3.1 - Jess Littlewood, Jonathan Michael Ray & Rebecca Partirdge

bo.lee gallery
London, UK
20.03.20 - 11.04.20

For their spring 2020 programme bo.lee gallery will present three exhibitions, each featuring three works by three different artists. Titled 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, these are inspired by the rule of three, the writing principle that a trio is more pleasing and effective and offers the minimum quantity required to form a rhythm or pattern. This simple rule enables a playful visual freedom and a dialogue to emerge between the selected artists. To open the programme, 3.1 will draw together works by three British artists Jonathan Michael Ray, Jess Littlewood and Rebecca Partridge.

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Comprising of video, photography, sculpture, print and drawing, Jonathan Michael Ray’s work (b. 1984) is deeply connected to his surroundings, and examines the multilayered histories and fictions of the artefacts and places he encounters. He is interested in looking beyond what we look for when we look, by breaking down the processes by which we see, embracing the imagination, and making connections between the plethora of worlds around us. 

Jess Littlewood (b. 1988) creates landscapes that act as testing grounds to explore the nature of humanity. These play host to discoveries about ourselves both good and bad, an amphitheatre of human experience that highlight our fragile and temporary existence and expose our weaknesses.

Rebecca Patridge (b. 1976) paints realist yet minimal landscapes that draw you both away and inward – into a play of light. Created through acts of sustained looking, the paintings can be the result of acute observation, or made intuitively from memory. Her works are imbued with a generosity that stems from the dynamic between looking outward and being fully present, ultimately bringing the inaccessible and the invisible back into the landscape.