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Title: This exhibition ‘energy source: Satire v Seriousness round 1’

This exhibition curated is by Lloyd Gill with assistant curators Paula Watts and Chris King.

Dates are
preview Saturday 28th 7pm - 10pm
Exhibition starts Tuesday 3rd March and runs till 27th March

Ding ding, in the blue corner, fighter in white shorts weighing in at 15 stone is Satire, 10 wins-2 losses 4 knockouts.

In the red corner, fighter in black shorts weighing in at 15 stone is Seriousness, 9 wins - 1 loss, 3 knockouts.

Gentleman I want a clean fight, no tickling, no bad jokes and certainly no feather dusters.
No context to contextual and certainly no streams of boringness.

Lets get it on!

This analogy helps articulate the clash of artistic personas in this exhibition. Room 1 will display art that embodies serious contemporary context with alignment towards seriousness.
Room 2 will display art of a playful nature and may have comical traits that keep to a contemporary disposition. This room will epitomize satire with reference to many humorist conjunctions.
The hall will be like a ‘sound clash’ where each bounding opposite will try to grate against one another, as each painting or photograph competes in a stare down contest. Who will win? Come along to find out.

Louise Reade

Louise is interested in most forms of art, but practice’s primarily in painting, and also has a strong interest in photography.
In her final year of studying at University Wales institute Cardiff, Lou focused particularly on portraits. They were bold pieces with large areas of colour, and in some cases fragmented. This progressed onto the portraits being an abstract, yet, linear line, still with a large area of colour to complement it. The artist Gary Hume, who Lou had used as part of her research, largely inspired these final pieces.
In the year after her completed her degree, Lou’s progress had been limited. Lou made a few more paintings of portraits, but her work was mainly kept in sketchbooks as drawings of things around her, or from photos Lou had taken. A few of these drawings were later experimented as digital images, which Lou would like to use as prints in the future.
Her most recent work has been inspired by a couple of trips Lou made to Venice and New York. These trips have hugely motivated Lou, and she feel’s She is progressing as an artist, as her interests are taking shape once again.
Lou is keen to keep painting from these trips and develop her work into a more intense project for herself. Lou is particularly keen on developing work from her "Bikes in New York" piece.
Lou is still developing as an artist and realises this. Lou anticipates the work She will create in the near future, and the path of progress it will take her.
Lou is currently hoping to begin an MA in Fine Art in 2009. I aspire to become a successful artist and feel’s the course will help me begin a conscientious process toward professional development.

Mother and I, Acrylic on canvas, 50.8cm x 40.6cm, 2007

Ian Walker
Most of Ian’s work involves some form of stenciling, whether this be directly stenciling with paint or by creating “layer masks” in photoshop.
Ian was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in 1969 and first started using stencils whilst at Doncaster College in 1989. I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1994 from what is now UWCN in Newport, Gwent.
Ian began the 21st century by going back into education to train as a Teacher of Art at UWE in Bristol. Ian then spent several years teaching at a secondary school in Weston-super-mare, which he has continued to do until the summer of 2008.
Since then he has exhibited in the inaugural exhibition of the “Graphic Expressionism” group at The Waterfront in Plymouth (Sept-Oct 2008), and had work included in the “Snap to Grid” group show at the Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art (Oct-Nov 2008) and in the Doncaster Open Exhibition (Nov-Dec 2008). Ian has received an increasingly positive response to the artwork that he has produced, which has resulted in the opportunity to exhibit my work at The Lloyd Gill Gallery.

The hound of the baskervilles, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 40cm x 40cm, 2009

Emily Tull

Ramsgate based artist Emily Tull graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design in 2000. Since then, she has exhibited in London, Birmingham and regularly across East Kent in group and solo shows.
Emily’s inspiration comes from many sources including Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Spike Milligan, Tim Burton, Cindy Sherman, fashion magazines and the Pre-Raphaelites. The work covers a range of subjects based upon everyday life and mythology.
‘I am obsessed with faces.’
They show a person’s life, and can look different on a daily basis, a perfect canvas to convey different sides of your character. But more than this her fascination is with the colouration and fragility of skin and within my portraits. Emily strive’s to bring these issues across. Hrt concern is more with the flesh then the actual likeness.

