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18th November 2009
LYNN PAROTTI'S NEW STUDIOS

Lynn has moved her studio to the The Light Factory, 6 Scrubs Lane, London NW10 6RB

6th September 2009
ALTER WORLD EXHIBITION - Imperial Wharf Jazz Festival 2009

In addition to its normal gallery hours Gallery6 is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the Imperial Wharf Jazz Festival 2009.

Festival Dates:
Thursday 17th September, 6pm – 10pm
Saturday 19th September, 1pm – 10pm

Please visit www.imperialwharf.com/jazz for the line up of performances or to book a table in one of the four restaurants. And of course we look forward to seeing you at Gallery6 and enjoying a fantastic day on the river.

Exhibition Dates:
July 18th - September 30th, 2009

Opening Hours:
Wednesdays & Fridays 2:00-8:00 - Thursdays 12:00-6:00 - Saturdays 12:00-8:00 - Sundays 12:00-6:00 - closed mondays
For viewing by appointment please contact gallery6info@googlemail.com or Lynn Parotti on 07951 572352


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16th July 2009
GROUP EXHIBITION: Gallery 6 at Imperial Wharf - ALTER WORLD

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Exhibition Dates:
July 18th - September 30th, 2009

Gallery 6 presents:
Claudia Carr
Tessa MacGregor
Catherine Parkinson
Lynn Parotti
Holly Parotti
Yukako Shibata
Paul Vanstone
Felicity Warbrick
Claire Burke  

Also featuring works by
Mole Browne
Jason Smith
Tommy Penton
Shiv

Private View:
Thursday 30th July 6:00-9:00pm
RSVP 07951 572352

Gallery 6
The Boulevard
Imperial Wharf
London
SW6 2UB

Opening Hours:
Wednesdays & Fridays 2:00-8:00 - Thursdays 12:00-6:00 - Saturdays 12:00-8:00 - Sundays 12:00-6:00 - closed mondays
For viewing by appointment please contact gallery6info@googlemail.com or Lynn Parotti on 07951 572352

Supported by Action Response Ltd, Imperial Wharf and Wimbledon Wine Cellar

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24th June 2009
PRESS:

THE DAILY EXPRESS

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23th June 2009
Gallery 6 presents:

Artist’s Talk by the Painter & the Poet: Pete Hoida
LOOKING IN THE FOXED GLASS
Pete Hoida reads poems written between 1975 and 2009 and gives a short talk on the background to the paintings.

Tuesday June 23rd, 2009: 7:15 – 9:00 pm

“Hoida lives in rural Gloucestershire and I can’t help associating these not-so-abstract abstracts with its landscape features – like the Cotswold wall-like slabs of the Hofmann-esque……‘Uisge Poitín’ inevitably reinforce this suggestion of terrain but the expanse of the support primarily serves to facilitate the formation and spread of pigment which the artist clearly relishes for its own innate expressive qualities.” Geoff Rigden, 2008.

Pete Hoida’s rich, uncompromising painterly work has been too little seen in London over the years. In 1974 he moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire where he had studios in the Workhouse, Chalford Hill and the Railway Tavern, finally building his own studio in Brownshill in 1980. We are very pleased at gallery6 to be able to present several of his evocative works in ‘sixth sense’.

“Marrying an abstract distinctly English landscape sensibility that draws on Heron and Hitchens with the fierce transatlantic colourism of Hans Hoffman and de Stael's velvety tachism, Hoida arrives at an intensely personal synthesis, resonating with landscape feeling.” Nicholas Usherwood, 2008.

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19th June 2009
Gallery 6 presents:

Pop up Private View
Featuring the duo La Belle et la Bete with guest lead guitarist Gary Martin and fretless bassist Martin Young.

