Current exhibition

The Long Memory – 13 to 30 June 2013

Painting, sculpture, photography and animation by three East London artists. ‘The Long Memory’ is an exhibition of responses to an ever-changing habitat, gleaned from urban wanderings and perambulations.

With a shared interest in the history and development of London and its environs, artists Benjamin Fox, Richard king and James Self seek to invoke its past lives, while engaging with its modern manifestation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past exhibitions

Star Walls - 16 May to 9 June 2013

Star Walls is an exhibition of artwork curated by Elliott Ashton and inspired by the ‘Star Wars’ universe, in honour of Stuart Freeborn, the head special effects make-up artist of Star Wars who was born in Leytonstone. Artists taking part in the exhibition include Sarah Carpenter, Cristabel Christo, Jeff Cox, dARTh, Rupert Greyling, Carne Griffiths and Maria Slovakova.

Hovering Halfway: 18 April – 12 May 2013

‘Hovering Halfway’ by Ashley Davies consists of oil on canvas, and many mixed media on paper, exploring both urban and rural landscape as a motif for the landscape of the mind.

‘Hovering Halfway’ refers to that which is between the conscious and the unconscious, the here and the now, between dream and sleep, between abstract and figurative. Ashley’s work maintains the constant theme of protecting something fragile, delicate, precious and universal.

Past exhibitions

Fixations – 21 March to 14 April 2013

‘Fixations’ is a group show by six artists and designers living in London: Alex Burdiak, Ruth Craddock, Nick Downes, Rob Elford, Marc Sethi and Ania Wawrzkowicz.

The exhibition showcases a diverse and dynamic range of work in response to the theme of fixations.

Fixation is a concept originated by Sigmund Freud to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits. Subsequently, fixation acquired a broader connotation. More generally, it is the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another person, being or object.

Waiting – 21 February to 17 March 2013

Alison Chaplin is a full-time artist living and working in Walthamstow between the Forest and the Town and it is this life-on-the-edges which motivates the set of pictures in her new show.

While travelling in Italy, visiting many churches and galleries, she noticed, in so many paintings and frescos, those liminal characters that live between the edge and the action; the spear-carriers of history. Travelling around locally and in London, she began to notice their contemporary counterparts; the ‘waiting’. And here they are in queues, at bus stops and in train stations; alone or in groups, at the beginning of something or at the end of something. Between the edge and the action, waiting.

reside: 10 January – 3 February 2013 (artist residency), 7 February – 17 February (show)

[ri'zaid] vb 1 to make home in a particular place or community.

Artists in residence, Catherine Pamplin and Karen Pamplin Browne, made home in The Stone Space and asked the question: What is home and what does it mean to have one? The reside exhibition celebrated the poems, prose, photographs and artworks that were inspired, created and collected in response to the reside residency. Please visit their blog: www.resideresidency.wordpress.com

artFORMS: 13 December 2012 – 6 January 2013

Artists from a range of backgrounds – from the visual arts to performing arts – were given one word as inspiration.

Focusing on instinctive, natural and emotional responses to the idea of ‘restriction’, the collective have created an exhibition that will engage the senses of the audience.

Minutiae: 15 November – 9 December 2012

“Minutiae” is a group show of works selected by gallery members in a response to an open call out of the same name. The exhibitors display a broad, interesting and thought provoking variety of works based on the theme. It includes drawing, painting, animation, photography and sculpture and represents the richness and diversity of artists thought and practice.

The Tumbled House: 18 October – 11 November 2012

Emma Jane Spain and Jake Green are a duo whose practices are combined from different ends of the photographic spectrum, one artistic and one commercial.

The construction of home in popular magazines is a fantasy that is doomed to fail, life can’t compete with this facade of perfection. The Tumbled House turns the idea of the constructed home on its head and embraces failures as if they were triumphs. Combining notations of product photography and ideas of nostalgia, fakery and the damaged. The Tumbled House builds an ugly product for mass consumption.

This exhibition is in conjunction with photomonth.

Test by Ribbon Machine Collective: 20 September – 14 October 2012
Ribbon Machine Collective are a group of artists living in London, joined together by the work they make, courses they have attended, geography and chance.

Thread’bare:  30 August – 16 September 2012
An exhibition of stitching and embroidery by Sally Hewett and her grandmother, Violet Kesby who died in 1965 and left most of her collection of clothing, embroidery, fabrics, lace and silks to Sally.

Wandering Rocks: 2 August – 19 August 2012
Stephen Snoddy, Director of the New Art Gallery in Walsall, selected work from over 70 artists from The Art Trail 2012 to be part of this group exhibition.

Leytonstone Arts Trail showcase: 12 July – 29 July 2012
As part of The Leytonstone Arts Trail this year The Stone Space will act as an information point and showcase for the arts trail and so we have given all artists participating in the trail the opportunity to exhibit a small example of their work there during the trail.

One Day’s Walk: 21 June – 8 July 2012
Many of the visitors to the Olympics this summer will pass through Leytonstone, but the town is so much more than a stepping stone to this year’s games, and we want to make sure that we get across the flavour of Leytonstone to visitors! This show incorporates submissions from artists who have an affiliation with Leytonstone, who live in the area or nearby, or who have grown up here and have memories of the town, or those who just feel they have something to say about the town no matter where they come from!

What’s going on? 31 May – 17 June 2012
The Stone Space is pleased to present an exhibition by Jeff Cox whose paintings explore the themes of memory, relationships, birth, sex and loss.

Night After Night: 10 May - 27 May 2012
The Stone Space proudly presents Night after Night an exhibition by Helen Burgess. A series of scenes unfold on the walls of the gallery; the artist explores the fascinating city nightscape as a prompt for memory and reverie. Helen presents a series of playful nocturnes with paintings, drawings and collage; observed, imagined, memorised and dreamt of.