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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:
Coming Soon!
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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 Biography:
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Age
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46
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Unorthodox Christian |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Art History, classical & rock music, playing clarinet, guitar, singing, the environment, history of science and religion, writing, acting, jogging |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Dutch School - (1600 - 1670)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rembrandt (among many others!)
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Rembrandt self-portrait, Kenwood house
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Great artists of the past. When I was young I used to try to copy Leonardo da Vinci's drawings. He inspired me because he was interested in everything, and set himself no restrictions on what he believed he could achieve. When I first left University Cezanne's singlemindedness and dogged determination were an inspiration to me to keep going against all the odds. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I became an artist because I love art. Being an artist enables me to live a creative life, and to engage in a dialogue with the incredible artistic legacy that other artists have bequeathed. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born in 1964 at Fordingbridge in the south of England, I graduated in English and Art History at the University of York in 1986, and moved to Glasgow, Scotland in 1988,and subsequently to Chichester, England, in 2010.
Since 2005 my figurative oil paintings have been exhibited regularly in galleries in Glasgow, Dublin, and London as well as in regional art fairs throughout the UK. A series of solo shows has included "Museum Pieces" in June 2010, at Glasgow's renowned Kelvingrove Museum.
In 2001 I began a major series of paintings depicting people in art galleries, which contrasted gallery visitors with traditional works of art. These works look at our relationship with the art of the past, often making an ironic or humorous commentary on contemporary society.
This dialogue between past and present has become more complex in my recent work, which combine artworks with other content such as man-made objects, animals, landscapes and contemporary figures.
In a recent solo show I examined the contemporary “world view” in paintings which bring together famous figures in the history of science with elements borrowed from religious art.
Other Experience
Between 1996 and 2004 I worked in the Treehaus art & design partnership with designer Fiona Paton, producing a wide range of commissioned paintings, sculptures and design work for restaurants, bars, clubs and domestic premises throughout Scotland. These included murals for Corinthian (Ingram Street, Glasgow), and paintings and sculptures for the celebrated Art Deco restaurant Rogano (Exchange Place, Glasgow).
In 1999 I collaborated with astronomer Graham Woan of Glasgow University on the innovative G2V sundial design, which won a GDE award, and was exhibited at Lighthouse Design Centre in Glasgow as part of the Glasgow Collection, and subsequently at the British Embassy in Paris. In the same year my Bridge of Invention panel designs were short-listed in the open Competition staged by the Big Idea centre, Irvine.
From 1988 to 1995 I also taught adult education classes in Art History and practical Art at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.
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