There will be a public viewing evening where you can meet the artists on Wed 29th April.6-9pm
This is the second such collaboration between artists Andrew Davey, Mike Bradshaw and Vanessa Clegg.
Over the last century, Photography gradually became recognised and understood as a contemporary form of Art. In this century, with the rapid increase in access to camera phones, more and more of us are taking photographs.
“We decided to investigate our understanding of the medium of photography and to explore its tentative relationship with drawing and painting. All the work in the exhibition has been developed using photography and explores and builds from these photographic origins.
The images that come after, convey narratives in time, alongside re-presented compositions and visual ideas.
Through discussions during our collaboration, we have each re-discovered themes evident in work earlier in our careers and their enduring relevance”.
We have provided a context to aspects of our work, which is shared in parallel to the AFTER:IMAGE
Andrew Davey – The work shown has its origins in photographs of venetian blinds, of the changing light andits effects, and skeleton trees seen beyond the windows.
I note that throughout my work even though the subject matter changes, there is very often a presence and emphasis on bands, horizontal and parallel lines, divisions and grids.
Line, edge and surface, and a layering of forms are of enduring concern. Aspects are rearranged and the outcome is an abstraction an after image.
In these drawings and collages I have used acrylic, graphite dust, polycell stain block, pen and ink, oil bar and various papers, including discarded remnants from previous work, and the photographic prints them-selves.
Mike Bradshaw – Drawn to the extraordinary changes in aerial perspective around the Island of Steep Holm, multiple images were recorded over a five-year period, using a camera phone as a ‘replacement’ sketchbook. The photographs illustrate the contrasting weather conditions that have a direct impact on the atmospheric light, absorbed, reflected and refracted in the clouds and sea sediments.
The images have been reworked, using both portrait and landscape compositions, referencing the fixed 35mm ‘film negative’ format, with a familiar ratio of 2X3 for each image.
Re-presented through digital print enlargements, on paper, pixels are perceived as texture, marks adopting qualities closer to painting: and paintings on board become potentially seductive ‘objects’, linked through their ‘belonging’ as a part of the group.
Viewed together these after images are intended to encourage the observer to build their
own, imagined perception of the island, further after images re-exploring the abstraction of
atmospheric light and colour through the seasons.
Vanessa Clegg – “I have disseminated and interpreted After-Image by researching “memory”, how it changes with time, morphs when filtered through the imagination and is affected by chemicals connecting the stomach to the brain. Using photographs from my archive I’ve created a collage based on areas of personal history & how I see it. Old CD cases tap into CICCIC as a music venue as well as referencing how music is used with dementia patients to unlock their own past memories.The two drawings are based on a couple of images from the collage… changed during the time to completion..the metamorphosis of memory”.
The exhibition space is open Wednesday, Thursday 10-4pm and Friday, Saturday 10-1pm.
If travelling a long way it is advisable to check with the centre as from time to time there are workshops and conferences – info@ciccic.co.uk
Creative Innovation Centre CIC
Memorial Hall, Paul Street Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3PF