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SHAPE & CONTEXT
CAS Associate Artists Summer Exhibition 2023
In association with Hampshire Open Studios 2023
Open: 19 -28 August 11-4 Daily
Continues: 31 Aug - 2 Sept Thurs - Sat 11-4
Opening Celebration: Sat 19 Aug 2-4pm
This summer at CAS, we are showcasing a multi-disciplinary exhibition of 20 of our amazing CAS Associate Artists' work. Featuring painting, film and video, photography, sculpture, textile art and an interactive drawing installation.
ARTIST STATEMENTS & BIOS
CAROLINE PERKINS
STATEMENT
I have crafted a relentlessly penetrating self-portrait using a blend of universal and unique personal symbols. These symbols converge to create an emotional biographical narrative, encapsulating the essence of my life's journey. I have ambivalent feelings about whether I should expose my vulnerability to the viewer.
BIO
Award winning artist Caroline Perkins recently earned her Master of Art in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Her abstract figurations are woven with spirituality, emotions, and memories. Perkins has exhibited her art in several renowned galleries such as Soho Review Gallery, Unity Art Studio, and Winchester Art Gallery.
www.carolineperkinsart.com
Instagram: @caroline_perkins_art
CHRISTINE DODD
STATEMENT
A thread which runs through a large part of my work is awareness of human energy and how it feels in my body. Harnessing its ebb and flow working with it intentionally and trying to capture in creative ways and make sense of it. Using willow which is a new material for me to work has enabled me to connect more physically with the sculpture and bring more of my energy into the work as well as accepting the limitations of the willow and going with its flow in return.
BIO
Originally from York and now based in Andover, Christine has recently closed her teaching studio of 9 years, Eves Garden and will be working from Unity Arts Studio in Andover.
Continuing with her own practice and running 1-1 sessions/groups of all skill levels, in hand built ceramics, painting etc.
Instagram: @christinedoddart
DEBORAH PORTER
STATEMENT
This piece was derived from a series of work processing old art wounds. A release working in print and shapes, allowing the negative space to form the composition all shapes relate to each other. The white areas breathe, the deep blue depths juxtapose a neon pink showing my sense of play.
BIO
Deborah studied at Winchester School of Art, Portsmouth and gained a degree in Illustration. Her creative career spans from illustrator, graphic designer to creative wellbeing practitioner. Her own practice comes from a place of healing and somatic art where she is inspired by automatism and the American Abstract Expressionist movement.
www.coreartjournaling.com/
ED SAYE
STATEMENT
Untitled Head (Different Context) is the second of two paintings made in July 2023 in response to a request from artist and curator Dan Howard-Birt. The first head painting is currently showing at Exeter Phoenix, embeded within a larger painting made by Dan Howard-Birt. (https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/to-the-birds-man-digging/). Ed was interested to show the two head paintings in concurrent group shows to engage with the idea of context. Images of the other painting can be seen on Ed's Instagram feed.
BIO
Ed is a painter who lives and works in Hampshire. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He has exhibited around the UK and Europe and his work is held in private collections from the US to China.
www.edsaye.studio
Instagram: @ed_saye
ELIZABETH HAMMOND
STATEMENT
From it’s inception this participatory artwork has been about bringing people’s ideas together to create something unique and transitory. The drawing is not complete until the last day of the exhibition, when the final participant has made the last mark on the scroll, encompassing all within the circle.
BIO
Elizabeth’s interdisciplinary practice is primarily about drawing in the expanded field today. She has a passion for drawing and sharing this with others. Exploring drawing as a noun and as a verb her work seeks to engender the same joy she experiences when making it, for the viewer and participants alike.
www.elizabeth-hammond.com
Instagram: @elizabethhammondart
JET TREACY
STATEMENT
“In lamplight” depicts the artist’s partner in evening light. This piece was one of 18 paintings Jet painted for her degree show in 2022. The paintings depicted self-portraits, friends and family as part of her portraiture investigation.
BIO
Jet Treacy is an Andover based artist and graduate from the Winchester School of Art with a BA in Fine Art in 2022. Predominantly an acrylic painter, Jet is interested in investigating the significance of portrait painting in today's age. Jet recently completed an artist residency with CAS.
Instagram: @jettrey
KATT GROVER
STATEMENT
In my practice, I emotionally ‘prime’ canvases by experimenting with backgrounds, exploring different feelings, painting styles, and mediums. I make paintings over paintings, developing complexity, depth and character through each iteration. It’s a meditation, a chance to lose myself and find the narratives hidden within. When ideas come, I pair them with a canvas that has already been imbued with a particular mood and backstory.
