Gallery @aproposdodo presents 'The Evans & Gilhooly show' - Paintings by Stig Evans and Jonathan Gilhooly. 1st May - 21st June by appointment and open as part of Phoenix Open studios : Friday 15th May 6-8.30pm, Sat 16th & Sun 17th May 11-5pm
Preview: Friday 1st May, 6-8pm.
‘The Evans and Gilhooly Show’
New paintings by Stig Evans and Jonathan Gilhooly.
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Stig Evans and Jonathan Gilhooly have collaborated previously, most notably on ‘Colour Conundrum’ (2010), a speculative reconstruction of a Victorian parlour game attributed to inventor, colour theorist, and polymath Charles Albert Keeley. The project brought together their shared interest in colour, perception, simulation, deception, and illusion. First shown at the Whitechapel Gallery and later at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, it was revisited in 2025 through their talk ‘Origins of a Parlour Game’ for the International Colour Association’s symposium on ‘Spatialities & Colour’. Ongoing conversations between the artists have since extended these concerns into painting, forming the basis of the present exhibition at Gallery Dodo.
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Please be aware that the gallery is reached via a staircase.
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What a wonderful opening of ‘Postcards for Seyðisfjörður’ at the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark
Thank you to the Ambassador Pétur Ásgeirsson, Stefanía K. Bjarnadóttir, Sigurlína, Elinóra, Ásdís and all at the Embassy for their help with the exhibition.
…and to all who were able to make it along or who were there in spirit!
Thanks to all of the artists who have taken part in this project - it has been a delight to present your postcards at the Embassy and as the Ambassador remarked - whilst there are 280 individual works, there is also just one. We are connected…
The exhibition is open - we hope you might have the opportunity to see it or at least see photos… there may be more!
Ian, Patrick, Philip and Stig
Exhibition dates: 18 April - 4 June 2026
Open all week days from 09:00 - 16:00
The address is:
Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen Strandgade 89,DK-1401 København K
The image used for publicity purposes is of a Postcard by Rita Donagh. Rita’s postcard contains photographs of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth by Maria Gilissen Broodthaers.
The date of the photographs is 1976 and they appear with the ‘autobiographies’ at the end of the catalogue entitled ‘COLLABORATIONS OF CH. ROTHAM’ copyright: richard and dieter, published 1977.
The exhibition originally formed part of Sluice expo 2025 ‘Worldbuilding’ in Seyðisfjörður.
It was reprised initially at the Icelandic Embassy in London in November through to December 2025.
Postcards reflect cultural and interactional enactments of contemporary globalisation, the transient mementos of travel. Dieter Roth played an important role in the cultural life of Seyðisfjörður. He also painted on postcards.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G asked artists to obverse the once common practice of sending a postcard from a place visited. A postcard of Seyðisfjörður to Seyðisfjörður. A postcard of itself to itself but altered / adjusted / intervened by artists who may not have travelled to Seyðisfjörður before.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G are delighted that a number of other artists have taken part in this iteration of the project bringing the total number to 150.
‘00022-420’ acrylic and oil on vintage lining canvas. This is a piece of lining canvas I took off the back of an early 19th-century seascape that I was restoring and which needed re-lining. As it sits on the back, it’s normally not seen and also covers the original canvas as it acts as a support. When the painting was first restored and lined, they extended the top edge and painted the blue strip to enlarge the sky. After removal I scrunched up the canvas and used an airbrush to paint into the folds, then flattened it back out and glued it onto a new canvas. So now it has its own lining. The painting becomes both object and record: a fragment of the paintings history reconfigured as a new image with an element of seascape to it. #seascape #victorian #painting #canvas #restoration
We are excited that the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen are reprising the exhibition “Postcards for Seyðisfjörður” an exhibition first held at LungA school in Seyðisfjörður in Iceland May 2025.
Exhibition dates: 18 April - 4 June 2026
Opening event is on Friday 17th April 2026.
The Gallery is open Monday- Friday but closed at weekends
The address is: Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen Strandgade 89, DK-1401 København K
The image used is of a Postcard by Rita Donagh. Rita’s postcard contains photographs of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth by Maria Gilissen Broodthaers.
The date of the photographs is 1976 and they appear with the ‘autobiographies’ at the end of the catalogue entitled ‘COLLABORATIONS OF CH. ROTHAM’ copyright: richard and dieter, published 1977.
The exhibition originally formed part of Sluice expo 2025 ‘Worldbuilding’ in Seyðisfjörður.
It was reprised initially at the Icelandic Embassy in London in November through to December 2025,
Postcards reflect cultural and interactional enactments of contemporary globalisation, the transient mementos of travel. Dieter Roth played an important role in the cultural life of Seyðisfjörður. He also painted on postcards.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G asked artists to obverse the once common practice of sending a postcard from a place visited. A postcard of Seyðisfjörður to Seyðisfjörður. A postcard of itself to itself but altered / adjusted / intervened by artists who may not have travelled to Seyðisfjörður before.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G are delighted that a number of other artists have taken part in this iteration of the project bringing the total number to 150.
@lungaschool@sluice__@stigevans@donnellpatrick@ianboutell@colecorner
#postcardsforseyðisfjörður
#h_a_r_d_p_a_i_n_t_i_n_g
#dieterroth
#richardhamilton
‘00022-679’ wallpaper on paper. I rescued a roll of old black wallpaper that was being thrown out at the museum. It has a very matt dense black quality to it, almost inert, which led me to treat it as a kind of artefact , reassembling and reconstructing it from fragments to recreate a rectangle. The rectangle being the dominant format we generally look at images - via screens, books , paintings, etc obvs. #wallpaper #fragment #artefact #noir #rectangle
‘000022-561’ and ‘000022-615’ watercolour, acrylic and coloured pencil on vintage toilet papers. Chromatic reintegration is an Italian restoration technique of using small hatching marks to reunite lost areas of an image whilst still being distinguishable from the original. Mine is a very basic version of it using my box of Caran d’ache pencils that I’ve still got from I was about 10 , and probably as old as the toilet paper I’m painting on. #reintegrazionecromatica #toiletpaper #retouching #carandache #pencil
