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Panel Discussion: Why is Painting Still Important?
Panel Discussion: Why is Painting Still Important?
Thursday 16 February
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects
This panel discussion will unpick current ideas and ignite critical conversation about the diversity of contemporary painting practice. Held in the gallery at Eastside Projects and surrounded by the group exhibition Painting Show, with presentations from Yvonne Hindle, Damien Roach & DJ Simpson, chaired by Professor David Rayson, Head of Painting at the Royal College of Art.
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Speaker’s Biographies
David Rayson was born in Wolverhampton in 1966. He received his Bachelor’s Degree at Maidstone College of Art in 1989, before completing his PGCE at Bristol University in 1991, and his MA in 1997.
Rayson has been a visiting lecturer, guest speaker and panel speaker on painting, drawing and their motivating narratives, at all the major art colleges, art institutions and galleries throughout the UK, and continues to be directly involved in supporting emerging artists. In 2008 he was invited to deliver a series of lectures at the Central Academy of Fine Art, and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
He has held major solo exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Art, (The Everyday Fantastic 2009) London, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (Somewhere else is here 2003) and Maureen Paley/Interim Art (David Rayson 1998, 2000 and 2002). His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, The ICA, The Lowry Gallery, Manchester, and Turner Contemporary, Margate. He was co-selector and curator of the 2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, and the 2010 Threadneedle Art Prize. Rayson’s work is included in many public and private collections both in the UK and internationally.
His new work takes the fantastical escapism of his 2009 The Everyday fantastic into uncharted territories with a new body of paintings, drawings and public talks in The Voyage.
http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=502626
http://www.marlboroughfineart.com/artist-David-Rayson-145.html
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Yvonne Hindle went to the Royal College of Art 1985-87 and graduated with an MA in Painting. After leaving the RCA she was a regular visiting lecturer on numerous Fine Art courses including Nottingham Trent Polytechnic, Gloucester and Cheltenham College of Arts and Technologies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1990-91 Yvonne held a Fellowship in Painting at Cheltenham College of Arts. She has held posts at 1992-1997 Senior Lecturer and two year role as Acting Head of Painting, University of Northumbria Yvonne’s current position held since 1997 is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Birmingham School of Art
BIAD, BCU.
Yvonne has been a Speaker at a number of Symposiums on aspects of Painting the most recent being held at Gallery North “Working Against the System” 2011
Recent exhibitions include:
2011 “Lost Horizons”, Article Gallery, School of Art BIAD, “Working Against the System”, Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Transition Gallery, London. “Somewhere in the Distance” H Project Space, Bangkok.
Recent publications 2011 “About Painting” Transition Editions
2008 “The Art of Birmingham1860 2008” Birmingham Museums and Galleries
2005 Co Editor & Co Curator “The Nature of Things” Birmingham Museum and Galleries
2003 Co Editor “Base & Awesome” Conversations on Contemporary Painting Ikon / Article Press
2001 Editor “Paint Theory Paint Practice” Lee Press
“Somewhere Adrift” is a working title for Yvonne’s most recent series of paintings. The works though modest in size their interior scale often implies immensity, worlds that sit on the edge of being defined as landscape, somewhere between representation and matter.
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/pages/staffprofileEI.php?id=18
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Damien Roach is an artist and lecturer currently based in London, who has been working on manifold projects internationally for a number of years.
Roach’s work is like a do-it-yourself kit for rewiring the human brain, where it is not the (ordinary) materials he works with that are transformed, but rather the way we see the world around us. (1) The found object becomes an artefact which functions as the materialised end-product of certain world views, as a symbol of understanding and interpretation of the past and future. (2) A multiplicity of sources funnels into situations best described as ‘constellations of possibility’, a firmament of incessant creative arbitrage. (3) Each exhibition space is posited as a sensory adventure, where artfulness is intended to trigger new horizons of meaning. (4)
Sentences loosely connected from texts by: Skye Sherwin, 2008 (1), Melanie Bono, 2007 (2), Martin Holman, 2007 (3), Francesco Pedraglio and Caterina Riva, 2008 (4).
DJ Simpson’s working processes combine handmade and industrial processes. For over a decade he has almost exclusively made ‘paintings’ in which rather than applying layers of paint to a canvas, he routers forms from laminated surfaces such as plywood or formica. More recently he has been using a new process of powder coating hand folded aluminium sheets, using layers of tape which he peals back to reveal other colours or the raw sheet material. Recent solos shows include Koraalberg, Antwerp; GalerÃa Helga de Alvear, Madrid; and Bloomberg Space, London.