An inpirational exhibition

PAPER NAUTILUS

 

Paper Nautilus was a great success.

 

 A huge thank-you to everyone who took part and for all the wonderful people who came. The positive energy of the place was palpable. It was a joyous expression to collaboration, between the artists and the houses. An inspirational week of creativity.

 

 

The actual Paper Nautilus.

 

"The Paper Nautilus," about the act of creation as maternal protectiveness and watchfulness, moves from images of an externality, to an internality, and back again:

 

 

ADDRESS

PAPER NAUTILUS

 

77-79 SOUTHERN ROW

W10 5AL

OPEN 25th 6-8pm and 28^TH OCTOBER

2-8PM

ARTIST CONTACT DETAILS

PAPER NAUTILUS

Magdalena Groszek	magdalena.groszek@yahoo.co.uk
Kitty Stirling	kitty@kittystirling.com
Mark Templer	microscalm@aol.com
Caitlin Smail	caitlin.smail@virgin.net
Bethany Murray	bethanyamurray@gmail.com
Lucille Dweck	lucilledweck@hotmail.com
Sasha Bowles	sashabowles@gmail.com
John Blandy	jb@johnblandy.co.uk
Constance Rodd	constance@rodd.myzen.co.uk
Alistair Lambert	al@alistairlambert.co.uk
Matthew Luck Galpin	matt.galpin@googlemail.com
Lee Carter	rawfruits@hotmail.com
Lucie Winterson	lucieraining@talktalk.net

Katy Lynton	katylynton@hotmail.com
Ralph Anderson	ralphanderson77@hotmail.com
Alice Wilson	alice@alicewilson.org
Matt Gee	mattgeeartist@hotmail.com
Fiona Long	fionalong@gmail.com
Sabrina Rowan Hamilton	sabrinar@mac.com
Allison Katz	akallisonkatz@gmail.com
Amelia Critchlow	ameliacritchlow@hotmail.com
Justin Piperger	justinpip@yahoo.com
Alex March	alex@alexmarch.com
Francesca Tiffin	francessa@thetiffinfamily.com

Alaitz Cabriada	alaitzcabriada@hotmail.com
Michelle Piper	michellepiper@me.com
Andrea Brittain	andrea.dionne@hotmail.com
Angela Jones	angelawyerjones@yahoo.com
Diane Soltys	dianesoltys@hotmail.co.uk
Nikki Williams	nikki@kinki-glass.co.uk
Joe Cang	joecang@manjomusic.com
Bef Tahk	beftahk@msn.com

PAPER NAUTILUS

Paper Nautilus: 77‐79 Southern Row

The adjoining houses at 77--‐79 Southern Row were acquired in 1979 by two scientists, Alek Groszek and Charles Templer. Since then, they have housed a research and scientific equipment manufacturer, Microscal Ltd, making precision instruments, and a printmaking and papermaking business, the Nautilus Press run by Jane Reese. Once a slum, now a trendy neighbourhood, these Victorian terraces are soon to be demolished. Shorn of their original contents (some sold to form Book Arts Trust in Hackney Wick), their rooms a maze of retro 70's décor and industrial detritus, they

tell a fascinating story

 Alek Groszek's invention, the Microcalorimeter, measures heat exchanges at the surfaces of things. Invented in the 1960’s it is still used in research and development facilities all over the world, and his later research has convinced him of the possibility of creating a new form of energy. Inspired by this dynamic 85 year old, these buildings are now, albeit briefly, a catalyst for artistic exchange generating a new and different form of heat.

Responding to the buildings’ multi--‐layered history, thirty two artists have come together to create a two--‐day event; their individual metiers, moving toward collaboration and mutual interaction, include installation, film, photography, drawing, painting, ceramic, sound and performance.

Paper Nautilus is open on

Thursday Oct 25^th 6--‐9pm & Sunday 28^th 2--‐ 8pm only

 

Entrance. 79 Southern Row, W10 5A L.

Nearest tube. Ladbroke Grove. Kensal Green, Kensal Rise.

Buses. 52, 70, 295, 18

All enquiries:

kitty@kittystirling.com  07950 177 679

magdalena.groszek@yahoo.co.uk 07976 836 687

The Paper Nautilus Poem

PAPER NAUTILUS

 

THE PAPER NAUTILUS

CONSTRUCTS

HER THIN GLASS SHELL.

GIVING HER PERISHABLE

SOUVENIR OF HOPE, A DULL

WHITE OUTSIDE AND SMOOTH-

EDGED INNER SURFACE

GLOSSY AS THE SEA, THE WATCHFUL

MAKER OF IT GUARDS IT

DAY AND NIGHT

 

LEAVING ITS WASP NEST FLAWS

OF WHITE ON WHITE, AND CLOSE-

LAID IONIC CHITON-FOLDS

LIKE THE LINES IN THE MANE OF

A PARTHENON HORSE,

ROUND WHICH THE ARMS HAD

WOUND THEMSELVES AS IF THEY KNEW LOVE

IS THE ONLY FORTRESS

STRONG ENOUGH TO TRUST TO.

 

 

EXHIBITION

 

PAPER NAUTILUS

ORGANISED BY KITTY STIRLING AND MAGDALENA GROSZEK

Contact: kitty@kittystirling.com  07950 177 679
magdalena.groszek@yahoo.co.uk  07976 836 687