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Artist Statement:
‘The compelling energy of my work is a plundering of documentation, a revisiting of people or places which are half-remembered, or which remain never entirely realised. I seek to present the transitory, almost exotic feel of experiences and instances as they become blurred and augmented by memory.’ |
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Gilvan-Cartwright’s work is dictated by a fascination for fantasy and “dreamworlds” as much as for the act of painting itself; to engage in “the imagination and the dynamic properties of a painted reality”. Reminiscent of Fragonard, the German Romantics and Victorian fairy paintings, his work is both rigorous and playful.
He studied at Central St. Martins, Brighton University and Crakow in Poland. He won the ROSL Travel Bursary 1997. He has had four solo shows at the East West Gallery Notting Hill; was shortlisted for John Moores Art Prize twice; and exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004. The Times, Independent, Telegraph and BBC Radio 4 Itchy Feet, have featured his work. |
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2005 'Bride of the Atom' and ' Cut and Shut' Exhibitions, Studio A Gallery; 2004 University of Brighton Degree Show; 2003 'Smells Like White Spirit', Small Mansions, Acton Park; 2003 'Room With A View' University Exhibition; 2001 '3 Days Only', Same Sky Gallery, Kemptown. Gigi Productions (film), storyboard and concept design, Co-founder of Studio A Gallery. Links: www.studioagallery.com |
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Daryl Waller’s art offers a full range of contradictions in an honest account of humanity, extreme on both ends of the spectrum - from masculine to feminine, violent to loving, beautiful to ugly, naive to sophisticated, expressing nihilism mixed with wonderment - both sides of the picture are united in uncompromising blunt honesty. The music he listens to and the ideas, emotions and sounds expressed within them mingle with his own ideas and thought providing a soundtrack and reference to his own experiences. Undaunted and free he lays himself open and raw through his art; wondering nomadically from medium to medium challenging his comfort zones. In his work he manages to express emotions and |
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Dilys Finlay-Stephens portraits are very much influenced by her grandfather, the American portrait painter Thomas Edgar Stephens, who painted the entire Eisenhower cabinet and the last life portrait of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Her portraits concentrate more in depicting her subjects as products of their urban environment.
Finlay-Stephens looks to Dutch Masters and also colour photography for her influences. Feathered shapes are pressed against glass and here sometimes the contest between motion and stillness, like life and death, seems to suggest trapping, and the states of suspension, transience, and metamorphosis. |
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Roberts seeks poetry and adventure in the most unassuming elements of daily life. In his paintings abandoned factories, dwellings, industrial units, deserted stadiums and parks shrouded in the ordinariness of the everyday, are rediscovered and transformed into enigmatic images. Memories of growing up at the RAF base and fascination with the wasteland glamour of film noir are major influences in his work.
He is based in London and studied at Cambridge University and Central St Martins. In 2003 he was short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Selected Exhibitions include: 2005 Point Blank Lounge, London. 2004 Contemporary British Painting Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex. |
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In my work I combine the linear with baroque elements, creating a somehow unfocused visual journey. The layers of translucent paint gradually form the image allowing a web of brush-strokes to describe its spaces. An intense sense of light is of great significance in the work as it acts as a way in or an exit point out of that journey. It allows suggestions of infinity or describes claustrophobic areas.
She lives and works in London studied at Ruskin school of Fine Art and Royal Academy Schools. Solo exhibitions include: 'A million mirrors', Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, 2007; ‘In the ruins’, Contemporary Art Projects, London 2006; ‘On the verge’, Amy- Jo Spitallier presents, London |
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Lumbers work examines the trajectory between youth culture and media driven glamorous MTV stereotypes. Lumbers paintings have a sense of ghostly/dreamlike dislocation. The scenes depicted of isolated woodland clearings, lakes and forest glades occaisionally inhabited by carefree if somewhat melancholic adolescents, are not quite of waking life. Using otherworldly colour schemes and dramatic lighting, Lumbers des cribes scenes that are familiar yet stripped of identifying characteristics; estranged and dreamlike. She uses disjointed brush strokes, neutral backgrounds and fake labels.She works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. |
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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)
She lives and works in London.
Education: BA Manchester Polytechnic; MA Royal College of Art.
Selected exibitions include:
2005 Solo Show Firstsite
2004 John Moores
2004 Whitechapel, East End Academy
One year's residency Florence Trust |
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Contemporary figurative painters, like many others, find themselves in the congested territory of searching for a distinct subject matter that has the breadth and malleability on which to build a personalised mark making language. For Greg Rook, this quest has brought him to the rich imagery of the American frontier and Wild West. (...) J. Brooks
Education:
2000-2002 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1997-2000 BA Fine Art (painting), Chelsea School of Art & Design
1991-1994 BA & MA Philosophy, Politics & Economics, University College, Oxford
Solo Exhibitions:
2007 We live like this Lounge Gallery, London
2005 Myth II Gallery Min Min, Tokyo |
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