Jessica Hilltout

Exhibition extended until 31st July at 70 Loop Street Gallery

Joćo Ferreira Gallery presents Belgium Photographer, Jessica Hilltout's photographic exhibition of images capturing rural football around Africa. This body of work was captured in Jessica's 9th photographic travel. Since completing her BA(Hons) at Blackpool College of Art, UK, Jessica has received awards in London and Europe and has exhibited in Brussels, Paris and London.

"I am interested in the poetic character of things, in the small, seemingly unimportant things. There is hidden beauty in the ordinary and great beauty in the overlooked."

www.jessicahilltout.com

70 Loop Street

Beezy Bailey

Works on Paper

4th August - 4th September

Joćo is pleased to re-open "Works on Paper" by Beezy Bailey in the down stairs gallery space from 4th August.

"This showcase uncovers as yet unseen works, focussing on the print making side of my art and pushing boundaries there of. I always feel that painting informs sculpture and sculpture informs print making and that they are all interrelated. The spontaneous approach is an integral part of my art making and thus I have employed, with the smaller hand coloured etchings, the sugar lift technique on copper plate. This technique allows for spontaneous painterly-like images to evolve. Also with the lager prints, I use an angle grinder on Masonite, having resolved the image using charcoal, I then carve into the surface with an angle grinder. The plate is then inked up and wiped like any etching plate and placed under a very large etching press, printed onto pure cotton arches paper, allowing for a jam-like surface on the finished print. This is then hand coloured with gouache resulting in each print being unique in spite of being a part of a small edition of no more than 15." www.beezybailey.co.za

70 Loop Street