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Sims Reed Gallery in association with Tag Fine Arts, are proud to present ‘Rob Ryan: There is only Time,’ a solo exhibition showcasing an entirely new body of paper and print works by the celebrated British artist. Rob Ryan, already a national treasure in the UK, has created some of his largest and most accomplished work to date for this exhibition, which will build on the success of major solo shows in London.
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Rob Ryan

There i s On ly T ime

Exhibition: October 23rd - November 8th 2013

Sims Reed Gallery The Economist Building

30 Bury Street London SW1Y 6AU

T +44 (0)20 7930 5111 F +44 (0)20 7930 1555E [email protected]

www.gallery.simsreed.com

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TAG FINE [email protected] www.tagfinearts.com

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‘Dreamed The Same Dreams’Papercut, 2013. 81 x 92 cm£9,600

“Even though I know that we both dreamed the same dreams, I still wish that we had known eachother as children”

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‘It Was Only The Beginning’Papercut, 2013. 96.5 x 81 cm£7,800

“Even though we were only both very small the roots of our heart ran down so very deep rightinto the heart of the planet and its hot beating heart answered in approval and exploded withjoy. Up through the earths thin crust the clouds grew dark and blocked out the light of the sunand people all across the land howled and cried God is angry with us. They thought it really wasthe end of the world when really it was only the beginning”

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‘My Tree Never Had Any Roots...’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 48 x 40 cm£480 (unframed)£690 (framed)

“My tree never had any roots but it continued to grow nevertheless and I took it everywhere Iwent. I carried it mile after mile after mile and then I saw you and every word since then I’vehung on a string only to hold you closer”

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‘Sub-Atomic Love Story I’ Papercut, 2013. 123.5 x 123.5 cm£16,800

“A Could You? Would You? Climb inside this tiny atom with me? It’s quite cosy and not as smallas you might first think! In fact, there’s another whole world in here as big again as the universeitself.

B The endless immensity of space used to fill me with an unsatisfied and fearful wonder.

C What mysterious power kept it all in place? Not I nor even the world’s greatest scientists couldfathom it out.

D But since I’ve moved down here with you to live amongst the protons and neutrons I havebegun to feel a fantastic force of energy buzzing all around me and I’ve finally realised that theinvisible power that holds the entire universe together is your love.”

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‘I Still Wish We Had Known Each Other As Children’Papercut, 2013. 74 x 77 cm£7,800

“Even though I know that we both dreamed the same dreams, I still wish that we had known eachother as children”

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‘Your Song Was My Song Is Our Song’Papercut, 2013.81 x 84.5 cm£7,200

“In my head, every day, all day long, I sang my special song, a hidden thing, a simple waltzaround and around just like how the world goes around and around.

I looked at the world as my sing sang along and I saw the whole thing as one long dance thatwould go on forever. And then one day I heard someone else singing my song and I looked aroundand of course it was you.

I never knew that your song was my song is now our song and when we’re gone this song will keepon going around and around to keep on telling the people of the world to never forget how sweetlife is”

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‘It Was Only The Beginning (Orange Fade)’Screenprint in colours, 2013.Signed and numbered from the edition of 6.Image size: 80.5 x 63.5 cm£960 (unframed)£1,230 (framed)

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“Even though we were only both very small the roots of our heart ran down so very deep rightinto the heart of the planet and its hot beating heart answered in approval and exploded withjoy. Up through the earths thin crust the clouds grew dark and blocked out the light of the sunand people all across the land howled and cried God is angry with us. They thought it really wasthe end of the world when really it was only the beginning”

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‘It Was Only The Beginning (Blue)’Screenprint in colours, 2013.Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 80.5 x 63.5 cm£840 (unframed)£1,110 (framed)

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‘It Was Only The Beginning (Pink)’Screenprint in colours, 2013.

Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 80.5 x 63.5 cm

£840 (unframed)£1,110 (framed)

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‘I Always Said That I’d Do Anything For You’Papercut, 2013. 73 x 74.5 cm****

“I always said I’d do anything for you now you know I meant it. There isn’t a sea wide enoughthat I wouldn’t cross to be with you again”

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‘You Work At It...’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 12. Image size: 54.5 x 46.5 cm£576 (unframed)£776 (framed)

“You work at it and you work at it. You still do it every time as if it was still your first shot andyou whole life depended on it. You work at it and you work at it. As if it had to be better thananything you had done before”

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‘Love Hasn’t Even Got Started Yet’Papercut, 2013. 81 x 81 cm£7,200

