| PRESS RELEASE Date: preview 24th January ‘A new beginning 2009’ Lloyd Gill is going to curate a new exhibition for next
year dates are on the contract. The title of this exhibition is ‘A new
beginning 2009’ and will act as a collective of change in how artists
work, think and feel about their art. Featuring Artists Alistair Gibson The work in the exhibition at the Lloyd Gill Gallery is the culmination of the main ideas that Alistair has been looking at for the last two years in his work. The developments that recently came about are because of a group of small experimental pieces. The main subject of the work has always been the cars that Alistair watches going past him day in day out in Cardiff. Pardon the pun the car has always been more of a vehicle for experimenting with abstraction and simplification of subject matters in the paintings, providing a simple and iconic subject to work with. The main body of the work and the focus of his latest series of paintings has been the reduction of complex figurative subjects to simplistic representative marks. While fulfilling these criteria, the work still holds a clear and easily recognisable link to the original subject. A strong driving factor in the work is the idea of semiotics and the connections that can be built up between particular arrangements of shapes and colours that will time and again bring the viewer of the work to the figurative subject without the need for complex or overworked images.’ Lloyd Gill Lloyd has been working relentlessly throughout Christmas
in his sketch book and on canvas. He has found painting and drawing
a massive release from the pressures of running a contemporary art gallery,
which has always tried to be cutting edge. After an bereavement in his
family, Lloyd went through a very tough time. He spent time watching
modern film’s and found car chase scenes of particular interest as they
inhabit a sense of freedom. Lloyd is passionate about painting and devotes
his evenings to listening to the radio and getting into the rhythm of
expression through heavy brush strokes and allows for freedom of movement.
The catalyst for the work was the death of my estranged grandfather, Wladyslaw Borzemski, and the processes both internal and external that happened afterwards. From the mundane legal and physical clearing processes to inner reflection, mourning and an artistic attempt for reconnection to this man who some feared and disliked, whilst others saw as harmless. During this time it became apparent that he had almost completed his memoir, which he had worked on for the past thirty years. In it I found that he had excluded any life history after the 1960's. It was as if for him, life stopped in this cold war period. I took the memoir, copied and reformed it, influenced by the 'Cut and paste' method used by the writer William Burroughs and the complexity of the original written document for the novel 'On the road' by Jack Kerouac, which was a continuous, one hundred twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. My work seeks to explore two strands of development:
Vincent Hewett borzemski_part_1, part 2 and part 3
Jackie Charlton Jackie completed a work placement at the Lloyd Gill Gallery last year and has benn given the opportunity to showcase her work with professional Artists. Jackie enjoys the challenge of figurative drawing and
painting – particularly of the human and horse form. The interaction
between light and shadow and their effect on colour and form fascinates
me.
Ben feels his passion for Art and Photography has always
been deep rooted and held a place in his heart. Just for Ben, with no
dependence on others, to be relied upon Ben feels completely free to
explore and express his love of just feeling and being. Ben’s family is split in the artistic scene with his Mum’s side having an extremely good commercial artist and photographer in his uncle David and a great oil painter in his granddad. His Dad was especially bad at drawing but good at other artist creativity. Ben always finds himself trying to interpret and express his thoughts and emotions on each Photograph he takes. Ben has a love of vivid colours, lines and curves. He always tries to bring the essence of what he visual depicts and to manipulate the camera to pin down the exact qualities that he is trying to extol. Bens is passionate about religious pieces, which he re-works and manipulates to give a defined modern style with a funky flavor. To Ben, religious architecture and art have always been used to extol upon people. The highest thoughts and forms of there time, a wonderful mixture of virtuousness and spiritual beauty. During the Renaissance period, many works that focused on religion were the most dramatic works. Ben finds this period of Art history most influential. His neon interpretations, Ben hopes to deliver a sense boldness and strong vibrancy into the original photographs he took on location. Ben is influenced by graffiti and the statements graffiti artists make on the street. He enjoys peoples generalization of graffiti, as rubbish and vandalism. He looks for strong lines and patterns in location such as Budapest and New York. Ben takes many photographs of graffiti in many of the cities he has visited. He finds graffiti an embrace of endeavour to make the depilated look more pleasant. He sources and uses the rundown areas to become his own work. His love for photography is in a purist sense, that
of memories, loved ones and places visited. Ben has been to many places
throughout the world, always with a camera in tow. To Ben, Photography
gives a framed memory, something that gives me peace, when he completes
work he finds much happiness. Lloyd, the gallery director, could not
agree more. He to finds absolute happiness in completing work. David Charles Williams What is existence? David’s work reflects a continual examination of existence. His curiosity is based on an approach that is philosophical, conceptual, exceptionally conscious, traditionally rooted – yet extremely dynamic in its focus to embrace the latest ideas. David uses a range of creative mediums; primarily traditional methods such as painting with oil. However other techniques involving modern tools, such as computer technology, are used to express his interpretation of existence. Within his work there is a compulsion to create an aesthetic gravitas drawn from his intrigue towards the human condition and the realms of reality. David interprets existence via an understanding of his own state of being and his perceived impact in the wider world. His attempt to have a deeper knowledge of creative tools used allows David to generate work that provides sensual intrigue that captivates the essence of now, whilst his concern with presence and the notion of being drives his work forward. Chris has been influenced by a mixture of classic and
contemporary photographers. Early influences on Chris were the rich
black and white images from the famous American landscape photographer
Ansel Adams [1902 - 1984]. One of his more prominate pieces his being
'Monolith', and also his 'Aspens' series of tree shots from 1958. Chris loves the expression that Photography is painting
with light It is such a simple expression and yet such a articulate
phrase to sum up the essence of Photography. Photography is the capture
of a moment in time, be it a 1000th of a second or 30 seconds. It is
a fleeting moment that can never be recaptured unilaterally again.
Loved Paula Lundy’s art , an understated talent . Loved Paula’s art work and others, all the best . Culture in Weston super mare ….who’d of thought it ? Fantastic, impressive gallery. Lovely inspiring work. Really good, Chris Abbott a really good influence. Loved the experimental works keep it up.
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