Month by month we will be showcasing the work of an artist in order to provide additional exposure and support to these creative entrepreneurs.
We will be highlighting the talent of painters, photgraphers, animators and more and would very much appreciate your feedback and thoughts on the works through our Facebook page.
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CURRENT EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Nathan Dundovic
Throughout the whole of February
http://www.nathansroadtrip.com/
PREVIOUS EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Clive Chilvers
26th August - 30th September
Heather Barlow
26th August - 30th September
Amy Cummins
1st August - 26th August
I was born in Sidmouth, Devon and studied at Falmouth College of Art before graduating in 2004 for a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art.
I have been studying art since I was at school and painting from a very young age where my interest was fuelled by a very good primary school teacher and drawing flowers for a school arts project! I take inspiration from my surroundings; a beautiful landscape, an interesting person, an inspiring book. My main interest in in portraiture and working from life and from photographs to capture the character of the person I am drawing.
Inspired throughout my life by capturing the essence of what is around me and depicting the people in my life, I have produced a vast portfolio of portrait studies and oil paintings. Being in Falmouth was incredibly inspiring and this is where my interest in portraiture took a turn towards painting.
The landscape paintings are studies of areas I have visited and places that are near to my home town of Sidmouth. I take great pleasure in reproducing beautiful images and would love nothing more than to be out in the countryside sketching and drawing.
The portrait paintings are a body of work which have been an exploration into portrait painting using photographs, with influences taken from contemporary artists such as Alex Katz, John Currin, Lucian Freud and the renaissance painter Vermeer. The subjects in the paintings are members of my family or friends.
I am expressive in my work and portray a variety of abstract and expressionist paintings which I think depicts an array of emotions and explores the human condition. I have sold to private collectors and exhibited in London at the Goethe Institute and more locally in Exeter, Honiton, Seaton, Branscombe and Sidmouth.
amy@amycummins.co.uk
Colin & Kate Dart
3rd July - 29th July
Kate’s work explores the theories of Chaos. The drawings investigate chaos from order and the reversion of the resulting chaos back into an ordered outcome. Simplicity leads to complexity. Each drawing stems from a measured and identical starting point while the variants of hand eye coordination and the different mediums used lead to the spread of chaotic undulations in each individual line. These undulations then create a rippled yet seemingly coherent and ordered surface. The pieces on display in this exhibition are focused on the fluctuations of the medium used on a constant surface, and with the effect of chaos on the viewers interpretation when the order of the starting point is hidden by the way in which the work is displayed.
Colin’s work has been focused on or utilising digital media for nearly a decade, as a direct result, recent practice has looked to investigate the effect that this has had on the output of the creative process. This body of work explores the creative transition between digital and traditional media. Focusing on content that has been forced through a cycle of hand craft and digitisation several times over. The final work continues tobe recognisable, albeit far removed from the original manifestation.
http://www.artneon.co.uk
art@artneon.co.uk
Louise Hensby
30th May - 1st July
Kardiya Jukurrpa is a series of paintings by the Brixham artist Louise Hensby.
The title translates to ‘Non-Indigenous Person Dreaming.’
Louise’s practice hasexplored several themes, and one of her greatest influences has been that of aboriginal painting.
Louise has taken particular inspiration from the contemporary, aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi, whose compositions are quite similar to works of western abstraction.
Through the painstaking hand application of dots, Louise relates aesthetically to Napangardi.
With the creation ofaboriginal art often as a result of wishing to convey a story or a journey, Louise found similarities with this to her own interest in maps and aerial views.
This resulted in several pieces of work called ‘Routescapes’ which portray Louise’s own journeys.
Other works have attempted to break down the composition to minimal patterns, linear structures, limited colour palette and sequences. Visually they express a notion of movement and energy.
Louise’s work is not solely an interpretation of her physical environment, but is also a representation of her passage through a world which exists both literally and in the imagination.
lchensby@yahoo.co.uk
Si Uden
6th May - 27th May
Simon’s series ‘Data That Will Not Be Moved’ uses the hand made method of screen printing to reference the iconography of data paired down to a few squares of paint on paper. The expressive and repeatable nature of the screen printing medium allows space for both the stark mechanics of clustered data and the contradiction of the human hand in its real worldly representation. The title of the series ‘Data That Will Not Be Moved’ is both literal in its description of the data cluster icon, implying a deeper message about the virtual world storing all our gathered information forever.
Simon studied Photograhic Art at University of Wales Newport, and works and works both digitally and with paint. He is currently a member of Double Elephant Print Workshop which is a not-for-profit printmaking resource based at Exeter Phoenix, and is where this series of work was made.
This is Simon’s first exhibition of this series, and welcomes the opportunity for his work to be showcased here at the Innovation Centre.
si.uden@virgin.net
Christine Sawyer
25th March - 6th May
Christine Sawyer trained at Bath Academy of Art, and taught Art & Design for many years before specialising in textiles, and later, woven tapestry. She exhibits widely, both here and abroad, and has been commissioned by, among others, Coca Cola Schweppes, Bath Spa University, Derriford Hospital and The House of Lords. Last year She received an award from The Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers.
Christine makes tapestries in response to a particular environment, occurrence or obsession. The work shown here is from a series about landscape: in particular, the immense forces which shape and change the physical world.
sawyer37@talktalk.net
Jane Burt
25th February - 25th March
Jane Burt studied at Plymouth College of Arts and Design and has always been interested in portraying the human face. She teaches and attends life drawing classes to provide inspiration for her work representing human forms as this is the main area of her artistic practice. The series of paintings displayed at the Innovation Gallery shows Women in Conversation and were inspired by her close friends. She explores the interaction of groups of women and poses the question, What are they saying and what are the stories in their lives?
janeburt@toucansurf.com
Rachael Bennett
28th January - 25th February
Rachael lives by the docks in the seaside port of Teignmouth, her garden lies adjacent to where salt meets fresh water and land melts into sea. It is an intimate place of constant physical change and human transaction within the infinite possibilities the world can offer. Rachael draws on this subject matter to create work which is descriptive of form, light and place in an atmospheric way. Her landscapes convey luminal scenes from which it is possible to find a personal space.
rachaelannab@aol.com