See you in a few weeks :)
1. new work sample
2-5. 3/4 humours exhibition thanks to @nearnow
10. @matildamoors for the statue from Camberwell days.
15. @junesowhat for the portrait.
Most photos my hometown.
⚖️ Feeling under the weather? Have you checked that your humours aren't out of balance…
Medieval medicine and archaic theories are revisited in the ¾ Humours exhibition.
As each of the three contemporary artists involved respond to one of the four humours;
🩸 Sanguine
🤧 Phlegmatic
😭 Melancholic
💢 Choleric
Once thought to govern not just the body, but the mind, emotions, and soul.
🧪 Do we still search for cures, causes, and balances for what we feel is Too Much or Not Enough?
Discover what remains of these beliefs and what they reveal about us today in this curious exhibition
Maybe there’s something missing…
📆 Private View: Friday 18th July, 5pm–10pm
Open 7 days a week: Sat 19th – Sun 27th Mon–Thurs: 12–6pm Fri–Sun: 12–7pm
Find out more at broadway.org.uk or pop in and have a look!
📍Broadway Gallery, 17 Heathcoat St, NG1 3AL
Supported by @nearnow@theartoftimeproject@benart86@markwalkermark
#nottinghamart #artexhibition #humoralexhibition
3/4 Humours: Artist Spotlight
Mark Walker
Sanguine/Blood
@markwalkermark
Like the beat of the heart that drives the flow of blood through arteries and veins, Marks work pulses with rhythms, waves that interweave and tangle into chaos. Like the Sanguine humour, associated with vitality, energy, motion and motivation, there is flow, yet underneath there are the marks of deep structure and the passage of process.
Private View: Friday 18th July
Opening:19th July
@broadwaycinema Gallery
@nearnow
With:
@theartoftimeproject@benart86
#nottingham #nottinghamart
When a best friend takes you on a trip to Romania to see #constantinebrâncusi sculpture ensemble and you also convince them to go to a mud volcano as well. @gllcradaca <3
Happy to be able to make this exhibition at @showcase_lab106 with my good friend @johanandren .
To explore our work together after studying together at @kunstakademiet_khio with professor @saskiaholmkvist and finding many common themes in our practises, as well as sharing technical knowledge, from welding to large format photography.
Work include:
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a square), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a triangle), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
JOHAN ANDRÉN
Planetary Phases, 2024
tin casts of artist’s partner’s face
variable dimensions
Anonymous Births, 2025
286 x 200cm
xerox prints, wallpaper glue (reproduction of graphite rubbing of gravestone)
Happy to be able to make this exhibition at @showcase_lab106 with my good friend @johanandren .
To explore our work together after studying together at @kunstakademiet_khio with professor @saskiaholmkvist and finding many common themes in our practises, as well as sharing technical knowledge, from welding to large format photography.
Work include:
£15 & 747 razorblades, 2018
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115cm
£5 & 249 razorblades, 2019
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115 cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a square), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a triangle), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
JOHAN ANDRÉN
Planetary Phases, 2024
tin casts of artist’s partner’s face
variable dimensions
Anonymous Births, 2025
286 x 200cm
xerox prints, wallpaper glue (reproduction of graphite rubbing of gravestone)
Happy to be able to make this exhibition at @showcase_lab106 with my good friend @johanandren
To explore our work together after studying together at @kunstakademiet_khio with professor @saskiaholmkvist and finding many common themes in our practises, as well as sharing technical knowledge, from welding to large format photography.
Work include:
£15 & 747 razorblades, 2018
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115cm
£5 & 249 razorblades, 2019
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115 cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a square), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a triangle), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
JOHAN ANDRÉN
Planetary Phases, 2024
tin casts of artist’s partner’s face
variable dimensions
Anonymous Births, 2025
286 x 200cm
xerox prints, wallpaper glue (reproduction of graphite rubbing of gravestone)
Happy to be able to make this exhibition at @showcase_lab106 with my good friend @johanandren .
To explore our work together after studying together at @kunstakademiet_khio with professor @saskiaholmkvist and finding many common themes in our practises, as well as sharing technical knowledge, from welding to large format photography.
Work include:
£15 & 747 razorblades, 2018
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115cm
£5 & 249 razorblades, 2019
two pence coins, razor blades, stainless steel and cotton
70 x 30 x 115 cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a square), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
Untitled (10 & 12 phase involute of a triangle), 2025
pencil on paper
50 x 66cm
JOHAN ANDRÉN
Planetary Phases, 2024
tin casts of artist’s partner’s face
variable dimensions
Anonymous Births, 2025
286 x 200cm
xerox prints, wallpaper glue (reproduction of graphite rubbing of gravestone)
SOLAR SCARS
MARK WALKER
&
JOHAN ANDRÉN
opening: 08.03.25 - 6pm
run time: 08.03.2025 - end of MARCH
adress:
LAB106 showcase, Rossmarkt 23,
60311 Frankfurt a.M.
“SOLAR SCARS”
exhibition : 08.03.2025 - end of march
Lab 106 presents a duo exhibition ‘Solar Scars’ from Johan Andrén and Mark Walker. Bringing together work reflecting their ongoing dialogue around the sun, permanence and the marks we leave behind. Their contrasting approaches, Mark’s meticulous spiraling and Andrén’s cast tin faces and rubbings, create a visual conversation between different cycles and rhythms. The exhibition explores how their practices converged and have evolved in dialogue since studying together from 2021, into work that is both striking and subtly unsettling.
“When speaking to Mark about our little show, he mentioned that he had been thinking about planetary and solar rotations when making the spiral drawings, and how that related to the stars in the blown up rubbing that acts like a backdrop for the whole thing. He texted about vast solar systems and a sense of mortality.”
(Johan Andrén) @showcase_lab106@showcase_lab106@johanandren@markwalkermark@lena_grewenig
Old age and poverty
One of the last times I saw my Granddad (on my mothers side) he was walking into the pub car park across the road from his house. (He lived up the road and around the corner from my childhood home, the pub was at the top of my street). I was passing by on my bike and decided to say hello and ask how he was doing. His reply “you know, old age and poverty”.
The last time I saw my grandad was after he had a fall, I was visiting home, and went to pick him up from the hospital with my mum. Helping him get changed out of the hospital clothes into his jeans and jacket, was the first time I realised how incredibly skinny he was. He always wore thick straight jeans and a boxy cream jacket.
My mum told me the last time she saw him was on the way back from walking the dog. The dog wanted to turn right towards his house, so she went that way. He was in a bed in the living room downstairs, he kept saying he wanted to go upstairs.
I was once taught by the painter John Wilkins, who paints black outlines of sausages on stained backgrounds, he said that what he wanted was not to be remembered, to make his painting and to disappear.
After my Grandad died, there was no funeral and there is no grave. Decades before he had signed his body over to medical science. So they came, to check if they wanted his body, they did and they took it. My mother said she didn’t grieve until a few months later our dog had to be put down, when they buried him, she grieved for them both.
#underfoot
