True Identity catalogue

TRUE IDENTITY?

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True Identity?

View Art Gallery presents a group show

True IdentityNovember 15 - January 19, 2013

View Art Gallery159-161 Hotwells Road

Bristol BS8 4RYUnited Kingdom

for enquiries: +44 (0)5603 116753

[email protected]

BETH CARTERAMELIA CIRIELLO

ANN GOODFELLOWCATHERINE KNIGHT

ANDY PRICECLEM SO

FRAN WILLIAMS

ANDY PRICEJapanese customs, traditions, society, symbolism and even its environmental issues, act as a muse for Andy Price’s latest series of works.

Although each painting is strikingly unique, Andy employs the kimono in each painting as his means to convey his observations and perceptions on this intriguing country. Predominantly set against contemporary backdrops, his series intends to illustrate how fraught with contradiction he believes Japanese society is.

From the vibrant neon-soaked metropolis of Tokyo to the horror of the aftermath of Hiroshima, his paintings will incite everything from laughter to tears.

Sakuhinacrylic on panel

97 x 82 cm£5,500

The original painting images of Andy Price are also available as signed limited edition giclee prints.Prices range from £180 - £410, depending on size and framing option. Please enquire for details.

Tokyo Time acrylic on panel

160 x 107 cm£8,800

Resurrectionacrylic on panel160 x 107 cm£8,800

Osaka Timeacrylic on panel

150 x 107 cm£8,500

Neon Nihonacrylic on panel160 x 107 cm£8,800

See No Evil acrylic on panel

43 x 32 cm£1,300

Hear No Evil acrylic on panel

43 x 32 cm£1,300

Speak No Evil acrylic on panel

43 x 32 cm£1,300

Noh to Ganguroacrylic on panel

160 x 107 cm£8,800

Cameoacrylic on panel78 x 108 cm£6,000

Spring Snowacrylic on panel

32 x 20 cm£TBA

By the Shoreacrylic on panel

24 x 32 cm£TBA

CLEM SOSeeking to raise questions about ancestry, history and identity, Clem So’s work simultaneously explores his intriguing Chinese heritage whilst hinting at the feeling of loss and a numbness of something not quite there. Primarily using his own family as the subject matter for his beautiful paintings, So intends for them to entice the viewer to stay awhile and perhaps, in viewing his own ancestral past, provoke reflection and reminiscence about ones personal family connections and past.

Through a combination of the traditional and digital process, Clem is able to peel back and reveal hidden layers of abstracted texture and subtle gestures of narrative, transmitted through his compelling portraiture.

Burrowing deep into the underbelly of his own identity, Clem So’s work is a virtual feast of visual flavours

Tears of Pearlchinese ink, charcoal, emulsion on canvas

101 x 101 cm£1,200

above: Breaking The Mouldchinese ink, charcoal, oil, rice, soy sauce on canvas

89 x 70 cm£1,235

right: The Unperturbedchinese ink, charcoal, spray paint, emulsion on canvas

127 x 101 cm£1,235

over page left: I Will If You Willchinese ink, charcoal, emulsion on canvas101 x 101 cm£1,200

over page right: Demon Daughterchinese ink, charcoal, emulsion on canvas101 x 101 cm£1,200

From The EastDigital composite on hahnemule photo rag

60 x 42 cm£TBA

Mother NeverDigital composite on hahnemule photo rag

60 x 42 cm£TBA

The portraits on the following pages are images of the artist’s ancestors and are available as limited edition giclee prints.

Some of the portraits can also be seen on the glazed dinner plates featured in the ‘Dim Sum Daily’ installation.

All prints are editions of 100 and priced at £200 (framed) and £125 (unframed).

Mr Yun (left)

Portrait from the Afterlife

Sifu

Gung (left)

(right) Lady Fu

right) Eternal Grandmother

True Self

Treasure Each Moment

Beauty of Xiohechinese ink, charcoal,

spray paint, on canvas127 x 112 cm

£1,235

Losing Facechinese ink, charcoal, oil paint, on canvas89 x 70 cm£970

When all is said and donechinese ink, charcoal, spray

paint, ash, on canvas127 x 121 cm

£1,235

The Mandarinchinese ink, charcoal, emulsion on canvas178 x 131 cm£1,540

CATHERINE KNIGHTEmotive, conceptual and purposefully ambiguous, Catherine Knights’ mystical paintings provoke pertinent questions about the concept of family.

Catherine finds inspiration for her work from old family photographs of people who are part of her history, yet unknown to her. In trying to piece together and make sense of her own history, her paintings mirror how family histories and personal mythologies are half-remembered, smoothed over and exaggerated over time.

The conceptual nature is achieved through her use of colour. As the original photographs are black and white, she is free to experiment, thus explaining the slightly unreal, unnatural feel to her paintings. This heightened colouration is also suggestive of a romanticized or hazed over version of events.

Her application of paint, with its fluid layers, dripping and seeping across the surface, create a fine line between control and chance. The resultant scenes are unstable, with an intentional ambiguity that encourages the viewer to question and complete the story.

