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John Moores 2010
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
2010,
Oil on boards,
238 x 172.5 cm
One aspect of my painting over the past three years has involved an exploration of the portrait. In recent work I have been drawn to elements of biography and the images that surround an individual. By interpreting and reconstructing imagery from the past, I create oblique narratives that concern a desire for a sense of connectivity.
Utilising archive film footage made by my uncle before he passed away in 2006, Near
the Site evokes a personal and nostalgic climate. Movement and sequences can be
read, interrupted by dislocated still images that flash up recollections or associations,
blurring definitions of time. A scene that was once visited - a building site, a playground,
a garden pond - can be repeated and re-imagined from an alternate perspective. I like
to play on the confusion between personal experience and collective memory as the
streaming of thoughts and the act of painting muddle the distinction between
documentary and fiction.
David Fulford was born in Exeter in 1985.
He studied in London at Camberwell
College of Arts 2005-07 and the Royal
College of Art 2007-09 (awarded The
Parallel Prize at the 'Summer Show'). Group exhibitions include 'BP Portrait
Award 2006' National Portrait Gallery
London (leading to 'Portraits of Nairobi'
project 2006), 'Free Range' G3 Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery London 2007, 'Drawn, Hung and Quartered' Royal
College of Art 2008, 'Man Group
Drawing Prize' Royal College of Art 2008,
'Visions of Morocco - Paramnesia Exotic'
Hockney Gallery Royal College of Art
2009 and 'RCA Show II' Royal College of
Art 2009.