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DANIEL CRAWSHAW January 2016

D A N I E L C R AW S H AW

b.1967

7 - 30 January 2016

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DANIEL CRAWSHAW’S return to Wales follows a highly successful few years exploring the landscapes of Australia.This exhibition is his first solo show at Martin Tinney Gallery. It demonstrates an extraordinary body of work that enhances his reputation as one of our leading contemporary landscape painters. Daniel’s work has been selected for ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ a remarkable nine times and was awarded the People’s Choice in 2004. He has built up a loyal and enthusiastic following through solo exhibitions in Wales, London and Australia. Born and raised on the English/Welsh border, he subsequently spent many years in Mid Wales. His search for inspiration, along with his love of the outdoors and desire for adventure takes him through dramatic and imposing landscapes. He did a residency in partnership with the Snowdonia National Park in 2013/14. In seeking out beauty in remote and inhospitable places, hundreds of photographs are faithfully produced. Daniel then translates these to canvas with an almost jarring quality, often on an exhilarating and monumental scale. His almost photographic paintings ignite our emotions. Haunting yet with a sense of calm, they capture the cold atmosphere of high altitude regions. Exposed to dizzying heights, the Welsh landscape begins to disappear in vaporous clouds, amplifying the viewer’s sense of awe and diminution. Through meticulous research and exploration in the field he manages to express the experience of place without necessarily revealing where this place may be. He currently has work in the Jerwood Drawing Prize and has been selected for The Oriel Davies Open this year.

Daniel says of his work: In my photo based landscapes I am drawn to qualities unique to the medium of painting and its history. To me a painting is a hand-made object brought into fruition over time. Once complete it might stand as testament to its own distillation or achieve a duality where recollection and the apparent immediacy of an image are combined in a single statement. In chromatically sparse renderings of remote terrain I aim to achieve a sense of monumentality and the ‘sublime’ in works of varying scale. Avoiding lists of components I try to occupy the pictorial spaces where other painters may have been, whether they be the dark vistas of Bosch or the delicate inflections of Morandi I render empty scenes that only hint at human presence. I have a particular approach to my source material, taking my own photographs and looking for common structures in both familiar and strange places - small instances, magnified, adjusted and re-rendered in oil paint. There is a steady methodology to my production- squaring up 5’ x7’ prints I work logically through the detail, concentrating on recapturing the whole. Maybe the paintings invite the response of a ‘double take’ appearing to be something they are not: immediate, photographic, familiar, yet distant, ephemeral and resonant in a wholly other way, material objects in their own right that suggest the realm of the sublime.

AFON GLASLYN oil on canvas 2013 169 x 152cm

CARNEDD LLEWELYN I oil on canvas 2013 30 x 40cm

CARNEDD LLEWELYN II oil on canvas 2015 30 x 40cm

CARNEDD LLEWELYN III oil on canvas 2015 30 x 27cm

LLYN LLYDAW oil on canvas 2015 30 x 40cm

CWM DYLI II oil on canvas 2015 30 x 27cm

GALLT YR OGOF I oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

GALLT YR OGOF II oil on canvas 2015 40 x 40cm

GALLT Y WENALLT I oil on canvas 2013 30 x 40cm

GALLT Y WENALLT II oil on canvas 2014 30 x 40cm

GALLT Y WENALLT III oil on canvas 2014 200 x 185cm

GALLT Y WENALLT IV oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

LLYDAW STREAMS V oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

CWM oil on canvas 2013 164 x 152cm

OGWEN oil on canvas 2015 30 x 27cm

TRYFAN oil on board 2014 19 x 22cm

TRYFAN I oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

MOEL SIABOD oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

RHIWIAU I oil on canvas 2015 86 x 89cm

RHIWIAU II oil on canvas 2015 200 x 185cm

Y GARN CLOUD III oil on board 2014 14 x 19cm

Y GARN I oil on board 2014 22 x 19cm

Y GARN II oil on canvas 2014 80 x 70cm

TRYFAN II oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

SNOWDON oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

AFRON GLASLYN I oil on canvas 2015 40 x 40cm

Y GARN CLOUD I oil on canvas 2014 100 x 100cm

Y GARN III oil on board 2015 14 x 19cm

LLYDAW STREAMS III oil on canvas 2015 70 x 60cm

LLYDAW STREAMS IV oil on canvas 2015 30 x 40cm

D A N I E L C R A W S H A W b.1967 1985 – 86 Foundation Studies South Glamorgan Institute of H.E. Cardiff 1987- 90 BA Hons Fine Art (Painting) Leicester Polythechnic. EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS Solo Exhibitions 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2012 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1997

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff, Wales ‘High Country Gothic’ Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia ‘High Country Gothic’ Bayside Arts, Melbourne Australia ‘High Country Gothic’ Oriel Myrrdin, Carmarthen, Wales ‘High Country Gothic’ Gippsland Art Gallery, Australia ‘High Country Gothic’ The Sidney Nolan Trust, Wales ‘High Country Gothic’ Cowwarr Artspace, Gippsland, Australia ‘Turning Point’ The Room Above, Hay on Wye, Wales ‘Resort’ The Guardian Hay Festival , Wales ‘Lost Mountains’ The Sidney Nolan Trust, Wales ‘Lost Mountains’ Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London ‘Mountain Stream’ The Guardian Hay Festival, Wales ‘New Landscapes’ Guardian Hay Festival, Wales ‘Field Paintings’ Globe gallery, Hay on Wye, Wales ‘Sky Series’ Globe gallery, Hay on Wye, Wales ‘Keys to the West’ Sunday Times Hay Festival, Wales

Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2007

‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ‘Creekside Open’ Selected by Phyllida Barlow, APT, London ‘Asylum Open’ Asylum, London ‘The Salon Art Prize’ Matt Roberts Arts, London ‘The Art Of Giving’ The Saatchi Gallery, London ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Blaenau, Gwent ,Wales ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Bala, Wales ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Cardiff, Wales ‘The National’ Eisteddfod of Wales. Mold, Wales

2006 2006 2004 2004 2004 2004 2002 2002 2001 2000 1999 1999 1998

‘Undercover’ Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Felindre, Swansea, Wales ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Newport, Wales WINNER- The Peoples’ Choice ‘hArt Open’. Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, ‘Cubed’. The Blue Boar, Hay on Wye, Wales ‘London Art Fair’ - The Blue Gallery, London ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ St.Davids, Wales ‘The Washington Gallery’, Penarth, Wales ‘ART 2001’ - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Llanelli, Wales ‘Pigment to Pixel - Digital Landscape’. ACW funded project, Presteigne, Wales ‘The Sky The Sea And The Bit In Between’ Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon ‘Oriel Open’. Oriel 31, Newtown, Wales

PUBLICATIONS ‘Daniel Crawshaw - High Country Gothic’ by Simon Gregg. Published by The Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic, Australia. 2013 RESIDENCIES 2012 2012 2006 1998

Alpine National Park, Vic, Australia. - Wales Arts International Funded Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. - Arts Council of Wales Funded The Sidney Nolan Trust, Powys, Wales La Rectoria Centro de Art Contemprani, Catalynya, Spain

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