Somewhere, Nowhere Jodie Carey 20 May – 19 June 2011

- Private View: Thur 19 May 6.30 - 8.30pm Artist Tour: Thur 19 May 5.45pm -

27 April 2011: Somewhere, Nowhere, a solo show of new work by UK based artist Jodie Carey, opens at Wandsworth Council’s Pump House Gallery on 20 May.  [Press preview and tour with the artist at 1745hrs, 19 May 2011, RSVP to leldret@wandsworth.gov.uk].

Jodie’s work has been exhibited around the world and is in many private collections including, in the UK, those of Hauser and Wirth, David Roberts, and Charles Saatchi

Somewhere, Nowhere is a presentation of new work especially for the Pump House and work created during a three year bursary of studio-space and wider support awarded to the artist by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in partnership with Chelsea Arts Club Trust.  The Royal Borough’s bursary and support provided Jodie with the space and opportunity to create her first body of work as a graduate, leading to interest from collectors around the world.  

For Somewhere, Nowhere the artist explores concepts that centre around ideas of time, memory and materiality. The focus is on a transitory, ephemeral and corporeal beauty, evoking notions of time passing, memories fading, absence and loss.

Materials such as blood, bone and ash become pigments that stain the floor and mark the walls; traces of life simultaneously anonymous and intimate. Evoking the idea of a home and its history in the gallery space, Somewhere, Nowhere uses the house as a metaphor for humanness. It speaks of peeling wallpapers, stained carpets, of life’s general wear and tear, of homes left behind and ultimately the fragility and vulnerability of human life.

	Untitled (Bruises) 2011 Plaster, coffee, lace, cigarette ash 27 x 38cm Untitled (Bruises), Jodie Carey courtesy The Pump House Gallery. Download hi-res picture
	Untitled (Bruises) 2011 Plaster, coffee, lace, cigarette ash 27 x 38cm Untitled (Bruises), Jodie Carey courtesy The Pump House Gallery. Download hi-res picture
	Untitled (Bruises) 2011 Plaster, coffee, lace, cigarette ash 27 x 38cm Untitled (Bruises), Jodie Carey courtesy The Pump House Gallery. Download hi-res picture
	Untitled (Urns) 2011 Plaster, cardboard, bone, lace, cigarette ash 50 x 50 x 133cm Untitled (Urns), Jodie Carey courtesy The Pump House Gallery. Download hi-res picture
	Untitled (Flowers) 2011 Plaster, chiffon, bone dust 55 x 55 x 83cm Flowers, Jodie Carey courtesy The Pump House Gallery. Download hi-res picture

Note to Editors:

About the Pump House Gallery
Pump House Gallery is a public contemporary visual arts space on the lakeside in Battersea Park, South London. The gallery is owned, managed and funded by Wandsworth Council and plays a leading role in the cultural life of the borough. It is the highest profile public visual arts space in Wandsworth, attracting over 30,000 visitors a year.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Artist Studio Bursary Programme
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is committed to supporting artists in the early stages of their career.  In partnership with Chelsea Arts Club Trust, which has similar ambitions, the Royal Borough set up a series of three-year bursaries for emerging artists.  Each bursary comprises of one of the 30 artist studios owned by the Royal Borough, an annual bursary fee, honorary membership of Chelsea Arts Club and assistance towards materials costs.  Jodie Carey was the first artist to be awarded a bursary and she completed her three years in September 2010.  The Royal Borough is developing the Bursary programme to include 15 studios over the next ten years. Leading arts and cultural institutions including the Saatchi Gallery, The Delfina Foundation, The Slade, Royal College of Art, The Roseissa Gallery and the Pump House Gallery are working with the Royal Borough on the programme.

About the Artist
Jodie Carey (b 1981) graduated with an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2007. She previously studied Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College. Jodie has had solo exhibitions in London and New York as well as her first museum exhibition In the Eyes of Others at Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne. Other selected exhibitions include London in Zurich at Hauser and Wirth, Zurich 2005, Blood Lines at Art Forum, Berlin, 2009,  Haute Couture at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2009 and Dead or Alive at the Museum of Art and Design, New York in 2010. Her work appears in UK collections including Hauser and Wirth, David Roberts, and Charles Saatchi.  She is represented by Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam.

For more info contact:
Laura Eldret leldret@wandsworth.gov.uk  Tel: + 44 (0) 20 8871 7572
www.pumphousegallery.org.uk

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