May’s theme of Mirror produced a fine and varied selection of responses. There were reflections galore in a multitude of different surfaces – the blurred and distorted shapes of passers-by reflected in chrome, multiple reflections on the gleaming body and wing mirror of a vintage car, a staged set up involving a mirror and coloured gels resulting in a complex series of abstract shapes, dancers practicing in front of a wall of mirrors, enlarged monumental figures from coins echoing each others’ postures, and a mirroring of the old and the new – vintage postcards collaged with contemporary photographs taken at the same seaside location. As you might expect from the title Mirror, there were a number of self portraits including a very clever one both as shadow and reflection, the photographer as a youth reflected in a convex mirror, another with the photographer caught framed in the manner of a Rembrandt self portrait, and a very amusing pastiche of Philip Larkin’s self portrait in the mirror with his Rolleiflex! Here is a selection of some of the work shown….

Geoff Titley

Jim Paterson

Steve Jones

Sue Czapska

Krystina Stimakovits

Edith Templeton

Ingrid Newton

Anna Lerner

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 28th June at 18.45 at the usual venue – The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queens Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT. The theme will be Coast – perfect weather for a trip to the seaside this week! Please bring along any work you wish to share on a memory stick or in print or book form.
Advance notice for July: Own Projects