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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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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Collections for Terry Setch:
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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 Harlech, UK
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
Northampton Art Gallery, UK
University College London, UK
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Rugby Borough Council, UK
University College of Wales, Swansea, UK
Leicestershire Education Authority, UK
Normal College, Bangor, UK
South Glamorgan County Council, UK
Glamorgan Education Authority, UK
Ceredigion county Council Museum, Wales, UK
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