“As I understand it this was what happened. There was one big giant explosion and everything inthe universe started to grow very very quickly, but for all of those billions and billions of yearsbefore we were born love didn’t exist in the universe at all. It just wasn’t there yet. Vast lovelessyears longer than you could ever imagine. Atoms joined other atoms to create new elements thatwould build countless new galaxies, but love and kindness played no part in it at all. Do we haveto be so hard on ourselves to not even claim that it was through the goodness within us that itcame about? But prefer to invent a story that it was bestowed on us by a man in the sky ratherthan admit it came from within our hearts. I look up and see how much the universe has grownand I feel that love. A newborn baby in comparison, has so much more evolving to do, love hasn’t even got started yet”

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‘I Write These Words’Papercut, 2013. 94 x 78 cm£7,200

“I write these words now on this lonely piece of paper, to nobody in the world except myself. Andthese marks I make here today with my little fingers by the time anybody sees them again theymight be twice the size but their pattern will still be the same. But by then who will I be? Whatcan I tell you? I don’t know what I want but i know what I don’t want.

I want to be able to find out who the little person that lives inside me really is! I want to find outwhat incredible things he might be capable of achieving and if left to himself and if he reallyputs his mind to it.

He might write a book or open a shop or discover something that might astound the entire worldor produce a child made from love and then fill it up with even more. Goodness and love to sendout into the world to make it even better not even worse.

I don’t know a lot but I do know one thing, that none of this will ever happen here in this placesurrounded by these people that deny the most simple of truths and their handsome and satisfiedchildren that can’t be bothered to even dream of creating their own future.”

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‘...And Most Of All They Need Love’Papercut, 2013. 84 x 66 cm£6,600

“These people without their clothes and their buildings could never survive. The cold kills themand the heat burns them but their strength is in their relentlessness. They endure and adapt butwhen they have enough they still want more. But more than anything they need each other andmost of all they need love.”

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(Detail shown overleaf)

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‘That Was The First Lie’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 10. Image size: 32.5 x 24 cm£456 (unframed)£556 (framed)

“The first lie was made only minutes after my birth. When you put clothes on me and dressedme up to look like you.”

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‘It Was Just The Beginning’Papercut, 2013. 112 x 138 cm£12,000

“Even though we were both only very very small the roots of our hearts ran down so deep rightinto the heart of the planet and its hot beating heart answered in approval and exploded withjoy. Up through the earths thin crust and the ash clouds grew dark and blocked out the light ofthesun and people all across the land cried and howled ‘God is angry with us’. They reallybelieved that it was the end of the world when really it was just the beginning”

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‘Sub-Atomic Love Story II’Papercut, 2013. 83 x 87 cm****

“Could You? Would You? Climb inside this tiny atom with me? It’s quite cosy and not as small asyou might first think!! In fact, there’s another whole world in here as big again as the universeitself!!!

The endless immensity of space used to fill me with an unsatisfied and fearful wonder.

What mysterious power kept it all in place? Not I nor even the world’s greatest scientists couldfathom it out.

But since I’ve moved down here with you to live amongst the protons and neutrons I have begunto feel a fantastic force of energy buzzing all around me and I’ve finally realised that the invisiblepower that holds the entire universe together is your love”

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Detail: ‘Sub-Atomic Love Story II’

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‘You Work At It And You Work At It (Red)’Papercut, 2013. 69.5 x 61.5 cm£5,400

“You work at it and you work at it. You still do it every time as if it was still your first shot andyour whole life depended on it. You work at it and you work at it. As if it had to be better thananything you had done before”

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‘The Pearls Story’ Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 15. Image size: 46.6 x 47.8 cm£600 (unframed)£740 (framed)

“The Pearls Story. Way down deep below the chaos of the crashing waves, down on the oceanfloor where all is quiet and still. There in the darkness we grew as we slept for years locked tightinside our rocky little homes, not a soul in the world knew that we were even there. It was thevery secret of our unknown existence that made us precious and that beauty died the moment wewere discovered and our shells finally and brutally prised open. We were sold into slavery to beshackled along a golden chain and end up draped around your pale and slender neck to beadmired by the entire town.

Our misery was now complete. And even though we were now resigned to our new life of agonisingdaily public scrutiny there was still one surprise more to come! Of all the people in the world itwas you alone who felt our unhappiness at being constantly observed. You took your sharp littleknife and cut the same square shape, page after page, and then you unclasped us for the verylast time and placed us gently inside our new home and closed the book and climbed up thetallest ladder and placed it on the highest shelf in the library. And in the beautiful dark we fellasleep and forgot anything had ever happened”

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‘The Village Grew Into A Town’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 78 x 54 cm£840 (unframed)£1,110 (framed)

“The village grew Into a town and the town grew into a whole city. The tree grew up to the skyand the river grew as it flowed to the sea.

