Fragments Meets Chroma

Fragments Meet Chroma brings together musical pieces by composer Doug Thomas, who calls these works ‘fragments’ with the visual pieces by artist Elizabeth Mikellides, whose practise involves drawing music and as such attributes to the ‘chroma’ element in this show.

French-British composer Doug Thomas founded NOOX (North of Oxford St.) a record label, production company, and recording studio in 2014 and has released numerous solo projects such as the triptych Angles, Cassiopeia and Shapes, The Seasons, Tension/Release, and many other series of recordings. Doug is also a writer, publishing articles, interviews, and reviews, and is a contributor for Interlude as well as a guest writer on The Cross-Eyed Pianist and Art Muse London.

British Greek Cypriot conceptual artist, Elizabeth Mikellides works with music scores to discover and illuminate their constructs. Her love of structure, order and layering developed while receiving Classical training in piano, and she went on to merge both music and art during her BA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art, followed by an MA at the Slade. Elizabeth’s work can be interpreted as a graphic score or visual music, which is why she refers to her practice as ‘Drawing Music’.

Doug’s ‘Fragments’ is a project finalised in 2020. It represents a compendium of miniature keyboard pieces, with some started as early as 2015. Fragments takes its originality in (i) its duality between a range of electric and acoustic keyboards and (ii) its productive nature; indeed, it has been produced using Spitfire’s free software instruments only and sequenced on a laptop. It is therefore a fully virtual project. Similarly, Elizabeth produces much of her music translations digitally, so the Chroma equivalents to Fragments have also been produced digitally, in Illustrator.

With both fragments and chroma pieces being digital, this body of work debuted in February this year as an online show and was well received. This physical exhibition has long been awaited for then and will see a selection of the 24 digital drawings come to life as they are printed on a metal surface called chromaluxe.

Bring your headphones for the ultimate listening experience as Fragments Meet Chroma will take you a polychromatic journey for both your ears and eyes!

FRAGMENTS MEETS CHROMA

Artist Elizabeth Mikellides
www.elizabethmikellides.art

Musician Doug Thomas
www.dougthomas.co.uk

Citizens Art London Gallery
Blue House Yard, Station Road, N22 7TB, LondonWednesday 12 - Wednesday 19 October 2022

*Private View Wed 12 6-8pm / reservations on eventbrite