Richard Nott: Corpus

Richard Nott Corpus

July 19 - September 14 2019

RICHARD NOTT Corpus

But every seed is useless if it remains as it is, if it does not decay and become black, because corruption always precedes generation. It is this way that Nature proceeds in all its operations, and when we want to imitate it, we must also blacken before whitening, without which we will only produce rejects.

Viewing the work is witnessing a protracted collision of processes, an evolution of matter. Exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed - continuously. The consequence of years spent.

My history merging with the history of the elements used. I have no interest in illusionistic ‘texture’ – the work must be its own entity – have its own story, be its own statement. It is an organic object - a living thing. Histolysis – tissue breaks down, material metamorphosis’s, through chaos and control. Destruction, erosion, decomposition - detritus leads to new creation. The work carves its own path, moved by forces beyond my hand and control, like rock moved by an unhurried glacier.

I would like to think that my paintings at their best, allow me to contemplate a cycle of existence. Not a beginning with an end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis, an ongoing sequence beyond mortal confines. Something eternal. Alchemy.

ARTIST STATEMENT

MORENA I 39.5 x 39.5 inches mix media on panel

MORENA II 39.5 x 39.5 inches mix media on panel

MATRIX I 39.5 x 39.5 inches mix media on panel

MATRIX II 39.5 x 39.5 inches mix media on panel

SHROUD I 24 x 24 inches mix media on panel

RELIQUUS I 23.5 x 23.5 inches mounted paper on board

REVENANT II 23.5 x 23.5 inches mounted paper on board

RELIQUUS II 23.5 x 23.5 inches mounted paper on board

REVENANT I 23.5 x 23.5 inches mounted paper on board

REVENANT III 31.5 x 31.5 inches mounted paper on board

CHRONOLOGY 1983-1985 BA Fine Arts, First Class Honours, Lancashire Polytechnic 1985 Assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District 1987-1989 MA Fine Arts, Reading University SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 ‘Ecdysis’ Anima Mundi Gallery St Ives.

2014 ‘Histolysis’ Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2012 ‘Unearthed’ Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2010 ‘Cipher’ Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2008 ‘Relic” New Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2006 ‘Richard Nott’ Dean Clough, Halifax.

2005 ‘Platform’ 102 Gallery Shoreditch.

2001‘Transitions’ Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Tipping points and Chaos. Falmouth University.

2017 London Art Fair.

2015 Joint exhibition with David Prentice. Wall Street Journal lobby. New York 2015 ‘Art 15 Olympia London.

2014 ‘Art 14’ Olympia, London.

2013 ‘London Art Fair’, Islington, London.

2013 ‘Cornwall Art Biennale’, Truro.

2012 ‘London Art Fair’, Islington London.

2007 ‘Art Now Cornwall’, Tate gallery, St Ives.

2007 ‘St Ives 1997-2007’ Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff.

2001 ‘Richard Nott, Sax Impey and Ged Quinn’, Fermyn Woods Contemporary Art, Kettering, Northants 1994 ‘New Art in the Southwest – Eight Selected Artists from the South West’, Spacex Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon 1994 ‘Richard Nott and Philip Smith’, Alternative Art Gallery, London AWARDS 1994 South West Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award RESIDENCIES 1999 12th International Weeks of Painting, Slovenia, organized by the Keleia Foundation. Twelve artists from Europe working in Piran in Slovenia; work produced exhibited in Austria and Slovenia. Richard Nott was recommended for this residency by Mike Tooby, then curator at Tate St Ives.

PUBLICATIONS 1996 Drawing towards the End of the Century, Newlyn Society of Artists 1999 Telekomovi Mednarodni Slikarski Tedni Catalogue for 12th International Painting Weeks

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