Joy Arden
TIME & PLACE 7th October - 1st November 2017
Joy Arden TIME & PLACE
An exhibition of painting and printmaking currently referring to the tension between the natural and urban environment.
Join us for the Exhibition Opening on Saturday 7th October, 2-4pm continues until 1st November 2017
& gallery
&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk
JOY ARDEN Joy Arden has long been fascinated by urban wastelands, demolished buildings, weathered surfaces, archaeological excavations and construction sites. A sense of place, the passage of time as well as the traces left by human activity in the environment form a focus for the work. The paintings are characterised by an atmospheric use of muted ochres, chalky greys/whites and deep earth colours. The process she engages in begins with sketchbook drawings carried out at a site of interest. These are a response to what she sees rather than drawings of record, so the drawings can take on a life of their own in the moment of their execution. The studio paintings are begun with the memory of the experience of the place or objects. They are a free interpretation of the subject, where colours or shapes are ‘discovered’ or revealed during a process of applying paint and scraping back, until there is a tension and a sense of something seen or experienced.
Outskirts Monotype, 96 x 65cm
Black/sienna Monotype, 56 x 50 cm
Glimpse - blue/grey Monotype, 60 x 50 cm
Terrain /dark Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Markers Oil on board, 23 x 23 cm
Untitled Oil on board, 63.5 x 63.5 cm
The Fallen Oil on canvas on board, 33 x 23.5 cm
Haven Oil on canvas , 119 x 114 cm
Formed Oil on board, 25.5 x 26 cm
Pale light Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Flow Oil on board, 63 x 63 cm
The Edge Oil on board, 63.5 x 63.5 cm
Way with markers Oil on board, 30 x 31 cm
Traces Oil on board, 33 x 33 cm
Blue strip Oil on canvas, 114 x 100 cm
Fine Art graduate of Nottingham College of Art. Prizes: Anne Redpath Award - Visual Arts Scotland Exhibition 2011 Elisa Clifford Prize - Leith School of Art 2008 Impressions’ Print exhibition, Galway 1989
2013 The Sutton Gallery Winter Show, Edinburgh. McMillan Cancer Support exhibition at Bonhams. Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries - VAS exhibition 2012 The Cabinet Show - Compass Gallery, Glasgow Art by the Water – nine painters - Coburg House Art Artist Organisations Gallery at Leith Festival Elected as a Professional Member of Visual Arts Scotland - 2012 Art in Unusual Places ‘ Cockenzie Power Station/Three Harbours Festival Solo Exhibitions Limelight Gallery, Morningside, Edinburgh The Scottish Arts Club - Prints by Edinburgh 2017 &Gallery, Edinburgh Printmakers 2014 &Collective Gallery, Bridge of Allan 2011 Remix - Touring Exhibition (PVAF) Dunbar 2012 Transition – Leith School of Art Gallery Hidden Edinburgh - Edinburgh Printmakers Winter 2009 Engine Shed, Edinburgh Exhibition Art in Unusual Places Cockenzie Power Station/Three Juried Exhibitions Harbours Festival Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London - 2011 ‘Encounters: Fire and Ice’ Exhibition Threshold Art Shortlisted for the National Open Art Competition- 2013 Space, Perth Theatre Midlands Open - Tarpey Gallery, Derbyshire - 2013 Winter show Peter Potter Gallery - Haddington Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition - 2010, 2011, 2010 Compass Gallery, Glasgow - Winter Show 2012, 2013, 2014 Fire and Ice Exhibition/Event at the Crannog, Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, Perthshire 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Art in Unusual Places Cockenzie Power Station/Three The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour - Annual Harbours Festival Open Exhibition - 2012, 2013 , 2015 Coburg House Gallery/ Edinburgh Festival Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition - 2006, 2010 2011, Peter Potter Gallery Spring Exhibition - Haddington 2013, 2014, 2015 2009 Coburg Art Gallery Exhibition – Edinburgh Festival 2008 Bonhams Annual Summer Exhibition – Edinburgh Selected Group Shows 2006 Edinburgh Printmakers Exhibition 2017 Inception . Group show &Gallery, Edinburgh 2016 Unburdened Realities - three person show - Tatha 1980s and 1990s Exhibited in juried exhibitions and group Gallery, Newport-on-Tay printmaking shows in Ireland. Most noted: International Large Outskirts - 5 person show - Arts Complex , St format Printmaking Exhibition (1991) and New Irish Printmakers, Margaret’s House Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (1989), Impressions, Galway, 2015 3 Painters - The Arc Gallery, Stirling (1989) The Wonder Room – Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay Coburg House Art Gallery - Eight Coburg Painters at Collections the Edinburgh Fringe Public Collection - Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle 2014 La Galerie 1940 - Winter exhibition Private collections in Ireland, Scotland and England. Cabinet of Treasures - Compass Gallery, Glasgow. La Galerie 1940 - Edinburgh Festival Exhibition Tweedale Museum, Peebles - VAS members exhibition
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