From Justin Barry's series of paintings. Mixed media on one of his beautifully hand made canvasses. 2012.

'The series of paintings are called 'Emerging States'.

Personal statement by Kai Murphy explaining work done for 'Period of Grace'. This work has arisen from meeting curator Charlie Caldecott at the beginning of his vision for the space. Both Kai and Teresa Fard have worked with Charlie from the beginning


I am caught by an immense gut feeling that I am an ocean and the waves of my ocean have suddenly come crashing down on some exotic beach, enchanted, I am trickling between every detail of this new land, exploring every grain of sand and pebble. I am enthralled by a presence of life and existence like no time experienced before. I feel as if I have made a discovery within myself. I hope through my work I will be able to share some of what I find. For I believe that colour, contrast and the human figure used in communication is a base and ancient knowledge.
The paintings are personal automatic responses to idiosyncratic observation of the world around me using playful experiments in colour, conflict and figure. I use music to meditate and concentrate to create an immersive zone to work out feelings and visions from my imagination. My work ranges from having a raw sexual nature to lonesomeness. I don't work from concepts. There is no right and wrong with my work, once a feeling has left me I stop and that is when the work is finished. I feel like I am nurturing a seed but don't know what i'm growing. I do not reference, I am not working for a decorative outcome, I am asking base questions that I see as a necessity for everyday life, and through the pursuit of discovery of a truth, a path to my own well being.'

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Details of Kai's work plus the man himself, the bottom pic being the start of this series of paintings. the beginning of his personal amalgamation of sgrafitto and impasto techniques

Work of Kai Murphy to be installed in the Sea of Forgetfulness/Birth room. Oil,acrylic and chalk on board. 2012

Detail of Justin Barry's work. 2012.

Cell. Mixed Media on canvas. 6ftx5ft. Justin Barry. 2012

'Dark Winter' a triptych of works delivered to the gallery today by Mark Stopforth the artist.

Images from the work of the photographer Frank Menger. These photographs are from the series 'Afterlife of a Vase' and will be sold as prints at the exhibition.

Kit i purple 23x28cm. oil on stretched paper over board. Louisa Mahony 2012

Loiusa mahony's paintings below measure 23x32cm and are kit e(blue) and kit g(orange)

Kit blue. Oil on stretched paper over board 2012. Louisa Mahony 2012.

Detail of work of louisa mahony -Kit Orange 2012

Work by the artist Arthur Buxton, a time lapse work taken hourly from the space in College Green,Bristol and assimilated into pie charts of colour of what was filmed by the camera. Work in progress 2012.

'Bristol beginnings'. Fragments of photographs, oil and acrylic on canvas. Teresa Fard 2012 This work will be installed in room 1, the pre-birth room.

cubes that aren't pillars. photographs, glass, mirrors, wood. Teresa Fard 2012

Cubes that aren't pillars. wood, glass, photographs and mirrors. Teresa Fard 2012

'Early beginning' Teresa Fard 2012. Fragments of photographs, oil and acrylic on canvas.

'Ectoplasm' Teresa Fard 2012. Fragments of photographs, oil and acrylic on canvas.

Low horizon. Fragments of photographs, oil and acrylic on canvas. Teresa Fard 2012

Here is an artist i have been working with since the beginning of the project. She is Teresa Fard and has produced work specifically with the title of Period of Grace in mind. She has produced some beautiful work and has helped with the project. This work will be used to advertise the show.

Work of the artist Louisa Mahony in her open studio 2012. All works are oil on stretched paper over board. Some of this work will be shown in the Period of Grace show plus some from a new body of work painted en plein air in Wales. Details will be added shortly.

'Fly' Series 1- analog photograph

Artist- Marten Rostel. 2009

Poem written by curator Charlie Caldecott to provide an axis for artists showing:

'PERIOD OF GRACE'

Ain't no disgrace
To want another place
We're not all in the same race

Do we have to race?
We might want to displace
To show our true face

And rest

Shove up the barriers
Against rapidity
And increasing morbidity
To go at a snails pace

Enter a place of stasis
To evaluate our true metastasis
To undergo a metamorphosis, not chrysalis
But catalyst
Back to the past
Peace at last
No need to fast

No need of ballast
No need of phallus
No need for lingum or yoni
What a load of baloney
No need of signs
Or ulterior designs
No need for need

grasping, climbing, scrambling, speeding
feeding, stuffing, rushing, lushing
driving, conniving, just surviving
needing needng needing

Just be
And the above will all come for free

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'Ash Wednesday' from a book for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Inventory touring exhibition.
Artist Sarah Rhys 2012

Day 1

Work starts on preparing the spaces for Period of Grace.

Room 1, 'The pre-birth room'

Room 2, 'Sea of Forgetfulness'

Room 3 Grace