Visiting Artists to CWND Artist Residency 2018
This year we were very fortunate to be able to welcome a whole host of established artists whose practice's has connections with the ideas of space and place or have had some history of connection with the project from it's pilot stage in 2016.
Samuel L. Herbert
He studied Painting at Wimbledon School of Art and completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college. He has exhibited extensively in solo shows in London, Amsterdam and Athens as well as participation in numerous group exhibitions across Europe. His work is held in many collections of contemporary art in Britain, Europe, USA and Asia, including the Saatchi Collection, London.
Rosalind Davies
Rosalind Davis is an artist whose central concern is the transformation and reconfiguration of space through multiple disciplines. Beginning with the highly rationalised and objective language of architecture, Davis disassembles its geometries to re-create new and multifaceted spaces. The resulting environments probe the relationships between both the physical and psychological aspects of space.
Constructed from modular elements these site-specific installations are reassembled afresh for each exhibition and respond according to the particular architectural conditions of the site, such as scale and light. They are constructed usingflexible individual elements such as steel frames, transparent and luminous perspex sheets, thread and monochrome paintings. The steel structures allude in their scale and proportions to windows or doors - portal like openings that allude to the boundaries between spaces.Incorporating both2 and 3D models of spaceengages the viewer in a process of looking, interpreting and constructing space for themselves through their own individual experience. The subjective and dis-orienting nature of the work establishes relationships between the personal and the systematic, highlighting a disparity between the imagined and the real. This seeks to re-claim the failed ideals of modernist space and intimate a more personalised space of one’s own creation.
Her paintings and drawings are part of this same process but in 2d form representing another 3d space where complex interior and exterior spaces are collaged together and abstracted and,like the installations, these 2d works have a disorienting and subjective character, establishing a relationship between the personal and the systematic.
Threads often intervene in her works; their tautness dissecting boundaries and creating shattered geometric planes, the imagery being literally pinned down, sewn up and threaded together. The use of thread often traditionally refers to the feminine and domestic activity of making, repair and creation but here consciously punctures the predominant male domain and hard edged aesthetics of modernist architecture, geometric abstraction and design.
Rebecca Byrne
The overarching concern in Rebecca Byrne’s work is an exploration of interiority and the psychological impact of space. In particular, her interest lies in the spaces that people animate and inhabit, the traces left behind in abandoned and re-purposed spaces and thresholds into fantastical places that cannot exist. Working in paint on paper and canvas, Byrne creates physical spaces for the viewer to enter which are site-specific but also imbued with a subtle personal narrative.
Liz Elton
Central to Liz’s practice are concerns relating to painting, the history of painting, how to continue, landscape. She thinks about our use and waste of materials, our impact on the landscape, stepping lightly, time and scale. ‘Earth to Earth’ is an ongoing series of works made on food recycling bags and inspired by reports that intensive agriculture has degraded the fertility of our land so that it may only support a further one hundred harvests. Made from crops such as corn or potatoes, this material is produced to facilitate the disposal of food waste and designed to break down in the process. It is fragile and ethereal and floats like parachute silk with the movement of the air around it.
Liz’s work is included in the John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition, Liverpool in 2018. Recent projects include: The Performativity of Painting, Stephen Lawrence Gallery; Control to Collapse, Blyth Gallery; PIY PaintLounge, Sluice Biennial; ZeroGravity, MC3 Project Space; a Bothy Project Residency in the Small Isles of Scotland. Education: BA Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, 2009; MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2012.
Andrea V. Wright
Andrea graduated with a Distinction in Masters Fine Art from Bath Spa University 2016. Her final exhibition reflected her process-based research with natural and man-made materials, using illusion, light and shadow to create ‘impossible planes’ - geometric lines and forms that interact within and between the architectural space, extracting, flattening and re-extracting form.
Andrea's practice explores the relationships between weight and lightness, strength and fragility, the perceived and illusory in a play of opposites. This is reflected in the combination of architectural structures and materials that interact within her work.
Mark Goldby
Mark Goldby makes work that looks at the overlaps in mind and body, perceiving them as separate entities that are intent on becoming one. Using sculpture, installation and film he investigates the bodily and likes to use materials that look or feel like skin. His objects represent states of mind that he returns to through interaction and documents as films. His current project investigates the colour pink, looking at a particular shade of pale pink that is still coded as a female colour, and how it interacts with the male body in the context of gender fluidity.
He is a graduate of the Wimbledon MFA and works from a studio space in Croydon
