Nicholas Moore
All These Moments 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 121 x 152 cm
Happy Up There
19 September – 29 October 2023
Private views:
Tuesday September 19th 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Thursday September 21st 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Finissage to be announced
Open Days:
Wednesday September 27th,
October 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th
12.00 – 6.00 pm
Viewing by appointment at other times
For further information contact Jonathan Ross:
Phone 07747 807576
or
jross@gallery286.com
‘Happiness’ — such a hard sell in the art world, so often seen as a trite emotion. Well how about happiness with a streak of nostalgia and a hint of melancholia; add some humour and joy and I’m damned for ever. A lot of my work is based on the power that objects have to evoke memories and emotions; may it be a firework waiting to be lit, a votive offering, a treasured toy within a reliquary or a loved one.
As a child I used to buy fireworks with my pocket money, weeks before 5th November; I would line them up in my bedroom entranced. The anticipation of sparkling volcanos, rockets ascending to the heavens, fountains of colour and sound. The reality rarely lived up to the exotic patterns of the poorly printed wrappings.
Likewise toys from my childhood placed within the hand reliquaries spark many associations. These images are further enhanced by song lyrics and stream-of-consciousness Text-ures surrounding them and the monumental subjects of the figure paintings.
Some of these figures — are they turned away in rejection or perhaps, more hopefully, inviting us to step into their space and see what they see? In other works their shadows have a life of their own, let loose across the landscape, radiating lines of connection, though where to, is not revealed to us.
These rays have a double life, but to see that, you will need to turn out the lights!
Selected Exhibitions
SOLO or TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Happy Up There” Gallery 286 London.
2021 “Reverse Polarity” with Rupert Goldsworthy Stash Gallery London.
2019 “Solo’ Judy Chang Fort Lee New Jersey.
2016-17 “Cabinet Of The Last Lighthouse Keeper” Paris Koh Fine Art New York City.
2013 “My Haven” Tenri cultural Institute, New York City, curated by Dr Thalia V Vrachopoulos.
2012 “Wall of Friends” The Church of Agia Eirini Xania.
2011 “No More Heroes” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2009 “Tale of Three Islands” Retrospective Xania Municipal Art Gallery, Crete, Greece.
2009 “Tale of Three Islands” Retrospective Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece.
2008 “I Should Get Out, Moore” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2007 Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece.
2005 “Go Cultivate The Garden” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2003 Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece
1999 Gallery K, London, England.
1996 Gallery K, London, England.
1995 CSK Gallery, Eton, England.
1994 Gallery K, London, England.
1989 Firka, Xania, Crete, Greece.
1988 Christopher Hull, London, England.
1987 British Council Galleries, Athens, Greece.
1986 Christopher Hull, London, Greece.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Shot Pint Riot”, Studio 1.1, Gallery, London curated by Stephen Harwood
2022. “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, Project Gallery, Athens.
“Men Only Animus Anima”, Stash Gallery, curated by Sophie Parkin.
2021. “Joy” Stash Gallery, London, curated by Sophie Parkin.
2020 “A Horse Walks Into A Bar”, Hampden Gallery UMass Amherst MA USA Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” Appel Gallery, Athens, Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
2019 “Don”t Leave Me This Way” Stash Gallery, London.
“Foodie Fever” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, NYC, Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos and D. Dominick Lombardi.
“Apocalypse Then And Now” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC,Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“Quest For Holy Grail” Project Gallery, Athens, Greece, Curated by Nikos Giavropoulos.
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” Stash Gallery London, Curated by Nicholas Moore.
2018 “Transplants: Greek Diaspora Artists” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC.
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“Prossalendi’s Britannia” – Contemporary Perspective, Ionian Academy, Corfu.
Curated by Dr Megakles Rogakos and Georgia Damianou.
2017 “Postcards From The Edge” Metro Pictures NYC.
“Self Indulgence” Hampden Gallery UMass Amherst MA USA.
“Sex and Power” Stash Gallery London UK.
“Show Us Your Smalls” Stash Gallery London UK.
2016 “TransContinental Nexus” Gallery Donopoulos, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” AAW Gallery, Beijing, China.
