The raw and honest paintings by Paul Haworth move between the poles of his very personal life and the galaxy of images that everyone of us is surrounded by. In his work he allows his close friends, enemies, heroes and fellow artists such as Donald Judd to take place, in the hope of gaining a better understanding of his own position as an artist.
Haworth conceives his paintings as a group, an accumulation of different stories. Navigating between the temporary and the permanent, between art that is rooted in today’s society and abstract art that is separate from life, he never becomes cynical.
"As a painter I try to be unafraid to change position, make mistakes and question myself through my work. I try to deal with the questions I have about the world and about art through painting and to do this without the knowing self-awareness that is so present today in society, art, the internet etc.", says Haworth. Drips, tears in the canvas, heavily worked areas, under painting, he leaves it all in.
As a radio maker and writer, music is part of his live and work. But I’ve reason to believe we soon will be received in Graceland (2007) is a personal homage to Paul Simon. We see the artist and his close friend enjoying the song. A CD player comes out of the painting playing Graceland and the CD box is glued to the canvas in a recalcitrant way.
In Haworth’s paintings there is often a push and pull between the abstract, formal qualities and the need to say something. Oh God, You Make Everything Seem So Simple (2006) depicts the painter as an angelic child awaiting the favour of the Muse in the form of an abstract-expressionist streak.

Paul Haworth studied painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He is the publisher of the music fanzine Homelovin' and presenter of the radio program Love Paul on the Amsterdam Patapoe station. His work is in renowned private collections and has been shown in solo exhibitions in Amsterdam and Lancaster and in group exhibitions in Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, PAD Gallery, Preston, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam and Modern Art, Oxford.

Jodie Carey creates ceremonial objects made from mundane materials in which the quality of craftsmanship is displayed. Her installations draw us in with their familiar iconography but when taking a closer look we are being confronted with issues of ritual, artifice and mortality in contemporary Western society. By using craft, skill and time to transform basic lowly materials into the wondrous, the beautiful and the spectacular Carey’s work questions the way we look at the world and transforms daily experience. She offers beauty but at the same time confronts us with the ugliness of life.
At Galerie Gabriel Rolt she will show an installation of memorial slabs or monoliths (height approx. 2.5 metres) made of lard and adorned with paper flower arrangements stained with blood. At once political and personal, it marks Carey’s increasingly universal treatment of the modern malaise, broadening her earlier focus on the ceremonious ostentation of Middle England.
Another recent work is ‘Untitled Monument” (2007), a 3 metre high ‘’cenotaph’’ made from 2,000 bones individually cast in plaster and decorated with handcrafted sugar-paste flowers and ivy. According to Carey traditional memorials have an opposite effect: “There is a perversity in that once you commemorate something, it is far easier to walk away. It’s not lest we forget, it’s more lest we remember.”
Spectacular are the three 2.5 metre baroque-inspired chandeliers (Untitled, 2006), made of vacuum dust rolled into tiny balls and then fixed to curved wire frames. Carey: “Hoover dust is the detritus of everyday life. If you die tomorrow, all that would be left of you would be in your Hoover.”

The work of Jodie Carey is increasingly sought after. Her work was acquired by Charles Saatchi, David Roberts, Hauser and Wirth and Kay Saatchi, she exhibited at Hauser and Wirth in Zurich and in the group show Anticipation, curated by Kay Saatchi and exhibited at David Roberts Gallery in London. Carey graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in London in 2005 and from the Royal College of Arts in London in 2007.