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Exhibition of work by Meirion Ginsberg
"These recent paintings are loosely based on personal experiences fused with found images outside of my day to day life. I’m hoping to create a feeling of unity and confliction between the characters in the painting and the viewer.
This is achieved by the selection of images I use during the working process, which most of the time are contrasting ways of life. A distance is then created between certain figures, bringing others to the foreground to become the focal point of the painting.
Although I have used a Dadaist perspective on producing my pictures, I feel there is some sort of narrative. This makes painting exciting for me as I never know what the outcome is going to be.
I am a strong believer in spontaneity and risk taking in my art practice. This is why the image may look disjointed and unfinished. There are rarely any preliminary drawings for any of the paintings, which allows leeway and freedom for the pictures to go in any direction. I am looking for a balance of naivety incorporated with quality draughtsmanship mark making. As long as there is a strong composition, then anything goes.
This then becomes a clash of evolving in ability and deliberate naivety, a concept I feel my art has created naturally due to hard work and practice. I also feel this concept has endless results which I believe will be the basis of my practice for as long as I produce.
This exhibition has allowed me the freedom to work with many different styles. I am very influenced by a range of different art, from illustrative imagery such as comic books to abstract expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock and Willam DeKooning. Burgertron shows my respect towards the work of Francis Bacon and African sculpture. The man vomiting in the sink is a transcription of one of Francis Bacons’ paintings named Triptych May – June. The orange figure next to the man and the sink is from an image I found in a book on African art in which I was instantly amazed.
Most of the paintings in the show were produced in my tiny bedroom. The space is not large enough to stand back and see the image as a whole and that is why there are so many changes in space and proportion.
Friday, 22 January (6.30pm) - Saturday, 6 March
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