‘The Future of Contemporary Art’
curated by Lloyd Gill
FRED SCHIMMELSCHMIDT+ JASON ROUSE+ HAYLEY LEONARD+ MARK
EVANS +
ELENA BASKERVILLE + AMY - ROSE DEFFLEY
This exhibition at the Lloyd Gill Gallery is titled ‘The Future of Contemporary Art’. The exhibition will have its Preview on Saturday 6th September and all readers are welcome to come.
The exhibition will start on Tuesday 9th September and finish on 3rd October.
‘These Young graduates are excellent investments as they have just graduated with already gaining acclaim for excellence. This is a sure sign that their work will gain value in the next 5 - 10 years’ Lloyd Gill, Director
It will showcase examples of Contemporary Art from BA Fine Art degree Graduates from Bath, Cardiff and London. The exhibition features paintings by Fred Schimmelschmidt, Jason Rouse, Hayley Leonard, Elena Baskerville and Mark.Evens, and photography and sound by Amy - Rose Deffley
Visitor Testimonials
'Love England! Warm hearted people. Thanks for a very nice night' Stina Koch
Schmidt from Denmark
'A beautiful selected exhibition in a wonderful venue!' Peggy Godfrey, London
'Lloyd, we have had a lovely time and the artwork is fantastic! Lara Light
of Area Magazine, Bristol
Jason Rouse: He received the degree of fine art
from Bath Spa University in 2008. He has won various painting competitions
and scholarship in his native Northern Ireland, and has works in private collections
including the Irish Government.
He touches on the duality of past and present in art in relation to technology,
playing on the preconceptions of the spectator and importance of their personal
interpretation. In painting, he sees the medium’s unavoidable history
not as a hindrance, but as a crutch from which to establish contemporary concepts.
Uninhabited scenes such as environments tailored for simulated violence are
sourced from popular ego-shooter computer games, creating an uneasy tension
eerily glorified in paint.
Hayley Leonard: Her received the degree of fine
art from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008.
Her work is a continuation of recent trends seen within contemporary art.
Described as the ‘grey’ area of painting, the fine line that separates
non representational and representational painting is continuing to provide
many new challenges and inspiration for new works amongst today’s contemporary
painters.
For she the subject almost becomes secondary to the act of painting itself.
She thrive’s upon the spontaneity painting allows. The decisive mark,
the build-up of paint through the laying and relaying of marks, surface textures
and fracture of medium are all a result of my continuous dialogue with the
painted surface to reveal the seen and experienced within the image.
Fred Schimmelschmidt: : He received the degree
of fine art from Wimbledon Collage of Art in 2008. He has works in collections
including IKB Deutsche Industriebank, joined ‘The Deutsche Post Bank
Exhibition’ in 2006 & 2007.
His new paintings make use of an eclectic range of imagery, from circuit boards
that could be cities, to fireworks that induce a sense of vertigo. Technology
collides with the natural world in his seductive paintings, which use a mixture
of oils, airbrush, glazes, and carefully applied lacquers to bring together
seemingly unrelated images into a unified existence.
Mark Evans: He received the degree of fine art
from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008. The key theme of his work
at the moment is the study of a place, non-places and space. Trying to develop
on ideas that Marc Auge wrote in ‘Non-Places’, by looking mainly
at civic spaces and the key elements within. A lot of Marks’s work is
within, or has its origin within a museum space. The reasoning behind this
is that a museum or gallery is the artists bed for inspiration, and has a
key role to play for and with artists. Mark has taken the museum space, a
space that is rich in history and prestige, and turned it into a futuristic,
isolated, violent space. Mark’s intention was to question the place
turning to a space.
Amy Rose - Deffley: Amy received her Degree from
Bath Spa University 2008 Her work has evolved into the investigation of small
aspects of everyday life, of memory, knowledge and events.
The emphasis of her practice lies within social documentation, examining the
presence and activity of others in relation to my own being. She is interested
with the recent histories of individuals, the residues of life and time past
in order to fulfill her own personal desire ‘to know’. Her work
on show at the Gallery represents significant location’s of Weston,
in particular the Grand Pier which was recently destroyed by an inferno of
epic proportions. The Gallery wishes the Michael family a fast recovery and
that they keep a positive outlook.
Elena Baskerville: She received the degree of
fine art from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008.
Her work is predominantly process-based drawing, but Elena also have a keen interest in photography and use as if supporting work and sometimes finished pieces.
Thanks to: Vivian Liu for working very hard on this press release. Best of luck with your career as a Curator in Hong Kong. I am sad to see you go. If there are any Graduates wanting voluntary work experience who just happen to be reading this then don’t hesitate to contact the gallery. LG
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Preview: Saturday 6th September 2008, 7pm to 10pm
Lee House 13 Beaconsfield Road Weston - Super - Mare Somerset BS23 1YE
Tel. +44 01934 623449 enquiries@thelloydgillgallery.com / www.thelloydgillgallery.com