Shutter Painting, 2019, oil on board, diptych, 38x76 cm (15 x 29 7/8 in)
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Trevor Sutton: Place Recent paintings and works on paper 10 October - 1 November 2019
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Trevor Sutton (b.1948) Trevor Sutton lives and works in London. He went to art school in the 1960’s, graduating with a post-graduate diploma in 1972. He has from the outset, remained a non-figurative painter and printmaker. In addition to working in London he has taken up many residencies and fellowships abroad, most recently in France and Ireland. His work is exhibited worldwide but his strongest links outside the UK are with Japan, Austria, Denmark, and The Netherlands. In Sutton's studio one finds a systemic beauty and careful order in the layout of his working environment. The same aesthetic applies to his art - the restraints of a ritualistic and ordered process embedded within the sensual physicality of oil paint. Of an occasion in his studio Sutton wrote in 2007: "Minimalist music plays in fading light. Drifting white smoke, pink, silver-grey horizon. The
sound of air. Times like these are embedded in my paintings: the sound of seeing, the colour of mind, painting as frozen time."
April in Devon, 2019, oil on board, diptych, 38 x 76 cm (15 x 29 7/8 in) £ 6000 + VAT
Nyons I, 2019 oil on board, diptych, 23 x 61 cm (9 1/8 x 24 1/8 in) £ 4000 + VAT
Nyons II, oil on board, diptych, 23 x 61 cm (9 1/8 x 24 1/8 in) £ 4000 + VAT
Shutter Painting, 2019, oil on board, dipytch 38 x 76 cm (15 x 29 7/8 in) £ 6,000 + VAT
Atelier 1, 2018, oil on paper on board,15 x 20.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/8 in) £ 800 +VAT
Beaulieu Abbey 3 France, 2018, oil on paper collage, 43 x 60 cm (16 7/8 x 23 5/8 in) unframed ÂŁ 1200 + VAT
Crest 7 France, 2018, oil on paper collage , 43 x 60 cm (16 7/8 x 23 5/8 in) unframed ÂŁ 1200 + VAT
Alayrac 5 France, 2018, oil on paper collage, 43 x 60 cm (16 7/8 x 23 5/8 in) unframed ÂŁ 1200 + VAT
Nyons 1 France, 2018, oil on paper collage, 43 x 60 cm (16 7/8 x 23 5/8 in) unframed ÂŁ 1200 + VAT
Katsura Imperial Villa No. 8, 2018, oil on board, 23 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in) £2000 + VAT
Katsura Imperial Villa No. 12, 2018, oil on board, 23 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in) £ 2000 + VAT
Katsura Imperial Villa No. 5, 2018, oil on board, 23 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in) £ 2000 + VAT
Katsura Imperial Villa No. 3/1, 2018, oil on board, 23 x 30.5 cm (9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in) £ 2000 + VAT
Orkney 1, 2019 oil on board, diptych 23 x 61 cm (9 1/8 x 24 1/8 in) £4000 + VAT
Orkney 2, 2019 oil on board, diptych 30.5 x 46 cm (12 1/8 x 18 1/8 in) £4000+VAT
Orkney Painting 1, 2019 oil on board diptych, 63.5 x 127 cm (25 x 50 in) £ 10,000 + VAT
Trevor Sutton was a Senior Lecturer in Painting at Chelsea School of Art & Design from 1973 to 2000 and a Research Fellow there from 2000 to 2003. He makes paintings on board, in contrast with his early colour field paintings on canvas from the 1970’s. Throughout his career he has also always been interested in ‘shaped paintings’ and has regularly worked on a circular format in addition to the more conventional rectangle or square. In the 1980’s he worked on multi-part units of painted shapes, the most notable of which were first shown at the Lisson Gallery in 1981.From the 1990’s onwards his paintings presented remote and evocative abstract spaces in which to place one’s own imaginings. Their character lay captured between layer upon layer of semi transparent oil based glazes that built up a visible history of colour and brush marks. This process gave the work a physical and an atmospheric quality but did not provide specific pictorial of geographic detail. From around 2008 his paintings started to employ hand-painted collaged elements in addition to working directly onto the surface of a work. At the same time, the grid re-emerged as a structural element in his work. In his most recent paintings he is not using collage, preferring to paint directly onto the surface again. His new work is fed by a seemingly irrational take on life, a life that gets re-ordered within the hierarchy of the grid. The paintings have a clear history of gesture and mark but this physicality becomes ordered, restrained by the grid. His colour is intuitive and reactive, encouraging shifting patterns and rhythms that suggest a kind of visual music.
CV 1948 Born, Romford, Essex 1967-71 Hornsey College of Art 1971-72 Birmingham Polytechnic 1972 Sir Whitworth Wallis Award (First prize) 1976 Arts Council Award 1979 Tolly Cobbold/ Eastern Arts 2nd Exhibition, (Prizewinner) 1980 John Moores Exhibition 12 (Prizewinner) 1989 Lorne Award 1997 South Bank Banner Competition (Prizewinner) 2000-03 Research Fellow, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London 2001 Fellow, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland 2012 Artist in Residence, Kunstgarten, Graz, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITION: 1975 Brighton Polytechnic Gallery, Sussex 1976 Summer Show 4, Serpentine Gallery, London 1977 Playhouse Gallery, Harlow 1978 Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle AADW Studio, Cardiff 1979 The Round House Gallery, London 1980 Six Paintings, Front Room, London 1981 S East Gallery, London, Lisson Gallery London 1986 LCF Gallery, London Howard Garden Gallery, Cardiff 1988 Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1990 John Davis Gallery, New York Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth Monotypes Flowers East, London
1992 White Art Gallery, Tokyo Works on Paper, Flowers East, London 1993 Smith-Jariwala Gallery, London 1995 White Art Gallery, Tokyo 1996 Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London Full Moon, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1998 Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen Flowers East, London Flowers West, Santa Monica Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam 1999 Prints and Monotypes, Flowers Graphics, London Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago Small Paintings Flowers East, London 2000 Short Stories and Other Prints, Flowers Graphics, London Six Paintings: Part Two, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 2001 Drawings and Watercolours, Flowers East, London Moon Dreams and Other Prints, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen New Paintings, Flowers Central, London
2002 Spirits Monoprints 2001, Flowers Graphics, London New Works, Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam 2003 Collaboration:Trevor Sutton / Ferdinand Penker, Flowers East, London CollaborationTrevor Sutton / Ferdinand Penker, Courthouse Gallery ,Ballycastle . New Paintings, Flowers, New York 2004 New Paintings, Flowers East, London 2005 Collaboration: Trevor Sutton / Ferdinand Penker, Ritter Gallery, Klagenfurt 2006 Reflex, Flowers Central, London Reflections, Flowers Graphics, London 2007 Coloured Time, Galerie Sho, Tokyo Mended Dreams, Flowers Graphics, London Collaboration II: Trevor Sutton / Ferdinand Penker, Stadtgalerie, Wolfsberg 2008 Chamber Music, The Austrian Cultural Forum, London 2009 Works on Paper, Flowers, London Chamber Music, Galerie SchĂźtte, Essen 2010 Trevor Sutton - Paintings, Another Function Gallery, Tokyo Paradise Circus, Flowers, Cork Street, London
2012 Chamber Music, Cajetan Gril Kunsthandel, Vienna Rose Paintings, Kunstgarten, Graz 2013 Interior Landscape, Galerie allerArt, Bludenz 2015 Light Year, sleeper, Edinburgh Time of Day Eagle Gallery EMH Arts, London 2017 Assembly and Image, Class Room, Coventry Wonder Mist, Cairn, Pittenweem, Fife 2018 Memories, Concept Space, Shibukawa Japan