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Artist Exhibitions:
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Previous group exhibitions
2009
Florence Biennale,
Florence,Italy
'Figures', Lloyd Gill Gallery,
Western Super Mare
'Something Different', APW
Gallery, 48-18 Van Dam St.
Long Island City NYC
'Art on Record', APW Gallery
48-18 Van Dam St. Long Island
City NYC
2008
Toronto International Art Fair
2nd ...
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Hackney Gazette
Extra
Thursday 14 June 2007
'Bringing the America of the
1930s and 40s to life in
Hackney from tonight is artist
Dameon Priestly.
His new exhibition ‘Lady Luck’
celebrates a tainted side to
the all-American dream as he
focuses on convenience stops,
diners, motels and other
stop-...
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Artist Statement for Dameon Priestly
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www.dameon.co.uk
Dameon's paintings engage in a series of narratives which subtly weave their way through the paintings: a visual depiction of what can lie beneath the surface; at times in a seemingly
innocent image.
The stories they tell are those which the viewer does not necessarily want to know; and yet forces them to fill in that which is not always apparent, resulting in the uncomfortable
recognition of a disturbing undertone.
With rare exceptions, his stories end with disturbing circumstances; as he captures his subject's quiet desperation, with full emotional tension, anxiety and melancholy. Portrayed
against everyday backdrops where the drama unfolds.
The melancholic and often underlying tragic images in Dameon's work, are not faded Polaroid’s of times past in an album, but rather are still vivid snapshots of a time which, although not
dated, seem familiar and recent, because of the relevance in things unchanged.
His work lends itself to those basics of old-fashioned storytelling: plot, character, and action.Combined with traditional themes in art - sex, politics and religion. The culminating results within
the paintings are sometimes both simultaneously beautiful and haunting; or arresting in their
strength.
Dameon sources literature; both fact and fiction, movies, religion, social and political history as his inspirational pool; he lives and works in London and has sold paintings nationally and
internationally.
www.dameon.co.uk
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