THE
GRANTBRADLEYmagazine
ISSUE #23
'The Cross' by Fiona Mackenzie-Spence
THE
GRANTBRADLEYgallery
SEPTEMBER2014
SHOWING SEPTEMBER 2014
1 St Peter’s Court Bedminster Parade Bristol BS3 4AQ T. 0117 9637 673 W. grantbradleygallery.co.uk E. info@grantbradleygallery.co.uk
SEPTEMBER 2014 EXHIBITIONS SHOWING 6TH UNTIL 27TH SEPTEMBER 2014
NEW WAY OF SEEING STILL ALIVE
NEW WAY OF SEEING Contemporary photographic exhibition by artist Fiona Mackenzie-Spence. Founder of Cameratechart, Fiona Mackenzie-Spence's photographic work epitomises the marriage between Fine Art and Technology with a highly unusual result and individual style that is fresh and contemporary. Fiona also paints using mixed media, describing her work as "a meeting of paint to a surface that is instinctive and entirely abstract". The 'New Way Of Seeing' Exhibition is a journey into incredible colour and design that is imaginative and most certainly different to anything else you will have seen. Your perception of art through photography will change after seeing this work. The 'New Way Of Seeing' exhibition enables the viewer a momentary glimpse behind the eyes of an extraordinary new artist. Colour, light, form and shadow are the attraction for this artist, as is the reflective quality of water and glass. Her work encompasses urban and natural environments, but she paints from her studio. A photograph might be taken and then used as her 'palette' from which to create from there, so that often the finished piece bears no resemblance to the original image. This process is often time consuming and goes way beyond 'enhancement of a photograph'. It was this combination of camera and the technology of the computer that Fiona felt required a descriptive name, so she trademarked Cameratechart as a 'New Authentication In The Field of Works of Art', specifically to describe this type of her work. The 'New Way Of Seeing' Exhibition will feature this extraordinary new art form Cameratechart, some of her paintings and a few of her untouched photographs.
STILL ALIVE Group exhibition of still life paintings This September the Grant Bradley Gallery will go back to basics and a classic discipline that has its roots in ancient art history. Over two thousand years ago, legend has it that the greek painter Zeuxis painted fruits so realistic that birds flew down to eat them. Though the discipline has changed over the last two millennia, from Dürer to Cézanne, still lifes continue to occupy the thoughts of artists. Today in 2014, while the objectives of art have changed, artists still respect and practice the still life form to convey metaphor, aesthetic realism or purely as a demonstration of technique. This September exhibition brings together a group of disparate and varied painters to show their takes on this subject. The show provides an opportunity to see these works in one place for an overall experience that will be of interest to all.
CORDELIA HUTCHISON
MARIAN WEBB
FRANCES SALMON
MIKE SERVICE
GRAEME ROBBINS
NEILL FULLER
JENNY DANBY
RYÔKO OIKAWA
KATE WILLIAMS
CORDELIA HUTCHISON
FRANCES SALMON
GRAEME ROBBINS
JENNY DANBY
KATE WILLIAMS
MARIAN WEBB
MIKE SERVICE
NEILL FULLER
RYÔKO OIKAWA
THE
GRANTBRADLEYgallery
GBG SEPTEMBER 2014 EXHIBITIONS 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