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GL Brierley

Country of residence United Kingdom

Artist statement:
"This place, if I could describe this place, portray it, I've tried, I feel no place, no place around me, there's no end to me, I don't know what it is, it isn't flesh, it doesn't end, it's like air." (Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable)

These paintings attempt to describe a temporal and topographical non-place, a frozen present. In the absence of familiar co-ordinates there is instability which, taken to extremes, ranges from the uncanny to the mock gothic. In these disorientated spaces there exists certain tensions, light/dark, stasis/process, presence/absence, inside/outside, sublime/bathos, order/chaos. Collaged into the organic texture of the paint are detailed cultural elements, digitally repeated (sometimes tiny), i.e. nostalgia, ski-fi, graffiti, textiles. Sometimes paint-accidents are sampled and made to recur like an infinity spawned by a technological malfunction.
(Candice Jacobs, 2007)

She lives and works in London.
2007 MFA Goldsmiths

Selected exibitions:
2006 Defining the Contemporary, Whitechapel, Gallery, London
2006 Celest, Old Truman Brewery, London
2005 Solo Show Firstsite
2004 John Moores
2004 Whitechapel, East End Academy

Exhibitions Salon 08, 04.Dec - 21.Dec.08, GOODEN GALLERY, ARTfutures 2008, 06.Mar - 12.Mar.08, Contemporary Art Society, Acid Drops & Sugar Candy, 19.Nov - 18.Dec.05, Contemporary Art Projects, Fosterart Summer Exhibition 2005, 06.Jul - 10.Sep.05, Contemporary Art Projects

 

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