Paintings
Guise, Façade, Creature and Mirror from the Fold/Unfold series on Friday 6th November were selected for
the Nottingham Castle Open 2015 Purchase Prize!
Congratulations
to all the other winners of the competition. You can find out more about them
and information about the prize here: Nottingham Castle Open Website
The
winning paintings are from 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. 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 of a painting.
Installation
photographs and images from the award ceremony are featured below.
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Paintings from left to right- Façade, Mirror,
Creature and Guise
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| Guise, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm. Photograph: John Hartley |
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Installation photograph: John Hartley
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Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony
2015
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood |
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Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony
2015
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood |
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Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony
2015, The Prize Winners
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood |
