ARTISTIC INSIGHT – ZOE WHEELER
ARTISTIC INSIGHT – ZOE WHEELER
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Flexible PVC is a plastic that appears to be sterile, yet it’s malleability and synthetic colouring with magical qualities of a light active edge entices participants to want to touch and form a relationship with its form. It’s ability to transform into an object that contradicts its industrial conception demonstrates its significance as a material...
ARTISTIC INSIGHT – CHRISTINA KIM-SYMES
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The paintings ‘Glow’, ‘Retreat’, ‘Pause’ and ‘Summer in Wimbledon’ displayed at Clyde & Co, reflect my time in London over the past three years. Although I love being in the city, at times I find myself pining for the peacefulness of the countryside. I made it my mission to visit as many of the local...
ARTISTIC INSIGHT – RAPHAEL BARRATT
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These three large oil pastel drawings, completed in May this year, stand at an important juncture in my life and work. A puzzling sense of weight and of nascent, shifting landscapes is a fundamental element in these pieces. The high perspective and organic forms where developed from my observations and memories of the steep rocky...
ARTISTIC INSIGHT: JORDAN DAWSON
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Jordan Dawson’s art practice is characterised by hyperreal portraits that explore many different physical forms and traits that are subject to societal judgement. Tattoos, prosthetic limbs, freckles, scars, anorexia and cancer are some of the subject matters that he examines through meticulously detailed pencil drawings. ‘We live in a deeply superficial world that...