5 Jul 2023
New art collective Fankle announce their first exhibition
PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release
Fankle 01 exhibition at Coningsby Gallery
Fankle is a newly formed multidisciplinary art collective, made up of emerging artists from across the UK, who work independently and come together to exhibit. A complex web of ideas and a shared love of creating unites their varied practices. As they weave stories from memory, experience and mythology, tangling and untangling, we’re reminded of the idea that a world of life is woven from knots. The name ‘Fankle’ is Scottish in origin and means entanglement, like threads where the beginnings and ends are uncertain.
Fankle 01 is the first exhibition in Central London to bring together these artists as a group and it marks an exciting step for the new collective. Artists will be showing recently produced contemporary work, across painting, sculpture, printmaking, video and installation. Fankle 01 reflects the start of a new journey, with themes of identity, fragility and transition. All members of the group are connected by their links to Middlesex University, as former or current students on the MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking programmes. Their threads stretch far beyond London - to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berlin, Munich, Baghdad, Tehran and Mexico City.
Their first exhibition provides an opportunity for reflection on community, hope and times of change. Fankle 01 opens on Monday 10 July and runs until Saturday 15 July, with the private view, on Monday 10 July at 6pm. This show includes work by Fankle art collective members:
Maryam Abdollahi
Natalie Dee
Phil Dunn
Angela Forrester
Freddy McBride
Carolyn Murphy
Moritz Nicolai
Iliana Ortega-Alcázar
Jan Pimblett
Hanan Tawfiq
Kathy Rooney
Luke Anthony Rooney (guest artist)
Katherine Jones RA commented “I’m delighted that this group of dedicated artists have decided to continue their association with one another beyond their studies by forming Fankle. I have been impressed by their respectful coordination of group exhibitions both onsite and independently while at Middlesex University. Their unique balance of disciplines, materials and outlooks will continue to serve them well. I very much look forward to experiencing Fankle 01 at the Coningsby Gallery.”
EXHIBITION OPEN:
10 – 15 July 2023
Monday – Friday, 11am – 7pm
Saturday, 11am – 3pm
Private view: Monday 10 July 2023, 6pm – 8.30pm
Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham Street
London W1T 4RJ
Nearest underground station: Goodge Street (350 yards)
Other nearby underground stations: Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road (less than 10 minutes’ walk)
For more information:
Instagram: @fankle.art
PRESS: Carolyn Murphy email CM1793@live.mdx.ac.uk
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