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Gray on Pink Groundby Irene Godfrey | |
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It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism.
Fredric Jameson
My concerns project both back and forwards in time to embrace both topophilia (a love of place imbued with a sense of history) and ecopoetics (creative and critical engagement with the emerging set of environmental challenges now facing life on earth).
My approach to making work mirrors and parallels the topophile's way of seeing. So the work can be inspired not only by an idea or an image but also by the paint itself. Starting a painting without a preconceived endpoint brings with it the potential for a new work to be found from within the materials. The work develops mark by mark as a response to what has gone before. Paint is repeatedly erased and added creating fragmentation, pathways, depth and ambiguity.
Education BA Fine Art, Cass School of Art, London Metropolitan University, 2012. Grad. Cert. in Ecology and Environment, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010. Selected Exhibitions Hundreds and thousands, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2015 Summer Salon, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2015 The Windows are Illuminated, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, 2015 Diamond Bullet, James Freeman Gallery, London, 2014 ‘Scape, Espacio Gallery, London, 2013 Show Of*!, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 2013 Strike Against Art, the Nunnery, London, 2013 20/20 Collective Exhibition, the Vyner Studio, London, 2012. Reveal: Graduate Art Show, Guerrilla Galleries at the Daniel Libeskind Space, London, 2012. Degree Show, Cass School of Art, 2012. Pre-degree show, Arbeit Gallery, London, 2012. Melt Art Fair, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 2010. 10 Artists, Lauderdale House, London, 2010. Drawn Together, Shoreditch, London, 2008. Prizes/Awards The University Vice- Chancellor's Purchase Prize, 2012. The Owen Rowley Prize, 2012. The Ellen Clarkson Award, 2010. Bibliography/Publications Qand A with Irene Godfrey NEW MASTERS 2013, Verfhond’s List: The History of the world in 100 objects, audio link piece, BBC Radio 4 Collections Work is represented in the London Metropolitan University Collection and private collections within the UK. Solastalgia:witness to change PV Friday 23rd Sept 2016 6-9 pm At Made in Greenwich SE10 9SW facebook.com/solastalgian |