And the flowers, well they grew until they covered the whole field and from inside the depths ofour hearts you grew as well. Every single day a tiny bit.

But yet still inside you there will never be a shortage to the amount of love your heart can grow,and day by day and year by year, you can grow in your heart still more care and more sympathyand more trust and more kindness until it finally blossoms and its flowers cover the entire world.

More and more of you. And all of the long days and all of the short days will add up to more ofyou until there is no more growing left to be grown.”

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‘I Still Wish We Had Known Each Other As Children’ Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 53 x 59 cm£480 (unframed)£700 (framed)

“Even though I know that we both dreamed the same dreams, I still wish that we had known eachother as children”

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‘There Is Only Time’Papercut, 2013. 125 x 166.7 cm£20,400

“There is no such thing as free time.There is no such thing as spare time.There is no such thing as play time.There is no such thing as work time.There is no such thing as quality time.There is no such thing as down time.There is no such thing as the wrong time.There is no such thing as the right time”

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‘...And Most Of All They Need Love’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 16. Image size: 66 x 48.6 cm£680 (unframed)£900 (framed)

“These people without their clothes and their buildings could never survive. The cold kills themand the heat burns them but their strength is in their relentlessness. They endure and adapt butwhen they have enough they still want more, But more than anything they need each other andmost of all they need love.”

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‘My Tree Never Had Any Roots...’Papercut, 2013.65 x 57 cm£4,560

“My tree never had any roots but it continued to grow nevertheless and I took it everywhere I went.I carried it mile after mile after mile and then I saw you and every word since then I’ve hung on astring only to hold you closer.”

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‘The Pearls Story’Papercut, 2013. 61.5 x 63 cm£5,040

“The Pearls Story. Way down deep below the chaos of the crashing waves, down on the oceanfloor where all is quiet and still. There in the darkness we grew as we slept for years locked tightinside our rocky little homes, not a soul in the world knew that we were even there. It was thevery secret of our unknown existence that made us precious and that beauty died the moment wewere discovered and our shells finally and brutally prised open. We were sold into slavery to beshackled along a golden chain and end up draped around your pale and slender neck to beadmired by the entire town.

Our misery was now complete. And even though we were now resigned to our new life of agonisingdaily public scrutiny there was still one surprise more to come! Of all the people in the world itwas you alone who felt our unhappiness at being constantly observed. You took your sharp littleknife and cut the same square shape, page after page, and then you unclasped us for the verylast time and placed us gently inside our new home and closed the book and climbed up thetallest ladder and placed it on the highest shelf in the library. And in the beautiful dark we fellasleep and forgot anything had ever happened.”

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‘The Invisible Power’Papercut, 2013. 36.5 x 37.5 cm£3,600

“The invisible power that held the entire universe together was your love.”

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‘Dreamed The Same Dreams’Screenprint in colours, 2013.Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 64.5 x 75 cm£1,080 (unframed)£1,350 (framed)

“Even though I know that we both dreamed the same dreams, I still wish that we had known eachother as children”

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‘The Village Grew Into A Town...’ Papercut, 2013. 96 x 71 cm£7,800

“The village grew Into a town and the town grew into a whole city. The tree grew up to the skyand the river grew as it flowed to the sea.

And the flowers, well they grew until they covered the whole field and from inside the depths ofour hearts you grew as well. Every single day a tiny bit.

But yet still inside you there will never be a shortage to the amount of love your heart can grow,and day by day and year by year, you can grow in your heart still more care and more sympathyand more trust and more kindness until it finally blossoms and its flowers cover the entire world.

More and more of you. And all of the long days and all of the short days will add up to more ofyou until there is no more growing left to be grown.”

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‘Why Not Us Too’Papercut, 2013. 92.5 x 79.5 cm£7,680

“Stars and planets are held in place by the power of gravity and the tiny molecules of an atomcannot live without its fellow protons and neutrons.

The leaf cannot survive away from its tree just as much as the tree needs the soil in which itlives. When the part becomes separate from the whole it withers and dies.

If everything in the universe is connected to each other, then why not us too?”

