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ACE is a mystery. All I can tell you right now is that he's a guerrilla printmaker and that his logo is an anthropomorphist boxer. |
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Adam King explores landscape and the pastoral through two and three dimensional collages. His work reveals post-apocalyptic terrains pieced together from the collected imagery of an urban consumer culture. These landscapes and their inhabitants are a disturbing reflection on our fixation with all things fashionable.
He is based in London and studied at the Wimbledon School of Art.
Award:
Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Open Exhibition Prize 2002; Pizza Express Prospects short-listed prize winner 2002; Surface Gallery Print Open Exhibition Winner 2004, 2006 Finalist Celeste Painting Prize, 2007 Exhibiting Finalist Celeste Painting Prize. |
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Solo Exhibitions
2006
“Men and savages”. Artifitial Gallery. Madrid.
2004
“Fountain”. Space F Gallery . Madrid.
2001
“Diary”. Centro de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid.
1999
“Diary”. Taller estudio Alfiz. Madrid. |
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He is based in London and studied at Slade School of Art and Reading University. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: John Moores 24, Liverpool. 2005 Under-Lie, Keith Talent Gallery, London. 2001: Solo Show, Mobile Home Gallery, London. 2000: Solo Show, Percy Miller Gallery London. 1999: John Moores 21, Liverpool; East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich; 1998: Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Space London; Solo Show, Marlene Eleini Gallery, London. In 1999 he was Prizewinner at John Moores 21. |
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"One of the most important motif in my work is contrast nature and technical civilization. There are my own contemporary person experiences from everyday live existence.
There are grotesque and certain tension in my paintings. Important pictures series is for me the "Metro" cycle. I placed there scenes from nature- fishing, chase, hunt, in to the decorative application of the underground's walls..I wanted symbolic transfer a little bit nature in to the Prague underground stations.
Conflict between natural and technical world is in the animals portraits too. |
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MA FINE ART CENTRAL ST MARTINS
Recent Exhibitions: Jan 2008, Oriel Mostyn ( See Website ,www.dewart.net, for Guardian Review),;On Your Wall Too, May 2008,Leeds Met Gallery; 'Your Scene',May 2008, Candid Arts, Islington. See website for previuos exhibition history
Alex Dewart’s painting are based on landscape and could be said to explore the space between : representation and abstraction; digital and analogue ; the simulated and the real.
They may be based on real places or be completely imaginary. It is an enquiry into the relationship between painting and the virtual imagery of the latest technology.
I am interested in the idea of the ‘Contemporary Sublime’. |
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A sensation of searching for something yet unknown that may provide enlightenment runs through the work. The flux of multi layered references flips us from anxiety to ecstasy to melancholy to horror. A hypnotic aesthetic binds it all together; in keeping with modern societies increasingly voracious appetite for quick fix fulfillment. Inevitably we end up narcotized, adrift in the void. However, there is also a sense that through total apocalyptic destruction there is the possibility for re-newel , for creation , metamorphosis. |
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Alex has been a freelance photographer since 2004 after he graduated in physics. Since then he has built up a large portfolio of London and is currently building up photographs of other cities across Europe. His work has been exhibited several times in London including the Barbican Library in September 2006. Although he lives in Portugal, he is regularly back in the UK when he is able to pursue commissions and orders for his works. |
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MA Fine Art Wimbledon College of Art 2006-2007.
Forthcoming Exhibitions: New Contemporaries 2008, Liverpool and London, (dates to be confirmed) The Invention of Solitude (2), Leicester City Gallery, and off-site spaces with Rebecca Birch, Rob Smith, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Curated by Charles Danby. 01.09.2008 - 28.10.2008 P.V. 11.09.2008
www.alexhudson.co.uk |
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1991-2 Wrexham Art College, Wales 1992-5 Goldsmiths College, London 2004
“The Proper Study of Mankind”, MoMAWales, Machynlleth, Wales. 2004 “Alexander Adams: Work on Paper” touring show, Rhyl Arts Centre Gallery, Rhyl, Wales; Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse, nr Halifax; School of Art Museum Art Gallery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales; Kings Lynn Arts Centre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Since 1994 he has exclusively worked in black and white. Speaking about the monochrome nature of his work, he said: "Working in black and white breaks the link with naturalism and allows the painter to operate without instinctively judging how 'real' an image is. |
