Captain Lightfoot Portfolio

(Anneli Holmstrom, Kadie Salmon & Emma Pratt)

22-27 March 2013The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Euston Road

No Heroics, Please brings together the work of four artists in a group show at The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London. Anneli Holmström , Jessie Makinson , Emma Pratt, and Kadie Salmon produce varied and often contrasting works of art, but they are united by their interest in narrative and story-telling, and how these qualities or references are manifested in visual art. If a picture tells a thousand words then an exhibition has the potential to be something of an essay; however in creating an environment of pictures, imagery and visual provocation, context and sequence become crucial to interpretation and understanding. To think of art as language and to allow form and colour to tell a story is a beginning, but even if a single image can be quanti- fied as just a thousand words, then the translation of each word allows for variation and exponential muta- tion of the artist’s story in their uptake, keeping the ending fluid in a way that a final page, falling curtain or rolling credit cannot be.

Fade in: First Card:ANNELI HOLMSTRÖM JESSIE MAKINSON EMMA PRATTKADIE SALMON

1. Ext. Footpath/Underpass – Central London – Night[Hurried Footsteps, short breaths] Main Title Card:NO HEROICS, PLEASE

2. Int. Corridors of Crypt[Footsteps continue, a young woman rounds the corner with back to the camera]

NARRATORShe is too low now for even the dogs to bite. Four steps forward, a damp thick air fills her lungs and blurs her sight. Down she goes, through this narrow walkway – head stooped low, watching as her feet carry her. A corner, another turn, to the left this time. Shadows play on the wall ahead, the outlines are unfamiliar; flicker-ing with movement they are long and sharp against the rough cold stone – a different kinda girl perhaps.

Second Card:

THE CRYPT GALLERY, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, 22-27 MARCH 20133. Int. Crypt[…

www.noheroicsplease.co.uk

NO HEROICS,PLEASE

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonFrom left to right: Jessie Makinson Torpor & Horizon, ink and gouache on paper. 2013. Kadie Salmon Magnificent Rock, mixed media. 2013.

NO HEROICS, PLEASESt Pancras Parish Church, Euston, London21-27 March 2013A curatorial project by Captain Lightfoot

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonKadie Salmon Only talk to me in the dark, photograph & canvas. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonKadie Salmon Only talk to me in the dark, photograph & canvas. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonKadie Salmon Only talk to me in the dark, photograph & canvas. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonKadie Salmon Magnificent Rock, mixed media. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonFrom left to right: Kadie Salmon, Take me home, ink jet print. 2012 Kadie Salmon, Magnificent Rock, mixed media. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonKadie Salmon Take me home (detail), ink jet print. 2012.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonJessie Makinson Torpor & Horizon, Ink and gouache on paper. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonEmma Pratt Ornamental, glazed ceramics. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonEmma Pratt Ornamental (detail), glazed ceramics. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonEmma Pratt Ornamental (detail), glazed ceramics. 2013.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonEmma Pratt An awkward persons’ small success story, flocked epoxy putty, cast polyurethane, plaster, cardboard and gold foil. 2012.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonAnneli Holmstom The Ecstacy, oil on canvas. 2011.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonAnneli Holmstom The Retreat (series), oil on canvas. 2012.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonAnneli Holmstom The Retreat , oil on canvas. 2012.

No Heroics, Please The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Euston, LondonAnneli Holmstom The Retreat (detail), oil on canvas. 2012.

Anneli Holmstrom- Individual artworkswww.holmstromart.co.uk

Anneli Holmstrom The Judgement of Paris, oil on canvas. 2011.

Anneli Holmstrom Beauty Pollen, oil on canvas. 2013

Anneli Holmstrom Dragging up the Seabed, acrylic and plaster. 2013.

Anneli Holmstrom Nisse Kroneberg: and the art of building boats, Performance Still. 2009.

Anneli Holmstrom, Archaic Ghosts, performance still. 2008.

Kadie Salmon- Individual artworkskadiesalmon.wix.com/kadiesalmon

Kadie Salmon Don’t Know How to Tell, Ink Jet print. 2013.

Kadie Salmon Don’t Know How to Tell, Ink Jet print. 2013.

Kadie Salmon Don’t Know How to Tell, Ink Jet print, 2013

Kadie Salmon Don’t Know How to Tell, Ink Jet print. 2013.

Emma Pratt- Individual artworkswww.emmapratt.co.uk

Emma Pratt All roads lead to somewhere else, Dog skeleton, wax, flocked polurethane, mdf, paint and gold foil. 2012.

Emma Pratt All roads lead to somewhere else, Dog skeleton, wax & mdf

Emma Pratt, A weird day for false facts, plaster. 2012.

Emma Pratt, I pushed too hard. His head fell off, plaster, vegetable fat and paint. 2010.