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Artists' Statements:
El Bedlow
Stephen Buckeridge
Kate Genever
Katherine Russell
Joanne Scholar and David Wightman
Twisted / Cognitive / Sublime
at the Wine Gallery
Wine Gallery, 49 Hollywood Road, SW10 9HX
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Private View: 4th September 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition continues til 8th October 2006
Please contact Mary Paterson for further images and details: marypaterson@gmail.com
El Bedlow
"My cultural background is an important aspect of my identity and my work. I
am half English; half Irish but spent most of my childhood in Japan.
Fragmentation and displacement are recurrent themes in my work. However, I
am interested in both the positive and negative aspects of cultural
confusion. This has brought strong references to maps or fragmented land
into my work. I like to take a simple object or image and change its status
from what it would normally be in the world."
Fly £450
Stephen Buckeridge
"It is important that the surface retains a physical memory, which can be revealed through its pealed and cracked surface. Each surface should express a kind of transitory upheaval – whereby the surface is a snapshot of a continuous moment. Its dissonance is revealed through the conflict between an action that is beautiful and repellent, voluntary or involuntary. Matter is poured, smeared, skidded across the surface to allow each layer to find its natural position and state; this action often results in the erasing of the history and memory of the previous action. The outcome is an embodiment of previous actions."
Coalesce £540
Secretion £540
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Kate Genever
"I used an old stuffed dog as a starting point and drew, over and over, fast, slow, small, large. The lithography added another layer as did the sreen print. I like how the drawings changed from still life to landscapes through experimentation, making and chance."
Idol (1) £450
Idol (2) £450
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Katherine Russell
"My work is all about the paint: The manipulation, the pushing and pulling, the play, the contriving, the tension. One mark leads to another, a colour to a colour. A lot of the time the original stages of an idea or focus is obliterated as something else captures my interest and takes over. It is quite intuitive, the painting and the process of making it carries itself forward: Creating an image of a snatched glimpse, not a complete view, which allows the viewer’s imagination to contemplate or explore its possibilities. The paintings lie somewhere between the real and the make believe, almost staged landscapes."
White Water (Tortolla) £900
Lazy Pool £900
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Joanne Scholar and David Wightman
"A dual fascination with geometric abstraction and wallpaper has led me to create work combining both aspects. Using the 'Target' as a compositional device, I wish to free wallpaper from its original use. In this current work we have made wallpaper using designs based on 'nature' or 'landscape'. Anything from William Morris designs, photographs and found patterns have been used. We see the work as bridging the gap between landscape and abstraction."
Caroline £690
Caroline 2 £690
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