Little Pleasures is an exhibition by artists from Los Angeles and Cambridge. So often we yearn for large pleasures that are hugely desirable, expensive and often out of reach, while all around us lies an array of small pleasures free for the taking. Self-help books and guides highlight how important it is to appreciate the overlooked and become serious about pleasure. Little Pleasures explores deeply personal moments in time.
When visiting Little Pleasures , the viewer is guided to those activities that give us the most joy in our lives and help us rediscover tiny things that can rejuvenate tired bodies and minds. This exhibition illustrates how pleasurable everyday activities can have a psychologically positive affect. Eleanor Breeze is an artist living and working in Cambridge. In Ellie was shortlisted for the Marmite Prize for Painting V, and the following year she exhibited in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition, which toured Newcastle and London.
Breeze is also a co-founder of Together Culture CIC, and considers community building an extension of her creative practice. Website Instagram. She has developed her painting for nearly 40 years, and is informed by looking at international work in a wide range of media.
Alongside her work as a painter, she has collaborated with many other artists including a 4-year collaboration with Andrew James as Coop, with shows and performances at Ruskin Gallery Cambridge, Heong Gallery, Cambridge, and the London Artlicks Festival Clio works with groups, individuals and families in co-creation projects as an artist and art therapist in the NHS, and with MK Gallery. Alexandra Baraitser is a curator and artist. In she was selected for a two-month residency in Anchor Studio, Newlyn, Cornwall.
Leapman is a graduate of Goldsmith College, London. Born in London and currently lives in California. He is an active member of Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, curating exhibitions around the globe. Valerie Wilcox takes common materials, consumables, and the flawed and imperfect remnants of our built environment and creates hybrid works that celebrate the imperfect and unconventional form.
