ABOUT:
This new body of work marks a departure for Andrea Schulewitz known
more for her minimalist work; particularly stone carvings and coloured
constructions. Here we see figurative elements making an appearance,
such as clouds with aircraft, forests with loggers trucks and even a
life size self-portrait in Corten steel.
Never keen on titles,
Andrea has used numbers in the past to identify her work, sometimes in
conjunction with a fairly prosaic description, such as ‘Red Square’. In
this exhibition however the title plays a more important role.
“Unusually
for me, I feel a duty to explain myself rather than the work: The
figure ‘Buttoned Up Existentialist’ I hope is read with some humour;
it’s me (or any of us) wondering what the hell am I doing here,
thinking about, doing anything about, is this merely background noise
or are we in really serious trouble?”
The small carving ‘Lung’,
for example, is about the beauty and destruction of Amazon Rainforest,
an important issue for Andrea. She says “A few small carvings with
titles whilst not purgative can serve to remind us about what’s
important and what we might be able to do to help”.
Andrea works and lives in West Sussex, she shows throughout the UK and London.
Piers
Ottey trained at Chelsea School of Art in the 1970\'s and has been
painting ever since. He moved to West Sussex in 1980 and set up The
Mill Studio in 1994.
Painting mostly in oils, his subject matter
has often been influenced by his travels but he always returns to
painting local Sussex lanscape, the subject in this exhibition of new
work.
Piers Ottey has exhibited in London, the provinces and
abroad and can be found in private and corporate as well as public
collections around the world. The paintings are very personal often
with a mischievous quality, bordering on the subversive.
For
Piers, the edges of the picture are important, so is the geometry
between the edge and the centre. The square is his most common format;
primary red and blue form his initial drawing.
In June 2007 Piers won the University of Bath painting prize, and has had work aquired by both Worthing and Portsmouth Museums.
ARTISTS:
Piers Ottey
Oil on canvas