BIO
Often playful and nostalgic, Katt's work explores the interplay between reality and fiction through self-reflection, memory and narrative.
As a neurodivergent artist, her practice reflects the ways she experiences the world and acts as a lens through which she interpret and interacts with it.
@kattgrover
MARTA LICHOCINSKA
STATEMENT
In my present works the colours of the past, scraps of memories provoke themselves to lead, building a strong narrative between past and present. Longing and belonging, childhood memories surrounded by flowers and symbols. Wrapped up in strong cultural influences of my Slavic soul. Deep colourful traditions which I was lucky to grow up.
BIO
I was born and grow up in Eastern Poland, where study sculpture and completed Art Education in Visual Arts at Rzeszow University with Masters degree. My interest in painting come when I move across the sea to England. Painting becomes a powerful tool to release my inner voice and communicate with outside world.
@martalichocinskart
MICHAEL JOHNSON
STATEMENT
The shape of lies, in the context of truth, provoked me to collect ancient relics. Such relics have the capacity to speak of a past, they also represent a powerful metaphor as to how all governments, (in tandem with commercial news and social media outlets), proliferate lies. What is belief and what to believe?
BIO
Michael studied fine art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, learning from those who celebrated the philosophy that arose
out of the Bauhaus movement. Michael also studied at the London College of Printing and then at Middlesex Polytechnic.
For this exhibition, Michael takes inspiration from the artist Kandinsky with all that is 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art'!
PETER DRIVER
STATEMENT
I am primarily a printmaker but took up painting again after the death of my daughter in 2019. Hey Ya! is a song by Outkast - a song my daughter introduced me to. The painting is a celebration of the playful and uproarious spirit of Outkast.
BIO
Peter Driver works to integrate art and life, creating new knowledge through field and studio research. He presents his experiences of long-distance walks, explores ideas using woodcut prints, and wrestles many variables into abstract paintings: a variety of responses to the wonder and brokenness of living in the world.
www.peterdriver.art
Instagram @peterdriverstudio
PRUDENCE MALTBY
STATEMENT
My work is concerned with a framework of autobiographical reference, that doesn't necessarily owe its origins to landscape. I’m interested not so much with the geography of a place but with the spirit of a space acknowledging a life flavoured with the different rules and customs of faraway cultures. My aim is to present touchstones of reminiscence without allusions to places gripped by the complications of its past and the struggles of its present. Again, and again, they oscillate between exclusion and inclusion, between here and there, then, and now.
BIO
Prudence combines drawing and painting, collage and etching with curating exhibitions and coordinating visual arts projects, in England and abroad, her most recent, Insect Odyssey. She was a founder member of Cicatrix, an Arts Council awarded 4 year touring project, involving other artists and Commonwealth partners. She studied at Winchester School of Art.
Instagram:@prudencemaltby
Facebook: Prudence Maltby
SAMANTHA BOOT
STATEMENT
Stories are hidden in the lane, if you listen. They hang in the early morning mists and hide in the late evening shadows. Naturally dyed with plants and pigments collected from Garlick
Lane, these vessels catch threads of memories and stories of place, keeping them safe before they are lost.
BIO
Samantha Boot is an emerging artist creating process led, hand stitched textile vessels and art quilts inspired by the Hampshire countryside. She was placed 3rd for Handwork at
QuiltCon 2022, USA, was awarded DYCP funding from Arts Council England (2022) and has exhibited and sold work, both nationally and internationally.
SHARON KEARLEY
STATEMENT
This body of work explores linear connections of travel within the confines of compositional space, investigating the notion of rhythm and repetition.
“Repetition is a potent means of heightening the inner vibration....”, (Kandinsky).
Working in series, scale applying multiples and focused colour, Sharon's work challenges the rigid boundaries of weave.
BIO
Sharon Kearley is an International Woven Textiles Artist and an
experienced Lecturer and Author, sharing her skills through exhibiting, discourse, writing, teaching and mentoring.
Her work investigates the emotional, physical and hidden line in the landscape, drawing on line as a ‘connector’ of people, place and time.
Instagram: @sharon_kearley
Facebook: Sharonkearley
SIMON PETER GREEN
STATEMENT
Camino
This work explores the relationship between Cheryl, Simon, Coruñna Main, Vigo Road, Andover, and Brixton.
It examines person, place, growth, connection, and the human condition.