Predominantly portrait- based, each painting captures a moment in time where beauty blurs with the grotesque. From the ‘ugliness’ of meaty new-born babies, to the compelling, uncomfortable sexual qualities of sirens.
Many of the images are severely cropped and large in scale to enhance the confrontation. The faces are exposed to close scrutiny, emphasising the fragility of the face and person. As we gaze intently at them a combination of senses unfold and question. This questioning is the most important factor of the work, from the everyday issues of beauty being skin deep to a beautiful woman becoming a freakishly bizarre creature.
Drawing and mark making play a significant role, repetition of marks, layering on different colours. This can be a violent process, pressing paint through fabric, manic stitching – quick actions due to a short time-scale. These 'routines' and combinations of materials trace her thoughts and fixations of the paint/skin and lead to an ongoing exploration of abstraction.
In the latest sewn pieces, sewing takes the place of drawing, abstracting the face, breaking down the features to a more vulnerable state, with the thread melting into the delicate ‘skin’.

‘Timid’, Oil on canvas, 25cn x 25cm, 2002

Nigel Swift

Nigel Swift studied at Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts, during 2003-2008 for a BA in Fine Art (pt), London. He has shown his work exstensively throughout London and recently gained a commission with the department of computer science, University College London. He has sold many works to private collectors.

Nigels work is informed by our relationship with the environment, our sense of history and the exploration of what is unknown. Nigel is interested in how we see our environment and how this perception has changed over time. Nigel’s work explores this changing sense of place and history.

Research forms an important part of his process and may involve a journey, obtaining specific objects and sourcing visual reference material. He works mainly in acrylic paint and build up colour and composition using glazes and colour washes.

His most recent work is concerned with our sense of exploration from both a historical and contemporary perspective. As we have travelled across previously unknown continents and sent robotic submarines down into the deep ecosystems of the oceans we have gained new knowledge. This work is motivated by our re-evaluation of this relationship with the environment and of our history

Garden Secrets, Acrylic on canvas, 105 x 90cm, 2007

Catrine Bodum

Catrine was born in Luzern, Switzerland and has travelled extensively whilst studying. Catrine studied at the Parsons School of Design, BFA Fine Arts, New York, NY in 2007. Later, Catrine decided to continuo her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK and will be completing an MA in Fine Art in 2009. Catrine currently lives and works in Switzerland and London.

Catrine was born to my Danish parents in Switzerland, where She grew up with two sisters and a brother, and still return to live and work when She is not abroad for studies or travel. After having graduated from Parsons in New York, in May 2007, Catrine committed to her focus in painting. She decided to stay another year in New York, to continue my studio work, and to find out whether this was really what Catrine wanted. She now find’s herself doing a masters in London at Byam Shaw School of Art, graduating in September 2009, and she is still determined. Her work, which is predominantly large scale, ranges from collage to acrylic and oil paintings, but focuses mainly on oil painting. It stems from her everyday life, her naive daydreams and, at times to despair, extreme exaggeration of feelings. She receives influence from music, animals, visual imagery She receives from passages in books, patterns in architecture or fabrics, 18th century art, Baroque and Rococo especially, with their romantic/erotic connotations, boats, colour schemes in magazines and of course Google image search. She is currently doing a new series of work, based off inspiration She is getting from listening to Steve Reich and Philip Glass. This work has a monochrome background and uses black oil paint or china ink to make marks.
Catrine grew up in a design conscious family so She cannot deny that design has an impact on her work and is part of my thinking when She build’s a painting.
Catrine strongly believe that things must have beauty to them and that pleasure is an essential part of life. This is not something you buy or take like a medication but something you look for and make yourself aware of. And it is something she look’s for and make myself aware of when she work’s.

Untitled 4, 101 cm x 76 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2006

Francisco Ortega

The subject, title and theme are just an excuse to reach and develop what is his real objective. The transformation of a blank canvas into something alive. Something that works for itself through colours and shapes rather for its own meaning if any. Francisco likes to work with strong contrast between colours and vigorous stokes and always trying to find balance from the chaos
Francisco Ortega graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, 2002. His paintings won him a Finalist position at "Corredor Verde", 2002 and a Finalist position at "VII Muestra de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Dos Hermanas".
Franciso has had an Honourable mention "Concurso de Pintura Rápida Ciudad de Carmona".
Francisco has shown his work manly in London and Seville and had numerous solo shows including '142 project in London during 2005

Francisco Ortega Pintor (self-portrait) 100x80cm oil on canvas 2009

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Lloyd Gill
Gallery Director