Topolski Century Show

10th-13th November 2011

 

Written below is the artistic statement used for the aforementioned show.

Essentially a landscape painter who became heavily influenced by abstraction and expressive imagery combined with travelling over the United Kingdom. The work is constructed on steel panels either using various sources as provision, surfaces applies using varnishes and a combination of acrylics, broken charcoal sticks and industrial oil paints. The paints are applied in layers ensuring the beginning colours which are applied do not necessarily the colours which feature in the final layers.

Observing surface texture which appears on everyday objects have always played an important part in how my work develops, how colours are forged naturally over time to create vivid, complex patterns showing decay and decomposition, how paints which have been applied become worn, damaged and finally replaced. Travelling around London and the lesser travelled parts of the UK give inspiration.

(“In many respects, the work I do is all about reducing the impact of random imagery. When using paint, you have to have a certain amount of faith, like with many things in life. Faith you can achieve the correct colour mixes, faith the paint will create the desired effect and in many cases, will morph and blister in the correct way when heat is applied”)

7^th Layer Collective is a combining of artistic talent from around Europe and Rugby coming together to create a vision represented here in colour, for me to chronicle and portrait the colour of everyday life where feelings and orientation is closely linked to the environment we occupy.

 

 

 

Joint Art Project  15th August 2011

 

This is a finished piece of the work we wanted to create. Here is a segment of the painting which we have used to run a selection of lights through. We used a SLR camera on a 10 second delay. Happy with the end results however.

 

                     

Joint  European Art Project

August 15th 2011

This photo shows the piece when we were had just began to apply the first layers of the paint.

 

 

 

Joint European Art Exhibition

August15th 2011

 

Photo of work in pre production stages, lots of acrylics being spred onto a 5m/3m cloth gaffa taped onto the wall. Doing a joint project with another artist from a similar vein was always going o be a challenge, and I believe it shown me up for being the stubborn bastard that I am. It took us overall 8hrs solid to complete. Will have prints for sale soon. Am joint exhibiting final pieces in Essen in Feb 2012.

 

           

       

 

 

 

             

Topolski Century Gallery

July 29th-31st.

Exhibition involving several artists in the back room of the Topolski Century Gallery on Southbank. A good chance to show 4 pieces from the remescrape series to a wide audience. A chance to meet Froso Papadimitiriou and Scott Bradbury properly and discuss further exhibitis, aswell as with other artists.

It is a great shame that the gallery is coming to an end and is being turned in to another coffee shop. The work in there is stunning and needs to be on a permanent display. There is also a door which was taken from Newgate Prison which sits amongst the exhibits.

New work is being worked on in steel and perspex at present. Will upload photos of the work in progress to the website as soon as.

 

Acquire Gallery Text and Images 26th May 2011

 

 

A collaboration of industrial paints and acrylics rolled across the canvases and recycled steel frames to create a distorted visual landscape.

 

 Rickshawhouse Exhibition

Taken from the Rickshawhousegallery exhibition "four corners of the world" on March 17th in Southwark SE1. Nice to see lots of peope at the gallery on the night. The works are the most recent of all work produced recently. Not the best of photos however, It looks a lot better in the flesh. Materials are a mix of oils on steel sheets measuring 60cm/100cm except the 2nd and 4th panel which are on plastic.

 

Firenze 2011

 

ArTour-o in the dining room

Just back from exhibiting in Florence Italy. Work was hung in the Villa La Vadetta alongside an entire range of artworks from artists from all around europe. The piece which was hung for the exhibition was made to show an artists relationship with food. So I created a virtual lasagne layered piece comprising brown sugar and olive oil alongside hammerite radiator paint and industrial oils. Then burned to a crisp with a blow torch.

I also had a picture published in a book for the event called "Art Must" Firenze VII anno ediizione 2011. Also look at firenzecontemporanea.com for further information.

