The Lloyd Gill Gallery: Tim Skinner

Tim Skinner Multi-media Installation Artist

D.O.B 19/11/1980
Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England

Studio 14,
Cuckoo Farm Studios, Boxted Rd, Colchester,
CO4 5HH.
01206 843530
07716313671

tim.skinner@btinternet.com

www.timskinner.co.uk

ARTIST STATEMENT

The current photographs are all images taken from my recent installation.
Images showing the true nature of sound.

Installation statement:

This installation is a continuation of my exploration
into understanding sound as a visual platform. It focuses
on visualising the movement of music, unlike my previous pieces
which allowed the viewer to dictate the sound giving it an individual stamp.

An artist is always on a quest, in most cases (including myself),
it’s a quest for beauty. I believe understanding the main influence
behind my work (music) will open my eyes to that inner beauty I’m searching for I’ve been walking the boundary between art and music for the past nine years. I want to try to understand the emotional effects music has on me. Previous works include drawing to music and creating my own sonic landscapes, in a sense this piece is a combination of the two, it’s visualising a sonic landscape.

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky spent his whole life
working on these very subjects. He wrote many books discussing
his theories, theories I have taken on board. His theories centred
around colour relationship in conjunction with musical tone.
He adored jazz music and loved Tchaikovsky, this love is projected
in his work. Kandinsky worked in 2D form, but added his own
extra dimension through his research. I’m taking his research
into the fourth dimension and I only wish I can get to the level
Kandinsky found himself.

The title of the piece has come from an Echobelly track, recorded
in 1993, ‘Bellyache’, a dark song about abortion. The title is taken
from the passage ‘I’m falling, falling, echoing your sound’, and
‘Echoing Your Sound’ is what I wrote on a card at Mum’s funeral.
The people who know my work will be aware of the importance of
Echobelly’s music- to cut a very long story short, it was Echobelly’s
music which took me out of a large spate of anxiety attacks suffered
when I was 17. This is the main reason why I entered this seemingly endless exploration into sound and music.

Education

B.A.Hons, 2003, Fine Art, Colchester School of Art and Design
BTEC Foundation Diploma, 2000, Fine Art, Colchester School of Art and Design

Graduate scholarship award, 2003-2004, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Sonic Ripples, Hector Croot, Estate Agents, Colchester, Essex.
2006
Echoing Ur Sound, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
2004
Sonic Circled, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Sonic Circles, Hay Gallery, Colchester, Essex.

Exhibition History
Group Exhibitions

2008
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery, Colchester.
“An Emotional Journey”, Mansfield Museum, Mansfield, Notts.
“Posted3”, Poster Hoardings, Cork, Ireland.
“InterAlia”, Abandoned shop, Chelmsford, Essex.

2007
“Mini Print 2007”, Artlink Gallery, Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull.
“Winter Lights”,The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Video Art Showcase 2007, St Mary, Key Arts, Ipswich, Suffolk.
“Worldwide Moving Image 3”, E32, New York City, USA.
“Enclosure”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
“Replenish”, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Open Studios Exhibition, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
"Prelude" Art Fair, Spitalfields, London.

2006
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Essex.
Open Studios Xmas Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.

2005
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Pond Gallery,Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
Cuckoo Farm studios Show, The Minories, Colchester, Essex.

2004
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Inkpen Downie, Colchester, Essex.
Outside, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
Print Show, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Buckenham Gallery, Southwold, Suffolk.

2003
Winter Lights, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Free Range, Graduate Show, Old Truman Brewery, London.
Graduate Show, Colchester School of Art, Essex.
Untitled Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.

Websites

InterAlia, Exhibition website, 2008

Deep East Arts, East Anglia Artists Directory, 2008