SUMMER EXHIBITION CURATED BY MIKE SKINNER ASGFA
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- Mar 4
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SIXTEEN GALLERY | 10 -- 16 JULY
LATE OPENING | FRIDAY 11 JULY
AN INTERESTING AND JOYFUL EXHIBITION OF ECLECTIC 2D AND 3D ART CURATED BY MIKE SKINNER ASGFA.
INCLUDING 2D ARTISTS: MIKE SKINNER, CHRIS JAMES, CLARE HINES AND OLIVIA MEREDITH.
3D ARTISTS: MAGGIE HOWE, NIGEL CALVERT, EWEN HYDE, JO MILLAK, SALLY BROOKS AND JANE CUNNINGHAM
AS WELL AS A WALL OF SMALL ART FROM THE STROUD ARTISTS COOPERATIVE.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MIKE SKINNER (ASGFA FRSA)
Mike's artworks are driven by a client’s brief with his main interest being modern British subjects. From abstract to figurative he does not restrict his use of materials and methods used in the image making process.
Mike is a council member of The Drawing Society/The Society of Graphic Fine Art. founded in 1919, the Society promotes fine drawing skills in both traditional and contemporary media. Today there are more than 180 members. Mike is also a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
He has exhibited in: London, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Mall Gallery, The Brick Lane Gallery, The Menier Gallery, Christies Fine Art London. Chelsea Harbour Design Centre. Southwest, The Victoria Art Gallery Bath, The Corinium Museum Cirencester, The Paragon Gallery, Sixteen Gallery, Spring Gallery, Cheltenham, Broadway Museum Gallery Broadway, The RWA Bristol.
CHRIS HAMMOND URMSTON JAMES (BA HONS, MA)
Chris works in ceramics, paint, ink and wood. Former lecturer in engineering. A Stroud based artist and trustee for the Stroud Artists Cooperative 170 members, possibly the largest arts cooperative in the UK. Winner of a contemporary award for plein air painting in 2023. Creates experimental spontaneous dynamic urban sketches using bleach, wax applied with hand made tools. An advocate of environmental action through high quality public art including the conversion of a stone bus stop into a library with an allotment mural and more recently the creation of a mural covered shed for the Cheltenham Science Festival celebrating the science of growing food (commission for Gloucester Heritage Centre).
OLIVIA MEREDITH
Olivia is a local artist based in Gloucestershire and creates paintings through acrylic on canvas medium, inspired by the landscapes of her surroundings, seascapes and sunsets through an abstract perspective.
CLARE HINES
Clare has studied art at Stroud School of Art and will be starting a masters in Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire in September. She mainly creates abstact art – both paintings and 3D art. A recent series called “Taken Out of Context” was a group of decorated mannequins!
Art for Clare is something to do that’s fun; that helps her make sense of the world; cheer her up when she’s a bit blue or under the weather. Her work is vibrant and full of colour. All of Clare’s art reflects her sense of fun, curiosity, enthusiasm and desire to make things a little better for everyone. All of it is from the heart – how she is moved in the act of creating it. It is what you see and your imagination can make it anything.
NIGEL CALVERT
I was fascinated by the medium of blown glass both because of its final form and purity of colour. It isn’t paint but I approached it from a water colour perspective. I was lucky enough to be taught by Peter Layton and Bruce Marks.
This is a series of platters that begin as blown vessels that are spun out when still molten hot to become plates The molten glass colours are applied twisted and distorted into shapes at a very early stage in the process as the molten glass mixes in the process I can never be sure how the design will appear until it’s spun out and can’t be changed
I have made many and strive for recognisable or abstract designs buried in the glass.
JO MILLAK
Jo Millak is a sculptor and teacher who’s art reflects his obsession with wildlife and invites viewers to consider the interconnectedness of all living beings, whilst at the same time exploring the existential tension he perceives between humans and animals. He does this through the use of a symbolism formulated in childhood and by utilising recycled materials and found objects, demonstrating the hidden beauty that lies in the discarded. Based in Longford, he is heavily inspired by Gloucestershire’s history and native fauna and regularly exhibits around the Cotswolds.
JANE CUNNINGHAM
After studying ceramics at Loughborough College of Art and Texas Christian University, Jane became involved in theatre - small scale touring and work with young people and community. She designed sets, props, costumes, lighting, sound, and video, also stage and production managing numerous projects over several decades. While she has worked with a wide range of materials and techniques, ceramics has always been in the mix, and having at least partly stepped back from the world of theatre, is able to apply herself more to clay work.
MAGGIE HOWE
Maggie is a painter, printmaker and fairweather ceramacist. Her work is an ongoing study of form and composition. The ceramic work in this exhibition are abstracted portraits.
EWEN HYDE
Ewen’s sculpture is created almost entirely from salvaged and reclaimed materials – often the nature of the material itself providing the inspiration for the work. While at first glance they may appear light-hearted, there is often a deeper, more poignant undercurrent running through them.
SALLY BROOKS
Sally graduated with a ceramics degree form Bath college in 1990. After 10 years of making and selling her work at various UK galleries and Shows, Sally went on to study Architecture and gained a degree and post grad diploma in 2011. She has now been making ceramics professionally for over 25 years, developing and refining her hand building and Raku firing techniques to produce a unique range of clocks, vases, dishes and wall plaques, with contrasting iridescent, lustrous, matt and crackle glazes.
Her bold designs are informed by her love of Art Deco, modernist architecture, and wild woodlands.
STROUD ARTISTS COOPERATIVE
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