THE
GRANTBRADLEYmagazine
ISSUE #32
'Gladys' by Ros Paton
THE
GRANTBRADLEYgallery
september
SHOWING SEPTEMBER 2015
1 St Peter’s Court Bedminster Parade Bristol BS3 4AQ T. 0117 9637 673 W. grantbradleygallery.co.uk E. info@grantbradleygallery.co.uk
SEPTEMBER EXHIBITIONS SHOWING 5TH SEPTEMBER UNTIL 3RD OCTOBER 2015
LAMINA PICTURES FROM ANOTHER PLACE REVERIES
LAMINA Ros Paton is a talented and awarded artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. She is interested in the inevitable decline and fall of the built environment, and how architectural order dissolves into ruin. Ros exhibits her works regularly in Brisbane and throughout Australia, with one of her exhibitions in a Brisbane gallery selling out within an hour of opening. She has also held acclaimed and successful solo exhibitions in Italy and Belgium. She has travelled to UK to prepare works for her next solo exhibition to be held with Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol, UK September 2015. Her works have been hung in prestige exhibitions such as the Portia Geach Memorial Award in the S.H. Ervin Gallery (Sydney), the Heritage Art Prize at Blaxland Gallery (Sydney), Von Bertouch's Collectors Choice in Newcastle (Australia). Ros is currently represented in the Clayton Utz art prize (Brisbane), and most recently she has been awarded the winner of the St Andrews memorial Hospital ANZAC art prize. To read more about Ros and her work please follow the link below to be directed to SkyLightRain, a website by Bristol writer Judy Darley. http://www.skylightrain.com/ros-paton-art/
I explore how revealing the impermanence of our constructions can act as metaphor for the fragility of our human existence. I am intrigued by the poignancy and strange beauty that emerge as the palimpsest of familiar layers in our built environment disintegrates. By painting notions our surroundings in various degrees of transience, I can talk about the vanishing nature of materiality and that nothing lasts forever, nothing is really finished, and nothing is ever perfect. I notice the patina of age on the discarded, the everyday and the mundane, looking at the wear and tear, weeds and detritus in the crevices in the chipped and worn surfaces we walk that reflect a time, place and us, I ask about the natural cycle of growth then decay, and its correlation to the world we inhabit on a daily basis, finding beauty in things that are imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. My work is not about the triumph of nature, but an intermediate moment, a fragile equilibrium between persistence and decay, stability and disarray. I want to linger in that short space of time and place that sits between a past and a future, and then is gone I aim to imbue my artwork with something deeper than a clever depiction of image, and invite contemplation on the ephemeral nature of our surroundings, beauty and our own lives.
PICTURES FROM ANOTHER PLACE Bill James was a contemporary of David Hockney and Zandra Rhodes at the Royal College of Art. He moved to New York in 1985 where he was in demand as a commercial artist with a client list including Polo, Ralph Lauren and Ellesse . His current work, in contrast, is vibrant abstracts - experimental drawings fusing two disparate forms of art : non-pictorial gestural forms, and tradition-based draughtsman's skills. Primary influences:vigorous use of chiaroscuro effect as interpreted by Aubrey Beardsley, John Singer Sargent, the Beggarstaffs, and the great poster designer Fred Taylor. Secondary influences:human movement, machines, and movie cinematography. Bill uses established drawing techniques to articulate lively new ideas, inspired by the way that technological advances of the last century change our way of seeing and using the arts, with echoes of Futurism (Balla, Severini) and Vorticism (Wyndham Lewis, CRW Nevinson).
REVERIES Heather is an octogenerian who paints from memory and imagination. She is also extremely interested in covert symbolism. Her paintings have been sold at the RWA, Clifton Arts Club and also in Greece, Turkey, Malta and Wiltshire.
THE
GRANTBRADLEYgallery
GBG SEPTEMBER 2015 EXHIBITION AT THE GRANT BRADLEY GALLERY 1 St Peter’s Court Bedminster Parade Bristol BS3 4AQ T. 0117 9637 673 W. grantbradleygallery.co.uk E. info@grantbradleygallery.co.uk