Join us on Thursday 11 May, 5-7pm for the launch of artist Rosemary Clunie’s show on Grow’s mezzanine gallery in Hackney Wick. Rosemary will be showing carefully selected prints from her prolific body of work. This exhibition launch is combined with our weekly jazz jam which starts at 7.30pm so you can view work, meet Rosemary and then enjoy jazz from some of London’s most upcoming musicians.
About Rosemary Clunie
Rosemary Clunie was born in Scotland, lives in London and now works from Grow. She has exhibited widely since 1991, in places like the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Her paintings are held in eminent private and public collections.
Recently, Rosemary has shown at the Bomb Factory with Booker prize winning author Ben Okri which was featured in the Guardian and described as following ‘the footsteps of word-and-picture masters Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jenny Holzer’ Before that, her last major exhibition, at ROSL in Mayfair, was another collaboration with Ben Okri, arising out of their innovative book The Magic Lamp, published by Head of Zeus. (signed copies available at the PV). Will Gompertz of the BBC said of The Magic Lamp: ‘ This is a magical book in every sense, a spellbinding, poetic, artistic journey into our collective imaginations and inner selves.’
The Finanicial Times stated that her work "recalls that of Joan Miró or Quentin Blake", while the New Statesman wrote: "Clunie's use of colour is billowing, rich and dreamlike." Rosemary Clunie’s paintings and prints encourage the viewer to travel from the mundane world into a realm of the imagination, to an inner dimension where art lives freely away from the climate of the present day. Yet it stimulates a fresh interaction with reality.
She also creates conceptual artworks with Ben Okri in a rare dialogue between text, image, and our times. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle)
About Grow, Hackney
An Experiment in Ethical and Sustainable Business.
Grow is an independent and self-organised eco-system of studios and a creative space with bars and a kitchen, created out of an old sausage factory by the River Lea in Hackney Wick. We work in partnership with artists, musicians, DJ's and community groups and host a diverse programme of events, including: live jazz and blues, open deck reggae, workshops and talks and art/film festivals. Grow pays London Living Wage, uses eco-electricity, sources ethically and locally and is free entry, wherever possible. We currently serve a seasonal menu and range of drinks, including organic wines and prosecco, cocktails, homemade Hackney Spiced Rum and also offer a range of soft and hot drinks.