodel is a great discovery, as I curated a show in Plymouth six years ago that presented its original, bigger version.”
Autumn, 2020
acrylic on paper
15 x 15 cm
”This recent piece is from a selection of abstract studies of autumnal landscape. My intention is to get a sense of full immersion, capturing mood, light and the colours of this vibrant season”
With a postgraduate degree in Ceramics, Stef Hunter practice involves using both clay and paint, finding the best media to reflect changing forms and colours through the seasons and weather. I have set up a studio in East Sussex and currently exhibit through Artwave and Brighton Open Houses.
Shipping
UK Shipping is £10. All orders will be processed the next working day and sent via courier.
For international orders we will contact you after purchase to arrange shipping costs.
For a limited time only anyone who collects their order directly from the gallery will receive a free San Mei t-shirt!
For guaranteed shipping before Christmas please order by Sunday 20 December for UK orders. International shipping times will vary. Orders completed after Sunday 20 December will be fulfilled from 4 January, as the gallery remains closed for the Christmas and New Year period.
“I love seasons, all of them. I really couldn’t choose one over another. This little work on paper by Stef Hunter is an enchanting representation of autumn’s mood and colours. It is crisp and very much alive at the same time.”