Lofotenoil on canvas 122 x 91 cm

£1,400

Rootoil on wood40 x 30 cm£460

1929oil on canvas150 x 110 cm

£1,720

Familyoil on canvas30 x 40 cm

£460

Skaneoil on canvas150 x 180 cm

£2,180

Green Mountainoil on wood18 x 24 cm

£280

Low Cloudoil on wood15 x 20 cm

£275

Waldseeoil on canvas

55 x 80£890

Waterfalloil on canvas

cm£750

FRAN WILLIAMSEvocative and vivid, Fran Williams’ oil paintings explore human experiences common to us all.

Using the human form, in particular the silhouette, her paintings are created through methods of mark making: applying the paint, working and distressing it and then “’reading’ the feelings it’s created.

Offering different interpretations and stimulating multiple emotional responses, Fran aims for her work to really connect with the viewer, whether that’s by provoking broken’ sadness, abandoned joy, torment, longing or desperation as long as it moves the viewer, Fran feels her work has fulfilled its role.

Fran nearly always writes on her canvases, seeing it as representational of the many thoughts and questions we all have running through our minds at one time. Through re-working of her surfaces, she makes most of this text unreadable, liking how it fades out just like many of the thoughts or feelings we see on the faces of other people.

That Which We Choose To Leave Behind oil on wood40 x 30 cm

£990

right: Who I Was.. Who I Am.. Who I Will Be

oil, acrylic on canvas90 x 120 cm

£3,475

left: The Familiar Unfamiliaroil, acrylic on wood

30 x 40 cm£990

Gatekeepers Of The Mindoil on wood70 x 20 cm£1,100

left: The Roles We Playoil, acrylic on wood40 x 40 cm£1,100

above: You Are Alwaysoil on driftwood

38 x 22 cm£835

I Amoil on wood25 x 25 cm

£700

The one not dancing knows lots of songsoil, acrylic on wood

32 x 62 cm£1,100

The Eternal Questionoil and acrylic on canvas

100 x 50 cm£2,750

Tomorow’s Promiseoil on wood45 x 65 cm£2,360

ANN GOODFELLOW

Pink Wrapstone

70 x 50 cm£990

Exploring notions of ‘presence’ and existence, Ann Goodfellow’s sculptures are simultaneously mysterious and beautiful.

Using her own body as the model for her works, Ann initially creates drawings through a sense of touch alone. The heightened awareness of her body, created by this unusual artistic technique, leads her to feelings of exaggerated scale: typically the torso feels large whilst the head appears small. These sensations, together with the rhythms, weight and tensions result in unusual markings emerging on the self modelled ceramic bodies.

Despite the cold, hard material of Ann’s medium, there is an evident energy and sensitivity, which brings these remarkable figures to life.

The resultant strangeness, which appears on the familiar figurative shapes, invites the viewer to follow the lines and shapes of their own “presence” to share the experience.

Ecstasy of Time 1stone

72 x 31 cm£1,100

Ecstasy of Time in Bluestone68 x 28 cm£660

Hiraethstone

47 x 30 cm£835

Presencestone66 x 47 cm£1,100

Ecstasy of Time 2stone

84 x 38 cm£1,100

Ecstasy of Time in Yellowterracotta89 x 37 cm£880

AMELIA CIRIELLOStriking and alluring, Amelia Ciriello’s latest body of work seeks to explore hidden feelings and stories behind each of the women she paints. Fascinated by female faces and the internal and external beauty of them, she finds the process of trying to solve their mysteries a rewarding challenge.

Her current interest is Geishas. Their secretive and reserved natures and traditions appeals to the artist’s intention to unearth mysteries through her art.

Geisha Girloil on canvas

70 x 50 cm£1,550

left: Belle Blueoil on wood30 x 40 cm£550

over page left: Miss Miaoil on wood30 x 40 cm£650

right: Liberty oil on canvas

60 x 90 cm£1,800

over page right: La Maschera oil on wood

30 x 40 cm £650

right: Princess ToyotamaFramed giclee print a/p80 x 60 cm£550

left: Avaoil on wood95 x 75 cm£1,800

BETH CARTERBeth’s work inspires a pure child-like response as well as deeper adult themes. The unusual characters created by her expansive imagination can be humorous and playful. On further investigation, it is possible to be taken on a more sinister journey of sadness, pity and fear.

Beth is skilled in sculpture, drawing, and unique animated ‘drawings’. Consistent in all forms is an almost eerie amount of life projecting from an inanimate object.

Clown Headblack resin

edition of 1273 x 35 cm

£2,220

Sleeping Minotaurbronze or bronze resin

edition of 2550 x 50 cm

£3,600 (bronze)£2,100 (bronze resin)

Carnival Maskbronze resinedition of 15base: 33.5 x 23 cmheight: 78 cm£2,000

Buck Rabbitbronze resinedition of 15

base: 33 x 22 cmheight: 100 cm

£3,240

Standing Horsebronze artist’s proofbase: 21 x 21 cmheight: 50 cm£2,160

This is an exhibition that provokes emotions and feelings that are very familiar and yet private. At first we are intrigued by the artists’ personal and generic messages and then we are challenged to reflect on our own identity and ask questions...

who are we?who do we want to be?how are we perceived?

Nick Waugh, View Art Gallery

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