I would like to give a massive thank you to FS Legal for awarding me their first ever art prize! I would particularly like to thank Julia Norris, Kit Sorrell and Bill Clark of Clark Art who have inspired young emerging artists such as myself to continue making work and provided us with a platform to present our art to a wide and diverse audience. The generous £3000 prize will give my practice a tremendous boost and has given me the financial backing I needed to launch my first solo show.
Secretly, what I'm most excited about is that I can now claim that I have exhibited alongside the work of LS Lowry! The Messenger Article: https://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/18014121.gabriel-di-mauros-artwork-fs-legal-winner/
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What a great show! If you get a chance head over to Bolton's Museum and Art Gallery, its running till the 6th of July.
After months of searching and applying to waiting lists I have managed to find this brilliant studio space in Levenshulme. I'm very excited to be moving in this coming Monday, can't wait to fill it with all my stuff (though it does feel a shame getting those pristine walls and floor dirty!) watch this space...
My painting, 'Raymont', will be installed in the Vice Chancellors offices at the University of Brighton's Moulsecoomb campus. It will hang alongside many of my colleagues work for the next year. Over this time I hope the presence of our paintings will encourage those who work and meet in the offices to consider the importance of supporting the Fine Art faculty at the university. I'm excited to announce that my painting Raymont has been accepted into this years BEEP International Painting Festival! It will be displayed at the Elysium Gallery in Swansea from the 3rd of August till the 1st of September.
“The near stars streamed past ever faster, until at last the eye saw them marching across the field of view: because by that time, years went by outside while minutes ticked away within. The sky was no longer black; it was a shimmering purple, which deepened and brightened as interior months went by…” Poul Anderson – Tau Zero (1970) Glimmering and iridescent, the appearance of these paintings is inspired by the interplay between matter and energy in science fiction novels and films. In Star Trek, transporters convert crewmembers from one state to the other. This transition between matter and energy is presented as a transient bloom of glittering light, paired with a techno-celestial whoosh. Similarly, in Poul Anderson’s novel, Tau Zero, matter and energy are thrust against one another as the Leonora Christine starship circumvents the universe, producing a deep “shimmering purple” view from inside. Each painting in this series is named after a crewmember of the Leonora Christine as I want the work to echo the dynamic of a starship crew. This also presents a comparison between the utopian ideals of science fiction and early 20th century abstract painters. I have used these concepts and aesthetic in my work in order to reinvigorate the use of the hard edge in abstract painting. A stiff barrier between sections of block colour, the use of the hard edge often results in flat, static imagery. In my paintings however, these barriers have become permeable and block colours, translucent. This is achieved by dragging thin layers of pearlescent acrylic paint over the void of a matt black ground. Initially loaded with paint, the wide brush loses material as it moves along the face of the canvas. This results in a gradation, exposing the relationship between time, energy and matter. In this series, the boundary between foreground and background is blurred. The layers of iridescent paint shift order depending on the amount of material in a given area, where upper layers begin to thin, lower layers become more pronounced. These layers are also perforated by circular rings of negative space that obscure the composition of the work further. I have used these devices as I intend to produce imagery that has the illusion of depth while using strictly two dimensional forms. Work from left to right: Reymont. (April 2018). 1.2x1.2 meters. Acrylic on canvas. Telander. (April 2018). 1.2x1.2 meters. Acrylic on canvas. Ai-Ling. (April 2018). 1.2x1.2 meters. Acrylic on canvas. Lindgren. (April 2018). 1.2x1.2 meters. Acrylic on canvas. |
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