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‘That Was The First Lie’Papercut, 2013. 45 x 37.5 cm£3,600

“The first lie was made only minutes after my birth. When you put clothes on me and dressedme up to look like you”

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‘Love Hasn’t Even Got Started Yet’Screenprint in colours, 2013. Signed and numbered from the edition of 10.Image size: 62 x 62 cm£480 (unframed)£710 (framed)

“As I understand it this is what happened, there was one big giant explosion and everything inthe universe started to grow very very quickly, but for all of those billions and billions of yearsbefore we were born love didn’t exist in the universe at all. It just wasn’t there yet. Vast lovelessyears longer than you could ever imagine. Atoms joined other Atoms to create new elements thatwould build countless new galaxies, but love and kindness played no part in it at all. Do we haveto be so hard on ourselves to not even claim that it was through the goodness within us that itcame about? But prefer to invent a story that it was bestowed on us by a man in the sky ratherthan admit it came from within our hearts. I look up and see how much the universe has grownand I feel that love. A newborn baby in comparison, has so much more evolving to do , love hasn’t even got started yet”

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Rob Ryan Biography

A highly acclaimed illustrator specialising in paper cuts and limited edition screen prints, Rob Ryan

represented TAG Fine Arts at the London Art Fair as part of the gallery’s launch in 2007. Since then, his

intricate and beguiling paper cuts have acquired a huge public following, and have appeared in

collaborations with high profile figures in the fashion world including Lulu Guinness, Tatty Devine, Liberty

London, Ernest Sewn, Paul Smith, Elle Magazine and Vogue. His designs illustrate his own book ‘This Is For

You,’ a romantic fairy-tale told through paper cut art, and also ‘The Gift’ (a poignant children’s tale by Poet

Laureate Carol Ann Duffy). Ryan was included in the major show ‘Slash – Paper Under the Knife’ at the

Museum of Arts and Design in New York in 2010. The same year, he was the subject of a highly acclaimed

solo exhibition, ‘The Stars Shine All Day Too,’ at the Air Gallery in Dover Street, London, organised by TAG

Fine Arts. Rob tells heartfelt stories through is art; some amusing, some poignant; some melancholy. These

works look effortless and whimsical but they are painstakingly crafted. He cuts each papercut from the finest

paper, with the smallest of scalpels, and his prints display a masterful level of clarity and detail.

Selected Exhibitions:

2013 There is only Time, TAG Fine Arts, Sims Reed Gallery, London

2012 The First Cut, Manchester City Galleries, Manchester, UK

2012 Rob Ryan: Our Adventure is About to Begin, TAG Fine Arts, SOHOTEL Artspace Gallery,

New York City, NY

2012 Rob Ryan, Solo exhibition, Charleston House, East Sussex, UK

2011 The Art of Mapping, TAG Fine Arts, London, UK

2010 The Stars Shine All Day Too, TAG Fine Arts, Air Gallery, London

2010 My London, with TAG Fine Arts, Exposure Gallery, London

2010 Slash, paper under the knife (opened 2009) Museum of Arts and Design, New York

2009 Rob Ryan vinyl exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2009 Ryan Town USA Earnest Sewn Co., New York, USA

2008 Book Launch – ‘This is for You’ published by Sceptre, available from TAG Fine Arts

2007 Papercuts Project Space, London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, London

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2006 The Stars Shine All Day Too, 17 Gallery, London

2006 Screenprint Show, Paul Smith, Tokyo, Japan

2006 Screenprint Show, Paul Smith, London

2005 Christmas Window Display, Liberty London

2005 See the Job do the Job, Hedspace, Brighton2005 Solo Show, Gallery Frank, London

2005 Solo Show, Vertigo Gallery, London

2004 The Museum of Us, Horse Hospital, London

2001 Screenprints, Studio Gallery, London

2000 Why is Modern Architecture Grey, Mummy? The Tabernacle, London

1999 Plates, Broomhill Sculpture Garden and Gallery, Barnstable, Devon

1997 Big Paintings, Worse than Hell Itself, London

1997 Turbulence, Princelet St Synagogue, London

1996 Kneetrember, Conway Hall, London

1995 Nobody Remembers, I remember, Alternative Arts, London

1995 Mad in England, Oirschott Kunst, Eindhoven, NL

1994 There will be free art won’t there Sarge? Alternative Arts, London

1993 Come on and Live, Conway Hall, London

1993 There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong,

Oirschott Kunst, Eindhoven, NL

1992 Artists against CLAUSE 28, The Diorama, London

1990 Beautifully Now, Wilson Hale Gallery, London

1989 Mad is Sane, Wilson Hale Gallery, London

1989 Domestic Bliss, Wilson Hale Gallery, London

1988 Aspects of Ryan, Wilson Hale Gallery, London

1988 Religious Love, Wilson Hale Gallery, London

1984 Group Show, The Peacock, Nottingham

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Designed by Lucy Harbut (Sims Reed Gallery)

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Sims Reed Gallery The Economist Building

30 Bury Street London SW1Y 6AU

T +44 (0)20 7930 5111 F +44 (0)20 7930 1555E [email protected]

www.gallery.simsreed.com

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