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John Moores 2010
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
2008,
Oil on canvas,
39.5 x 48.5 cm
A non-ironic union of tropes, a slip that occurs between the static image and abstract gesture is increasingly fascinating me. I think of my work as a deferral that remnants or residue exist beneath. These can then pass through or be withheld by the surface, so that recognition or familiarity permeates a series of paintings that becomes both intimate and ubiquitous.
When I'm building the surface of a painting it usually requires interplay between subtlety
and a tactile physicality, or assertion. At the beginning there's apprehension or
ambivalence, the need to get rid of the initial content.
Simplicity or the economy of a composition allows me to use the paint to affirm
recognition or sometimes concealment. This will determine a finished work.
Theo Cuff was born in Frimley, Surrey in
1984. He studied at Basingstoke College
of Technology 2001-02, and the
University of the West of England 2003-
06 and 2006-09 (MA). Gained MAstars
award AXIS website 2009. Group
exhibitions include '11a' Bath Fringe 2007, '
Group of 13' Basement Studio Bristol
2007, 'The Wrong Place' The Old Pro
Cathedral Bristol 2008, 'Paint.Paint' Room
212 Bristol 2008, 'Et in Arcadia Ego' The
Crypt St Paul's Church Bristol 2009, 'Le Salon' The New Gallery Bower Ashton
Bristol, 'The Show 2009: UWE Fine Art
Graduates' exhibitions Spike Island Bristol
2009 and Spike Island Open Studios
2010.
Artist profile page on Axis website