A new exhibition is coming to The Bakery Gallery in Islington next week.
Left: ‘Yield’ (oil on wood panel, 2025) by Nigel Ellis. Right: ‘You have watches we have time’ (newspaper collage on card, 2021)
Edge Grounds & Next Futures – is a late-career show, comprising paintings by Nigel Ellis and collages by William Harrop.
Nigel Ellis says of his paintings:
“These little collisions of nature and nurture are almost unseen and seemingly beneath notice. To me they stand for something to look for and believe in. They happen at the base of trees, along railway station embankments, at the edges of paths, parks … anywhere. Intense with accident, they might aspire to abstraction, but are informing, creaturely and particular. Too small to be ‘Edgeland’ landscapes, they are models of modesty but as limitless in variety as the skies. I call them Edge Grounds.”
While William Harrop (grandson of artist Frederick Harrop) says of his collages:
“Yesterday’s papers may be a long-standing byword for the discarded, but in collage inventive ways have often been found to recycle this throwaway material. Newspaper imagery is mostly concerned with storytelling, but if the images are fragmented, re-orientated, and recombined in an altered context with the story leached out, other unforeseen spaces may be revealed. This is the process followed in these collages. Next future is a literal translation of the Spanish proximo futuro, usually translated as near future. If it implies a short-term revival of the ephemeral, i.e. old newspaper becoming collage, next future also hints at how provisional the sense of any future has become.”
The exhibition runs at The Bakery Gallery, Charlton Place, Camden Passage, London N1 from 23rd – 28th September 2025.
There is a Private View on Thu 25th Sept, 6-9pm.
As there is limited capacity, please RSVP on Eventbrite for the Private View.
