Saturday 25 July 2015

Geometry: Wonky and Otherwise, Déda, Derby

Interlocking Pattern, 2015, acrylic and oil on linen, 50 x 45 cm

Thursday 3rd September – Monday 9th November 2015

Opening launch Thursday 10th September

Andrew Bracey
Louisa Chambers
Lucy Cox
Terry Greene
Sarah R Key
David Manley
Andrew Parkinson
Richard Perry
Marion Piper

In this exhibition eight artists show how geometric shapes still inform and delight modern painters and create vibrant works that suggest that one hundred years on from its start abstraction is alive and kicking.  The title gives a clue to the selection; whilst some of the paintings are pin sharp and disciplined others play fast and loose with the shapes.  Others across the UK join artists from Derby & Nottingham in a selection of both emerging and established names in a lively survey of what abstract painters are up to nowadays.

Déda
19 Chapel Street
Derby
DE1 3GU

Tuesday 21 July 2015

Three Sides

I recently had the opportunity to experiment with making a series of short animations or ‘moving paintings’ during the Summer Lodge 2015 at Nottingham Trent University. The starting point was a repeated, red and white triangular-patterned, found piece of wrapping paper that I had intentionally folded. This idea derives from the folded, paper forms that I have been reconfiguring, observing and recording them through the mediums of painting and drawing. I am interested in the patterned and coloured surface on these forms but also the in between spaces - the shadows that are cast suggesting other areas of illusion.

I created five short animations and I see them as separate pieces almost as individual moving paintings. The overall title of the series is ‘Three Sides’ referring to the red and white triangular motif that is depicted on the patterned wrapping paper. The triangle is a simple geometric shape but equally it is one of the most important figures in mathematical theory which we frequently encounter throughout our daily life.

For more information about Summer Lodge at Nottingham Trent University visit the website here.

Image of the animations in process, Nottingham Trent University
 Image of the animations in process, Nottingham Trent University
Composition emphasising shapes, texture, folded fabric, patterns and colour

Ghost Shape
Layer I
Layer with Gingham Fabric
Triangles on Zigzag

Monday 20 July 2015

Fold/Unfold


System II- Fold, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Façade, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Exterior, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Creature, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Creature II, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Mirror,
 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Pincers,
 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Guise,
 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Reveal,
 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm

Since the beginning of the year I have been developing a new series of works that incorporates a simple paper folded form. Focusing on how a folded shape can be transfigured at speed from a temporary structure (three dimensional) into a flat two dimensional space (painting and drawing). Each form can be squashed again, folded, opened, reconfigured and recorded. Coloured patterned tessellations that are on the surface of the paper suggest other spaces, angles and areas of illusion. I am interested in how the marked painted surface can be perceived as a spatial element and how this can interact with figures that are situated in the foreground in a painting.

Creekside Open 2015 selected by Richard Deacon

One of my small gouache paintings- Façade was selected for the Creekside Open 2015 by Richard Deacon at APT Gallery, London. See the images below of installation views from the competition and you can see more here on my Flickr page

For more information about the competition please visit the Creekside Open website

Façade painting selected by Richard Deacon
Installation view of Creekside Open 2015


Autocatalytic Future Games curated by Playpaint

I selected my painting Up to be included in a group painting exhibition organised by the collaborative Playpaint at no format, London in June 2015. See below for a couple of installation views of the show and I have more images on my Flickr page.

For more information about the exhibition visit here: http://autocatalyticfuturegames.co.uk/

Up by Louisa Chambers and Smiley II by Sarah Poots
Autocatalytic Future Games curated by Playpaint, no format Gallery, London
Autocatalytic Future Games curated by Playpaint, no format Gallery, London
Autocatalytic Future Games curated by Playpaint, no format Gallery, London