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SPACER
Alessia
Avellino
Alessia specialises
in industrial landscapes. Her work is made from fragments of different
spaces and buildings, which, sketched, memorized and photographed, are
then ‘assembled’ in the form of a drawing or a painting, onto
canvas, board or paper. Her work is usually monochromatic, using contrast
and line to explore light, atmosphere and movement. She likes to think
of her paintings/drawings as ‘windows’ of space and light
which the viewer can ‘walk into’, and which emanate energy
and movement.
In 2004 Alessia
won the Hugh Casson prize for drawing together with Paula Rego and Frank
Auerbach. Her work is in public and private collections on both sides
of the Atlantic, including ITV television, BP, London, Homan, Fenwick
& Willan , London, Yolles, London.
Andrew Turnbull
His work is based on his views and love of the city. For him it is a celebration of the power, movement, pattern and life stimulated by these exciting architectural designs. These tall buildings create an illusion of power that make us look in awe and respect. 'They stand so firm with enormous, seemingly endless facades holding any number of tessellating patterns'. And yet in spite of the busy streets there is a stillness.
His recent work explores the contrasting surfaces, patterns and perspective within the city. Work such as 'Canary Cube' focus on the tension between the unfinished smooth iron skeleton and the tessellating windows in the towers behind.
His work is in the
collections of the V & A Museum, Churchill's College, Cambridge, the
Royal College of Art and Loughborough University. His work is also collected
by well known public figures. He has also done commissions for Cable &
Wireless, London and R3 Aldersgate, London.
David
Inshaw
In 1975 David Inshaw together with
Peter Blake, Jan Haworth, Graham and Ann Arnold, Graham and Annie Ovenden
formed the Brotherhood of Ruralists. The first group exhibition took
place at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1976.
In 1975 he was appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Art at Trinity
College, Cambridge. He collaborated with director Geoffrey Haydon on
'Between Dreaming and Waking' as part of the BBC 'Arena' arts series
in 1981-2. He left the Brotherhood of Ruralists in 1983.
His works are mainly oil paintings, etchings, drawings and photography.
He has work in many private and public collections including the Arts
Council of Great Britain, the British Council, City of Bristol Art Gallery
& Museum, and the Department of the Environment, Devizes Museum,
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery and is well represented in the Tate
Gallery's collections.
John
Duffin
John Duffin's work has a rather nostaligic feel reminiscent of the fifties. The onlooker is often drawn into the scene from the high view point looking down. People are dwarfed by their environment. There is a sense of isolation and routine.
Public
collections:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Museum of London
BBC London
Cumbria County Council
Paul Rudall works instinctively, making marks, using lines & creating textures until the image seems perfect in balance and composition.
"I believe that works of art whatever style, medium or period are, in effect self-portraits, making inescapable expressions of the artist's personality."
Victoria Chaffe
After many visits to various botanical gardens Victoria has been inspired by the innate beauty of the exotic and opulent tropical flora. The colour, vitality and natural geometry of the leaves both fascinate and excite her. She draws the onlooker into the rich and luxuriant world of the tropical rainforest.