Friday June 19th, 2009: 6:00 – 9:00 pm  CASH BAR

La Belle et la Bete are Catherine Taylor Dawson and Ken Cox, independent musicians who play acoustic guitars and compose their own songs. As the duo La Belle et la Bete they have combined talents to sing in close harmony jointly written material and highly personalised well loved cover versions ranging across a wide musical spectrum including folk, rock ‘n roll, country, jazz, blues and soul.

Our Pop-Up Gallery of contemporary prints, drawings, artists’ books and photographs features over 18 artists including Tommy Penton, Shiv, Tim Kavanagh, Elizabeth Zeschin, Patricia Poullain, David Ferry and Collectible Film Posters by Jason Smith.
Please join us at gallery 6 to celebrate the Pop Up gallery artists and their diverse and reasonably priced works.

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17th June 2009
Gallery 6 presents:

Artist’s Talk by the Sculptor Michael Lyons
Sculptural Process: Cross Cultural Connections

Wednesday June 17th, 2009: 7:15 – 9:00 pm

Michael Lyons has exhibited widely since the 1960's, both in Britain and abroad. In 1993 he influentially taught steel sculpture at the China National Academy of Art, beginning a long term artistic and cultural  connection with China. In 2003 he won the prestigious Yuzi Prize (1st prize)  at the 1st Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Awards; He is in the  process of completing a monumental bronze for the Shanghai Sculpture Park.

In 2004 Lyons fulfilled a life time ambition to visit Mexico, and has  worked and exhibited there with increasing regularity. In 2006 he won the Premio Fondo National de las Artes at the Chaco Sculpture Biennale, in Argentina. Lyons' sculpture relies on the strength of its form, but allows for poetic allusion and symbolic content. His main medium since the 70's has  been steel, reflecting the Constructivist tradition begun by Picasso and  Gonzalez.

Michael Lyons' solo exhibition 'First  Light: China Morning' can be seen at the RBS Galleries from 24th June to 3rd  July.'

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15th June 2009
PRESS RELEASE:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  



GALLERY 6 AT IMPERIAL WHARF

gallery 6 has rapidly become a dynamic addition to London's Contemporary Commercial Art Scene since its launch on the 20th May at Imperial Wharf which attracted over 340 people. gallery 6 is located in the heart of the beautiful, premier St.George development at Imperial Wharf, giving visitors to the gallery an opportunity to see work by leading contemporary artists in a relaxed setting and to also stroll by river whilst visiting the Sensory Gardens. From 19th May to 30th June, gallery 6‘s inaugural exhibition  ‘sixth  sense’ brings  together a group of international,  award-winning artists: Michael Chandler, Pete Hoida, Holly Parotti, Lynn Parotti, Michael Lyons, Lelia Pissarro, and  Paul Vanstone. gallery 6 also includes a programme of events, artist's talks and a special Pop-Up Gallery of contemporary prints, drawings, artists’ books and photographs featuring over 18 artists.

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27th April 2009
GROUP EXHIBITION: Gallery 6 at Imperial Wharf - SIXTH SENSE

Exhibition Dates:
May 19th - 30th June, 2009

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Gallery 6 presents:
Michael Chandler
Pete Hoida
Michael Lyons
Holly Parotti
Lynn Parotti
Lélia Pissarro
Paul Vanstone

Private View:
Wednesday 20th May 6:00-9:00pm

Gallery 6
The Boulevard
Imperial Wharf
London
SW6 2UB

Opening Hours:
Tuesday,Wedneday & Friday 12:00-8:00 - Thursday, Saturday & Sunday 12:00-6:00 - closed mondays
For viewing by appointment please contact Lynn Parotti on 07951572352

Supported by Action Response Ltd, Imperial Wharf Wimbledon Wine Cellar and JuJu.

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27th April 2009
PRESS RELEASE:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  




GALLERY 6 SET TO OPEN AT IMPERIAL WHARF

gallery 6 is a new commercial gallery set to open at Imperial Wharf, London’s premier riverside development, which will offer residents and visitors of the capital the chance to take time out of the hectic city life and appreciate art in a gallery set on the riverside in a green oasis of parkland.
 
