We start a new series of regular artist conversations, giving you the chance to join the discussion with contemporary practitioners.
1 May 2020
Louisa Chambers
Since graduating with an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2007 Louisa Chambers has had a studio-based practice with an inquiry into expanded Painting practice. This has been predominantly through painting but more recently sculpture and wall painting that considers installation approaches in Fine Art.
15 May 2020
Henry Ward
Henry Ward is an artist, writer, curator and educator living in London.
He works across a range of media and with a variety of approaches. Working predominantly in painting, drawing and sculpture and but using photography, film and collage.
22 May 2020
Simon Harris
Simon J Harris’ paintings are cinematic in scale with a potent, awe-inspiring presence. The surface is glossy and luminous like celluloid film, creating a hyper-real intensity which immediately engages the viewer with the physicality and the compositional qualities of the paintings
Info:
https://www.wisegal.com/simon-j-harris/overview/
5 June 2020
Brendan Fletcher
Brendan Fletcher works as an artist and writer. He is engaged in an abstract painting practice. Recent exhibitions include, Homer’s Ghost, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, Fully Awake 5.6, Freelands Foundation, London, Inner-Landscapes, Hilbertraum, Berlin and Inter-section, Market Gallery, Huddersfield (all 2019).
https://www.instagram.com/brendan.fletcher.1426/
22 Oct 2020
Sarah Cooney
Sarah Cooney is painter based in the North East of England. Her paintings show a sense of mobility. The paintings often deviate from a traditional understanding of order by relying on the‘ innate logic of a painting’s overriding force.’ Sarah Cooney graduated from RCA in 2008. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Creekside Open (Selected by Brian Griffiths), APT Gallery (London), Cupola Contemporary Art (Sheffield), Paper Gallery (Manchester), The Royal Standard (Liverpool) HaTS (Berlin), 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, (St Petersburg, Russia).
More info: http://sarahcooney.co.uk
Please read the interview with Sarah Cooney on her recent group exhibition at MIMA.
Image Katya 2019 oil on canvas 30x40cm
5 Nov 2020
Hannah Morris
Hannah E. Morris is an artist originally from upstate NY and is currently living and working in Leicester, England. Hannah is interested in working through a place of emotion to build her narratives. Structuring her paintings through memory and presence, she questions the translation of those marks within her work to a written language. Hannah is a PhD candidate in Art and Art History at Newcastle University and has just completed a Fellowship at The Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, as well as a MA/MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. She is currently in a show at Two Queens in Leicester, and most recently exhibited in New York at Alpha137 gallery and PAAM The Provincetown Museum of Art, USA.
Image: by the hare of my eye, oil on canvas, 117cm x 218cm, 2020
More info: hannahemorris.com
10 Dec 2020
Andrew Bracey
Andrew Bracey’s practice hovers on the fringes of painting as it crosses over and expands into installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. He often uses existing sites and the readymade as alternatives to the traditional canvas support for painting, creating tensions between the hand-made and the man-made.