Daydreams & Laser Beams
Sandra Beccarelli
5 May – 1 June 2025
Private View: Thursday 8 May 6-8pm. Email gallery to RSVP.
Artists Talk: Sat 17 May 2.30pm. Just drop in.
Finissage: Sat 31 May 3 – 5pm
An installation of large and small reconstructed abstract paintings connected by neon lights
Daydreams are ‘a visionary creation of the imagination experienced while awake’. They evoke something amorphous, fluffy, unfocused or unresolved; an unformed possibility. Contrast this to the razor sharp focus of a Laser Beam. The magical tipping point between both of these states is where the creative act happens and is the focus of this, Sandra Beccarelli’s fourth solo show in the gallery
An installation of large and small abstract paintings on both floors of the gallery reveal the constant exploration of techniques and media within Beccarelli’s work. Most of the pieces on display contain fragments of one another; a continually evolving reconfiguration of ideas and thoughts.
Neon lights guide visitors upstairs to connect scattered paintings, create links, disrupt order and generate a playful environment. A reminder that dreams are beyond reality and constraint and where anything is possible…
Invited daydream/ Laser Beam collaborators, Lawrence Westland and Gabriel Heaney have brought their imaginations to the exhibition: Lawrence has created an electronic musical interpretation to accompany the show and Gabriel has designed special alcoholic and non- alcoholic cocktails which will be served at the private view.
About the artist
The physical process of painting and the nature of materials are at the core of Beccarelli’s practice. Change, impermanence and continuous movement, in nature, the urban environment and the human condition are themes that inspire her. She questions the meaning of “surface”, what is hidden or revealed and often works between the two, uniting front and back either by syringing, drilling or sewing through the painted support. As the painting develops on both sides so do the infinite possibilities. She often erases as much as she applies allowing the painting to alter daily and sees these processes as metaphors to the ever changing events happening in the world outside of her studio and the emotional & psychological changes within it.
Sandra Beccarelli is a contemporary British abstract painter and mixed media artist living and working in London. Her works have been exhibited at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 5 times, ING Discerning Eye 4 times and shortlisted for The Griffin Art Prize, 2013. Recent solo shows include, “Particle Zoo” at One Paved Court, May 2024, “One Hundred Thousand Surfaces Collide @The Stone Space, London, March 2022, “The Sounds that Paintings Make”, with collaborations from sound artist, (Daniel Birch), Gregorian chant, (Father Peter Burns) and disrupted text, poetry and recorded voice (Agnieszka Studzinska)at One Paved Court, May 2021 and travelling to Darl-e and The Bear, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Oct 2021, & Restless States” One Paved Court.
Recent mixed shows include “Some Roses and Their Phantoms”, Bermondsey Project Space, May 2024, “Momentum” Fitzrovia Gallery, London, “Marking Time”, No Format Gallery, London, Oct 2022, “Feeling for Murmuration” mixed show, curated by Jillian Knipe was shown at A.P.T Gallery, London, 2020. “Beating Time”, ARB gallery Cambridge University, “Immaculate Dream” curated by Rosalind Davies, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 2016.
London Art Fair with Darl e and The Bear, January 2023
In 2010 Sandra gained her Postgraduate Diploma in Painting from City & Guilds of London Art School. 1988-1991 BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Bristol Polytechnic with a 3 month Erasmus exchange at Academia di Belle Arte, Ravenna, Italy in 1990. 1987-1988 Wimbledon School of Art Foundation She is an art educator and workshop leader in West London.
