PARIS.- “From fly on the wall, to fly in my soup” is a group show featuring artists: Phillip Allen, Dan Coombs, Milena Dragicevic, Marcus Harvey, Dimitri Horta, Alastair Mackinven, Darren Murray, Neal Tait, and Alexis Teplin.

The exhibition examines the practices of 9 artists from London, (former) Yugoslavia, California, Ireland, Canada and Switzerland. Each individual brings a unique approach to painting to the show and incorporate a range of ideas and motives – from process, repetition, image making and the artifact, through to intimacy, cultural excess and identity.

Phillip Allen (b. 1967 London). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: 39 Mitchell Street, London and Oxblood, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (both 2013); Capital P, The Approach, London (2011); Sloppy Cuts No Ice, The Approach W1, London (2008); Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (2006); Phillip Allen: Recent Paintings, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2003).

Group exhibitions include: Classified, Tate Britain, London (2009); Archipeinture: painters build architecture, Le Plateau/Frac Île-de France, Paris, France; Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); The British Art Show 6, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; venues in Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol (2005).

Neal Tait (b. 1965 Edinburgh). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: The Battle for Middle You, Simon Oldfield, London (2009), Sies + Höke Gallery Düsseldorf Neal Tait: “Drawings, North Gallery”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA Neal Tait, The Dressmaker Who Lived on The Outskirts, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2008), Tambalamb, ACME, Los Angeles Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2007), Dark Mutter, MDD (Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens), Deurle Now is the discount of our winter tents, White Cube, London (2006).

Group exhibitions include: Antje Majewski: The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, A Terrible Beauty is Born, 11th Biennial of Lyon, Lyon, Among Flesh, Alison Jacques, London Der Menschen Klee, Kunst Im Tunnel, Dusseldorf Watercolour, Tate Britain, London (2011), The Milkplus Bar, Josh Lilley Gallery, London Kupferstichkabinett – Between Thought & Action, White Cube, London Once, Removed, Apartment Gallery, Athens What Have I Done?, Fine Art Society, London (2010).

Alastair Mackinven (b. 1971 London). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Abstract Capitalism-Dark Side of the Wall, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2009), Alastair MacKinven Performances 2006-2009, Focal Point Gallery (2009), 0-60, ET SIC IN INFINITUM AGAIN, ICA, London (2008), Solo Project, Liste 07, Basel (2007), Jerking Off The Dog To Feed The Cat, HOTEL Gallery, London(2006), Cünst - Haunted by the Future: Tropicana Cinema, part of the Raindance Film Festival, London(2004).

Group exhibitons include: That’s Not How I Remember It, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles Strange, Alastair Mackinven’s New Chinese Art, Nang Gallery, London, Novel, Bibliothekswohnung AnnaCatherina Gebbers, Berlin, Zodiac 3000, The Reach of Tomorrow, JG Ballard Centre of Psycopathological Research, International Project Space Birmingham, Horsebit Cocktail, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London, Thames Mudlarks, CTRL Gallery, Houston Texas (2008), The Death Of Affect, curated by Matt Williams, Parade, London, Gallery Swap, Hotel at Guido Baudach, Berlin (2007).

Dan Coombs (b. 1971 London). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Heaven and Earth, Fine Art Society, London (2011), The Dreamers, Fred Gallery, London (2009), Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2005).

Group exhibitions include: Speak, Clown!, FOLD Gallery | London (2013), Hair Of the Dog, Block 336, London Art 12, City Museum, Prague, Echoes, Fine Art Society London, The Perfect Nude (cocurated with Phillip Allen), Wimbledon Space and Exeter Phoenix (2012), British Art Now, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin (2002), Young British Artists Part Six, Saatchi Gallery, London (1998).

Darren Murray (b. 1977 Antrim). Lives and works in London.
Solo exhibitions include: the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2007), Arte Ricambe, Verona, (2006), the Context Gallery, Derry (2002) and The Third Space Gallery, Belfast, (2007).

