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17th to 30th May 2009

A group exhibition of recent works by 51 artists, curated by Flora Fairbairn and Rowena Chiu

Flora Fairbairn Projects is pleased to present a group show of new works by 51 cutting-edge artists at Merriscourt Farm, Oxfordshire. This exhibition is the second in a series, which began with an exhibition that launched in London in December 2008. The artists in the exhibition have been selected from a wide network of contemporary, London-based artists that Flora Fairbairn Projects has worked with over the last 8 years as well as recent graduates from art schools in the city, with the works reframed in a new rural context.

Artists include:

Ian Monroe: came to public attention in 2003 when the Saatchi Gallery featured a large-scale work from the artist's MA show and whose work was included in Edge of the Real (2004), a group painting show at the Whitechapel Gallery and in a group show in Berlin, at Upstairs Berlin Gallery in 2005.

Ryan Mosley: who has had a solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery and Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna and will be in this year’s Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize.

Nicholas Byrne: who has had a solo show at Studio Voltaire and has exhibited in London, Paris and New York.

Anna Boggon: who has had solo shows at Studio 1.1 and Laura Bartlett Gallery.

Henry Krokatsis: who has exhibited in New York, Brazil, Copenhagen and London and exhibited last year’s Reconstruction at Sudeley Castle.

Katarina Forss: whose paintings were selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2008.

Liane Lang: whose work was selected for Bloomberg ArtFutures 2007.

Sarah Douglas: whose work was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2007 and short-listed for the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Awards in 2005.

Robin Derrick: who also works as the Creative Director of Vogue and who recently had a solo show, ‘Cut Flowers’, in an old train depot in Battersea.

Anahita Rezvani: Iranian born Anahita had a recent solo show in Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich.

Nicola Williams: who was selected out of over 1,000 recent graduates to be at the inaugural Anticipation exhibition at the David Roberts Foundation in 2007.

ARTISTS:

PAUL ARCHARD	AMY ISON
KATE ATKIN	DANIEL JACOBS
NOJ BARKER	HENRY JOHN
CLARISSA BERNING	GERRY JUDAH
TIM BETJEMAN	HENRY KROKATSIS
ANNA BOGGON	LIANE LAN
SAM BRANTON	ENDELLION LYCETT GREEN
NICHOLAS BYRNE	GINA MARCOU
NETTA CAREY	SIOBHAN MCDONALD
SAM CHAMBERLAIN	WHITNEY MCVEIGH
STEWART CLIFF	ANDREA MEDJESI-JONES
JAMES COOPER	AMY MOFFAT
ROBIN DERRICK	IAN MONROE
MARCO DI CHIARA	LUCY MOORE
AIDAN DOHERTY	RYAN MOSLEY
SARAH DOUGLAS	ORLANDO MOSTYN OWEN
NANCY FLETCHER	IRIS PALMER
KATARINA FORSS	NEIL PORTER
PAUL FREUD	EMMA PUNTIS
FRANCIS FRY	ANAHITA REZVANI
TONY GILL	ANDREW ROSE
CATHERINE GOODMAN	SABRINA ROWAN HAMILTON
BRADLEY GRIEVSON	NICOLA SAVIC
GEOFFREY GRINLING	JASON SHULMAN
THOMAS HYLANDER	KARIN TRENKEL
NICOLA WILLIAMS

Notes to Editors:

Flora Fairbairn has been curating contemporary art exhibitions in temporary spaces since 2000. These have ranged from the top of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower in West London and a disused abattoir in Clerkenwell to the derelict basement of Shoreditch Town Hall and the Sir John Soane Dining Room at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Rowena Chiu has been working as a Curator at Flora Fairbairn Projects since 2007.
Merriscourt Farm, owned by Tom and Clarissa Astor, was built in the early 19th Century and has been under a long-term re-development plan since January 2001, having previously been a pig farm. Merriscourt is available for all types of events, ranging from album launches, film nights, corporate and private lunches, parties, film and stills locations and exhibitions and weddings. For details on how to book the venue please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Having been home to a gallery some years ago, this inaugural exhibition marks the farm’s transformation into a new destination-location for contemporary art.
Flora Fairbairn will be joining the new Josh Lilley Gallery as an Associate Director of the business. The gallery will be opening in Fitzrovia on the 14th May 2009 with a group show called ‘Daily Miracles’.
The Barn, Merriscourt, Sarsden, Nr. Chipping Norton, OX7 6QX (Merriscourt is situated 1 mile from Kingham Railway Station – transport to/from station can be arranged)

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17th to 30th May 2009

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