Thursday 12 November 2015

Purchase Prize Winner at the Nottingham Castle Open 2015

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.

Paintings from left to right- Façade, Mirror, Creature and Guise
Guise, 2015, gouache on card, 22 x 16 cm. Photograph: John Hartley
Installation photograph: John Hartley
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony 2015  
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony 2015  
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Giving Ceremony 2015, The Prize Winners 
Photograph: Anthony Hopwood