Art in Layers
Art in Layers
Wednesday 18 August 2021
Art in Layers
Art in Layers
Wednesday 18 August 2021
A video recording of this event is now available
- for a small admin. charge of £5 via the hot line 07772 461808 open next week on Monday and Tuesday from 10.00am - 2.00pm
- in return for which we will email you a Link to the video
Two contemporary artists and an art historian discuss contemporary art practice, and link it to past art in a creative dialogue.
As Mark Gibbs and Victoria King present their respective work, Sara Riccardi, founder of Art Across, will expand the conversation by drawing connections between the artists' processes, ideas, visual explorations and the arts of the past. Enjoy learning about the art of today, with a wider perspective on human creativity, beyond time.
Mark Gibbs graduated with a first-class degree in Fine Art from the University of Cumbria, and has since exhibited internationally, in London and in the North of England. Mark won the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 2010 Prize exhibition and the 2016 Upfront Gallery Open. He was included in the 2018 and 2020 New Light Exhibitions and tours which showcase art form the North of England. He was shortlisted for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year; being highly commended in the Wildlife in 3D category: 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014. Two particularly significant exhibitions were the Art of Remembering [2014 Rheged Gallery and tour] which explored the contemporary significance of the First World War and Craft and Conflict [2018 Highlights Contemporary Crafts tour]. His work is in private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad.
Mark's intricate animal sculptures bring materials to life, creating exciting original artworks, that combine beauty and ideas. He describes his work as ‘Natural-History’; in which themes of deep time, loss and conflict are combined with animal forms, and symbolic natural materials. He says: "‘My work is a meditation on the fragility of life, and the tragedy of obsolete power." Influenced by archeology, his sculptures resemble ancient ritual artefacts with layers of meaning. His Nightjar Project explores the poetics of camouflage - each bird is made feather by feather out of newspaper.
Dr. Victoria King is a painter, sculptor, photographer, essayist, poet and passionate gardener who emigrated from America to England in 1972 to study art and philosophy. She was a senior university lecturer in Fine Art and has exhibited her artwork extensively internationally in 14 solo exhibitions and many group shows over the past 40 years. In 2005, she was honoured with a large curated Australian museum retrospective of thirty-years of her paintings. She has spent extensive periods of time working with Aboriginal women artists and received a PhD for her thesis Art of Place and Displacement: Embodied Perception and the Haptic Ground. Her artwork and writing have been published in many books and international journals.
"My paintings are celebrations of the extraordinary life force in nature and the power of colour at its most abstract to communicate space and emotion. They are inspired by glimpses of unexpected beauty: the juxtaposition of vibrant and subtle colours and forms of flowers, of reflections in water, vistas within vistas, harmony spontaneously self-sown rather than imposed. Just as seeds take time to germinate and flower, so, too, do my paintings. With persistent nurturing, deep attention and often outrageous risk-taking, surfaces often take years to build up until a painting resonates with an embodied experience of perception and being-in-place. My hope is that they will convey to the viewer a meditative sense of stillness, presence and joy."
Some of the artworks by Mark and Victoria presented in this event are currently on display at Saul Hay Gallery, in Manchester, as part of their Summer exhibition, where they can be appreciated in the flesh, and are available for sale.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £5.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Feedback from people who attended the Zoom event has been excellent. It is really worth watching this conversation for the incite into what compels artists to create art. It is fascinating and at times very moving - Highly Recommended.
A video recording of this event is now available
- for a small admin. charge of £5 via the hot line 07772 461808 open next week on Monday and Tuesday from 10.00am - 2.00pm
- in return for which we will email you a Link to the video
Two contemporary artists and an art historian discuss contemporary art practice, and link it to past art in a creative dialogue.
As Mark Gibbs and Victoria King present their respective work, Sara Riccardi, founder of Art Across, will expand the conversation by drawing connections between the artists' processes, ideas, visual explorations and the arts of the past. Enjoy learning about the art of today, with a wider perspective on human creativity, beyond time.
Mark Gibbs graduated with a first-class degree in Fine Art from the University of Cumbria, and has since exhibited internationally, in London and in the North of England. Mark won the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 2010 Prize exhibition and the 2016 Upfront Gallery Open. He was included in the 2018 and 2020 New Light Exhibitions and tours which showcase art form the North of England. He was shortlisted for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year; being highly commended in the Wildlife in 3D category: 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014. Two particularly significant exhibitions were the Art of Remembering [2014 Rheged Gallery and tour] which explored the contemporary significance of the First World War and Craft and Conflict [2018 Highlights Contemporary Crafts tour]. His work is in private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad.
Mark's intricate animal sculptures bring materials to life, creating exciting original artworks, that combine beauty and ideas. He describes his work as ‘Natural-History’; in which themes of deep time, loss and conflict are combined with animal forms, and symbolic natural materials. He says: "‘My work is a meditation on the fragility of life, and the tragedy of obsolete power." Influenced by archeology, his sculptures resemble ancient ritual artefacts with layers of meaning. His Nightjar Project explores the poetics of camouflage - each bird is made feather by feather out of newspaper.
Dr. Victoria King is a painter, sculptor, photographer, essayist, poet and passionate gardener who emigrated from America to England in 1972 to study art and philosophy. She was a senior university lecturer in Fine Art and has exhibited her artwork extensively internationally in 14 solo exhibitions and many group shows over the past 40 years. In 2005, she was honoured with a large curated Australian museum retrospective of thirty-years of her paintings. She has spent extensive periods of time working with Aboriginal women artists and received a PhD for her thesis Art of Place and Displacement: Embodied Perception and the Haptic Ground. Her artwork and writing have been published in many books and international journals.
"My paintings are celebrations of the extraordinary life force in nature and the power of colour at its most abstract to communicate space and emotion. They are inspired by glimpses of unexpected beauty: the juxtaposition of vibrant and subtle colours and forms of flowers, of reflections in water, vistas within vistas, harmony spontaneously self-sown rather than imposed. Just as seeds take time to germinate and flower, so, too, do my paintings. With persistent nurturing, deep attention and often outrageous risk-taking, surfaces often take years to build up until a painting resonates with an embodied experience of perception and being-in-place. My hope is that they will convey to the viewer a meditative sense of stillness, presence and joy."
Some of the artworks by Mark and Victoria presented in this event are currently on display at Saul Hay Gallery, in Manchester, as part of their Summer exhibition, where they can be appreciated in the flesh, and are available for sale.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £5.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Feedback from people who attended the Zoom event has been excellent. It is really worth watching this conversation for the incite into what compels artists to create art. It is fascinating and at times very moving - Highly Recommended.
EVENT DATE
AUGUST 18, 2021
COST
£5.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Not specified/unlimited
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