August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
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August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Interview by Susan Tebbutt
When I went to interview landscape artist Jude Evans in East Dulwich the conversation took a dramatic turn …
Jude grew up in Brighton in the 1950s and later moved to Worthing. The sea was on one side, the South Downs on the other; there were a lot of art books in the house and she was familiar with the National Gallery from an early age. Since moving to London in 1986 she has done a degree in Art History¸ done a Foundation Art course at Chelsea and more recently a one-week course at Central St Martins on Presentation for Creative People. In 2007 she had a joint exhibition in Scope Gallery in East Dulwich and is planning to submit work for the autumn Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition. From the SLWA website I was familiar with her landscapes and admired the many on the walls of her flat. The conversation began somewhat conventionally: Continue Reading »
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August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Interview by Susan Tebbutt
In Peckham’s Bellenden Road there is a Komoco Dragon pebble mosaic, designed by local sculptor Jane Higginbottom, [see image left, and http://www.contactarts.co.uk/projects.html], who has recently been awarded £95,000 of Lottery Funding for the Heart Garden, Art in the Park Project in Burgess Park [see http://www.artinthepark.co.uk/]. She now works one day a week there as Project Manager for Gardening and Art. How did she first become interested in sculpture? I went to talk to her at her tranquil studio just off the Old Kent Road.
Born near Macclesfield, fond of drawing as a child, Jane studied at Camberwell, spent a year in Milan, then worked painting sets at Covent Garden.
“It was fun painting on a 60 foot canvas on the floor – painting with brooms. Continue Reading »
Posted in 3D: Sculpture, Interview, Jane Higginbottom | Tagged Jane Higginbottom, Bellenden Road Peckham, Burgess park Heart garden, Barbara Hepworth, Mall galleries, The Family Treeo | No Comments »
August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Holiday 2000 mixed media 130 x 130cm 2000
Artist statement:
Paintings
Having worked outside for many years Gil Mutch has developed a rapid painting style to convey the sensation and capture the memory of the experience, colour texture and innovative use of the paint are very important in gaining this experience. Close inspection of her work will reveal many layers, some works taking up to ten years, some ‘happen’ relatively quickly, though much thought and pre sketches go into them.
Prints
Layers or strata, an indefinable looseness of flexibility of handling defines Gils work: her etching plates are pushed to their limits until, indeed, they become ‘Fragments’ suggestive of landscapes, using the physicality and evolution of the process to describe the journey.
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Posted in 2D: Painting, 2D: Print, Gil Mutch | Tagged Gil Mutch, South london women artists | No Comments »
August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Secret Spaces: Cherry Pop 2008 C-type print in vintage frame 49 x 37cm including frame
Artist Statement:
My artistic practice brings together interests in process and feminine issues through the exploration of everyday domestic materials and the transformation of objects through photography.
Secret Spaces focuses on the intimacy of inside space and looks at bringing the inside outside as discussed in Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space. I chose to photograph the interior of handbags because they are reservoirs of privacy and secrets. A handbag can protect or reveal identity, it is a manifestation of power and status, it offers a form of security through its contents, and it has symbolic properties. Continue Reading »
Posted in 2D: Photography, Kim Thornton | Tagged Kim Thornton, South london women artists | No Comments »
August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Slice (detail) 70 x 15.75” Giclee print of assemblage made from plaster, wire and fabric 2008
Artist statement:
I am interested in the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture - particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. In Presence, an exhibition of photography, video and sound, the work explores the conflicting desire to create a home or connection with a stranger balanced by the need for distance and anonymity. In Filler, a short video fiction, I was interested in how empathy is expressed in popular culture and the blurring of private emotion and public display. Continue Reading »
Posted in 2D: Photography, 4D: Video, Mandy Williams | Tagged Mandy Williams, South london women artists | No Comments »
August 16, 2008 by catherinefraher
Ancient farmland 75cmx54cm graphite on cotton rag paper 2008
Artist Statement:
My paintings and drawings are a response to the changing seasons and the passage of time in both the French and English landscape. I am influenced by my early career as a textile designer so in many paintings the materiality of the canvas is explored; threads are drawn from the surface and incorporated into other areas before the painting begins. In drawings, stabbing marks are often made with graphite on soft cotton rag to create texture by disturbing the surface of the paper. Trained at Cambridge Art School, with a recent MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, I am now, after many years as Head of Art at a comprehensive school, focusingfull time on my practice. Continue Reading »
Posted in 2D: Drawing, 2D: Painting, Moira Jarvis | Tagged Moira Jarvis, South london women artists | No Comments »
August 3, 2008 by catherinefraher
The Golden Section, 90 x 90cm, mixed media, 2005
Artist statement:
Lene Bladbjerg’s work is mainly abstract acrylic paintings on canvas in large scale. Her work is influenced by her background as a graphic designer. Grids and typography is used throughout much of her work. She is very observant and pays great attention to the smaller scale details of everyday life and will often see the beauty in even the most ordinary of events and objects. Often a single colour in her surrounding will provoke the creation of an artwork. The final piece will be strongly influenced by her state of mind at the time of creation, images will vary from light and calm colours to dark and deeper nuances. Continue Reading »
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August 3, 2008 by catherinefraher
Glisse 2008 Oil on board 40.8cm x 38.4cm
Artist Statement:
In my oil paintings there are elements of landscape, abstraction, pattern and painterly expressionism; never figures, but sometimes traces of human presence and always the ambition to render an emotional dimension through colour and the physical properties of oil paint. Conversely when designing I work with simplified shapes derived from known things. I tend to avoid symmetry as it seems too artificial. I admire the works of Sergei Poliakoff, Ian McKeever, Prunella Clough and Eduardo Chillida. Continue Reading »
Posted in 2D: Painting, Susan Absolon | Tagged South london women artists, Susan Absolon | No Comments »
August 3, 2008 by catherinefraher
Broom Water 2 140cms X 60cms Charcoal on paper 2008
Artist statement:
My recent drawings are monochromatic studies of the shifting patterns of light on the surface of the river Thames, based on photos taken from a water-level perspective while kayaking and walking along the river. I am interested in the relationship between time and the flow of the river, how by capturing the river’s motion in a drawing a moment of time has been frozen. Research into the history of the Thames and its usage, concerns for its future, and plans to engage Londoners more directly with their river has informed my practice. Continue Reading »
Posted in 2D: Drawing, Liz Charsley-Jory | Tagged Liz Charsley-Jory, South london women artists | 1 Comment »
