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Posted by Thelma Chambers on September 20, 2017

neon jive

click below for movie Julian Opie’s work is mesmeric; the loops have some of the quality of watching a diablo in motion. Julian’s works in Dublin were smooth, elegant and sophisticated and at the same time, both accessible and impersonal; they were extremely attractive. The response to this work explored some of the things it was not … the idiosyncratic, the unsophisticated, the erratic, the spontaneous, the childlike, and most particularly the personal. We created a counterpoint collection of animated sequences. Students were invited to celebrate and explore difference and similarity both in terms of physical looks and in movement. At the time people were beginning to imagine erratic moves in the cycles of the sculptures.. wishful thinking! ... at the end of the day its also a comment on these works from an animators point of view.

spoons * sing a song of sixpence * memories of the sea

Here are some works which were never shown, The ideas began at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 80's where I began working on fruit still life in front of patterned cloths, I was interested in integrating the background and foreground into one surface pattern, with three dimensional foreground elements and flat patterns interweaving. Later I continued to make a move away from the figurative, away from simply representing the objects in front of me, and in my journey to subvert the observed I stumbled, as though from the wings, on to the stage of the narrative. The majority of these images have an underlying theme of collapse; collapsed distance, space, time, and object boundaries. The storytelling themes reflect this: a shipwreck, Alice through the looking glass, memories, the aftermath of murder, pop up cards and nursery rhymes etc etc. I explored the montage of memory and the nonsensical way in which a field of vision can be collapsed onto ...

Portuguese paintings "Enchantment" Exhibition

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