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The Discerning Eye Exhibition 2001
10th exhibition ~ 16 to 25 November 2001
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Mary Rose Beaumont

Mary Rose Beaumont

The pleasure of being invited to be a selector for the Discerning Eye is mitigated by the agony of choice. There are many artists whose work I admire and would like to have chosen, but finally, after much thought, I decided to divide my selection into two parts. One half consists of recently graduated students from City & Guilds School of Art, where I happily teach in the Humanities Department, and have consequently watched with interest the burgeoning careers of several young artists, in all of whom I have immense confidence. I have also selected one of my fellow tutors at City & Guilds who has been responsible for the progress of these students and ex-students. The other half of my selection is more varied, and consists of artists whose work I have been aware of and enjoyed over the years. This section is equally divided between abstract and figurative work, quality, as perceived by myself, and my pleasure in it, being the only criterion.

The open selection was a real challenge, and being limited to approximately one hundred works in total with a submission of some fifteen hundred from all over the United Kingdom, both wall pieces and free-standing sculpture, and having about thirty seconds in which to make up one's mind, was scary. I tried to make a coherent choice, my yardstick being a certain delicacy of touch, a materiality to which I responded, with perhaps a touch of the surreal. There is a wild card in every hand and I have at least one in mine! My only regrets are for the ones I was unable to select, some of which still resonate in my memory.

Alexandra Abraham

6/1Icon Three£500

Susan Basham

6/2Silent Bell£330

Harry Baxter

6/3Ponder, Plot, Pounce£400

6/4BSE Totem£400

6/5Served?£400

6/6Let it Go£400

6/7Uh owe£400

6/8Benny Blanco£500

Michael Buhler

6/9Where are You?£500

6/10Confrontation£500

6/11Emptying the Shoe£500

6/12Fixing It£500

6/13Passing the Time£500

6/14Let it Go£500

Neil Canning

6/15Luxor I£750

6/16Luxor II£750

6/17Luxor III£750

6/18Luxor IV£750

6/19Luxor V£750

6/20Luxor VI£750

Graham Crowley

6/21Grey Fields£2,200

Sokari Douglas Camp

6/22Brass Trainers£600

6/2311th September£800

6/24No£800

6/25Walworth Cavalry£800

Jeremy Gardiner

6/26Morro Do Pico£450

Stephen Gibbs

6/27The Red Pencil£349

Zoe Griffiths

6/28Chicken Tonight in a Basket£800

Deborah Harty

6/29Embrace£160

Rachel Hazell

6/30About Books: Open£82

Kate Hunt

6/31Dwells in Air II£650

Gwyther Irwin

6/32Sun Down£350

6/33Sun Flare£350

6/34Sun Blast£375

6/35Sun Shy Two£350

6/36Sun Gentle£350

6/37Sun shy One£330

Frank Jennings

6/38Don Quixotes Eastern Progress is Thwarted by a Freak Magnetic Storm£1,500

Rannvá Kunoy

6/39Falling£400

6/40Go£400

6/41Bewilderment£400

6/42Homelessness£550

6/43Follow£550

6/44Searching£550

Alistair Mackie

6/45Kala£1,120

6/46Memory£1,800

6/47Untitled£1,480

6/48Legbones£840

6/49Mask£1,600

6/50Crab£480

Zara Matthews

6/51Boy 3£890

Etsuko Montgomery

6/52A Drifting Sun£120

6/53Ascending£120

6/54Mantra£120

6/55White Mantra£120

6/56Silver Mantra£250

6/57Haze£250

Alex Morrison

6/58Untitled£300

6/59We Roam the Streets all Night£400

6/60The Hand that Feeds Us£175

6/61I Hope your Love can Save Me£400

6/62Open all Hours£200

6/63Wish upon a Star£400

David Oates

6/64Untitled 14/15£550

6/65Untitled 15/15£550

Robert Offord

6/66Flotsam Angel£395

Clare Packer

6/67Fish Plate I£95

6/68Fish Plate II£95

6/69Fish Plate III£95

6/70Fish Plate IV£95

6/71Fish Plate V£95

6/72Fish Plate VI£95

Roger Perkins

6/73Conversation Piece£700

Eleonore Pironneau

6/74Secret Links No 13£420

Glynis Porter

6/75Reflection and Ripple£525

Lawrence Preece

6/76No Problems£350

6/772 Horns£350

6/78Dilemma£350

6/79Dilemma Twice£350

6/80Triste£350

Susan Pye

6/81Midwinter£550

Edward Rennie

6/82Four Bridges£400

Carol Robertson

6/83As I Am No. 10£450

6/84As I Am No. 11£450

Joan Roche

6/85Light on Water£500

Phil Shaw

6/86I Haven't Finished Yet£250

6/87Let Me Out£250

Sue Watts

6/88No 1 (Violin Series)£300

Ian Welsh

6/89'10 x 10 By Ten 5' Sketches of Taransay£850

6/90'10 x 10 By Ten 6' Sketches of Taransay£850

 

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22-Jun-2009
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