INTRODUCING MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIVE
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- Jul 26
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ARTISTS | INTRODUCING
EMILY MITCHELL AND INDY CANTILLON
Introducing two new voices in the collective, Emily Mitchell and Indy Cantillon. While working in vastly different disciplines, both artists' practices are deeply rooted in the exploration of the multitudes contained within the human experience. Discover more about their work, practices and their unexpected shared commonality below.
EMILY MITCHELL
Emily Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the North Cotswolds. She creates abstract paintings alongside ceramics and sculptural lighting. Drawing on her experience as a psychotherapist, her creative practice leans into her understanding and exploration of human complexities.
Emily describes her practice as "grounded in a deep fascination with the multiplicity of the self", and her pieces offer a visual representation of inner inquiry into opposing yet coexisting feelings and narratives. In her abstract paintings, you can see the layers and textures built up as forms resonate with each other, causing both disorder and harmony, contained within one canvas.
Her juxtaposition of space and shape, of flat sweeps of colour and jarring sharp lines form rhythms and a sense of moving and changing thoughts; a visualisation of conflicts which resolve into beautiful objects. Her use of bright colour on neutral swathes of colour serve to guide the viewer through feelings towards new moments of chaos or calm to eventual clarity. Each painting, although imbued with thought and meaningful dialogue, can stand alone as a beautiful painting without the need for deep understanding - but this care and consideration is what makes the work resonate.
INDY CANTILLON
Indy Cantillon is a painter based in Cheltenham. His works explore in multiplicities as he examines relationships; between the sitter, the artist and the viewer, and breakdowns; in surfaces, marks and humans. He marries together realism and the absurd to allow his work to discuss his ideas in a way that both reels the viewer in, but keeps them at arm's length, jarring in their meeting of styles.
Often taking the form of self-portraits, Indy creates paintings which build up paint in layers, and then destructs whole passages, alluding to the nature of human self-destruction, and again, this idea of the beauty in the breakdown, which can be seen throughout his work. The realistic style of his figures gives the paintings a visceral feel of coming apart, allowing the viewer to react to reality in the off-kilter or absurd situations. Everything from his colour combinations to his compositions embodies opposing thoughts, pairing bright colours with pared-back tones, space with compact, dense areas of paint. Indy's works speak to an artist who's asking for his works to be thought about, and not just admired.
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