49 Frames of Love
WILLIAM ROAD GALLERY, LONDON, 29.05.12 - 31.05.12
HEARTBREAK GALLERY, LONDON, 03.07.12 - 29.07.12
The work in the exhibition 49 Frames of Love is concerned with the depth of connection and extraordinary bond that love brings. It is about all the different strands that weave through this connection and intensify with shared experience over time.
49 FRAMES OF LOVE
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on linen, 85 x 102 cm
LOVE FRAME 01
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 04
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 23.5 x 29 cm
LOVE FRAME 05
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 08
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 09
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 10
2012, Oil and spray paint on linen, 20 x 20 cm
LOVE FRAME 11
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 12
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME14
2012, Oil, and spray paint on linen, 20 x 20 cm
LOVE FRAME 15
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 23.5 x 29 cm
LOVE FRAME 17
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 35 x 26.5 cm
LOVE FRAME 18
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 19
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 23
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 39 x 29 cm
LOVE FRAME 25
2102, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 26
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 27
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 28
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 29
2012, Oil, and spray paint on linen, 20 x 20 cm
LOVE FRAME 31
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 32
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 33
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 31.5 x 39.5 cm
LOVE FRAME 34
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 35
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 36
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 37
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 38
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 39
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 26.5 x 35 cm
LOVE FRAME 40
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 42
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 43
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 44
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 45
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 46
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on paper, 35 x 26.5 cm
LOVE FRAME 47
2012, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 15 x 15 cm
LOVE FRAME 50
2012, Ink on paper, 26.5 x 34.5 cm
UNTITLED 28
2012, Oil, ink and spray paint on linen, 42 x 42 cm
The painting ’49 Frames of Love’ "… addresses the idea of what is hidden, covered up or concealed in love. To Ash, love is such a force that you do not always see every part of it – what is hidden below the surface. With this piece of work, Ash is capturing the many different levels and layers of love, connection and extraordinary bonds shared through time and experiences."
Nathalie Martin, Director, Heartbreak Gallery, Marylebone, London.
The visual audio film ’49 Frames of Love’ is a collaborative piece with donations from 49 people about what encapsulates love for them. It plays with the idea of individual and collective notions of love, and of hidden love. Film normally runs at 24 frames a second, the idea of 49 frames a second suggests there will be images that will go unseen by the conscious mind. This is the concept - there are frames that flash by so quickly, you hardly see them, but in fact, most of the film runs conventionally at 24 FPS. This is a filmic collage. It ran on a loop during the exhibition.
THOUGHTS THAT EXPAND THE THEME
Love is usually played out behind closed doors.
Relationships work or don't - they are something not possible to understand, and that you don’t get as an outsider.
Relationships you do get as an outsider are still private and hidden.
Relationships are sometimes secret - they might be an affair, or just secret because the perception is that friends or family or society might disapprove.
There are things we didn’t know about ourselves but discover through love, through depth of love, that are in our subconscious and so on...
The number 49 was not chosen for any reason except that the multiple of 7 x 7 worked really well on the canvas, and because 7 is a great number that is well versed in divisions: 7 days of the week, 7 days of creation etc...
Other paintings in the series expand this idea and allow us to get closer - to reveal the depth of feeling within a complex relationship over time. There are 49 smaller works on paper and canvas that have come out of the larger work of 49 Frames of Love. Individually, they explore and expand the surprising nature of love through the language and linkages between us and our consciousness of love. They are about the language of Love, and how we communicate this most profound emotion.
The visual audio film ’49 frames of love’ draws on the theme of love. It is a collaborative piece with donations from 49 people on what for them encapsulates love. It plays with the idea of hidden love. Film normally runs at 24 frames a second, the idea of 49 frames a second suggests there will be images that will go unseen by the conscious mind. This is the concept - there are frames that flash by really quickly; you hardly see them but, in fact, most of the film runs conventionally at 24 FPS. It is a filmic collage that will run during the exhibition.