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The Affordable Art Fair Bristol Spring 09
5 - 17 April 2009

Bicha - Stand A2
Private View 14 May from 6pm to 9pm
15 May from 11am to 8pm
16 May from 11am to 6pm
17 May from 11am to 5pm

The Affordable Art Fair Bristol Spring 09 is new gallery, Bicha's first art fair. As in previous exhibitions, Bicha are delighted to be exhibiting a new established artist, Eleonore Pironneau. She will be exhibiting alongside a growing list of artists including Annie Parker, Claire Malet, Henry Wilson, Tessa Eastman, Daniela Schneider and several others.

Eleonore Pironneau
Her recent series of paintings 'Bubbling Presence' draws the viewer into the delicacy of round forms, their ambiguity merely alluding to anything visceral; champagne bubbles, microscopic cells perhaps, while the artist sees them as self-portraits.

Eleonore Pironneau
Eleonore Pironneau, Gravity n 4 - Funky, 1600 x 650 mm, acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Annie Parker
Annie carves in stone: Alabaster, purbeck marble, onyx etc; she is currently creating a series of stone heads.

"The human face is an endless source of fascination and inspiration to me. It reflects the whole of humanity, and I have a compulsion to recreate it in my stonework. Before carving a rock, I observe it at length, trying to 'see’ a head within it. Once I have found it, I try and carve it with minimal alterations to the rock. I work according to its shape, size and flaws. Where possible, I like to keep some areas untouched in order to keep the character of the stone. I never make a prototype - the stone dictates the outcome."

Annie Parker
Annie Parker, Allons Enfants, Sandstone, H 500 x W 500 x D 220 mm

Claire Malet
The award winning artist works are inspired from nature and from the characteristics of the metals she works with.

"What interests me is the transformation of materials and objects and their perceived value. I collect and draw natural and eroded forms; often these are 'vessels': sea-worn shells, nutshells, eggshells and bark. I am inspired by their sculpted shapes, rich textures and colour, their fragility, their cracked and split edges. I have become increasingly interested in the contrasts between these natural containers and man-made containers. A drinks can for example is such a common object, used and discarded, of little beauty or value. A fragment of shell found while walking on a beach can become a treasure, although like the drinks can it did its job and was discarded."

Claire Malet
Claire Malet, Fragment, Copper, 24 ct gold and 12 ct white gold, H 80 x W 520 mm

Henry Wilson
His Indian photography has been used for cover designs for such leading international writers as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai. Having established a fascination with India, he completed amongst other publications, a book commissions for the Maharaja of Baroda, involving an eight-month tour of India photographing temples and religious shrines.

Henry's published books include; H.Wilson: India Contemporary, Thames and Hudson, 2007; H. Wilson: India: Interiors, Conran Octopus, 2001; The Legend of Rama: Artistic vision, Marg Publications, Bombay 1994; Madhur Jaffrey: A Taste of India, Pavilion, 1985; H. Wilson: Benares, Thames and Hudson, 1985

From the mid 1980's Henry Wilson began to develop an interest in interiors photography and is now acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost photographers in this genre. He regularly contributes to the leading magazines, writing his own articles accompanied with his photographs, including The World of Interiors and the four Architectural Digest magazines.

Henry Wilson has been commissioned to design a collection of wallpapers for Osborne & Little in London, which will launch in May 09 titled Henry Wilson for Osborne & Little.

Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson, Dhotis A Traditional Male Dress Dry In The Wind After Ritual Bathing, Varanasi - Uttar Pradesh - India, 2/100 edition, 610 x 850 mm Photograph

Tessa Eastman
Her passion for creativity, clay and colour has lead her to complete a Batchelor of Arts Honours degree in ceramics at the University of Westminster in 2006. After spending a year in the South of France as an assistant and apprentice to the well-established ceramist, Kate Malone, she returned to London to pursue her ceramics career.

"Natural forms have always allured me and I have recently combined this with my toy obsession, incorporating toy casts into each piece’.

Tessa Eastman
Tessa Eastman, Straw Sea Shore Berry, Clay, H 220 x W 340 mm

Daniela Schneider
Daniela is a Brazilian journalist and photographer based in Sao Paulo, showing her most recent works Air Lines and City Scars.

"What attracts me to photography is its ability to focus people’s attention on things that exist but go unseen, although they are part of our daily lives â€" to do this is to provide a new perception and view of the city".

Daniela managed to find beauty in one of the worse examples of visual pollution in the city of Sao Paulo. The chaotic and messy electrical wires hanging from street lampposts, which in civilized places are buried underground. Taking a close look at the tangled wires, she began to realise and registering the design drawn by chance in the urban 'clothesline' and the project Air Lines was born.

The City Scars project is the photographing of walls and billboards in Sao Paulo. Where she found in the midst of all the messy dirt and stripped paint, shapes and images that intrigued her.

Daniela Schneider
Daniela Schneider, DS-AL19, 02/50 edition, 570 x 460 mm Black and white photograph

About Bicha
Bicha has grown to represent 16 contemporary international living artists based in the UK and abroad â€" working with a variety of media and materials: sculpture, ceramics, drawing, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, and metal works.

From the beginning Bicha has supported and promoted the work of various charities in the UK and abroad. Although Bicha’s charity of choice is the Terrence Higgins Trust, it has also worked with others, such as the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Arts Charity. As well as raising funds and awareness for the Centro de Referencia da Diversidade in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the Nandavu Community School in Zambia.

We would like to invite you for cup cakes and pink champagne at the Private View on the 14th May between 6pm to 9pm on stand A2.

For more details or images please contact Antonio Capelo
Email: antonio@bicha.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)7721 400 048

Bicha
Unit 1Q2 Cooper House
2 Michael Road
London SW6 2AD

www.bicha.co.uk
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