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Artist Statement:
Terry Setch – Lavernock Point
I have been using the
pollution of the local beach,
particularly the plastic
detritus, as my major subject
since the mid 1970s, long
before concern about the
damage caused by the
ubiquitous, none biodegradable
plastic became widespread in
this country.
I concentrate on a two-mile
stretch of the local beach,
between Penarth and Lavernock
Point. I have regarded that
area, the beach, cliffs and
the margin with the waters of
the Severn estuary, as my
place. I have observed it,
worked in it and thought about
it almost daily since I
settled in Penarth in 1969. It
has become for me the source
and inspiration for ideas
about the genre of landscape
and about living within an
environment. And it has been
the catalyst for ideas about
painting as an activity, about
finding forms of visual
expression for the experience
of powerful phenomena and
about how images assume an
identity.
The paintings in the Lavernock
Point series can be described
as a personal response. They
engage with the sensation of
being in a sharp terrain of
ancient geology, of clambering
over rocks and becoming so
familiar with the surroundings
that you can interpret from
where ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
From 2000
Solo Exhibitions
2000 ‘Oil, Water’, Centre for
the Visual Arts, Cardiff, UK
2001 Terry Setch
Retrospective: Royal West of
England Academy, UK Bristol;
University of Wales Institute
Cardiff, Howard Gardens
Gallery; Cardiff Glynn Vivian
Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
2002 Collins Gallery, Glasgow:
Scotland Wrexham Art Centre,
Wrexham, north ...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Space Gallery
Michael Richardson
Contemporary Art
www.artspacegallery.co.uk
84 St. Peter's St
Islington, London, N1 8JS
020 73597002...
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Artist Reviews:
Major UK Reviews since 2000
2000 The Post, Chance to Put
Focus on Art (Oil & Water),
Jan 20, colour image
2000 The Western Mail, 8 Feb,
colour images
2000 Penarth Times, Have Paint
Will Travel for Artist, 28
April
2000 Telegraph, July 15, 'And
the revolution's still not
here', ...
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Collections:
UK Collections
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
National Museum and Galleries
of Wales, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, UK
Welsh Arts Council, UK
British Council, London, UK
Glynn Vivian Museum &Art
Gallery, Swansea, UK
Arts Council of Great Britain
Contemporary Arts Society of
Wales
Wakefield City Art Gallery
Coleg ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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1936 Born Lewisham, London
1950-54 Sutton and Cheam School of Art
1956-60 Slade School of Art, University College, London (Postgraduate1959/60)
1960-64 Lecturer, Pre Diploma, Leicester College of Art
1963-69 Organising Tutor in Painting, Barry Summer School, South Glamorgan
1964 -2001 Senior Lecturer in Painting, School of Art, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
1981 Visiting Lecturer, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, Canada
1983 Artists in Residence, Victorian college of Art, Melbourne, Australia
1984 Elected to the Faculty of Painting, British School at Rome Selector for the TSWA National Art Competition
1985-87 External Examiner BA, Slade School of Art, University College, London
1986 Selector for the Royal Overseas League, London
1986-89 Examiner in Painting MA, Chelsea School of Art, London
1987 Elected to the Faculty of Fine Arts, British School at Rome
1989-92 External Examiner BA, Faculty of Art, Reading University
1992 Selector for the Mostyn Open Exhibition, Llandudno, Wales
1996 Selector for the Royal Overseas League Annual Open Exhibition
1996 – 2005 Derek Williams Committee, National Museum and Galleries of Wales
1998 Selector for the University of Glamorgan Visual Arts Purchase Prize
2002Elected to the Royal West of England Academy
2009 Judge for the Welsh Artist of the Year Competition
2009 Elected to the Royal Academy, London
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