Bath Christmas Contemporary Art Fair 2014
Private View: Thurs 27 Nov (6pm – 8pm)
Exhibition runs: Tues 25 – Sun 30 November 2014 (12 – 6pm)
44AD’s new premises in Abbey Street is set to house The Bath Christmas Contemporary Art Fair 2014 and will be showcasing an exciting perspective in painting, prints and ceramics from featured artists:
Annabelle Barton
Broose Dickinson
Dragomir Mišina
Katie O’Brien
Andrew Temple Smith
Melissa Wraxall
Providing art sanctuary with a contemporary edge and coinciding with the opening of the popular Christmas market; you are welcome to join the artists for a glass of mulled wine at the Private view on Thurs 27 Nov 2014 (6pm – 8pm).
Bella Barton
Through my practice I like to explore our relationship to the objects we choose to live with and combine this with a sensory perception of space.
I tend to use screen print as my preferred printing process. The versatility of colour, tone and large flat areas are achievable through this process and suit the particular visual outcome I want.
I will start with a vague idea of where I’m heading, armed with a selection of shapes and details exposed on a screen I embark upon a fairly experimental approach to an image, not quite knowing what the outcome will be and being open to possibilities and accidents keeps the process exciting and fresh.
Broose Dickinson
Broose is a multi-media artist who combines traditional and contemporary techniques that challenge popular sensibilities.
Dragomir Mišina
My paintings are an exploration into colour, texture, mark making and painting as a material itself. They combine deliberation and chance, functioning as a diagram of layers, marks and colours creating gateways into make-believe worlds; suggestive of physical and emotional energy present within the course of making the work.
Katie O’Brien
My latest series of paintings map ideas and elements that surround the imagery of traditional paintings. Digitally manipulated and reinterpreted in paint, the resulting artwork uses selected colour schemes that are typical of photo editing programs – connecting both the concept and process.
Andrew Temple Smith
Andrew creates minimalist ceramic forms that embody elements of spontaneity and chance. He works with thrown porcelain and white stoneware which allows him to produce a colour palette from pure white through to vivid primary colours. He enjoys both the technical challenge of porcelain and the tactile quality of the finished surface.
The Nebula series at 44AD are burnished cylinders whose patterned surfaces raise questions of scale; are we looking at close-up views of black and white photography or distant clouds? Some are intended as large single pieces while others form groups of related objects where no two are alike.
Andrew completed his MA in ‘Design: Ceramics’ with a distinction at Bath Spa University in 2014.
Melissa Wraxall
Archival photographs form the basis of my paintings and drawings, but central to my painting practice is the materiality of the oil paint itself, making intuitive decisions about when to control the medium, and when to allow gravity to exert its force. The photographs I work from are ephemeral fragments of lives from another time, and I view the process as almost a conversation between myself and a person long gone or a child now grown old, trapped as a ghost in the layer of silver emulsion.