Group exhibitions include: Northern Ireland first presentation at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005, the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, the Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague (2006), Lion & Lamb, London (2013), Gooden Gallery, London (2012).

Dimitri Horta (b. 1970 Lausanne). Lives and works in Zurich.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Dimitri Horta, Empfinde, Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt/Main (2005), Haunch of Venison Zurich (2004), Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo(2002-2003), Gallery Naruyama Tokyo (2000).

Group exhibitions include: Colectiva 2011, Galeria Fonseca Macedo, São Miguel – Açores (2011), Gallery Naruyama Parade - Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo(2007), La Luna. La Diva - Likeyou.projects, Zurich (2006), Why not live for Art? - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2004), Works on Paper - global art source, Erlenbach (2002), Recent Draws [collective Exhibition] Galeria Fonseca Macedo, São Miguel – Açores (2001).

Marcus Harvey (b. 1963 Leeds). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Vigo Gallery, London (2013), Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam (2012), Door Paintings, Galleria Marabini, Milan, Tattoo, Fine Art Society, London Galleria Marabini, Bologna (2010), White Riot,White Cube, London (2009), Paintings, Galleria Marabini, Milan, Italy (2008), Albion, Galleria Marabini, Bologna (2007), The Führer’s Cakes, Galleria Marabini, Bologna (2005).

Group exhibitions include: BRITISH, Vigo Gallery, London (2011) Two and a half Dimensions, Pangolin Gallery, London, (2010), Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London, (2010) Without from Within, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, (2010), Crucible, Gloucester Cathedral sculpture show, Gloucester, (2006), In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery, London, (2005) London Calling, Y(oung) B(ritish) A(rtists) Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, (2000), Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, (2000), Out There, White Cube2, Hoxton, London, (1999) Now It’s My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, (1997) Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (1998-1999) Brooklyn Museum, About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990’s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, (1995), Young British Artists III, Saatchi Gallery, London, (1994), Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London.

Milena Dragicevic (b. 1965 Kinn). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Pampero, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna (2013), Erections for Transatlantica, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2011), Coloured Threads in Door Knobs, Pump House Gallery, London, Of Ants, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2008), The Supplicants, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Falsifikacija, Ibid Projects, London (2006), Akrobatski, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Skulptura [skoolp-too-ra], Artlab 25, Imperial College, London (2003).

Group exhibitions include: Characters: People and Portraits from the Arts Council Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath ,The Oracle: “What is your prophecy for the future?”, The Wand, Berlin, Group Show, Dispari & Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia Archetipi E Transiti Simbolici. Pittura Ed Altre Forme Radicali, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna (2013), Recent British Painting (curated by Tom Morton), Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam (2012 ), British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London; Art Nueve Gallery, Murcia (2011), Dark Side of the Moon, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2009).

Alexis Teplin (b. 1976 California.) Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions include: sss T !!’, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London ‘He, Ho, HA, hmmm…’, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2013), ‘Progress Pleas!’, Hotel, London (2011), 5cm higher’, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010), Viaggio in Italia, For Guilietta’, Car Projects, Bologna ‘Yes Parisol, My Marisol’, Hotel, London (2008), ‘l’armour c’est fou’, Gavlak, West Palm Beach (2006), ‘a fe line pea cock’, Show Pony, Los Angeles (2002).

Group exhibitions include: San Marino Calling’, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino ‘Sacre 101 - An exhibition based on the Rite of Spring’, Migros Museum, Zurich (2014), Costume: Written Clothing’, Tramway, Glasgow (2013), ‘Recent British Painting’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (2012), ‘Painting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham ‘The Party (film)’, Serpentine Cinema, Gate Cinema, London ‘Outrageous Fortune’, Hayward Touring / Focal Turning Point, South End ‘Expositions’, Blanket, Vancouver (2011), Arrival Inside’, Mary Mary, Glasgow ‘Reframing’, CCA Andratx, Majorca (2009), Flash’, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy (2008).