Double page paintings
Still life painting was considered in the 18th century as the lowest of the genres after historical painting, portraiture and landscape painting, yet it always played a crucial role in the last 300 years whenever economic or scientific changes took place. The flourishing of Dutch, Flemish and Spanish still life painting started when capitalism in those countries started to expand fast. Chardin was active at a time of increasing scientific research and discoveries in human vision. Cubist still life painting were immensely influential for Modernism and were made at a time of scientific and technological breakthrough on every level.
Cubist still life was concerned with different viewpoint. Matisse deals in his rooms with a window or a door with the relationship of two spaces, interior and exterior. ‘For me the space from the horizon to the inside of my room is continuous, and that the boat which passes lives in the same space as the familiar objects around me; the wall around the window does not create two worlds.’ (Matisse to a journalist)
My earlier work looks the relationship of high art, by placing a reproduction of a painting and domestic objects on a shelf or table. I played with the shadows of the objects and the postcard leaning against the wall, the postcard cutting a window into another space.
My latest series is an expansion of this concept. More objects, figurines and fruit are laid out on a variety of surfaces and levels. Now, there are two or more reproductions in the picture: I am blurring the boundaries between high art and the vernacular both with the choice of subject and process of painting.
The distinction between high and low is less certain and dissolves, consequently the pictures move a away from the centered staging, which was part of the concept in the earlier paintings and still life painting of the past.
The decentralized setting activates the picture plane together with using a variety of modes of applying the paint. The process of painting is a combination of retinal and rational observation. The images within are like windows that open up into other spaces. These paintings take a ‘post-abstract’ position.
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Drawings
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Solo Exhibitions
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2012 – New Paintings Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2010 – New Work Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery, Malton
Still life paintings Niagara Gallery, Melbourne
2009 – Neue Bilder Galerie Hammelehle & Ahrens, Cologne
2008 – New Still Life Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
2007 – Study Flock Gallery, University of Wales, Newport
2006 – Still Life BayArt, Cardiff
2004 – New Work Galerie Hammelehle & Ahrens, Cologne
Paintings GlaxoSmith HQ, London
2003 – New Work Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Still life Galerie Hammelehle & Ahrens
2002 – Up to no good Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
2000 – Detail Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
1999 – New Work Galerie Hammelehle & Ahrens, Stuttgart
New Paintings Richard Salmon Gallery, London
1998 – Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
Hammelehle & Ahrens Gallery, Stuttgart
Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
1997 – Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
1996 – Hammelehle & Ahrens Gallery, Stuttgart
1993 – Still life Ruskin School of Art and Design, Oxford
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Group Exhibitions
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2008 – Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
2007 – Summer Show Royal Academy of Art, London
Wales Portrait Award Touring Show, Wales
One Love The Lowry, Salford
Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
2006 - John Moores 24 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Wonderful Fund Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
Wales Portrait Award Touring Show, Wales
2005 – Still life without Kate MacGarry Gallery, London
The Wonderful Fund Musée de Marrakesh, Morocco
2004 – Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss
Pub Crawl 39, London
2003 – Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
gar.net die Bank, Munich
2002 - The Dicerning Eye The Mall Gallery, London
One thing only Five Princelet Street, London
Preview Group Show, Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
2001 – Gallery Artists Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Drawing Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Loan Royal Society of Arts
(from Arts Council Collection)
Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zurich
2000 – Summer show Richard Salmon Gallery, London
Incorporate Arts & Business, London
Dialogue Swiss Embassy, London
MORE Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Preview Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich
1999 – New work Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
1998 – Wish you were here with Caro Niederer and Bruno Müller-
Meyer, MILCH, London (publication)
1997 – World of Interiors Foundation Binz 39, Zürich, curated by Caro
Niederer, with Bridget Smith & Janet Parris
Sequence Richard Salmon Gallery, London
1996 – Hammelehle & Ahrens Gallery, Stuttgart
Staccato Media Center, London, with David Medalla,
Sophy Rickett a.o.
1995 – My Favourite Song Soundproject, London
50×50x50 Der Verein, Cologne, during Art Cologne
1994 – two plus one Brighton Festival, Lewes
Blup-Bleep Westwerk, Hamburg, with Angela Bulloch,
Schuhmacher, Hodel & Arn a.o.
1993 – November TV video project during the Art Cologne
Site specific Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
1992 – Dutch Exchange Motorhouse, Yorkshire
1991 – Safe Regents Wharf, London (publication)
1990/89 – New Contemporaries -ICA, London (publication)
–Dean Clough, Hallifax
–Cornerhouse, Manchester
–Southhill Park, Bracknell
–Art Centre, Kendall
1989 – Whitechapel Open Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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Publications
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2010 Double Page Paintings, Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery, ISBN 978-0-9565590-0-5
2009 Paintings in Public Collections, Arts Council
2007 Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, 9 781905 711192
2006 Pallant House Gallery Magazine Nr. 9, p.20-21
John Moores 24, Exhibition of contemporary painting,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, ISBN-1-902700-30-9
Wales Portrait Award 1, ISBN 900041 90 2
One love The Football Art Prize, The Lowry, ISBN 1-902970-32-2
2005 The Wonderful Fund Collection
2004 Pallant House Gallery Magazine Nr. 4, p 27
2003 Tower Place Art Collection
1998 Wish You Were Here Published by MILCH, London
Art Brussels Catalogue
1997 World of Interiors Yearbook of the
Foundation BINZ 39, Zürich
1996 Still Life Paintings/The Daubers Book collaboration with Ian Hunt,
Alfred David Editions
1991 Safe Regents Wharf, London, catalogue
1989 New Contemporaries ICA London, catalogue
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Reviews
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2008 Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23.2.2008, Suzanne Kappeler1989 Flash Art Adrian Dannett
Daily Telegraph
1991 Patricia Bickers Art Monthly
1996 Juan Cruz Art Monthly
Sacha Craddock The Times
1996 Sacha Craddock The Times
1997 The village voice
Christoph Wang Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
Tages Anzeiger
Kunstbulletin
1998 Ribi Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Martin Herbert Time Out, May
1999 Sacha Craddock LondonArt
Sarah Kent Time Out
The New York Times
2000 Ribi Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Public Collections include:
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Crédit Suisse
Sammlung der Stadt Zürich
Sammlung Kanton Zürich
Ernest&Young
Tower Place, London
Deutsche Bank
WestLB
Arts Council of England