I need to mention a few really important artists at the event also, first Alessandro Grassi from Italy and secondly Fabien Freese from Dusseldorf who I am collaborting with on a joint piece in the summer(August). The work will be exhibited in London and then onto Germany later in the year. My piece is furthest left in the photo, Fabien's is furthest right. We were both exhibiting in the bar, which needed drinking dry.

 

When the work is coming in, you just have to take it. So many great projects to work towards. And to top it all, i get to exhibit in Italy this year. That's been a goal for a while. Manged to get in talk at Stratford Upon Avon Art College on  Jan 31st. That went well, had a powerpoint to hand with some hints and tips on it. Looking forward to the Fringe Festival in May. Planning cool stuf for that.

At present the biggest challenge to producing work is keeping the source of ideas fresh and visually stimulating to the viewer. Sourcing materials to work with is the next biggest challenge followed by working outside with a blowtorch without fumigating all the houses in the local area. The work is for an exhibition at the Rickshawhouse Gallery in Southwark. The Remescrape series will be shown at all exhibitions over the year. This is the first finished piece for the show. The will be another 3 pieces for the show at the Rickshawhouse.

New Exhibition date. March 2011 @ the Rickshaw Gallery, Southwark, 199 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8AA. The intention is to display Four new pieces. As the exhibition is a joint exhibit, i don't have the full details of all the other artists on the night, the only artist i know of is Louise Moore who is  fellow painter. Contact me for further details on the exhibition.

www.rickshawhousegallery.com is the link fot the site.

                                                   Fantastic night at the WE LOVE LIKE show, apologies to everyone i didn't get round to talking to and thankyou to all the support throughout. More photos are appearing soon.

Made this head of myself with christian in preparation for the exhibition.

                                

Exhibiting with Ernest Simmons, Enam Gbawonyo and Kelphin Thompson at the Adam St Gallery, 1st December(opening night on Wednesday December 1st) Am going to be showing the new Remescrape series. Remescrape is basically a series of landscaped images using industrial paint, spraypaint and recycled metals. Influences range from photography either found or taken of parts of the unseen landscape, the little corners and edges of buildings, walls, pavements, metallic objects which have been damaged and distorted by human intervention either purposefully or accidentally. The series follows on from the "Colourscrape" series. Using a mix of paints either found, donated or bought and mixed together in recycled containers and applied with decorator rollers, then burned until the surface bubbles and distorts. Know a good scrap metal man in Merton who supplies me with all i need, even smashes metal up for me.

Remescrape 1

New series of work coming out encorporating industrial paints and metallic surfaces titled "Remescrape" to be exhibited on December 1st at Adam St Gallery, Charing Cross, London WC2N 6AA. All invites to the event contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Am safely back from Australia with a load of good ideas to channel into the work. I gained alot of inspiration from different colours and textures in the rock faces which occur naturally.The biggest piece of news i have to share, is that i am booked in to the Kerri Lowe Gallery in Sydney for a joint exhibition in July 2012. The gallery is a ceramic based gallery which hosts painters and sculptors. Its location is next to Sydney University in Newtown, about a 10 minute walk from Central Station and opposite "Goulds Books".Email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to get placed on the invite list for the night.

Ebbisham Cente Epsom; September 27th; Joint exhibition

Caterham Open; September TBA; Joint exhibition

Food and Funfest; Ewell court house; Sunday October 3rd

Lots of new works will be exhibited at the events, all the work will be for sale on the day. I am going to use several new photos and one off prints. Hopefully i will have a series fom Australia ready to go also. Possibly  black and white charcoal series returning to my original landscape roots, I intend to try and incorporate some Aboriginal culture into the colour works which i will do over there. I have looked at several Aboriginal art galleries over there and have lined up a day with some artists over there, hopefully with the intention of exhibiting next year in Sydney.  Also in September i will do some more live painting stuff and risk getting physically assulted in the community, either that or some more "aren't you ashamed" comments