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Twisted / Cognitive / Sublime
The Sun and Doves, 61-63 Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9NS
Private View: 23rd October 7-9 pm. Exhibition continues til 11th November 2006
Please contact Mary Paterson for further images and details: marypaterson@gmail.com
Trevor Attwood is a photographer who is interested in the urban environment and how people interact with it. The key to his work is observation: taking the time to look more closely at the fabric of the city and what it can reveal. Scenes which might be ignored or appear ordinary to the unobservant can in fact be rewarding and entertaining in their own right.
Some of his images reveal a kind of urban beauty, whilst others offer the viewer a more humorous outlook. Ultimately, the environment in which people live is determined by their active and passive interactios with it. Elements of human behaviour, history and memory encourage the more perceptive onlooker to view life in the city from a slightly different perspective.
Trevor has shown work in group shows around England, and was highly commended at the ’50 over 50’ exhibition during August 2006 in Brighton.
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Mirror on the Sky
back to topDescribed by Impressions Magazine as a passionate and seductive painter, Bildner has a riotous use of colour. Her paintings create a definite, almost aggressively joyous, dialogue with the viewer, and their presence is hard to ignore. New York Village Voice described Bidlner’s work as, ‘varied and vital enough to renew a jaded spirit.’ Frances Bildner is represented in collections throughout Europe and America.
Frances started painting at a young age; she was inspired to go into Art after meeting Sir Charles Wheeler, the past president of the Royal Academy, at age 13. Sir Charles wanted to buy her painting!
Frances paints from her imagination and her work stems from her subconscious. The most important element for her in painting is colour. Everything she wants to say is translated through colour and movement.
For the last 18 years she has also been writing stream of consciousness poetry and recently has started combining some poems with her paintings, Poems related to the paintings in this exhibition can be viewed on this PDF file.
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Rainforest
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back to topCath Hughes’ work explores aspects of the psychological relationships we develop with our surroundings and the meanings that we attach to places visited and spaces inhabited. She is interested in the perceived notion of the ‘improving’ or healing potential of immersion in the natural world. ‘In Two Minds’ questions the duality of the mind/body split, questioning whether incessantly negative soundtracks of the conscious mind’s ‘chatterbox’ can perhaps be elided by physical experience of the body. The ‘Earthly Paradise’ series explores utopian ideals and the domestic realm. In Walthamstow, East London, Cath’s home is a stone’s throw from the birthplace of the socialist and craftsman William Morris. Titled with reference to a book of Morris’ poems which tell a tale of medieval wanderers on a search for everlasting life, these paintings feature raised patterns based upon Morris’ wallpaper designs overlaid with painted images from views of the artist’s own garden. In reference to a traditional art historical symbol of life’s transience, butterflies are collaged in multitude under resin, much like a domestic Victorian decoupage screen.
Cath gained a BFA in Painting from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, in 1994. She has worked extensively in art education, presently as an artist educator with galleries such as Tate Modern, Café Gallery Projects and the National Gallery.
www.cathhughes.co.uk
Earthly Paradise II £500
In Two Minds I £750
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back to top"My interests and influences are presently monsters, taking as a starting point, 'what we fear defines us': the domestic terror within the familiar. Pop culture, comic books, street art, record covers, natural history photography, hammer horror films, the bizarre and satirical, popular culture that immerses us in multi media visions of post modern confusion, myth and mischief. The work method I'm fascinated and enchanted by is the process of screen-printing. The multi layered and textured aesthetic is familiar but also magical; the industrial yet handmade quality of a screen print imbues the work with an intimate yet mass appeal. This allows for changes in scale without diminishing the initial impact of the image. This is further enhanced by printing on sheet aluminium, though I also work on MDF panels and raw canvas.
"I experiment with colours and techniques to create a 60's B-movie aesthetic which allows space for the absurd. The Gaia Series imagines that GM food experimentation has changed the makeup of British nature, creating a series of nightmarish, sci-fi disasters.
"Gaia refers to the theory that natural systems search for equilibrium by acting like one big living organism. Therefore if human beings unbalance natural systems, they will come back and bite us on the bum.
"The series 'Quatermass' is named after the fictional British rocket scientist of the 1950s, who dealt with supernatural events and invasion from other planets, and was symptomatic of the contemporary fear of communism. What do we fear today, and how do we discuss it? Is the fear of fear the syndrome of the twenty first century? We are all drawn to metaphor and darkness as a way to find meaning in our world. It is in this play and narrative that my work begins."
Gaia Carp at Millennium Bridge £650
Gaia Godzilla at Tower Bridge £650
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back to top"Much of my photography centres on vast and empty landscapes, simple in subject matter, shown such that the colour and quality of the light found there becomes the core component - the heart - of each image.
"These three images are taken from the ‘Skyscapes’ series where luminance and darkness clash in enigmatic, abstract forms and textures. Viewpoints are chosen with no foreground detail to evoke the greatest possible sense of space and light. With no visual clues (the title provides only a vague geographical reference) the viewer is asked to interpret the images using their own personal perceptions, memories and imagination."
London II £470
Dorset I £400
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