Fiona Jardine & Will Daniels : April is the Cruelest Month

Fiona Jardine

Following on from her professed interest in the connections and concurrencies between instances and imagery, substance and form in the work of Rabelais, T.S.Eliot, Brett Easton Ellis, Fiona Jardine has formulated a new and specific group of sculptures for this exhibition at Transmission. The sculptures make liberal and loose references to Classical and arcane architectural features: a pair of funereal facades have been designed with allusions to Wall Street boardrooms and ancient portals, (in particular to the façade of the “Midas Monument”, an Anatolian tomb chamber dating from the 9th or 8th century B.C); a collection of extruded columns seemingly take their form from an organization of mollified entrails, arsepipes and larries, belying their Gargantuan origins. Resonant with their rude craft, hi-gloss and leathery, their presence in the gallery sets up an uneasy limbo, neither interior nor exterior, neither now nor then, and acts as a foil for the paintings on show.

Fiona Jardine lives and works in Glasgow. She is represented by Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow. Recent shows include Sweeney, Intermedia, Glasgow, Egg Nogs & Flips (with Lili Reynaud-Dewar), Public, Paris, New Work, (with Lauren Nurse), Leisure, Montreal and Madame la Baronne, Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil.

Will Daniels

William Daniels’ small-scale paintings are derived from paper models and lo-fi Marquette’s of famous historical paintings. The paintings reflect each detail of the model’s cuts, tears and folds, lending a solidity and permanence to the otherwise throwaway ephemeral materials used to construct each Marquette. In past works Daniels’ has re-interpreted pre-twentieth century masterpieces including The Abbey in the Oak Wood by Casper David Friedrich, The Incredulity of St Thomas by Caravaggio and Raphael’s The Resurrection, while his most recent work looks at more contemporary references such as landscapes by Cezanne and Baselitz. Daniels’ slow process of working from reproductions seems to deliberately play with traditions of painting and the notion of the artist present before his subject.

Will Daniels lives and works in London. He is represented by Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Vilma Gold and Marc Foxx, Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin and Waste Material, The Drawing Room, London.

Transmission would like to thank Mark Dickinson and Rachael Williams at Vilma Gold

April is the Cruelest Month
Fiona Jardine & Will Daniels