Velorose x Plinth:
ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL: Actual / Virtual / Mail Art Show
3 April 2020 - 31 May 2020

ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL is an actual-virtual-mail art exhibition curated by Velorose x Plinth in which everyone and anyone can participate by creating an artwork and mailing it to the gallery at Velorose; this is Art in the Age of Coronavirus. Velorose may not be in the pink, but Plinth is determined not to feel blue, and so for April 2020, we’re both going green

ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL: Mail Art
Velorose has been a big fan of Mail Art for years, and we’ve decided that now’s the time to revitalise a project we started after our very first show in July 2016, when invited to curate a ‘show within a show’ at Curious Body, 1b Charterhouse Square, by Abigail Schama, William Martin, and Patrick Smith. We are asking all visitors to participate in the exhibition by making and sending a Mail Art postcard to the gallery. for instructions on how to participate, and to view submissions click here

ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL: Reiko Kaneko
When it came to co-curating the nature-inspired exhibition ELEMENTAL (which became ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL under lockdown), Reiko’s artworks were the perfect choice, but what Chloe and David had not counted on when visiting Reiko’s new studio at the bottom of her garden in Tottenham was the connection that had emerged between Reiko designing and devising ceramics while simultaneously cultivating a garden. To view, click here

ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL: Kit Allsopp
On a visit to Kit’s studio in 2017 to select oil paintings for his successful 2018 solo exhibition ‘Primitive Huts, Natural Landscape', David was struck by a small watercolour hanging above Kit’s desk. The story that emerged, and the image, remained with David and came to mind when thinking of art under lockdown: Kit had painted ‘Back Gardens’ when confined to his home in Islington for six weeks in 1973, and continued to paint with watercolours, but has typically considered his oil paintings for exhibition. Velorose is privileged to be exhibiting for the first time watercolours painted by Kit from the 1970s and 1980s. To view, click here

ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL: Early Bird Vintage
For ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL, Early Bird Vintage and Velorose have selected a limited number of inexpensive ceramics with a natural connection. To view, click here