Justin Sidney | Transparent Elements Within Time

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A N D I PA C O N T E M P O R A R Y

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Sidney’s work captures the most evasive of images, colours and textures: the effects of the transparent elements, water and air, over time. He scours the city for overlooked corners of buildings, the details, colours and life of abandoned architectural pockets. These are the places where water has penetrated and has, with its vital force, transformed the base material, be it stone, concrete, wood or iron into a deep and nuanced range of colours and textures.

Once an interesting landscape in miniature is found, the artist returns repeatedly to the same location at different times of day, in different lights to contemplate the colours and the effects. In the studio, from memory, he paints a composite recollection of these complex, atmospheric places and surfaces in the process of transformation.

Looking at the canvases, one is drawn into deep landscapes from which one imagines a boat emerging, or thick willowy foliage draping into the watery environment. These are highly contemplative, absorbing paintings, which display a profound understanding of colour, materials and textures.

previous page Justin Sidney -----------------------------------------right Reflections, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 120 X 80 cm

right Envy, 2009 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 90 x 90 cm

left Deep Pools, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 120 x 80 cm

right South Kensington Subway, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 120 x 80 cm

this page Willow Trees (detail) ----------------------------------------right Willow Trees, 2012 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 160 x 100 cm

left Obsession, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 160 x 100 cm

previous page Urban Marks I, II, III (triptych), 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 30 x 30 cm (each panel) ----------------------------------------right Polaroid, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 90 x 90 cm

right Dark Ocean, 2011 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 90 x 90 cm

above Below the Water, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 40 x 40 cm ------------------------------------------------------right Emerald City II, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, signed 120 x 80 cm

left City Scars, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, Signed 50 x 40 cm

right Deep, 2010 Acrylic on canvas Unique, signed 160 x 100 cm

Justin Sidney Justin Sidney (b. 1974) trained as a painter at the Lauder College in Dumferline, Scotland. From 2006 to 2009 he lived in The Netherlands where he studied Dutch art and developed his practice.

The misty, water laden atmosphere and the plentiful waterways of the country informed his choice of subject matter and deeply influenced the effects he achieves in his paintings.

Sidney’s work focuses on the overlooked, neglected and abandoned parts of the built environment and how the passage of time transforms these surfaces. The focus of his attention is texture and time-worn matter: beach glass, cracked and weathered wood, abandoned buildings, rusted metal and corroded surfaces. His work is often perceived as abstract, however, each painting draws from reality and is influenced by various sites and locations, textures and colours. Sidney paints from memory, allowing the complexity of surfaces, the atmosphere of the tiniest of details or ‘micro worlds’ as he calls them, which most pass unnoticed but which feed Sidney’s imagination.

The paintings are created on the studio floor using a sophisticated mix of acrylics, which allow him to gradually build up the surface of the painting in many layers before judiciously allowing pools of water to form before using a rag, a brush or improvised implement to create the required effect.

Looking at the canvases, one is drawn into deep landscapes from which one imagines a boat emerging, or thick willowy foliage draping into the watery environment. These are highly contemplative, absorbing paintings, which display a profound understanding of colour, materials and textures. The artist lives and works in London.

Selected Exhibitions

2010

Dare to Joust Gallery. London

2010

Beautiful Decay, Vyner Street Gallery. London (solo)

2009

Genesis, The Ronaldson Gallery. Delft, The Netherlands (solo)

2007

Floribunda, The Ronaldson Gallery, Delft, The Netherlands with ceramicist Ankie Bonnet

2007

Summer in the City Part II: seven artists from seven countries,

2005

Media Space. Dunfermline

Galerie George C-Ent. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sidney has been commissioned to create work for private collectors in Halifax, UK, The Hague, The Netherlands and Delft, The Netherlands and his work is in Private Collections in the UK, The Netherlands and The USA.

Public Collections NHS Scotland

Publications Cumming A.D., Simpson K.R., Brown D., Complementary and Alternative Medicine. An Illustrated Text, published by Churchill Livingstone, 2006

Photography by simonwarren.com

Reflections Envy

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£4.200

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£3.400

Deep Pools

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South Kensington Subway

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£4.200

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£4.800

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£4.800

Willow Trees Obsession

Urban Marks I, II, III (triptych) Urban Marks I, II, III (each) Polaroid

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Dark Ocean

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Below the water

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£2.200

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£4.200

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£2.500

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£4.800

Emerald City II City Scars Deep

£4.200

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