The PITT presented a trio of charities; Billy Gill has donated a pastel drawing for raffle to raise money for the Waterloo Schools charity. Ruth Pritchett will be offering commissions in children’s portraiture to raise money for Acorns Hospice. 20 PhotoVoice photographs are for sale to raise money for the PhotoVoice projects. Links:
www.photovoice.org www.waterloo-schools.org www.acorns.org.uk
ANDREW LLOYDLANGSTON
Andrew Lloydlangston's 'Paris by bicycle' is an exhibition of paintings based on the artists passion for cycling and the Tour de France.
The paintings; acrylic, oil and water-colour are studies in painting systems using de-constructed, 'coded' and fragmented imagery from photographs which are taken from channel 4 footage.
Andrew is also a dedicated special needs tutor, he lives and works in Hagley, Worcestershire.
JOHN A WALKER
John A Walker is based in Esher, Surrey is an artist with pedigree, taught by Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore at the University of Durham he experimented with abstract expressionism before being influenced by Pop Art in it's infancy.
This exhibition; From the Land of Oranges of recent paintings based on the 'orange' and Californian ephemera shows Walkers influences and painting style, fluent painting and vibrant colour enrich this exhibition of the figurative orange paintings.
J. A Walker is an artist, art historian, author and critic.
HILARY BARRY.
Hilary Barry is a painter; she draws influence from the landscape and dance. The work is about the act of painting as much reflecting the subject in its essence. The paintings inspire in people a nostalgia, reminiscences, a feeling of de ja vu. Above all Hilary's practice is powerful yet subtle, dark and yet playful.
Hilary Barry lives and works in North London.
DAN BOSWORTH
IN TRANSIT2nd JUNE - 30th JUNE 2007
This collection of photographs focuses on the transience of identity and the credibility of the signs that construct it. Regurgitating cliches, the photographs both berate inauthenticity whilst questioning the viability of an alternative. Taking the structuralist line that nothing can be exact or objective truth through constructed scenes.
The work illustrates a continuous transient quest for something or some place beyond our immediate surroundings that will make us complete.
Carefully selected locations and large format production combine to form fictional narratives. The rich colours, the size of the prints and the solitude of the characters endears us to them. The viewer id drawn in. Though the individual images are strong in narrative the collection jumps sporadically from one scene to the next. Drawn to reading the images but unable to piece together any continuous narrative the viewer is left with a sense of fragmentation.
The de-construction of any absolute truth leaves the characters alienated in a transient reality. Meaning is both fragmented and homogenised. The work both challenges and substantiates, seeking to contradict itself in being cynical but celebratory.
CHARLIE HURCOMBE
JULY - AUGUST 2007
Artists Statement
My work explores and promotes the tensions which exist between visual and tactile experience. With particular emphasis placed on the coexistence of disrupted form and reflective shiny surface my work makes reference to both sculpture and painting.
The combined utilisation of steel - often stainless - and household gloss paint (plus assorted fixtures and fittings) has been a significant characteristic of my 3D work. The application of gloss paint makes reference to both a protected and decorated surface whilst the geometric design suggests concerns associated with attraction and caution and conveys a heightened sense of physical disruption.
The use of manufactured items such as wooden handles is significant in promoting issues of interaction, function and scale. The temptation and desire to touch is negated by the objects status whilst being simultaneously encouraged through the presence of functional attributes.
The seemingly autonomous object is presented in an implied state of change - an isolated disrutive moment somehow made tangible.
KATE WALTERS
My drawing are made in response to bodily impulse and experience.
Each drawing has a life, comes from a life, before it becomes a drawing.
In our bodies and with our consciousness we are able to know and sense phenomena,
relationships, memories and events in embryo.
It is this knowing which I need to draw in order to know. The knowing becomes a process of purification, the drawing is an act of ignition, giving fire to, bringing to the light.
It is my intention to make marks which are tender and telling. I hope to touch people.
My recent exhibitions explore aspects of solitariness and the feeling of being separate: the sense of hearing, of being heard, of hearing oneself, of being able to hear another, or perhaps not wanting to hear. As she works Kate tries to inhabit a place which Agnes Martin calls 'free and easy wandering'; that is, she allows her drawings to find their own way to the surface of the paper.
Kate Walters. February 2007
NED JAMES
Ned is a Worcester based artist, and self confessed gambling addict. His current work is based on this vice, the history of gambling and its social implications..
The exhibition; 'CHIPS' is a selection of recent works including installations, sculpture and paintings fill the space and invite the visitors to interact with poker games, watch a roulette wheel spin and walk into a darkened booth to see a model of a skeleton under a small spotlight
looking lost and forlorn.
Ned is currently working hard to over-come his addiction, he lives and works in Worcester.
The Pitt Studio and art gallery based in Worcester
