Dreaming Out Loud
September 16 to November 14, 2010
Dreaming Out Loud Unconscious moments of genius, surprises, even accidents. Six artists share a common process where the subconscious has influenced, or even taken over, to create art that tells a story from deep within.
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Damian Daly Charles Emerson Ann Goodfellow Becky Kidson Suzanne Partidge Harry Simmons
Suzanne Partridge There is a relationship built between the artist and each of her paintings, without prior thought or planning. The palette is selected from mood, and the layers of paint are applied and removed repeatedly until the end result represents the emotions and thoughts she was experiencing. Suzanne prefers a more ambiguous picture plane to recognisable imagery. She provides a base from which the viewer can project their own experience, enabling them to come to a personal conclusion about what her work represents to them.
Ann Goodfellow Returning to View with a new collection, Ann is building on the success of her sell-out show earlier this year. Her sculptures are ‘drawn’ using only the sense of touch and unusual markings emerge on beautiful self modelled ceramic bodies. Through heightened awareness of her body, Ann creates exaggerated scale in the relationship between head and torso. The painting is an unconscious process, revealing unplanned marks on a familiar shape. We are invited to follow the lines and form with our own touch to share the experience.
Damian Daly In Damian’s paintings and drawings, initial whimsical ideas form characters that develop through a journey of story telling. Initially, innocent fairy-tale figures are influenced by personal associations and, over long periods, latent meanings emerge as numerous characters evolve. During this process, the work begins to dictate its own construction. The cycle continues as the painter responds to unconscious meanings that are revealed and moulded.
Harry Simmonds Spontaneous, improvised, and unpredictable. Harry uses a multitude of unusual techniques to create unique images of portraits. In his ‘grid’ paintings, Harry only allows split second glimpses of his model to create small components of the final work. Each part is painted individually and in isolation. When completed, the components are assembled to show an unforeseen image that is edited to form the final view of the head. In this process, the important memorable elements are retained, whilst discarding the waste of conformity.
Charles Emerson Ink, water and flowers are used to experiment with the boundaries between photography and painting. There is a sense of theatre in the process, as ink is added to flowers submerged in a fish tank. As the colours mix with the water there is a continuous film of unique moments that can captured in the ‘performance’. The results, created without the use of digital manipulation, are beautiful unique moments of drama, where are and nature collide.
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