Paul Ryan

14 February – 10 March 2013

The Gallery @ Idea Store Whitechapel presents a solo show by Paul Ryan, bringing together a selection of recent work inspired by the gallery’s context.

Ryan is interested in the ways in which the Idea Store, as a hive of activity, represents a site of different dialogues between people, things and information. As well as being a meeting place, it also brings together texts and images in the pages of thousands of books and the web, which in turn provoke thought and communication. Inside and outside merge and reflect each other in the architecture of the building and as people come and go. In short, the Idea Store exemplifies a location for different encounters, both planned and accidental.

The exhibition will consist of an eclectic range of works which echo these ideas of convergence on a variety of levels. Several open sketchbooks, as well prints twinned with their printing plates, present the motif of doubling and ways in which thoughts and images are produced and circulated. Also included is a changing display of objects that represent the double: photographs; photocopies; a selection of found objects, such as two halves of a broken plate or a split open gourd.

Ryan’s main medium is drawing. He is best known for his sketchbooks, which over the years, he has filled with drawings, watercolours, notes and doodles, effectively creating a log of visual and written thoughts as he responds to the world around him.

Paul Ryan (b. 1968, Leicester) lives and works in London. He is an artist and curator and holds a PhD from the University of the Arts, London, where he also teaches. Recent exhibitions include Drawing: Interpretation/Translation, Hui Gallery, Chinese University, Hong Kong (2011); What Are Feelings For?, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, London (2007). Recent exhibitions curated by Ryan include What the Folk Say, Compton Verney, Warwick (2011); Manual Setting, Danielle Arnaud, London (2011).

For further information and images please contact Sotiris Kyriacou,ideastore@towerhamlets.gov.uk

The Gallery @ Idea Store Whitechapel

321 Whitechapel Road

London, E1 1BU

Monday - Thursday 9am - 9pm

Friday 9am - 6pm

Saturday 9am - 5pm

Sunday 11am - 5pm

http://www.ideastore.co.uk/en/containers/universal/idea_store_whitechapel_gallery

A series of interventions, by contemporary British artists and curators, into the collection of British Folk Art at Compton Verney. Including Juneau Projects, Tasha Amini, James Ayres, Daniel Baker, Peter Blake, Sonia Boyce, Faye Claridge, Simon Costin, Jeremy Deller, Carolyn Flood, Jenny Gordon, Antonia Harrison, Susan Hiller, Alan Kane, Paula MacArthur, Martin Myrone, Mike Nelson, Paul Ryan, and Sarah Woodfine.

At Frieze Art Fair 13-16th October 2011 Epstein by Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan at The Modern Institute

Expansive Mood at The Mansion House, The City of London 17 & 18th September 2011 as part of the Open House Weekend

Including works by: Nick Bailey, Amy Bear, Daniel Baker, William Cobbing, Paul Coldwell, Naomi Dines, Dunhill & O'Brien, Earl of Bedlam, Victoria Haviland, Russell Hill, Declan Jenkins, Billy Kerry, Zuza Mengham, Roxy Minter, Isaac Murai-Rolfe, Paul Ryan, Joe Sutherland, Sarah Woodfine, Elizabeth Wright.

Call the Witness, the Roma Pavilion, was a collateral event in the framework of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale die Venezia, 2011. It was organized by Open Society Foundations, and developed and realized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht under the artistic directorship of Maria Hlavajova. Digital venue:www.callthewitness.net.

'Souvenir' is a postcard stand. One card is 'traced' from a pre-war tourist postcard of the town of Auschwitz and shows a peacock with the town's buildings as pictures set within the feathers. The second card is 'redrawn' from Stosberg's (a Nazi architect) plan for the town hall for after the war. The last is of the drawing 'Concentrate' that hangs nearby.

http://www.ideastore.co.uk/en/containers/universal/idea_store_whitechapel_gallery

This is a New Ways of Curating project