Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based on old imagery from my archive – confirming my inability to move on and go forward.
I had several of my latest prints on show at Bar Chocolat, a cafe in Bristol. Why not meet up with friends and relax for a while with something from their classic café menu if you are in the … Continue reading ?
It was with a sense of great sadness that I walked around my old college’s studios and lecture hall as the final exhibition/installation took place.
…to be redeveloped as executive housing (maybe).
Meeting old contemporaries there was a shock after thirty years. This is the place that enabled me to lead a varied life and as a result of my graduation show enabled me to eventually play at Hammersmith Odeon (now the Apollo), make page two of the Financial Times and has lead to my mental illness 🙂
QUALIFICATIONS I GOT AS A RESULT OF BEING IN THE BUILDING:
Postgraduate Certificate from Wolverhampton University in Painting
BA(hons) degree from Exeter College of Art and Design in Printmaking
This gallery contains 15 photos.These are photos of the deserted building in Earl Richards Road North in Exeter the site of the former Exeter College of Art and Design. The building belongs to The University of Plymouth (which was originally a Polytechnic) with its … Continue reading →
This gallery contains 2 photos.Sarah Bennett installation at Exeter Collage of Art and Design, March/April 2012 Click on images for my thoughts and reactions to this exhibition. Low quality images from employee photo identity cards have been scanned at a high resolution, enlarged and … Continue reading →
This gallery contains 3 photos.The derelict painting studios in Exeter College of Art looked smaller than I remember – these were the spaces where I learnt my painting skills and the place where I was told to forget my painting skills.
Sarah Bennett used the empty lecture hall to install ‘Institutional Traits (Series 2)’ which comprised of two large printed photographs of the empty lecture theatre. … Continue reading →
To produce a image that is better than the image of the mind is to give rise to a product of catastrophe. (To achieve exactness by design and skill is to reach a point of exhaustion and famine.) It is therefore acceptable to assume that an artist that is categorized as a genius has failed more successfully than one who is mediocre.
The aesthetics of failure is not total destruction; it is the enjoyment of failure. The degradation of an image is a metaphor for aging and decay – for something to be perfect requires a belief in romanticism. To expect perfection is to turn your back on realism.
The image below is the third image that is for sale at the ‘Offset’ Exhibition at West Buckland School (The Long Gallery in the 150 building) in North Devon, this is also for sale at £175.00.
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The political and ideological polarity of Russia and the USA during the cold war (retrospectively) makes an interesting starting point for a new project. Apparently there are rumors that the early days of the Russian space program were not only motivated by military and scientific advancement but a search for a new world to populate – to put citizens of the Russian Republic on once they had realized their ambitions of ensuring immortality. There was no God in Russia (officially) and the USA put their trust in God, both were chasing the same dreams, immortality and history. Gagarin achieved both by becoming a God (hero) in his own country and the rest of the world – all gods die young.
As an 11 year old I watched the first moon landing in 1969. I was mad about everything to do with space travel, I would read anything that was about rockets, cosmonauts and astronauts. Later in my life I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of my all time hero Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, that was for me like touching history, if only secondhand (excuse the pun).
Peter Bright (aka This Window)
Original painting by Peter Bright.
Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.
Size: 400mm x 400mm
I have entered 3 screen prints into the ‘Offset’ exhibition at West Buckland School. These images are ‘works on paper’ and are for sale and cost £175.00 each.
This series of prints are a spin-off from the exhibition I did at the school in 2011.
Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based around “Beauty and the Beast” a classic tale of love, rejection and prejudice, where the beauty is the beast and the beast is the beauty. An allegory, a symbolic representation or a metaphor for my feelings towards ART. Read more…
Here is a newspaper clipping about the exhibition at West Buckland school. To see larger image click here.
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