With its stunning location on the banks of the river Thames, ten acres of landscaped parkland and a sensory garden, Imperial Wharf, the award-winning mixed-use development of a brownfield site by London developers St George, makes for the perfect location to take a relaxing view of the work of established and emerging artists. Let intuition be your guide as you explore both the engaging works in the gallery and sculptures in the development's Sensory Garden. It is a fresh approach where art comes alive, both indoors and out.

The first exhibition, Sixth Sense, brings together a group of international, award-winning artists who excite the sensory experience of the viewer. It invites them to explore their senses through the colour, line, texture and designs the artworks provide.

Lèlia Pissarro employs a luxurious palette of gold, pink and ethereal blue in her paintings which exude a feeling of warmth and physicality within their tactile surfaces. Luminous swathes of colour are overlaid with spontaneous, textured palette knife marks and paint squeezed directly from the tube producing evocative and emotive works.
 
Paul Vanstone works in marble and onyx creating fluidity of movement in the human form. There is a classical sensibility and sensuality in the languorous curves of his figures which is intensified by the composition and colour of the marble itself.
 
Lynn Parotti’s colour-saturated views of river cityscapes at night are described by rushes of electric light. Cobalt blues and cadmiums are dragged over painterly, creamy brushwork using a printmakers squeegee to describe fragile mangroves amidst fluid, temporal landscapes which become an analogy for transience and regeneration.
 
Pete Hoida paints bold, big abstract paintings with a powerful material presence. His colours make a loud noise with magenta, yellow, red and orange set against one another. These landscapes of the mind awaken joy.
 
Holly Parotti‘s frenetically etched works on paper offer a psychological commentary on vulnerability yet are presented in uncompromising, protective steel frames. The linear mark is automatic, filled with tension and suspense as mundane utilitarian objects describe insecurities.
 
Michael Lyons welds steel sculptures that are geometric in simplicity of form yet they are rugged, charged with a nervous energy. The shaping, forming and welding of these sculptures are metaphors for the way we shape our lives and the world around us.
 
Michael Chandler creates abstract canvases which are painted with a lyrical gesture that evokes energy, a vortex of movement beckoning the viewer into the network of ribbons of colour, a forest of the imagination awaits.
 
Sandra Higgins, one of the organizers behind the exhibition, comments, "'sixth sense' is a truly dynamic exhibition which will include a programme of events, artists’ talks, and a special Pop-up Gallery of contemporary prints. We are also delighted to announce that Leslie Ash, a resident of Imperial Wharf, will be opening gallery 6 on 20th May at 6:00pm."
 
Sandra continues, "gallery 6 will offer people a unique cultural experience in SW6 - they can view the works of a number of world-class contemporary artists before going on to enjoy a riverside drink and dine in one of the four fantastic restaurants at Imperial Wharf.
 
gallery 6 is located at Unit 6, The Boulevard, Imperial Wharf and will be open from 19th May to 30th June 2009. Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 12:00 - 8:00pm and Thursday, Saturday and Sunday between 12:00 - 6:00pm. Viewings outside of these times are available by appointment only. A private viewing is being held on Wednesday 20th May 2009 from 6:00 to 9:00pm.

The gallery 6 launch is sponsored by JuJu.

31st January 2009
EXHIBITION:

GREEN FUSE

Exhibition Dates:
January 31st - April 30th, 2009

Inagua: Breath 107 x 168cm oil on canvas

Jane Watt is pleased to present the oil paintings of Lynn Parotti at the Avenue, St. James in the exhibition Green Fuse. Drawing upon the Dylan Thomas poem from which the exhibition borrows its name, Lynn Parotti’s oil paintings of the river Thames and the southern Bahamian Island “Inagua” comment on the flow of energy which drives not only life, but simultaneously destruction.

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