A New Hiscox Art Project

23 September – 12 November 2005

A shared motivation rather than a unifying aesthetic ties these artists together, each taking commonplace objects and scenarios to rework them. All the works in their own way challenge one’s perception, demanding the viewer to reconsider that which is familiar and often overlooked.  Humorous, dreamlike or enhancing the formal qualities of common objects, the works in this exhibition call upon our attention through the manipulation of our domestic surroundings: spaces, materials and situations are animated, and propose to look afresh at our environment and to re-imagine it.

In the clay sculptures of Jessie Flood-Paddock, objects acquire a different dimension and texture. Reworked with a seemingly careless ease, they become sculptures that fall between the figurative and the abstract.  In Oona Culley's installations, objects that no longer have a function are restored from memories, encouraging the viewer to look beyond the purely material to allow for the invisible or the illusionary.  'Videoer' Russell Weekes presents playful retakes of everyday occurrences.  In his films, animated objects wake up from boredom with an absurd life that moves them out of the ordinary as if possessed by a cheeky alter ego. Tatiana Echeverri Fernández's installations and collages make use of existing printed images and objects' leftovers to create intriguing sculptures and bi-dimensional works with a modernist and geometric touch.

Exhibition Dates: 23^rd September-12^th November

Open from 7.00am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday

Location: Hiscox Art Projects, 1 Great St Helen’s, London, EC3A 6HX

This exhibition has been organised by Alejandra Aguado, Carmen Juliá and Cassandra Needham, recent graduates from the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with Hiscox Art Projects.

Hiscox Art Projects: making exciting contemporary collections readily accessible to those living and working in the City, as well as to the wider art community. 

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About Hiscox plc

Hiscox plc is a specialist insurance group listed on the London Stock Exchange where it has a market capitalisation of circa £550 million.  There are three main underwriting parts of the Group - Syndicate 33 at Lloyd's, UK Retail and International Retail.  Syndicate 33 underwrites mainly internationally traded business in the London Market - generally large or complex business which needs to be shared with other insurers or needs the international licences of Lloyd's.  The UK Retail business offers a wide range of specialist insurance for professionals and business customers, as well as high net worth individuals.  It has regional offices in Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Maidenhead and Colchester.  The International Retail business has offices in Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Brussels and Guernsey.  The European offices write mainly fine art, high value household business and some specialist professional indemnity business.  The Guernsey office underwrites fine art business and kidnap and ransom.  Hiscox is the largest specialist fine art and high net worth insurer in Europe.  For further information, visit www.hiscox.com

The Hiscox Art Projects is located at 1 Great St Helen’s, London, EC3A 6HX. For further information on this and future Hiscox Art Projects exhibitions, please visit: www.hiscox.com/artprojects

About The Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art, based in London is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, specialising in teaching and research and offering the degrees of MA, MPhil and PhD across the disciplines of fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities. There are eight hundred masters and doctoral students and more than a hundred professionals interacting with them including scholars, leading practitioners of art and design and innumerable specialists, advisors and distinguished visitors. For further information, visit http://www.rca.ac.uk