David Shutt
“David Shutt is an artist of passionate integrity who revels in the beauty of appearances. He sees painting as a process of identification and revelation rather than dry classification; and as a way of apprehending the world.”
Read more“David Shutt is an artist of passionate integrity who revels in the beauty of appearances. He sees painting as a process of identification and revelation rather than dry classification; and as a way of apprehending the world.”
Read moreIn my practice I use the cognitive associations that occur in the materiality of photographic processes, moving image and installation to explore notions of memory, imagination, analysis, poetics, stillness and movement.
Read moreI work with visual motifs originally associated with Romanticism and Modernism which now appear in forms of commercial display, packaging and spatial design.
Read morePainting is the backbone of my work. I have made installations, used video, was part of a performance group for eight years and produce photo-media works, but these in a sense refer back to and coincide with what is going on in my painting.
Read moreI split my working time between steel and marble.
Read moreMy recent paintings refer to the experience of traveling through urban spaces, particularly subways, staircases & escalators & the way commuters movement & interaction is defined within them.
Read moreMuch of my practice is about perception and revealing what is usually hidden.
Read moreDavid Theobald is a video artist born in Worthing in 1965. Although originally trained as a chemical engineer, he pursued a career in finance for fifteen years, living both in New York and London.
Read moreI am interested in the interplay between the ‘field’ and its ‘parts’, between moment and continuity and the observer’s role in the flux of ideas, phenomena and perception.
Read more“Lisa Traxler’s artworks bring physical existence back into the room. Her work gives us an opportunity to regain trust in the complexity of human experience and the knowledge that, while it may be difficult to fully recognise the entirety of what we see, within each part of the puzzle our own…
Read moreMy paintings are a continuous exploration of spatial ideas through colour, surface and texture which are applied and manipulated to produce an intense interactive little drama emerging out of a field of flat colour.
Read moreA question concerning reconciliation; between the ineffable and how it can be located in a visual materiality, is one I find best satisfied through painting. Sources can range from: an overheard conversation in another room, to an encounter of nocturnal phenomena in urban or rural landscape.
Read moreIn my sculptures there are three main themes.
Read moreBeauty in the age of digital manipulation, stills in a mediated world that conjure up a hidden narrative beyond the surface of the work. Caught between the mediums where fact mixes with fiction my work seeks to open up interpretation and questions our need for answers.
Read moreWhile my practice is grounded in printmaking, I revel in breaking down the limitations of materials and reinventing traditional handicrafts. My highly tactile works capture a child like sense of delight with a combination of humour and melancholy.
Read moreMy early work, 1950s/60s, grew out of great admiration for C. Permeke, Picasso, Cubists and especially Goya’s Black paintings whose horizontal format continues to intrigue and challenge me.
Read moreI try to do no more than I know.
Read more“I now thought of myself as living the life of a writer. . . ”
Read moreMy work is the result of an ongoing dialogue between video and painting; I work with time, change and a shifting sense of presence or absence. I particularly focus on relationships between people captured on film through sound, rhythms, words and movement.
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