Repetition/Variation at Frameless Gallery (upstairs)

Since seeing their first collaboration I know that any show curated by Joanna Bryant and Julian Page will be worth visiting and I wasn’t disappointed by this one: the first week of two: Repetition/Variation at the intimate and atmospheric Frameless Gallery in Clerkenwell.

Presenting a mix of famous, established and new artists, the exhibition encompasses both 2 and 3 dimensions.

Recent RCA graduate Amy Gear is influenced by the strata of sea stacks in Orkney

Molly Blunt’s piece plays with the symbolism of gender-related objects

What looks like a photograph from a distance is laboriously painted in James O’Connell’s oil painting, Full Circle

as you can see in this detail below

Claire Barber combines throw-away ferry tickets with needleweaving for this composition

and Jill Sylvia uses financial ledgers as her base, cutting out spaces, making a remarkable filigree from the pages 

and arranging removed sections to create a new code of calculations: profit & loss.