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13.6.25 – 29.9.25
THE WORK OF FIRE

Clementine Keith-Roach
Christopher Page

Clementine Keith-Roach is a sculptor of new ruins. Her work centres around the process of plaster-casting. Casts taken from her body and other objects are melded with antique terracotta vessels and trompe l’oeil painted to create a continuous surface that blurs the boundary between body and object, skin and clay. Her works are reminiscent of archaeological artefacts, but they also propose new worlds to come. They are thus both funerary and pregnant with possibility. Keith-Roach lives and works in Dorset, UK and is represented by Ben Hunter, London and P.P.O.W, New York. Full Haus: The Seeld Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Mademoiselle, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitane, Sète, France; Earth, Skyand Body Ruins, Ben Hunter, London, UK; Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK; City of Ceram-ics - All About the Vessel, Gmunden, Austria; Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA; Slip Tease, Kasmin, New York, USA; Milk, Wellcome Collection, London, UK and New Statue, P.P.O.W, New York, USA. Christopher Page is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes trompe l’oeil paintings on canvas, and directly on walls and ceilings that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; blank mirrors confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. And yet, the paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. They are hard-edged compositions of colour fields which look as much to Modernist abstraction as they do to Baroque illusion. Recent exhibitions include Full Haus: The Seeld Library, MOCA storefront, Los Angeles, USA; Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA; Earth Sky Body Ruins (with Clementine Keith- Roach), Ben Hunter, London, UK; Fading Light in the Picture Gallery, Dirimart, Istanbul; Christopher Page: Blind Gallery, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Knots (with Clementine Keith-Roach), P.P.O.W., New York, USA; Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset, UK; Painting Stone, Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy and Picturesque, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA. Page and Keith-Roach are also a co-founders and editors of Effects, a journal of art, poetry, and essays.

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