The Approach Gallery
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The approach is a contemporary art gallery
situated above a pub in Bethnal Green
, London
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In April 2006 The Approach opened a second gallery space (The Reliance) above a pub of the same name in Old Street, Shoreditch. Overseen by Approach gallery director Emma Robertson, the programme ran for 1 year and included a number of emerging international artists, premiering in London for the first time.
In November 2007 The Approach opened a short lease West End gallery space in Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
, London W1. From November 2007 – June 2009 The Approach operated a dual programme in the East and the West, The Approach E2 and W1 respectively.
, Cris Brodahl
, Alice Channer, Stuart Cumberland, Peter Davies, Patrick Hill
, Evan Holloway, Inventory
, Germaine Kruip, Rezi van Lankveld, Edward Lipski, Dave Muller, John Stezaker
, Mari Sunna, Evren Tekinoktay, Sara VanDerBeek, Gary Webb
, Martin Westwood, Sam Windett
Contemporary art gallery
A contemporary art gallery is a place where contemporary art is shown for exhibition and/or for sale. The term "art gallery" is commonly used to mean art museum , the rooms displaying art in any museum, or in the original sense, of any large or long room.-Identity, function and locality:A...
situated above a pub in Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is a district of the East End of London, England and part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, with the far northern parts falling within the London Borough of Hackney. Located northeast of Charing Cross, it was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney,...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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History
The gallery was founded in 1997 by Jake Miller, along with artists Damien Meade, Ana Genoves and others . One of the gallery’s original objectives was to offer solo exhibitions to London based artists at the start of their careers - several of whom have gone on to achieve international success. The gallery was soon solely run by Jake Miller as the other original founder members wished to concentrate on their own careers. Since 1998 the gallery began representing artists and the programme expanded into an international one, working with established artists as well as continuing to exhibit younger emerging artists and curating a lively group show programme.In April 2006 The Approach opened a second gallery space (The Reliance) above a pub of the same name in Old Street, Shoreditch. Overseen by Approach gallery director Emma Robertson, the programme ran for 1 year and included a number of emerging international artists, premiering in London for the first time.
In November 2007 The Approach opened a short lease West End gallery space in Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia is a neighbourhood in central London, near London's West End lying partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster ; and situated between Marylebone and Bloomsbury and north of Soho. It is characterised by its mixed-use of residential, business, retail,...
, London W1. From November 2007 – June 2009 The Approach operated a dual programme in the East and the West, The Approach E2 and W1 respectively.
Artists
Artists represented by The Approach include: Phillip Allen, Helene Appel, Matthew BrannonMatthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon is a painter based in New York City.Brannon studied at the University of California graduating with a BA in 1995, and completed his MFA in 1999 at Columbia University in New York....
, Cris Brodahl
Cris Brodahl
Cris Brodahl is a contemporary visual artist based in Ghent, Belgium. Her paintings are based on collages she makes from magazine images....
, Alice Channer, Stuart Cumberland, Peter Davies, Patrick Hill
Patrick Hill (artist)
Patrick Hill is an artist based in Los Angeles.Hill was born in Michigan. His abstract sculptures juxtapose hard and soft materials and references to Minimalism and the human body. Common materials are wood, stone, steel, fabric dye and glass. Hill also makes paintings on un-primed canvas with...
, Evan Holloway, Inventory
Inventory (artists)
Inventory are a collective of British artists, writers and art theorists, founded in 1996.Some of their pieces see them engage in performance art in public spaces....
, Germaine Kruip, Rezi van Lankveld, Edward Lipski, Dave Muller, John Stezaker
John Stezaker
-Overview:Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in the 1960s. In the early 1970s he was among the first wave of British conceptual artists to react against what was then the predominance of Pop art....
, Mari Sunna, Evren Tekinoktay, Sara VanDerBeek, Gary Webb
Gary Webb (artist)
Gary Webb is a British artist. He makes sculptures out of industrial materials, often achieving comic effects with the use of sound.He studied at Goldsmiths College between 1994 and 1997.-Exhibitions:...
, Martin Westwood, Sam Windett