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TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre - Josephine Cachemaille & Alan Ibell - Old Energies -
12/03/2019 - curated by Nicholas Butler and Michael Prosee (Wallace Arts Trust)
with Josephine Cachemaille and Alan Ibell
"Old Energies draws on the creative input of two contemporary artists, Josephine Cachemaille
and Alan Ibell, who have produced new work inspired by the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and
the Pah Homestead. Both artists playfully cast themselves in the roles of analyst or medium,
tasked with exposing and channelling the relationships between the collection works, the
historic building and their own art works.
Cachemaille and Ibell show that different responses to the collection and building result
from a unique vision and practice. Cachemaille’s sculptures employ a wide range of media
including actual artworks selected from the collection. Her resulting exhibition is a large-scale
assemblage, flattening the hierarchies between art and non-art objects; tweaking the
perceptions of viewers as they are forced to negotiate often familiar artworks in surprising
configurations and relationships. Ibell’s contribution reflects a personal response to the
collection through a series of paintings that examines this connection, be it formal, mythic,
emotional or psychological."
Reproduced from the Wallace Arts Trust website
All works on this wall from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection
Graeme Storm (vase), Christine Webster, Alan Ibell
Alan Ibell - Ornament I, 2019 - acrylic on canvas
Alan Ibell with - Landscape With Figure Reflecting On The Confines Of Space, 2019 -
acrylic on canvas
Alan Ibell - Landscape With Figure Reflecting On The Confines Of Space, 2019 -
acrylic on canvas (detail)
Alan Ibell - Ornament II and [Bird] I, 2019 - acrylic on canvas
Sir James Wallace with Alan Ibell - Threshold (White Horse), 2019 - acrylic on canvas
Nicholas Butler, Sir James Wallace, Josephine Cachemaille with
Alan Ibell (centre), Eion Stevens (top right)
Alan Ibell - Threshold (White Horse), 2019 - acrylic on canvas (detail)
Virginia Leonard (foreground), Alan Ibell - Bird II, 2019 - acrylic on canvas (top right)
Cat Fooks (top left), Zac Langdon Pole (centre right), Imogen Taylor (bottom right)
Philip Clairmont (yellow background), Don Driver (wall hanging above fireplace),
John Featonby, Ray Rogers, Richard Naylor, Greg Barron (ceramics, bottom right)
Warren Viscoe (wood sculpture), Michael Prosee (top right)
Gretchen Albrecht (centre)