Have you met…Rachael Macarthur?

Rachael Macarthur, Fringe, acrylic paint on card

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist.

I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Rachael Macarthur.

Rachael Macarthur, Lydia, acrylic on card

Rachael Macarthur (b.1981, Edinburgh. Lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) and Edinburgh University (MA Hons).

Rachael Macarthur, Pause, acrylic on card

Rachael Macarthur, Bed, acrylic on card

“Rachael Macarthur’s paintings are about dreams and memories, whether childhood reminiscences or her thoughts now. She charts her own personal mythology and history through painting and drawing. Her work fulfills an urgent need to record and remember the past. She is not interested in accurately recording memories; since memory is unreliable- her work plays on an awkward attempt at memory recall, a need for storytelling:
For me, painting can be about the littlest things, an eyelash, a tear, a wish.
It can also be about the biggest things in the world.
It is recording and remembering things you cannot keep.
It is about letting go and forgetting.”

Rachael Macarthur, Bridge, acrylic paint on card

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Have you met…Andrew Graves?

Andrew Graves, Lounge 2012

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist.

I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Andrew Graves.

Andrew Graves, Jersey 2012

Andrew Graves lives in London, United Kingdom.

Education

MA Fine Art 2005
Middlesex University, Cathill, Middlesex University.

BA Honours Degree, First Class, Fine Art (Painting) 1990
Kingston University, Knights Park, Kingston-upon Thames, Surrey.

Andrew Graves, Sleeping 2013

“I make paintings and drawings. I usually use oil paint, but sometimes tempera, mostly on panel. They are abstract, but for me always contain a certain figurative reading. A geometric grid in a painting may be derived from the textile of a shirt, or an outline of a landscape. My paintings work through an understanding of abstraction, specifically in the context of European and mid century American painting.”AG from (standard) INTERVIEW

Andrew Graves, Untitled 2013

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Have you met…Lauri Hopkins?

Lauri Hopkins

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist.

I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Lauri Hopkins.

Lauri Hopkins, Mint Layers, 2013

Lauri Hopkins is a British artist. She lives in Chichester, West Sussex.

About

“I am a mixed-media artist. I make playful, open, abstract work using found and discarded materials, and sometimes paint.”

Lauri Hopkins, Gem Stone, 2013

BA Hons University of Chichester

Lauri Hopkins, About to speak, 2013

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Have you met…Amy Moffat?

Amy Moffat, failed sculpture

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I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Amy Moffat.

Amy Moffat, plico

Amy Moffat was born in Lancaster, England, 1985.
She lives and works in London.

2005-2008 Wimbledon College of Art, London, BA Fine Art Painting
2004-2005 Blackpool and The Fylde College, Diploma in Art and Design

Amy Moffat, eve & sybil

“Making works within the vernacular of painting but using the materials in alternative ways, I aim to stretch and prod at the boundaries of what painting is perceived to be and challenge its conventions. Using base actions such as mark making, cutting, folding, carving, balancing, stretching and stitching, I want to make seductive works that engage both myself and viewers in a physical and material response, rather than a response to image. As a society we have become extremely adept and accustomed to reading an image instantaneously. I think the excitement in opening painting up to physicality lies in the potential tension with the accepted traditions of what painting is understood to be, and creating a viewing experience of painting that engages all of the sense, not just sight.

Within the body of work there are other themes I engage with. I’m taken with the possibility of an object to contain within both the strong and fragile, the bold and subtle, the hard and soft and the solid and teetering. These dualities are played with by use of material, colour and form.” AM

oil & beeswax drawings on paper

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Have you met…Melanie Russell?

Melanie Russell, Massive Meringue Pie 2011 oil on board

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I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Melanie Russell.

Melanie Russell, Negative Women’s Fashion, – 2012
22 x 17 cm
collage on paper

Melanie Russell is a visual artist living and working in London. Working mostly in painting (oil on board), collage, drawing and cardboard constructions. Interested in shape, colour, materials & spacial ambiguity. MFA, Slade School of Fine Art 2004, BA Fine Art University of Wales Institute, Cardiff 2000. Recent exhibitions include Creekside Open 2013, Meditations, Pluspace, Coventry and March Group Show, Hada Contemporary, London.

Melanie Russell
Shapeshifters, 2012
22cm x 17cm
collage on paper

Statement

“Through painting, drawing, collage and construction my current work develops an ongoing interest in visual perception where foregrounds and backgrounds hold an ambiguous relationship to create certain levels of flatness. By simplifying images into shapes, flat fields of colour and areas of mark making, an image is pushed towards the unrecognizable. Limited information is used to communicate scenes which are both simple and complicated bordering between representation and abstraction. Materials, shape and colour are pared down to a minimum.
My subject matter is sourced from found objects and images chosen for shape, as well as my surrounding environment which is recorded through observational drawing and photography. Spaces and objects become ambiguous inviting the viewer to reassess familiar surroundings. The availability of this resource, shape, colour and negative space, is one that I celebrate.” MR

Melanie Russell’s studio.

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