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Landscapes
No 20 Arts is proud to present Landscapes, a group exhibition featuring works by Sarah Chalmers, Max Maxwell, Neil Raitt, Keith Roberts, Rosie Snell, Andrew Vass, Elaine Watt, and Katsutoshi Yuasa.
Landscapes exhibits works created over the past three decades showing how artist continue to use landscapes to reflect on contemporary issues. Centred around the incorporation of thematic elements relating to conflict, abstraction, and technology, Landscapes is a unique look into how contemporary artists have adapted the historical genre in diverse ways.
Keith Roberts (b. 1960) and Rosie Snell鈥檚 (b. 1971) work have been informed by modern day conflicts and the physical and emotional mark they have left on the world around us. Informed by the political and physical geography of the Middle East, Keith Roberts direct approach to landscapes reflect a fearful population being pushed from one horizon to another. Rosie Snell鈥檚 older work focuses on the contradictory relationship between military constructs and the landscape around them, which they both shape and camouflage within. Her newer work continues to focus on conflicting relationships, exploring them through the vary states of water.
The work of Andrew Vass (b. 1961, d. 2015), Max Maxwell (b. 1976), Sarah Chalmers (b. 1957), and Elaine Watt (b. 1965) relate to the abstraction of landscapes. Through abstraction the work of these artists highlights unseen physical and emotional elements of landscapes. Andrew Vass鈥檚 drawings capture a particular moment between the artist and what lies before him. Choosing not to fully work the landscapes remaining hints towards locations. Interested in showing the qualities of materials which are not normally visible, Max Maxwell utilises chemical processes to create artworks of alchemic beauty. A selfdescribed nomadic artist Sarah Chalmers has lived and painted scenes from around the world, using watercolours to capture the places she has visited. Having been included in 鈥淐hristie鈥檚 New Contemporaries鈥�, Elaine Watt鈥檚 use of long brush strokes and thick oil paint create a heavily worked surface becoming a landscape itself.
The work of Katsutoshi Yuasa (b. 1978) and Neil Raitt (b. 1986) investigate implications of technology on how we view the landscape of the world around us. Their works are concerned with the digitalisation of the physical world and how these representations relate to our real-world experience. Katsutoshi Yuasa uses his own digital photographs as reference for his woodcut prints, aiming to extend the instantaneous capturing of light of photography into the more personal lengthy process of woodcut printing. Through the use of accelerated machine-like production processes, Neil Raitt creates compositions of endlessly repeating landscape feature in order to explore ideas of abstraction through repetition.
The exhibition pays homage to the often overlook genre of landscape painting, demonstrating its continued relevance within the minds of contemporary artists navigating the 21stC and provides an opportunity to delve into the land and its natural elements as source of inspiration in the visual arts.
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No 20 Arts is proud to present Landscapes, a group exhibition featuring works by Sarah Chalmers, Max Maxwell, Neil Raitt, Keith Roberts, Rosie Snell, Andrew Vass, Elaine Watt, and Katsutoshi Yuasa.
Landscapes exhibits works created over the past three decades showing how artist continue to use landscapes to reflect on contemporary issues. Centred around the incorporation of thematic elements relating to conflict, abstraction, and technology, Landscapes is a unique look into how contemporary artists have adapted the historical genre in diverse ways.
Keith Roberts (b. 1960) and Rosie Snell鈥檚 (b. 1971) work have been informed by modern day conflicts and the physical and emotional mark they have left on the world around us. Informed by the political and physical geography of the Middle East, Keith Roberts direct approach to landscapes reflect a fearful population being pushed from one horizon to another. Rosie Snell鈥檚 older work focuses on the contradictory relationship between military constructs and the landscape around them, which they both shape and camouflage within. Her newer work continues to focus on conflicting relationships, exploring them through the vary states of water.
The work of Andrew Vass (b. 1961, d. 2015), Max Maxwell (b. 1976), Sarah Chalmers (b. 1957), and Elaine Watt (b. 1965) relate to the abstraction of landscapes. Through abstraction the work of these artists highlights unseen physical and emotional elements of landscapes. Andrew Vass鈥檚 drawings capture a particular moment between the artist and what lies before him. Choosing not to fully work the landscapes remaining hints towards locations. Interested in showing the qualities of materials which are not normally visible, Max Maxwell utilises chemical processes to create artworks of alchemic beauty. A selfdescribed nomadic artist Sarah Chalmers has lived and painted scenes from around the world, using watercolours to capture the places she has visited. Having been included in 鈥淐hristie鈥檚 New Contemporaries鈥�, Elaine Watt鈥檚 use of long brush strokes and thick oil paint create a heavily worked surface becoming a landscape itself.
The work of Katsutoshi Yuasa (b. 1978) and Neil Raitt (b. 1986) investigate implications of technology on how we view the landscape of the world around us. Their works are concerned with the digitalisation of the physical world and how these representations relate to our real-world experience. Katsutoshi Yuasa uses his own digital photographs as reference for his woodcut prints, aiming to extend the instantaneous capturing of light of photography into the more personal lengthy process of woodcut printing. Through the use of accelerated machine-like production processes, Neil Raitt creates compositions of endlessly repeating landscape feature in order to explore ideas of abstraction through repetition.
The exhibition pays homage to the often overlook genre of landscape painting, demonstrating its continued relevance within the minds of contemporary artists navigating the 21stC and provides an opportunity to delve into the land and its natural elements as source of inspiration in the visual arts.
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