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Zavier Ellis

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'Murder in the Cathedral' 275x200cm 2005
Ellis' work is a continuous investigation into the manipulation of mostly non-traditional materials combined with the use of text. Working broadly within the context of painting Ellis uses various industrial and found materials such as house paint, spray paint, bitumen, posters and found wood with canvas, board or aluminium. He is keen to consistently experiment with diverse materials and their reactions in order to convey a direct physicality between artist and audience. The manipulation of these materials is generally instinctive and expressive, using various techniques such as painting, pouring, dripping and scoring. In doing so the artist embraces the base, discarded and otherwise unwanted and lends them a new significance.
'No Exit' 275x200cm 2005
2003 - 2005
City and Guilds of London Art School
MA in Fine Art Painting

1993 - 1996
Manchester University
BA (Hons) in History of Modern Art
'28 Days' 90x113cm 2010
'Mary Mary' 90x100cm 2008
'Tragic Magic Black' 120x120cm 2006
Ellis' use of text is influenced by the everyday experience of seeing graffiti, shop signs, road markings and builder�s notations in cities globally. Employing techniques from broad brushwork to frenzied scoring and instinctive spray painting to highly controlled sign-writing, Ellis uses text as a direct expressive vehicle. By appropriating misspellings and incorrect syntax from street graffiti and personally significant lines from poetry; or repeatedly using individual words that have particular resonance for the artist, Ellis seeks to subvert language�s common usage, creating instead ambiguities and new possibilities. Combined these strategies serve to recall the worn and decrepit surfaces of the urban environment whilst engaging the audience physically and cognitively. Each surface contains its own private history and signifies the flux of both instantaneous and prolonged experience, representing constant actions upon the environment. Ellis' creation of subjective material fields recall this whilst corresponding to his own actions. Acting as mediator, Ellis intends for the work to create new and uncertain relationships between artist, material, language and audience.
Selected Exhibitions:
"PressArt: Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel", Das Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
"The Term Reality", Paul Stolper, London
"Swap Meet", Raid Projects, Los Angeles
"Dorian Gray Project", John Jones Project Space, London
"Obsession", Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
"Wish You Were Here", A.I.R. Gallery, New York
'Mon Dieu!' 200x200cm 2009
Selected Exhibiions continued:
"The Mouse That Roared", Project 133, London
"The Circus Show", Three Colts Gallery, London
"100", Studio Voltaire, London
"SV Open", Studio Voltaire, London
"14x14", Mafuji Gallery, London


Collections:
Helmut Schuster, Frankfurt/Berlin
Ann Lewis, Sydney/New York
Peter Nobel, Zurich
Zavier Ellis
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