An Art Inspiration
Bone Spider
Lachlan Matthews works in oils, ceramics, bone, wood, metal, cement, resins and other media. Art is fantastical to me, an imperfect way of communication. Somehow real, a view of the matrix of life, but maybe only in your head – one of the mental mutants that make us human. [Read more...]
Turner Contemporary up for Art Fund Prize
Turner Contemporary has been longlisted for the Art Fund Prize 2012, the UK’s annual ‘museum of the year’ award, and the biggest prize for arts and cultural organisations in the country. Ten museums in total across the country are in with the chance to win £100,000 and the prestigious award, which will be announced on 19 June 2012. [Read more...]
South African Week
Pretoria – Government will use South African Week in Palestine to showcase its abundant artistic talent to the people of that country later this year.
Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile announced this after signing a cultural agreement with the Palestinian Minister of Culture, Siham Mohammad Abdel Salam, on Wednesday in Pretoria. [Read more...]
Art Residency Opportunity
In the frame of European Capital of Culture the NGO Košice 2013 is running an international Artist-in-Residence-program for emerging artists from all over the world and out of all artistic disciplines and expressions. We give our residents the possibility to become a cultural pioneer and work in the inspire environment of Košice`s singular cultural surrounding to realize art projects, collaborate with the agile local art scene and present themselves to the local and national public. [Read more...]
A Splashy Day at the Seaside - Therese James
The Fig Tree restaurant in Penarth has selected the work of Therese James, a full-time artist of the ‘Naive School’ to be exhibited at the restaurant.
South Wales-born Therese has been painting since 1993, and her work can be seen in galleries throughout the UK, and her work is also in collections as far afield as America, New Zealand and Hong Kong. [Read more...]
Somerset Art Weeks 17 September - 2 October
Somerset Art Weeks 2011, which runs from Saturday 17th September to Sunday, 2nd October, is the largest art event in Somerset with around 400 artists and makers showcasing their work to the public in over 100 venues county-wide. The initiative brings contemporary visual art to everyone with a variety of free group exhibitions and events for all ages including talks, art trails, workshops and mystery tours. [Read more...]
Bristol To Host UK’s Largest Street Art Project Ever
Bristol Street Art Project
BRISTOL – This summer Bristol will play host to the most ambitious permanent street art project ever to take place in the UK. The world’s leading street artists from numerous countries will paint the facades of ten multi-storey Bristol buildings along Nelson Street as part of ‘See No Evil’. The event will result in Nelson Street becoming one of the world’s largest outdoor art exhibitions. [Read more...]
The beautiful sceneries of North Zealand are a landscape painter’s dream. Maybe that’s why there’s a plentifullness of local artists. Now 87 of these professional local artists are collaborating in a regional art tour. [Read more...]
Lucy Phelan at The Tipperary Excel Centre
‘Stories, fables and tails’ at The Tipperary Excel Centre in August is my first solo show and I am very excited at the prospect of seeing ALL the pieces hang together for the very first time. It has been an exciting journey, sometimes peppered with panic and the odd low moment of frustration and doubt.
My work deals with story telling. I make big storybook pages, often involving text. I am influenced by icons and altar-panels. I work with mixed media drawings; mainly oil and varnishes, and with printmaking (both traditional and digital).
I mix drawing and digital images together as I think that a drawing can sometimes be more real and more honest than a photograph and conversely a photograph can have all of its reality removed. I am interested in the various way we make marks and how we read and interpret them.
The use of animal imagery.
Animals have always played a huge part in our myths, legends and religious beliefs. Since we have lived in caves we have used animals to tell stories, give warnings and make magic; from Red Riding Hood and her ill fated granny to Apocalyptic end times. We also use animal behavior to describe human conditions: as strong as a horse, as sick as a dog, as stubborn as a mule and no man would ever want to be called an old goat. Our ability to understand animal iconography and symbolism is as innate as our subconscious.
Waiting for the Apocalypse series 1-4
This piece when hung measures over 2 meters high by 5 meters wide. It is a combination of oil on board and digital prints.
This series is based on the acceptance off death in our lives. Ours is a routine and gentle apocalypse. The horses are waiting for their riders, the girls and their actions are repetitive, they are surface, like wallpaper. We all wait for our own personal apocalypse calmly. Mostly we ignore its inevitability.
Romantic fiction
These digital prints are A1 size.
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This series looks to romantic fiction for its inspiration. Ideally this series would not be shown in a gallery space but be pasted to lamp posts, bus shelters, billboards etc. as cautionary romantic advertisements.
I wanted to push the bounds of the image until it was somewhere between drawing and photography.
On and on they went further into the forest
2m x 1.5m and 1.8m x 1.4m
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Dogs are to woods what wolves are to the forest. Symbolically dogs are creatures of domestic harmony and fidelity; wolves shout unpredictability and are at their core the embodiment of physical instinct. Forests are dark and dangerous places of great beauty. We tend to emulate the environment we are exposed to.
Prints
81cm x124cm
Survival has been chosen as one of the charities for Art London (6-10 October 2011).
To coincide Ghislain Pascal, Director of The Little Black Gallery and long time supporter of Survival, has curated an exhibition of photographs which will all be sold in aid of Survival’s work for threatened tribal peoples. They include some of the greatest names in contemporary photography: Bob Carlos Clarke, Harry Cory Wright, Raymond Depardon, Duffy, Joey L, Chris Levine, Patrick Lichfield, Terry O’Neill, and Sebastiao Salgado, amongst others.
All framing has been kindly donated by John Jones
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