Artist Information:
Richard Whincop
Chichester,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2008
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Artist Statement:
My recent work looks at what
happens when people come face
to face with the art and
architecture of the past.
Painted in a traditional
style, it allows me to address
contemporary issues about our
personal and collective
relationship not just to the
art of the past, but to the
past itself, the soil from
which we have grown. It raises
questions about the place of
traditional art and
architecture in contemporary
society, through the way that
we react and respond to it,
and the way that art is
presented in museums and
galleries.
This theme also allows me to
playfully blur the
distinctions between art and
reality. My compositions often
create a deliberately
restricted view of the figures
and settings, making them
ambiguous or even
unidentifiable. They can seem
to depict an imaginary realm
in which people, artworks and
architecture become elements
in a dream, the indefinable
mood compounded by an
atmospheric use of light and
colour.
I do not try to put across any
one particular viewpoint in my
paintings; they are presented
in an open-ended way, leaving
viewers to interpret them in
their own fashion. At times
there is an element of irony
or humour; at ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo & 2-person shows:
Jul 2011 Useless Fictions,
solo show at Alpha Art,
Edinburgh
Aug 2010 Joint show with Joe
O'Brien at Alpha Art,
Edinburgh
Jun 2010 Museum Pieces: solo
show, Kelvingrove Museum
Glasgow
May 2009 See in See out:
Joint show with David Farren,
Oisín Gallery, Dublin
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Artist Galleries:
Art Exposure Gallery
19 Parnie Street
Glasgow, G1 5RJ
Scotland
Tel: +44 141 552 7779
www.artexposuregallery.co.uk/
Oisin Gallery,
44 Westland Row
Dublin D2 Ireland
Tel: +353 1 661 1315
http://www.oisingallery.com/
Tracey McNee Fine Art,
21 Shepherd Market
Mayfair
London UK
W1J 7PN
Tel: +44...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Earlier this year I completed
a commission for six large
canvases for St. Brides
Church, in Bothwell, Scotland,
which related the lives of
local people to the Baptism of
Christ....
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Richard Whincop's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Richard Whincop's Portfolio.
My recent work looks at what happens when people come face to face with the art and architecture of the past.
Painted in a traditional style, it allows me to address contemporary issues about our personal and collective relationship not just to the art of the past, but to the past itself, the soil from which we have grown. It raises questions about the place of traditional art and architecture in contemporary society, through the way that we react and respond to it, and the way that art is presented in museums and galleries.
This theme also allows me to playfully blur the distinctions between art and reality. My compositions often create a deliberately restricted view of the figures and settings, making them ambiguous or even unidentifiable. They can seem to depict an imaginary realm in which people, artworks and architecture become elements in a dream, the indefinable mood compounded by an atmospheric use of light and colour.
I do not try to put across any one particular viewpoint in my paintings; they are presented in an open-ended way, leaving viewers to interpret them in their own fashion. At times there is an element of irony or humour; at ... |
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