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“Exquisite Porch” Synovus & Everett Galleries, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi.
2015
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC.
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“Dramas On Earth” ChonBuk National University Gallery (CBNU Art Center) Jeon Ju, South Korea.
“Welcome, European Hospitality And It’s Borders” Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress, Chania, Crete.
2014 “Recontextualizing The Found” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC.
Curated by Bill Pangburn and Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.
“The Buffet” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
“The Rule Of Law And The Right To Be Human”, Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Venue, School Of Art, Athens, Greece.
2012 “The Open Mind Of Lefcadio Hearn”, the Nippon Club NYC.
2010 “Art and Technology, Man and Machinery”, The Olive Oil Factory, Dromonero Xania.
“The Open Mind Of Lefcadio Hearn”, Lefcadio Hearn Memorial Museum Matsue, Japan.
2009 The Open Mind of Lefcadio Hearn” ACG Art Center, Athens, Greece.
2007 “20l21 International Art Fair” with Gallery K, London.
2006 “The Angel”, Gallery K, London, England.
2004 Three Person Show with Mixalis Makroulakis and Maria Rota, Poseidonias, Syros, Greece.
2000 Jonathan Poole Art 2000, London, England.
Cynthia Corbett Gallery,London, England Gallery K, London, England.
1997-99 ”Kiss 5 – 7″ in association with Robin Dutt,Gallery K, London, England.
1996 “Kiss 4″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England.
Untitled Colours” Washington Hotel, London, England.
1995 Gallery K at Art 95, London, England.
“Kiss 3″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England.
Jonathan Poole, Compton Cassey Galleries, Gloucestershire, England.
CSK Gallery Eton, England.
“British Artists in Greece”, Athens.
1994 “Kiss 2″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England.
Jonathan Poole at the Riverside Studios, London, England.
1993 Bohun Gallery, Henley, England
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London, England.
Gallery K, London, England.
1992 Artist’s Choice (chosen by Tom Phillips), Flowers East, London, England.
The Gallery at John Jones, London, England.
1990 Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece.
1989 Christopher Hull, London, England
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames, England.
1987 Three Person Show with John Craxton, Dorothy Andrews, Vasso Milenoyannis, Xania, Crete, Greece.
1984 Christopher Hull, London, England.
1982 Mario Flecha, London, England.
1981 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London England.
“Not The Royal Wedding” Workshop Gallery, London, England.
CURATOR
2010 “DFX” Group show Ermoupolis Syros, Greece.
2009 2nd Annual show of the Municipal Collection of the Town Hall Ermoupolis Syros, Greece.
2019 “Don’t Leave Me This way” Stash Gallery, London, UK.
2022 “Every Time We Say Goodbye -” Project Gallery Athens.
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Kyveli Institute, Ermoupolis, Greece.
Municipal Collection of Syros, Greece.
Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης Χανίων – Ελαιουργείον, Greece.
Municipal Art Gallery Xania Crete, Greece.
Collection of Corfu Heritage foundation, Greece.
Collection of The American Collection, Athens.
Lefcadio Hearn Museum Matsue, Japan.
Nothing Is Ever Lost 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 154 x 76 cm
Matt And Lucy 2015, Mixed Media On Panel, 60 x 30 cm
Your Presence, 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 64 x44 cm
Searching For Diamonds 2023, Mixed Media on Polypropylene Paper, 89 x 76 cm
Hold Me Tight 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 154 x 76 cm
Between A Rock 2013, Embossed Copper And Beads, 170 x 110 cm
Sword Of Damocles 2013, Embossed Copper, 274 x 150 cm
Let The Wind Carry Me 2018, Mixed Media on Paper, 93 x 66 cm
Tell You Something 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
The Future 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
I’m Telling Myself 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
High Above 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 54 x 76 cm
Keeping The Future Safe 2021, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 108 x 76 cm
I Could Be Happy 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Slow Burning Star 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Warmth Of The Sun 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Here Comes The Sixth Sun 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
I Count The Hours 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
I Wear My Moods 2022, Mixed Media on Printed Paper, 44 x 34 cm
You Have Been Here 2023, Mixed Media on wood Panel, 46 x 36 cm
