Exhibitions
Projects
Below you will find a selection of recently completed projects
Four Square Films
Four Square Fine Arts began working with Last Bus in 2008 to create a series of short interview based artist profiles. Four Square Films focus on artists in their own words and from the second film are supported by insightful footage of studio processes.
The aim of these films is to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary art practice, whilst stimulating questions about the creative process, nurturing new dialogues between artists, students and art lovers.
We also look forward to including them as a valuable resource within our unfolding educational program. To find out more about this program click here.
About Four Square
Education
In 2009 we set out to develop a range of initiatives that went beyond the traditional exhibiting role of a commercial gallery. Supported and encouraged by the desire of many of the artists we represent, we believed it was time to share, engage and communicate in new ways with young people and adults. Four Square Films, our ongoing series of short documentaries exploring questions that drive the practice of artists working today, was a first step. However this has quickly grown to include workshops, scheduled artists talks, links with schools, and podcasts, so we've decided, the time is right to host these strands together on a sister site devoted to our educational work.
Visit our sister site: Four Square Arts Education
Contacting Four Square
Four Square Fine Arts, 5a, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
Tel: 01273 474005 Mob: 07742 659446 Please call to make an appointment to see work in stock.
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Rachael Nee
The artist Yves Klein called the flame ‘a living brush’. Nee uses the sooty carbon trace left from a candle flame to make her smoke drawings. This ephemeral material expresses the passage of time, memory, absence and our fragile and transient nature.
Nee’s recent works have taken a look at the sooty material itself, the element of carbon, often called ‘the backbone of life’. This was the starting point for a series of works called ‘Carbon Based Forms’. The geometric designs are drawn from the crease patterns that remain from unfolded origami. Nee saw a parallel between carbon and origami, in both, the complexity of form comes from the simplicity of a small building block, an atom or a fold, repeated and evolving to create a limitless number of structures.
A background in ceramics no doubt explains why Nee is drawn to fire as a creative tool. Working with and enjoying the element of risk; total concentration is needed to make the drawings. Fire creates an irreversible transformation, there is no going back; images cannot be unburned. Nee was elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy in 2007 and selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2005.
