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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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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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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', Mark Hudson
2000 The Guardian,The guide - exhibitions Swansea Open July 25, Jonathan Jones
2000 Penarth Times, 28 Sept, 'Listen to some superb art'
2000 South Wales Echo, 6 Nov, colour illustration
2000 Big Issue, 3-20 Nov, Talking Liberties, Kate Freeman
page 9 of 11
2001 Issue 1, UWIC on line review of Welsh Artists Talking
(http://adeweb.uwic.ac.uk/fineart/fahta/CRA%201.htm)
2001 Modern Painters, Spring, Terry Setch by Hugh Adams, colour illustrations
2001 Galleries, March, Terry Setch by Paul Gough
2001 Vortex 5, exhibition Review, Terry Setch, Paintings, Paul Gough
2001 Evening Post, 7 Mar, This Art is Rubbish - Official! illustration
2001 Bristol Evening Post, 9 Mar, Why lie’s a beach for Terry, illustration
2001 Western Daily Press. 10 Mar, Terry’s art is rubbish, Simon Steel, illustrations
2001 South Wales Echo Weekender, 24 Mar, The Beach Comber, Sara Welsh,
colour illustrations
2001 RWA Friends Newsletter, Terry Setch at the RWA, Peter Gough, colour
illustration
2001 Sunday Telegraph, 15 July, From Infancy to Decrepitude, John McEwen
2001 New Welsh Review 53, ‘Five old men on a Beach’ by Tony Curtis
2001/2 One Wales, Dec/Feb, My Top Ten, Tony Curtis, colour illustration
2002 The Herald, 1st April. Reviews/Visual Art, Terry Setch Retrospective, Moira
Jeffrey
2002 The List, April, Mixed Media/Terry Setch-A Retrospective, Jack Mottram
2002 The Guide, The Guardian, June 29, Exhibitions, Terry Setch
2003 Western Mail, 26 April, 'The beach is my battlefield', Karen Price, colour
illustration,
2004 Galleries, March, Terry Setch by Martin Holman, b/w illustration
2004 The Guardian, Obituary Nigel Greenwood by Nicholas Serota, 21April
2006 Wales Modern, e-magazine 03/06, http://welshdrawings.useico.com/
2007 London Lantern, Chambers Gallery, 10 Jun (online issue july)
http://www.londonlantern.com/articles/
Terry Setch RWA
2007 The Spectator, The Power and the Glory by Andrew Lambirth, 18 Aug 2007 Babylon Wales, Poster Art in Wales by Anthony Brockway, 10 Sept online http://babylonwales.blogspot.com/
2008 Burlington Magazine, June, colour illustration
2009 Church Times, Art in Time of Chaos and Despair, Pamela Tudor-Craig, June
2009 Mail on Sunday, It is big and it is quite clever, Mark Hudson, 7 June
2010 Planet Magazine 197, The Persistent Beach-Comber by Tony Curtis
2010 Western Mail, 20 March, Centuries Of Art Shows Our Changing Landscape, by Darren Devine
2010 The Arts Desk, Art Gallery, Mark Hudson, 30 June
2010 The Week, Where to Buy, Dennis Publishing, 10 July.
2011Evening Standard, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011, Brian Sewell
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