Category: Art
Contributors to the forthcoming Pause Exhibition come from a collective of fifteen recent graduates from University College Falmouth who have come together in order to showcase their current work at Blackall Studios in London during summer 2012.
The work is an eclectic mix; with investigations into painting and print, appropriation, animation, sculpture and drawing. The varying emphasis on concept and aesthetics makes the group representative of the exciting range of contemporary artwork being produced at Cornwall's renowned art school. This is their first exhibition post degree and an impressive first foray into professional art practice. Here's a taster of the exhibiting artists:
Michael Dryden’s work is driven by an interest in the tools and technologies that humans have developed throughout history. His sculpture explores the newfound significance of objects and materials at a time when the division between offline and online reality is in flux. In his most recent work, Michael has sought to memorialize the tools of the industrial age and provide the viewer with a dual perspective of looking backwards through history and forwards into an uncertain future.
Charlotte Bownass’ drawings and paintings are informed by obscure memories of chance encounters. She is driven by an interest in the ideas of escapism using story telling to reduce boundaries between the ‘inner world’ of the artist and the ‘outer world’ of the viewer. Her work is fed by references to a multitude of influences, marrying both Western representational and abstract painting and a strong interest in Eastern art, in particular Indian Miniatures.
Becky Lewis’ interests lie in the enriched visual culture that surrounds us in everyday life. Collage is the initial foundation to her work, which reflects her interests in the relationship between the mass produced image and the unique identity of a work of art. In Becky’s work, familiar everyday images are deconstructed and manipulated to create images that evoke a sense of ambiguity and unfamiliarity.
Ellie Lawlor’s work centres around moving image. She uses film to replicate the imagination and flow of conscious thought. Her work invites the viewer into an imagined world through subtle suggestibility. Ellie is interested in exploring narrative in her work and often takes themes from myths and folk tales. Recently she has experimented with combining High and Low definition film to create the look of a moving painting with a dream like quality.
Lizz Dobinson is in constant deliberation as to whether her decisions when painting have been reasoned consciously or intuited. Her work is a readable journey through which changes in mood and energy can be experienced. Great swathes of colour act like screens, disguising previous activity. The images are not so much trying to create or allude to a space or place; in terms of how we understand physical space in the real world, they are more like the space of thought.
There will be a Private View on 4th August 6-9pm. See more on the Pause Exhibition website or on their facebook page. Other featured artists include Reece Balfour, Norman Buchan Abi Burt, Michael Davies, Jonathan Gooch, Sophie Ingram, Hayley Jones, Rhys Partridge and Ed Sanders.