It is the story of two teenagers, who despite their different backgrounds, fell in love.
Camino means path in Spanish.
BIO
Simon Peter Green is a photographer with an interest in portraiture, social documentary, visual sociology, representation and environment.
He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Photography (1st) at Coventry University in 2020 and a Master of Fine Arts Photography (Distinction) at The University of Creative
Arts in Farnham.
Instagram: @simonpetergreen
Twitter: @simonpetergreen
Facebook: @simonpetergreen
SOPHIE WILLOUGHBY
STATEMENT
Birdman series explores ideas of carnival culture, folk art, and mythology. The play between notions of darkness and light, celebratory yet haunting and surreal, with a touch of humour. Inspiration grew from a contradicting desire to hide whilst also wanting to play.
Birds - omens, spirituality, flight, freedom, migration, peace, death.
BIO
Sophie Willoughby is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses print, drawing and photography. Inspired by an eclectic mix of the urban environment, people and carnival.
Studied BA (Hons) Fine Art and MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at UWE.
Has exhibited her work in the UK and abroad. Lives and works in Hampshire.
www.willoprints.com
Instagram: @willo.prints
Facebook: @willoprints
SUSAN MERRICK
STATEMENT
The Shape of a Socially Engaged Artist. Film 4min 32s 2021-2023 This film is part of a series of work I am making in response to the Social Art projects I have run over the past seven years. Exploring the joy as well as the challenges of leading projects alone, the precarity of freelance work and funding applications, the need for such work but also the responsibility this comes with.
BIO
Susan Merrick is a multi-disciplinary Artist as well as a BSL/English Interpreter. She makes work exploring these themes, utilising a context-based mix of social engagement, podcast recordings, performance, film making and photography. She has received six ACE project grants since 2017 for her work Statements in Semaphore, Conversations with Aldershot and Woman Up! Podcast (with Amy Dignam).
www. susanmerrick.co.uk
@susan_merrick
TINA SANCHEZ
STATEMENT
My work exhibited in this show is a combination of indulgent explorative approaches to my practice in terms of scale, media, textures, new and older applied techniques. All of which have led me to experiencing new challenges whilst celebrating my love of art, creating, playing and making.
BIO
Artist founder at My Friendly Planet Art School and CAS Artist, Tina embraces expertise and longstanding commitment with a high value on experimental creativity to practice, education and research. Her interdisciplinary practice gears her towards participatory art and social exchanges, promoting cultural exchange and dialogues between interactive partnerships.
Instagram: @monkeysanchez.art
Twitter: @TinaSanchezArt
Facebook:@Tina SanchezFineArtist&Sculptor
TINA SCAHILL
STATEMENT
Returning to the landscape of the self, this new work is exploring my own life. MY FACE is a series of images exploring the many facets of my existence, the complexity of the state of female form, life and decay.
BIO
Tina Scahill MA, BA, CMI
A multi-textural artist working in digital and traditional forms of painting. using text, poetry and personal stories into a narrative of memory/emotion. Themes of life and death, Scientific intervention, female empowerment especially in the frame of ‘mother’. Tina blurs the boundaries between paint and digital, to make art that speaks.
Instagram: @tina_scahill_design
Twitter: @scahilldesign
Facebook: @Scahillart
LinkedIn: tina-scahill-6623811b
TONY SPENCER
STATEMENT
The alchemical image of the sun and moon connecting and entering the mercurial fountain symbolises the union of opposites. In Jungian alchemy these opposites are identified as the ego and the unconscious. By entering the unconscious, the ego experiences memories, dreams and reflections, that can lead to growth and transformation.
BIO
Tony Spencer is a visual artist based at The Yard Studios, Winchester UK.
He works in the mediums of sculpture, sound installation and Mokuhanga Japanese
woodblock printmaking. He studied a BA in Fine Art Sculpture at Northumbria
University and a Postgraduate Degree in Gallery Curating at Newcastle University.
Instagram: @tonyspencerarts
Twitter: @tonyspencerarts
Facebook: @tonyspencerarts
WANLIN JIANG
STATEMENT
Can only humans be great musicians? Plant concert will tell you the answer.
BIO
Wanlin Jiang is a botanical adventurer. Wanlin initially gained attention with her collaborative project Plant Whisper, followed by a series called Plant Secrets.
Her work focuses on the study of plants explored through the discipline of Visual Communication as a bridge to create meaningful connections between humans and nature.
Instagram: @iamfatking
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