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Selected Exhibitions
A Line Seen + Felt - Bridlesmith Gate Gallery, Nottingham. solo Continuum series The current Continuum
series of work is non-narrative and abstract; paintings, drawings and prints, are based on continuous reverting lines. Forming planes and often grouping to create a circular form or a space vacated by one. These lines may appear organic but are constructed with compasses and contained within a structural framework. Some works may appear simple and pure of line. Others are complex, full of layers revealing depths of under-painting, showing glimpses of process and history. Aiming to create... ...A linear structure that holds a perfect rhythmical balance.
Art from the Studios - Nottingham Castle. Group - 5 artist focus Palimpsest series Recently a new series of paintings - Palimpsest have developed out of the Continuum works. Visual past layers have become more apparent and left open to interpretation, revealing once hidden depths of under-painting, allowing process to read. With the top surface layer forming lines and structure created out of negative space, echoing the circular voids of past series.
Young British Abstraction - Silverstein Gallery, New York. Group Disintegration series 1993-5 The later paintings in the series, shown in the YBA show at Silverstein Gallery, New York [1995] were clinical in comparison. Their structures refined, balanced and the depth-of-field visibly narrowed. The grounds were painted white and the colour palette became; cooler, harder, muted. The widths of the band narrowed and the full structure of form totally contained – tangent to the canvas edge. Inter series In the following short Inter series [late 1995] the structure and balance became the main focus and for the first time a coloured painted ground was adopted. Inter no.1 became the first serious attempt at a purely formal structural painting. A skeleton, un-reliant on colour - white ground with the majority of the bands white as well. Though unsuccessful as a pure white work, it was close to being complete in its formal composition and balance.
Disintegration - Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. Solo Disintegration series 1993-5 The Disintegration series [1993-5] rationale formed around fragmented elements of a circle clustering into components of solid circular forms or layered bands. These multi-layered bands were re-connected and orbited around the original axis points [origins]. Two distinct groups evolved in the 20 numbered canvases. In the early works use of controlled geometry, superimposed over revived paintings of 1989-92. Their compositions and structures reworked and overlaid with; highly saturated colour, inter-connected expansive bands, in a combination of textured and transparent layers, that moved in and out of the picture frame. Along side 12 paper works, the paintings No’s 4–13 were exhibited in the Disintegration solo at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham of 1994 with accompanying catalogue.
Circa NG99 - Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. Group
Innercore - Galerie OZ, Paris Solo Innercore series Earlier series 1989-92 In the earlier series Innercore works use of controlled geometry, superimposed over revived paintings of 1989-92. With layers of organic drawing. Other Selected Exhibitions Solo Disintegration - Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. Open - Galerie OZ, Paris. Innercore - Galerie OZ, Paris. Paintings - Nottingham Castle. Group Remote Control - Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. British Artists - Vinson Gallery, Atlanta. Art from the Studios - Nottingham Castle. Contemporary Painters & Sculptors - Air Gallery, London. Young British Abstraction - Silverstein Gallery, New York. Circa NG - Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. Starting a Collection - Warwick Arts Trust, London. Work in several private, corporate and public collections. Selected NHS National Art Collection, Warwick Arts Trust London, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham University, Nottingham Law School, Geldards LLP Law firm, Evershed Solicitors.
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