Cambridge-born emerging artist Felix Higham exhibits alongside two of his contemporaries, Otis Blease and Agnes Treherne, in the trio’s first exhibition since graduating from the Royal Drawing School
Opening times: 10th - 26th September 2021
Saturdays and Sundays 10am - 5pm
Fridays by appointment: email info@fendittongallery.com to book
We are delighted to welcome three exciting emerging artists to the gallery this September. Having completed the prestigious Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School earlier this year, these artists are at the very start of their artistic careers.
Otis Blease is currently based in London, having moved to study at The Royal Drawing School in 2019. Before The Drawing Year he studied Drawing and Printmaking at Bristol UWE, where he was awarded The Dumfries House residency upon graduation. Having grown up in Cornwall, the move to London had a considerable impact on his work. The city’s constant state of motion added an energy and spontaneity to his practice. Working with mixed media materials, often onto paper he explores feelings of excitement and anxiety in his work, interested in the way life can seem both thrilling and mundane simultaneously. His recent works start to draw on memories from childhood, a time where these feelings of excitement and boredom are often most viscerally experienced and the time where you learn your place in the world through exploration and making mistakes.
Felix Higham graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2016 and after spending time developing his painting practice in Paris and London, he joined The Drawing Year in 2019 where he expanded his work with colour. Built from the foundations of observational drawings, his work brings to light the space when figures are unaware of or unresponsive to their surroundings - when they are in a transient state between person and object.
Agnes Treherne grew up in Sussex and studied Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh followed by a year of drawing at the Royal Drawing School. Her work is informed by her native landscape and the landscapes of her mother’s family–California and Norway. She keeps a small sketchbook with her to record the weather and the people she is with. She turns to Art History, particularly the Early Italian Renaissance and American landscape painting to help articulate the impression nature has on her.
This exhibition will be an exciting look at contemporary drawing and will feature sketchbooks, developing drawings and paintings from this period of their work.