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Geraldine Swayne

10 October-13 November

Private view: Monday 10 October 2005 : 6-8 PM

The Wine Gallery-49 Hollywood Rd, London SW10
contact Art 3 for more info on 020 7585 0645

Art 3 are pleased to present new works by Geraldine Swayne.

This is the third time that Geraldine has shown with Art 3 @ the Wine Gallery, her hauntingpaintings and digital photographs based around 'Venetian ghost stories' formed the the theme of her accclaimed solo show in September 2003 and more recently when was part of '3 years of Art 3' in December 2004. Doodles and other exploratory drawings equate to a juxtaposition of an internal an external world in conflict, that in part,could even draw reference to the 1970's installations of American artist Jonathan Borofsky

"I think it's impossible to over estimate how important drawing is. It is so direct and so philosophical, and gets right to the heart of things. It's how to explore new ideas and visual languages; to design and record and to externalize the imagination.

I think drawing is kin to writing, our standartised way of reading marks on paper, and have therefore been using text in the drawings recently. I type the gnomic political statements, suicide notes and queasy diary entries of my life into online text translators to electronically generate unexpected and unreliable new meanings. In a way I'm making a point about what we rely on to get our ideas and feeling across to each other and how inept it can be. It's also about hiding what you really want to say; being angry; repressed. I like to draw when I'm in a vaguely hypnotised state and feeling lost to myself. Some days lots appear, others nothing. I will some times make several versions of the same one as a kind of calligraphic refinement.

The subject matter is whatever's on my mind that year: shame; horror and the supernatural usually, and a bit of revenge. If you let it, the unconscious mind usually reminds you what's bothering you deep down".

Geraldine Swayne October 2005