Private View:
May 30, 2025 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates:
May 31, 2025 – June 29, 2025
Coleman Projects, 94 Webster Road, Bermondsey, London SE16 4DF
Coleman Project Space is delighted to announce the gallery’s first annual drawing exhibition, which brings together six contemporary artists whose work repositions drawing as an expanded multidisciplinary field.
Heavenly Skeletons is a dynamic investigation of how drawing translates abstract concepts into tangible form – how it becomes a reflection of reality, a method of thought, and an intentional act of making
The selected artists engage with drawing as a form of material thinking – spatial, physical, and reflexive. Their approaches are materially diverse, rooted in traditional mark-making as well as sculpture, time-based media, and installation. Yet all share a sensibility to drawing as a live, responsive, and often urgent creative act, driven by the larger questions the artists are exploring in their individual practices, where drawing is neither sketch nor scaffold; it is the thing itself – reconfigured, looped and performed.
Angela Eames, through her video works, Infinivids, explores drawing in direct relation to technology, be that pixel or pencil. These looping videos treat drawing as a time-based act with the potential to run endlessly. Eames uses computer technology to extend her vision and explore image-making beyond what the eye can see. Virtual space becomes a place for intuitive discovery and structural inquiry.
Positioning drawing as both a generative and receptive structure – a means of sensing, storing and responding – Kate Fahey develops a materially layered practice. Her work brings together cast organic forms, health-related and supplementary objects, and sound, proposing sculptural form as a bodily and ecological system attuned to processes of recovery, transformation and exchange.
Large-scale charcoal drawings allow Tony Fleming to revisit decades of recurring themes. Working with a raw, expressive hand, he evokes psychological – urban decay both remembered and imagined, held together by dense layers of carbon and form.
Breaking down and recomposing drawings and painted surfaces across architectural grids, Charlotte Guerard repositions painting and drawing within choreographed systems, where scale, movement, and sequencing become compositional tools. Guerard’s drawing installation is site-responsive to the front gallery space, opening up the potential for flux, play and interaction with its audience and environment.
In The Hermit’s Song, John Strutton drawings inspired by a pilgrimage to the hermitage of 5th- century Irish Saint Colman Mac Duagh, combining frottage hand drawing and digital manipulation he examines the role of place, memory and ritual through hybrid methods of sound recording time.
Sited in the Shed Space, Samuel Zealey’s vertiginous sculpture is a precarious balance of domestic objects and figurative geometry. The sculpture marks an early articulation of his interest in equilibrium, sustainability and the poetic potential of engineering and laws of physics.
Artists
Angela Eames
Angela Eames “I am an artist/drawer whose practice has continuously involved the exploration of drawing in direct relation to technology, be that pixel or pencil. I produce both series and independent works. Drawing for me, might be defined as what if? What if I could see differently? I am on the outside looking in, I can imagine the unseen but within the virtual environment I can see from the inside – out. I can move around, within a virtual space. The virtual camera becomes my eye. I can use the computer to do something, which it can do and I cannot, which I can propose and it can provide, which I cannot see – until I can…”
Angela Eames born in Malmesbury, England, studied BA Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art, MA Experimental Fine Art at The Slade School of Art, MA Computing in Art and Design at Middlesex University (CASCAAD) and gained her Doctorate in Drawing in relation to Technology through Surrey University.
http://www.angelaeames.com
Kate Fahey
Obtained a HEA Fellowship, University of the Arts London 2022,
PhD by Practice, University of the Arts London (ARHC TECHNE Studentship) 2020,
MA Print, Royal College of Art, London 2015,
BA Fine Art Printmaking, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen 2013.
Her most recent solo exhibition ‘neutral to earth’, Detroit Projects Stockholm, 08-2023
Most recent group exhibition,’Mouthnotes’, Pallas Projects Dublin, 09-2022.
Upcoming,’beyond, beneath, Beside’ residency & solo exhibition, Tea Houses Kilkenny, curated by Rachel Botha, 07 – 09-2025 http://www.katefahey.co.uk
Charlotte Guerard
Charlotte Guerard (b.1998, Rouen, France)
is completing a postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy Schools July 2025.She previously studied at the University of Brighton. Recent residencies include Porthmeor Studio 5 St Ives Freeland Foundation, and has participated in numerous solo exhibitions including ‘Mathew’s Boat’ 2021 Palmer Gallery London and group shows including ‘Three Years’ 2021 Royal Academy London.
Guérard works in painting and drawing, exploring the ways these can be activated: and combines intuitive processes of experimenting with the material of paint and drawing with the quest to shift the traditional format of these mediums. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/charlottewinifredguerard
John Strutton
John Strutton b.Bedfordshire 1966, lives and works in London.
Current Academic post, Senior tutor in painting at the Royal College of Art London.
Education 1996-1998 MA Fine Art Painting, Royal College of Art.
1992 – 1995 BA (HONS) Fine Art , Middlesex University London.
Selected exhibitions, ‘The Hermits Song’ Burren Ireland, April 2025.
2022, Original Copy, Live performance Foundation B.A.D. Rotterdam Netherlands Swedenborg Film Festival 2022,London.
Castro de Papel, curated project, various locations in El barcode Avilla Spain.
Sound and Vision,Merton Arts Space London (group)
Original Copy, Live performance, AMP Studios London
http://www.johnstrutton.com
Tony Fleming
A fine art graduate of Reading University, Tony Fleming, a founder member of the Bermondsey Artists’Group has exhibited in UK and Europe. His work is held in private collections.
His practise encompasses animation, printing, drawing and painting. http://www.
Sam Zealey
Sam Zealey b. Dulwich 1986 Lives and works in Essex.
Education
2010 – 12. Royal College of Art, London,2005 – 08. Wimbledon College of Art, London.
2004 – 05. Thurrock & Basildon Technical College, Essex
a recipient of many Prizes, Awards & commissions;
2019 October – December. Selected for the Fundación Casa Wabi Residency Programme 2019 August.
2017 June. Winner – Onyo, Bracknell Public Sculpture Commission.
2014 September. Winner – Spitalfields Public Sculpture Award
2013 October. Winner – Myriad, Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, Winner – Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises,
2010 June. Selected for The Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award
The Royal Academy Summer Show Sculpture room selected by Richard Wilson 2009 April – September. 2019 June. Onyo Public Sculpture Launch, Bracknell, UK
2018 June. Dorfold Hall, In The (Dor)Fold, Cheshire, UK
2018 March. Dying Forêt, Eastbury Mannor House, London, UK
2017 March. PLANES, The Cob Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 October. Synergia II, Museo Federico Silva, San Luis, Mexico 2019 June. E17 Art Trail, Open Air Sculpture Park, London, UK 2018 September. Defining Structure, Cello Factory, London, UK 2018 April. New Defence, Coal House Fort, Essex, UK
2018 February. Synergia, Galeria De Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 October. Power Gallery, Battersea Power Station. Battersea, London
