‘The Future of Contemporary Art’ curated by Lloyd Gill
FRED SCHIMMELSCHMIDT+ JASON ROUSE+ HAYLEY LEONARD+ MARK EVANS + ELENA BASKERVILLE + AMY ROSE - DEFFLEY
This exhibition at the Lloyd Gill Gallery is titled ‘The Future of Contemporary Art’. The exhibition will open on Saturday 6th September and finish on 3rd October.
The private View will start at 7pm on Saturday 6th September and all readers are welcome to come.
‘These Young graduates are excellent investments as they have just graduated with already gaining acclaim for excellence. This is a sure sign that their work will gain value in the next 5 - 10 years’ Lloyd Gill, Director
It will showcase examples of Contemporary Art from BA Fine Art degree Graduates from Bath, Cardiff and London. The exhibition features paintings by Fred Schimmelschmidt, Jason Rouse, Hayley Leonard, Elena Baskerville and Mark Evans, and photography and sound by Amy - Rose Deffley
Visitor Testimonials 'Love England! Warm hearted people. Thanks for a very nice night' Stina Koch Schmidt from Denmark 'A beautiful selected exhibition in a wonderful venue!' Peggy Godfrey, London 'Lloyd, we have had a lovely time and the artwork is fantastic! Lara Light of Area Magazine, Bristol
Jason Rouse: He received the degree of fine art from Bath Spa University in 2008. He has won various painting competitions and scholarship in his native Northern Ireland, and has works in private collections including the Irish Government. He touches on the duality of past and present in art in relation to technology, playing on the preconceptions of the spectator and importance of their personal interpretation. In painting, he sees the medium’s unavoidable history not as a hindrance, but as a crutch from which to establish contemporary concepts. Uninhabited scenes such as environments tailored for simulated violence are sourced from popular ego-shooter computer games, creating an uneasy tension eerily glorified in paint.
Hayley Leonard: Her received the degree of fine art from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008. Her work is a continuation of recent trends seen within contemporary art. Described as the ‘grey’ area of painting, the fine line that separates non representational and representational painting is continuing to provide many new challenges and inspiration for new works amongst today’s contemporary painters. For she the subject almost becomes secondary to the act of painting itself. She thrive upon the spontaneity painting allows. The decisive mark, the build-up of paint through the laying and relaying of marks, surface textures and fracture of medium are all a result of my continuous dialogue with the painted surface to reveal the seen and experienced within the image.
Fred Schimmelschmidt: He received the degree of fine art from Wimbledon Collage of Art in 2008. He has works in collections including IKB Deutsche Industriebank, joined ‘The Deutsche Post Bank Exhibition’ in 2006 & 2007. His new paintings make use of an eclectic range of imagery, from circuit boards that could be cities, to fireworks that induce a sense of vertigo. Technology collides with the natural world in his seductive paintings, which use a mixture of oils, airbrush, glazes, and carefully applied lacquers to bring together seemingly unrelated images into a unified existence.
Mark Evans: He received the degree of fine art from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008. The key theme of his work at the moment is the study of a place, non-places and space. Trying to develop on ideas that Marc Auge wrote in ‘Non-Places’, by looking mainly at civic spaces and the key elements within. A lot of my work is within, or has its origin within a museum space. The reasoning behind this is that a museum or gallery is the artists bed for inspiration, and has a key role to play for and with artists. I have taken the museum space, a space that is rich in history and prestige, and turned it into a futuristic, isolated, violent space. Questioning the place turning to a space.
Amy Rose - Deffley: Amy received her Degree from Bath Spa University 2008 Her work has evolved into the investigation of small aspects of everyday life, of memory, knowledge and events. The emphasis of her practice lies within social documentation, examining the presence and activity of others in relation to my own being. She is interested with the recent histories of individuals, the residues of life and time past in order to fulfil her own personal desire ‘to know’.
Elena Baskerville: She received the degree of fine art from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2008.More information to follow
Her work is predominantly process-based drawing, but I also have a keen interest in photography and use if as supporting work and sometimes finished pieces.
Thanks to: Vivian Liu for working very hard on this press release. Best of luck with your career as a Curator in Hong Kong. LG
